Speaking of the old Shanghai at the beginning of the last century, the most impossible person to get around is Du Yuesheng, known as the Emperor of Shanghai, the first leader of China's gang, black and white can be eaten. He is polite on the surface, very moralistic, but fierce, for the tiger, there is nothing he can not do in Shanghai, his rich and legendary life, so far more than a hundred years, people still relish it.
Let's not say anything else, just to say that Du Yuesheng was traveling in that year, in that era, unlike now all the streets are cars, there is a bicycle is considered rich, go out to take a rickshaw even if it is a high-class enjoyment, if there are people with cars, are foreigners or non-rich and expensive people, Du Yuesheng has 9 cars, 18 drivers and assistants, and his license plate is 7777. You know, the four consecutive numbers of the Shanghai Beach license plates are even more decent people, such as 3333 is the Shanghai Beach Barrister Eusen, no. 4444 is won by Sheng Xuanhuai's four sons Sheng Laosi, and No. 5555 is won by Lawyer Jiang Yiping, Yu Qiaqing's son-in-law, and a good license plate needs twenty or thirty-two gold to get his hand.
Therefore, among the three tycoons in Shanghai Beach, it is said that the most famous, the most prestigious, the strongest, known as the "first person of the three hundred years of gangsters", however, such a gangster boss, his growth trajectory is very emotional, because his parents died in his early years, he was raised by relatives, and when he was a teenager, he went to Shanghai alone to work hard in order to make a living, and coincidentally entered the Qinggang, because the cleverness of the people was favored by some small leaders step by step, so he sat on the chair of the Qinggang boss.
Then, this fruit vendor to the gang boss, from small gangsters to big people, from hooligans to celebrities, was evaluated by Li Yuanhong: "Three thousand customers under the Chunshen Gate, five feet south of Xiaodu City." Du Yuesheng, who had cultivated Qu Eel into a dragon, what other outstanding skills did he have?
The most important point of Du Yuesheng's origins is that he has found an important patron, Dai Kasa, the head of the military command's secret service. It can be imagined that in the chaotic world of the Republic of China, the rogue leader of a place, the boss of the underworld, if it is in the eyes of a warlord with heavy troops and guns and cannons, it is nothing at all, and this point, Du Yuesheng's mentor Jin Rong was made gray and slippery by the warlord's son Lu Xiaojia, which touched him greatly, so finding Dai Kasa was the biggest bet of his life.
At that time, the little hooligan Dai Kasa, who did not mix his head, came to Shanghai Beach from his hometown in Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, with a dream, and has been practicing the unique skill of hand rolling dice, he likes to go to the casino to win thousands of dollars, and then tried repeatedly, but once he was caught, breaking the casino rules.
The casino horse boy wants to clean up Dai Kasa, he is very calm, claiming to meet the big boss of the casino, so he meets Du Yuesheng.
Du Yuesheng saw that Dai Kasa was not afraid, so he let him perform a thousand for himself, Dai Kasa was not humble, and put his skills out in full, Du Yuesheng saw that this young man had courage and knowledge, quite promising, so he let Dai Kasa a horse, and also married him as a brother.
Subsequently, Dai Kasa, who was not willing to live for a long time, decided to go south to Guangzhou and apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, and Du Yuesheng and Chiang Kai-shek were also old acquaintances, so they gave Dai Kasa 1,000 silver dollars, and Dai Kasa threw himself into Chiang Kai-shek's command from then on, single-handedly creating military unification and flying all the way to Huang Tengda. Dai Kasa knew that he took good care of Du Yuesheng in the later period, and became Du Yuesheng's biggest protective umbrella.
Du Yuesheng's daughter Du Meiru once recalled: "I saw him (Dai Kasa) trembling, his two eyes, the eyeballs are black and bright, as if you can see the back of my head at a glance, the killing is so heavy, people are very scared." He met with his father, and everyone in the family had to close the door, and we all had to stay in the house and not come out. ”
Du Meiru was born in 1930, born in a turbulent era, which was originally an unfortunate, but Du Meiru's fate was envied by the people of the time. Although she was born in a chaotic world, she was born in the Du family, as the eldest daughter of Du Yuesheng and yao Yulan, a famous Peking Opera singer, Du Meiruzhen can be described as a rich family with thousands of favors in one.
Du Meiru has been loved by her parents since she was a child and has never been wronged. It is worth noting that although Du Meiru was loved, she did not give up her studies. She began to receive an almost strict education from an early age, and it was this period of study experience that developed her strong character.
In the eyes of Du Yuesheng's child Du Meiru, his father is a big man and has never been afraid of anyone, but he is very afraid of Dai Kasa. In an interview, she specifically mentioned her impression when she first met Dai Kasa, feeling that Dai Kasa's eyes were terrifying, not angry and self-threatening, saying that Dai Kasa's "wei" was so big.
