《元史·列传·卷三十七》
金末，山东盗贼蜂起，张荣也率乡民占据济南之堂岭。后来人渐多，便攻占章丘、邹平、济阳、长山、辛市、蒲台、新城及淄州。官军来，便退入山中，坚壁清野。太祖二十一年，东平、顺天皆为蒙古军所有，张荣便率领其军队和所占地盘归顺蒙古，按赤台那衍将他引见太祖，问他孤军数年独抗蒙古大军的缘故。他回答说： 山东地广人稠，全为陛下所有，臣若有依恃，也不会归顺了。 
金季，山东群盗蜂起，荣率乡民据济南黉堂岭，众稍盛，遂略章丘、邹平、济阳、长山、辛市、蒲台、新城及淄州之地而有之，兵至，则清野入山岁丙戌，东平、顺天皆内属，荣遂举其兵与地纳款于按赤台那衍，引见太祖，问以孤军数载，独抗王师之故，对曰： 山东地广人稠，悉为帝有。臣若但有倚恃，亦不款服。 
At the end of the Jin dynasty, thieves ran rampant in Shandong, so Zhang Rong led his fellow villagers in occupying Tangling in Jinan. As his numbers grew, he went on to capture Zhangqiu, Zouping, Jiyang, Changshan, Xin Shi, Pu Tai, Xin Cheng and Zizhou. When government troops arrived, he would retreat into the mountains, fortifying his defenses and clearing the countryside. In the twenty-first year of Taizu's reign, Dongping and Shuntian were both taken by the Mongol army, so Zhang Rong surrendered his army and the territory he controlled to the Mongols. Achitai Nayian introduced him to Taizu, who asked him how he had managed to resist the Mongol army alone for so many years. He replied: "Shandong is a large and populous place, all of which belongs to Your Majesty. If I had had any support, I would not have surrendered."