Shen Wansan, formerly known as Shen Fu, was born in Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu. He lived in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Because he is the richest man in Jiangnan, he is commonly known as Shen Wansan. Legend has it that he has a cornucopia with total assets of 20 million taels of silver, which is extremely rich. He started as a farmer at first, and was strongly supported by Lu, a big businessman in Jiangsu. Later, he began to do business overseas and became the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhouzhuang people also made a fortune.
Shen Wansan was poor when he was a child. Send a poor god to his hometown every year. Shen Wansan doesn't want to be a poor god anyway. But because of the lottery, maybe God always wanted to train talented people first, and Shen Wansan became a poor god that year. Shenyang has been planting for generations. My father is puzzled by Shen Wansan's behavior, but there is no way. His son wants to do business all day and be a businessman.
Shen Wansan's clan has been farming for generations. Until the Yuan Dynasty, there were many children in Shenyang. Shen Fu thought that so many children couldn't afford it, so he let Shen Wansan go into business. Shen Wansan followed a businessman and studied business ethics. Because of his cleverness, he was loved by business leaders. Through several years' hard work, Shen Wansan became increasingly rich, and even the masters he knew were touched by him, becoming a local tyrant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
At that time, the rich Lujia in the south of the Yangtze River had no sons, and his daughter married Shen Wansan, which made him have more wealth and made him famous!
After the business is bigger, the scale of the business will be wider. Then in the Ming Dynasty, wealth reached its peak and became the richest man in China. He was so rich that Zhu Yuanzhang coveted him. Of course Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill him. Not just because he has money. It is also because of his influence that he is more influential in the Jiangnan trend group than Zhu Yuanzhang. Moreover, he once used his own money to reward Zhu Yuanzhang's army. Plus Zhu Yuanzhang is suspicious by nature. Shen Wansan has the ability to defect again, so the result can be imagined.
When Zhu Yuanzhang tried to kill Shen Wansan for the first time, it was during the construction of the Nanjing City Wall that Shen Wansan was rewarded by Zhu Yuanzhang with a third of the expenses. But Shen Wansan got carried away and said he would reward the army. Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious, thinking that Shen Wansan wanted to win over his own army and replace it. In a rage, he wanted to kill Shen Wansan, but Zhu Yuanzhang's original wife Ma Huanghou stopped him.
Legend has it that Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang were born at the same time in the same year. Zhu Yuanzhang was born when the rooster crowed for the first time and became the most expensive person in the world. Shen Wansan was born when the cock crowed twice and became the richest man in the world. When the cock crowed three times, the beggar was born and became the poorest man in the world. According to the Qing Dynasty's "Lock the Eyes in Baixia", there was a small temple outside Dinghuai Gate in Nanjing, in which China's Ming Taizu was shaped, with Shen Wansan on the left and a Taoist beggar on the right, commonly known as three people with different lives at the same time.
Zhu Yuanzhang started out as a poor man. Facing the rich, he was a little jealous of Shen Wansan. In addition, Shen Wansan had no political mind and often showed off his wealth in front of the emperor, so he died.
The popular folk saying is that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't find any evidence of Shen Wansan at first, and Shen Wansan didn't seem to commit any illegal acts in making a fortune. Shen Wansan probably understood that one tree catches the wind. In order to keep safe, he wanted to take the initiative to serve. In the sixth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1373), he learned that the capital (now Nanjing) was going to build a wall. He took the initiative to bear one-third of the cost, built the wall from Hongwumen to Shuiximen, and paid tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang's Dragon Horn, and presented 2,000 ingots of platinum, 200 kilograms of gold, soldiers 10 and horses/kloc. In addition, Shen Wansan even offered to donate money to reward the sergeant. Who knows that Zhu Yuanzhang flew into a rage and wanted to execute Shen Wansan: Isn't it a rebellion for a common people to dare to join the army? Fortunately, Ma Huanghou dissuaded me: I heard that the law only kills those who break the law, not those who are unlucky. Shen Wansan, a civilian, is extremely rich, but unfortunately. God will bring disaster to such people. Why did your majesty kill them? Zhu Yuanzhang was sent to Yunnan to avoid his own death. Naturally, all the property in Shenyang was confiscated. It is said that there are thousands of hectares of fields alone.
This amazing wealth made Zhu Yuanzhang very worried. Born in Huaiyou Buyi, Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely hostile to the rich in his bones. At the beginning of his reign, he ordered thousands of rich people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to move to Nanjing, ostensibly for the prosperity of the capital, but actually uprooted these rich people and took the opportunity to take their land. As the richest man in Jiangnan, Shen Wansan can't escape from Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Yuanzhang built a wall of more than ten miles, he appointed Shen Wansan's two sons as officials. I don't know whether it is to repay the kindness of the emperor or to show my wealth again. Shen Wansan actually asked Zhu Yuanzhang to pay for his own labor. This suggestion greatly stimulated the emperor's self-esteem, so there was the following dialogue: Zhu Yuanzhang said, "I have a million troops. Can you help them travel all over the world?" Shen Wansan said: Each army gets one tael of gold. Zhu Yuanzhang said: Although this is what you want, you don't need it! "
Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer and started from scratch. He thinks agriculture is the most important thing. Paying attention to agriculture and restraining business was also the basic national policy in the early Ming Dynasty. Shen Wansan affected the implementation of the policy. Zhu Yuanzhang believes that businessmen are the foundation of troubled times and hooligans who drive up prices and hoard, so he agrees to regard agriculture as a national policy. But businessmen like Shen Wansan can influence national policies and have a good reputation. It can be said that Shen Wansan is a business leader. There is a threat, so people like Shen Wansan can't stay for the implementation of national policies.
Shen Wansan couldn't support Zhu Yuanzhang and even ruined his job. He ignored his opponent's position and forgot his identity. In fact, it doesn't matter whether he provides a cornucopia or not. Work hard to arouse the Lord, kill; If you have more money than the royal family, you have to kill them. Twenty-two thousand deep and remote to protect themselves, Shen Wansan broke the money and caused trouble, see if you have self-knowledge. It's still hard to hide the excitement. Fighting for money with an open flame is undoubtedly sending yourself to the guillotine.