In the TV series Salt Merchants in Qing Dynasty, Wang Chaozong did not exist, and his prototype was Jiang Chun, the leader of Yangzhou merchants during the Qianlong period. Jiang Chun is an indispensable figure in Yangzhou cultural history. It can be said that he is an official, a businessman and a scholar. At first, Jiang Chun had the idea of fame and career, so he worshipped Qing Bu, a famous Confucian scholar in Jintan, as a teacher, but he tried again and again. He joined the salt industry in a rage. Later, he was like a duck to water in the salt industry, and eventually became a prominent big salt merchant in the Qing Dynasty, and was named one of the eight big salt merchants in Yangzhou, ranking first in Yangzhou in Qianlong Dynasty.
Jiang Chun was originally from Shexian County, Anhui Province, and later lived in Yangzhou, where he became a wealthy salt merchant, and was known as the first of the "Eight Generals of the Huai and Huai Dynasties" in the Qing Dynasty. "On the one hand, when he visited Jiangnan six times, he built a famous garden with abundant financial resources; On the other hand, he made friends with scholars all over the world. At that time, the famous literati Xiaoling Mountain Pavilion in Hangzhou was also famous, which was a good place for literati to get together. In the process of communication with literati, Jiang Chun won the praise of many famous scholars.