Qin and Han · Merchant

Shi Shi 師史

Attested BC 150

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Shi Shi was a Merchant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 150 師史尤甚
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 129, passage 254

Career and standing

long-distance cart trade 轉轂…賈郡國
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 129, passage 254

Places and affiliations

At Luoyang 洛陽 · Relation Based in
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 129, passage 255

Assessments and attributes

Item seventy million 七千萬 · Relation Possessed
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 129, passage 255

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 129Biographies of Money-Makers · 2 passages

周人既纖，而師史尤甚，轉轂以百數，賈郡國，無所不至。 The people of Zhou were already shrewd and calculating, and Shi Shi was the most extreme of all. He dispatched hundreds of carts, trading across the commanderies and kingdoms, reaching every corner of the realm.

洛陽街居在齊秦楚趙之中，貧人學事富家，相矜以久賈，數過邑不入門，設任此等，故師史能致七千萬。 Luoyang sits at the crossroads between Qi, Qin, Chu, and Zhao. The poor there learn their trade by serving wealthy households, boasting to one another of careers spent entirely in commerce, passing through their own hometowns again and again without stopping home. With such men at his command, Shi Shi was able to amass a fortune of seventy million.