The story of "the farmer and the snake", I believe many people have heard, this story tells us that to help people first learn to distinguish between good and bad, and then use the right method, in order to keep themselves from harm, but also lashed out at those who will take revenge on the evil and help the wicked hypocrites, admonishing us to learn to distinguish between right and wrong, do not deal with bad people, because foxes will also cry, snakes also have times of distress, so this parable warns us that even if they are benevolent to the wicked, their nature will not change. Don't be soft on them.
In the period of the Republic of China, there was such a figure, who, with his own ability, climbed to a high position step by step, and finally forcibly "occupied" the family property of his old owner, resulting in the destruction of the family's last family, and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he was transformed from an opportunistic capitalist into a "pseudo-mayor of Shanghai", completely embarking on the road of no return of "traitorous country", he was a famous traitor -- Fu Xiao'an.
Fu Xiao'an was born in 1872, Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province, when he was 15 years old, he entered the Shanghai British Shipyard to work, because of the rough English, and everywhere flattered by foreign capitalists, Fu Xiao'an was very appreciated in the factory, in just 3 years was promoted to foreman, in charge of workers' wages and other things, in this way, he relied on the withholding of the workers' blood and sweat income, saved enough money, bought real estate in Pudong, for rental profits. Later, because of the house, Fu Xiao'an became acquainted with Yan Zijun, the son of yan Xiaofang, a real estate tycoon at the time, and became a "housekeeper" who also managed the real estate rental and sales business on behalf of the Yan family.
Later, Fu Xiao'an relied on his connections with foreigners and wealthy merchants in Shanghai to drill camps everywhere, make friends with powerful people, and eventually throw himself into the door of Sheng Xuanhuai, a prominent nobleman in the late Qing Dynasty. This Sheng Xuanhuai is not an ordinary person, he is a close henchman of Li Hongzhang, founded the country's first commercial bank, the Trade and Commerce Bank, and made full use of a huge amount of funds to speculate on real estate in Shanghai.
After Fu Xiao'an entered the Sheng family, because he was usually careful, waiting for the master, coupled with the kung fu of sneaking and patting horses, he was soon accepted by Sheng Xuanhuai as a "righteous son" and promoted to be the assistant of the Sheng family's general accounting office, participating in the management of the Sheng family's assets. After the Wuchang Uprising, in order to divert public sentiment, the Qing government announced that Sheng Xuanhuai would be dismissed from his post and would never be hired, and in order to escape the impending persecution, Sheng Xuanhuai urgently fled to Japan for refuge, which gave Fu Xiao'an a great opportunity. After the restoration of Shanghai, Fu Xiao'an flattered Chen Qimei and was appreciated, and finally leaned on Chen Qimei's "thigh", Fu Xiao'an claimed to be Sheng Xuanhuai's agent, temporarily managing the equity of Sheng's industries and Sheng's enterprises, giving the Sheng family a trick of "drawing salaries from the bottom of the pot".
Later, Sheng Xuanhuai fell ill and died, and the Sheng family fought hard in order to compete for the inheritance, but this group of people with wine bags and rice bags was Fu Xiao'an's opponent, and he used the method of gradual encroachment to seize part of the Sheng family's property, and finally used this wealth to suppress the old owner, resulting in the defeat of the Sheng family, and the Shanghainese at that time scolded Fu Xiao'an as a person who had forgotten the fish. Later, because Fu Xiao'an died to protect the Beiyang warlords, he was thrown out of the Commerce and Commerce Bank by the Nationalist government, and he was also arrested, and finally the wanted order was revoked under the intercession of Du Yuesheng and others.
After the Battle of Songhu, Shanghai fell into the hands of the enemy, and Fu Xiao'an was "invited" by Matsui Ishigen to serve as the "pseudo-mayor of Shanghai", which made Fu Xiao'an very happy, because it was his wish for many years to enter politics, and now that it has come true, he must be happy. After taking office, Fu Xiao'an proposed to the concession authorities that all households and shops in the concession should not fly the Kuomintang's blue sky and white sun flag, and should instead hang the five-color flag of the "pseudo-restoration government." This shows how servile and humble Fu Xiao'an is.
After Wang Jingwei announced his surrender to the Japanese Kou, the Japanese military department designated Jiangwan Chongguang Hall as Wang Jingwei's pavilion, and Fu Xiao'an was busy greeting his "new master" as a "pseudo-mayor of Shanghai". After the establishment of the "Wang puppet government", the "restoration government" nominally announced its dissolution, but there was no change in the staffing, and Fu Xiao'an was still the "pseudo-mayor of Shanghai". On the night of October 10, 1940, when Fu Xiao'an was asleep at the Hongkou official residence, he was killed with a kitchen knife by Zhu Shengyuan, who he considered to be the most trusted "two generations of righteous servants", ending his shameful life, perhaps he would not have dreamed that he had been calculating others all his life, but now he was calculated by his cronies, perhaps there was providence in the darkness!