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"Huang Jinrong actually swept the floor here." In 1951, an old sweeping man in his eighties appeared on the streets of Shanghai, and this old man was the gang leader Jin Rong who went to the beach. The reason why Jin Rong was able to "deign" to sweep the floor here was all due to Chen Yi's good means.
Even Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but praise when he heard about this: "It's really powerful!" "Then why did Huang Jinrong, as a figure of the storm, fall into the streets to sweep the floor? Let's take a look.
The birth of the first "tycoon" on the beach
Huang Jinrong was born in an ordinary family, and he could make a fortune by working his own. Huang Bingquan's father Wong Ping-kuen is a fast catcher, and his mother is a good wife and mother who is at home with her husband and godson. Later, his father was sent by Yamen to Shanghai, and at the age of 6, Jin Rong followed his parents from Yuyao, Zhejiang Province to Zhangjialang, Nanshi City, Shanghai. At that time, there were many people who were officials in the Qing Dynasty, and Jin Rong often dealt with these people and learned a lot of human feelings, which also laid the foundation for his later life of dominating the side.
In 1881, 14-year-old Huang Jinrong was playing in the yard when he suddenly saw his mother come in from outside the door with a panicked expression: "Stop playing, your father has passed away." "The golden glory sinks, the father is the main support for the family's livelihood, how will the father live without the mother? In order to make ends meet, Huang Jinrong's mother went around doing odd jobs, helping others with laundry, embroidering flowers, and so on. When the brothers and sisters of Huang Jinrong did not go to school, their mother sent them to work in a nearby temple so that they could eat together.
Since Jin Rong often went to and from the temple, everyone used to call him "monk". At that time, Shanghai was epidemic with infectious diseases, many people died because of this, although Jin Rong survived, but he had hemp skin, and many people called him "Ma Pi Jinrong" after that. In 1890, in order to maintain the tranquility of the Shanghai concession, the French consul in Shanghai decided to recruit 120 Chinese patrols. That day, Huang Jinrong was walking alone on the street hungry, and saw a group of people in front of him posting recruitment revelations, he stepped forward to inquire, learned about the recruitment of Chinese patrols, and immediately signed up.
The 22-year-old Jin Rong was strong and strong, and the people in the patrol room felt that he would definitely be able to do the job as soon as they saw it, and directly hired Jin Rong. This is the turning point of Jin Rong's life, and Jin Rong also cherishes this opportunity and works very hard behind the French patrol every day. Soon Huang Jinrong won the appreciation of his superiors, and was immediately promoted to a plainclothes policeman, the so-called plainclothes policeman is what people call "bag inquire".
After becoming a police officer, Jin Rong was assigned to work in the area of Sixteen Shops. Jin Rong took advantage of the opportunity to work here to form a gang and organized a group of ruffians to help him collect intelligence, relying on this intelligence Jin Rong to solve many cases. In order to continue to be promoted, Huang Jinrong returned the thief to shout to catch the thief, created a lot of fake cases, and then pretended to solve it, so as to achieve the purpose of promotion.
One day, Huang Jinrong received a report that the gold-lettered signboard of a shop had been stolen, and the boss cried anxiously. Jin Rong comforted: "Don't worry, I will definitely be able to find it for you." Jin Rong immediately gave an order to the little brother, and after a while, the little brother sent the golden signboard back. Since then, Huang Jinrong's reputation as a good case-solver has been completely beaten. Later, everyone learned that all this was a scam planned by Huang Jinrong himself.
Jin Rong's apprentices
As the number of cases solved by Jin Rong continues to increase, his medals are also increasing, and the officials are getting bigger and bigger, becoming the number one person in Shanghai. I think that when Jin Rong came to Shanghai, he was just a punk who couldn't get on the table, and he didn't even have the qualifications to join the local gang. After Jin Rong gradually developed, in order to seek better development, he went to worship Zhang Renkui of the Qing Gang as his master, and contributed to his future trip to the beach.
In the early 20s of the 20th century, Chiang Kai-shek was still a nobody. Chiang Kai-shek roamed around Shanghai like a headless fly, and in order to make ends meet, he and Zhou Junyan and others opened a securities trading institution in Shanghai, hoping to achieve the goal of great wealth. In the beginning, the stock exchange was really profitable.
But in 1921, a financial crisis broke out in Shanghai, and many financial exchanges failed. Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Junyan and others were forced to commit suicide by their creditors. Desperate, Chiang Kai-shek came to seek refuge under the Golden Rongmen. Huang Jinrong valued Chiang Kai-shek's courage and decided to take him as an apprentice. After Chiang Kai-shek's successful worship, Huang Jinrong took him to the banquet: "Chiang Zhiqing (Chiang Kai-shek) is now my apprentice, and any of you who want to ask him for an account, you can ask me for it in the future." ”
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek's creditors heard this, they knew that the money would definitely not be returned. These people immediately sold gold to Rong to save face: "Since the eldest brother has said so, Jiang Zhiqing and our debts will be written off, and everyone will be their own people in the future." From this incident, we can see how much influence Jin Rong had in Shanghai at that time, and he could force Chiang Kai-shek to want to commit suicide, and he could easily settle it with a single sentence.
