How did Shen Wansan succeed! What the hell does he do? About his deeds ...

Shen Wansan uses Baiyan River (Dongjiang River) to connect the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west and Liuhe River in the east. Shen Wansan (1330 ~ 1376), male, whose real name is Fu, whose name is Zhongrong, and whose world name is Wansan, was born in Changzhou, Pingjiang Prefecture (Suzhou Prefecture in Ming Dynasty). He once invested in repairing and expanding Guanqian Street, and helped Zhu Yuanzhang build a third of the Nanjing City Wall. Later, it was assigned to the Yunnan border. According to folklore, Shen Wansan became rich because of his cornucopia. It is said that Shen Shi got a cornucopia, and anything in it can be turned into treasure.

On the reasons why Shen Wansan became rich. Generally speaking, there are three theories, namely, plowing, sharing wealth and learning from others.

Reclamation theory

It is recorded in many historical materials, but it is the article "The Wealth and Decline of Shen Wansan, the Rich Man in the Early Ming Dynasty" published by Chen of Kunshan Cultural Management Committee at the "Seminar on Economic History of the Ming Dynasty" that really put forward this statement perfectly. The article emphasizes that Shen Wansan started from "bow crops", and then "widely planted thin fields, widely built houses, and happy ever after", and even "had huge wealth and spread all over the world". Shen Wansan became rich by reclamation, and even became very rich, claiming to be the first in the south of the Yangtze River.

Wealth distribution theory

Some people think that "Shen Wansan's wealth for show is due to the wealth of the Wu family, the Lu family and the Lu Jiang left ...". ("Zhouzhuang Town Records" Volume 6. Miscellaneous notes), another person said, "Lu Daoyuan, the rich man of the Yuan Dynasty, was the best in the world. In his old age, two people who manage their wealth will pay with assets ","One is Shen Wansan who studied ",(Su Tan by Yang Xunji). In a word, Shen Wansan got the wealth of Lu in Wujiang and became a rich man in Jiangnan.

Fan Tong said

According to "Wujiang County Records", "Shen Wansan lives in Zhouzhuang, the 29th capital of Wujiang, and is rich in the world. According to legend, it was obtained from the same story. " Wu Han, a famous historian, also said: "Suzhou Shen Wansan No.1 made a fortune because of overseas trade." This shows that Shen Wansan has become a very rich country by shipping goods to overseas trade.

In fact, the above three factors are indispensable, which are closely related to the reason why Shen Wansan became the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. If Shen Wansan "started from Gonghe in his last life ... his father was rich and he inherited the inheritance; Handsome taste and the strength of his children "shows that he has a career foundation. Shen Wansan got a huge sum of money from Lu, and his superb "economic management" talent was reflected in his "financial management"? Only have the capital and key to get rich. With such a huge sum of money, on the one hand, he continued to open up farmland houses; On the other hand, he took advantage of the convenience of Baiyanjiang (Dongjiang) connecting the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west and Liuhe in the east, and took Zhouzhuang as a base for commodity trade and circulation. He shipped the silk, ceramics, grain and handicrafts from Jiangsu and Zhejiang overseas, and started his foreign trade activities of "striving for wealth as a service", which quickly made him the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River with "huge assets and land all over the world". Shen Wansan earns money from trade, part of which is used to buy land, and the other part is used as business capital. Therefore, Shen Wansan boldly took reclamation as the basis and wealth distribution as the operating capital; Become a rich man. Zhouzhuang "turned the village into a town, which is really the credit of Shen Wansan and his son."