Du Yuesheng's Du Mansion is located on Huageren Road (later known as Ninghai West Road).
That afternoon, Du Yuesheng was sitting in the living room drinking tea, holding a folding fan in his hand and listening attentively to Yue Fei's biography.
"On the fourth day of July, everything needed to attend the meeting was ready. Yue Lei gathered together the soldiers who entered the mountain and gave them numerous instructions not to be careless. The next day at five o'clock, Yue Lei led his men.
After setting off, Zhuge Jing and Erye Niu Gao led the crowd to send them back to the company camp ten miles away. When they got to the road, everyone shook their silk reins, threw bits around, and went straight to Panlong Pass."
This storyteller was hired by Du Yuesheng from the north with a large sum of money, and he came to Du's mansion regularly to tell stories for him.
Du Yuesheng listened to storytelling not for entertainment, but to learn knowledge and strategies. He had dropped out of school since he was a child and had never read any books. Now that he was in a "high position", he naturally had to improve his cultural level.
Du Yuesheng often listened to the great books such as Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Yue Zhuan, Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness, and wanted to learn historical knowledge, the magnanimity and the tactics of the ancients from them.
Not only that, Du Yuesheng also asked people to read newspapers every day to understand current political news and domestic situations. He even insisted on practicing calligraphy. After several years, although he did not practice decent calligraphy, he could write his name well and could write to people everywhere.
Someone signed it.
"If you have enough food and clothing, you should be polite and righteous, and you can no longer make people hate you and scare you when you see it." These are the exact words Du Yuesheng often said to the people around him.
Among the three bosses of the Shanghai Youth Gang, Huang Huangrong and Zhang Xiaolin are both too small. Only Du Yuesheng is the most motivated. He is not satisfied with just being a gang figure, but actively seeks social status.
In the past few years, Du Yuesheng has intervened in the labor movement, mediated disputes, and even raised funds for disaster relief, just to gain recognition from society and the government. Two years ago, Zhejiang suffered a typhoon, which affected 33 counties and 1 city. Shanghai raised a total of 40,578 yuan in donations.
Among them, Du Yuesheng alone donated 11,235 yuan.
It's a pity that Du Yuesheng was born in a gang and was born in a gang. Although he worked hard to do good things, he was still notorious and could not be cleansed by just selling opium.
"Bah bang bang!"
After finishing an episode of storytelling, Du Yuesheng clapped his hands: "Well said, let's give you a reward!"
When the storyteller received the reward, he held his hands in his hands and said with neither humility nor condescension: "Thank you, Boss Du, for the reward, and say goodbye."
After the storyteller left, Du Yuesheng turned around and asked Tian Hongnian: "Tell me, what difficulties did you encounter again?"
Tian Hongnian swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "Master Du, I lost more than 500,000 yuan at the bank. Mr. Tian disobeyed Master Du and lacked ability. I came to resign today. As for the loss of money in the bank, I
I will try my best to make up for it.”
"How could he lose more than 500,000 yuan?" Du Yuesheng asked in surprise. No matter how rich he was, more than 500,000 yuan was not a small amount.
Tian Hongnian explained: "I misappropriated bank deposits and used them to speculate on the exchange. As you know, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been plummeting recently due to the war in the Central Plains."
Du Yuesheng opened a bank last year, with Tian Hongnian and Su Jiashan in charge of the specific business, and they made a lot of money. However, Su Jiashan was seriously ill some time ago, and Tian Hongnian controlled the bank alone. He thought that the Central Army could easily win, so he
If you want to use the war in the Central Plains to engage in financial speculation, the results can be imagined.
After understanding the reason, Du Yuesheng wanted to kill Tian Hongnian. But Tian Hongnian and Su Jiashan were his right-hand men, good at making money and doing business. Now that Su Jiashan was about to die of illness, Du Yuesheng couldn't live without him for the time being.
Tian Hongnian.
"Oh, that's all," Du Yuesheng sighed, "Just take good care of the bank and don't think too much. If you resign, where can I find someone to be the general manager in a while?"
"Then I will take care of the bank first, and when Mr. Du finds a suitable candidate, I will make amends and resign." Tian Hongnian said awkwardly. If he did such a thing, he was destined not to stay in the bank. Even if Du Yuesheng forgives him, other shareholders
He will also jump out and chase people away.
Du Yuesheng thought for a while and said: "When you resign from the bank, I will send you to the French Concession Chamber of Commerce, and you will help me take care of it."
"Hongnian is scared." Tian Hongnian breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Du Yuesheng had not really abandoned him.
While the two were talking, a servant suddenly came to guard the door and stood there silently, not daring to disturb.
Du Yuesheng saw this and asked, "What's going on?"
The servant then walked in and said, "Master, someone is sending a business card outside."
Du Yuesheng took the business card and looked at it. He only recognized the word "Zhou" on it, and then handed it to Tian Hongnian and asked: "Which person named Zhou is looking for me?"
Tian Hongnian smiled and said: "Congratulations, Mr. Du, it's the famous Mr. Zhou Hexuan."
"Is this the guy from Tianjin who invented the new bellyband and funded overseas students?" Du Yuesheng asked.
"That's him," Tian Hongnian is a scholar, and he praised Zhou Hexuan greatly. "Mr. Zhou is not a simple person. He is also famous in the United States and Europe. He is the number one celebrity in China today. The books he wrote have even attracted the attention of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek.
Everyone likes to read it, and I heard that Commander-in-Chief Chiang recently gave him a preface to his book, which he wants to print and distribute to government officials at all levels."
Du Yuesheng suddenly felt proud: "It seems that I still have some face, even the first celebrity in China has come to visit me." He happily said to the servant, "Go and reply to the person who sent the business card, and tell me that I will have a grand ceremony at noon tomorrow."
Treat and welcome Mr. Zhou!"
Du Yuesheng was overjoyed. He felt that he had too much face, which was a kind of recognition of social status. Although he often dealt with literati such as Zhang Jingjiang, it was an exchange of interests, which was different from the visit of a great scholar like Zhou Hexuan.
After pacing back and forth in the living room for a long time, Du Yuesheng asked the servant to invite Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin. He wanted to show off in front of his two friends and enemies.
The next morning, the cook at Du Mansion got busy very early, preparing dozens of dishes with various delicacies from mountains and seas.
Huang Jinrong was the first to arrive. He asked with a smile: "Yue Sheng, what trick are you going to pull this time? You invited me to dinner for no reason."
"It's so close," Du Yuesheng said with a smile, "I also invited an honored guest today, and you won't be able to guess who it is."
"Is it the French minister?" Huang Jinrong asked.
Du Yuesheng laughed loudly: "How can I have that face? Mr. Rong, you are joking."
Huang Huangrong sat down with his majestic sword, ate the fruit with his belly full, and said, "I want to see who it is."
Not long after, Zhang Xiaolin also came.
"Brother Huang, Ah Sheng!" Zhang Xiaolin clasped his fists in salute, with a faint smile on his face, but it was a pity that he was only smiling.
Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng were both unhappy when they heard Zhang Xiaolin's name.
Huang Jinrong was a generation above Zhang Xiaolin in the Qinggang and disdained to call him brother. Although Du Yuesheng was a generation younger than Zhang Xiaolin, he was already more powerful than Zhang Xiaolin and was not willing to be his junior.
Among the three gangsters of the Shanghai Youth Gang, Zhang Xiaolin is the least brainy one and the only one who has become a traitor. (.)