1. Tao Zhugong: At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li, a great wise man who helped Gou Jian, the king of Yue, destroy Wu in World War I, can be called the originator of abandoning politics and going into business in history and a model of creating a personal wealth record. "Historical Records" contains "after 19 years' toil, you get three golds, and you get a huge fortune". Of course, it was selected and recommended as the first of the "Top Ten Rich People in China".

2. Zi Gong: Confucius' noble disciple, a capable person who made a fortune in business. Historical records. Biography of Goods Value states that it "wastes money between Cao and Lu". At his own expense, he traveled in high-powered vehicles and horses to various countries, saying that Qi, Lu, Yue and Wu were conquered. Confucianism was later carried forward and spread forever, and its merits were great.

3. Bai Gui: Zhou native in the early Warring States period, the earliest master of business theory. Li Kui once asked him for the secret of getting rich. "People abandon me and take me, and people take me and" is his first famous business saying. "Historical Records" promoted it as "the words of the world rule the ancestors", and there were works on business philosophy theory, but unfortunately they were lost.

4. Lv Buwei, a great businessman in Yang Zhai during the Warring States Period, recorded in the history that "a peddler sells cheaply, but his family is rich". However, he was most proud of a big deal in his life: getting to know the exiled son of Qin to win an alien and funding him to return to China to ascend to the throne, thus successfully realizing a historic change from business to politics.

5. Shen Wansan, a famous rich man, was extremely rich in the south of the Yangtze River at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. He helped Zhu Yuanzhang repair Nanjing City and personally contracted one third of the project cost. His grandson was involved in the case of aquamarine and was banished to Yunnan, and his property was confiscated. As far as the source of its wealth is concerned, it is probably the earliest international trader in history.

6. Wu Bingjian: Wu Haoguan. He was the leader of the thirteen-line Yihe Tour in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. By smuggling opium with the British East India Company, he quickly became rich. In 1834, it was claimed that it had assets of 26 million yuan (one said it was 26 million yuan), and western scholars called it "the largest commercial asset in the world and the richest man in the world". In 1843, the Qing government ordered the hong merchants to repay the foreign debts of 3 million yuan stipulated in the treaty of nanking, and he undertook 1 million yuan alone. He died in Guangzhou in the same year.

7. Hu Xueyan, whose real name is Guang Yong, is a famous "Red Top Merchant" and an outstanding representative of "Huizhou Merchants" in modern times. Because of his friendship with Zuo Zongtang, he co-organized Fujian Shipping Bureau and Lanzhou Manufacturing Bureau, and made a fortune by arranging the military supplies business of Xiang Army. The highest capital reached more than 2 million, and was later squeezed out of bankruptcy by foreign businessmen. Hu Qingyutang founded a well-known enterprise for it.

8. Wang Chi: Zi Xingzhai, a native of Maitreya, Yunnan Province, another representative of the "Red Top Merchant", one of the famous tycoons in the late Qing Dynasty, founded "Tongfengqing" and reorganized "Tianshunxiang", making him extremely rich.

9. Sheng Xuanhuai, a representative of government and business in the late Qing Dynasty, was in charge of the national telegraph business, undertaking Hanyang Iron Works, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and other industries.

1. Zhang Jian, a famous scholar businessman in modern times, founded Dasheng Cotton Mill and Kenmu Company to get rich, set up education and advocated constitutionalism.