Dai Kasa is called "horse face" by others because of his long face and large mouth, and when others say that he looks like a horse, he is not only not angry, but also very happy.
The reason why Du Yuesheng was afraid of Dai Yuesheng was because of Dai Yuesheng's special status and prominent power, although on the surface he still had great respect for Du Yuesheng, but his special status and prominent power made Du Yuesheng also fear him for three points, no matter public or private affairs, Du Yuesheng did not dare to play tricks on Dai Yuesheng, especially after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, the military command's power expanded unprecedentedly.
Just when Du Yuesheng was at its most beautiful and comfortable, and his power was about to reach its peak, on March 17, 1946, Dai Kasa's plane accidentally crashed into the mountain and crashed, and Dai Kasa died in a crash. When the news came, he was stimulated, and his mental state became abnormal, and this moody and disfigured Shanghai beach gangster actually changed his face and almost collapsed.
His daughter Du Meiru recalled that her father looked very sad, and kept shouting "it's over, it's over", when my family lived on the seventh floor, my father was about to jump off the building when he opened the curtains, but fortunately he was stopped by his children, and he did not gradually recover until a few months later, but he no longer had the glory of the past.
When Dai Kasa went, Du Yuesheng's heart was extremely divided, a big tree fell like this, and his protective umbrella was completely gone, and he immediately felt isolated and helpless, smelling the breath of danger. Since then, the two black and white partners, each other as allies, the situation of mutual promotion has never returned, once the scenery was once beautiful, across the ten miles of ocean field, the day of dominating the beach is about to pass. So this is also an important reason why he is depressed and collapsed.
Subsequently, Du Yuesheng came to Hong Kong with his family and children, and two years later, in the summer of 1951, Du Yuesheng's health was getting worse and worse, and he was already terminally ill. There is no cure. On the afternoon of August 16, 63-year-old Du Yuesheng swallowed his last breath. He completed the journey of his life.
Her daughter Du Meiru later married an air force lieutenant colonel, and opened the first Chinese restaurant in Jordan, becoming the hostess, time flies, time to 2017, 87-year-old Du Meiru and his wife came to Du Yuesheng's early residence - Shanghai Du Mansion. She was surprised to find that the main entrance of the Du Mansion was engraved with the four characters of "Bamboo Bud Songmao", and Du Meiru could not help but sigh: the four words in this door actually contained the name of her husband Ku Songmao. It is really a coincidence that the book is not a book, and the two excitedly leave a group photo at the door.
It is not strange, after all, there are many movies and TV series that are dedicated to his life biography.
Everyone knows that Du Yuesheng is the "underground emperor" of the old Shanghai Beach, so how powerful was he at that time?
There is a saying in the financial world, Buffett stomps his feet, and Wall Street will "shake three times".
At that time, in Laoshang Beach, Du Yuesheng stomped a foot, and the entire Laoshang Beach had to "shake the mountain".
But Buffett started well, his father was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives at the time and a successful securities broker.
Du Yuesheng did not have much background, in the early years was a fruit seller, people sent nicknamed "fruit A four". But with such a birth, Du Yuesheng was still able to walk to the peak of life step by step.
Chairman Mao once said: In the feudal dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bang were the most powerful.
Why?
The reason is that they have a very low starting point and can achieve very high achievements.
Liu Bang was a small "civil servant", and Zhu Yuanzhang was a beggar.
Their success was tens of times more difficult than that of the founding emperors of other dynasties.
Du Yuesheng was the same, starting from a very low point, but he became one of the most powerful people in Lao Shang Beach.
How did he do it?
Let's take a look at a story that happened between him and Wang Yaqiao.
Wang Yaqiao believes that all of you are no strangers to your relatives, the axe gang leader of the old beach, and the assassination king during the Republic of China period.
If he lived in ancient times, it would be the second Jingke! Of course, the Jingke here is not the Jingke that hits the wild, but the Jingke in the Jingke that stabs qin.
In the field of assassination, Wang Yaqiao is professional, and this assassination technique is certainly not learned by the Nanxiang Technical Academy, and people are self-taught.
He assassinated many people, such as Li Hongzhang's grandson Li Guojie, and his death had a lot to do with Wang Yaqiao.
The general office of Shanghai China Merchants Bureau is called Zhao Tieqiao, although Li Guojie is the chairman, the power of China Merchants bureau is actually controlled by Zhao Tieqiao.
This Li Guojie is very dissatisfied!
Because he thinks that this China Merchants Bureau was founded by my grandfather, and now the person in power is not me, is there still a Wang Fa?
So Li Guojie found Wang Yaqiao and said that he was willing to exchange the largest freighter of China Merchants bureau for the head of Zhao Tieqiao.
