Yuan · Official

Zhang Yong 張庸

Zhāng Yōng

Attested AD 1367 - AD 1368

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yong as a diviner, military officer, and official. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yong	張庸	Zhāng Yōng
Courtesy	Cunzhong	存中	Cunzhong
Personal	Yong	庸	Yong
Personal	Zhang Yong	張庸	Zhang Yong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:196:s0146

Roles

Diviner
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Cause: refused to submit
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0152

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大明兵 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1367 · End: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:196:s0152, yuanshi:196:s0142

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Justice / 刑部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0149
Label: vice director of the Fujian Branch Secretariat / 福建行省員外郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0147

Places and affiliations

Label: Yuan / 元 · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0147
Place: Wenzhou / 溫州
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0146

Learning and skills

Skill: Great Unity Numbers / 太乙數 · Level: skilled
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0147

Works and attributed material

Work: Chart of Great Unity Numbers / 太乙數圖 · Relation: author
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0148

Events and relationships

Relation: presented-plans-to · Person Id: Li Guofeng (李國鳳)
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0147

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 196Volume 196 Biographies 83: Loyal and Righteous Acts 4 · 6 passages

是時有張庸者，字存中，溫州人。 At this time there was Zhang Yong, whose style name was Cunzhong, from Wenzhou.

性豪爽，精太乙數，會世亂，以策幹經略使李國鳳，承製授庸福建行省員外郎，治兵杉關。 Bold and generous by nature, he was skilled in the art of Great Unity Numbers. When the realm fell into disorder, he presented his plans to frontier commissioner Li Guofeng and was appointed by imperial order vice director of the Fujian Branch Secretariat, charged with training troops at Shan Pass.

皇太子立大撫軍院，命庸團結房山，遷同僉將作院事，又除刑部尚書，仍領團結。 The crown prince established the Great Pacification Army Bureau and ordered Yong to organize militia in Fangshan. He was transferred to associate director of the Directorate of Palace Buildings, then appointed Minister of Justice while still leading the militia organization.

會諸寨既降，庸守駱駝谷，遣從事段禎請援於擴廓帖木兒，不報。 When the various stockades had surrendered, Yong held Luotuo Valley and sent his aide Duan Zhen to request aid from Köke Temür, but received no reply.

庸獨堅守拒戰，眾將潰，庸無去志。 Yong alone held firm and fought on. The other commanders broke and fled, but he had no thought of leaving.

已而寨民李世傑執庸出降，以見主將，庸不屈，與禎同被殺。 Before long the stockade resident Li Shijie seized Yong and brought him out to surrender. When he was brought before the commander, Yong would not submit and was killed together with Zhen.