He turned to Sheng Xuan and started his family, and after the War of Resistance, he became a traitor and died under the kitchen knives of two of his cronies
This man went to Shanghai to make a living in his youth, made a living by getting to know rich merchants and foreigners, turned to Sheng Xuanhuai, and later became dependent on the Beiyang warlords; after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he became a traitor, served as the mayor of the pseudo-Shanghai city, and spared no effort to serve the Wang puppet government. "Many acts of injustice will kill themselves", in 1940, he died under the kitchen knife of two generations of loyal servants, he was Fu Xiao'an.
Devote yourself to the noble family
Fu Xiao'an, also known as Zong Yao, was born in 1872 in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province, a farmer when he was a child, and because of his family's poverty, he left his hometown to Shanghai, and followed his fellow villagers to make a living by shaking small sampans on the Huangpu River. The Accounting Office of the Sheng Xuanhuai Family often travels back and forth between Shanghai and Pudong to collect land rent, and this small sampan is used exclusively for the Sheng Family. At the age of 15, Fu entered the Shanghai British merchant Xiangsheng Shipyard as a "servant", because of his rough English, and everywhere he flattered foreign capitalists, he was very appreciated, and in just three years he was promoted to foreman, in charge of workers' wages and other matters.
He was a greedy guy who, relying on the withholding of the sweat and blood income of the workers, saved a sum of money, bought a property in Pudong, and rented it out for profit. Later, he became acquainted with Yan Zijun, a Yan Xiaofangzi who owned a large amount of real estate in Shanghai in Pudong, and managed the real estate leasing business on behalf of the Yan family. Since then, Fu Xiao'an, relying on his connections with foreigners and wealthy merchants in Shanghai, has drilled camps everywhere, traveled to and fro, and thrown himself into the door of Sheng Xuanhuai, a prominent nobleman in the late Qing Dynasty.
Sheng Xuanhuai, a native of Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, started out as a foreign affairs officer who relied on Li Hongzhang and became a close henchman of Li Hongzhang. He successively served as the general office of Tianjin Daotai, the General Office of the General Bureau of Telegraphs, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and the superintendent of the China Merchants Bureau. He was the largest monopolist in modern industry at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the largest industrial and commercial capitalist among the big bureaucrats.
At that time, Fu Xiao'an was young and well-behaved, and was quite appreciated and pleased by the Sheng family's accounting office, so he recommended him to Sheng Xuanhuai Mansion to serve as a renter in charge of Pudong real estate. He was talented and willing to study, and studied Chinese and English with Professor Wen Mu, and gained a lot of knowledge. He was usually careful and waited for his master. Through the flattery of Sheng Xuanhuai's favored concubine, he gradually gained Sheng Xuanhuai's trust and worshipped him as a "dry father". Due to Sheng Xuanhuai's support and support, Fu Xiao'an was promoted to deputy of the Sheng general ledger.
Sheng Xuanhuai died of illness in Shanghai on April 27, 1916. The wealth he seized in his lifetime amounted to 60 million taels of silver. As soon as Sheng Xuanhuai died, his descendants fought for the inheritance and sued him in court. Those who have obtained the inheritance will spend a lot of money and spend thousands of dollars. Although the Foundation of the Sheng Family is thick, how many there are, but no one knows. Fu Xiao'an used the method of encroachment to seize part of the Sheng clan's property for himself. Sometimes he himself retreats into the background, lets others appear, collects at a low price, throws out at a high price, turns clouds and rains, and does everything. The Sheng family was later defeated. Fu Xiao'an was such a person who had forgotten about the fish.
Flattering the Beiyang warlords
During his time as a Beiyang warlord, Fu Xiao'an began his eunuch career as a senior adviser to the State Council of the Beiyang warlord government, a special commissioner of the Ministry of Finance in Shanghai, a supervisor of the Bank of China, a supervisor of the Shanghai Mint and the National Bureau of Tobacco and Alcohol Sales.
In 1919, the May Fourth Movement broke out in Beijing, and the whole country responded. On May 9, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce issued a telegram advocating the aside of the peace conference and negotiating with Japan separately on the Qingdao issue, which was opposed by public opinion throughout the country, and the chairman and vice president resigned. Yu Qiaqing and Fu Xiao'an then manipulated the affairs of the meeting. On June 3, led by workers and students, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce jointly participated in the "three strikes" (market strike, strike, and class strike).
