The Story of Zhu Yuanzhang: Shen Wanshan and Zhu Yuanzhang

Shen Wanshan is from Suzhou. He was an orphan since he was a child. He relied on his uncle to survive until he was a teenager. His uncle could no longer support him, so he lived on the streets begging for food. One time, on the eve of New Year's Eve, when everyone was closed for the reunion dinner, he had not yet received his dinner, so he walked to the door of a temple. The door opened with a "squeak", and Monk Touzui took out a bag of chicken feathers. Shen Wanshan picked it up and saw that it could not be eaten or sold. I couldn't bear to throw it away, so I used it to play with the mud bird. I pinched and pinched, and I got addicted to pinching. The more I pinched, the better I got. When I pinched nine or eighty-one, these mud sparrows suddenly started to chirp and flew with their wings. Shen Wanshan was not willing to waste his efforts, so he chased after him for several days and nights. When he reached a busy street, the mud bird lay down and stopped flying. When asked, this area is called Jiqing, and the old place is called Jinling. People in Jinling were delighted with his clay bird and rushed to buy it, and Shen Wanshan established himself in Nanjing. , On this day, Shen Wanshan was selling mudbirds by the Qinhuai River and saw an old man fishing, but his nets were all empty. The old man sighed and was about to close the net. Shen Wanshan jumped forward and said, "Old man, let me give it a try." He was lucky, and he netted a large carp weighing eight or nine pounds. On the second net, a frog croaked, and a rotten black basin came to the net. It was useless and was thrown into the river again. Then, he cast the net three times in a row, and dozens of frogs screamed, but the net was still rotten three times in a row. , The old man said: "Keep it, you can feed it to the pigs." So he kept the rotten black basin. The old man sold the middle part of the big fish, took it home head and tail and asked his daughter to cook it, leaving Shen Wanshan to drink. After talking about it, I found out that Shen Wanshan was an orphan. Seeing that he was handsome, smart and diligent, he recruited him as his son-in-law. , At this moment, Shen Wanshan had a family, and the three of them lived quite harmoniously. , On this day, Shen Wanshan was cleaning the yard early in the morning and took out the rotten black basin thrown in the corner to clean it so that he could feed pig water to his wife Guiying. After washing the basin, I went fishing with my father-in-law. As soon as Guiying used the black basin, a ghost came out: the pig food he poured in could not be finished, and the more he ate, the more he ate, and the whole yard was covered with it! Guiying washed the black basin and looked left and right, it was not small. A hairpin fell from the basin in my heart, and there was a "crash" sound, and a basin turned out! Put copper coins into copper coins, put broken silver into broken silver, my God, this is a cornucopia! Guiying is happy again I was also afraid, afraid that the news would get out and cause trouble, so I kept it secret until the Chinese New Year. There was really no place to hide the gold and silver that had been turned into, so I told my father and husband. The two men discussed it: the family has gold and a scale. Fifteen, only going out to do business. He just thought it was business and he would have thought that there was a cornucopia in his house! He made up his mind, and Shen Wanshan went out as soon as the fifth day of the lunar month was over. He is very profitable and can make money or lose money. Over the past few years, he has so much furniture that even he can’t count it. He built ninety-nine and a half large houses in the city, and Bailuzhou is now his garden. , The place where horses were kept and hay piled was later called Madao Street and Cao Cao Lane. In the entire Jinling City, Shen Wanshan became the richest man among wealthy businessmen. , Who knew that a big tree would attract the wind, and Shen Wanshan met his enemy. , One time, Shen Wanshan was doing jewelry business in Anhui Province. In the inn, he met a pockmarked customer named Zhu who was selling black plums. When Zhu Mazi saw that Shen Wanshan had brought several large boxes of jewelry, he was jealous. He coaxed him to throw loose balls and bet on the boxes of jewelry. The winner would take it and the loser would pay. Shen Wanshan couldn't defeat him, so he threw Duo, and he threw six or six straight. If he couldn't get any better, he sent him to take it all. Zhu Mazi was so anxious that his eyes were numb and purple, and he refused to admit defeat. He said, "Don't be busy, I still want to throw thirty-seven!" He picked up six coins and threw them, and all five of them turned six, and there was one more. The balls were spinning around in the bowl for a while, and it really turned out to be seven o'clock! Everyone watching was dumbfounded. What the hell? Some said that it was the local land who helped. He knew that Zhu Mazi was the emperor's order, and the "golden mouth jade words" were not for fun, so he turned into an ant and crawled on the scattered soil to make seven points. Others said that it was Zhu Mazi. Mazi did some tricks. , In short, Shen Wanshan is a winner turned loser, and he has no choice but to pull him down even though he knows there is something wrong. Shen Wanshan saw that diarrhea was popular in the local area and many people died. He urgently needed ebony plums to make medicine, so he quickly sent a ship to other places to buy ebony plums and sold them locally at low prices.

