When Du Yuesheng read the newspaper, he saw the photo of "Golden Rong Sweeping Street", and his face was gray and blue
In 1951, at the beginning of the founding of New China, Du Yuesheng, a "Shanghai tycoon" who fled to Hong Kong, was already in a bad year.
One day, he was reading the domestic newspaper as usual, his brows furrowed, and the people around him reminded him: "Sir, it is time to rest, look forward to it for a long time." But Du Yuesheng ignored it and turned the newspaper over.
Suddenly, a photograph came into view, and he suddenly turned pale, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out, followed by a violent coughing sound.
The people around him quickly patted his back, and when he looked at the newspaper, a picture of "Golden Rong Sweeping The Street" was placed in the most conspicuous place of the newspaper, and he was shocked in his heart, no wonder Mr. Li's face was gray and blue.
"Golden Rong Sweep Street"
Du Yuesheng waved his hand to let him out, wanting to be alone and quiet, he lay on the bed and thought about it.
Why did Jin Rong, who was also a "Shanghai tycoon" with Du Yuesheng, fall to the point of sweeping the streets? Why is Du Yuesheng's emotions so strong after seeing it? What is the fate of the last two?
Du Yuesheng and Jin Rong were associated
We all know that the three giants of Shanghai in the old Chinese period were Jin Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, the most famous of which was Du Yuesheng, but at the beginning, Du Yuesheng was just a miscellaneous person under Jin Rong.
At first, Jin Jinrong did not even know du Yuesheng, who could become the same character as Jin Rong, in addition to his own bold and meticulous personality and smooth attitude, he also had an inseparable relationship with a person.
This person was not a bystander, it was Lin Guisheng, the wife of Jin Rong at that time.
At the beginning, Lin Guisheng was engaged in the fireworks alley willow business, and at that time, Jin Rong was just a patrol in the French Concession in Shanghai.
However, Lin Guisheng still chose to marry him, dismissed the Qinglou women under his command, and left only a woman named Li Zhiqing as his personal maid.
It turned out that Lin Guisheng did not look at the wrong person, and Jin Rongxin was fierce and fierce, and soon became the only Chinese inspector general in the French Concession.
Golden Rong
Lin Guisheng helped Jin Rong create his own force, the Qing Gang, and with her connections when she opened the Qinglou, the qing gang's influence was getting bigger and bigger in Shanghai, and Jin Rong was also thriving in Shanghai.
Jin Rong handed over almost everything to Lin Guisheng, and he spent all day idle, entering the casino, smoking a big cigarette, visiting a brothel, and living a good and unhappy life.
At this time, Du Yuesheng, a teenager, was addicted to the hobby of gambling, and as soon as he had money, he went to the casino, lost several jobs for this, became a small, and did the work of stealing chickens and dogs on the dock with fox friends.
By chance, Du Yuesheng joined the "Green Gang" created by Lin Guisheng at that time, working as a miscellaneous worker in Jin Rong's home, with many years of experience, he felt that he must have a future for development here.
In the past few years that Du Yuesheng has been crawling and fighting on the rivers and lakes, he has long practiced the skills of shrewdness and ability, and knows how to please people: when Lin Guisheng is sick, he takes the initiative to take care of her carefully; when Lin Guisheng is in a bored mood, he takes the initiative to solve problems for her.
In the face of the attentive Du Yuesheng, Lin Guisheng did not take him seriously at first, nor did he take good care of him because of this. It was not until after the "loss of smoke and soil" incident that Lin Guisheng had the heart to cultivate Du Yuesheng and bring him to jin rong to do things.
Lin Guisheng
The "loss of smoke and soil" incident is probably: a bag of tobacco soil of the Green Gang was stolen by unknown people, and Du Yuesheng single-handedly recovered the lost smoke and soil and brought it to Lin Guisheng's face, which made Lin Guisheng attach importance to Du Yuesheng.
After Lin Guisheng recommended Du Yuesheng to Jin Rong, Jin Jin Rong also praised him, and later let Du Yuesheng follow everything. A few years later, Jin Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin started an opium business in Shanghai, and Du Yuesheng also made a fortune.
At that time, Jin Rong liked to listen to plays, especially a play by a woman named Lu Lanchun, as long as it was her play, Jin Rong would definitely win the scene and throw a lot of silver tickets.
