Chapter 105 fourth quarter

The guest died in Xiangjiang, the final outcome of a generation of heroes Du Yuesheng, who arrived in Hong Kong, lived in No. 18 Kennedy selected by his friends, which became the last Du mansion. At this time, Du Yuesheng's asthma became more and more serious. The treatment methods were both Chinese and Western medicines, with both medicine and stones. The doctors who often came to take his pulse and prescribe prescriptions included 4 Chinese medicine doctors and 3 Western medicine doctors. All of them were famous in Hong Kong.In addition, Zhang San introduced a doctor today, and Li Si contributed a folk prescription tomorrow. Dr. Du Yuesheng asked more and more, and the medicine became more and more complex, but his health did not improve.After several months, he laughed at himself and said: "Now I take medicine as food, and food as medicine!"

Du Yuesheng, who was sick, was always concerned about the situation in the mainland, and the CCP was also striving to return him, who had a major impact on Shanghai's economy and society. His old friend Zhang Shizhao was entrusted to come to Hong Kong to stay in Du's house for many days, and repeatedly publicized the party's policies to him.Du Yuesheng was still full of worries.He saw that the CCP had indeed fulfilled its promise of "no killing or arrest" to Huang Jinrong who stayed in Shanghai. Boss Huang still lived a life of bathing and smoking opium; later he learned that Huang Jinrong responded to the "reform" Called, and began to sweep the street, when the photo of Huang Jinrong standing in front of the garbage truck with a broom in his hand and disheveled face in the newspaper came into view, Du Yuesheng secretly rejoiced that he didn't leave behind.

Because he has dealt with the French Concession for many years, Du Yuesheng has always been kind to France. He wants to move to France and stay away from political disputes.Except for servants, Du Yuesheng’s family and his followers Gu Jiatang and Wan Molin needed a total of 27 passports to move to France. Du Yuesheng applied to the defeated Nationalist Government in Taiwan, but Taiwan charged a “passport fee” of 150,000 US dollars.All of Du Yuesheng's property remained in the mainland, and only 300,000 US dollars from the sale of a real estate was transferred out, which was used for the huge expenses of dozens of people in Hong Kong. Du Yuesheng could not afford the passport fee!When the move to the law was blocked, Du Yuesheng said sadly: "I have done so many things for the country, and for such a small request, I still need 150,000 US dollars."

In his later years, Du Yuesheng's only festive event in Hong Kong was to marry the famous Beijing opera actor Meng Xiaodong.At the beginning, Du Yuesheng took care of Meng Xiaodong a lot; after Du Yuesheng fell ill, Meng Xiaodong was grateful for his kindness and stayed by his side all the time.Meng Xiaodong is Du Yuesheng's fifth and last wife. Du Yuesheng's condition continued to develop, and he had to inhale oxygen for a long time to survive, and his superstition also accelerated the deterioration.When he was a young boy, a monk met him, saying that his future wealth would be higher than Huang Jinrong, the leading figure in Shanghai at that time, and later he really became the "Emperor of Shanghai", so he firmly believed in fortune-telling by face-to-face; And he knew that if the result of the calculation was inauspicious, the warlocks would not tell him face to face now, so he anonymously sent his birthday horoscope to a fortune-telling "master" in Taipei named "June Xiguan Master". The owner of the Xiguan wrote back, saying that he "lived in Xinmao at the age of sixty-four, and it was difficult to get through it", which means that he would never survive the false age of sixty-four.All of a sudden, Du Yuesheng's confidence in survival collapsed, and he hid the life letter like a talisman, and it was only discovered by his family after his death.

In the summer of 1951, Du Yuesheng was already dying of illness, and it was time to make a will to dispose of the inheritance. Outsiders were curious about how much property this tycoon, who had 97 servants serving only one person in his heyday, left to his family. As a result, Du Yuesheng reported the number : $110,000.The money was originally 100,000 US dollars, which he entrusted with Song Ziliang, Song Ziwen's younger brother. Song Ziliang invested on his behalf, and there was a slight surplus.According to his daughter Du Meiru's recollection, the distribution is roughly as follows: each wife gets 10,000, the eldest son gets 10,000, the unmarried daughter gets 6,000, and the married gets 4,000.Prior to this, Du Yuesheng destroyed all the IOUs written to him by others over the years. He said to his children: "I don't want you to ask for debts everywhere after I die."

After distributing the inheritance, Du Yuesheng handed over all the affairs to his favorite student Lu Jingshi, and waited for his death with peace of mind.Finally, he had a high fever day by day, his lips were pink and his tongue was brown. On the afternoon of August 16, 1951, 63-year-old Du Yuesheng swallowed his last breath.His ashes were buried in Xizhi, Taiwan, and his last wish was to be buried in Gaoqiao, his hometown, Pudong, which has not been fulfilled so far. One year after Du Yuesheng's death, that is, in 1952, the new Shanghai regime headed by Chen Yi and Pan Hannian, relying on a clean and efficient state machine and popular support, basically wiped out the underworld forces that had entrenched Shanghai for nearly a century in just three years. .Du Yuesheng and his grotesque era have since entered history.