2. Zi Gong: Confucius, a disciple of Gao Men, an able person who can make a fortune in business. Historical records. "Biography of Goods and Values" says that it "wastes people and money between Cao and Lu". He traveled to various countries by high-powered vehicles and horses at his own expense, saying that he conquered Qi, Lu, Yue and Wu. Confucianism was later carried forward and spread through the ages, with boundless merits.
3. Zhou people in the early Warring States period were the earliest masters of business theory. Li Kui once asked him the secret of getting rich. "People abandon me and take me, and people take me and make peace" is his first famous business saying. "Historical Records" promoted it as "the words of the world rule the ancestors", and there are works on business philosophy theory, but it is a pity that it was lost.
4. Lv Buwei: A great businessman in Yangzhai during the Warring States Period. It is recorded in history that "selling at a low price means selling at a high price, and having money at home". However, the most proud event in his life was to get to know the exiled son of Qin, win the alien race, and fund him to return to China to reign, which successfully realized the historic transformation from business to politics.
5. Shen Wansan: A famous rich man, a very rich man in the south of the Yangtze River at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. He helped Zhu Yuanzhang repair Nanjing City and personally contracted one third of the project cost. His grandson was involved in the aquamarine case and was exiled to Yunnan, and his property was confiscated. As far as its source of wealth is concerned, it is probably the earliest international businessman in history.
6. Wu Bingjian: Wu Guanhao. He was the leader of the Thirteen Boxers in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. He soon became rich by smuggling opium with the British East India Company. 1834 has always claimed to have assets of 26 million yuan (RMB 26 million), which western scholars call "the largest commercial asset in the world and the richest man in the world". 1843, the Qing government ordered the hong merchants to repay the foreign debt of 3 million yuan stipulated in the treaty of nanking, and he was responsible for 1 10,000 yuan. He died in Guangzhou in the same year.
7. Hu Xueyan, whose real name is Yong Guang, is a famous "Red Top Merchant" and an outstanding representative of "Huizhou Merchants" in modern times. Because of the friendship with Zuo, he co-organized Fujian Shipping Bureau and Lanzhou Manufacturing Bureau, and made a fortune by sorting out the munitions business of Xiang Army. The highest capital reached more than 20 million, and was later squeezed out of bankruptcy by foreign investors. Hu Qingyutang founded a well-known enterprise for this purpose.
8. Wang Chi: Zi Xingzhai, a native of Maitreya, Yunnan Province, is another representative of the "Red Top Merchant" and one of the famous families in the late Qing Dynasty. He founded "Tongfengfeng" and reorganized "Tianshunxiang", making him as rich as an enemy.
9. Sheng Xuanhuai: a representative of government and business in the late Qing Dynasty, in charge of the national telegraph business, undertaking Hanyang Iron Works, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and other industries, pocketing his own money and becoming extremely rich.
10, Zhang Jian: a famous Confucian businessman in modern times, founded Sheng Da cotton mill and Ken Mu Company, made a fortune, set up education and advocated constitutionalism.