釋氏稽古略 3.341

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楚王馬殷。字霸圖。許州鄢陵人。唐昭宗乾寧中拜武安軍節度使鎮潭州。盡有湖南之地。梁大節開平二年處湖南。聽民自採茶賣於北客。收其征以贍軍。七月殷奏汴荊襄唐郢復州置回圖務運茶河南北賣之以易繒纊戰馬。詔許之。湖南由是富贍。梁封之為楚王。

Ma Yin, King of Chu, courtesy name Batu, was a native of Yanling in Xuzhou. In the middle of the Qianning era under Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, he was appointed Military Commissioner of the Wu'an Army stationed at Tanzhou, coming to hold all the lands of Hunan. In the second year of the Kaiping era of Liang, while residing in Hunan, he allowed the people to pick tea themselves and sell it to northern merchants, collecting the levies to support the military. In the seventh month, Yin memorialized requesting to establish Trade Agencies in Bian, Jing, Xiang, Tang, Ying, and Fu Prefectures to transport tea north and south of the Yellow River and sell it in exchange for silk fabrics, floss silk, and warhorses. An imperial decree granted this. Hunan became wealthy and abundant because of this. Liang enfeoffed him as King of Chu.