Hu recommended several well-known scholars and officials from Zhejiang to the service of Zhu Yuanzhang, who later became Emperor Hongwu, including Liu Bowen, Song Lian, Ye Chen, Zhang Yi.
Both Su Qin of the Vertical Alliance clique and Zhang Yi of the Horizontal Alliance clique issue many plans and schemes that are politically subjective.
Zhang Ni (died 254), often misspelled as Zhang Yi, general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period
Zhang Fei | Zhang Yimou | Zhang Wentian | Zhang Zhidong | Zhang Ruimin | Zhang Yan (Han Dynasty) | Zhang Yan | Zhang Xun | Zhang Yue (Tang Dynasty) | Zhang Yue | Zhang Dejiang | Zhang Anshi | Liu Zhang | Jianyi Zhang | Zhang Zuoxiang | Zhang Zuolin | Zhang Zizhong | Zhang Zhongjing | Zhang Zhizhong | Zhang Zhijun | Zhang Zhen Huan | Zhang Yuan | Zhang Yu | Zhang Yizhi | Zhang Yiyi | Zhang Yi (strategist) | Zhang Yaodong | Zhang Yanmei | Zhang Xueliang's former residence in Wufeng, Hsinchu | Zhang Xin |
The School of Diplomacy or School of Vertical and Horizontal Alliances (縱橫家/纵横家; Zonghengjia) specialized in diplomatic politics; Zhang Yi and Su Qin were representative thinkers.