Is the cornucopia of Shen Wansan, the richest man, really buried under the Nanjing wall by Zhu Yuanzhang?

In fact, we have no way to verify the truth of this matter. Although Shen Wansan was indeed once a rich man in the south of the Yangtze River in history, it is unknown whether there is a cornucopia in Shen Wansan and whether it was buried under the Nanjing Gate these two days. But although these two things can't be proved in history, the legends about these two things have never been cut off, and Shen Wansan himself, because of his cornucopia and his wealth, has attracted a fatal disaster for himself.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang built the city gate after he settled in Nanjing. This gate is now Zhonghua Gate, but it was then called Daming Gate. Although Zhu Yuanzhang was very enthusiastic and invested a lot of money when building the city gate, a very strange thing happened, that is, no matter how the city gate was built, it collapsed the next day. No matter what kind of construction technology is adopted or the building materials are changed, this result cannot be avoided.

According to legend, in order to solve this problem, Zhu Yuanzhang found a Mr. Feng Shui. After seeing the terrain of this place, the Mr. Feng Shui told Zhu Yuanzhang that there was a monster who specialized in eating bricks under this gate. To suppress this monster, you need a cornucopia. In Nanjing at this time, only one person has a cornucopia, and that is Shen Wansan. So in the story, Zhu Yuanzhang told Zeng Wansan to take out his cornucopia and bury it under the city gate in order to build the city gate.

In fact, although it is a legend, we can also see from it that the collapse of the city gate may be false, but it is true that Zhu Yuanzhang was wary of Shen Wansan and wanted to weaken Shen Wansan's strength. What the story wants to show may be Zhu Yuanzhang's sanctions against Shen Wansan, who has great wealth.