Who is the salt merchant who concubined in The Scholars?

The salt merchant in The Scholars is the salt merchant in Song and Yangzhou.

It is recorded in The Scholars that Yangzhou salt merchants married a concubine in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Song wanted Shen Qiongzhi, the daughter of Shen Danian, to be a concubine, but Shen Shi's father and daughter mistakenly thought that the other party was going to marry. After they came to Yangzhou, Song did not make any serious preparations. He doesn't have any auspicious days or decorations. At that time, he directly asked someone to carry the bride to the palace and gave Shen Fu five hundred and twenty pieces of silver, which was his daughter's concubine.

Shen Shi's father and daughter saw Song's practice, and immediately understood that the other party wanted to take a concubine instead of a wife.