猶應提到：向以學識自負的余秋雨先生，曾在散文〈江南小鎮〉中鋪張了許多“風牛馬不相及”的推測和情感。諸如：“不管怎麽說，沈萬山算得上那個時代既精於田産管理、又善於開發商業資本的經貿實踐家。有人說他主要得力於貿易，包括與海外的貿易，雖還沒有極爲充分的材料佐證，我卻是比較相信的。周莊雖小，卻是貼近運河、長江和黃浦江，從這裏出發的船隻可以毫無阻礙地借運河而通南北，借長江而通東西”。“中國十四世紀傑出的理財大師沒有能夠回來，他長枷鐵鐐南行萬里，最終客死戍所（雲南）”。[68]殊不知與其說“沈萬三”是位大商人，不如說是位大地主；因爲在他“發迹”的年代，猶如陳高華先生於〈沈萬三與藍玉黨案〉文中所说：“元、明之際，社會動蕩，兵亂頻仍，大規模海外貿易很難進行。入明以後，朱元璋很快便實行禁海政策，不許百姓出海貿易，走私是海外貿易的惟一途徑。沈萬三所居周莊，位於長江口內，離海甚遠，要想出海走私，很容易被發現捕捉。因此，沈萬三經營海外貿易，揆之當時情況，是講不通的”。[69]至於“沈萬三”之流放雲南，更是不可能的事情。明軍克復雲南全境，乃在洪武十四年；[70]其時，這位“豪富”早已不在人世。
Shen Wansan’s Real Extraction and Fancied Stories
Abstract: Shen Wansan famous for one of the richest in Suzhou and his pedigree have been taken delight in talking by litterateurs and historians for the records with something miraculous. Based on the materials written by Liu Sanwu and Wang Xing, referring to relative paragraphs of unofficial history, this article will more clearly draw the outline of the history how the family got rich and came down during late Yuan and early Ming. The main conclusions are as follows: The man named Shen You moved to Changzhou County and lived as a famer, and his son Shen Fu became a chamberlain in a gentleman’s family assisting with farm work. During the period of middle Zhizheng, the young master Lu Yisun, the Lu Deyuan’s son, gave most of his possessions to Shen Fu for easily escaping from tragedy happening imitating his father-in-law Ni Zan’s doing. And Shen Fu had been among the rich and powerful in Zhexi area. After Zhang Shicheng’s rule finished, Shen Fu paid much treasure and foodstuff to the new dynasty in order to gain favor, and just opposite to what he wishes, he was banished once because of the emperor’s jealousness and abomination. After Shen Fu died, his sons Shen Mao, Shen Wang and his brother Shen Gui’s sons Shen Dechang, Shen Hanjie moved to Yinshan and Zhouzhuang towns separating into four branches. Those members of Shen’s who took charge of ratepaying work lived a scared life since there would be various punishments for them. Some people in Shen’s families were executed and exiled while being embroiled in so-called revolting case twice in the years of Hongwu and Yongle, and they were not famous for rich after being confiscated. Whereas the historical true, we would rather take Shen Wansan as a landlord good at agricultural manegement in stead of a big man getting rich from commercial activities. And it was impossible that Shen Wansan was banished to Yunnan because Ming armies took Yunnan in the sixth year after he died.
