Du S's ability to recognize people: Becoming sworn friends with casino punk Dai Li on the spot.

Du Renren's skill: On the spot, he became sworn with Dai Li, a casino gangster.

192 1 years ago, Dai Li was just a gangster in a casino in Shanghai. Once, he played dice in a casino in Du Yuesheng, and his skill was superb, which led to a lot of bleeding in the casino. Casino watchers want to teach him a lesson. So, Dai Li named Du. Du met Dai Li and asked him to perform. After reading it, I was full of praise for Dai Li's stunts, and thought that his mind and wrist were so flexible that they were unparalleled. So he became sworn on the spot, commensurate with his brother. Dai Li, who later became the head of the military spy, was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted confidant.

June 9th is a big day in old Shanghai. On this day, the inauguration ceremony of the ancestral temple of Du Du, a famous Shanghai person, caused a sensation in Shanghai. According to the records in the newspaper at that time, at six o'clock in the morning in 9o, six honor guards set out from Du Fu's mansion and traveled for several miles. When the guard of honor crossed the river, it actually squeezed more than a dozen people into the river. At the ceremony, not only Chiang Kai-shek personally sent the big filial plaque, but also important people from all walks of life in Nanjing and Shanghai were present. What a beautiful scenery! How ostentatious!

After 80 years, the Dujia ancestral hall has gone through the changes of the times and the scenery is no longer there. This area has become a military restricted area, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter. Only Luo, who is lush in the ancestral hall, vaguely remembers the days when Du family was in Shanghai.

A gangster who can be a man.

At the inauguration ceremony of Dujia Ancestral Temple, Zhang Taiyan, a master of ancient Chinese literature, read the Dujia Ancestral Temple in Gao Qiao. At the beginning of the article, I said: DUZH teacher Yao Di is very tired in summer, and Zhou Feng's name is Du Bo. The brilliance of Zhang Yan's pen and ink can be traced back to Du Zu's return to Yao. I want to know how Du felt at that time. In fact, the old Shanghainese all know that Du was born in poverty and lived in the Du family in the south of Gao Qiao Town, Pudong. His grandfather is gone, and his father Du Wenqing worked as a waiter in a teahouse in Gao Qiao town for many years. 1888, this precious son was born. Because it was born on July 15 of the old calendar, it was named Yuesheng. Later renamed Yong, hence the name.

Du Yuesheng lost his mother at the age of 4 and his father died at the age of 6. Du dropped out of school after only half a year's schooling. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, he came to Shilipu with a small bag on his back. There, he first worked as a clerk in a fruit shop, and he learned how to peel pears. He also got the nickname Laiyang pear. However, Du is not an honest shop assistant. He hangs out with hooligans all day and is addicted to gambling. Later, he worshipped Chen Shichang of green gang as an old man and officially entered green gang.

The qualifications in green gang are very low, but Du is not. I can't get anything from him. However, Du knows how to repay kindness. After raising him, he developed himself. Chen Shichang has a very black sheep son. Once, he and others ran a bank in a mess, and the creditors were anxious. I have to ask Du to help him. Without saying anything, Du remitted 25,000 yuan to. In this way, without these 25,000 oceans, it won't take long to disappear. Du gave another 20 thousand yuan, which was quickly spent. I have no face to see Du's house.

Du Zaiqing's rapid rise depends on Huang. When Du took refuge in Huang Mansion, he was only 19 years old, and Huang, who was more than 20 years older than him, was already a famous figure in Shanghai. At that time, Huang was an inspector of the French Concession, and his influence was not only in Shanghai, but also in many places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. With the expressive force and flexibility he learned from society, Du won Huang's appreciation and became his confidant, and soon took charge of the Gongxing Club, one of the three major casinos in the French Concession. By 1925, Du and Huang jointly established Sanxin Company, which monopolized the opium sales in Shanghai and became the largest opium trading company in Shanghai.

192 1 years ago, Dai Li was just a gangster in a casino in Shanghai. Once, he played dice in a casino in Du Yuesheng, and his skill was superb, which led to a lot of bleeding in the casino. Casino watchers want to teach him a lesson. So, Dai Li named Du. Du met Dai Li and asked him to perform. After reading it, I was full of praise for Dai Li's stunts, and thought that his mind and wrist were so flexible that they were unparalleled. So he became sworn on the spot, commensurate with his brother. Dai Li, who later became the head of the military spy, was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted confidant.

