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According to Wan Chao's discussion, the inventory of Daming in the Sky Mirror is still going on, and this time it actually reveals who is the richest person in Daming.

"Of course it's Zhu Yuanzhang!"

"No, it should be Zhu Di."

"I think it's Shen Wansan."

"Shen Wansan?"

In the Sky Mirror, the words Shen Wansan suddenly appeared.

"Sick to death, it's really Shen Wansan."

[As the richest person in Ming Dynasty, what kind of connection does this person have with Zhu Yuanzhang. 】

【Does the prosperity of Daming have something to do with him? 】

Shen Wansan, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, was so rich that Zhu Yuanzhang coveted him, so much so that he was murdered and his family was ruined.

Is this really the case?
We know that since the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan has almost become synonymous with rich people.

During the Jiajing period, when Yan Song was in power, a Jinshi Bingchen from Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province spent 2 taels of silver to buy the head of the Ministry of Officials' Examination Department, which was called "Shen Wan Sanguan" at that time.

"Shen Wansan in Nanjing, a dry willow tree in Beijing, the name of a person, the shadow of a tree."

Shen Wansan is indeed a "wealthy" figure, how "rich" is he?
"History of the Ming Dynasty" records that Shen Wansan rewarded his private school teachers: "For every writing, he will be paid platinum in the amount of yi."

Platinum is silver, and one "镒" is 20 taels. Shen Wansan's family background can be seen by paying such a high remuneration for just one article.

When Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the city-building plan, the single brick-making unit involved one three guards, five provinces, 28 prefectures, 110 eight counties, and three towns.

And Shen Wansan alone was in charge of the more than ten kilometers long city wall from Hongwumen to Shuiximen, and the project volume accounted for one-third of the entire project.

The Shen family "has dozens of hectares of fields, and digs canals to divert water for wine needs", which means that Shen's family needs dozens of hectares of fields to divert water for wine making. Such a family property is staggering.

Zhu Yuanzhang was going to reward the three armies, but Shen Wansan said that he would pay the reward on his behalf.

Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately made things difficult: I have millions of troops, how can you spread them all?Unexpectedly, Shen Wansan responded boldly: May each army reward one tael!
Based on this, today's people may be able to understand why Shen Wansan can be called "the richest man in Jiangnan".

How Shen Wansan got rich has always been a mystery.

The most legendary and widely circulated statement is the "cornucopia".

It is said that when Shen Wansan was poor, he saw a farmer carrying more than a hundred frogs, so he kindly bought them and released them.

Unexpectedly, the next day, he saw all the frogs gathered in a clay basin and did not disperse, so he took the clay basin home.

Once his wife accidentally dropped a silver hairpin into a basin while washing her hands. Unexpectedly, one silver hairpin turned into two, two into four, and the basin was full after a while. The name Jubaomen also comes from this.

It is also said that Shen Wansan knows the "alchemy technique" and can turn things into gold, so the gold is endless.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a rich family named Lu Deyuan in Wujiang area, and Shen Wansan managed the accounts and wealth for him.

Later, Lu saw through the world of mortals and left home to travel and hand over the Wanguan family wealth to Shen Wansan. From this, Shen Wansan became a "rich family in the south of the Yangtze River".

In addition, there are legends such as Shen Wansan getting the crow stone or horseshoe gold from a fisherman, which are very magical.

It is said that after Shen Wansan became rich, he took Suzhou as an important place to do business. He once supported Zhang Shicheng's Dazhou regime, and Zhang Shicheng also set up a monument for Shen Wansan.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang made Nanjing his capital, and Shen Wansan's two sons were made officials by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his meritorious service in building the city wall.

But soon Shen Wansan was sent to the army by Zhu Yuanzhang and spent the rest of his life in Yunnan.

It is widely circulated among the people that Zhu Yuanzhang did not find any evidence of Shen Wansan's crime at the beginning, and Shen Wansan's enrichment did not seem to be illegal.

Shen Wansan probably also understands the principle that a big tree attracts the wind, so he wants to take the initiative to repay it to ensure safety.

