Businessmen and rich people in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Yuan is a native of Nanxun (now Huzhou, Zhejiang), and moved from Nanxun to Changzhou County Village, Pingjiang Road (now Dongzhuang, Kunshan, Jiangsu) with his father. Shen Wansan, whose children are handsome in strength, is rich in land and real estate, and happy ever after can help others in an emergency. The villagers call him an elder. According to Zhouzhuang, with the benefits of the Three Rivers, goods are widely collected. After that, he accumulated huge wealth through overseas trade, thus quickly becoming the richest man in Jiangnan with "huge capital and land all over the world". Zhouzhuang's "changing villages into towns" is also a credit to Shen Wansan. As for Shen Wansan's wealth, some people even say that he has a cornucopia, and everything in it can become treasure, and so on. This reflects his countless wealth and superb skills in manufacturing and accumulating wealth.
start from scratch
At first, the Shen family cultivated a low-lying land in Zhouzhuang, producing only reeds and thatch. But they are diligent in farming, making it a high-yield cultivated land.
Zhouzhuang has fertile land, mild climate and convenient irrigation. It has always been a good place to grow grain, rape, mulberry and sericulture. Shen Wansan came here with his father, mainly relying on the development of agricultural production, "starting from ploughing", and then "expanding the fields and houses and enriching treasures", resulting in "huge capital and land all over the world". Snow in Dongzhuang is one of the eight scenic spots in Zhouzhuang, which depicts the scenery of Shen Shi Manor. There are many huge granaries in Dongzhuang, and there are countless grains stored every year.
Lu's money gift
In the Yuan Dynasty, Suzhou Dafu Lu admired Shen Wansan's intelligence and business credit, and felt that he was old and saw through the world of mortals. If you don't pass on the huge property in your hands to others, once the situation is turbulent, it will become a disaster. So, all these things were given to Shen Wansan, who went to Kaiyunge by the lake of Hu Cheng and became a Taoist until his death.
Shen Wansan got this huge sum of money from Liu Deyuan, which is even worse.
Zhuhai fantong
On the one hand, Shen Wansan continued to open up farmland houses, on the other hand, Zhouzhuang, which is well-developed in waterway transportation, was used as a base for commodity trade and circulation, and silk, porcelain, grain and handicrafts from the mainland were shipped overseas, and overseas jewelry, ivory, rhinoceros horn, spices and medicinal materials were shipped to China, and foreign trade activities of "striving for wealth as a service" began, which soon made itself the first in the south of the Yangtze River.
The treasure in the divine basin
According to folklore, Shen Wansan has a cornucopia. If you put in a golden hairpin, you can take out a handful of golden hairpin. Put in a silver ingot, you can take out a pot of silver ingot, which is inexhaustible, so it can be rich in the world.
In Nanjing, he built walls and related facilities for Zhu Yuanzhang, and also built 1654 cloisters and four restaurants, which cost countless dollars. Xuanwu Lake Park in Nanjing today is the former site of his back garden. The luxurious banquet and rich costumes are beyond people's imagination. His agate hip flask is bright and crystal-like. There is a grape in the middle, called the grape under the moon. It is said that it can be exchanged for "Jiaxing County Salt Banknotes".