Chapter 104 third quarter

To go or stay, the choice on the eve of the liberation of the mainland In 1949, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought the final decisive battle.Du Yuesheng observed the situation and knew that he had to make another major choice. Du Yuesheng, who made his fortune by "knowing how to be a man", believes in the creed of "doing nothing without double-facedness". For many years, he actively helped Chiang to fight against the Communist Party, and at the same time formed a "red love relationship" with the Communist Party.During the Anti-Japanese War, he donated 1,000 gas masks imported from the Netherlands to the Eighth Route Army through Pan Hannian, and expressed that he would never let his subordinates hinder the Chinese Communist Party's national salvation activities. In 1947, at the request of the CCP, Du Yuesheng received Jin Shan, a member of the Communist Party active in Shanghai and an actor, as a "disciple of Guanshanmen" to help him in his work.He also protected Zhou Enkai, Zhou Enlai's cousin.By the spring of 1949, the collapse of the Kuomintang in the mainland was a foregone conclusion. Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party intensified their competition for powerful people in society, and Du Yuesheng could no longer sit on both sides of the fence.When the People's Liberation Army came to the south of the Yangtze River, Du Yuesheng frequently contacted Huang Yanpei, Zhang Shizhao, Shi Liang, Zhang Lan and other famous people to discuss the current situation. Huang Yanpei and others urged him to stay.According to Du Yuesheng, Zhou Enlai also wanted to ask him for an interview through Huang Yanpei.Another "tycoon" in Shanghai, Huang Jinrong, who is above Du Yuesheng in seniority, has decided to stay in Shanghai to welcome the arrival of the new era after having worked many times in the Communist Party and unwilling to live overseas at the age of eighty.In this case, Du Yuesheng also considered staying.

However, he has a heavy historical burden: On the night of April 11, 1927, he trapped Wang Shouhua, a Communist Party member and chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, and buried him alive in the Longhua wilderness; He deployed his disciples to kill more than 300 Communist Party members and workers in a pool of blood.Du Yuesheng didn't believe that the Communist Party would ignore such a deep hatred. If it stayed, the future would be unpredictable.At the same time, the Kuomintang absolutely did not want Du Yuesheng to be "united front" and intensified its coercion. On April 10, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Du Yuesheng and asked him to go to Taiwan immediately.After repeated weighing, Du Yuesheng decided to stay away from the political vortex, neither staying in Shanghai nor going to Taiwan, but settled in Hong Kong.

On May 1, 1949, after bidding farewell to Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng and his family boarded the crowded Holland Baoshuyun passenger ship and sailed to Hong Kong.The ship passed through the Huangpu River and headed straight to Wusongkou, and Du Yuesheng's birthplace, Pudong Gaoqiao, was within easy reach. 47 years ago, a country boy with patched clothes and pants came to Shanghai from here, and created a world of flowers with his bare hands. Now everything has been blown away by the rain and the wind.The old and sick Du Yuesheng stood at the bow of the boat, sighing endlessly.