When the name Jin Rong is mentioned, many people will exclaim: "The boss of the Green Gang!" As Jin Rong's apprentice, Du Yuesheng's fame was even greater, and at that time everyone called him "Mr. Du", and he, together with Jin Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, was called "The Three Tycoons of Shanghai".
But many people don't know that the boss behind the Green Gang is not a few of them, even Jin Jinrong and Du Yuesheng have to honestly kneel and prostrate in front of him, who is it?
Zhang Jinhu, also known as Zhang Renkui, was born in 1865 in a poor family in Shandong, when he was a child to herd cattle for a living, but he has an uncle who can do martial arts, from childhood to cultivate this talented child, every day herding cattle, practice exercises, time for a long time, Zhang Renkui is also famous in the local area, if you are bullied, Zhang Renkui will definitely help, quite chivalrous.
In 1889, Zhang Renkui won the Wu Xiucai examination, which was an invincible hand in the world, standing out among hundreds of people, and soon after he opened a martial arts hall in his hometown, and many people came to be his apprentice. By chance, he joined the Green Gang.
The Qing Gang, a gang with a long history in China, also known as the Qing Gang and the An Qing Gang, was originally a kind of guild secret association of the Qing Dynasty's water transport sailors, in fact, its original intention was to defend its own interests and fight against the authorities, and later developed more and more, becoming the "three major civil gang organizations" in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
With his own good martial arts and fame of fighting with heroes and righteousness, Zhang Renkui quickly became popular in the Qing Gang, and he was in the "big" generation of the Qing Gang at that time, and the generation score was very high. (The Qing Gang according to the ancestors left behind ''Qing Jing Morality, Wencheng Dharma, Ren On Wisdom, Original Self-Confidence, Yuan Ming Xingli, Great Enlightenment') And so on when Du Yuesheng entered the Qing Gang, he was already a "enlightened" generation.
Zhang Renkui was also "popular" in the official arena, he served as a patrol camp pipe belt, served as a new army, transferred to Tonghai Town Guard, acted as an envoy of lianghuai salt transport, and those warlords were willing to be his disciples, such as Lu Yongxiang, the former zhejiang overseer, Li Chun, the jiangxi overseer, Zhang Shuyuan, the shandong overseer, and dozens of other people, all of whom were his disciples.
In addition to people in the political circles and business circles, Zhang Renkui had at least 30,000 disciples that year. As Elder Zhang's apprentice, Du Yuesheng was his apprentice, and seeing him was naturally respectful, and it was not too much to kneel and prostrate.
In 1925, Zhang Renkui's 60th birthday, it is no exaggeration to say that at that time, the figures with heads and faces came to wish him a birthday, the scale was very large, enough for 600 people, and gifts were piled up all over Zhang Lao's house.
In fact, at that time, the Japanese also knew the fame of Zhang Lao, many times to win him over, Zhang Renkui in this life is the most hated the Japanese, that year, Zhang Renkui mobilized all his subordinates and disciples, together for the War of Resistance to contribute money, and then he is old, can not withstand the harassment of the Japanese, can only call the sick closed door to thank guests, refuse the Japanese to come to the door to ask for cooperation. At the same time, Zhang Renkui quietly did a big thing!
It is said that at that time, Shanghai was controlled by the Japanese, Du Yuesheng fled for his life, and Jin Rong lived in seclusion, but Zhang Xiaolin in the "Three Tycoons of Shanghai" hooked up with the Japanese, and even prepared to make Zhang Xiaolin the governor of the traitorous province.
Zhang Renkui, who learned the news, was very angry, and Du Yuesheng sought out Zhang Renkui's disciple and bodyguard Lin Huaibu, thinking that it was most appropriate for him to assassinate Zhang Xiaolin, and obtained Zhang Renkui's consent, and later Lin Huaibu successfully solved Zhang Xiaolin's traitor.
At the end of December 1944, Zhang Renkui died in Fanyuan, Shanghai - only 8 months away from the victory of the War of Resistance, Zhang Lao's greatest wish was to see the victory of the War of Resistance, until his death, the Japanese did not give up persuading him, so that the old man was often angry, so that he could not afford to be sick! Ended his legendary life.