The Ming Dynasty's Richest Man: The Emperor Comes in Person to Borrow Money

My name is Shen Wanguan, and I’m the eighteenth-generation descendant of Shen Wansan. I inherited my ancestor’s business acumen and a fortune vast enough to rival a country. I’m the emperor of the Ming Dynasty’s underworld.

The current emperor, Zhu Houzhao, is a playful “overgrown child” who thinks about nothing but opening a leopard house and traveling south of the Yangtze River. He’s bankrupted the treasury.

But all my business dealings, from making money with money to controlling the court’s lifelines with money, are being broadcast on the sky screen to the person who hates merchants most: Zhu Yuanzhang! ...