At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, troubled times arose in Dingtao.
Shen Qingyan lost her beloved husband, leaving only a volume of Fan Li's handwritten "Tao Zhu Business Training", and the clan was eyeing her, trying to force her to remarry and divide the family property.
An orphaned widow, helpless and helpless, she refused to surrender and let anyone manipulate her.
After three years of vigil, he understood the true meaning of business; he established a majestic temple and vowed not to rely on others. She pushed a cart and set up a stall alone, and started out as a street vendor of grains. With her ability to earn as much as dirt and get as cheap as jade, she managed to carve out a way out of the cracks in the market.
She rescued Xiao Shu from a bloody defeat and was protected by her for the rest of her life;
Take in Wen Zhiyu, a down-and-out scholar, and take in a wise man full of economics;
Befriended the stubborn farmer Fan Shen and took charge of the farming of a thousand acres of manor;
Protect the famous star Gu Lingchuan in trouble, and build secret mountains and rivers.
She gathers people by doing good deeds, gathers money and disperses it, and practices Tao Zhugong's way of gathering and scattering three times:
When he first got rich, he distributed benefits to his neighbors, built schools in Yizhuang during his prosperity, and in his later years spent all his property to raise orphans in troubled times.
She gave birth to children, raised orphans, foiled adultery, fought against powerful men, shouldered the hegemony of the business and protected the common people on her weak female shoulders.
Everyone knows that it is difficult for a woman to survive in troubled times, but as a widowed mother, she took charge of the trade routes, calmed the people's hearts, and helped the troubled times. She was eventually revered as Tao Zhuniang, and was known as the Spring and Autumn Taoists along with Shang Saint Fan Li.
It's hard to say that beauty can't save the world, but a single Qing Yan can establish the world and reverse the troubled times.
