Shi Chong: The famous rich man of the Western Jin Dynasty, the source of his wealth is to rob the merchants along the way when he was in Jingzhou, his property is incomparable, the magnificent rooms are connected to each other, and the hundreds of concubines in the back room are wearing exquisite embroidered brocades, and their bodies are decorated with dazzling pearls and jade gems. All the beautiful silk and bamboo music in the world has entered his ears, and all the rare birds and beasts on land and water have entered his kitchen. According to the "Records of Cultivating Mulberry Puppets", foreign countries paid tribute to Huohuan cloth, and Emperor Wu of Jin made clothes and wore them to Shi Chong. Shi Chong deliberately wore ordinary clothes, but asked the fifty slaves to wear fire raccoon shirts to greet Emperor Wu. Shi Chong's concubines are more than 1,000 beautiful, and he chooses dozens of them, and the makeup and decoration are exactly the same, at first glance, he can't even tell them. Shi Chong carved the jade dragon pendant, and made zuò golden phoenix hairpin, day and night sound and color are connected, called "constant dance". Every time I want to be lucky, I don't call my name, I just listen to the sound of admiration and look at the hairpin. The light voice is in the front, and the hairpin is bright in the back, and the next is the first. The maids each have a different fragrance, and the laughter is from the wind. Shi Chong sprinkled agarwood crumbs on the ivory bed, let his favored concubines step on it, and gave a hundred pearls without leaving footprints, and if they left footprints, let them eat and drink in moderation, so that their constitution would be weak. Therefore, the boudoir joked and said: "You are not thin bones and light body, where can you get a hundred pearls?" is such a rich world, Guy does not understand the ancient adage of "not revealing the rich", and finally broke the fortune for a talented prostitute, and finally even took his life. His mother, brothers, wives, concubines, and children, all 15 of them, young and old, were killed, and the end was not miserable!

The big businessman Shen Wansan was even more miserable, when building Nanjing City, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to build the city wall from Hongwu Gate to Shuixi Gate, accounting for one-third of the entire city wall, and used up a lot of family wealth. The competitive Shen Wansan completed the project three days ahead of schedule, and at the celebration banquet, Zhu Yuanzhang gave wine, and his condolence speech turned out to be like this: "In ancient times, there was a white-clothed son of heaven, called Sufeng, and the name of Qing was also." "What does it mean for an emperor who is suspicious of everyone to say that a rich man under his rule is a folk emperor? What else can it mean?

With such a foreshadowing, the fatal blow will come sooner or later, and Zhu Yuanzhang will beat Shen Wansan's son Shen Mao into a blue party. The blue party refers to the prison of the hero Lan Yu, and insists that Lan Yu rebelled, implicating tens of thousands of people, Shen Wansan was also among them, and was assigned to Yunnan, and finally ended up with a tragic death. It doesn't matter if he died, but his descendants were also implicated because of him, in addition to Shen Wansan's army in Guizhou, his second son-in-law Yu Shishe was also exiled to Chaozhou. Prior to this, Shen Wansan built the city wall from Hongwu Gate to Shuixi Gate. He also contributed with dragon horns, and offered 2,000 ingots of platinum, 200 catties of gold, and 10 people of soil. Ten horses, built Nanjing corridors, restaurants, etc. This blow not only caused the Shen family to lose Shen Wansan as a family member, but also reduced most of their wealth, which can be described as empty of both people and money. Not only that, when Shen Wansan was arrested at that time, there were a lot of people in Zhouzhuang Town, and there were all the words about the residents of Zhouzhuang. Fortunately, Xu Minwang, a townsman, did not avoid the axe, and the emperor went to the capital: only to save the whole town of Zhouzhuang.

In the spring of the nineteenth year of Hongwu, "my brother died as a household servant, and when he went to the autumn official, Boxi was also awarded the Jingshi Division, and he was suitable to be imprisoned with his brother." This time, Shen Wan's third son, Shen Wang's two sons, Shen Zhi and Shen Zhuang (Boxi), were imprisoned for Tian Fu again, Boxi died in prison that year, and the Shen family began to decline, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not let go of Shen Wansan, Hongwu for thirty-one years. "Song Xuewen conspired with Lan Yu, arrested Yan Xun, and even his wife and daughter, and his enemies seventy-two families," "Hongwu 31 February Xuewen sat on the Hu Lan party disaster, even Wansan's great-grandson Dequan six people, and the Gu family Ling Chi on the same day", this time Shen Wansan's son-in-law Gu Xuewen's family and the Shen family's six people, nearly 80 people were all killed, and the fields were confiscated, which can be said to be a full house of beheading. Shen Wansan's painstaking huge family business has declined dramatically. "Shen Wansan's family is in Zhouzhuang, the dilapidated house still exists, and it is not very grand", the Shen family suffered such three heavy blows, and the family could only be ruined. For these once famous people, Yang Yihang envied from his heart, but he was also afraid from his heart, for fear that one day, he would also fall into such a tragic end, and he did not have a good impression of the official family in his bones, but he was a little respectful, but his brother, who wholeheartedly wanted to learn from Shen Wansan and be the first businessman of the Ming Dynasty, took refuge in King Han, and acted as a tool for King Han to make money over the years, which made him faintly worried, but it was not easy to say anything.

