A brief introduction to Zhang Shi, a Jinshi in the Northern Song Dynasty and the prefect of Yuezhou. What kind of person was Zhang Shi?

In the third year of Tianxi reign of Song Dynasty (1019), he became a Jinshi and became the chief registrar of Jiangle County. There was a trap in Jiangle County. Miners' taxes were not paid in full and hundreds of people were detained. When Zhang Shi took office, he adjusted the tax amount according to the rich and the poor. The rich paid more and the poor paid less. After adjustment, the taxation was successfully completed. Later he was transferred to the post of Lieutenant of Xiangfu (now Kaifeng, Henan). Zhao Zhen went to Bingzhou (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) as a general and recruited him as a judge. He successively served as a judge in Xuzhou (now Xuchang, Henan Province) and Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi Province), and then was promoted to Zhizhi (now Yongniandong, Hebei Province) and Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province). The third division issued a letter asking Qianzhou to lose more than 100,000 pieces of silk. Zhang Shi refused to pay the remainder in addition to the amount due. Then he was renamed Haozhou (now Fengyangdong, Anhui) and Shouzhou (now Shouxian, Anhui), and was called to be an official in Kaifeng Prefecture. Someone in the harem secretly purchased land for the Buddhist temple, and Zhang Shi stopped the purchase after admonishing him. At that time, the king of Xixia, Zhao Yuanhao, rebelled. The court wanted to mobilize the people to contribute money or force wealthy households to contribute money. Zhang Shi strongly advised him. Later, he died in Yuezhou.