Zhang Yanlang (張延朗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yanlang as an administrator, official, and statesman. This record brings together 27 passages from 7 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yanlang	張延朗	Zhang Yanlang
Given	Yanlang	延朗	Yanlang
Given name	Yanlang	延朗
Given name	Yanlang	延朗	Yanlang
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhang
Personal	Zhang Yanlang	張延朗
Personal name	Zhang Yanlang	張延朗	Zhang Yanlang
Personal name	Zhang Yanlang	張延朗	Zhāng Yánlǎng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0167, jiuwudaishi:127:s0021
Sex: male
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Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0054
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0044, xinwudaishi:026:s0081

Roles

Administrator
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福元年甲申 · Western Year: AD 936
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Manner: executed · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉兵入京師 · Western Year: AD 936
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Manner: executed / 誅 · Place: Luoyang / 洛 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖入洛 · Western Year: AD 936
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Manner: executed / 誅 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰末 · Western Year: AD 936
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 926-936 · Western Year: AD 930
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Source Date: Text: 晉高祖入洛 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 晉高祖滅唐，殺延朗 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 清泰 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0171
Source Date: Text: 清泰三年 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0021
Source Date: Text: 清泰末 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福1年） · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Western Year: AD 930
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Career and standing

Label: Yanzhou military commissioner; formerly Commissioner of the Three Departments and acting Minister of Works / 兗州節度使、三司使、行工部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Label: Three-Bureaus Commissioner / 三司使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Western Year: AD 930
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
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Polity: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
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Place: Kaifeng in Bianzhou / 汴州開封
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Place: Kaifeng, Bian prefecture / 汴州開封
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Last Emperor (末帝)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: fiscal · Role: administrator · Action: requisitioned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 調取之 · Western Year: AD 936
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Relation: intimate-with · Person Id: Zhao Yanshou (趙延壽)
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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庚申，以三司使、行工部尚書張延朗為兗州節度使。 On gengshen Zhang Yanlang, three departments commissioner, became Yanzhou commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 8 passages

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張延朗，汴州開封人也。 Zhang Yanlang was a native of Kaifeng in Bianzhou.

明宗克鄆州，得延朗，復以為糧料使，後徙鎮宣武、成德，以為元從孔目官。 When Mingzong captured Yanzhou he obtained Yanlang and again made him grain supply officer; later, when he moved his command to Xuanwu and Chengde, he made him a clerical officer among his original followers.

長興元年，始置三司使，拜延朗特進、工部尚書，充諸道鹽鐵轉運等使，兼判戶部度支事，詔以延朗充三司使。 In the first year of Changxing the post of commissioner of the three departments was first established; Yanlang was appointed Special Advancement and minister of works, made commissioner of salt, iron, and transport for all circuits, and given concurrent charge of expenditure in the Ministry of Revenue; an edict appointed Yanlang commissioner of the three departments.

延朗再上表辭曰： Yanlang again submitted a memorial declining, saying:

延朗不得已而承命。 Yanlang had no choice but to accept the command.

延朗有心計，善理繁劇。 Yanlang was resourceful and skilled at managing complexity.

晉高祖在太原，朝廷猜忌，不欲令有積聚，係官財貨留使之外，延朗悉遣取之，晉高祖深銜其事。 When the Gaozu of Jin was at Taiyuan the court was suspicious and did not wish him to accumulate stores; apart from official goods left with the commissioner, Yanlang sent men to take them all, and the Gaozu of Jin deeply resented the matter.

延朗獨排眾議，請末帝北行，識者韙之。 Yanlang alone rejected the crowd's opinion and asked the Last Emperor to march north—men of insight approved him.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 2 passages

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初次河陽，召文紀、張延朗謀議。 When he first reached Heyang he called Wenji and Zhang Yanlang to deliberate.

會延朗與趙延壽款密，傍奏曰：「文紀之言是也。」 Yanlang was then intimate with Zhao Yanshou. He whispered: "Wenji is right."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 2 passages

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梁亡，趙氏族滅，峻流落無依，寄食於符離陳氏之家，久之彌窘，乃事三司使張延朗，所給甚薄。 When Liang fell and the Zhao clan was destroyed, Jun was cast adrift with nowhere to turn. He lived on the Chen family's charity at Fuli; as months passed his plight grew worse, and he entered the service of Zhang Yanlang, commissioner of the three fiscal agencies—but the pay was meager indeed.

清泰末，延朗誅，漢祖盡得延朗之資產仆從，而峻在籍中，從歷數鎮，常為典客。 Near the end of the Qingtai era Yanlang was put to death. The Han founder Liu Zhiyuan seized all his property and retainers; Jun was listed among them and followed him through several provincial postings, usually as protocol officer.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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甲申，大赦，殺張延朗、劉延朗，赦房暠。 On jiashen came a general amnesty. Zhang Yanlang and Liu Yanlang were put to death; Fang Hao was spared.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 11 passages

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張延朗 Zhang Yanlang

張延朗，汴州開封人也。 Zhang Yanlang came from Kaifeng in Bian prefecture.

明宗克鄆州，得延朗，復以為糧料使，後徙鎮宣武、成德，以為元從孔目官。 When Mingzong took Yunzhou he kept Yanlang as grain commissary. Later, at Xuanwu and Chengde, he made him clerical officer to the original followers.

延朗因請置三司使，事下中書。 Yanlang asked to restore a three-bureaus commissioner, and the matter went to the Secretariat.

中書用唐故事，拜延朗特進、工部尚書，充諸道鹽鐵轉運等使，兼判戶部度支事。 The Secretariat followed Tang precedent and made Yanlang specially advanced and Minister of Works, circuit salt-and-iron transport commissioner, and concurrent judge of Household and Fiscal affairs.

詔以延朗充三司使，班在宣徽使下。 An edict named Yanlang three-bureaus commissioner, ranking below the Xuanwei commissioner.

延朗號為有心計，以三司為己任，而天下錢谷亦無所建明。 Yanlang was known for cleverness and made the three bureaus his charge, yet he left the realm’s ledgers no clearer than before.

明宗常出遊幸，召延朗共食，延朗不至，附使者報曰：「三司事忙，無暇。」 Mingzong often went touring and asked Yanlang to dine with him. Yanlang stayed away and sent word: “The three bureaus are buried in work. I have no time.”

晉高祖有異志，三司財貨在太原者，延朗悉調取之，高祖深以為恨。 Gaozu of Later Jin already nursed designs of his own. Yanlang seized every coin and store the Three Departments had at Taiyuan, and Gaozu never forgave him.

晉兵起，廢帝欲親征，而心畏高祖，遲疑不決，延朗與劉延朗等勸帝必行。 When Jin’s armies rose, the deposed emperor meant to take the field himself—but he feared Gaozu and hung back. Yanlang, Liu Yanlang, and others pressed him to march.

延朗籍諸道民為丁及括其馬，丁馬未至，晉兵入京師，高祖得延朗，殺之。 Yanlang drafted men from every circuit and seized their horses. Before either men or mounts arrived, Jin troops were already in the capital. Gaozu took Yanlang and killed him.