Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Administrator

Ma Datong 馬大同

Attested AD 1187 - AD 1195

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ma Datong was an official and Administrator.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1187 to AD 1195 馬大同鎮京口
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 58

Career and standing

commander at Jingkou 鎮京口
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58
At Jingkou 京口 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58

Events and relationships

Ordered to lead Huai iron cash note circulation; then accepted Wang Gang's objections
Administrative · Commander · With Wang Gang (汪綱)
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 59, 62

Assessments and attributes

Assessment forceful and self-willed · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 408Volume 408 Biographies 167: Wu Changyi, Wang Gang, Chen Mi, Wang Ting · 3 passages

馬大同鎮京口，強毅自任，綱言論獨不詭隨。 When Ma Datong was stationed at Jingkou, he was forceful and self-willed. Gang alone refused to bend his views to please him.

議者欲以兩淮鐵錢交子行於沿江，廷議令大同倡率行之，綱貽書曰：“邊麵行鐵錢，慮銅寶泄於外耳。 Some officials proposed circulating the Huai region's iron cash exchange notes along the Yangzi coast. The court ordered Datong to take the lead in implementing the plan. Gang wrote to him: "On the frontier they use iron cash because they fear copper currency leaking abroad.

大同始悟。 Datong then saw the point.