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The short-lived Republic of China, although it only existed for 37 years, left countless popular figures commented on by posterity, and the place that was mentioned the most place names - non-Shanghai Beach.
Who does not know that there are the "three tycoons of Shanghai Beach" Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, who are famous for the three of them, there are not ten books but eight books.
Among the three, although Du Yuesheng has the greatest reputation, he has the earliest origin, the highest generation, and the oldest seniority is Jin Rong.
Because Du Yuesheng and Chiang Kai-shek, who had just come out to break into the rivers and lakes, also once had his protection, I think that Jin Rong should feel lucky, if it were not for the desperate Chiang Kai-shek to break the siege, take Chiang Kai-shek as an apprentice, and take the name of one of the three tycoons on the beach, I am afraid it would be difficult to keep.
At the most glorious time of his life, his disciples reached more than 10,000 people, and his influence spread throughout the country's industry and commerce, agriculture and mining, and cultural circles, and he was a proper big man.
Born in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, Jin Rong was in the middle of the Qing Dynasty's wind and candle years, before the age of 22 he suffered a lot, but this five-year-old and three-thick man's brain is extremely active, through the "black eat black", "one yard gram one yard" method, a group of hooligans and scammers to provide him with all kinds of intelligence, cracked some cases.
At the same time, he is very good at creating people for himself, and improves his prestige in the circle by "shouting to catch thieves".
Seeing that this big man was becoming more and more successful, the French patrol room took a fancy to him, made an exception and promoted him to the only Chinese inspector general of the police force, and also appointed 8 Vietnamese patrols to serve as bodyguards for him.
With foreign help and packaging themselves, over time, Jin Rong became famous in Shanghai, and everyone knew this big guy nicknamed "MaPi Jin Rong".
After the strength grew, the long-sighted Golden Rong looked at the time and worshiped Zhang Renkui, who was the "big" character of the Qing gang, as his teacher.
The Qinggang has the first 24 generations and the last 24 generations, the big character generation is in the first 24 generations, the Qinggang is also widely known now, and its fame in the Republic of China period in Shanghai beach is like today's Deyun Society.
On the beach gangster
It is said that behind a successful man is inseparable from a woman's advice, Guo Degang can not do without his wife Wang Hui, and the mysterious woman who has achieved golden glory is his wife - Lin Guisheng.
Fate was uncertain, and it was another woman who later made him walk off the "altar".
There has been little information about Lin Guisheng, and even a complete and clear photo of her has not been left, only that she appeared in the "fireworks room" of Yizhichun Street in the southern city of Shanghai.
This is a not very large brothel, and the owner behind the scenes is Lin Guisheng.
At that time, she was only in her early 20s, but she already had a lot of fame, this strong and beautiful woman, who was amazing in her way of dealing with the world.
Movie Shanghai Lin Guisheng plays Yuan Li
The story about them also began in the "fireworks room".
On that day, Jin Rong had just cracked a case about the interests of the French Concession, and in order to celebrate, he took his brother to Yizhichun Street, and was thinking about which yard to buy drunk, when a figure across the street slowly walked towards him.
Lin Guisheng only smiled at him slightly, but like a spring wind blowing a pool of spring water, messing up Jin Rong's heart, he couldn't help but follow Lin Guisheng to the "fireworks room".
It was this encounter between the two that began a half-life entanglement, and it was also this encounter that they began to fall in love.
After the two got married, Lin Guisheng sold the fireworks room and married Jin Rong, who was in his 30s, and began her years of prosperity.
She has the domineering spirit of a man, a strategy, and the meticulous mind of a woman, and the husband and wife work together to swear to win a place on the beach where the paper is drunk and gold.
Under Lin Guisheng's planning, a new gang was born - Sixteen Shops.
Jin Rong collected disciples from the Ten Mile Ocean Field, who kidnapped tickets for extortion, beat and killed, robbed and looted, traded military trumpets, and traveled through the three hundred and sixty lines on the beach.
And Lin Guisheng used the three religions and nine streams he met in the fireworks to help her husband expand his network, and the road between the two became wider and wider, and the disciples they received reached thousands of people, becoming the largest gang in Shanghai Beach at that time.
After this, Chiang Kai-shek, who was in a fledgling and cornered situation, was introduced by Yu Qiaqing, who had a high prestige in the business world, and found Jin Rong's door to seek refuge.
Later, he also specially chose an auspicious day of the zodiac, handed over a big red prayer post, and wrote:
"In front of The Old Master Huang's desk, Jiang Zhiqing, a protégé of the industry."
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was still called Jiang Zhiqing, and he officially worshiped Jin Rong as his teacher.
Since then, black and white have been golden for many years, disciples and grandchildren have spread all over Shanghai's various industries, whether it is warlords and politicians, drama dancers, patrol coachmen, and goons and wanderers.
Golden Glory, which has gathered countless sums of money, is at the peak of his life.
Unsurprisingly, after the 50-year-old Jin Rong, will be only 14 years old Lu Lanchun "love at first sight", this woman is his second wife, and from their acquaintance, Jin Rong fell from the altar of "the first tycoon of Shanghai Beach".