Yang Yifeng seemed to feel that what he said just now was a bit heavy, after all, they were two brothers, and their relationship was not bad on weekdays, so he sighed lightly and said: " Do you think I'm willing to give a lot of silver to the King of Han, I'm not afraid to sue you, and I don't want to, but over the years, my Yang family has been a grasshopper in the same boat as the King of Han, and no one can do without anyone, no matter whether the King of Han can succeed or not, our Yang family must follow, and besides, if you want to change the status of our Yang family, this is not an opportunity, the King of Han is brave and abnormal, and has a lot of prestige in the court. After saying this, he lowered his voice, glanced left and right, and said, "There is news from the palace that the current saint has died a few days ago?"

"The emperor died?" Yang Yihang was taken aback, and as soon as the words came out, he immediately realized that his voice was too loud, and hurriedly pressed his mouth with both hands, for fear that disaster would come out of his mouth.

Yang Yifeng glared at him, and continued to lower his voice: "The emperor died in a hurry, the prince is still in Hangzhou, as long as the little prince calmly arranges and gets rid of the prince, isn't this world the king of Han, my Yang family has been looking forward to the king of Han all these years, and the silver alone is enough to have more than four million, once the king of Han ascends the throne, can the Yang family be without this merit, by then you and I have official positions, who would dare to underestimate our Yang family?"

Yang Yihang was a little moved when he heard this, if he could have an official and a half-job, this would be a good thing for the glory of the ancestors, not only that, but he didn't have to be sneaky when he wore some bright clothes, and he didn't have to take advantage of the dark to sit in a sedan chair, and no one would really look down on the Yang family at that time? At least no one dared in Hangzhou?

"Do you think King Han is sure?" Yang Yihang asked with some unease. Although he is excited, he is not stupid, although the King of Han had a reputation in the early years, but he also did a lot of bad things, not to mention other murder and arson, just framed Xie Jin for leaking the words of the emperor Yi Chu, causing Xie Jin to sit down and degrade to Jiaozhi. Later, he was framed again, causing him to die in prison, which caused many people in the world to scold, not to mention that more than 3,000 soldiers were recruited in the Fuzhong later, and they were not affiliated with the military department; they connived at the soldiers to plunder inside and outside the Beijing Division, and dismembered the innocent people to throw themselves into the river; in addition, he killed the soldiers and horses to command Xu Yedonkey, and usurped the public opinion utensils, which aroused great dissatisfaction among the officials in the capitalSuch a person, he is really not optimistic about sitting on the throne!

Yang Yifeng's eyes flashed, he glanced at the crowd surging downstairs, pondered for a moment, and said: "There are seven points of certainty, as long as the prince is eliminated, according to the means and prestige of the King of Han, I am afraid that this world will only be the King of Han, and at that time, this Hangzhou will be our Yang family, and the Peng family and the Shen family will not regret it." “

"I understand?" Yang Yihang's face was full of joy, although he despised officials, but he could be a Ming official, who wouldn't want to, nodded and said, "Is it still the eldest brother's vision?"

Yang Yifeng snorted and said: "Don't pat yourself on the back, the king of Han is about to raise troops, and if you want to seek greater benefits for the future, you have to do enough meritorious deeds now, and you will go down and shout in the crowd later, and strive to earn more silver to come back, can't you give it to the little prince every time, the big red sleeve move, our Yang family also has to do it?"

Yang Yihang nodded and said, "I know?"

Just when the two were talking, the number of people downstairs had reached several times in the past, and the pilgrims at this time looked at the front of the combing platform, which Yang Yifeng ordered to build in the past two days. The finches between the beams and columns are all exquisite wood carvings, and the artistic value is extremely high. The floor is divided into two parts, the front is the dressing room, the carved low window, the front part is the stage, is facing the visitors, at this time the smoke is filled, the red lantern is hung high on the four corners of the stage, the huge dresser is illuminated as bright as day, a girl walks out of the stage from time to time, reports to everyone the situation of the girls today's grooming, listen to this bath and change clothes, which one of the piano singing inevitably causes a burst of applause, and the whole red sleeve is rendered lively.

