Do you know who invented the paper money we use now? He was Zhang Yong of the Song Dynasty, known as the "father of paper money", and he was a native of Juancheng, Shandong. Also known as Zhang Zhongding and Zhang Qiya, he was a jinshi during the Taiping Revival period. He was promoted to Privy Counsellor, an official of the Zhenzong Dynasty to the Libu Shangshu, with excellent poetry, and was a famous courtier of the Northern Song Dynasty Taizong and Zhenzong.
When Zhang Yong was a teenager, he was willful and informal, even if he lived in poverty and had a low status and traveled in a distant place, he did not feel inferior to others. When he was a teenager, he learned fencing, was generous and kind to speak big words, and enjoyed the odd festival. He also likes to play chess, is proficient in archery, and likes to drink alcohol, which makes him sick in his later years.
Because Zhang Yong was born in a poor family, at the age of nineteen, he began to write in mechanics, and his family was poor and had no books, so he copied them down and read them hard after borrowing them. He read very diligently, without a desk, he read in the yard with his back to the trunk of a big tree, and he could not finish an article, and he would never enter the house to rest. There are two sentences in the poem "Persuasion to Study" written by Zhang Yong: "Xuanmen is not closed, and hard study should be self-opened", which can be said to be a portrayal of his hard work in his youth.
When he was doing the Chongyang County Order, he saw a small official coming out of the warehouse, and when he saw that there was a coin on the turban with his hair and sideburns, Zhang Qiya interrogated him, and the small official replied, "This is the money in the warehouse." So Zhang Qiya ordered his subordinates to beat him, and the young official said annoyedly: "What's the big deal about taking a piece of money, just scold me?" You can hit me with a rod, but you can't cut me off. Zhang Qiya took the pen and sentenced him to say: "Stealing one dollar a day is a thousand dollars for a thousand days, the rope is sawn and broken, and the water drops are worn through stone." He stepped down from the stage, then beheaded him with his sword and impeached himself on the imperial platform.
There was a soldier who worked as a petty official in a foreign country, lost public funds, was held hostage by a fierce servant, and if he did not marry his eldest daughter, he would have to go to the first place to report it. The family had nothing to do and wept late at night. Zhang Yong heard the crying and slapped the door to inquire, but the little official only said that there was nothing wrong, asked again and again, and then told the truth. When Zhang Yong did not move, xiang shiren used this as a servant and rode his horse to the outskirts with him. When he reached no man's land in the woods, he swung his sword and killed the evil servant, and when he returned, he informed the petty officer that the servant would not return, and warned him not to corrupt and break the law in the future. He once said to a friend: "Zhang Yong was fortunately born in the taiping and prosperous world, reading and receiving self-discipline, if he was born in a chaotic world, it would be really unimaginable."
Although Li Shun was pacified, the eunuch Wang Ji'en had no way to unify the army and disturb the people, so the Taizong sect sent Zhang Yong to rule Shu. Wang Ji'en arrested many chaotic parties to hand over to Zhang Yong for handling the crime, and Zhang Yong released them as much as possible. Wang Ji'en was furious. Zhang Yong said, "The day before Yesterday, Li Shun threatened the people as thieves, and today Yong and the publicization of thieves for the people, why can't we?"
Wang Ji'en's corporals were not disciplined and plundered the people's wealth, and Zhang Yong sent people to catch them, and did not tell Wang Ji'en, so he tied up these soldiers and threw them into a well and drowned. Wang Ji'en did not dare to question him, and both sides pretended not to know. When the soldiers saw that Zhang Yong's means were powerful, they were much more disciplined.
After Li Shun's chaos, those who went to the prefecture to become officials were not allowed to bring their family members. Zhang Yong rode to his post alone when he was in Yizhou Zhizhou. The newly appointed subordinates were afraid that he would enforce the law strictly, and no one dared to marry a concubine and buy a concubine. After Zhang Yong knew about it, he understood his subordinates very well, and he was also very considerate of the sexual distress of his subordinates, so that in order to make his subordinates work with peace of mind, he first married four concubines, so that the rest of the subordinates would dare to put concubines. However, Zhang Yong was summoned back to Beijing in the Shu years, and when he left Beijing, he called the parents of the concubines and paid for the concubines to marry. Later, the husbands of these concubines were greatly grateful, because they were married to daughters.