"My arrow points to Shanghai Beach, and my border is going to cross the Ten Mile Ocean Field!"
This arrogant remark came from the mouth of Du Yuesheng, the tycoon of the Republic of China. Because he said it, he wouldn't think it was a crazy thing, because he had arrogant capital.
Du Yuesheng was born into poverty, lost his mother at the age of 4, lost his father at the age of 6, followed his grandmother for his life, and dropped out of school after half a year of school. He was a good gambler from childhood, and then he was driven out of the house by his uncle, and he had to wander around, and at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he worked as a gangster on the beach. He had to eat, to be an apprentice in the fruit shop, and to live a very hard life.
The children of poor families, survival is the most important, in the process of climbing and rolling, understand a lot of survival skills, after joining the green gang, no less do the work of the underworld.
At the age of 30, Du Yuesheng turned to great luck. After being introduced to Jin Rong, with his exquisite eight faces, resourcefulness, coupled with factors such as righteousness, he soon gained the trust of Jin Rong, and developed by the smoke and soil, mixed like a fish, and became one of the top tycoons on the beach.
When he was still a small follower of Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng was a person who was willing to use money and would use money, even if he was hungry, he would generously buy food for his brothers, he relied on money to make a wide network, be proud and righteous, and win the hearts of Jin Rong and his brothers.
After the development of Du Yuesheng, he frequently contacted business tycoons, celebrities, and political leaders, and his network resources became more and more extensive. Of course, these are indispensable to use money to take care of.
After the development of Du Yuesheng's clothes and homecoming, he spent one million oceans to build a large ancestral hall, built a library building, also ran a private school, held a three-day flowing water banquet, and the number of guests who came to the door was as high as 100,000, which was unprecedented.
Later, Du Yuesheng did not do the tobacco business, and became one of the industrial and commercial financial circles, and his income was discounted, but his arrogance of spending thousands of dollars was still there. He did some things that benefited the Chinese, such as helping the victims, supporting the War of Resistance, and being passionate about charity.
In August 1945, after the total victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuesheng returned to Shanghai at the age of 57, but his position in Shanghai was much worse than before.
The Shanghai concession disappeared, and his gang lost the means to survive. The Kuomintang army, police, secret agents, etc. ruled Shanghai, Du Yuesheng's power was getting smaller and smaller, and Shanghai was full of "down with the evil forces of society!" "Down with Du Yuesheng!" With the slogan, he became the object of Shanghai's suppression.
At this time, Du Yuesheng was both depressed and helpless, and the "sea smellers" who used to respond to everything had become a yellow flower of tomorrow.
In April 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek saw that the general trend was gone, he summoned Du Yuesheng and asked him to go to Taiwan immediately. After much deliberation, Du Yuesheng made a decision to stay away from politics and neither stay in Shanghai nor taiwan.
On May 1, 1949, after du Yuesheng bid farewell to The Golden Rong, he took his family to board the Dutch Baoshuyun passenger ship and went to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, he died two years later.
To put it ugly, Du Yuesheng is "fleeing", and since he is fleeing, he naturally has to bring valuable belongings. So, how much property does Du Yuesheng have in the end? How was the property distributed after his death? How much did the beloved fifth-room wife Meng Xiaodong get?
After arriving in Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng's family lived at No. 18 Kennedy Land, which was his last Du Mansion, which was of course much more rudimentary than the Du Mansion in Shanghai. At that time, his family, protégés, and servants, old and young, together there were more than 100 people. How do so many people live in Hong Kong?
Du Yuesheng's property is mainly left in Shanghai real estate, sold a property, the cash in hand is not much, all rely on the money, to maintain the operation of du mansion.
Du Yuesheng suffered from severe asthma, when in Hong Kong, the disease was more serious, the treatment was a combination of Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, just to give him a pulse prescription there are 4 Chinese medicine, 3 Western medicine, all of them are famous doctors. He laughed at himself: "Now I eat medicine as food, and I eat rice as medicine!" ”
The cost of seeing a doctor and taking medicine is a huge amount of money, and Du Yuesheng, who once spent a lot of money, also worried about money in his old age.
Du Yuesheng's health was getting worse and worse, it was a typical medicine jar, and it was Meng Xiaodong who was serving around him.
Du Yuesheng likes Peking Opera, is known as the "world's number one opera fan", has made many people in the opera industry, and the fourth wife he married, Yao Yulan, is a professional Peking Opera actor.
Du Yuesheng has always had a yearning and respect for the literati. Meng Xiaodong, a disciple of the famous Peking Opera veteran Yu Shuyan, was very beautiful when he was young, and his artistic attainments were also very high, known as the "Winter Emperor". Naturally, he also admired her, and at the same time had a crush on her early.
In 1931, Meng Xiaodong divorced Mei Lanfang and has been single for many years.
It was not until the 1940s that she had official contacts with Du Yuesheng. Later, Meng Xiaodong lived in the Du Mansion, without a name, but has been doing his best to take care of Du Yuesheng. Even if his glory is gone, she has no hesitation in following him to Hong Kong.
At that time, Du Yuesheng had 100,000 US dollars in cash, which was still stored in Song Ziwen's brother Song Ziliang earlier, and over the years, he made a little money, almost 110,000 US dollars.
