Zhang Jun 張鈞

In Chapter 2 of the Romance, Zhu Jun, together with Xuande, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and with Sun Jian, who has come with his troops to help, crushes the Yellow Turbans at Wancheng and pacifies more than ten commanderies around Nanyang. Zhu Jun withdraws his army and returns to the capital, where he is made General of Chariots and Cavalry and Intendant of Henan, and he submits a memorial reporting the merits of Sun Jian, Liu Bei and others. Sun Jian, who has connections, is appointed Major of another commandery and goes to take up his post, but Xuande alone waits a long time without receiving any office. Romance, Ch. 2 §14 · 16–18

As the three, downcast, stroll through the streets, they happen upon the carriage of the Gentleman of the Palace Zhang Jun, and when Xuande meets him and tells him of his achievements, Zhang Jun, greatly startled, at once enters the court and sees the emperor. Zhang Jun memorializes that the root of the Yellow Turban rebellion lay entirely in the Ten Regular Attendants selling offices, employing no one who was not their own and punishing no one who was not their enemy, so throwing the realm into great disorder. He says that if the Ten Regular Attendants are now beheaded and their heads hung up in the southern suburbs, envoys are sent to proclaim this throughout the realm, and those who have won merit are generously rewarded, all within the four seas will of itself become clear and peaceful. Romance, Ch. 2 §18–19

When the Ten Regular Attendants tell the emperor, 'Zhang Jun is deceiving Your Majesty,' the emperor has guards drive Zhang Jun out. The Ten Regular Attendants conclude among themselves that this is the resentment of men who have merit for crushing the Yellow Turbans but have received no office, and decide for now to have the Ministry of Personnel enter some minor post title and to deal with the matter again later. Thus Xuande is appointed Commandant of Anxi County in Zhongshan Prefecture, Dingzhou, and goes to take up his post at Anxi with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Zhang Jun's name does not appear again in the Romance after this. Romance, Ch. 2 §19–21