Chapter 42 Section 42 Exotic Hong Kong is still full of people

Du Yuesheng was very popular in Shanghai, but he was always a "fleeing refugee" when he came to Hong Kong. In terms of making friends with the government, Hong Kong is the world of the British.Talking about gang members, Du Yuesheng has one.That is, Li Caifa, a member of the Qinggang, later known as "Hong Kong Du Yuesheng" and "Emperor of Nightclubs". He is 28 years old, and he has just been on the rise in Hong Kong for three or four years.Li Caifa admired Du Yuesheng since he was a child, and he wanted to be like Du Yuesheng all his life. When he was in Shanghai, he worshiped under the "Tong" character Wang Miaoji, and worked as a ticket seller in Xinguang Theater. He was introduced by Xia Lianliang, the owner of Xinguang Theater. , met Du Yuesheng's sworn brother, Rui Qingrong, one of the "little stereotyped party".Li Caifa has great respect for Rui Qingrong, a famous figure. Not long after Du Yuesheng arrived in Hong Kong, Rui Qingrong followed.On the contrary, when Du Yuesheng and others came to Hong Kong, the Youth Gang gained momentum in Hong Kong, and it was also very strong.

The Japanese set up a net in Shanghai, but in the end, Du Yuesheng took it easy and escaped "without putting on makeup". New regrets added old hatred, and they retaliated fiercely against Du's people, which made Du Yuesheng anxious and anxious in Hong Kong. , So he tried his best to let more important people escape.Among the family members, Yao Yulan came first and lived with him in closed room at the Kowloon Peninsula Hotel. The eldest son Du Weifan rushed to Hong Kong and returned to Shanghai soon after. On the second floor, Mrs. Chen only came to visit his husband once during his stay in Hong Kong. Du Meiru, the eldest lady who is regarded as a jewel, and her mother Yao Yulan went back and forth between Hong Kong and Shanghai several times. The most capable eldest daughter-in-law in Du's mansion is more than half Time to stay in Huagebeilu to take care of everything.

Zhang Jixian was the good friend, Wu Jiayuan who had a deep friendship with the people of Beiyang, Gu Jiatang, Rui Qingrong and Ye Zhuoshan from the brains of the "little stereotyped party", Weng Zuoqing, the secretary of the Du mansion, and Hu Xuwu introduced by Xu Caicheng later.Du Yuesheng assigned work, sent Weng Zuoqing to take charge of the document and account room, and Hu Xuwu's full-time bookkeeping office. Among the disciples, Shen Chubao, Lin Xiaogu, Zhu Xuefan, Guo Lanxin, and an important person Zhang Zilian were called. Du Yuesheng wanted him to quickly establish Hongmen relation.

As soon as people came, the scene gradually opened up. Opening a hotel to stay in a room for a long time was not a long-term solution after all, so Du Yuesheng sent someone to find a house and planned to live in Hong Kong for a short time.After Yao Yulan arrived in Hong Kong, this Hong Kong Du mansion was established at No. 113 to 115 Ketudian Road, Kowloon.The owner of the house is a Macau tobacco and gambling tycoon, Gao Kening known as "Macau Du Yuesheng". , one is You Min. Zhang Jixian, Wu Jiayuan, Gu, Rui, Ye and others lived together in Du Mansion. On January 20, 1938, Xu Shiying returned to China under the banner of the ambassador to Japan. Before finding a house, he lived on the third floor of the Du mansion in Hong Kong. The room was far away from Zhang Jixian. Du Yuesheng was very happy, and hung the holy preface of Wang Youjun in eight large pieces on the two walls of the living room. Later, Yang Qianli, a famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River and the former inspector of "Minxiu Bao" with Yu Youren, was also taken over by Du Yuesheng. When he came to Hong Kong, if Du Yuesheng had any important manuscripts and inscriptions, he often had to rely on his great writing.Yang Qianli once collected Du sentences and wrote a couplet for Du Yuesheng. Du Yuesheng happily hung it in the middle of the living room. The couplet said:

Look around frequently to trouble the world; Life is good to do famous mountain tour. Yang Zhixiong and Yang Guanbei are two think tanks, because there are many affairs in Shanghai, they always run back and forth between Shanghai and Hong Kong. When Yang Zhixiong went to Shanghai, Yang Guanbei stayed in Hong Kong. Yang Guanbei wanted to leave, and Yang Zhixiong came again. .Under the leadership of Du Yuesheng, ordinary old friends such as Qin Daishi, Jiang Zhuoyun, Pang Jingzhou, Mao Heyuan, etc. all accepted Du Yuesheng's advice and took refuge in Hong Kong one after another. These people were also frequent visitors to Du's mansion.

