Du Yuesheng, born in 1888 in Chuansha Hall (Pudong New Area), is a legendary figure in modern Chinese history, from a small three mixed into the Ten Mile Ocean Field, becoming the biggest gangster gang leader in the old society of the old Shanghai Beach. Together with Jin Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, he is called the "Three Tycoons", and among the three tycoons, it is known that "Jin Rong is greedy for money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, and Du Yuesheng will be a man".
Du Yuesheng relies on his outstanding skills, long sleeves are good at dancing, and eat up and down. He not only went in and out of black and white, navigating the business, military and political circles, but also extended his tentacles to finance, industry, news and newspapers, education and other fields.
Between 1927 and 1937, Du Yuesheng's power reached its peak. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Du Yuesheng refused the japanese solicitation and left Shanghai, first to Hong Kong and then to Chongqing. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Du Yuesheng returned to Shanghai as the general representative of the folk gangs, intending to harvest the old department and revitalize the momentum. But by this time, his golden age of response was gone.
The War of Resistance was victorious, the concessions disappeared, Chiang Kai-shek ruled Shanghai with troops and spies, and the authorities also regarded Du Yuesheng, a "close friend" of the year, as the object of key suppression. Grand Duke Chiang Ching-kuo even set off a "tiger fighting" campaign and locked up Du Weiping, Du Yuesheng's third son. "Down with the evil forces!" Down with Du Yuesheng!" The slogan even appeared openly at the station.
A series of blows made Du Yuesheng sigh sadly: "The golden age of the past, which was full of sources and echoes, is gone. ”
Entering 1949, Du Yuesheng decided to stay away from the whirlpool, neither staying in Shanghai nor going to Taiwan, but settling in the port city. On May 1, 1949, after bidding farewell to Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng, who arrived in Hong Kong, stayed at the last Du Mansion at No. 18 Kennedy Land selected for him by his friends.
In 1950, Du Yuesheng, who had fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong, was sick and suffered an asthma attack due to his mental exhaustion. At the time of the onset of the disease, he was full of neck and green tendons exposed, sweating, fainting several times, taking medicine, injections, and spraying were ineffective, and the more doctors asked, the more complicated the medication became.
With the continuous development of his condition, Du Yuesheng sometimes had to take oxygen, he was often accompanied by oxygen masks and oxygen cylinders, and he could not go out for several months. Because oxygen is often needed, the oxygen cylinders outside Du Yuesheng's bedroom are arranged in rows, which makes many doctors who go to Du Mansion for the first time extremely surprised.
At this time, Du Yuesheng felt that his health was not good, but his vitality was tenacious, and he began to believe in easy learning and metaphysics. He often said, "The door of the mysterious and the mysterious." When Du Yuesheng was a young man when he was young, he once had an old Taoist priest meet him, saying that "the wealth is indescribable." Later, he did indeed become the "Earth Emperor" of Shanghai, so he was convinced of the fate telling of faces and so on.
The boy is seven feet lighter, and the good man is most afraid of illness to grind. Entering 1951, Du Yuesheng was grinded by a series of serious illnesses, and his ambition was low, as if he was afraid. At the age of 63, he desperately wanted to live, and he decided to find a Taoist fortune teller, wondering how many Spring and Autumn He still had.
In June 1951, Du Yuesheng heard that there was an old Taoist priest named "June Rest Hall Master" in Taiwan Province, China, who could pinch and calculate, known as "Wolong" and "Liu Bowen". Du Yuesheng knew that he would not be able to ask the truth in person, so he wrote down his birthday in a letter and sent it anonymously to the "Owner of the June Rest House".
After the "June Rest Hall Owner" received Du Yuesheng's letter, he did not know that the eight characters of this birthday were Du's, so he truthfully approved it and sent a letter back to Du Yuesheng.
The old Taoist priest of the "June Rest Hall" wrote 14 words in the reply: "Sixty-four years old in XinDi, the heavens and the earth have been difficult." 1951 was the year of the Xin Jiao rabbit, and Du Yuesheng's imaginary age was exactly 64. "Sixty-four years old in XinJiao, heaven and earth rushed through the difficulty" means that he will definitely not live to be sixty-four years old.
After reading these 14 words written by the old Taoist, all of a sudden, Du Yuesheng's confidence in survival collapsed, and he was paralyzed on the spot, and he never got sick again, and never got out of bed again.
The 14 words of the old Taoist priest of the "June Rest Hall Master" were like a hypnotic, and Du Yuesheng repeatedly said in his hospital bed, "I don't want to live." In the summer of 1951, Du Yuesheng, who was already terminally ill, began to make a will to dispose of the estate, and after distributing the estate, Du Yuesheng entrusted all the affairs to the proud protégé Lu Jingshi to handle, and he lay on the bed and waited for death.
On the afternoon of August 16, 1951, less than 24 hours before his 64th birthday, The 63-year-old Du Yuesheng swallowed his last breath.
After Du Yuesheng's death, his eldest son, Du Weifan, said bitterly: "At the end of 1950 and the beginning of 1951, my father was extremely strong in his will to life, and he was more optimistic about life. Soon, the letter of the 'June Rest House Owner' came, which became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel, and he had completely lost his self-confidence and lost the strength to struggle for survival. ”