A feud with the Chiang family dynasty

Du China's most important friend is Chiang Kai-shek. 1in April, 927, Du Fu, Huang and others organized the Democratic Progressive Party to act as thugs of Chiang Kai-shek, and the United States suppressed the revolutionary movement. On the evening of April 1 1, he designed and buried the Wang Shouhua Movement, a Shanghai worker leader, alive, and then ordered the hooligans to suppress the workers' pickets. Therefore, he won the trust of Chiang Kai-shek. With the support of Chiang Kai-shek in the United States, Du, who was 40 years old at 1928, had many prominent titles: Chinese director of the French Concession Bureau, member of the supervisory committee of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, chairman of Shanghai Zhonghui Bank and Donghui Bank, chairman of China Commercial Bank, chairman of Huafeng Paper Company and so on.

To be a man, you must first know how to judge people. The relationship with Du is someone Du can know. 192 1 years ago, Dai Li was just a gangster in a casino in Shanghai. Once, he played dice in a casino in Du Yuesheng, and his skill was superb, which led to a lot of bleeding in the casino. Casino watchers want to teach him a lesson. So, Dai Li named Du. Du met Dai Li and asked him to perform. After reading it, I was full of praise for Dai Li's stunts, and thought that his mind and wrist were so flexible that they were unparalleled. So he became sworn on the spot, commensurate with his brother. Dai Li, who later became the head of the military spy, was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted confidant. Du's development largely benefited from his special relationship with Dai Li.

However, Du himself is courageous. 1931On July 23rd, The New York Times published a news that the bullet didn't hit Song Ziwen. The newspaper quoted Song Ziwen, then Minister of Finance of the National Government, as saying: I was walking out of the station, about 15 feet away from the exit, and suddenly someone shot at me from both sides at the same time. The secretary next to me was shot in the abdomen, hip and arm. Strangely, I didn't. Don't hurt a hair. Obviously, this was to scare people, and Du was behind the shooting. The reason is that not long ago, Du had a deal with the Ministry of Finance, and he paid 6 million yuan for it. Later, he wanted his money back, but Song Ziwen gave him 6 million yuan in bonds. So there was a shooting scene. After discovering the truth, Song Ziwen quickly converted public bonds into cash.

Do good, but also be sure.

On the other hand, Du is a staunch nationalist and generous philanthropist. During the Anti-Japanese War between Songhu and Shanghai, Du received and resettled a large number of refugees, and sent groups of students and citizens to the rear area through his disciples. After the fall of Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek put forward a plan to block the Yangtze River in order to prevent the Japanese navy from crossing the river. Du took the lead in instructing his Dada shipping company to drive several boats to the river and sink. Other shipping companies also responded, digging boats and sinking rivers, blocking the channel and delaying the Japanese attack.

1937 After the fall of Shanghai, Du spared no expense to buy a number of progressive books such as Red Star over China and Complete Works of Lu Xun, which were managed to be published by the Chinese Communist Party. The gold-lettered edition donated by Du was presented to the major libraries in the concession. At the same time, he rejected the Japanese and moved to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, he used his gang connections to engage in activities such as intelligence and plotting to assassinate traitors. One of the most famous is that his disciples in Shanghai helped military spies hack to death the great traitor and the pseudo-Shanghai mayor Fu Xiaoan. His sworn brother Zhang Xiaolin, who defected to the enemy, was shot dead by a guard. It is said that he and Du are also related.

1937 10 At the request of Pan Hannian, director of the Shanghai Eighth Route Army Office, Du, then chairman of the Shanghai Anti-Enemy Support Association, donated 1000 sets of gas masks imported from the Netherlands to the Eighth Route Army soldiers at the front line in northern Shaanxi to show his cooperative attitude towards * * *. 1946 When there was a flood in northern Jiangsu, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Executive Yuan to try to help the refugees in northern Jiangsu stabilize the Kuomintang-ruled areas. Du accepted the task of 2 billion disaster relief funds without hesitation. So Du and his disciples planned the sensational Miss Shanghai election. Most of the beautiful women who participated in the election were very popular cabaret artists in Shanghai. The result was a great success, with a total donation of 400 million French francs.