At this time, Du Yuesheng held two positions, which he had to do every day. One was the vice president of the "China Red Cross Society". The president Wang Zhengting was in the Philippines at this time. Guo Lanxin, the secretary of the "Red Cross Society" who was his favorite student, took over the house and acted on his behalf. Guo Lanxin took the first room on the right side of the third floor of Du's mansion as an office for a long time.The other business is the "Standing Member of the Relief Committee", in charge of the bribery work in the 9th District; Du Yuesheng sent another protégé Lin Xiaogu to take charge of the daily administrative matters here. Lin Xiaogu also asked for a room downstairs and came here every day work.Therefore, the Du mansion at No. 113 to 115 of Ke Shidao also set up the "Chinese Red Cross Society" and the "Relief Committee".

On the opposite side of the Relief Committee, Rui Qingrong and Wu Jiayuan lived. Later, when Ye Zhuoshan arrived, Rui Qingrong's family also came soon. He moved to Decheng Street to set up his own house, and his room was handed over to Ye Zhuoshan. , this sharpshooter who hits every shot has been fighting for Du Yuesheng in Hong Kong.Gu Jiatang and Rui Qingrong live outside or outside. Every day before noon, they will follow the old rules of the past and report to Brother Du Yuesheng on time at the Du mansion.They still want Du Yuesheng to discuss the confidential matter. Du Yuesheng's own family lived on the second floor no matter how many people came.

Inadvertently, the Du mansion imitated Zeng Guofan's meeting meal system. Every day at noon, a table of meals was opened, and there were more people. Gather and eat.There are not many dishes, but they are very exquisite, because there are many ships and planes between Hong Kong and Shanghai, and Jiangnan dishes that cannot be bought in the Hong Kong market are continuously delivered to Du Mansion, which makes the group of wanderers feel less homesick. Meals are eaten with gusto.They exchanged news and discussed matters, all in this meal, relaxed and happy. On December 16, 1937, the Sino-Japanese war went on for more than five months. Two days after the fall of Nanjing, Tokyo’s "Asahi Shimbun" published a message: "If China is willing to negotiate peace, Japan can stop the war." However, China has determined to fight the war to the end. .Because both Chinese and foreign people believe that although the war is prolonged, Japan will surely lose!

Nanjing fell, and Japan was eager to end the war. They instructed the German ambassador to China, Tautman, to propose peace terms to China. The luggage was moved back to the wharf, but Chiang Kai-shek categorically rejected the terms of the Japanese peace negotiation, so the Japanese side became furious. On January 16, 1938, the Cabinet Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro issued a statement: In the future, the Japanese government will not use the Nationalist government as its negotiating opponent. It hopes to establish and develop a "new government" that can really cooperate with Japan, and plans to adjust the state relations between the two countries with this "new government".

Japan is committed to creating a traitor puppet regime to carry out its political conspiracy of "destroying China with China, controlling China with China, and supporting war with war".This is another vicious and sinister new offensive besides military offensive. At the beginning of 1938, Du Yuesheng was officially announced by the government as "Special Commissioner of the Ninth District of the Relief Committee." , Send people to the "traitors" that Japan has paid attention to. Since Duan Qirui's downfall in 1926, the Anfu people who have been living in the Beijing-Shanghai area in Pingjin, Beijing and Shanghai have been living in public houses.

Du Yuesheng's mission is actually not simple, because whether it is Anfu or Anhui, most of the people under Duan Qirui are close to Japan.The Japanese side manipulated a list of traitors to form a cabinet. The names on the list had either public interests or personal relationships with the Japanese, and all of them had deep friendships. Because of the Battle of Zhihui that broke out on July 14, 1920, Wu Peifu defeated Duan Qirui's Anhui army in just 4 days. However, the consuls of Britain, the United States, France and other countries held a meeting and decided to refuse asylum and accommodate them.At this time, only the Japanese embassy agreed to take them in, so that the important people in Anfu could abscond and escape from danger.Now, this group of people has been idle for nearly 12 years, and their official addiction is quite high. Although Du Yuesheng intends to rescue them and go south, no one can guess whether they are willing or not. Therefore, Du Yuesheng sent Wu Jiayuan and Li Zeyi, as well as his friends Zhu Xiufeng and Chen Lan, to shuttle back and forth between Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hong Kong-Tianjin Road. Under surveillance and inspection, most of the puppet upstarts listed on the traitor list were rescued from the tiger's mouth, and the Japanese side worked hard, coerced and lured the puppet government's "magnificent lineup", which was "pulled" by Du Yuesheng. It was terrible, only three or two kittens were left. During this period of time, among the Japanese targets picked up by Du Yuesheng, the famous ones were Duan Qirui’s Chief Justice Zhang Tuzhao, Communications Chief Zeng Yujun, Finance Chief He Delin, Foreign Minister Yan Huiqing, Army Chief Wu Guangxin, and Vice President of the Provisional Senate. Speaker Tang Yi, many of the prominent Beiyang and Anhui tycoons, when they arrived in Hong Kong, most of them lived in Du Yuesheng's house, lingering in poetry and wine, day and night. Xu Shiying, the 28th Prime Minister of the Beijing government who is temporarily in power, has six or seven of the top ten cabinet members, and a table of meals is served at the Du Mansion in Hong Kong. It seems that Duan Qirui's cabinet has been revived.