This Wang Yaqiao was not something that could be invited by spending money, but this Zhao Tieqiao happened to be a traitor at that time, and Wang Yaqiao was already ready to kill Zhao Tieqiao.
So when Li Guojie found him, he immediately took over this job!
As soon as Wang Yaqiao struck, it was really Jesus who couldn't keep people, and the Axe Gang Leader was no joke.
On that day, Zhao Tieqiao had just walked out of the gate of the China Merchants Bureau, and he was shot several times and directly killed on the street.
Originally, this matter would have been over here, but when Wang Yaqiao sent an axe to help his younger brother to receive the freighter that Li Guojie promised to him, an accident occurred.
When the younger brother of the Axe Gang went to receive the freighter, Li Guojie handed over the freighter to the management of the Qinggang in advance, and the manager happened to be Zhang Yanling, the nephew of zhang Xiaolin, the leader of the Qinggang.
Zhang Xiaolin is an evil man on the beach, and some people have said: Golden Rongyin walks the world fiercely, Du Yuesheng relies on his brain to walk the world, and Zhang Xiaolin relies on viciousness to walk the world.
As Zhang Xiaolin's nephew, Zhang Yanling has always acted like this, seeing the axe gang people come to receive the freighter, and his temper immediately rises.
Even the boats of the Green Gang dare to collect!
Don't ask the reason, directly give me a discount on all the legs.
I had to give Zhang Yanling a thumbs up, and even dared to refuse to pay the labor fee for assassinating the great king Wang Yaqiao, is there still Wang Fa?
Don't look at the time when the Green Gang was the leader in Laoshang Beach, but the Axe Gang was not afraid of the Green Gang, especially Wang Yaqiao, everyone was out of the mix, you don't pay attention to the rules, then don't blame me for having no eyes on the axe.
The next day, Wang Yaqiao sent someone to drop a bomb in Zhang Xiaolin's house, blowing up a hole in Zhang Xiaolin's backyard.
But even so, Zhang Xiaolin's nephew Zhang Yanling was still blinded by money and still refused to hand over the freighter to the Axe Gang.
So Wang Yaqiao made a real move, gathered five hundred axe gang members, grabbed the axe and rushed to the freighter under Zhang Yanling's supervision.
It's really called cutting from the bow to the stern, the knife falling from the hand, the knife falling from the hand, and the eyes without blinking.
At this time, Zhang Yanling began to panic and immediately found Zhang Xiaolin, so Zhang Xiaolin, Du Yuesheng and the three tycoons of Golden Rong gathered together for a meeting.
Zhang Xiaolin proposed to fight back, saying that this Wang Yaqiao was not very good at assassination? Let's send someone to assassinate him!"
Compared with the assassination of the great king, I have to say that Zhang Xiaolin is still a very thoughtful person.
And Du Yuesheng believes that there should be no conflict with the Axe Gang, originally the two gangs would not violate the river water, and the Axe Gang were a group of deadly people who did not want to die.
As the saying goes: those who are barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes, and those who are horizontal are afraid of death.
Although the Green Gang is horizontal, the Axe Gang is a group of people who don't want to die, although there are many disciples in the Green Gang, but if Wang Yaqiao orders the heads of the three tycoons, then the three tycoons will die one or two tragically.
For Jin Rong, money and life are important to him, although he has great trust in Du Yuesheng, who can help him make money.
Thus Du Yuesheng said: One more friend like Wang Yaqiao is better than one more enemy like Wang Yaqiao, and a cargo ship is simply sprinkling water!
As a result, Jin Jinrong agreed to turn Gange into a jade warrior, and Du Yuesheng personally went to negotiate with Wang Yaqiao.
Du Yuesheng only brought two bodyguards with him to negotiate with Wang Yaqiao at that time, and after arriving at the dock, the two bodyguards stood far away, equivalent to going to Meet Wang Yaqiao alone.
At that time, Du Yuesheng was one of the three tycoons, rich and powerful, but still did not hide at home for his disciples to deal with, but went to the meeting alone.
Such a spirit made Wang Yaqiao very admirable, and after seeing Wang Yaqiao, the two did not pick up the freighter at the beginning, but all kinds of sea chats in the north of the South China Sea.
After the chat was closed, Du Yuesheng said that this was a small misunderstanding, and it was Li Guojie who did not inform the Green Gang, which caused a misunderstanding between the Green Gang and the Axe Gang.
Du Yuesheng gave way to the first step first, Wang Yaqiao naturally did not say more, after all, he was also a figure with money like dung, mainly because the younger brother in the front was injured, which led to the back of the weapon fight.
Du Yuesheng not only sent the freighter, but also brought 100,000 silver dollars to the injured Axe Gang brothers as a hard fee.
