In advance of the Shanghai Green Gang, everyone knows Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng, especially Du Yuesheng is known as the "first person of the three-hundred-year gang" and some people call him God, indeed Du Yuesheng is very powerful, from a small person mixed into the boss of Shanghai Beach, but there is another person in the Shanghai Beach Green Gang, more powerful than him, this person Chiang Kai-shek privately called him Taiye, this person is Zhang Renkui.
Green Gang Gangster
Zhang Renkui is a different person, others are not able to go on, join the Green Gang, he took the initiative to join, and he also won the Qing Dynasty Xiucai, as a general of the Republic of China.
Zhang Renkui was born in 1865 in Shenzhuang Village, Teng County, Shandong Province, today Shandong Shanting District North Shenzhuang Village, this person has been fighting since childhood, the family is poor and has no money to buy weapons, and people are fighting with the family's cutters, the cutters are the previous cutters, that thing is very heavy, for a long time people sent the nickname Zhang Da Gong.
In 1889, the imperial court examination, Kao Wu Xiucai, Zhang Renkui also participated, relying on a strong kung fu to win the first place. With such a name, he began to open a martial arts hall to recruit apprentices.
Big guy
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Boxer Rebellion was over, Zhang Renkui also participated, and the wind and fire were noisy for a while, because of his outstanding ability, he was accepted as an apprentice by the chief of the Tengzhou Qing Gang, and officially joined the Qing Gang, ranking in the big characters.
After the defeat of the Boxers, Cixi fled westward, and Zhang Renkui also escorted him for a while. Later, Zhang Renkui came to Yangzhou and followed his brother to sell smuggled salt. Later, this gang was actually ordered by the imperial court, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Renkui changed from a bandit to a general, Zhang Renkui was very good at doing things, whether it was a revolutionary party or a Beiyang warlord, and he had a very good relationship, so his official promotion was very fast, and it was not long before he was the military and political leader in the Jianghuai area.
Green Gang
Although he became a state civil servant, Zhang Renkui never forgot that he was a member of the Qing gang, so he accepted a large number of disciples and grandchildren, and later because he had too many younger brothers, he simply did not use the name of the government to issue orders, and directly issued orders in the name of the Qing Gang.
In 1924, Zhang Renkui came to Shanghai again, Du Yuesheng and Jin Jinrong heard that Zhang Renkui was coming, they all rushed to visit, according to the generation, Du Yuesheng is Zhang Renkui's disciple, Jin Rong, although it is also known as the Qing Gang, but it is not recognized by the Qing Gang, just like crosstalk, you are in Niu, without formal worship, others do not recognize you.
Golden Rong
At that time, although Jin Rong was very powerful, he lacked a formal master, so he went to Zhang Renkui's door, and Zhang was of course very happy.
In 1925, Zhang Renkui celebrated his sixtieth birthday, which was quite lively, when more than 800 people with heads and faces came, and even Chiang Kai-shek, the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy at that time, personally wrote a couplet and sent it over.
After Chiang Kai-shek moved the capital to Nanjing, Zhang Renkui sent back Chiang Kai-shek's former worship post, and Chiang Kai-shek was very happy, although he did not say it on the surface, but privately called Zhang Renkui an old lady.
Chiang Kai-shek
Although he was the leader of the gang, Zhang Renkui never acted as a traitor, but instead helped the Kuomintang get rid of Zhang Xiaolin, a big gangster of the Green Gang who defected to the Japanese.
It is a pity that he did not see the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and he died of illness in 1944, and after his death, many people in the party, government, and army held a memorial service for him in Chongqing, and Chiang Kai-shek personally wrote an inscription for him: Haidai Shuowang.