The Qing Gang is one of the most popular and far-reaching folk secret societies since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also one of the three major folk gangs in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the other two being the Hongmen and the Brotherhood of Elders. The Shanghai Green Gang once turned Shanghai Upside Down, and many people thought that the founders of the Shanghai Green Gang were Jin Jinrong and Du Yuesheng. In fact, no, the founder of the Shanghai Green Gang is a woman who even "Shanghai Emperor" Du Yuesheng has to pay tribute to her for three points, and Jin Jinrong is even more obedient to her.
This "big sister" is Jin Rong's original wife Lin Guisheng. In 1877, Lin Guisheng was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. When she grew up, she had both the weakness and beauty of a Jiangnan woman and the strength and shrewdness of a northern woman, and she was very experienced in the world. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she came to Shanghai to open the Qinglou, which was mostly Jiangnan women, and with her clever and capable wrists, she soon had a place in Shanghai.
At that time, Bai Zhaotuo, the French consul general in Shanghai, and Bai Er, the general director of the Public Directors Bureau, decided to recruit 120 Chinese to patrol in order to strengthen public order in the Shanghai concession. Jin Rong heard that he could eat and drink spicy food in the patrol room, and the future was bright, and he was not willing to be a small catcher in the county court, so he decided to try it. Unexpectedly, he was actually hired, and after entering the patrol house, he followed the French patrol every day and collected "land donation" and "house donation" from house to house. Jin Rong worked hard to "work", and soon got the appreciation of his superiors, was promoted to the sixteen shops, and also recruited a group of people of the three religions and nine streams.
One day, Jin Jinrong went to the Qinglou opened by Lin Guisheng to collect rent, was attracted by this beautiful female boss, and fell in love with her at first sight. In addition, both of them grew up in Suzhou, and they are considered fellow villagers, and the two are together. In this way, 23-year-old Lin Guisheng married Jin Rong, who was nine years older than himself.
After marriage, Lin Guisheng was not satisfied with the status quo, wanted to earn more money, and discussed with Jin Jinrong to use the Sixteen Shops as a base to openly accept disciples from all over Shanghai. The reason why sixteen shops were chosen was first, because this place was a "three-way zone", and second, because the husband was on an errand here and had a care, after all, "there are people in the DPRK who are good officials." At this time, Jin Rong found that his wife was not as simple as a qinglou boss, but a strong woman who was scheming and fierce. Who will be too much of the two things? Therefore, Jin Jinrong agreed to Lin Guisheng's proposal.
With the people he knew when he opened the Qinglou before, coupled with Lin Guisheng's shrewdness and strong ability, he soon had thousands of disciples. When she saw that the time was ripe, she set up the largest underworld gang in Shanghai Beach at that time, the Green Gang, and Jin Rong also obeyed his wife. Under her leadership, the Green Gang gradually grew. Later, Lin Guisheng had a child and gradually entrusted the affairs of the Green Gang to her husband, but she still had a very important position in the Green Gang.
With the passage of time, Lin Guisheng is also old and yellow, and the appearance of a person at this time makes her relationship with Jin Rong deteriorate. Among the golden rong protégés was a man named Zhang Shi, who had an adopted daughter named Lu Lanchun, who often came to the Huang Mansion to visit the door, and liked to listen to the drama like Jin Rong. Jin Rong fell in love with this 14-year-old woman who was born smart and clever, so he decided to let her perform on stage, and even did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to promote Lu Lanchun's debut. For a time, Lu Lanchun's reputation overwhelmed the "Little Jin Ling" and "Pink Chrysanthemum" in Shanghai at that time.
After Jin Rong held the red dew Chunlan, he wanted to take it for himself and make it his aunt's wife. However, he knew that Lin Guisheng would not easily agree, so he sent Du Yuesheng, whom she trusted very much, to lobby. After Lin Guisheng learned of this, he replied very crisply: "It is okay for Jin Rong to marry Lu Lanchun, unless he goes out by himself!" What Du Yuesheng did not expect was that Jin Jinrong really filed for divorce from his wife with hair, completely ignoring the fact that Lin Guisheng had made great contributions to his hair, gave his wife a large amount of living expenses as compensation, and then forced her to move out of the Huang Mansion, and Lu Lanchun became the righteous Mrs. Huang.
In this regard, Du Yuesheng was very dissatisfied with Jin Rong's behavior in his heart, and at the same time, he felt unfair about Lin Guisheng's encounter. However, less than three years after the marriage of Jin Rong and Lu Lanchun, who was in his 50s, Lu Lanchun fell in love with other people and eventually ended in divorce.
After Lin Guisheng and Jin Jinrong divorced, they lived alone in an old bungalow on Seymour Road in Shanghai. In 1981, Lin Guisheng died at the age of 104. When she died, there was no one around, who could have imagined that the founder of the Green Gang, who had been a temporary party, would be so miserable and emotional in his old age.