When it comes to the most difficult emperors to serve in the past, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely be able to rank in the top three. Zhu Yuanzhang's legendary experience from a beggar to an emperor, I don't know how much hardship and hardship he went through in the middle, he climbed from the bottom to the top. Needless to say, to have such a brilliant talent, rich life experience, so that he knows all aspects of the empire, coupled with his own irritable and impatient personality, so that the people who work under him are trembling, like walking on thin ice.
According to the "History of Ming", the officials of the Hongwu Dynasty went to the front of the dynasty and held a farewell ceremony at home every day, and the officials explained the aftermath clearly before going to work with the mentality of never returning. Officials and their families will look out at their doorstep every day, celebrating another day together when they see their loved ones return. Such a horrible scene makes people shudder to read. With such a difficult lord to serve, what kind of spark would Shen Wansan, the richest man in the country at that time, collide when he met Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the most powerful?
Now go to Zhouzhuang, there is a must-go attraction, where the Guangsha is gorgeous, and the rich and noble is the former residence of Shen Wansan. Although Shen Wansan had been dead for more than six hundred years, his wealth had been preserved in another form. Shen Wansan's real name was Shen Fu, the character Zhongrong, born in 1330. Activated at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the reason why Shen Wansan was called Wansan was entirely the credit of the masses of the people.
The so-called wansan is the three shows among the ten thousand households. It means that he is too rich, so rich that the people do not call him by his real name, they call him rich. This is similar to the current name of Ma Yun's father, it seems that our worship of rich people has been around for a long time. Shen Wansan's origins are quite legendary, according to legend, his family has a cornucopia, which is inexhaustible in gold and silver jewelry.
Although this is a rumor, it can be inferred from this rumor that the wealth of his family is deep. Shen Wansan's family conditions are average, relying on his own hard work to cultivate and achieve a well-off life. It is said that Lu Wansan greatly admired Shen Wansan's integrity and wisdom, and he himself saw through the red dust and gave Shen Wansan all the external objects such as money and wealth.
Shen Wansan got to drop such a big pie from heaven, he didn't get carried away, and he didn't sit in the mountain sky. Instead, they choose to work hard to increase their wealth. He was engaged in international trade at that time, and he was doing business overseas. Thus quickly accumulating wealth and reaching great wealth. When business reaches a certain level, the economy is linked to politics. In the chaotic era at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shen Wansan also chose a person to make venture capital at the beginning.
It is said that Zhang Shicheng has received funding from Shen Wansan, but unfortunately, Shen Wansan's investment this time is destined to be adrift. In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Zhang Shicheng. Zhu Yuanzhang, a man who had a good eye, would repay the favor, and naturally hated the people who had funded Zhang Shicheng, and Shen Wansan bore the brunt of it. Shen Wansan saw this situation and wanted to break the money and avoid disaster. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was repairing the city wall of Nanjing, and Shen Wansan proposed that he help the country repair one-third, and some people were willing to be the head of this wrongdoing, and Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally very happy.
After the city wall was repaired, Shen Wansan's two sons were also sealed as officials, which was regarded as a gesture of goodwill. For the huge rich Shen Wansan, he was naturally very happy to be able to spend some money to get things done, thinking that things were over. But reality tells us that life is always full of ups and downs. Once Zhu Yuanzhang was obviously close to the people and won the hearts of the people. At the palace banquet, Shen Wansan was invited, and Shen Wansan gladly went to the appointment.
Halfway through the meal, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly asked Shen Wansan, "Do you know what this is?" Haven't eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run? Who doesn't know the pig's trotters? For this question that was a bit insulting to IQ, Shen Wansan was in trouble. If the answer is a pig's trotter, the emperor's surname is Zhu, although it is not the same word, but the sound is similar. You say pig's trotters, don't you want to eat the emperor's feet?
Obviously it is the true Dragon Heavenly Son, and it is said to you that it is the true "Pig" Heavenly Son. The Hongwu Dynasty, which is engaged in literal hell at every turn, will lose its head so. However, the emperor's question could not be answered, otherwise it would be a big disrespect, and Shen Wansan would not be able to eat and walk around. As long as one answer is not good, Shen Wansan is definitely finished, and the so-called Banjun is like this. But Shen Wansan was worthy of his wit and cleverness, and he replied, "The name of this dish is Wansan Hoof"! Solve the dilemma, pick up a life, and calmly get out.
It is said that there are still people who call pig trotters "Wansan hooves", I don't know if it is the self-deprecation of Shen Wansan's descendants. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a person who gave up easily, and Shen Wansan was later raided by Zhu Yuanzhang on the grounds that he wanted to treat the army, that he was a private and benevolent to the world, and that he had a bad heart, and sent his whole family to Yunnan to charge the army. After Shen Wansan arrived in Yunnan, the history books did not record it, and some people said that he continued to do business in Yunnan, made a lot of profits, and had a career of his own! Some people also say that after he arrived in Yunnan, he was poor and depressed. The truth is up to the table.