Influenced by literary works such as film and television dramas in recent years, many Wenqing want to travel back to the Republican period, fantasizing that they can become talented and beautiful, leaving a romantic fairy tale.
However, in the real Republic of China, diligence or not does not matter, the most critical place is whether you can cast a good birth, if it is a family of high-ranking officials and nobles, it is indeed very romantic. If it is just an ordinary family, it is a pity, and whether it can survive depends entirely on luck.
Because it is very likely that even going to the toilet to pay taxes, having a love affair with a sweetheart will be buried alive by the warlord, or someone who inexplicably offends people will be put on a bag and thrown into the Huangpu River to feed the fish.
This feeding of fish was not to scare children, the Shanghai beach was mixed with fish and dragons, and there were foreigners in the concession as a blessing, resulting in chaos in public order, the underworld was rampant, and there was no perfect rule of law and household registration system at that time, so the gangs started to be unscrupulous.
At that time, there were three most famous people in the whole of Shanghai, and they were called the three tycoons of Shanghai Beach, and we often said that doing bad things would harm their children and grandchildren, so what happened to their descendants now?
The fortune of the three tycoons
The earliest and strongest of the three was Jin Jinrong, who at first was just a patrol in the French Concession in Shanghai, and rose to prominence by working hard for foreigners. Coupled with his flexibility in mind and good at using the power of foreign countries and gangs, he soon became a local hegemon, with thousands of disciples alone.
Among his many disciples, the most famous one was called Jiang Zhiqing, who later had a name that we are more familiar with- Chiang Kai-shek, and Du Yuesheng, one of the three tycoons, actually relied on him for his rise.
Du Yuesheng's childhood is more tragic, his parents died one after another before he was four years old, and he has experienced a lot of human cold and warmth, so he wants to get ahead more than the average person. Originally, he was just a fruit seller, but he was not willing to live such a life, so when he was 14 years old, he worshiped under the door of Chen Shichang, a big man of the Green Gang, and met Jin Rong through Chen Shichang, and then mainly followed Jin Rong.
Because Du Yuesheng was flexible in mind and did things authentically, he quickly gained the trust of Jin Rong, and his early experience made Du Yuesheng understand that everything still depended on himself, so he was also slowly expanding his power, and through collusion with warlords, opium trafficking, etc., he also developed into a giant.
Compared with these two, Zhang Xiaolin is considered a "foreigner".
Zhang Xiaolin was admitted to the Zhejiang Wubei Academy, and later worked as an errand boy in Hangzhou Yamen, which is considered to be a hegemon in Hangzhou. Originally mixed well in Hangzhou, because of a chance to get acquainted with Ji Yunqing, a big gangster in Shanghai, he decided to go to Shanghai to break in.
Zhang Xiaolin initially worshiped Fan Jincheng as an old man, thus gaining a foothold in the Qinggang, fighting for his own high level of martial arts, and gradually making a name for himself, and later became acquainted with Du Yuesheng, and the two of them were still plotting and fighting, and the partnership was excellent.
At first, Du Yuesheng was just a small leader when he fought with others, he was seriously injured and was thrown on the street, it was Zhang Xiaolin who rushed to carry him home, in order to treat Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin spent all his savings. So the relationship between the two is a lifelong friendship.
With Du Yuesheng's traction, Zhang Xiaolin and Jin Rong hooked up again, and since then, the "three tycoons of Shanghai Beach" have been assembled.
Jin Rong later did the next big thing - beat up Lu Xiaojia, the son of the warlord Lu Yongxiang, and as a result, Jin Rong himself was arrested, and after Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin repeatedly beat him, he escaped to heaven.
After this incident, Huang, Du, and Zhang had a higher level of feelings, worshiped as brothers, partnered in the operation of Sanxin Company, and basically controlled the "yellow gambling and drug" industry in Shanghai, and all three of them made a lot of money, but behind this there were countless people's blood and tears.
Shiren commented: "Golden Rong loves money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, Du Yuesheng will be a man", summing up the personalities of the three people in one sentence, all said that character determines fate, and in the end it is true.
The ending of the three tycoons
Jin Rong, who loves money, ultimately failed to keep the money
When the defeat of the Kuomintang was revealed, his daughter-in-law Li Zhiqing swept all the jewels of the Huang family and fled.
His life's savings were taken away, and Jin Rong's depression can be imagined, but he did so many evil things, and his later years were not very bad, because there were fixed industries such as the Golden Theater and the Rongjin Grand Theater, so there were still economic resources, and our party was indeed very lenient to him.
Even if the street was swept later, it only symbolized the willingness to accept the transformation, in fact, it was only swept for a few days, and Jin Jinrong did not go to prison, was not punished, and lived his life safely, and died of illness in his own Huang Mansion in 1953.
Zhang Xiaolin, who was good at fighting, was eventually shot and killed
Among the three, Zhang Xiaolin was the most undisciplined, and he and the guide Ji Yunqing smelled the same, and they all defected to the Japanese as traitors.