In the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, when he learned that the capital was going to build a city wall, he took the initiative to bear one-third of the cost to build the city wall from Hongwumen to Shuiximen. Two hundred catties, ten soldiers and ten horses. At the same time, 650 four couplets and four restaurants were built in Nanjing.

In addition, Shen Wansan even expressed his willingness to donate money to reward the sergeants.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and wanted to execute Shen Wansan: a commoner dared to work in the army, isn't this a rebellion?Fortunately, Empress Ma dissuaded: I heard that the law only kills those who violate the law, and does not kill the unlucky ones.

Shen Wansan is a commoner but rich as an enemy, he himself is unlucky, God will bring disasters to this kind of person, why should His Majesty kill him?
Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang save him from death and sent him to Yunnan.

Naturally, all the properties of the Shen family were confiscated. It is said that there are thousands of hectares of land alone.

This blow not only caused the Shen family to lose Shen Wansan as the head of the family, but also lost most of their wealth.It now appears that even if Shen Wansan did not take the initiative to donate to the labor force, he would not be able to escape the fate of being punished.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, it is a crime for Shen Wansan to be rich and rival the country.

If you want to add a crime, why do you have no excuses?In short, all his property should be returned to the "public".

The deeds of Shen Wansan's misfortune due to his wealth in the early Ming Dynasty are widely spread, and it seems beyond doubt that his words are convincing.

In fact, Shen Wansan should have started his career by farming, and then got rich through business.

"Since Shen Wansan showed great enthusiasm for building fields and houses, he was rich in gold and jade, and until now, he has pursued wealth as his business."

After Shen Wansan's father moved from Nanxun Town, Huzhou to Dongcai Village, Changzhou County, he worked hard to fully develop the fertile land that had been abandoned.

Due to the successful management, the land was widely occupied, and the Shen family turned into a large landlord who recruited tenants, rented out land, hired long-term laborers, and issued usury loans.

When it was passed down to Shen Daqing's generation, the Shen family "produced a wide range of wealth and wealth", and historical records said that its land property was as many as thousands of hectares.

Kong You, a man of the Ming Dynasty, also recorded that Shen Wansan paid great attention to the construction of water conservancy, "Wansan has fields near the lake, and build stone banks along the lake to block the fields."

In addition, the Shen family cemetery in Xiunan Village was built in the 21st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. The owner of the tomb is Shen Zhuang, the grandson of Shen Wansan. The local people call it "Anshan Tomb".Its epitaph records, "His ancestors started their business by bowing crops, Shen Wansan, and tasted the affairs of his son Lisa", and so on.

After Shen Wansan accumulated a certain amount of assets, he engaged in trading and became a huge rich man.

During the Yuan Dynasty, maritime transport was developed and foreign trade was smooth, and many foreigners came to China for trade.

On the other hand, the economy in the south of the Yangtze River was developed, and it was not damaged during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. By the late Yuan Dynasty, it had become the highest in the country.

Suzhou and the Hangjiahu area have always been known as the "granary" throughout the country, known as "Suhu is cooked, the world is full".

Shen Wansan owns thousands of hectares of land, so naturally a large amount of rice is sold as a commodity.

At that time, the grain needed in the north, including Beijing, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, was mainly supplied by the south. Shen Wansan must also be a "big grain seller".

As a result, Shen Wansan accumulated a large amount of capital.

Shen Wansan, who became rich, turned to "Tongfan", exporting locally produced textiles and porcelain to Asian and African countries, and returning to the ship to import a large amount of treasures, spices and medicinal materials, earning a huge price difference from going back and forth.

With these favorable conditions, coupled with the huge profits that can be obtained from foreign trade, it is not surprising that Shen Wansan became rich quickly.Kong You wrote in "Yunjiaoguan Jitan" that Shen Wansan became a maritime merchant, traveling between Huizhou, Chizhou, Taipingfu, and Changzhou, trading between Huizhou, Chizhou, Taipingfu, and Changzhou, earning millions of dollars, so he became rich.Mr. Wu Han, a famous historian, also said: "Suzhou Shen Wansan made his fortune because of overseas trade."

"Shen Wansan has a house in Zhouzhuang, the 29th capital of Wujiang.

