Ordered To Commit Suicide
According to Sakya's monastic succession records, in April 1323, the third year of the Zhizhi (至治) era in the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, 52 year old Duke Ying received an imperial command to commit suicide at Hexi (河西) (modern day Zhangye in Gansu Province. Many later Ming Dynasty historians believe that this was because Gong's poetry displeased the emperor and incurred a literary inquisition.
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