Five Dynasties · Official

Zhang Shi 張式

Died AD 936

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Shi was an official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 936 to AD 942 高祖時
Cause Heart cut out, mouth split, limbs severed, beheaded · Authority Zhang Yanze (張彥澤)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 114

Attested activity

AD 936 to AD 942 高祖時
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passages 106, 111, 114

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhang Duo (張鐸)
father 父
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 116
Parent of Zhang Xifan (張希範)
son 子
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 119
Sibling of Zhang Shouzhen (張守貞)
younger brother 弟
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 119

Career and standing

chief secretary 掌書記
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 106

Events and relationships

Relation Subordinate of · Person Zhang Yanze (張彥澤)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 106

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 106

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 52Volume 52 Miscellaneous Biographies 32: Du Zhongwei, Li Zhouzhen, Zhang Yanze · 11 passages

彥澤上章請殺之，其掌書記張式不肯為作章，屢諫止之。 Yanze memorialized asking to have him killed. His chief secretary Zhang Shi refused to draft the memorial and repeatedly urged him to stop.

彥澤怒，引弓射式，式走而免。 Yanze flew into a rage, drew his bow, and shot at Shi, who fled and escaped.

式素為彥澤所厚，多任以事，左右小人皆素嫉之，因共讒式，且迫之曰：「不速去，當及禍。」 Shi had long been favored by Yanze and entrusted with many duties. The petty men around Yanze had long envied him. They slandered him together and pressed him: "If you don't leave quickly, disaster will find you."

式乃出奔。 Shi then fled.

彥澤遣指揮使李興以二十騎追之，戒曰：「式不肯來，當取其頭以來！」 Yanze sent Commander Li Xing with twenty horsemen in pursuit and ordered: "If Shi won't come, bring back his head!"

式至衍州，刺史以兵援之，邠州節度使李周留式，馳騎以聞，詔流式商州。 Shi reached Yanzhou, whose prefect gave him troops for protection. Li Zhou, military governor of Binzhou, detained Shi, sent swift riders to report the matter, and received an edict exiling Shi to Shangzhou.

彥澤遣司馬鄭元昭詣闕論請，期必得式，且曰：「彥澤若不得張式，患在不測。」 Yanze sent his aide Zheng Yuanzhao to court to argue his case, insisting he must have Shi, and saying, "If Yanze does not get Zhang Shi, there is no telling what calamity may follow."

高祖不得已，與之。 Gaozu had no choice and surrendered Shi to him.

彥澤得式，剖心、決口、斷手足而斬之。 Once Yanze had Shi in his hands, he cut out his heart, split open his mouth, severed his limbs, and beheaded him.

周奏彥澤所為不法者二十六條，並述涇人殘敝之狀，式父鐸詣闕訴冤，諫議大夫鄭受益、曹國珍，尚書刑部郎中李濤、張麟，員外郎麻麟、王禧伏閣上疏，論彥澤殺式之冤，皆不省。 Zhou memorialized twenty-six illegal acts by Yanze and described how the people of Jing had been ruined. Shi's father Duo came to court to plead his grievance. Remonstrance officials Zheng Shouyi and Cao Guozhen, Directors of the Ministry of Justice Li Tao and Zhang Lin, and Assistant Directors Ma Lin and Wang Xi submitted memorials at the palace gate denouncing the injustice of Yanze's killing of Shi. None received attention.

高祖怒，起去，濤隨之諫不已，高祖不得已，召式父鐸、弟守貞、子希範等，皆拜以官，為蠲涇州民稅，免其雜役一年，下詔罪己，然彥澤止削階、降爵而已。 Gaozu was angry, rose, and left. Tao followed and kept remonstrating. Gaozu had no choice. He summoned Shi's father Duo, brother Shouzhen, son Xifan, and the others and invested them all with offices. He remitted the taxes of the people of Jing Prefecture and exempted them from corvée for one year, and issued an edict blaming himself. Yet Yanze was merely reduced in rank and demoted in title.