Since Shen Wansan had passed away at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was certainly impossible for him to be attacked by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Bad luck befell Shen Wansan's descendants after Lan Yu's "rebellion case" happened in Hongwu 26.

Before that, the Shen family was also implicated in some disasters. The two sons Shen Zhi and Shen Zhuang of Shen Wang, the third son of Shen Wan in the 19th year of Hongwu, were once imprisoned and released soon.

Around the same year, Shen Wansan's son-in-law, Lu Zhonghe, who was the head of grain in Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, was doomed and was accused of "Hu Party" and ransacked all his families.

On the whole, the Shen family, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River before the "Blue Party" incident, had not been hit hard by the imperial power and the government. The rich status of Nian Shen's family is still maintained.

This can be proved from the following facts.

First, in the 21st year of Hongwu, according to the order of the imperial court, the Suzhou government recommended talents to serve as officials in the capital. , Yang Deyi served as Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Yan served as the director, Gong Dake served as a member of the Ministry of War, Pan Xian served as the director, Jin Bozhong served as a member of the Ministry of Rites, and Li Ding served as the director.

These ten people resigned from their salaries on the same day. On February 22, Hongwu 29, when the Huagai Palace was in the early court, Shen Jie and others played: "The emperor's preservation of the fields and family property of the ministers, and now they are given salaries. It is really unbearable, so I ask to resign. "

The imperial decree said: If you want to resign, it is up to you.Then there is a purpose: May the recipient listen.Shen Jieci said: "I sincerely dare not disturb the families because of wealth. Nianchen's family has been favored and forgiven many times. They have kept their wives and children. They have surpassed their expectations. They are also high-ranking officials. They have honored their fathers and ancestors. Dare to change Thank you so much!" Kowtow to thank again.It can be seen from this that the Shen family was still "preserved" by Zhu Yuanzhang at this time, and it was as rich as before.

Another thing is that Mo Li, who was promoted to the left servant of the household department in 23 years of Hongwu, asked for leave to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives. He once visited Shen's house in Zhouzhuang.

At that time, the utensils used by the Shen family were all gold and silver, and carved silk was used for the banquet. Twelve tables of purple fixed utensils were set up, and each table was equipped with two pieces of mutton fat jade. , so as not to stain the cut wire with chopsticks.There is a white agate plate for serving wine, with stripes and a branch of purple grapes.

The married son-in-law Gu Xuewen set up twelve tables of Xuanhe Dingware, with seven lines of wine for each set of soup, and one treasure cup for each line.Even the boy servants of the two families wore silk and satin, not to mention other rare delicacies.Mo Li sighed: "Woohoo, 70 yuan per hairpin, the predecessors thought it was a monster, and it was accompanied by disasters. Looking at the wealth of Shen's family today, it is more than 70 yuan per hairpin! He deserves to suffer disaster!"

In the 23rd year of Hongwu when Mo Li returned home to visit his relatives, it was the climax of Zhu Yuanzhang's new crackdown on the "Hu Party".

In the fourth month of leap year, Li Shanchang, the grand master of Han Dynasty, who was more meritorious than Xiao He, was imprisoned. Not long after, the same group of meritorious officials were executed, and the whole family was lost.

It was in such a frightening political environment that Mo Li asked for leave to return to his hometown for a short-term stay.He wrote the poem "Returning to Wujiang to Concern" and said: "If you don't have talent, you will steal your blessings and fists, and you will have to be kind to the sun for a while.

There is no economic policy to serve the country, and missing relatives is the year of parting.A thousand pieces of gold can't buy a long and healthy body, and the five blessings are like longevity.Returning to the bottom of the hut with a smile, happy to see the reunion of people and moon together. "The wording is cautious, but it only vaguely expresses the feeling that not being tortured is a blessing.

Obviously, Mo's heart was full of uneasiness when he returned to his hometown, and the in-laws of the Shen family were ostentatiously entertaining the noble relatives who were high-ranking officials in the capital, because they must not understand the approaching crisis.However, Mo Dan recorded the situation that Mo Li received warm hospitality in the Shen family this year.

Although the Shen family had suffered a bit in the 19th year of Hongwu, they had not yet suffered or even expected a devastating blow from the imperial power.

