Yuan · Named Individual

Zhang Bi 张弼

Attested AD 1311 - AD 1320

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Bi was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Death

died 死
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 33

Attested activity

AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗时
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 144, passage 72
AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗朝
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 179, passage 32

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Son of Zhang Bi (張弼之子)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 34

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

At Kaiping 開平
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 32

Events and relationships

Gave bribe
Legal · Briber · With Temuder (帖木迭兒)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 72

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 144Volume 144 Biographies 31: Dalima, Yuelutiemuer, Buyantiemuer, Xingji, Fushou, Daotong · 1 passage

久之，遂拜监察御史，巡按上都，劾奏太师、右丞相帖木迭兒受张弼赇六万贯，贷死。 Eventually he was appointed supervising censor; while inspecting the Upper Capital he impeached Grand Preceptor and Right Chancellor Temuder for accepting a bribe of sixty thousand strings of cash from Zhang Bi and commuting a death sentence.

History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 5 passages

初，開平人張弼，家富。 Earlier, there was a wealthy man named Zhang Bi of Kaiping.

弼死，其奴索錢民家，弗得，毆負錢者至死。 After Bi's death, his slave went to a commoner's home to collect a debt. When the man could not pay, the slave beat him to death.

聞弼事，以語御史中丞楊朵兒只。 When he learned of the Bi case, he brought it to the Censor-in-Chief Yang Duoerzhi.

上都富民張弼殺人繫獄，鐵木迭兒使大奴脅留守賀伯顏出之，及強以他姦利事，不能得。 Zhang Bi, a wealthy man of Shangdu, was imprisoned for murder. Temüder sent his chief slave to intimidate Governor He Bayan into releasing him and also tried to extort other illicit gains, but failed.

朵兒只廉得其所受弼贓巨萬萬，大奴猶數千，使御史徐元素按得實，入奏。 Through investigation Duoerzhi learned that Temüder had taken bribes from Bi worth tens of millions, and from the chief slave several thousand more. He had Investigating Censor Xu Yuansu establish the facts and memorialized the throne.