Shen Wansan was a wealthy businessman in the early Ming Dynasty. He had a shrewd business mind and became the richest man in the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time. He is hard-working, smart, and very particular about integrity in doing business. Moreover, he had a very good relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also helped the Ming Dynasty build city walls. Just like this, a wealthy businessman with money, power and the ability to please the monarch was exiled to Yunnan because of Shen Wansan's careless friendship and the involvement of other relatives. 1. Zhu Yuanzhang’s hatred of the rich

China has been thought to be a country centered on agricultural development since ancient times. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he vigorously developed agricultural production and suppressed commercial operations in order to speed up the national economy. Shen Wansan is a representative figure in business behavior, so he became Zhu Yuanzhang's first target. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang came from a poor peasant background, so he hated businessmen. In fact, it was his hatred of the rich that was at work. In the process of suppressing businessmen, not only Shen Sanwan's family, but almost all businessmen in Jiangnan were suppressed, and Zhu Yuanzhang also made a fortune from it to fill the emptiness of the national treasury. 2. Making careless friends

In the early days, Shen Wansan once funded Zhang Shicheng's uprising. Zhang Shicheng was Zhu Yuanzhang's mortal enemy. It was precisely because Zhang Shicheng had Shen Wansan's financial support that the war with Zhu Yuanzhang lasted for eight months, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally won. Later Zhu Yuanzhang achieved the final victory. From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang hated Shen Wansan. Shen Wansan also knew that he had offended the monarch, so he volunteered to build the city wall. However, he took over all the construction tasks in Nanjing, and the work was even more grand than the royal construction. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he was demonstrating to himself, and he became even more unhappy. 3. Implicated relatives

Anyone familiar with history knows about the Lanyu incident. At that time, Shen Wansan's son-in-law was living a disorderly life and was falsely accused that his son-in-law and Lan Yu were rebellious together. In fact, Lan Yu was just a teacher in the Shen family for a period of time. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is rebellion. But because of this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang caught Shen Wansan's hand, so he confiscated all the Shen family properties and beheaded all the more than 80 members of the family. Later, Empress Ma interceded for Shen Wansan, and Shen Wansan survived, and finally fled to Yunnan.

Shen Wansan’s life can be said to be full of legend. Because he made the wrong friends and didn't know how to hide his clumsiness in front of the powerful, the already suspicious monarch became even more uneasy about him, which eventually led to his death. In ancient feudal society, no capitalist could live alone. Although Shen Wansan created huge wealth, he still could not escape the whirlpool of politics.