In old Shanghai, there are three people who don’t know, they are Huang Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin, and Du Yuesheng. Du Yuesheng is a ruthless character. He is ignorant, but he has the courage to know people, from an innocent gangster to the biggest gangster in Shanghai, known as the "underground emperor."
Du Yuesheng’s success, in addition to his cruelty and hard work, is the most commendable thing about his life, he used his righteousness to save money, and at the same time, he was also rich in his country. At his peak, he used money to build a huge relationship Wang, even senior generals of the Nationalist Government gave him three points in court.
Du Yuesheng is one of the richest people in Shanghai, so how rich is he? How rich Du Yuesheng is, let's first understand from a few aspects.
There were no cars in Shanghai before 1902. In 1912, the total number of cars in Shanghai was about 1,400, and Du Yuesheng had 9 cars alone, and he also had a Chevrolet with the license plate number 7777!
In 1935, Du Yuesheng ordered 120 military aircraft from Curtis Wright of the United States, and all of them were donated to the National Government. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek had only 150 aircraft in his hand, 120 of which were donated by Du Yuesheng.
Du Yuesheng can spend money in this way, and where does his money come from?
mentioned earlier that Du Yuesheng is the leader of the Qinggang. He opened a bank in partnership with others, and bought many industries such as shipping companies and flour mills. The Sanxin company he founded by himself has an annual turnover of about 30,000 silver dollars. At that time, many companies in Shanghai had shares of Du Yuesheng, and his annual protection fee was about 1 million silver dollars!
Many people have no idea about the value of silver dollars. Here is an example to illustrate. Mr. Lu Xun once bought a three-in-three-out courtyard courtyard in Beijing for 3,700 yuan. If Du Yuesheng knew that Beijing's housing prices would go up like this, he bought a few courtyard houses at will, and they have gone up today!
Du Yuesheng can make money, but he can indeed spend it. Du Yuesheng's residence is about 2 million yuan a year, and that is to say, at that time, an ordinary Shanghainese's annual expenditure is not more than 100 yuan. The annual expenditure is 20,000 times that of ordinary people. If an average Shanghai family spends 100,000 yuan a year, then Du Mansion’s annual expenditure is at least 2 billion yuan. It is estimated that Jack Ma will not spend so much a year.
Wealth gathers people to disperse, and wealth is to disperse and people gather. The status that Du Yuesheng has achieved is all his money .
During the Battle of Songhu, the 19th National Revolutionary Army was underfunded. Du Yuesheng set up an office to raise 9 million military expenses for the revolutionary army, half of which came from his personal donations.
In 1943, Chongqing’s supplies were in short supply. Du Yuesheng used his financial resources and connections to assist Chongqing, which eased the urgent need of the Nanjing National Government;
In 1946, there were countless Jiangsu refugees affected by the war. Du Yuesheng donated 1 billion to the National Government without saying a word. Yu helped, and asked generously: "Is it enough?"
Feng Xiaogang plays Du Yuesheng
The Shanghai concession area is very large, and it is also the most open place in China. In the Republic of China, the banner on the city head changed three times a day, and today it is still the overlord tomorrow.Mouse crossing the street. As for Du Yuesheng, he always spends a lot of money to make friends with these politicians to provide an umbrella for his business. It was precisely because of his righteousness and wealth that many people in the Nationalist Government at that time were his good friends, such as Song Ziwen and Dai Li!
Du Yuesheng is a very righteous person. If a friend asks him for help, he will go all out or even not get a penny. Others care about borrowing money from him, and he never sends anyone to pursue it. When he was seriously ill in his later years, he would take all the IOUs Burn it all in one go.
. The legendary life of Du Yuesheng cannot be separated from his generosity. Du Yuesheng has been able to dominate the underground forces in Shanghai for 10 years. The main reason is his generosity and his love and hatred for bad things. , Cruel and straightforward.
Today we usually evaluate a person’s wealth in terms of house, car and working capital. Na Du Yuesheng’s property estimate, what level will it be today?
He has a total of 9 cars under his name. Just calculate according to 4 Rolls-Royce and 5 Bentleys. Each Rolls-Royce is about 7-10 million. Bentley counts at 3 million and his 7777 Chevrolet counts as 10 million, so the total value of these 9 cars should be between 53 million and 65 million.
Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong
Du Yuesheng if the property under the name of Du Yuesheng only counts as Du Mansion, other things are ignored. At that time, the French designer who invited the house spent a total of 300,000 US dollars, which is about 2 million at the current exchange rate. At the price of Mr. Lu Xun’s purchase of the courtyard at that time, we conservatively estimated it to be 100 square meters. , We assume that the area of Du Mansion is 1,000 square meters. Based on Shanghai’s current 100,000 square meters, this house is conservatively estimated to be 100 million yuan.
From the perspective of working capital, Wang Xinheng, the mayor of Hong Kong under the Kuomintang army at the time, lacked start-up capital for his business. Du Yuesheng directly loaned him 200 large yellow croakers, calculated on the basis of the old system of 1 catty and 16 taels, 1 tael = 500/16= 31.25 grams, so a "big yellow croaker" gold bar equivalent to today's weight is 312.5 grams, equivalent to the current big gold price, a "big yellow croaker" gold bar is now 100,000 yuan, then 200 pieces, at least 20 million.
To sum up, even if Du Yuesheng's financial resources are put to the present, he is still a giant in the top 10! Huang Jinrong, who was his contemporaries, was also very wealthy, but his descendants rarely praised Jinrong, but they had a special liking for Du Yuesheng. In the final analysis, Du Yuesheng was praised for his empathy and handling of people.
