Speaking of the famous tyrant in Shanghai during the Republic of China period, I believe many people will think of Du Yuesheng, who is also a figure in Shanghai, who joined the Green Gang at the age of fourteen, and then with his outstanding courage, his outstanding ability became the leader of the Green Gang and was responsible for the casino business in the concession. The Green Gang made him, and he also pushed the Green Gang to a higher position.
Of course, taking charge of the casino did not satisfy Du Yuesheng's expanding ambitions, and he hooked up with the warlords and started a business selling opium. Although Du Yuesheng is from a mixed background, he usually pays great attention to his own image, at least in front of the public, he is very good at being a person, especially he respects famous scholars in Shanghai, and even the people of the white road respect him very much, and the people of the underworld do not dare to provoke him.
In 1927, Du Yuesheng secretly killed many leaders of the workers' movement, which won the favor of Lao Jiang, who established a friendly cooperative relationship with Lao Jiang, and later the Kuomintang established a government, and he also held an important position, although it was only a fictitious position and had no actual power, but his impression in the minds of the people deepened again, which was conducive to the development of his cause. However, it was precisely because he killed the new party members and joined the camp of the Kuomintang that his final fate was also doomed at this time.
Later, the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party ended with the victory of the Communist Party, and Du Yuesheng did not dare to stay in Shanghai anymore, and rushed to Hong Kong. It was not easy to start over in a strange place, and his days when he first went to Hong Kong were very depressed, and it could be said that he had fallen from the clouds to dust compared with his previous life. In fact, no one forced him to go to Hong Kong at that time, the mainland wanted to keep him, and Taiwan also wanted him to settle down, but he did not agree and decided to go to Hong Kong to start his new life.
Although he and old Chiang Kai-shek had cooperated before, but later Du Yuesheng had already figured out Chiang Kai-shek's personality, so if he went to live in Taiwan, the end might not be too good; although some people on the mainland had always let him stay and promised to treat him well, he was afraid that what awaited him would be death, especially later when he saw the scene of his former boss sweeping the streets, if he stayed on the mainland, he might not die, but there was no difference with Jin Rong's estimation, and after thinking twice, he still decided to settle in Hong Kong.
Du Yuesheng's physical condition is not very good, he is not familiar with the place of life when he first arrived in Hong Kong, there is no one around to take care of him, and his asthma is getting more and more serious. However, the prestige created on the mainland is still very useful, and some doctors see him for free, but there is no improvement. No matter what kind of medicine will be harmful to the body, taking a few months of medicine not only did not make his body better, but increased the burden on the body.
On August 16, 1951, he was too sick to get out of bed, he lay in bed to reflect on his life's experience, think about his own storm in Shanghai, and look at his relatives who were around at this time, Du Yuesheng could not help but shed tears. At this time, his body could not hold up, no one did not linger on his hometown, the fallen leaves did not return to the roots is the most regretted thing before he died, Du Yuesheng slowly closed his eyes before he died, leaving two sentences, "I will wear a long shirt and a horse coat after I die." "I don't have much hope anymore, but you still have hope, and China still has hope," the famous Du Yuesheng ended his brilliant and full of twists and turns.
Although Du Yuesheng did not have a very good life in Hong Kong, he also had moments of happiness. For him, he was with the people he liked, fulfilling a wish he had not fulfilled when he was in Shanghai. As early as in Shanghai, he had a good feeling for Meng Xiaodong, but Meng Xiaodong never promised him, and then he fell ill, and Meng Xiaodong had been by his side to thank him for his previous efforts, but it was not until Du Yuesheng reached his old age that Meng Xiaodong reluctantly agreed to marry him. Meng Xiaodong is also a woman with a legendary life experience, and she takes Du Yuesheng as the destination of her life, which can be seen that the relationship between the two is indeed not shallow.
Watching him rise from a tall building, watching him feast on guests, and watching his building collapse, these three sentences may be the best portrayal of Du Yuesheng's life.