Du Yuesheng is one of the most legendary figures in modern Chinese history. Not only is he a 15-year-old orphan from the countryside, single-handedly broke into the Shanghai Bund, from a small gangster who did not have enough to eat, transformed into a tycoon who shook the Shanghai Bund, broad; but also in what he did after he made his fortune, as if he had been "transformed" from a rogue white man into a modern industrialist, a celebrity and a local leader, an active political leader at that time. The company's business has been a success, and the company has become an active political figure.
Du Yuesheng was a long-sleeved, up-and-down man. To the former Qing dynasty veterans, warlords and politicians, party and state leaders, social
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celebrities, and even financial and industrial giants, all of them were polite and respectful, and made efforts to make friends with each other, even worshiped as a brother, or accepted as a disciple to give economic support, or monthly service rules and regulations of silver, and kept as diners. And Chiang's senior such as Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen, Daiasa, etc., all befriended for Du's close friends.
With such a network of relations enough to manipulate the political, industrial and commercial financial circles, the French Concession as a backing, there are gangs and black forces at the bottom, Du Yuesheng in the Shanghai Bund can be said to be left and right, the whole world, invincible.
In the mainland press, books, people often see about the old Shanghai youth gang leader Du Yuesheng text, mostly about his various bad deeds, occasionally mentioned, Du talk about righteousness, backbone, in the war of resistance made some contributions. Perhaps this is another side of the life of the tainted triad leader. An article in the Beijing Daily asked Zhu Xiaoping, deputy director of the editorial board of the magazine Hai Nei & Overseas, to explain the legendary figure's contributions to the War of Resistance against Japan.
According to the article, Du Yuesheng was a big leader of the Shanghai Qing Gang, also known as the Anqing Gang, in old China. Chiang Kai-shek seized power in the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, and Du Yuesheng played a key role in the coup by hiring hooligans to send banners to the Shanghai General Labor Union to put
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smoke, luring and killing Wang Shouhua, the chairman of the General Labor Union and a member of the C*** Party, which led to the death of 800,000 members of the Union, leaving thousands of people without a leader. The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions was left without a leader, and thousands of workers were killed by Chiang Kai-shek in a surprise attack.
As the head of the old Shanghai underworld, Du Yuesheng had a lot of stains on him, but he was not all black. In the war, he had many years as vice president of the Red Cross Society of China, has done some useful charitable work, had set up a lot of hospitals, such as the Ningbo epidemic hospital, Renji Hospital, to help the sick and wounded do not know how many. Also created the Hongkou Civilian Epidemic Hospital, specializing in relief of the poor, seriously ill patients hospitalization, surgery, medicine and hospitalization costs are completely free of charge. At the same time, he also devoted himself to education, created many schools, donations to the school. Especially when he served as vice president of the war, before and after the war, in the relief of wounded soldiers and transportation of supplies, the establishment of resistance forces, made a contribution. According to the article, Du made four major contributions to the war.
After the transfer of the board of directors of the Red Cross Society of China to Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng personally presided over the work and raised funds for the ambulance service
In the spring of 1938, the board of directors of the Red Cross Society of China moved to Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng personally presided over the work and set up a general office to accept overseas donations and raise funds for the ambulance service. It can be said that Du Yuesheng was working very hard at this time. At that time, the KMT government also had a centralized relief committee.
After the August 13th War, Chiang Kai-shek arranged for Du Yuesheng to be a standing committee member of the committee, in charge of the work of the Ninth Relief District in Guangdong, Guilin and Fujian provinces. In order to facilitate the work, Du Yuesheng will be the Ninth Relief District office and the Red Cross Society of China organs are co-located in Hong Kong, Kowloon, Austin Road, his residence is also in this apartment, and in Hong Kong's largest hotel has a room, specialized in contact with all parties. At that time, the overseas compatriots against the war donations and relief supplies to the refugees, are received by Du Yuesheng transported to Hankou or Chongqing. At the same time, Du was also responsible for collaborating with Dai to arrange intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence work in the fallen areas.
The assassination of Zhang Xiaolin, another Shanghai gang leader, was also related to Du Yuesheng. In addition, the sensational Gao Zongwu, Tao Xisheng from the Wang group, and announced the "Wang secret treaty", also Du Yuesheng and Dai *** with the countermeasures.
After the fall of Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng retreated to Chongqing, where he presided over the Red Cross Society and handled the work of forward ambulance, rear air-raid ambulance and medical treatment.
In the beginning of the war of resistance, most of the overseas materials were transferred to China through Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng handled the reception and transfer in the name of the Red Cross, and made some contributions to the cause of the war of resistance. After the fall of Hong Kong, the General Committee of the Red Cross moved to Chongqing in 1940, and Du Yuesheng retreated to Chongqing, where he presided over the organization's affairs and handled forward ambulance service, rear air-raid ambulance service and medical treatment.
In 1942, Du Yuesheng built the Chongqing Hospital, which had 300 beds and was the most advanced wartime hospital in the country, and was praised by public opinion. In addition, Du Yuesheng did a lot of work in searching and purchasing and snatching strategic materials. After the victory of the war, Du Yuesheng returned to Shanghai, supervised the demobilization work in Shanghai, and assisted in the restoration and strengthening of the organization of the Shanghai Red Cross branch, which laid the foundation for the Society to promote various social services.
After the 1950s, Du Yuesheng lived in Hong Kong, and in 1951, before he died, he told his wife, "Bring my bones back to Shanghai and bury them at his home in Gaoqiao, Pudong." But his last wish has not been realized, in November 1952, the bones were shipped to Taiwan, so far, the temporary residence of Taipei South effect of the foothills of the Dajian Mountain.