[1]又作“沈萬山”、“沈萬三秀”。“萬山”、“萬三”，音近字訛。“秀”，《碧里雜存》卷上〈沈萬三秀〉，《叢書集成初編》本，頁12：“國初，每縣分人爲五等，曰：哥、畸、郎、官、秀；哥最下，秀最上。洪武初，家給戶由一紙，以此爲第”。
[2]元、明之際，周莊有二：周莊亦北周莊屬長洲縣，南周莊屬吳江州或吳江縣。《正德姑蘇（蘇州府）志》卷一八，北京，書目文獻出版社《北京圖書館古籍珍本叢刊》影印原刊本，頁280上、286下：“長洲縣周莊，在［蘇台鄉］二十六都”。“吳江縣南周莊，在［久詠鄉］二十八都”。
[3]北京，書目文獻出版社，《北京圖書館古籍珍本叢刊》影印萬曆刊本，頁58上。
[4]北京圖書館出版社《涵芬樓秘笈》影印明鈔本，頁11。
[5]《正德姑蘇（蘇州府）志》卷一八，頁279上：“尹山鄉堵城里，在長洲縣東南，管都一”。“尹山市，去縣東南二十里”。
[6] 《四庫全書》本，頁16下、17上、18下、24上。
[7]頁1下、2上。
[8]上海古籍出版社《續修四庫全書》影印原刊本，頁65上、下。
[9]頁5上、17上、20上。
[10]頁65下。
[11]頁11下、13上。
[12] 《四庫全書》本，頁4上、下。
[13]頁58上。
[14]頁65上。
[15]上海書店出版社標點本，二○○一年，頁423。又，《弘治吳江縣誌》卷七，臺北，新文豐出版公司《中國方志叢書》影印原刊本，頁260：“汾湖陸氏宅在二十九都，元季富室也。國初，其家長號採芝者，悉以田産送沈萬三家，資財散之親族，夫婦出家雲遊而去，人皆笑之。後沈受禂而陸保全，人始賞其有見”。
[16]臺北，臺灣學生書局影印康熙抄本，一九六九年，頁2、3。
[17] 《四部叢刊初編》景印元刊本，頁25上。
[18]臺北，國立中央圖書館《元代珍本文集彙刊》影印明鈔本，頁351。
[19]頁3、4。
[20] 《四部叢刊三編》景印明鈔本，頁3下、4上。又，朱存理《樓居雜著》〈雲林子逸事〉，《四庫全書》本，頁7下：“子婿陸頤［孫］，字養正。辟私塾，招［陳］叔方（植）爲師，雲林子（倪瓚）爲書幣甚厚”。
[21]北京，書目文獻出版社《北京圖書館古籍珍本叢刊》影印萬曆刊本，頁708上、709上。
[22]陸頤孫從事過“商貿”，朱禎《湧幢小品》卷一七〈陳湖道士〉，揚州，廣陵古籍出版社《筆記小說大觀》影印本，頁266下：“沈萬三秀之富，得之吳賈人陸氏。陸富甲江左，秀出其門，甚見信用。一日歎曰：老矣，積而不散，以釀禍也。盡以與秀，棄爲道士，築室陳湖之上，曰開雲觀，居之，竟以壽終”。
[23]頁19上。
[24]《半軒集》卷四〈彜齋記〉，頁1上：“吳長洲沈伯凝（至）氏，好學而勤于古。鼎彞、尊敦之器，金石、法書之迹，以至於圖畫、象物珍異之玩，一見輒能別識，定其久近髙下，是非良否之。自湖海間，號稱好古博雅者，無不歎其知鑒。家治一室，左琴右書，燕几在席，題曰彞齋”。
[25] 《四部叢刊三編》景印清雙鑑樓鈔本，頁8下、9上。
[26]戴良《九靈山房集》卷一一〈重修甫里書院記〉，《四部叢刊初編》景印正統刊本，頁１上、下：“元統二年，其裔孫德｛厚｝［原］請於郡，以己資創之，亦既事聞於朝，建學立師，如書院之制。德｛厚｝［原］歿，子孫散居他處，弗遑於茲者垂三十載（至正二十五年），有司校官亦且視爲非急，無能一舉而問焉”。
[27]頁57下。
[28]北京，中華書局標點本，一九七九年，頁3506。
[29] 《四庫全書》本，頁7上。
[30] 《四庫全書》本，頁24上、下。
[31] 《四庫全書》本，頁20下。
[32]上海中華書局《四部備要》校刊嚴榮校刻足本，頁372上。
[33]頁57下。
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