This man can be said to be the godfather of China's underworld, from a small person slowly working hard in that mixed Shanghai, and finally relying on certain conditions and opportunities to transform into the most influential figure in that place. So far in Shanghai, there are many old people who are talking about his affairs.
Biography
He started as a small, and finally became the number one of the Green Gang by his own efforts. In his lifetime, because most of the things he did were good and bad, people in later generations would have mixed evaluations of him. Some say that he is a righteous "helper" with a conscience, while others say that he is a rogue land that relies on speculation to slowly rise to power. But no matter what others said about him, he ended up at the top of the Shanghai pyramid, so that those who liked to say bad things about him could only say that to him at the bottom.
Scholars who studied the character evaluated him as a gangster with a conscience. Because as far as this person is concerned, although he made a lot of efforts and wealth when the Japanese invaded China, as far as his life is concerned, his lifelong work of making money is basically a criminal matter, so he is not a good person to evaluate. But what is worth affirming is that when the country is in danger, he can make his own contribution, which shows that this person is not a completely mercenary person, but also a person with a certain national blood, a sense of national self-esteem and dignity.
Especially when the war was at its worst, he disregarded his own losses and gains, and in his own capacity, he constantly donated money and materials to the anti-Japanese forces at home, and supported the motherland's war of resistance with everything he could.
What you did before you died
When he was dying, the funds he could control were only 110,000 US dollars, and after disposing of these funds well, he tore up the IOUs that others had borrowed from him. In fact, when he was about to die, the sentence he said was very intriguing, like the summary of his life, and like his last words, and in this sentence was also full of his iron-boned feelings, this sentence is: "I have no hope, you still have hope, China still has hope." ”
Died
He died in the 1950s, when he was in Taiwan. You know, although he is the continent that he escaped from, his feelings for the mainland are very deep, which may be because of the homesickness that is common in Chinese. So until he died, he was thinking about the place where he had once been, remembering the place where he had been brilliant, and it was in that place that he had a wonderful life, which made him have the reputation of "the first person of the three-hundred-year gang".
In the end, this proud man was buried in Taipei County, and the choice and burial of this cemetery was also very elaborate, because he missed Shanghai very much when he was alive, so his family specially chose a direction facing Shanghai to bury him, in order to fulfill his last wish.
Spontaneous grave sweepers
The man who cleaned him was neither his former disciple nor his relative, but a man he had never heard of or seen before. This person's name is Li Kaiming, and like "Du", he is not a native of Taiwan, but has emigrated from the mainland, and he has long heard of his legendary deeds and experiences in the mainland, although it is not admiration, but it is also admiration. The reason why he will insist on visiting the grave of this "fellow countryman" who has not intersected for so many years is actually to feel "cold" and kind. Because he felt that this person had a beautiful time before his death, it can be said that it was called the wind and rain, but after death, no one cared about it, and his heart would inevitably be a little desolate, plus the two of them were immigrants, so in order to make him feel better below, but also in order to make his heart feel comforted (Chinese believe in cause and effect), so he would unconsciously sweep his grave.