657. Chapter 657 The Three Rogue Tycoons
A group of them walked on the street, ten men and women, He Zhixing, Yufang, Wuxin, Jiang Ni, Mei Xin, Liu Xiao and the three of them and Yun Lao, Li Hai, because the place where they lived was also on Nanjing Road in old Shanghai, they lived in a few courtyards enough to live in a large house for more than 100 people, except for He Zhixing and the ten of them came out, all the others were arranged to clean up and settle down at home.
They walked on Nanjing Road, old streets, old colored walls and distinctive Western-style high-rise buildings, etc., as well as wearing all kinds of people, traditional long shirts, new shirts, foreigners in Western clothes, all kinds of old foreign cars, rickshaws, bicycles, etc.
The pedestrians on the street are bustling and muttering, all kinds of shop signboards and flags are lined up one after another, and there are all kinds of street vendors shouting one after another, dicks, high rollers, street girls, big bosses, local tyrants, tycoons, bar escort girls, handsome men in robes, cheongsam beauties, etc., the streets are full of unique scenery, reflecting the unprecedented prosperity and advanced sense of this seaside city that never sleeps at night.
From Nanjing Road to Xiafei Road to Shili Yangchang, Alley, Paramount Gate, Guangming Cinema, Bund Baidu Bridge, etc., they watched while walking, rickshaws and sedan chairs have become a major feature here, and every road is the rickshaw and sedan chair drivers rushing to and fro.
They didn't take a rickshaw on behalf of the road, but walked slowly, rested when they were tired, and then ate, continued to walk after eating, and it took two or three days to finish shopping.
The number one Heng is Huang Jinrong, nicknamed Ma Pi Jin Rong, the word Jinyong, and the nickname Monk. In his early years, he was an apprentice in Shanghai, a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and in 1900, he worked as a patrol house in the French Concession of Shanghai, and later colluded with imperialists, bureaucrats and politicians to develop feudal gang forces, and became the largest leader of the Shanghai Youth Gang, with more than 1,000 disciples, manipulating opium trafficking, gambling and other criminal activities.
In 28 years, he was appointed by the veteran general as a junior senator of the civil government and a senator of the Executive Yuan, and there were two other rogue tycoons in the same period, namely Zhang, Du, Zhang Xiaolin, whose milk name was Ah Hu, formerly known as Xiaolin, and later changed his name to Yin, Cixi Zhuangqiao. In the twenty-third year of the Qing Dynasty, Guangxu moved to Hangzhou. In his early years, he was idle, brawling and causing trouble, and was in the company of hooligans and local ruffians. Later, he entered the martial arts academy to study and got acquainted with Zhang Zaiyang. At the beginning of the Republic of China, he got acquainted with Ji Yunqing, a hooligan in the British Concession in Shanghai, followed Ji to Shanghai, and later worshiped Fan Jincheng, the "big" character of the Shanghai Youth Gang, as an "old man", and Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng became brothers, and called the three tycoons. In 20 years, the three of them jointly opened the "Sanxin Company", sold opium, forced good people to become prostitutes, and ran rampant. In 27, when the April 12 coup d'état against × was held, he organized the "Chinese Communist Association", led the "death squad" to pretend to be workers, attacked the workers' pickets, and was appointed by the veteran general as an adviser to the Army, Navy and Air Force General and a major general of the Military Commission.
Du Yuesheng is the most famous figure in the Shanghai Youth Gang, originally known as Yuesheng, later renamed Yong, called Yuesheng, born in the Du family house in Gaoqiaonan, Pudong New Area, Shanghai. Before the age of four, his mother and father died one after another, and he was raised by his stepmother and uncle. At the age of fourteen, he went to Shanghai Sixteen Shops Hongyuansheng Fruit Store as an apprentice, and was in the company of gangsters day and night, and was addicted to gambling, and was soon expelled and transferred to Pan Yuansheng Fruit Store as a clerk. Later, worshiped the Qing Gang Chen Shichang as an old man. Chen Shichang is the gang leader in the area of Xiaodongmen, nicknamed "Signing Yu Fusheng", and belongs to the "Tong" generation in the Qing Gang, and Du Yuejing is ranked in the "Wu" generation in order. Due to the relationship between Chen Shichang and others, Du Yuexuan got the opportunity to enter the Golden Rong Mansion. He was clever and understanding, and soon won the appreciation of Huang Jinrong, the leader of the Chinese probe in the French Concession at that time and the leader of the underworld, and became his confidant, rising from a maid to an opium transporter, and was responsible for running one of the three major casinos in the French Concession - Gongxing Club.
