How rich is the Shen Wansan family? Zhu Yuanzhang was hit three times before he fell?

Shen Wansan probably also understands the truth of the tree, so he wants to take the initiative to serve to keep him safe. Around the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1373), when he learned that the capital (now Nanjing) was going to build a city wall, he took the initiative to undertake the task of building the city wall from Hongwu Gate to Shuixi Gate. At that time, the city wall of Nanjing was 37,140 meters long, more than 74 miles, Zhu Yuanzhang's plan to build the city, only one brick, involved a (Ministry of Industry), three guards (garrison, equivalent to the military region), five provinces, 28 prefectures, 118 counties, and three towns.

And the city wall that Shen Wansan is responsible for alone accounts for one-third of the entire project, how did he complete it on schedule with the strength of his family? Nobody knows.

Outside the west gate of Nanjing today, there is a Saihong Bridge, which is said to have been built by Shen Wansan's daughter-in-law. According to Ming records, after Shen Wansan built several bridges, he was very proud and showed off at home. Unexpectedly, the daughter-in-law was very unimpressed, so she quietly built a bridge with private money.

The bridge is "ingenious and magnificent", which is better than the bridge built by the father-in-law, and people call it "Saigong Bridge" - the daughter-in-law is still like this, which shows that the Shen family is indeed extraordinary.

In the thirty-third chapter of "The Words of the Golden Bottle of Plums" published in the Wanli period, Pan Jinlian casually said a popular afterword of the day: "Nanjing Shen Wansan, Beijing withered willow tree; The name of a man, the shadow of a tree. It means that everyone knows about it, and you can't hide it if you want to.

Wanli has been more than 200 years since the era of Shen Wansan, and Shen Wansan is still famous all over the world, known to women and children, so it can be seen that Shen Wansan is indeed a sensational figure.

Shen Wansan's wealth legend.

Shen Wansan, famous and rich, the word Zhongrong, called him Shen Wansanxiu in history, and the name of Shen Wansan is popular all over the world, but the original name is rarely mentioned.

Why did everyone call him such a strange name? According to Dong Gu's "Bili Miscellaneous" and other materials, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the huge rich were called "ten thousand households", and "ten thousand" was added after the surname, which was a customary way to pay respect to the rich at that time. Also, at that time, people were divided into five classes, saying:

Strange, deformed, lang, official, show. "The odd is the lowest, the show is the highest. The family property of the person called "Xiu" must be more than 10,000 guan, and the Shen family ranks third, and the family has hundreds of millions of assets, so it is called Shen Wansanxiu or Shen Wansan.

It can be seen that his name is a combination of honorific titles, ranks, and households.

According to relevant historical records, Shen Wansan's ancestral home was in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and his ancestors moved to Dongcai Village, Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), and moved to Shen Jiayang, Nanxun, Huzhou, when his father Shen You. In the second year of Yuan Zhizheng (1342), there was a big flood in the Nanxun area, and the poor people fled to other places, and Shen You also moved to Zhouzhuang at this time.

The legendary richest man in Jiangnan, Shen Wansan, was so rich that Zhu Yuanzhang coveted it, so much so that he was killed and his family was ruined. How rich he was has left many interesting legends in history.

According to the record of "Liuqing Journal", when Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shen Wansan and his younger brother Wansi (Shen Gui) first lost 10,000 quintals of grain and offered 5,000 taels of platinum to support the degree, "Taizu military food, take more resources". But the insatiable Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to "exhaust all his money" and find ways to consume his family wealth.

According to Dong Gu's "Bili Miscellaneous Shen Wan Sanxiu", once, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him on the New Moon (that is, the first day of the new month) and gave him a penny to make profits. Shen Wansan didn't know what to do, and gladly accepted it. I don't know that when I go home, after a month, the interest that should be paid to Zhu Yuanzhang is 536,879,902 wen.

According to the report, every 160 pounds of Hongwu money weighed a catty, totaling 33,554,432 catties. Although the Shen family is rich, it can withstand such exploitation. <>

The boss wants to destroy you, whether you are Ma Yun or Ma Huateng are floating clouds, and the emperor is the only one who can call the wind and rain for 5,000 years.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of standing in line, which also has something to do with Qian Duo, but it is not the main sticking point.

It is said that all of Shen Wanshan's property was converted into ** about 2 billion taels, and the financial income of the Ming Dynasty at that time was only 20 million taels a year, Shen Wansan was simply rich and rivaled the existence of the country, and he was also responsible for the construction of many public facilities. I believe that friends who are interested in history should have a certain understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and if they are interested in the Ming Dynasty, they should have a certain understanding of Shen Wansan, a businessman in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty.

1. It is said that his property is about 2 billion **, and the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only 20 million taels**. According to legend, Shen Wansan's entire property is about 2 billion**, and the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only 20 million, so Shen Wansan's property is equivalent to the financial income of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, and Shen Wansan is a generous person, and a reward for those who make him happy is dozens of taels, so his property should be unimaginable.

Second, most of the public facilities and troops in the Ming Dynasty were funded by Shen Wansan. Shen Wansan is so rich, the real money that the court asks him to pay every year is naturally countless, and he also contracted all the construction costs of most public facilities in the Qing Dynasty at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang's army also depends on him to feed, so Shen Wansan has a very important role for the court.

Third, Shen Wansan's family life is even more luxurious, with countless gold and silver utensils. He is so rich that his own life is naturally extravagant, it is said that the chopsticks used by Shen Wansan are all mutton fat jade, and gold and silver utensils are everywhere in his house, from these we can probably feel how much Shen Wansan's wealth is, but he still failed to end up well.

According to today's wealth conversion, Shen Wansan's personal wealth can reach more than 200 billion. At that time, he was also the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, Shen Wansan was the richest man in the Ming Dynasty, and the walls of Beijing City were repaired at Shen Wansan's expense.

He has truly achieved the level of being rich and rivaling the country. His assets are said to be billions of taels, and some of the gold and silver treasures in his family are countless.