At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although the Yuan Dynasty and the peasant rebel army had capable people, but helplessly, they were not children of the Mandate of Heaven, nor could they defeat Zhu Yuanzhang, so they were eventually ruled by cattle and cows.
It should be said that Zhu Yuanzhang created a miracle of history and became an emperor even greater than Liu Bang. However, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he was contrary to other emperors, and other emperors only relied on nobles and merchants to support their world, but Zhu Yuanzhang swung his fist everywhere, not only beating the officials and soldiers to the ground to find teeth, but also punching the merchants.
If you want to fight a businessman, it naturally involves the famous first businessman Shen Wansan, facing Zhu Yuanzhang's fist, Shen Wansan has no strength to fight back, and he is about to be destroyed. But at a cocktail party, Shen Wansan saved his life through three words. So what's going on here?
As we all know, after Zhu Yuanzhang laid the foundation for the world, he has always been determined to establish a truly ideal country. But we also know that the republic is not achieved overnight, and it needs to constantly overthrow various solidified strata and to overthrow all the vested interests that have emerged.
But Zhu Yuanzhang never knew what he was afraid of, so he launched a crazy strike operation. In history, there are the famous four major cases of Hongwu, through which a large number of bureaucratic groups and Xungui cliques have all been overthrown, and the whole society has come to a great purge.
But it is not enough to kill the muddy waters of the ruling class, but also to convince the merchants at the social level. Because according to Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, the merchant class is the greatest damage to a stable society, and these people during the war, crazy exploitation of the common people, but also hoarding, causing great harm to Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to lay them all down.
In this context, Shen Wansan, as the first merchant of the Ming Dynasty, was immediately caught up in the wind and waves. However, as a businessman, in the face of the emperor's step-by-step approach, he was also powerless to fight back. Therefore, the only thing he could do was to do everything in his power to please Zhu Yuanzhang, and did not dare to resist the government's arrangements in the slightest.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang began to squeeze him. First of all, in order to prevent the Mongols from continuing to invade in the north, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to build the Great Wall. But at that time, the national treasury was relatively empty, so Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and asked Shen Wansan for money.
It should be known that the construction of the Great Wall is very much in need of money, but Shen Wansan, without hesitation, donated a lot of money and directly undertook the starting salary of building the Great Wall. It should be said that just this time of squeezing had already caused Shen Wansan's yuan qi to be seriously injured.
But this was not the end, because Zhu Yuanzhang was going to repair the Nanjing city wall next, so he turned to Shen Wansan and asked for money. This time, Shen Wansan still gritted his teeth and chose to cooperate, it is said that more than half of the family property was produced, which made the Nanjing city wall, and the repair was both strong and beautiful.
But even so, Zhu Yuanzhang still did not let him go, and even wanted to kill him, and he also wanted to destroy him.
Seeing this here may be a bit of a blindfold, isn't it just to suppress businessmen? Why is Zhu Yuanzhang so vicious?
It turned out that Shen Wansan had done a lot of damn things in the past, which made Zhu Yuanzhang hate him to the bone. First of all, when Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't survive, Shen Wansan was frantically hoarding grain, and he saw that the rebel army was about to fight, frantically hoarding materials for building the city. Therefore, Xiong Shen Wansan made a lot of national disasters and wealth, and at the same time forced many people to die, and this Zhang Zhu yuanzhang was very dissatisfied with him.
Secondly, Shen Wansan had frantically supported Zhang Shicheng and made Zhu Yuanzhang's scalp tingle, if it were not for Zhu Yuanzhang's use of harassment tactics to weaken Zhang Shicheng, I am afraid that the next war would be very troublesome.
Therefore, based on the above two reasons, Zhu Yuanzhang had to kill him, and the above two squeezes were just to make him resist and find an excuse to kill him.
You must know that at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already killed a river of blood, and a pint of people had killed several of them, so no matter who it was, it was really targeted by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was absolutely impossible to live for the 2nd day.
But what happened was that under such a heinous killing intent, Shen Wansan still survived, so what was going on?
According to history, Shen Wansan can be said to have done his best this time, on the one hand, he donated all his family property, on the other hand, he did whatever it took to find someone to deliver a message to Empress Ma, hoping that she could mediate from it.
It was obvious that Empress Ma was a good person, so she finally persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang not to be too cruel. But on the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang promised to be good, but on the other hand, he continued to sharpen his knife, and he must find a reason to destroy Shen Wansan.
Therefore, in the unofficial historical materials, there is such a record, Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang ate together, the original intention is to bow to Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping that the other party will let go of their own horse. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang was angry and did not mean to kill people, but suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and asked a question.
I saw him point to a plate of pig's trotters and ask, What kind of dish is this? Shen Wansan was dizzy at that time, wasn't this a dish that everyone knew? Why did the emperor pretend not to understand? In the blink of an eye, Shen Wansan realized that the emperor was looking for an excuse to kill himself again, and this answer could not be answered randomly, it was related to his own life.
Only to see Shen Wansan's eyes turn a few times, and finally replied with sincere trepidation, the name of this dish is called Wansan Hoof. When he learned of Cai Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang was also stunned, and finally looked at him for a long time, which slowly sandwiched two pieces of meat with chopsticks, and then silently said that the name of this dish is really good.
In this way, Shen Wansan was not killed, and his crimes eventually ended in exile and home raids, although this move was still very tragic, after all, the family wealth was empty, but the good villains survived.
So the question is, what do those three words that Shen Wansan said really mean? The answer is simple. Zhu Yuanzhang just wanted to kill people at this time, and all Shen Wansan had to do was to bow his head madly, and he also wanted to make Zhu Yuanzhang happy.
It should be known that Zhu Yuanzhang's surname is Zhu, which represents the emperor of the Zhu family. Shen Wansan replied that the name of the pig's trotter is called Wansan Hoof, which is actually saying that he is a pig. One is the royal Zhu surname, and the other is a pig-like businessman, which is actually a clear bow to Zhu Yuanzhang, and expresses that he is willing to be the slaughtered pig, as long as he spares his life.
So in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang still agreed to the name of the dish, slaughtered Shen Wansan's money as a pig, and then let Shen Wansan go of this bare pig.
So looking back at history, Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed a very domineering person, and Shen Wansan encountered him, which was really a little ghost bumping into the King of Yan. However, then again, Shen Wansan was able to have so much family wealth, and he was indeed a smart person, and he survived in the end, which was also a lucky one.
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