On the seventh day, Shen Wanshan suddenly enlightened and burst out laughing at his wife: "Guiying, you and I have lived in vain for decades! How can we trust an emperor? He can kill or behead her, and it doesn't all depend on his words. "Come on, just take it. If you don't have a cornucopia, why don't you live your whole life? Besides, we still have a lot of furniture!" My wife also laughed, rolled up her sleeves, and burned it herself. Went to cook the food and drink the wine. Shen Wanshan lost his treasure and finally felt relieved. On this day, Emperor Zhu suddenly summoned him to the palace. In front of the ministers of civil and military affairs, he rewarded him with a "Hongwu money" and said with a smile: "In memory of your contribution to building the city, I will reward you with this national treasure." It's both annoying and funny: He risked his life to build the city, so if he doesn't reward him, why should he be rewarded with such a small amount of money? Isn't it so obvious that he is disgusting? Shen Wanshan happily took the small money and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. The common people must pass on this national treasure from generation to generation and remember the emperor's grace forever." As soon as he returned home, Shen Wanshan used some small money to sew a feather shuttlecock, played with it with his teenage son, and laughed for a while before going back. Went to look at the flowers and plants in the garden. , The younger son had finished playing alone and was about to leave when an old beggar came to the door. The younger son hurriedly took out the money, but he didn't get any penny. The old man laughed and said, "Young master, isn't there a small amount of money in the shuttlecock?" "Okay, here you go!" The shuttlecock was given to the beggar. , The beggar went to buy steamed buns, and the waiter said: "What kind of money is this? I've never seen it before!" It happened that two policemen from the palace were passing by, and when they saw it was a piece of royal money, they kidnapped Hanako without asking about the date of 3721. . The emperor knew this and thought: No one else except Shen Wanshan can get Hongwu's money. If he dares to use the royal money to spend it on flowers, the situation is doomed. But Huazi refused to recruit him, so he decided to send an order to Shen Wanshan that night: Bring Hongwu Qian to the palace early tomorrow morning and confront Lao Huazi face to face. , Shen Wanshan was anxious. He searched everywhere and couldn't find the shuttlecock. His youngest son was sleeping soundly, but he pushed him hard and woke him up. He thought about it and said, "Give it to the old man!" Shen Wanshan was stunned, knowing that he was about to die. , sighed, and rushed out to try his luck. , The next morning, Emperor Zhu ascended to the palace and asked: "Shen Wanshan, have you brought the imperial money that was jointly rewarded to you? I want to take it back and reward you with a national treasure again!" Shen Wanshan said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, I am a humble citizen. I am not rewarded for my merits, but I will be rewarded with a royal coin, which will be enough for me for generations to come." "Stop talking nonsense, hand over the royal coin!" All the civil and military officials broke out in a cold sweat for him, but Shen Wanshan was not in a hurry. He took out a red silk bag and presented it to someone. When the emperor opened it and saw how high his eyebrows were, he was stunned: inside the bag was a Hongwu coin, which was exactly the same as Hanako's! It turned out that one was in charge of the money bureau. The poor old coppersmith helped Shen Wanshan make it overnight. Except for a few secret signs, outsiders could not tell the truth from the fake. Emperor Zhu wanted to ask someone to check the authenticity, but the two small coins were exactly the same, and he couldn't tell which was which, so he just tilted his ax and chopped it, and shouted: "Shen Wanshan, you dare to use fake money to deceive my emperor. Pull him out and behead him!" Without saying a word, Hanako suddenly knelt down and said, "Long live my Lord! The fake money is mine. I made it for fun. I don't know how to commit a crime. I won't dare to do it again in the future!", "What? , is that you?" The emperor couldn't step down for a moment. , "It's me, please forgive me!" Huazi knocked his head with a "dong dong" sound. What he said in his heart: Anyway, I have lived enough. I can repay the kindness by dying for Shen Wanshan today. , "Take the flower seeds and push them out of the Meridian Gate to behead!" The emperor gave the order, and just as the swordsman and axe-hand were about to step forward, Shen Wanshan stood up and shouted: "Hold on, one person does the work and the other takes the credit. I made the fake money. If you want to kill me, follow me." Hanako has nothing to do with it!" All civil and military officials knelt down to plead for Shen Wanshan. Emperor Zhu thought to himself: Forget it, I will leave your body intact, and then sentence Shen Wanshan to be sent to Yunnan to be exiled. , The night before leaving, Liu Ji asked Shen Wanshan what he had to say. Shen Wanshan shook his head and said: "There is only one thing. I will go out of the south gate tomorrow and hope that the old man will keep the city gate open for three days. I can go all the way, all the way. Look back and see the fathers and brothers of Jinling!" Liu Ji nodded in agreement. , The next day, Shen Wanshan saw people along the road setting out fruits, tea and food to see him off.

When he walked seven or eight miles away from Tiexin Bridge, he looked back and saw a large group of white pigeons and oriole followed by black crows. Shen Wanshan knew that it was all his treasures that had transformed him, so he stood up and shouted: "I, Shen Wanshan, have fallen. What are you doing with me in this field!" Those timid sparrows were frightened and fell to the ground, turning into colorful stones. Later this place was called Shizigang. , Shen Wanshan left the city, turned back angrily, and looked at the elders in Jinling. Many bold sparrows were still flying with him, flying all the way to Yunnan, arching into the mountains and turning them into treasure mines. Otherwise, the brass, Why are there so many white coppers? Some said that Shen Wanshan starved to death halfway; others said that he was picked up by thousands of birds and flown to the sky halfway. He was the living God of Wealth descending to earth! Shen Wanshan walked forward, Zhu Zhu The emperor immediately sent people to search the house. Wherever they searched, a burst of colorful sparrows flew out. They walked out through the wide open south gate and flew for three days and three nights, flying as brightly as possible. As for the emperor, he never got even a penny. Zhu Yuanzhang