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Chapter 5
Shen Wansan, God of Wealth, Exploring the Defeat

Shen Wansan's popularity among the people is no less than that of the White Snake Empress. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", he helped Zhu Yuanzhang build a third of Nanjing City, and his contribution is indispensable.Later, he volunteered to contribute money to reward the army, which annoyed Zhu Yuanzhang's fragile self-esteem, thinking that he was deliberately showing off his wealth and having the intention of treason. Later, at the plea of ​​Queen Ma, he was spared the death penalty and was sent to Yunnan.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records such a dialogue between Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Wansan:
Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "I have millions of troops, can you help them everywhere?"

Shen Wansan said: "Each army will reward you with one tael."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Although this is what you want, you don't need it!"

There are facts and details, it seems that Shen Wansan was really exiled to death under the attack of Zhu Yuanzhang, but in fact Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang were people who could not get along with each other. As early as before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan was Sick and died.It is impossible for a dead person to contribute to the construction of the capital, let alone be exiled.

However, Shen Wansan has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, but it is absolutely true that the Shen family fell under the attack of Zhu Yuanzhang.In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang massacred the heroes of the founding of the country, causing the Shen family to suffer bad luck.In the case of Hu Weiyong, Shen Wansan's son-in-law, Lu Zhonghe, was accused of being a "Hu party".

This point is recorded in the "Dagao Sanbian" written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself: this super rich man who has been a grain chief for 18 years not only lied about the famine but also paid for officials.Therefore, Emperor Shengming, after finding out the truth, punished him severely and exterminated him.

However, in Hongwu's 26th year of Lanyu's rebellion case, the Shen family suffered a complete and devastating blow.The reason for beheading Lan Yu was that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to protect the young emperor Zhu Yunwen from being threatened by those heroes after he ascended the throne. Therefore, while eradicating the most threatening heroes, he cut off the roots of the rich people. Unfortunately, Surprisingly, the Shen family was included in the list by Zhu Yuanzhang.

As the saying goes, the king ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die.The emperor didn't need a reason to kill people, not to mention that the Shen family got involved in Lanyu's relationship network when they found it, leaving a reason for Zhu Yuanzhang to eradicate the Shen family in a legitimate way.And the one who created this opportunity was a teacher named Wang Xing, who helped Shen Jialuo into Lanyu's party.

Wang Xing had worked as a tutor in Shen's house for many years, and later went to Lan Yu's house to be a tutor.In order to cling to the rich and powerful, the Shen family wanted to use Wang Xing as an intermediary to allow themselves to board the big ship of Lanyu, but in the end they gave Zhu Yuanzhang an excuse to make the entire Shen family be executed.

The huge family business created by Shen Wansan has come to an end.Although the entanglement between Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang is a forged legend, the history attached to these legends is real.The reason why the legend that Shen Wansan helped Zhu Yuanzhang build the city of Nanjing will continue to circulate is because it is related to Zhu Yuanzhang's wanton and forcible relocation of wealthy households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to "enrich the capital".

Zhu Yuanzhang's hatred of the rich is very extreme. In order to build his own empire, he forcibly adopted means of relocating rich households, and moved more than 4000 wealthy households from Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiazhou, Huzhou and other places to Nanjing collectively. In order to "prosper the capital", they actually uprooted a large number of wealthy people from their hometowns and plundered their wealth in disguise.

Shen Wansan's allusion is based on this background.As for Shen Wansan's garrison of Yunnan, it was also because Zhu Yuanzhang continued to move inland residents to Yunnan after the pacification of Yunnan in the 15th year of Hongwu.This behavior was dubbed as "supporting frontier construction", but it was actually a disguised retaliation against wealthy households, because 60.00% of these immigrants were wealthy households.

The book "Dian Lue" written by Xie Zhaozhe of the Ming Dynasty has recorded this: "Emperor Gao decided to move to the middle of Yunnan, and he moved to the left of the river to make it real... Therefore, there are very few natives and many people who send their natives. Clothes , etiquette, language, customs, large-scale construction..." It can be seen that in the legend, Shen Wansan is just a shadow of these rich people.

Shen Wansan, as a civilian God of Wealth who had no status and made his own fortune with his own hands, was fabricated into such a story, which undoubtedly revealed the great dissatisfaction of the Ming Dynasty people with Zhu Yuanzhang at that time. From Shen Wansan in the story, we can see that the Ming Dynasty The tragic fate of the rich.

As for these histories, the records at that time were neither salty nor dull, as if they were scratching an itch: "At that time, the rich families in the east and west of Zhejiang mostly blamed their crimes for their crimes." The wealthy households who were implicated were dismissed, and it was under such unfair treatment that the Shen family came to an end.

Against such a background, even if Shen Wanshan survived to the Ming Dynasty, he would not escape death, because Zhu Yuanzhang's design blueprint for the Ming Dynasty Empire did not allow rich people to stay.The peasant emperor, who was born as a poor peasant and had suffered for half his life, believed that the rich would damage his rule and hinder his control of the empire.Therefore, at the end of Shen Wansan's demise and demise, what was revealed was only the "hidden rules" under the imperial power system.

(End of this chapter)