Du Yuesheng, the hero of Shanghai Beach at that time, jumped from a small gangster in the pudong countryside to the most powerful gangster in Shanghai Beach, known as the "first person of the three-hundred-year gang".
As a gangster in the jianghu, Du Yuesheng's protégés and former friends are all over the world, and Li Yuanhong's secretary general once gave him a couplet "Three thousand guests under the Chunshen Gate, five feet south of Xiaodu City", comparing him to Chun Shenjun, one of the four princes of the Warring States, and also implying from the other side that others have a wide network, black and white are eaten, and there is nothing he Du Yuesheng can't do on the vast Shanghai Beach.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Du Yuesheng joined the Shanghai Anti-Enemy Support Association from all walks of life and paid for raising a large number of materials for the frontline soldiers.
After the fall of Shanghai, as a prominent figure in Shanghai, he was bound to be co-opted by the Japanese army, and in order not to be a traitor, he ran to Hong Kong for refuge.
However, Du Yuesheng is from the gang after all, for him, the interests are always greater than everything, after the victory of the War of Resistance, he returned to Shanghai to recruit the old department, revitalized, and soon became a big person who was also the chairman of dozens of companies and called the wind and rain in shanghai's industrial and commercial circles.
After the liberation of Shanghai, although Du Yuesheng also had merit in the War of Resistance, after all, he did a lot of wrong things in those years, afraid of being judged by the people, and finally took his family to Hong Kong, in this not unfamiliar city, Du Yuesheng no longer has the scenery he once had, and his health is not as good as before, and the poor Du family sometimes has to sell real estate to maintain his livelihood.
In fact, there are still hundreds of millions of dollars of IOUs in Du Yuesheng's hands, but many of the debtors are underworld people, afraid that after their deaths, their families will encounter accidents to collect debts, and before they die, Du Yuesheng made a decision to burn these IOUs.
Relying on a small inheritance, several aunts and wives raised Du Yuesheng's eleven children, and when they became adults, they stayed away from gangs and politics and returned to normal people's lives, but after all, they were not born ordinary, and the media would also pay attention to them, among Du Yuesheng's many children, the most famous was the younger son Du Weishan.
After his father's death, Du Weishan followed his mother Yao Yulan to Taiwan, he has always remembered his father's last words, never set foot in the underworld, after graduating from the University of Canberra, Australia, he entered the oil company as a geological engineer.
Unwilling to accept his fate, Du Weishan later trafficked cattle and sheep, opened a silver mine, and accumulated ten thousand family wealth with his ingenuity. Du Weishan can be called a business expert, and he is also very famous in the collecting world, which is of course based on his strong economic foundation.
In 1991, Du Weishan, who returned to Shanghai, visited the Shanghai Museum, when the director of the museum personally received him and showed him the treasure of the town hall, the national first-class cultural relics of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty gold coins.
After this visit, Du Weishan had an idea, that is, to help the motherland to fill the gap in this collection, and he returned to China many times, first donating as many as 367 gold and silver coins of the Sassanid Dynasty to the Shanghai Museum, and later posthumously donating more than 2,000 precious ancient coins, and the value of these collections exceeded 1.8 billion. In addition, Du Weishan also undertook the task of cultivating ancient coin professionals in the museum.
Thanks to Du Weishan's contribution, it fills the gap in the collection and research of Chinese mainland museums in this field. To thank him, the Shanghai government awarded him the Magnolia Award.
Mr. Du Weishan, who can make such a contribution, deserves to be praised and admired by the Chinese people!