Song, Liao, and Jin · Merchant

Ma 馬

Attested AD 1165 - AD 1173

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ma was a Merchant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1165 to AD 1173 乾道中
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 469, passage 117

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 469Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 4 passages

臨安尹胡與可為小官時，丐貸於臨安富民馬氏，不如欲，銜之。 Capital Prefect Hu Yuke, as a junior official, had borrowed from the rich Ma clan of Lin’an and nursed a grudge when they refused him.

至是，馬以鬻官鹽逾格係獄，與可諷有司以私鹽論，御史陳升卿決獄，平反之。 Now Ma was jailed for overselling government salt; Yuke steered prosecutors toward a private-salt charge; censor Chen Shengqing reversed the verdict.

之子婦，與可女也，乃陰為與可地，譖升卿於帝前，謂為豪民馬請事，所得至萬緡。 Gan’s daughter-in-law was Yuke’s daughter; she secretly paved the way for her father, telling the emperor Shengqing had taken ten thousand strings to plead for the rich Ma.

上疑，遂論罪，馬流嚴州，升卿由是罷去。 The emperor believed it; Ma was exiled to Yanzhou; Shengqing was driven out.