Because of his ability to gang up and collude with warlords, he became one of the most powerful opium transporters. In July 25, under the protection of the concession and warlord authorities, Du Yuesheng established the "Sanxin Company" to monopolize the transportation of opium in the French Concession, and became one of the "three tycoons of Shanghai" together with Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin. In the same year, he served as the chairman of the General Federation of French Concession Chambers of Commerce and the supervisor of the Chinese Taxpayer Association. Among the three tycoons in Shanghai, there is a saying that "Huang Jinrong is greedy for money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, and Du Yuesheng can be a man".
Compared with Huang and Zhang Lai, Du Yuesheng is indeed smarter, he is good at coordinating the relationship between various factions in the underworld, good at handling the relationship with various factions of warlords, good at accumulating wealth, will disperse wealth, he through opium trafficking, gambling tables and other activities, a large amount of money amassed.
Then, with these ill-gotten gains, he enveloped all kinds of figures in society, from political dignitaries, literati and writers to gang backbones. Because he treated the ousted President Li Yuanhong well in Shanghai, Li Yuanhong's secretary general specially wrote a couplet: "Three cadres under the Chunshen Gate, five feet south of the city of Xiaodu." As a result, he was touted by his henchmen as the "contemporary Chun Shen Jun".
Du Yuesheng also did something to buy people's hearts. For many years, he bought potions to prevent infectious diseases, delivered them to his hometown in Pudong, and distributed them free of charge to each household. Whenever there is a disaster in Shanghai and nearby areas, he will definitely come forward to organize relief. He has the image of defending the interests of workers and mediating labor disputes.
He changed the traditional caftan and dressed in a short dozen, wearing a ring on his hand, and rolling up his sleeves, but dressed in a cheongsam in all seasons, giving people a gentle and elegant image. He is a vassal and elegant, and has made a wide range of celebrities, such as university scholar Zhang Taiyan, celebrity Yang Du, and famous lawyer Qin Liankui. As a result, Du Yuesheng's social status has been continuously improved.
In April 27, Du Yuesheng, Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin organized the Chinese Communist Association to act as a thug for Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the revolutionary movement. On the evening of April 11, he designed to deceive and kill Wang Shouhua, the leader of the Shanghai workers' movement, and then instructed ** to suppress the workers' pickets. He thus gained the support of Chiang Kai-shek.
After the establishment of the Nanjing government, he served as an adviser to the Army, Navy and Air Force Command, a major general of the Military Commission and a member of the Executive Yuan. In September of the same year, he was appointed as the interim consultant of the Board of Directors of the French Concession, and for 29 years, he was appointed as the director of the Board of Directors of the Public Concession, which was the highest position of the Chinese in the French Concession. In the same year, Du Yuesheng founded Zhonghui Bank and set foot in Shanghai's financial industry. By making friends with famous people in the financial industry, such as Xu Xinliu, Chen × Fu, and Tang Shoumin, his banking business is quite prosperous.
Since 30 years, Du Yuesheng bought 50 acres of land in his hometown, built a large number of buildings, built the Du family ancestral hall, and held the inauguration ceremony of the family worship and the ceremony of "serving the lord into the word" from June 8 to 10, 31 years. The honor guard had five cadres, starting from the Du Mansion in the French Concession, for several miles, patrolling and opening the way, and the drum music was shocking. Du Ci held a banquet for three days, and the table was dried every day. Plaques were presented by important figures of the party and state, including Chiang Kai-shek, Songhu garrison commander Xiong Shihui, and Shanghai Mayor Zhang Qun. The pomp and circumstance are huge, and the extravagance is huge, and it is very prosperous for a while.