Zhang Shiping

Zhang Shiping was a wealthy merchant from Zhongshan during the late late Han Dynasty. He was recorded in history for the help he provided to warlord Liu Bei.

Around 180, he and his colleague Su Shuang went to Zhuo commandery (present day Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei) to trade horses. There they met Liu Bei's, a warlord in the late Eastern Han dynasty who founded the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period and became its first ruler, and decided to supply him with gold and other valuables so he could recruit troops for himself.