Du Yuesheng, a rich man in Shanghai, was invited to participate in a big business after fleeing to Hong Kong to escape the war during the war. Thinking about it, he politely declined the deal, while his subordinates took the lead and invested a lot of money, but the result was unbearable. What's going on here?
In 1949, Shanghai, then China's most prosperous city, was liberated, and old gangs and wealthy merchants fled. For Du Yuesheng, who once dominated the storms and rains in Shanghai, Shanghai is his hometown, he can't bear to leave, but he has to leave, but Du Yuesheng knows that he can't go to Taipei, and Hong Kong has become his best place.
Among Du Yuesheng's entourage were not only his family, but also his butlers, servants, and bodyguards. In his heyday, Du Yuesheng was protected by four "King Kongs", namely Gu Jiatang, Gao Xinbao, Rui Qingrong, and Ye Qishan, all of whom were extremely skilled.
Gu Jiatang has lived in Shanghai for generations, he has a square head and a pair of large ears, although he is not tall, but his martial arts are superb, and he is the most prestigious of the four. Gao Xinbao was very intelligent and knew a little English, so he belonged to the role of military adviser. Ye Qishan used to drive at the U.S. consulate and his marksmanship was also very good. Rui Qingrong is even more of a predator, he has great strength, and he has been practicing kung fu for several years. They have always followed Du Yuesheng's side, obeyed his command in everything, and made great contributions to Du Yuesheng's rise.
After Du Yuesheng fled to the port, his income in Shanghai was almost completely cut off, and he could only survive on the three hundred thousand US dollars he carried with him. However, compared with Du Yuesheng's daily extravagance and waste, the funds he carries will definitely be stretched in the future, so Du Yuesheng feels very anxious.
In the same way, some Shanghai capitalists who come to Hong Kong are also facing this embarrassing situation and urgently need to find ways to get rich. After many inquiries, the capitalists finally found a good way to get rich, and the shortcut to getting rich was to do the bristle business.
In the early years, mane has a wide range of uses, they are not easy to bend, winding and breaking, suitable for making a variety of brushes, is necessary for life and production, due to the war at that time, The mane-rich Sichuan can not transport goods out, so it can only be sold in Sichuan.
The capitalists who fled to Hong Kong believe that as long as they collect a sum of money to buy the stranded mane, and then use the military aircraft in Chengdu to transport to Hong Kong for sale, they will surely get dozens or even a hundred times the profit.
I have to say that such a business is really moving. At that time, those capitalists were also very poor, and the money they put together was far from enough to be the capital, so they thought of Du Yuesheng, who was also in Hong Kong. When the capitalists confidently approached Du Yuesheng, he refused, because throughout his business career, he had always upheld the concept of not making huge profits and not speculating. This is true in Shanghai, where he is directed, and in Hong Kong, where he is not familiar with life.
Although the capitalists exhausted their tongues and finally did not persuade Du Yuesheng to invest a penny, they could only find the next target - Gu Jiatang. Gu Jiatang and Du Yuesheng have been mixed for most of their lives, although they have not made a windfall, but they have also made a generous move, and now, he still has hundreds of thousands of dollars of idle funds. At this time, Gu Jiatang wanted to prove that his vision was not inferior to Mr. Du's, so he happily took out 300,000 US dollars and made the first "independent investment" in his life.
Gu Jiatang is not emotional, he is also an old jianghu, although not a businessman, but under much consideration, he still thinks that the huge profits are worth fighting for. After Gu Jiatang invested, he waited for the good news to come all day with expectations, but the reality was surprising.
It turned out that the military base stationed in Sichuan surrendered, and they flew to Beijing, and Gu Jiatang's cargo happened to be on these planes, so naturally it could not be transported back. After the bad news came, Gu Jiatang pounded his chest angrily, sighing helplessly, should not listen to others, and betrayed Mr. Du's decision. In the end, he lost everything and became the laughing stock of Hong Kong.
Du Yuesheng has also been a gentleman and a villain in this life. Xu Maotang, who had been in charge of Zhonghui Bank, was a villain, and during the fall of Shanghai, he confessed to being a thief and turned to Wang. However, because Du Yuesheng was an old man before the Du family, Gu Jiatang had also been helping him say good things, and finally forgave him.
Who knows, after Du Yuesheng's death, Xu Maotang actually took revenge and did a very despicable thing. He took out an IOU claiming that Du Yuesheng owed him 150,000 Hong Kong dollars before his death, and Gu Jiatang actually testified about it. When Du Yuesheng's friend Wu Kaixian learned of this, he scolded Gu Jiatang for betraying his dead friend and devouring the poor money of the orphan and widow.
In fact, this money is very limited, how much can he get in this way? For this small amount of money, it is really not worth it to forget the friendship with Boss Du before he died. Later, Gu Jiatang went to Taiwan, where he was often spurned, and eventually, he died of a stroke.
summary:
We have to sigh that the reason why Du Yuesheng can become a veritable generation of rich people is because in the chaotic world, he has a determination and vision different from ordinary people, completely undeterred by the temptation of immediate interests, and finally has a hard-won family wealth and reputation. And Gu Jiatang, this person, let us understand: people in the jianghu, this kind of person, we have to be careful, many times, for some feelings, we should learn to distinguish, for some people, we should learn to distance.