Soon, Yu and Fu, following the intentions of the local authorities, persuaded the shops to open the market, but they were boycotted and failed. On June 10, Cao Rulin and others were removed from their posts. When the news came, in the early morning of the 12th, Yu and Fu accompanied local officials to the streets to advise them to open for business, but few responded. It was not until the afternoon that the student council came forward to persuade the city to officially resume business. However, after this "performance", Fu Xiao'an was favored by the Beiyang government.
Fu Xiao'an was loyal to the Beiyang warlords, and repeatedly used money to support the warlords in civil wars, he engaged in arms trading, and ran under the doors of various warlords, but because the Anhui forces that later defected to withdrew from the Songhu region, they only ended up with a bamboo basket to draw water.
In 1925, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce was re-elected, and Fu Xiao'an, with the support of the warlord Sun Chuanfang, was elected as the sixth president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, realizing his wish for many years. On March 26, 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army defeated Sun Chuanfang's main force and entered Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the People's Republic of China. The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and the financial circles raised military funds for him, and after several meetings, both sides did not take a stand, which annoyed Chiang Kai-shek. He had a feud with Fu Xiao'an and ordered him to be wanted and to confiscate all his property.
When Fu Xiao'an learned of this, he secretly asked the Japanese Embassy for help, which sent armed guards to escort him to a foreign ship and flee to Dalian. When he was living in Dalian, he was directly protected and raised by the Japanese invaders and became a famous pro-Japanese figure. Fu Xiao'an also had two dog meat friends, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, and under their repeated dredging, the Kuomintang finally revoked the arrest warrant for Fu Xiao'an.
He served as the mayor of the puppet government and was loyal to Wang Jingwei
After the Battle of Songhu, Shanghai fell to an "isolated island". In early December, Matsui, commander-in-chief of the Japanese-Chinese Dispatch Army, established the "Shanghai Avenue Municipal Government" in Pudong. The first bulletin was the public imposition of an opium and tobacco tax. Fu Xiao'an seized the opportunity. When Matsui heard that Fu was Sheng Xuanhuai's confidant, and had also been the general manager of the China Commerce and Commerce Bank and the president of the Shanghai Municipal Chamber of Commerce, he immediately sent personnel to the Fu family to contact him several times, and it was in the middle of Fu Xiao'an that he had been asking for for many years.
Fu Xiao'an pointed out that it was very inconvenient for the Shanghai pseudo-municipal government to set up a place in Pudong, and the Japanese side agreed not to set up a place in Pudong. So the Shanghai municipal government moved from Pudong to Jiangwan and restored the name of "Shanghai Municipal Government". Matsui asked the puppet restoration government to appoint Fu Xiao'an as the mayor of the shanghai puppet municipal government. Fu Xiao'an defected to the enemy and took over the indian affairs on October 16, 1938, and since then, the shadow of the puppet municipal government has gradually appeared in the concession. In 1938, Wang Jingwei returned to China, and Fu Xiao'an personally greeted him as a pseudo-mayor of Shanghai, and then served under him, committing many evil deeds.
Fu Xiao'an was killed
On the night of October 11, 1940, while the puppet mayor of Shanghai, Fu Xiao'an, was asleep at the Hongkou official residence, he was cut off with a kitchen knife by Zhu Sheng, his closest "two generations of righteous servants". Originally, the Japanese military department set up a garden house for Fu Xiao'an in Hongkou as an official residence. The family's servants are like clouds, employing 23 bodyguards, all of whom are his close confidants. Zhu Sheng was a cook and followed him for decades. Fu's bedroom was heavily guarded and guarded. Where did Zhu Sheng enter? The head is separated from the body, and there should always be a sound when hacking, right? However, it was not until the next morning that he realized that Zhu Sheng had escaped.
It turned out that Fu Xiao'an's "two generations of righteous servants" Zhu Sheng was bribed by the military commanders. On the day fu was buried, those who went to mourn had to pass through the Japanese military headquarters, receive a temporary pass, and place the power grid along the way. His severed head was sewn with needles by Japanese military doctors, wrapped in a white cloth, and then placed in a nanmu coffin and buried in the Yong'an Cemetery in Huxi, Shanghai.