After the Japanese invasion, Zhang Xiaolin has been doing his best for the Japanese, sending people to other places to buy grain, cotton, coal, medicines, and other important materials for the Japanese army, forcibly lowering prices and even arming robberies. He also took the opportunity to recruit troops to expand his own power, and was appointed by the Wang puppet government as the governor of the puppet Zhejiang Province.
Because the influence was too bad, the military commander planned several assassinations against him, but he avoided them.
Finally, on August 14, 1940, the military command bought Zhang Xiaolin's personal bodyguard Lin Huaibu and shot him to death. should!
Du Yuesheng continued the point of being a man to the end
。 He was quite good at things in his early years, and whether others were lost or discouraged, his attitude was very good. For example, in the face of the former president Li Yuanhong, who has stepped down, Du Yuesheng has always treated him with courtesy and has also funded the assistance.
For this reason, Li Yuanhong's secretary general sent him a couplet: "Three thousand guests under the Chunshen Gate, five feet south of Xiaodu City." Directly put Du Yuesheng in the same position as the Warring States Chun Shenjun.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Du Yuesheng also made some contributions, so his reputation was much better than that of the other two brothers, but he still fled to Hong Kong because he did too many evil things and was afraid of being liquidated.
When he arrived in Hong Kong, there was no foundation, the former tycoon was no longer beautiful, and Du Yuesheng did one thing to show that he would be a man when he fled to Hong Kong. At that time, he had a whole box of IOUs, which were all the money he had lent out when he was brilliant, but he did not ask for it, but directly burned it.
Du Yuesheng has a very thorough view of people's hearts, without the original strength, whether he can come back depends on whether the other party is conscious, if he is conscious, there is no IOU will also be repaid, if you want to rely on the account, there is an IOU to no avail, but there will be multiple enemies. So it's better to burn things up.
He died two years before Jin Rong and died in Hong Kong in 1951.
Descendants of the Three Tycoons
The influence of parents on children is still very large,
Although Jin Rong lived to be 85 years old, he did not know whether he had done too much evil and had no biological heirs in his life. The daughter-in-law Li Zhiqing, who swept away his property, was actually just the wife of his adopted son, Huang Junpei.
Many of the many disciples who called him father when Jin Rong was brilliant, but later they rushed to expose him, and there were only a dozen disciples in front of his bed before his death, which was also quite lonely for Jin Rong.
Zhang Xiaolin also had only one biological son, Zhang Fayao, and both Zhang Xiangui and Zhang Zhongyao were adopted sons.
Zhang Fayao inherited his Lao Tzu's unlearned skills, once went to France to study, did not learn anything, and claimed to have obtained a doctorate in law after returning to China. Zhang Xiaolin tried his best to pull relations and gave Zhang Fayao to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek began to give back to the officials to let Zhang Fayao do it, but Zhang Fayao quickly revealed his stuffing and could not do anything well, so he was dismissed. Du Yuesheng saw that this was not the way to go, so he paid Zhang Fayao to set up a law firm. This still did not inspire Zhang Fayao, but let him become more intense and continue to spend the day and wine.
Later, Zhang Fayao became obsessed with opium, which was really harmful, and easily hollowed out his body, and eventually died in an alley that no one noticed. It is also ironic to say that opium was originally the business of Zhang Fayao's father and uncles, but in the end it took his life.
Therefore, Huang and Zhang, from the aspect of their own birth, are already extinct.
And Du Yuesheng has the most descendants, and the ending is also the best, perhaps this is also related to his ability to be a person. He married five wives in his lifetime, with a total of eight sons and three daughters (the eldest son Du Weifan and the third daughter Du Meijuan were not Du Yuesheng's own children).
The eldest son, Du Weifan, was engaged in finance and later worked as a researcher in the Banking Economic Research Office in Taiwan;
The second son, Du Weiyuan, entered politics and later served at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA;
The third son, Du Weiping, the fourth son, Du Weixin, and the seventh son, Du Weishan, have successively engaged in business, and have good business in Brazil, the United States, and Taiwan;
The fifth son, Du Weihan, and the sixth son, Du Weining, remained in Shanghai;
The eighth son, Du Weisong, is one of the more unfortunate ones, who died in Taiwan in 1965 at the age of 29;
The eldest daughter, Du Meiru, married the pilot In Taiwan to the pilot Ku Songmao, who later lived in Jordan and opened a Chinese restaurant in Amman, the capital of Jordan;
The second daughter Du Meixia married Jin Yuanji, the son of Jin Tingsun and the family was also very well-off, and later the family went to Taiwan to live;
The third daughter, Du Meijuan, was the adopted daughter of Meng Xiaodong, who followed Meng Xiaodong into the Du family and later married a Chinese-American official.
Compared with the huang and Zhang brothers, Du Yuesheng's descendants are really much better.
These three people are all special products of a special period, and they can also be regarded as real people, and I have read some articles over the years to blow these people up, which makes me wonder.
In any case, their rise was on the body of the Chinese, full of blood. Don't forget, behind their scenery are countless righteous soldiers who have been slaughtered and families who have been destroyed by opium!