Liu Jin, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, has several times the wealth of the national treasury.
Liu Jin, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, won the favor of Ming Wuzong, and the official supervisor in Li Si personally printed it for the eunuch. Zeng Quan joined the ruling and opposition parties. He deceives his superiors and deceives his subordinates, fishes the people, and is arrested for taking bribes. After Liu Jin was arrested, she found countless treasures from her home. According to historical records, 3,360 kilograms of gold and 7.25 million kilograms of silver were found, while the state treasury at that time only had more than 2 million kilograms of silver. It can be said that he was absolutely in the world. The richest man.
Small Shenyang has hundreds of millions of silver, which exceeds the national fiscal revenue of Kanggan Shengshi.
Xiao Shenyang is a well-known greedy person and is called the king of corruption. There used to be a proverb in history called? Small Shenyang fell, Jiaqing ate it? . But how much money he has is a mystery. At present, China No.1 Historical Archives records the number of crimes committed in Little Shenyang. 800 million taels? This number is unbelievable. However, it is undeniable that there are hundreds of millions of taels of silver in small Shenyang. Most of Shenyang's wealth comes from corruption. Historically, Xiao Shenyang was deeply loved by Qianlong people. He personally took advantage of this and constantly accepted bribes and corruption. It was this corrupt atmosphere that led to the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
Guangzhou thirteen giants Wu Bingjian, 26 million silver dollars.
Wu Bingjian is a man that modern people rarely heard of, but he was indeed a rare rich man in the world at that time. Wu Bingjian, a native of Fujian, was born in Guangzhou, and was a comprador in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. Thirteen banks in Guangdong were the only foreign trade organizations of the Qing government. Wu Bingjian used the monopoly power at that time to manage China's foreign businesses such as silk and porcelain, and accumulated huge wealth. 1834 according to the Wu family's own estimation, their property at that time was 26 million silver dollars (about 5 billion yuan). Wu Bingjian is a famous family in Guangzhou. This mansion built on the edge of the Pearl River is said to be very luxurious. In the eyes of foreigners, he was the richest man in the world at that time Unfortunately, this family declined soon after the Opium War.
Song Ziwen, who monopolized state-owned capital, was probably the richest man in the world in the 1940s.
Song Ziwen is Song Meiling's brother, Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, and one of the four big families of the Republic of China in history. /kloc-after returning to China in the 1930 s, Aestheticism was appointed as the finance minister of the Kuomintang government and founded the Central Bank of China. During his reign, he made a fortune by monopolizing state capital by himself. A survey by Japanese agents showed that during the war, Song Ziwen had huge deposits in many foreign banks. Some people say that in the 1940s, Song Ziwen was probably the richest man in the world.