In the 1920s and 1930s, the world situation was complicated, shanghai was full of storms, dark tides were surging and the society was impenetrable, and small people could also be transformed into big people with a name that shook the rivers and lakes.
Just like the "Shanghai Beach" that is constantly remade by major film and television dramas, Xu Wenqiang is a hero in the hearts of countless people and a miracle of resisting fate.
And Xu Wenqiang's prototype Du Yuesheng, even broke into the beach at the age of 14, from an apprentice in a fruit shop, a pork shop worker, to a street gangster, and finally became a Shanghai green gang tycoon, with unlimited scenery.
Perhaps because he is a small person, from the bottom of the society step by step to climb up, so after the success of Du Yuesheng especially like to make a good relationship, and constantly recruit talents, so he has cultivated many small people.
The little person I want to talk about today from the bottom is Ye Zhuoshan, one of Du Yuesheng's four gate gods, who was originally a coachman, and after throwing himself into Du Yuesheng's door, he walked in the clouds and soared upwards.
It is just that the helplessness of its own restraint is insufficient, and the helplessness eventually falls in the old age, and the poverty is so poor that there is no money for burial.
So how was Ye Zhuoshan appreciated by Du Yuesheng, and what happened to make his situation change drastically, and has since plummeted?
The rickshaw driver's counterattack
Rickshaws play a pivotal role in the history of Shanghai Beach, and many stories are related to rickshaw drivers, who are a group of people who have witnessed the historical development of Shanghai, and Ye Zhuoshan is such a coachman.
At first, the wives and ladies of the rich and noble families went out in rickshaws, and their business was OK, and it was more than enough to meet the basic life.
However, with the arrival of foreigners, cars have become a fashionable product in Shanghai, and many rich families are proud to pursue cars.
Gradually, rickshaws become more and more lonely, and the business of rickshaw drivers becomes worse and worse, and it becomes a difficult thing for them to support their families.
In this case, Ye Zhuoshan's life is not good, fortunately, Ye Zhuoshan is very clever, and he especially likes new things.
Seeing that cars were very popular with dignitaries and nobles, Ye Zhuoshan immediately went to learn driving skills, and soon learned to drive a car, so he became a driver from a rickshaw driver.
Because at this time on the beach, the driver is very tight, and the car is a high society to have capital to use things, so the driver profession is also one of the important ways to the upper class.
Sure enough, after becoming a driver, Ye Zhuoshan had more opportunities to contact rich people's families, Ye Zhuoshan first worked as a driver at the US consulate, and later went to the mansion of Cheng Linsheng, a wealthy Shanghai man at the time, as a driver.
After a coincidence, Ye Zhuoshan met Du Yuesheng.
Fame and fortune
After knowing Du Yuesheng, the talented and intelligent Ye Zhuoshan understood that only by doing his job faithfully could he get Du Yuesheng's appreciation.
Du Yuesheng, as a jianghu person, has a special love for people with kung fu, and it just so happens that Ye Zhuoshan is a person who understands martial arts.
Maybe when he was a rickshaw driver, in order to strengthen his body and prevent fire and theft, or maybe he was born to like, Ye Zhuoshan has always insisted on practicing kung fu and often practicing boxing.
Therefore, when fate sent Ye Zhuoshan to Du Yuesheng's door, Ye Zhuoshan, who had beaten other disciples to the ground with his kung fu, suddenly stood out and stood out from the crowd.
Du Yuesheng has hundreds of disciples, and there are not a few who are good at fist and foot kung fu, and Ye Zhuoshan's kung fu can be seen in the ability to defeat these fierce characters.
It is said that Ye Zhuoshan can be valued by Du Yuesheng, in addition to his good martial arts, the more important point is that he is good at marksmanship.
In the era of cold weapons, hand-to-hand combat is the key to victory, but when the artillery fire of foreigners comes, new weapons such as pistols take lives only in one second, so who can master new weapons can be valued.
Ye Zhuoshan, who was good at research, thought very thoroughly about the use of the pistol, and the marksmanship was very good, it is said that he can hit darts on ships that are adrift in the water, and he can shoot square holes in copper coins from a hundred steps away.
In this way, with a good martial art and a good marksmanship, Ye Zhuoshan was favored by Du Yuesheng, so Du Yuesheng successively entrusted him with some important and difficult and tricky tasks.
Ye Zhuoshan was always able to complete the tasks entrusted to him well, coupled with his dedication to duty, his mouth was very tight, and he never revealed anything to the outside world, so he won du Yuesheng's trust and gradually became Du Yuesheng's confidant and became one of the four gate gods of the Green Gang.
In this way, Ye Zhuoshan changed from a rickshaw driver who sold his coolies to maintain his life to a big figure in the Shanghai Youth Gang who "under one person is above ten thousand people", and he completed the counterattack of life with his own hard work.
Gambling is a life-threatening one
After becoming a red person around Du Yuesheng, Ye Zhuoshan had a good shade under the big tree, and followed Du Yuesheng to make a lot of money in the gray industry.
However, unlike others, Ye Zhuoshan did not seem to be greedy and did not take the opportunity to develop his own industry.
For the fashionable dance hall theater at that time, Ye Zhuoshan did not set foot in it, but opened a horse farm purely out of personal preference.
In terms of recruiting disciples and developing and expanding his own personal power, Ye Zhuoshan was not very attentive, and he only had a few younger brothers, unlike others who were surrounded by the front and back of the house.
It can be said that Ye Zhuoshan is a down-to-earth person who does not seek fame and fortune, but he has a harmful hobby, that is, gambling.
Ye Zhuoshan loves gambling very much, and every time he gambles, he is also very ritualistic, and to wipe all the tables and chairs, he must wipe them clean.
After taking a seat, you must flatten your clothes, do not have a little wrinkle, and after all the work is done, you can start playing cards formally.
It is really in response to the old saying, "Those who come out of the mix always have to pay back." "At the top of his life, Ye Zhuoshan's own swelling was so strong that he gambled like a fate, indulged in the casino every day, and threw thousands of dollars.
Ye Zhuoshan, who had completely fallen into it, thought that he would eventually return to his roots, and he still had a lot of chances to win.
However, as Du Yuesheng fled shanghai for Hong Kong, the Green Gang tree fell and scattered, and Ye Zhuoshan, who had his back to Du Yuesheng, also had no chance to turn the book.
He always scattered all his family wealth, and the last one was destitute, and in his later years he was poor, and it was said that he did not even have money to leave behind to run a funeral after death.