1May, 949, before the liberation of Shanghai, Du fled to Hong Kong. Because he is not here, I don't want to go to Taiwan Province Province, and I don't want to stay in the mainland. However, according to Du's eldest daughter, when Du was seriously ill, the Prime Minister sent a message to him to return to the mainland. I remember that one day, two people came to his home, and Du Rang, editor-in-chief of Hong Kong News who intended to return to China, wrote back to the mainland. As a result, Mr. Qian drank a bottle and a half of whisky that day, wrote letters to the mainland and Chiang Kai-shek at the same time, and drunkenly put the wrong envelope. As a result, it is conceivable that Chiang Kai-shek was very angry after seeing it, and Du became two different people.

When talking about the evaluation of Du, Wang Chaoguang, director of the Republic of China History Research Office of China Academy of Social Sciences, said: Du is a complicated historical figure. He started from a gang and has a black or evil side, but he supports the war of resistance, so he has a white or positive side. Historical evaluation should be realistic. Negative is negative, and routine is positive. For Du, although there are positive aspects, on the whole, the evil side is more prominent, and he is not a person worthy of special recognition.

192 1 years ago, Dai Li was just a gangster in a casino in Shanghai. Once, he played dice in a casino in Du Yuesheng, and his skill was superb, which led to a lot of bleeding in the casino. Casino watchers want to teach him a lesson. So, Dai Li named Du. Du met Dai Li and asked him to perform. After reading it, I was full of praise for Dai Li's stunts, and thought that his mind and wrist were so flexible that they were unparalleled. So he became sworn on the spot, commensurate with his brother. Dai Li, who later became the head of the military spy, was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted confidant.

In a simple way

Du is a strict parent at home. He has five wives and ten children. Shen Yueying, the first wife, had no children. Adopt a son named Du. The second wife has three sons, Du Fu, Du Fu and Du Weining. Sun Peihao, the third wife, gave birth to two sons, Du Weiping and Du. The fourth wife, a famous Peking Opera actor, gave birth to two sons and two daughters for Du Fu. My wife Meng Xiaodong is a famous Peking Opera actress. When the film Mei Lanfang was released last year, Zhang Ziyi played Meng Xiaodong, which attracted comments from all sides.

Du likes people to call him Teacher Du. Du Meiru saw Xiaogang Feng play Du Yuesheng in The Founding of the People's Republic. Du Meiru said of him: He looks and behaves alike, except that my father never wears sunglasses.

In my memory, Du attached great importance to children's American education, strictly required them to study, and prohibited them from smoking and gambling. He likes gifted children and often tells them that he was poor when he was a child and had no chance to study. He hopes that his children will cherish the present learning opportunities. His son Du evaded the big exam and slapped him twice. Du Meiru didn't do well in a foreign language exam. He whipped him 10 times. Aunt Du Meiru was very distressed and let her wear two pairs of trousers and be beaten. As a result, Du laid hands on him even harder, and she was not allowed to scream. If she calls, she can call again. Father is very strict. We must make an appointment to approve him. When we met, we mainly asked about reading, and then gave 50 ancient French coins. Du Meiru recalled.

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On the afternoon of August 6, 63-year-old Du swallowed his last breath. Du Meiru recalled: When my father came back, the last thing he said to people around him was, I have no hope, but you all have hope, and China still has hope.

Du, after his death, Du, father and son, Xiaodong Meng, etc. They all went to Taiwan Province Province, but they went to many places except Yao Yulan and Meng Xiaodong, and there was not much communication between other rooms. In recent years, only Du Meiru and Du Weishan have occasionally appeared in public. But what Du's descendants have in common is that they don't go to the underworld, they are well educated, and most of them live overseas.

Du Meiru lives in Jordan now. She likes to speak Shanghainese best, and inherited her father's pet phrase gossip. King Du Meiru and his wife became friends with Hussein. 1979, Mr. and Mrs. Du Meiru opened their first Chinese restaurant in Amman, and now they also open a branch in UAE. Du Meiru has two sons and a daughter, one of whom lives in Shanghai at present. In recent years, Du Meiru has often returned to China, and has repeatedly expressed his intention to return to China to settle down. Du Meiru and his younger brother Du Weishan live in Canada and have returned to China many times. He is a famous collector and an expert on ancient coins. He donated more than 1800 ancient coins to Shanghai Museum twice.

And Du's time is over. As a legend in the old Shanghai legend, he represented the dreams of some young people in Shanghai at that time to some extent. However, dreams are always associated with hallucinations. Perhaps, even Du's family and descendants have never really walked into him. But what Du has left in the hearts of many modern people is nothing but the imagination stimulated by TV dramas such as Shanghai Beach.