In the epitaph of Liu Sanwu, a Hanlin scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, who was a masterpiece of Shen Han in the 24th year of Hongwu, he still praised Shen Jiafu for his kindness and good manners, and was rewarded by God.

All these can fully prove that not only the statement that the Shen family was expelled from the army before the death of Queen Ma in the 15th year of Hongwu was purely false, but also that the status of the Shen family's wealthy family remained until the 24th year of Hongwu.

The Shen family's disastrous defeat began with the "Blue Party" incident in Hongwu's 26th year.

In the 25th year of Hongwu, Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao died of illness. Zhu Yunwen was established as the grandson of the emperor and became the legal heir to the throne. Zhu Yuanzhang feared that his grandson would be too young, and his prestige and experience would not be enough to control the world. The Ming Empire might fall into the hands of others, so they made up their minds and restarted the killing ring, eradicating all potential forces that might endanger the Zhu family dynasty.

It was against this political background that the "rebellion" case led by General Liang Guogong Lanyu came into being.Whether or not Lanyu’s treason case actually happened will be discussed in the following chapters. However, Zhu Yuanzhang’s preface written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself and edited by Hanlin Guanchen more than two months after the incident was full of flaws.

Not to mention the factors that made the torture into a trick, even in terms of the words confessed, most of them are just speculations, which is unbelievable.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang has cast a huge net, the martial arts groups and wealthy households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who still have considerable strength after the "Hu Party" cannot escape.

The best excuse for including the Shen family into the "Blue Party" first is to make a big fuss by seizing the close relationship between Wang Xingtong and the Lan family and the Shen family.

Wang Xing, courtesy name Zhizhong, nicknamed Banxuan and Chuyuan.When he was young, his family was poor, and his father, Wang Mao, sold medicines in the pharmacy opened by the Xu family in Changmen, Suzhou.

Wang Xing was extremely intelligent, and became his father's right-hand man at the age of ten.The master found that he was very talented, so he let him read the "Hundred Masters of Classics and History" in his family's collection to his heart's content.At the age of seventeen or eighteen, Wang Xing began to associate with local literati and scholars, and set up a private school in Qimen, north of Suzhou City.

Gao Qi, a famous literati in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, and Shi Daoyan, who later advised Zhu Di, the king of Yan, were all his friends.

When Zhang Shicheng was guarding the Pingjiang area, Rao Jie, who was guarding the right side of Zhejiang Province, recommended Wang Xing to the Yuan court.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Guan and Wang Guan, the magistrates of Suzhou, recommended Zhu Yuanzhang as a talent, but he had never been an official except for once serving as a teacher in Suzhou Fuxue.

Wang Xing basically devoted his whole life to teaching. He served as a tutor in Shen's house twice, and twice as tutor in Lan Yu's house.The first time he taught at the home of Shen Daqing, the son of Shen Wansan, was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the 12th year of Hongwu, he was hired by the governor Lan Yu in Nanjing. He sat in the house of Lan Yu and was appreciated by Lan Yu. He once accompanied Lan Yu to visit the home of Zuo Prime Minister Hu Weiyong.

The following year, because of the Hu Weiyong party case, he resigned from the library and returned to his hometown in Suzhou for fear of getting involved.After that, he went to Shen Daqing's house to sit in the lecture hall and taught Daqing's grandsons Shen Xun, Shen Cheng, Shen Heng and others.

In the 24th year of Hongwu, his family was registered as a "weaving and weaving craftsman household" for unknown reasons, and he went to live in Shibafang, Shangyuan County, Yingtianfu.

Friends tried their best to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang not to go to Nanjing in view of Zhu Yuanzhang's "excellent law".

Wang Xing was nearly [-] years old at the time, and he could have sent his son to serve in the army, but he insisted on going by himself, and replied: "It's a good game in the tiger's den." He went straight into the tiger's den-Nanjing.At this time, Lan Yu was already the Duke of Liang. Lan Biying, Lan Yu's eldest son, heard that Wang Xing was coming to Beijing, and immediately invited him to the mansion to teach his son Lan Qingsun and others.

