"The world knows that the gods and immortals are good, only gold and silver can not forget", this sentence exhausts people's desire and attachment to money.
Money is a good thing, and with him we can buy most of the things we want to buy. In more academic terms, money can also be called money, it is reported that money first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, when people used "shell" to trade, shell is the meaning of shell. But as the exchange speed between commodities becomes faster and faster, and the demand for money increases day by day, the bulky currency "shell" gradually withdraws from the historical stage.
Later currencies include copper coins, paper money, gold coins, silver coins, and so on. China was the first country in the world to use money, and later in addition to the scarce metal currency, paper money appeared.
The real paper money popularization in modern times, before the metal currency is the main, today we want to say that in the history of our country has the most metal currency of the five figures, the history of the top 5 world rich, Shen Wansan at the bottom, the first and most famous.
The first place is Hezhen, the most famous corrupt official in ancient China, and also one of the richest figures in the world in the past and the present, according to legend, in that era, the total wealth of Hezhen has reached 10 billion silver. According to the production standards and productivity of that year, even if the business is big, it is impossible to have such a wealth. And He yan lived in the era of Qianlong, when the Qing Dynasty was still the richest place in the world.
He yan's value is equivalent to the sum of the qing dynasty's three years of tax revenue, and if it is compared to modern times, it is an exaggerated figure that dare not be imagined. Therefore, at that time, Hezhen was the world's richest man deservedly, and no one could surpass it.
The second was Liu Jin, a power-wielding eunuch during the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin gained favor and gained power by offering some amusement to the emperor. After gaining power, he began his own wealth-gathering operation, when officials from all over the world came to visit him first when they entered the capital, and left a greeting gift.
However, Liu Jin's practice also led to a miasma in the environment in the imperial court, and Later Liu Jin was sentenced to Ling Chi and was stabbed with 3357 knives before dying.
The third is Song Ziwen, Song Ziwen is a famous figure in the Republic of China period, he is the elder brother of Song Meiling, and the relationship with Chiang Kai-shek is very good, after all, Chiang Kai-shek was able to marry Song Meiling, and also had a credit to Song Ziwen. During the Republic of China period, Song Ziwen was not only a high-ranking official, but also engaged in business operations. In 1925, Song Ziwen became the Minister of Finance of the Nationalist Government, and in 1926 he became the Minister of Finance of the new Nationalist Government in Wuhan.
Song Ziwen later went on to do business, and in 1934, He founded the China Construction Bank, a company whose name is still a household name today.
The fourth was Wu Bingjian, a merchant in the thirteen lines of Guangzhou at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty was forced to open the closed door under the bullying of the coalition forces. Some coastal ports have become an important medium for foreign currency. The Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou came into being. Wu Bingjian made a fortune in the late Qing Dynasty by relying on the opium business, and gradually became one of the richest merchants in China.
The fifth is Shen Wansan, a figure of the Ming Dynasty in China, and it is said that the appearance of Shen Wansan and the appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of soldiers, have a great relationship. However, the relationship between the two does not seem to be very good. Shen Wansan became the richest man in the Ming Dynasty by doing business, but when the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang appeared in front of him, he did not have much respect.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to repair the city gate, Shen Wansan also took the initiative to donate money to take responsibility, but perhaps this behavior annoyed Zhu Yuanzhang, and later Shen Wansan was assigned to the frontier, some people said that he finally died, some people said that he changed his name and surname, and became a businessman on the rich side again.