In china's ancient economy and society, because the small-scale peasant economy has long played an important role, the ruling class has also tried to use land to bind the people to a certain area, reduce the population flow between regions, and then eliminate the hidden dangers of instability caused by the flow of people, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the overall situation. In this context, the social hierarchy is strict, and there is an unbridgeable gap between the four levels of "scholars, farmers, industrialists and merchants", and a series of chains of discrimination have been derived. As the lowest level of the four classes, the "businessmen" have long been strictly controlled by the government, the social discourse power is small, and there are even fewer rich businessmen who can leave their names in the history books, and this article is about the three rich women who were once famous.
Meet the Emperor of Qin, Queen dansha
According to the existing historical records, the rich woman in China's history was born at the end of the Warring States period, and her name was Baqing. Ba Qingzu has been engaged in the mining of Dansha for several generations, and by the time of Ba Qing's generation, the family has accumulated great wealth, and Ba Qing is also determined to continue the family's business through his own efforts. At the time of the unification of the Qin Dynasty, Ba Qing, after witnessing the destruction of the family property by the war, took the initiative to ask to see the Qin Emperor and promised to be willing to provide the First Emperor with enough dan sand for the filling of the imperial tomb. Qin Shi Huang was overjoyed to hear this, and immediately issued an edict allowing Ba Qing to form an army in the Sichuan-Shu region to protect the family business. With this edict, Ba Qing's business was more smooth, and it was rumored that Ba Qing's wealth amounted to hundreds of millions of taels of silver, worthy of the title of "the first female richest man".
Scatter the family wealth and avenge the Son
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the officialdom was dim, and corrupt officials and cool officials were all over the world. A young man surnamed Lü Qingnian of Langya Haiqu was sentenced to death by the local county order for some minor crimes, and the local people complained about this. After learning of her son's death, the young woman's mother now decides to scatter her family wealth and avenge her son. Lü Mu opened a new hotel in the local area, which was a gift to the prime-aged tourists who came and went, and in a few years, she scattered millions of her property. The people who had been favored by Lü Mu before came to the door one after another to ask What kind of return Lü Mu needed, and Lü Mu said: "I am giving you kindness, not wanting your return, the current county order is a cool official, who once wrongfully killed my son, I only hope that you will work together to help me avenge my son." This group of people was just when they were young and vigorous, and after listening to Lü Mu's cries, they took up arms and besieged the county ya, successfully killed the county order, and avenged Lü Mu's son.
Born as a pirate, he was given the commandment
In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, There were frequent economic exchanges between China and foreign countries, but the government's control of customs was increasingly lax, and many outlaws chose to engage in the profession of "pirates" to illegally make huge profits, and the famous female pirate Zheng Yiyi was one of them. Born into a family of martial arts practitioners, Zheng Yiyi was obsessed with martial arts from an early age and was good at using a variety of weapons. With her own ability and background, Zheng Yiyi quickly became a high-level figure in the Red Flag Gang, a well-known pirate organization at that time. The Red Flag Gang focused on plundering Qing official ships and foreign ships, and the notorious British East India Company was overwhelmed, and its merchant ships were hijacked several times. It is understood that the number of ships owned by the Red Flag Gang in its heyday reached more than a thousand, and the number of pirates gathered under its command reached tens of thousands. After many unsuccessful encirclements and suppressions, the Qing dynasty government ordered Zhao'an, and the elderly Zheng Yiyi decided to accept the imperial court's recruitment after many days of consideration, and was given the title of Lady of the Imperial Household.