These show that Wang Xing has at least 30 years of friendship with the Shen family, and more than ten years of friendship with the Lan family.
And this kind of friendship is extraordinary, they are all Xibin's masters sitting in the hall.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to eradicate the martial arts group headed by Lan Yu, Lan Yugui was the Duke and served as a general several times, making him famous in the court and the public.

The Shen family mistakenly used Bingshan as a backer, just like donating a large amount of property to Zhu Yuanzhang in the early years of Hongwu, and wanted to use Wang Xing as an intermediary to establish a relationship with General Lan.

From their point of view, Lan Yu not only holds military power and is very popular, but also his sister's daughter is the concubine of Prince Yiwen, so it is a "wise" move to establish a relationship with the crown prince.

With Wang Xing talking about it, the relationship is naturally easy to understand, and the tricks of fate follow.

In fact, in the two cases of the Hu Party and the Blue Party that were raised during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Hu Weiyong, the prime minister of the left, and Lan Yu, the general, had many contacts at work because of their positions, and there were also many people who followed suit. The crime of trespassing against others is to kill potential dissident forces.

Under this kind of premeditation, one is to arrest them if they are slightly involved, and the other is to encourage prosecution, and after they are arrested, they will be tortured to extract confessions.Not only were the arrested persons tortured and tortured, but they were also implicated repeatedly, involving tens of thousands of people at every turn.

Many people in "The Record of Rebellious Ministers" were afraid that the arrested person would confess to their own names when the party case was rising, and they secretly asked someone to bribe the interrogator to "erase their names". .

Wang Xing worked as a teacher at Lan Yu's house, and Lan Yu recommended it to Zhu Yuanzhang several times, so Wang Xing was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang.After the incident of the Blue Party, not to mention that Wang Xing couldn't escape, all those who got into the Lan family through him were all caught up.

Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated the "Rebellious Officials Record" on the first day of May in the 26th year of Hongwu. At that time, the number of people named "Blue Party" was nearly a thousand, and this was just the beginning, and Mo Li and others were not among them.

On the tenth day of September of the same year, Zhu Yuanzhang issued the "Edict of Pardoning the Blue Party and the Hu Party", saying: "Your courtiers, including Li Shanchang, who has no loyalty, etc., are shady and create disasters. When things are felt, everyone will be punished. This year, the blue bandits are chaotic. There are already 5000 people who have been punished by the family. Those who have not been exhausted have been pardoned.

Still worrying about treachery, stubbornness and ignorance, doubts still arise, and day by day restless.Today, the Supreme Court orders the world that, except for those who have committed crimes and have been arrested by officials, they will not be pardoned, and those who have committed crimes but have not committed crimes and those who have not committed crimes will be pardoned regardless of whether they are Blue Party or Hu Party. "

From April to September, the number of people involved in the Blue Party's "family punishment" increased sharply from 1000 to 5000, which shows how extensive the involvement is.We have no way of knowing whether Zhu Yuanzhang really stopped the search and arrest after the promulgation of the amnesty edict, because the edict clearly stated that the number of murderers in the case of the Blue Party had reached 31, and then it stated that "except those who have committed crimes and have been arrested by officials, they will not be pardoned." "Except for ", the others are all forgiven, but the "Hu Lan Party" was still executed until February [-], Hongwu.

In the 31st year of Hongwu, "Learning from Zhu Yuanzhang, sitting like Wen and sitting on Hu Lan's party, six people including Wansan's great-grandson Dequan, and Gu's family were late on the same day." This time Shen Wansan's son-in-law Gu Xuewen's family and Shen's six members, nearly [-] people All of them were killed and their fields were confiscated.

Shen Wansan's huge family business, which he managed with painstaking efforts, declined sharply.The Zhouzhuang Shen family, known as the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, went from prosperity to decline.

Zhu Yuanzhang passed away in May of this year. When he was sick in February, he still made the decision of "Ling Chi" to be detained as a "Hulan Party member" and to lose Taguchi's family wealth.

From the spring of the 26th year of Hongwu to the spring of the 31st year, it took five years. During this period, the work of extorting confessions and concealing the property must have been done very thoroughly.