In the 1980s, "Shanghai Beach", which depicted the love affair of characters in the old Shanghai gang, premiered on TVB in Hong Kong, and once it was broadcast, the drama was enthusiastically sought after by a wide audience. The drama deeply touched many audiences with the story of revenge and the love between Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng, and while constantly creating a very high rating, it also influenced the creation of later Chinese film and television dramas, bringing out a boom in the filming of Republic of China dramas with the background of the old Shanghai gangster fights in the early Minchu.
As a good drama that has influenced generations, it can be said that many classic shots and classic images in the play have remained in the minds of the audience, such as the "Xu Wenqiang" shape like black hats, trench coats, and white gloves, and Ding Li, who has changed from a street gangster to an upper-class society, has left a deep impression on us. However, the TV series still has an element of interpretation, so is the story of the three tycoons of Shanghai Beach in history really as wonderful as the TV series? And the rogue tycoons who could become the heroes of the beach at that time, where are their descendants now?
Where are the descendants of the three tycoons of Shanghai Beach now? After one person died, the most famous descendants spread overseas
The "three tycoons" of the Shanghai Beach Youth Gang are the celebrities of the Republic of China period: Jin Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin and Du Yuesheng, these three urban tycoons formed the new rogue group with the strongest strength and the most extensive influence in the old Shanghai Beach. All three of them started small, until the later Shanghai Beach everyone knew that if someone wanted to put a foot in the old Shanghai Beach and share a piece of the pie, I am afraid it would not be easy. However, with the change of the world, the "three tycoons" eventually went to the end of the road, and looking at their ending, it was in stark contrast to the previous glory.
First of all, let's talk about Jin Rong, as the famous leader of the Green Gang in the old Shanghai Beach, his life can be described as quite legendary. Jin Rong did not love to read much since he was a child, and was especially good at interacting with the hooligans, and later he used the gang power to recruit disciples and become a local bully. Later, Jin Rong was not willing to be lonely, and after hearing that he could eat and drink and have a bright future when he entered the patrol house, he decided to try his luck and apply for the French Concession patrol. It was also after this that Jin Rong became a bad man and became a patrol of the French Concession in Shanghai. However, after Jin Rong entered the White Dao, he was also difficult to move, and he personally planned many illusions and used the method of thieves shouting to catch thieves to improve his prestige. Soon, Jin Rong was noticed by the Consul General of the French Concession and became the only Chinese Inspector General of the French Concession Police Force.
Since his promotion, Jin Rong has been even more ambitious and bold, becoming a famous "rogue tycoon" in Shanghai, and the common people dare not speak out. Perhaps because of this, although Jin Rong had a lot of affection in his life, he failed to leave a son and a half daughter, and heaven gave him infertility. In the end, Jin Rong had to choose to adopt, and the adopted child was called Huang Junpei. To say that Golden Rongdo likes this son? In the French Concession, the name of the Huang family's property Junpei Lilang is derived from his name. And this son did not have the style of his father, but Huang Junpei died young, and failed to leave a small grandson for Jin Rong. After Jin Rong was once beautiful but could not have children, this was miserable in the eyes of Chinese!
Compared with another tycoon of Jin Rong, Zhang Xiaolin, was short-lived, and Zhang Xiaolin was killed by his personal bodyguard at the Zhang Mansion on Shanghai's Hua Ge Zhen Road on August 14, 1940. It can be said that Zhang Xiaolin was a veritable traitor, and in his early years he sold opium and ran amok, known as the "three-color tycoon". After the fall of Shanghai, he defected to the enemy and treason for his own power, wantonly suppressed the anti-Japanese rescue activities, and made a fortune in the country. After Zhang Xiaolin's death, his own son Zhang Fayao had no ability, and could only use Lao Tzu's money to please people everywhere, first went to France for further study, but according to his nature, he did not learn anything, and when he returned, he did nothing, smoked opium, and finally made him not recognize ghosts or ghosts, and died tragically in the alley.
The last Du Yuesheng should be the most famous of the three, known among the three tycoons in Shanghai, "Gold Rong is greedy for money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, and Du Yuesheng will be a man". Compared with Huang Zhang and the two, Du Yuesheng is indeed superior, he is good at coordinating the relationship between the various factions of the underworld, good at handling the relationship with the warlords of various factions, good at accumulating wealth, and will scatter wealth. Du Yuesheng amassed a large amount of money through various channels to attract various figures in society. Because of his kindness to the deposed president Li Yuanhong in Shanghai, Li Yuanhong's secretary-general specially wrote a couplet: "Three cadres under the Chunshen Gate, five feet south of Xiaodu Cheng", and he has since been touted by his henchmen as "contemporary Chunshen Jun".
As the eldest of the three tycoons in Shanghai Beach, Du Yuesheng is also the most patriotic and human of the three, and the ending is completely different from the previous two, living a happy life with children and grandchildren around their knees. Although Du Yuesheng himself came from a humble background and started a family in the city, he attached great importance to education and treated literati with great respect, and at that time, the great Ru Zhang Taiyan was his good friend. He has always strictly demanded the children's academics, and strictly prohibited the bad habits such as smoking, gambling and prostitution. His favorite son, Du Weifan, avoided one exam, and he slapped his son several times in anger. If his daughter Du Mei did not do well in a foreign language test, he also beat him with a leather whip as a warning.
It can be said that under Du Yuesheng's education, his children have grown up with excellent results, all of whom have studied abroad and lived overseas. Du Yuesheng's eldest daughter, Du Meiru, has opened a restaurant overseas for a lifetime and now wants to return to Shanghai to spend her old age. The fourth son, Du Weixin, went to the United States to study, married an American wife, and finally stayed in the United States to carry out business activities. The youngest son, Du Weishan, now living in Canada, is a collector of cultural relics and has donated 180 ancient coins to Shanghai. In contrast, Du Yuesheng's descendants were full of halls, which made Jin Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin feel ashamed of themselves.
Du Yuesheng likes to be called "Mr. Du", he also founded a Zhengshi Middle School in the French Concession of Shanghai, and he personally served as the chairman; and spent 100,000 yuan in his hometown of Pudong to build the "Pudong Du's Library", attached to a school, so that other people who love to read can read the sages. Finally, we would like to say that Du Yuesheng is the most outstanding one among the "three tycoons in Shanghai". Especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as vice president of the Red Cross Society of China for many years and did some beneficial charitable deeds, especially when he was vice president around the time of the War of Resistance, he made great contributions to the rescue of wounded soldiers and the transportation of materials and the establishment of resistance troops.