As we all know, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan was a merchant who was rich and invincible at that time. According to statistics, all his assets are converted into silver with 2.1 billion, which is equivalent to more than 1.4 trillion if converted into today's currency.
Shen Wansan's life can be said to be a legendary life, when Shen Wansan was young, he did not have a lot of wealth, on the contrary, at that time, he was just a poor peasant.
However, Shen Wansan is intelligent and creative, and he is different from others in farming, advocating high-input intensive farming. It turned out that his way of working was right, and he harvested a lot every year, and saved his original capital by labor.
After saving his original capital, Shen Wansan began to engage in business, and with his ingenuity, he soon became a focus figure. At this time, he was met with the number one local business figure, and this was a giant of the local rich side.
Because of his own talents, the rich merchants decided to pay for Shen Wansan to control the market, and this decision made Shen Wansan flourish, just like a grass chicken flying on the branches and turning into a phoenix.
Subsequently, with his own control, Shen Wansan mastered a lot of resources and connections, plus the rich merchants died soon after, leaving a part of Shen Wansan's family property, and Shen Wansan was even more in the sky.
With the continuous expansion of Shen Wansan's internal resources, coupled with Shen Wansan's experience in business, Shen Wansan soon became one of the richest businessmen in the local area. With the Ming Dynasty allowing private foreign import and export trade, Shen Wansan seized new business opportunities, and after several years of internal and external operations, Shen Wansan became a giant of the merchants of the dynasty, and he could be described as rich and invincible at that time.
However, people were afraid of being famous and pigs were afraid of being strong, and Shen Wansan was coveted by the imperial court at that time, and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered Shen Wansan to use his property to build the city of Nanjing. The king's life is difficult to violate, and Shen Wansan's requirements for Zhu Yuanzhang are to find ways to meet them, ask for money to give money, and ask people to contribute.
However, Shen Wansan could not escape the punishment of the imperial court after all, Shen Wansan had always paid bribes to some generals and officers, but Zhu Yuanzhang believed that Shen Wansan was buying people's hearts and having a disobedient heart, and then Long Yan was furious and prepared to kill Shen Wansan, but Empress Ma said good things, and Shen Wansan escaped the disaster.
Shen Wansan's death penalty can be avoided, the living sin is difficult to escape, and his life is brilliant, but he has fallen into a turbulent displacement and left his hometown. Although Shen Wansan disappeared in front of people's eyes overnight, his life's wealth could make countless people crazy.
Shen Wansan was a figure who could drive the overall development of the country at his peak, and in a sense, his wealth made the national strength of the Ming Dynasty enter a brilliant period. Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, the newly enthroned Qing Emperor coveted his legacy, and mobilized many people to go to the people to find the traces of Shen Wansan, hoping to use his legacy to expand the strength of the country.
The Qing Dynasty can be said to have painstakingly searched for Shen Wansan's property, and during the 296 years of the Qing Dynasty's reign, 12 emperors never stopped searching for the road. However, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Shen Wansan's legacy was not found. Shen Wansan's influence is very huge, and posterity has not stopped the pace of exploration.
In the Ming Dynasty at that time, this place in Guizhou can be said to be a barbaric land, and people's lives are relatively primitive. Therefore, Shen Wansan finally chose to escape to this place, and it was most appropriate to sneak up on life here.
Shen Wansan fled here and disappeared after being assigned by Zhu Yuanzhang, because Shen Wansan had befriended many officials, and the people who guarded the town at that time had received Shen Wansan's favors and had been friends with him for many years.
Therefore, Shen Wansan was sent here to be fortunate in misfortune, and the emperor chose a good place for Shen Wansan to retire in order to let him fend for himself. Although people have not been able to find Shen Wansan's property, there is a little news about his descendants.
In modern times, there are many people in some parts of Guizhou who claim to be the descendants of Shen Wansan, and naturally as long as there is similar news, countless people flock to it. But after verification and disappointment again and again, these people lied that they were Shen Wansan's descendants in order to attract traffic, and the real purpose was to seek private interests.
But during a tourist trip, a village hidden deep in the mountains was discovered, and the indigenous people here were very different from the other ethnic minorities around them in terms of customs and habits.
The people here are dressed up and the architecture is very different from the local area. Moreover, when tourists entered the village to chat with the villagers, the villagers found that the villagers were actually speaking Nanjing dialect when they opened their mouths, and there were Nanjing people living in the mountains of Guizhou, which was surprising.
When tourists asked the villagers what their surname was, the villagers' answers were surprising, and the villagers replied that his surname was Shen. You must know that in this place, the surname Shen is very sensitive. But based on the Nanjing accent and name alone, it cannot be concluded that these villagers are shen Wansan's descendants. After all, there are too many people pretending, and in order to determine the origin of these people, tourists have made further confirmations.
After some investigation, it was found that these villagers were not descendants of Shen Wansan, but descendants of Shen Wansan's younger brother Shen Wansi. Although the results were greatly disappointing, the whereabouts of Shen Wansan's immediate family members were found, and the truth about where Shen Wansan's descendants were gradually revealed.
According to the villagers' descriptions, people quickly locked in a place, Tunbao, which was most likely Shen Wansan's final residence.
Tunbao has lived in this place for generations with a total of four large surname families, including one surnamed Shen, but this Shen family is different from other local families in terms of folk customs and customs. Moreover, according to the descendants of the Shen family, they have been engaged in business for generations and have always believed in the god of wealth, so every household with the surname Shen here is enshrined in the god of wealth.
You know, in the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan was the god of wealth in people's impressions, and this discovery made people feel that the truth was about to come out.
Immediately after the explorer found that the appearance of the god of wealth enshrined by the Shen family was different from the usual portrait, but a bit like the appearance of Shen Wansan described in the historical records, and finally determined that the Shen surname here was Shen Wansan's clan according to the genealogical examination, but how much wealth Shen Wansan left for his descendants.
Descendants surnamed Shen described that Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that Shen Wansan's wealth was great, and Shen Wansan had to use up most of his property to keep the family safe in order to protect himself.
Moreover, Shen Wansan had a lot of property, but he was plundered by the emperor when he was rich and invincible, and he also used a lot of property to subsidize the state, and then the emperor rectified Shen Wansan and his family, and Shen Wansan also scattered his money for self-protection.
Finally, after the East Window Incident, Shen Wansan did not bring much property in order to escape, and his own family was also investigated and punished by the emperor. After Shen Wansan fled, he was also afraid that the emperor would cut the grass and remove the roots, and also let the descendants forbid them to reveal their identities, only in this way could the incense continue.
Therefore, Shen Wansan did not leave a million family wealth as people have passed on, but Shen Wansan left his descendants with valuable experience in how to do business and how to make a fortune. It is better to teach people and fish than to teach people to fish, so Shen Wansan's life experience and experience are the precious wealth left to future generations.