One day, when Jin Jinrong listened to Lu Lanchun's play as usual, the audience did not know who it was, and became dissatisfied with Lu Lanchun's play, and loudly opened his mouth and scolded a few words. This makes Jin Rong, who is a fan of Lu Lanchun's drama, endure? As soon as he got angry, he immediately had to find someone to settle the account and teach the other party some lessons. He sent his bodyguard up and gave the people two slaps, and the beaten people saw that the golden glory was so powerful that they had to flee in ashes.
Originally thought that the person who was just beaten was just a brother in law, with The power of Jin Rong in Shanghai at that time, few people dared to find him in trouble.
Unfortunately, this time Jin Rong hit Lu Xiaojia, the eldest son of Zhejiang overseer and warlord Lu Yongxiang, and really kicked the hard board.
A few days later, Lu Xiaojia rushed into the box where Jin Rong was eating with more than a dozen bodyguards with pistols, which made Jin Rong cry every day and shouted that he had to follow Lu Xiaojia and the others.
Du Yuesheng, who got the news, immediately found Zhang Xiaolin, and the two personally went to the Lu mansion to apologize.
Lu Xiaojia was just trying to teach Jin Rong a lesson, and he didn't want to get too stiff with the Qing Gang, so he asked for 3 million taels of silver, and Du Yuesheng and Du Yuesheng could only offer it with both hands.
After being released, Jin Rong was grateful and immediately called Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin brothers.
Since then, the three have become the "Three Giants of Shanghai Beach".
Du Yuesheng fled to Hong Kong, and Jin Rong swept the streets in his later years
As their power grew in Shanghai, they organized the "Chinese Communist Progressive Association" in 1927, serving Chiang Kai-shek.
Why did the three of them have anything to do with Chiang Kai-shek? It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek had worshiped Jin Rong as a teacher in order to avoid a bunch of debts owed by business failures, and As the eldest brother, Jin Rong had already served Chiang Kai-shek, and the other two naturally followed.
Of course, the final results of the three people are somewhat poignant, Zhang Xiaolin was shot, Du Yueshengke died in Hong Kong, and Jin Rong fell to sweep the street, which is really a bit regrettable.
After the establishment of the National Government in Nanjing, Du Yuesheng successively served as an adviser to the General Headquarters of the Navy and a temporary adviser to the Public Directors of the French Concession in just ten years, which greatly improved his social status.
After the "Du Family Ancestral Hall" was built by his clients, the ceremony of "entering the ancestral hall with the Lord" was held on June 8, 1931, when famous people from all walks of life in Shanghai attended the banquet, and officials of all sizes came to congratulate him.
And Du Yuesheng's banquet for guests is several miles long, thousands of tables of banquets, all who come to congratulate Du Yuesheng, have a bite to eat, even if it is a beggar on the street.
The sound of silk and bamboo was incessant, the song ji danced, the scene was so huge that it lasted for two days, the cost was countless, but no one dared to say a word of luxury, and also sent various plaques, which laid the foundation for Du Yuesheng to organize the Heng Society later.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Du Yuesheng participated in the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Support Association, and also actively resisted Japan, and also sent important equipment to the front line, resolutely disagreeing with the enemy. But even this could not make up for the mistakes he had made in opposing our Party in order to help Chiang Kai-shek, and this became one of the important reasons for his escape to Hong Kong.
Du Yuesheng
Then why didn't he choose to flee to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek?
This also begins with 1948, when Chiang Kai-shek sent his son Chiang Ching-kuo to Shanghai to carry out market value reforms, requiring people to exchange legal tender for gold coupons, which made many people unhappy, including Du Yuesheng's third son, Du Weiping.
After Du Weiping was arrested, as the saying goes, "Don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face," and Jiang Chingguo looked at Du Yuesheng's face and should also open up to Du Weiping.
However, Chiang Ching-kuo knew that he was Du Yuesheng's third son, and whether he arrested Du Weiping for the crime of "speculation and dumping" must have been approved by his father Chiang Kai-shek, which made Du Yuesheng, who had always been clever, realize that something was wrong and thought that Chiang Kai-shek might want him to step down.
Du Yuesheng tried his best to save his son, but in the end he only won 6 months in prison, and after his son was released from prison, the family fled to Hong Kong.
Compared with Du Yuesheng, Jin Rong's life seems to be on the decline, he first divorced his wife and married Lu Lanchun, who sang opera, but although Jin Rong had a deep love for Lu Lanchun, Lu Lanchun still did not like it in the face of the old and ugly Jin Rong.
At the age of Lu Lan's spring wind, she did not want to serve the side of this old man all her life, so she fell in love with a man named Xue Heng and brought a green hat to Jin Rong.