In March 1927, Chiang Kai-shek had become commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. He personally came to the residence of Huang Jinrong and knelt down to perform the master-apprentice salute. Subsequently, Jin Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin and others actively responded and participated in the 412 coup d'état launched by Chiang Kai-shek. Huang Jinrong's residence was the main place of activity, and after the establishment of the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek gave Jin Rong an official position.
In addition to Chiang Kai-shek, Huang Jinrong also promoted Du Yuesheng. Among Huang Jinrong's many apprentices, he had the most complicated relationship with Du Yuesheng. Du Yuesheng's later influence directly surpassed him, and although the master and apprentice were jealous, they still relied on each other for the common good, and fought in the complex and changeable environment of Shanghai.
The end of the tycoon
When Shanghai was about to be liberated, Du Yuesheng left Shanghai for Hong Kong. Before Du Yuesheng left Shanghai, he had visited Huang Jinrong's house and persuaded him to go to Hong Kong together, but Huang Jinrong's attitude was more resolute and decided to stay in Shanghai. After Du Yuesheng went to Hong Kong, she was very depressed, had no friends and no circle, and could only stay at home every day, drink tea and listen to the radio. Soon after, Du Yuesheng suffered from neurasthenia and heart disease.
In 1951, Du Yuesheng unfortunately suffered a stroke that caused hemiplegia, and his family sent him to seek medical treatment, but he said: "I don't want to seek medical treatment, I have experienced hardship and displacement in my life, my spirit has been greatly stimulated, living is a torture for me, the sequelae of stroke are very difficult, don't let me live a life of the living dead." On August 7, 1951, Du Yuesheng distributed the inheritance. On August 10, Du Yuesheng was in a coma and soon lost her life characteristics.
In accordance with his will, his family brought his ashes back to Shanghai and buried them in his hometown in Gaoqiao, Pudong. Huang Jinrong did not choose to run around and still stayed in Shanghai. Previously, Chiang Kai-shek had also advised Jin Rong to hurry up and go to Hong Kong or Taiwan to avoid accidents. At this time, Huang Jinrong was 82 years old, and he said: "I am already a half-cut person who has entered the earth, I have been in Shanghai all my life, and I don't want to die and my bones will be in a foreign land." ”
Huang Jinrong still has something to give up in Shanghai, he mixed black and white in Shanghai, painstakingly operated the "big world" playground, and made the "big world" a beautiful landscape in Shanghai. In 1948, Huang Jinrong and Sassoon Yang signed a 10-year rent contract for "Great World". Huang Jinrong worries that once he leaves Shanghai one day, the "big world" he has worked so hard to run will become ownerless property, inherited only by his adopted son, or confiscated by the Communist Party.
In the early days of the liberation of Shanghai, Huang Jinrong also lived a stable life for a period of time, drinking tea and resting quietly at home without hearing about the world. The good times did not last long, and when the suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement began in 1951, the golden glory life was not so good, and the common people came to the golden rong gate to fight, let him get out and accept the criticism. Regarding Huang Guangrong's letters of criticism and complaints, the Public Security Bureau was almost overwhelmed, and the people begged the Public Security Bureau to help everyone take revenge.
Against this background, people who had previously worshiped under the Golden Rong Gate also began to oppose him, and they all moved closer to the Communist Party. Under all kinds of pressure, Huang Jin Rong published "Confessions of Huang Jin Rong" in Shanghai's "News News" and "Wen Wei Po", in which Huang Jin Rong admitted his mistakes, hoped to make up for his achievements, asked the party and the people for forgiveness, and would resolutely support the Communist Party in the future, and never become a historical sinner again.
The confession of the first tycoon in Shanghai Beach caused quite a stir. Huang Jinrong did what he said, actively responded to the government's call, obeyed Chen Yi's order, and went to the streets of the "Great World" to clean up and carry out labor reform. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked when he learned the news, and first admired Chen Yi's means of transforming people, and no one knew better than him what kind of stubborn person Huang Jin Rong was. Second, Chiang Kai-shek also admired that Jin Rong could afford to put it down and could put down his body to sweep the floor.
Not long after, this gangster boss who became famous in Shanghai, a "rogue tycoon" who went from a small gangster to a black and white all-take-all, suddenly had a high fever that did not subside, and died after a few days of fever, ending his legendary life of ups and downs at the age of 86.
epilogue
The fact that Jin Rong was able to be transformed by Chen Yi just shows that the Communists are far more capable than Chiang Kai-shek to rule the country and establish a new national order.
The fact that our party's ability to awaken people's consciousness is not ordinarily strong, and it is the luck of the country and the people to let such a party lead.