Why did the rich man of the Ming Dynasty who was comparable to Shen Wansan escape Zhu Yuanzhang's execution when he saw an earthworm?

Because the rich man misunderstood and thought that he was in imminent disaster, he later dispersed his money and saved his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be an emperor who hates rich people and big landlords, because before he became emperor, most of his family died of starvation because of the exploitation of these rich and unkind landlords and bureaucrats. Therefore, after taking power, he began to massacre the rich, such as Shen Wansan, the largest at the time, even though he helped build the Nanjing City Wall. However, because he was too rich, his home was confiscated and exiled by Zhu Yuanzhang. However, there were also some very smart people among the rich who successfully escaped Zhu Yuanzhang's execution. For example, why did the rich man below, who was so rich, see an earthworm and successfully avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's execution?

Xu Fujiu was a wealthy man in Xiangyang, Hubei Province in the early Ming Dynasty. The family has ten thousand hectares of fertile land, flocks of cattle, sheep and horses, and more money than they can spend in a lifetime. One day, Xu Fujiu went to Xiangyang City to do business. He was riding a horse on the city's main road and saw an earthworm. Because his eyes were dazzled, he couldn't see it clearly, so he wanted to stop his horse and take a closer look. At that time, a woman picked up the earthworms and put them directly into her pocket. Xu Fujiu felt very strange. Why did this woman put earthworms in her pocket? So he asked her, "Sister, why are you picking up that earthworm?" Unexpectedly, the woman replied that it was a big gold hairpin, and she took out the hairpin. It was indeed a big treasure.

The more Xu Fujiu thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. How unlucky was this? , and finally came to the conclusion that he was in trouble. So I asked the master to do some calculations and decided to disperse the wealth and eliminate the disaster.

So, Xu Fujiu returned home and distributed all his property to the people around him, leaving only the money for his living and retirement. When the officials who searched the house came to Xu Fujiu's home, they found that Xu Fujiu was already very poor. So he reported it to Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this situation, he let Xu Fujiu go, and Xu Fujiu saved his life.