Speaking of the number one hooligan in old Shanghai, it is Jin Rong, and when it comes to Jin Rong, we have to mention the Qing Gang. The Qing gang is one of the most widely circulated and far-reaching folk secret societies since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The power of the Green Gang makes people feel frightened and very harmful to society, but Jin Jinrong was originally just a little, how did he get rich? And how did it become the highest generation of the Green Gang "Heaven" character?
To clarify these two issues, we must first understand the organization of the Green Gang. Founded in the 5th year of Yongzheng, the Qing Gang was originally a kind of guild of Water Transport sailors in the Qing Dynasty, and its original intention was to protect its own interests, of course, this inevitably had to fight with the government for a long time.
During the Jiaqing period, the grain gang sailors in Anqing Province set up a new "Anqing Daoist Association" in addition to the original grain gang organization, which is the so-called Green Gang. In order to distinguish between the elderly and the young, the Green Gang set up twenty-four characters. These twenty-four characters are in order: Qing Jing Dao Dao Wen Cheng Dharma Neng Ren Wisdom Ben comes from the Nature Yuan Ming Xing Li Da Tong Enlightenment. The highest character was established in the Qing Dynasty rather than the Qing Dynasty, in fact, because the gang was founded in the Qing Dynasty.
By 1919, the top of the Green Gang had reached the rank of "big." In greater Shanghai, there are only 17 people in the "big" generation. At that time, the ranking of Shanghai's "three tycoons" was not very high. For example, Du Yuesheng has worshiped Chen Shichang of the "Tong" character generation as an old man, so he ranks in the "Wu" generation, and Zhang Xiaolin is also the "Wu" character generation.
But Jin Rong was different, he said that he was a "heaven" character. The whole Green Gang does not have the word "Heaven", how did this generation come about? In fact, it was Jin Rong himself who sealed it for himself. After he made his fortune, Jin Rong was very arrogant. He had never been a mere worshipper of posts, of opening an incense hall.
According to the gang rules, those who do not have a name in the gang cannot take disciples. But Jin Rong is extremely arrogant, as long as someone sends a red envelope he will receive. In this way, he received no less than two or three thousand apprentices. What was even more arrogant was that he felt that his position should be above the big character generation, so he added a horizontal line to the big one, and the "heaven" character generation came from this way.
So how did Jin Rong get rich? Speaking of heroes in a chaotic world, it is also easy to produce rogue leaders, and Jin Jinrong is a typical representative of this.
In 1900, after the second expansion of the French Concession, the area of the concession was more than doubled, and in order to strengthen the security of the concession, the consulate decided to recruit 120 Chinese for patrolling. Jin Rong used to be a flower setter, and later did fast catching in Yamen, Shanghai. He felt that patrolling in the concession was a fat trick, so he wanted to try his luck.
At that time, Jin Rong was only 22 years old, and he was physically strong, and he really let him pass the selection. After entering the patrol house, Jin Rong followed the French patrol ass to collect "land silk" door to door, sometimes to the newly built house number, to suppress those farmers who did not want to relocate, and to protest the donation activities.
In these jobs, Jin Rong was particularly hardworking, so he was favored by the police superintendent and was directly promoted to plainclothes detective. That is, mixing into various tea houses to eat and drink, and collecting various intelligence. Don't look at Jin Rong who looks five big and three thick, but his brain is very bright, and there are many small clever people who are crooked and evil.
He used the method of eating black and eating black, one yard and one yard, and recruited a group of low-level small to provide him with intelligence. Therefore, he really solved a lot of cases, and several of them made him out of the limelight. Jin Rong was not satisfied with this, and in order to improve his prestige, he also used the measurement of "thieves shouting to catch thieves". He specifically looked for someone to steal the merchant's things, and when the merchant was in a hurry, someone went to the boss and said that the golden Rong case was very cattle. As a result, as soon as the boss looked for Jin Rong, it didn't take long for someone to send something back.
Jin Rong's greatest pride is that he once solved the kidnapping of a French Catholic priest? As a result, he was awarded a first-class gold star. And promoted him to the sole Chinese inspector general. Since then, Jin Rong has been even more flying and bold.
He used his power to sell opium, open casinos, etc., and became the number one tycoon in Shanghai Beach within a few years. Even if the big guy of the Green Gang violates the gang rules and has no respect for his superiors, he has no choice. To put it bluntly, in this kind of gang culture, whoever is more powerful has the final say, and no gang rules work.
Jin Jinrong served as inspector general of the French patrol Fang Hua Detective for 20 years, until he retired at the age of 60. After his retirement, he continued to work as a consultant in the Police Force.