Speaking of Du Yuesheng, everyone is not unfamiliar, he is the leader of the Youth Gang in modern Shanghai, China, and called the wind and rain in Shanghai during the Republic of China. His life can be described as legendary, so there are many film and television dramas based on him, and the famous director Feng Xiaogang also played Du Yuesheng in the movie "The Great Cause of The Founding of the People's Republic". As we all know, Du Yuesheng had 9 cars, 18 drivers and assistants, and more than a dozen personal bodyguards.
Today's cars have entered thousands of households, but in the Republic of China period, cars are a symbol of non-rich and expensive, let alone sitting, many ordinary people have not seen it, some have only heard of it. At that time, cars were a real luxury, and even foreigners doing business in Shanghai did not everyone had cars, and at that time, there were 9 cars in du mansions. Du Yuesheng usually rode buicks and cadillacs, and the other 7 cars were used by his subordinates, and the cars at that time had to be bought with gold and ocean.
In 1908, a hand-built car sold for $850 abroad, and by the twenties, an ordinary car cost about two or three hundred dollars due to assembly line production. Although it is cheaper abroad, after an ordinary car is imported into China, it takes about 10,000 oceans, and even second-hand cars need 7,000 or 8,000 oceans. In fact, at that time, there were also three, six, nine and so on, expensive forty or fifty thousand, cheap models usually more than ten thousand, so what was the concept of 10,000 oceans at that time?
During the Republic of China period, according to the research of the scholar Li Kaizhou, the living expenses of ordinary people a month were 10 yuan, and 1 yuan at that time could eat a big meal, see clearly, oh, not fast food, but a big meal, and the hard dishes of the big meal are usually beef steak, roast chicken, ham and other delicious dishes. At that time, 1 yuan could buy 44 kilograms of rice, more than 40 kilograms of rice, enough for ordinary families to eat for a month, right? At that time, the annual income of ordinary people was more than 100 yuan, a small car of ten thousand yuan, and the people had to eat or drink for a lifetime.
An ordinary car is enough to make an ordinary person struggle for a lifetime, and Du Yuesheng at that time had 9 cars, and they were all Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and other large-displacement luxury cars, although there were thousands of cars in Shanghai during the Republic of China, but there were only a few people who had 9 at the same time. Due to the great cause of Du Yuesheng's family, the annual expenditure of Du Mansion is 2 million oceans.