Speaking of the person "Du Yuesheng", I believe that the first reaction of friends is "Green Gang Gangster", in that turbulent era, Du Yuesheng from an unknown little minions, all the way to the position of the leader of the Green Gang, he went in and out of the black and white, in the political, military and business circles, everyone saw him, they had to give three points of face, Du Yuesheng's influence on shanghai beach that year was definitely one of the best.
In 1925, Du Yuesheng established the "Sanxin Company", monopolized the shipment of opium in the French Concession, and earned a lot of money, just the daily expenses of his family for a year, all of which cost 2 million oceans, and Du Yuesheng's net worth at the peak reached 30 million silver dollars.
According to the data, Du Yuesheng had 9 cars under his name that year, including 1 Cadillac and 1 Chevrolet, you know, even bicycles were rare in that year, and until 1912, there were only more than 1,000 cars in Shanghai.
Secondly, it is du yuesheng's Du Mansion, its designer, but Du Yuesheng was specially invited from France, the cost alone is about 300,000 oceans, plus du mansion inside and outside so many people, as well as the cost of the ladies, Du mansion spends about 2 million oceans a year. According to China's price level that year, 2 million oceans were enough to feed 20,000 ordinary people for 1 year.
Just the daily expenses of the family, it will be 2 million oceans, Du Yuesheng himself socializing, naturally to spend more money, for a simple example, in order to have a good relationship with the National Government, Du Yuesheng ordered 120 military aircraft from the United States to send to the National Government in one go. And this expenditure is just the tip of the iceberg of Du Yuesheng's many expenses.
After studying Du Yuesheng, experts and scholars estimated that his property was between 30 million oceans, and this was only a conservative estimate, after all, Du Yuesheng was operating a variety of "invisible" industries, so how much was the 30 million oceans converted into the current price?
"Two Kinds of Chinese Monetary Research" is written: 1 silver dollar is about equal to 1200 yuan.
1 silver dollar is 1 piece of ocean, 1 piece of ocean is about equal to 1200 yuan, when a person in Shanghai small restaurant to eat a meal, there is meat and vegetarian case is also about 30 text, three meals a day are eaten outside is only 100 text, then 1 month is 3000 text, and then buy some miscellaneous things, 1 month 3 pieces of ocean is enough.
In 1917, St. John's University also conducted a survey in China and came to the following conclusions:
Workers support a family of five for 15 yuan a month; the same is true for common male workers, and the same is true for women who earn a silk factory every month.
A family of five is 15 yuan a month, that is, about 3 yuan per person, which is also exactly in line with the expenditure of ordinary people and 3 oceans a month in "Chinese Currency Research II".
If you put this number in today's first-tier cities, a family of five, want to survive, in addition to mortgages and car loans, etc., only daily expenses, 10,000 yuan a month should be about the same, so calculated, the value of 1 ocean is about 600 to 700 yuan. Then Du Yuesheng, who has 30 million ocean assets, is about 20 billion yuan today, and these do not include du Yuesheng's "invisible" industry.
But unfortunately, brilliant such as Du Yuesheng, did not get a good ending, when Du Yuesheng fled to Hong Kong, China, before he died, only left 100,000 US dollars in cash for his family, but there were 100 people up and down the Du family, this money is indeed not much, after taking care of Du Yuesheng's future life, the family is also running to things.
Throughout Du Yuesheng's life, worthy of the word legend, he came from a humble origin, but by his own strength, he broke out of the hall of fame, from an unknown little to a famous green gang gangster, although he also made a lot of mistakes, but during the War of Resistance, Du Yuesheng took the lead in donating funds, actively resisting Japan, and was a figure who was both right and evil.