What are the powerful businesswomen in the history of China?

The richest man in cinnabar, the widow of Ba Qing

The earliest businesswoman recorded in history books is Ba Widow Qing, a Sichuan businessman regarded as "big sister" by Qin Shihuang. Ba widow Qing is in the business of collecting gold and sand. Because she has mastered the unique method of collecting alchemy sand and smelting, Ba widow Qing is good at business, so her family's business can be done so well. In Historical Records, the life of Ba Widow Qing only recorded 76 words, but she was the only businessman in the Qin Dynasty who could "defend herself with money and be inviolable".

Qin Shihuang named the widow Qing a "virgin". In her later years, the widow Qing donated all her possessions to the Great Wall Project and the construction of the first imperial mausoleum.

Revenge businesswoman Lu Mu

During the period of Wang Mang, a famous businesswoman in history, there was a Rufu in Langya Sea, whose son was executed for breaking the law. Lu's mother is very dissatisfied. It turns out that she made a fortune in salt and iron, and her value has exceeded 10,000. But in order to avenge her son, she also expanded her industry to sell wine and open pubs, and used the money she earned to buy weapons and armor privately. Usually, mother Lu will also give money and clothes to the little beggars on the roadside. After Lu's money was spent, teenagers who had benefited from Lu's mother got together and planned to help Lu's mother. Lu told them that she wanted nothing but revenge for her son. So the teenagers used the weapons and armor that Lu's mother bought over the years to attack the county seat and seize the county magistrate. Lumu listed several crimes of the county magistrate and beheaded the county magistrate to pay homage to his son.

Mineral queen Gao Wuniang

I'm afraid the most active period for women to do business was the Tang Dynasty, when the folk customs were open. Wasn't the first female emperor in China born in the Tang Dynasty? Gao Wuniang was a mineral businesswoman in Luoyang, the second largest city in the Tang Dynasty. She is a beautiful widow and her family business is smelting. Maybe she was jealous, too big in business and too famous, and Gao Wuniang finally filed a lawsuit.

Yu auntie, the shipbuilding king

Aunt Yu was also a businessman in the Tang Dynasty. She is engaged in shipbuilding. It is said that the average shipbuilder can only build eight or nine thousand stones, while Yu's maiden's boat can hold tens of thousands of goods. Aunt Yu's boat is very big. According to legend, Aunt Yu's boat can not only plant trees and flowers, but also hold hundreds of people. All crew members can hold weddings or funerals on board. These boats are named directly after Aunt Yu. Aunt Yu's boat runs between Jiangxi and Huainan. A complete voyage can earn trillions of dollars.

Xiongnu special catering

In the catering industry, it is a pub run by Hu Nv. These conference girls are beautiful, generous and exotic, which is the signboard of pubs. Even the literati can't avoid customs, and often go in and out of Hu's tavern. They also wrote poems for Hu's daughter, "Hu Hotel, string tubes at night", with crescent moon on the red rafters and thin frost on the mink and fur. Pan Yuchu raised silver carp, while Jinding cooked sheep. Guests are not tired, listening to songs and enjoying the world. "

Zhou Ying, the goddaughter of Cixi.

Zhou Ying, the richest woman in Shaanxi, made a fortune by selling salt, and later expanded her industry to medicinal materials, cotton and sericulture, and donated silver100000 to Cixi. At the time of the national disaster, she used her best decission and even donated tens of thousands of silver for the national disaster.

After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, women businessmen flourished, but after the Southern Song Dynasty, the restrictions on women suddenly strengthened and women businessmen became masterpieces. It was not until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties that women gradually re-entered the business world. In The Full Moon in and I wonder how many blossoms were broken that year, although Zhou Ying is a woman, she is very business-minded. When she proposed to be an apprentice in Wu Jiabao, she was once questioned and looked down upon by everyone! It was yat sen villa at that time, and the attitude of secular people was not recognized for women. You can imagine how strict women were before that.

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