She understood that she could not completely get out of Jin Rong, and if she did not get it, she would also involve her lover, so she designed to get the information of Jin Rong's crime, claiming that she would hand over the information without divorce, and Jin Rong had no other choice but to divorce.
At this time, Jin Rong remembered Lin Guisheng's good life, but he never had the face to see people anymore, and it was between Lu Lanchun and Lin Guisheng that he did not hesitate to offend Lin Guisheng and firmly chose Lu Lanchun.
Later, accompanying Jin Rong was Li Zhiqing, a young mane beside Lin Guisheng.
Originally, Li Zhiqing was promised to his adopted son as a daughter-in-law, but the adopted son died of illness at the age of 20, and Li Zhiqing did not dare to remarry, so he had to become a widow and live in the same room with Jin Rong. Over time, the two have become different.
Jin Rong left Lin Guisheng, and he did not have the freedom of the past, although he was still the bearer of the Shanghai boundary, he still did things carefully under Chiang Kai-shek.
When the People's Liberation Army was about to liberate Shanghai, Du Yuesheng asked him if he would go to Hong Kong together, but he refused.
So why didn't Jin Rong go to Hong Kong?
The tragic ending of Du Yuesheng and Jin Rong
When New China was liberated, Jin Rong was already more than 80 years old, he himself could not withstand the bumps, Chinese he paid attention to the roots of the fallen leaves, and Jin Rong also thought so, even if he died, he would die in the land of Shanghai.
Coupled with the fact that New China has just been founded, for Shanghai tycoons like Jin Jinrong, of course, including Du Yuesheng, who has fled to Hong Kong, the people's government still hopes that they can stay in Shanghai to stabilize order.
Since the people's government has such an idea, as long as they do not cause trouble and create rumors, they will not be held responsible, which makes Jin Rong more firm in his idea of staying in Shanghai.
At first, his life was indeed relatively moist, smoking a lot of cigarettes, playing with women, and he was comfortable, but although the people's government treated him leniently, the people could not forgive him for what he did, and there was a deep grudge with the masses, which made Jin Rong stay at home for a while.
However, hiding all the time is not a long-term solution, in order to calm the people's anger, Jin Rong must do something.
So, with the help of the government, he wrote a "Confession of Golden Glory" and published it in major newspapers.
Confessions of Gold Rong
He also listened to the government's advice to use the street sweep to prove to the people his determination not to do evil anymore, which led to the photo of "Golden Glory Sweeping the Street".
After sweeping the street for a few days, Jin Jinrong still returned to his residence, after all, he was more than 80 years old, and the government could not let him sweep the street for the rest of his life, just pretend.
The contents of this newspaper soon spread to Hong Kong, and naturally It was naturally read by Du Yuesheng.
Du Yuesheng did not believe that the Communist Party could ignore the previous accusations or Chiang Kai-shek's rhetoric, so he fled to Hong Kong, and in the past few years, he received threats or temptations from Chiang Kai-shek almost every once in a while.
This made Du Yuesheng begin to exhaust, his body was not as good as a day, and he also suffered from heart disease, and he knew that his life would soon be over. When he was considering whether he wanted to return to the mainland, it was at this time that the picture of "Golden Rong Sweeping Street" deeply stung his heart, and he originally wanted his eldest brother Jin Rong to come to Hong Kong with himself, but he refused, and now he has ended up like this, which is really sad.
I saw Jin Rong standing next to the empty garbage truck in the photo, clutching the broom with both hands, supporting his trembling body, and before he could start cleaning, he was already full of haggard face.
Du Yuesheng lay on the bed and began to gasp sharply, the people who had just gone out were not at ease, and ran back to look at each other, at a glance, they saw Du Yuesheng gulping down and wanting to breathe fresh air, the breathing was very bad, he immediately sent Du Yuesheng to the hospital.
Under the treatment of the doctor, the situation improved slightly, but soon a Shanghai newspaper came back. The newspaper read: The two brothers who had broken into society with him and organized the Communist Youth Congress had been shot for assassinating Communists when they were under Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
When this news came, Du Yuesheng gasped again, his breathing was fierce, it was very frightening, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, his face became more and more pale, and he fainted before he could breathe.
The crowd hurriedly invited the doctor to their home, but they were already exhausted, and they only said that they would not last long.
When Du Yuesheng woke up slowly, used his last strength to distribute the inheritance, destroyed the IOUs owed by others, and ordered his descendants not to collect debts, he closed his eyes, only 63 years old.
Two years later, the 85-year-old Jin Rong also closed his eyes.