In the twelfth year of Wanli, Shen Zhiyan, the legitimate son of the Shen family, a Suzhou silk and satin merchant, used his natural talent to make his family's business the top in the south of the Yangtze River. He had a fortune of millions, but he was trapped in the lowest status of a "scholar, peasant, industrialist, and merchant". The store was occupied by the prefect's brother-in-law, and his father was lying in bed coughing up blood. He spent all his money to seek an audience with officials, and he couldn't even get in through the yamen gate. He saw clearly: In the Ming Dynasty, no matter how rich the merchants were, they were just fish on the chopping board of the powerful.
In order to get rid of his citizenship, he went to Nanjing with a camphor box filled with gold ingots and rare antiques to donate his official position. However, he encountered a strong wind and capsized in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. He held the box and sank to the bottom of the water. When he opened his eyes, he landed in Bao'an, Guangdong in the 1980s.
From near death fear to complete ecstasy: here there are no shackles of low status, businessmen do not have to kneel down to survive, and the country openly encourages people to make money! Relying on the business talent engraved in his bones, he accurately stepped on every trend of the times, from the first pot of gold to taking root in industry, from the fission of the stock market to the diversified layout, and escaped all crises. When the year 2000 came, the "low-priced businessman" from the Ming Dynasty grew into a private economic giant with a net worth of tens of billions, and lived a life that even in ancient times could not even dream of.