In fact, he wanted to take his whole family, as well as Gu Jiatang and Wan Molin, who followed him to the United States, a total of 27 people. But when I asked, I learned that the passport fee was $150,000.
Who would have thought that a generation of tycoons who wanted to go to the United States would end up being stuck in passport fees.
In the two years in Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng's life seemed bleak, but it was not completely without good things. Just when he was preparing to go to the United States, Meng Xiaodong said lightly: If I follow, am I counting as a, or a girlfriend? ”
A word awakens the dreamer. Du Yuesheng is deeply in love with Meng Xiaodong and knows that her love road is bumpy, but she ignores gossip, takes care of herself, feels ashamed in her heart, and immediately decides to give her a formal name.
In the autumn of 1950, this year, Du Yuesheng was 62 years old, Meng Xiaodong was 42 years old, and the two of them held a wedding in Hong Kong. The wedding was not very solemn, and there were not many people attending the wedding except for the Kaidu family. We all had a meal together and took a few photos. Even so, Meng Xiaodong was very happy, and Du Yuesheng, who had been ill for a long time, also rarely showed a smile.
Although Meng Xiaodong always looked calm and self-assured in front of Du Yuesheng. However, it is actually quite lonely. Although she is famous, she has no children and no daughters, the only dependence, and her husband's health is getting worse and worse, and it is inevitable that she will be sad.
Du Yuesheng was ashamed of Meng Xiaodong and could only try his best to compensate. And the way he compensated was ordinary but warm, as long as she wanted to buy anything, want to eat, he would make people do it.
At the beginning of August 1951, Du Yuesheng knew that his limit was approaching, and in the last period of his life, he was most worried about his own affairs.
On the night of August 6, the Du family gathered together, which was an important moment for wills and the distribution of the inheritance, and the wives and children were inevitably nervous.
Du Yuesheng asked his most important and trusted protégé Lu Jingshi to read out his will. At this time, the property in Du Yuesheng's hand was the 110,000 US dollars that existed in Song Ziliang in the early years, and the people present were shocked, no one expected that Du Yuesheng, who had once been rich and spending money, only had such a little property.
So how is the $110,000 allocated?
In fact, some of Du Yuesheng's ideas are still relatively traditional, that is, they pay special attention to the eldest son. The eldest son, Du Weifan, likes to drink, and when he drinks, he makes a mistake, and is a Dou who can't be supported, and Du Yuesheng often scolds him.
Despite this, Du Yuesheng still favored the eldest son, and even shared more inheritance with the eldest son than other children.
From the dictation of Du Weishan, Du Yuesheng's younger son, it is known that in the will to distribute the property, Du Yuesheng's wives and eldest sons each received 10,000 US dollars, other sons each received thousands of US dollars, the married daughter had 4,000 US dollars, and the unmarried daughter received 6,000 US dollars.
Judging from this distribution, Du Yuesheng was not biased towards Meng Xiaodong and treated him equally with other wives. That's not all, though.
On August 10, a conscious Du Yuesheng and Lu Jingshi were talking, and suddenly felt a handkerchief from under the pillow, and inside it was bulging for $7,000. He asked Lu Jingshi to divide it for him.
Lu Jingshi asked how to divide?
Du Yuesheng sighed, "Speaking of which, only Mommy is the most bitter." Moreover, the third floor also has no copper in hand. ”
To explain, Du Yuesheng's children call Meng Xiaodong "Mommy" and call their biological mother Niangniang. Du Yuesheng will also follow her children and call Meng Xiaodong Mommy, just like her husband calls her children.
Therefore, Lu Jingshi divided the money into 3 parts, Meng Xiaodong divided 3,000 US dollars, and mrs. Sanfang and the eldest son each divided 2,000 yuan.
In the two inheritance distributions, Meng Xiaodong inherited a total of 13,000 US dollars, which is the largest inheritance among all the Du family. From the side, it can also be reflected that Du Yuesheng's love for Meng Xiaodong.
Du Yuesheng's love for Meng Xiaodong is not only reflected in the distribution of property, but also thinks of the pension problem in the second half of her life. He passed on du meixia, the daughter born to his wife Yao Yulan, to Meng Xiaodong.
I have to say that Du Yuesheng has feelings and righteousness for Meng Xiaodong.
Does Du Yuesheng really only have $110,000 in property?
Of course not, he can't take away the real estate in the mainland, but he still has a lot of IOUs in his hand. For example, one of the IOUs is five hundred gold bars, which is not the highest. There are many people in debt, from people in business to his protégés. If the children are allowed to lose face and ask for debts, they will certainly live a rich life.
Du Yuesheng on the sickbed asked his daughter Du Meiru to open the safe and take out an envelope from inside. There are many lists in the envelope, which are IOUs written by others who borrowed money.
Suddenly, Du Yuesheng tore up all those IOUs, and he said, "I don't want you to go around asking for debts after I die." ”
Du Yuesheng took the last thing in his life, looked back on his ups and downs of his life, and died without regrets.
On the afternoon of August 16, 1951, the 63-year-old Du Yuesheng swallowed his last breath and returned to dust. If there is anyone in the world who can't put it down, it should be the Meng Xiaodong he has loved for many years!