Things had reached this point, Wang Yaqiao naturally did not have any anger, so the two successfully reached an agreement, and the grudge between the Axe Gang and the Green Gang was written off.
But Li Guojie was not so lucky, he originally handed over the freighter to Wang Yaqiao and there was nothing wrong, and now it was equivalent to offending Wang Yaqiao's axe gang, and secretly posing the Green Gang together.
This unfortunate child has not only become an enemy of the Axe Gang, but also an enemy of the Green Gang.
A year later, like Wang Tieqiao, he was directly shot and killed in the street.
Of course, the story of Wang Yaqiao and Du Yuesheng is not over, although Wang Yaqiao and Du Yuesheng have stood on the opposite side in the freighter incident, but later Wang Yaqiao fell into distress, and Du Yuesheng also specially sent silver dollars to him to save him.
Someone asked: Wang Yaqiao didn't give the Qing Gang face at all, why did you still want to help him!
Du Yuesheng replied: Many of the people assassinated by Wang Yaqiao were traitors to China, and although I was a businessman, I had a patriotic heart.
After that, because Du Yuesheng's disciples opened a morphine factory, this disciple had a very dark heart, and there was an employee at the bottom who disobeyed, and as a result, he poisoned this employee. After Wang Yaqiao heard about it, he directly sent someone to assassinate the Qinggang disciple and sent a letter to Du Yuesheng. First of all, he told Du Yuesheng that he helped him clean up his disciples, and then he said that if he were not a fellow patriot, then Du Yuesheng's name must be on the assassination list.
This made Du Yuesheng cry and laugh.
Wang Yaqiao is a person who is notoriously unsympathetic in Laoshang Beach, but Du Yuesheng can still maintain a relationship of enemy and friend with Wang Yaqiao.
Why? The reason is that Du Yuesheng's emotional intelligence is too high.
Such high emotional intelligence was evident until his death.
On the last day of Du Yuesheng's life, he asked his family to take out the IOU box he had hidden, and instructed: Burn all these IOUs!
At that time, his family was confused!
His family knows that in these years, Du Yuesheng spent money like flowing water, not more than 100 million, there are tens of millions, many people look for Du Yuesheng to borrow money, often hit an IOU can directly take money and leave.
Wang Xinheng alone owed Du Yuesheng 500 gold bars.
Du Yuesheng saw the family's thoughts, so he said:
"Some of the people who borrowed my money, some of them wandered to the end of the world, some of them did not know whether their lives were unknown, I did not want to die after my death, you all became debt collectors, and these friendships I lived in were not good, and the good people who could remember me, when you were in difficulty, would reach out to help, and the people who could not remember, you go to chase debts, you may also invite the disaster of killing, the great grace is like a great vendetta, you must remember this truth!" 」
It can be seen that Du Yuesheng's success is not unreasonable, and until now some of his words still apply to this society.
1: Don't be afraid of being used by others, people use you to show that you are still useful.
2: Spending a penny to receive the effect of ten yuan, this is the ability to spend money.
3: Do things to do the knife to cut the tofu on both sides of the light.
4: The scolding is fake, the silver is real.
5: Heroes are not afraid of low birth, the key is to have a good brain.
6: There are three bowls of noodles that are the most difficult to eat: human noodles.
7: I must be sincere with a person, even if someone deceives me for a while, I can always touch him with sincere words and make him happy and sincere. My way of dealing with the world is all in one sincere word, you can only talk about making friends.
8: You were originally a carp, after 500 years of practice, you jumped through the dragon gate and became a dragon, and I was originally a loach, first cultivated for 1000 years to become a carp; then after 500 years of cultivation, you jumped the dragon gate, if the two of us fail together, then you are still a carp and I can become a loach, you say how can I not be cautious in doing things?
9: First-class people, have the ability, no temper; second-class people, have the ability, have a temper; the last class, no ability, big temper.
10: Don't do anything, leave room for it.
11: Gentleman I am not afraid, hair thief I do not mess with!
12: The quietest person in a group of people is often the most powerful.
13: Be careful to win the world, carelessly lose Jingzhou.
14: Man lives in the world by two things, courage and wisdom.
15: The icing on the cake is for others to do. I only do the stuff of charcoal in the snow.
16: When the money is used up, the friendship will not be eaten. So other people save money, I save friendships. No more money is saved than gold mountains and silver seas, and friendship is as difficult to use as heaven and earth!
17: A few more zeros on the monthly deposit discount does not count how much money you have, how much money you spend is how much money you have.
18: Think about yourself in the first half of the night, think about others in the second half of the night.
19: You can't be a hedgehog, you can't be a hedgehog without having a vendetta against someone, and no one can live with anyone for a lifetime.
20: Those who do not smoke and drink are selfish, and generally cannot be trusted for life! (Du admonished granddaughter)