Lu Lanchun is the adopted daughter of Zhang Shi, a golden Rong protégé, this girl who loves to listen to drama, usually goes to the Huang Mansion, where Golden Rong lives, and after hearing about it, she will soon learn a few old life dramas and green clothes.
Bright-eyed girl, who is already chuchu and moving, coupled with a loud voice, sings a look, which makes Jin Rong, who is already more than 50 years old, very moved, and finally divorced his wife Lin Guisheng and let her be the wife of the main house.
For Bo Meiren to laugh, fulfill her dream of singing on the stage, Jin Rong even set up a stage for her, with a solid foundation, Lu Lanchun is still famous in Shanghai.
Beauty has never lacked suitors, this is not, lu Lanchun performed on the Rongji big stage, Zhejiang overseer, warlord Lu Yongxiang's eldest son, lu Xiaojia, who was known as one of the "four princes of Shanghai Beach", loved to listen to the play very much.
It just so happened that day that he saw Lu Lanchun's front-page headline from the newspaper, and this prodigal brother rushed to the Rongji Big Stage with Xiao Wei.
When the play did not begin, in order to pursue beauty, he asked his classmates to go backstage to send a diamond ring to Lu Lanchun, which means that he hopes that the two can spend the spring supper together after the play is over.
Lu Lanchun inadvertently refused.
Lu Lan Chun
After being rejected, Lu Gongzi was definitely not smooth, and it just so happened that on this day, Lu Lanchun accidentally sang a piece of drama away from the board, and Lu Gongzi, who seized the opportunity, coaxed under the stage and drank and poured the lottery.
Who would have thought that Jin Jinrong was sitting in the box with his bodyguard to watch a play at the moment, and after being disturbed by Yaxing, the table was patted, and he immediately sent someone to give Lu Xiaojia two big mouths to tell him to calm down.
After being beaten, Lu Gongzi left the table in anger because he only brought two small squatters who were outnumbered.
But, this vendetta, he wrote down!
He did not expect that these two slaps would make him fall off the "altar" from then on.
A few days later, Jin Rong brought 4 bodyguards to the Rong Ji Big Stage to listen to the play, and Lu Xiaojia took the opportunity to bring more than a dozen plainclothes Mimi to the main hall box where Huang Da Tycoon was located, held his head with a pistol, and escorted him to the Escort Military Embassy.
After buying off the relevant personnel, Grand Duke Lu set up his own court, verified his body, and made a look that made people press Jin Rong to the ground, kicking and beating, sticks and sticks, and poor Jin Rong, who was more than 50 years old, was beaten and fleshy, and begged for forgiveness.
Grand Duke Lu, who was not relieved enough, let out another wind noise, shouting that he would put the first tycoon of Shanghai Beach into a sack and sink into the Huangpu River.
Later, du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin came forward to open up the internal relations of the Lu Government, and spent another three million dollars to redeem the golden rong.
Jin Jinrong, as a big guy who has been on the beach for many years, is well known to people who have been beaten by a hairy boy, plus Du Yuesheng has long been quite prestigious, and there is such a big mess, how to sit on the chair of the first tycoon with a face, after all, people in mixed society want face the most.
Therefore, he had to give up the position of "Shanghai's first tycoon" and his power was greatly reduced from then on.
But the skinny camel was bigger than Ma, and Jin Jinrong was still one of the three tycoons by virtue of his friendship with Chairman Jiang in the past years.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, among the three tycoons, although he did not resolutely resist foreign enemies as Mr. Du Yuesheng, he did not openly deliver like Zhang Xiaolin and became a national thief. ，
After rejecting the invitation of the Japanese puppet government, he spent 8 years idle at home, waiting for the day of the liberation of Shanghai.
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan in 1949, Jin Jinrong was already 82 years old.
The Party Central Committee once had a clear policy on the gang figures in Shanghai, as long as they did not interfere with the social order after liberation, they would be at peace if they honestly accepted the transformation.
In 1951, at the request of the party, Jin Jinrong wrote a handwritten letter of repentance and claimed to have surrendered himself in the Confessions, and the news of atonement for his sins was a sensation.
Gold glory from white water
Then he received the order:
In the new era of society where everyone has to work, Jin Rong must also accept change, and in the case of physical possibility, I hope that he can go to the door of the "big world" in the morning to sweep the road.
Even if Jin Rong had all kinds of complaints, he also knew that the world had changed, and in the new China where the people were the masters of their own affairs, he finally appeared at the door of the "big world" with a broom.
In 1953, when the Shanghai Municipality attacked the remnants of Jin Rong again, he fell ill in panic, and a few days later, he had a high fever and soon closed his eyes at the age of 86.
Before he died, he called his adopted son Huang Yuantao to his home, and the old man who was cried in the wind and candles told his adopted son:
"All my life, the wind has swept away the leaves, leaving only the big world, but after the breath is cut off, the big world cannot belong to me."
This big man who came to the world in an indispensable way was finally the departure of the red stripe.
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