At night, the girl hiding behind the stage also began to slowly walk to the front of the stage, but every time she stood in front of the smoky curtain for a moment, everyone faintly saw the graceful figure hidden behind the curtain, as well as the moving singing voice, piano skills, inevitably widened her eyes, pointed and pointed, and called what little fairy, little cui'er, hibiscus sister and the like, which attracted unknown spectators to laugh more than once, and also attracted many literati and ink writers who participated in the combing for the first time.

In such an atmosphere, those girls are slow to pavement, in order to increase the sense of mystery, most of them are hiding behind the curtain and singing small songs, showing their poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and indirectly telling everyone that they are women who are beautiful and wise, and they will have to pay more silver later!

ps: This paragraph doesn't count the number of words, Shen Wansan's journey from being a huge fortune in the south of the Yangtze River to a broken family all happened during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Suzhou City. At that time, the reason why Zhang Shicheng was able to hold on to Suzhou for eight months was because of the financial support of the rich people of Suzhou. As the head of the rich people, Shen Wansan certainly made an extraordinary contribution. After the city was broken, Zhu Yuanzhang hated the rich people and even the common people of Suzhou to the core, and took a series of retaliatory measures. Shen Wansan was a shrewd businessman who saw the severity of the shape and could only pat the emperor's sycophants in order to achieve peace. First, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to build the city of Nanjing, and Shen Wansan "helped build one-third of the capital", that is, the section from the Zhonghua Gate to the Shuixi Gate of the current Nanjing city wall; Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, "The army of the world is punished, and the people are also chaotic, so it is appropriate to punish them." It's so good that Queen Ma is still sober, and she feels a little too much, and persuades: "The ominous people, the sky will be destroyed." "Shen Wansan saved his life, sent to Yunnan, and finally died in a foreign land. This was the sixth year of Hongwu.

As the saying goes, "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", Shen Wansan's family lost most of his property, and his family was sent to Yunnan, but the family was still thriving, and life was still chic. It's because it's so chic that it leads to the catastrophe of annihilation.

The incident happened in the last years of Hongwu, Shen Wansan's son-in-law Gu Xuewen, because he had an affair with a woman, was involved in the Lanyu case, causing the Shen family to be almost all over the house. This incident is recorded in detail in the Qing Jiaqing's "Tongli Chronicles", and it is briefly described as follows: During the Hongwu period, there was a certain Chen in Tongli Town, who had a son and was mentally handicapped. This mentally handicapped child married his wife Liang, but she was a beautiful woman who was well-read and good at singing. Such a talented and beautiful woman is of course famous all over the world. At this time, Gu Xuewen, the son-in-law of Shen Wansan of Zhouzhuang, admired him very much after hearing about it, and often hired a boat to travel between Zhouzhuang and Tongli. When the boat arrived in Tongli, it was moored under the window of Liang's apartment. Back and forth, Gu and Liang met several times. Gu Mu Liang's beauty, Liang Xian Gu Zhi is handsome, but he lacks a chance. Gu Xuewen bribed the local evil boys, lured Liang's husband to the mentally handicapped, went out to drink and gamble, and instructed Liang's neighbor, an old woman, to bring novel jewelry to Liang and tease him with words. Liang already had a good impression of Gu, so he hit it off. Since then, the two have exchanged letters frequently. The mentally handicapped child was at a loss. His father was kept in the dark because he was away on an errand and rarely came home. Only Chen's brother, that is, the uncle of the mentally handicapped, nicknamed Chen Xiaotou, vaguely heard some rumors, but he also suffered from the lack of evidence. It was also in line with the incident: Liang was negligent in his caution, and actually cut Gu Xuewen's letter and rolled it into paper and burned it under the lampshade. Chen Shrinking his head bought off the servants around the Liang family, stole the paper burn, and after patching it up, he sent it to Chen, who was on an errand outside. After reading it, Chen understood the truth, and besides, Gu Xuewen's letter was stamped with the Songyue stamp, which was even more ironclad. Chen thought that just relying on such a letter to sue the government may not have any results, and if it is not done well, it will ruin the reputation of the Chen family. At this time, it happened that the big case of blue jade happened. Lan Yu is the brother-in-law of Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, who made great contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang in fighting the world and was named the Duke of Liangguo. When the country sat down, Lan Yu was proud of his achievements, stored slaves, and bullied the people. Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that the tail would not be too big, so he ruthlessly condemned him for treason. Chen was worried about how to avenge his stupid son, and when he saw that this case was happening and the implication was widespread, he took the opportunity to falsely accuse Gu Xuewen of conspiring with Lan Yu. As soon as the Lanyu case was involved, it was no longer a private matter, and it immediately became an important case. As a result, not only Gu Xuewen, along with his father and brothers, were killed, but even his wife, including Shen Wansan's son Shen Wang, a large number of people. Leung was also forced by his father to hang himself. This matter did not subside from the 26th year of Hongwu to the 31st year of Hongwu.

Since then, Shen Wansan's family has been completely defeated.