Qin and Han · Merchant

Master Shi 師史

Shi Shi

Attested BC 100 - BC 30

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Master Shi was a Merchant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 100 to BC 30 師史能致十千萬
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 103, passage 105

Career and standing

long-distance merchant 轉轂…賈郡國
Directly stated · Book of Han 103, passage 103

Places and affiliations

At Zhou 周
Directly stated · Book of Han 103, passage 103

Assessments and attributes

Item fortune of a hundred million 十千萬 · Relation Possessed
Directly stated · Book of Han 103, passage 105

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 103Volume 91: Usurers · 3 passages

周人既孅，而師史尤甚，轉轂百數，賈郡國，無所不至。 Zhou folk were tight by nature, yet the broker Shi Shi outdid them all: he ran hundreds of wagons and peddled into every province on the map.

設用此等，故師史能致十千萬。 That kind of operation let Shi Shi pile up a nine-figure fortune.

師史既衰，至成、哀、王莽時，雒陽張長叔、薛子促訾亦十千萬。 When Shi's house waned, Luoyang partners Zhang Changshu and Xue Zicu—through Cheng, Ai, and into Wang Mang's day—matched his nine-figure hoard.