Shen Wansan was a businessman in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The story of Shen Wansan's wealth spread widely in later generations. It is said that he has a cornucopia, in which anything precious can be turned into more treasures, so his wealth is countless, and he has superb money-making skills, which makes his wealth accumulate rapidly. It is said that in order to please Zhu Yuanzhang, Shen Wansan offered to pay for the army. Zhu Yuanzhang said that there are millions of troops in the country. How do you treat them? Shen Wansan said, each soldier can send one or two pieces of silver. Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree. According to the number of troops in the Ming Dynasty at that time, it is estimated that the wealth of Shen Wansan should reach at least two billion taels of silver.
Xiao Shenyang was a red man around him when he was in Qianlong, and also a famous corrupt official in history. In the fourth year of Jiaqing, he was ousted by the emperor. At that time, Prince Yi and Prince Cheng were responsible for looting property. The treasure of little Shenyang was counted and written into the property list. According to the appraisal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shen's property should be around 820 million yuan. It can be inferred from these that Shen Wansan is richer than Shenyang.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital in Nanjing, but due to years of war, the state spent a lot of money and the state treasury had no money to repair the city wall. When Shen Wansan heard about it, he promised to help the emperor build a section. And related streets, bridges, waterways and other related projects. As a result, Shen Wansan finished the wall built by the royal family three days earlier. At present, more than half of Nanjing City is funded by Shen Wansan. But it also made Zhu Yuanzhang very disgusted with him, so he made an excuse to copy Shen Wansan's home and sent him to the Yunnan border. In ancient times, the emperor was the boss. If you have more money than the emperor, you will be miserable. So neither Shen Wansan nor Shenyang has a happy ending.