Chapter 56 Section 56 Chen Yi pulls him not to go back, nor to buy bristles

On May 3, 1949, the ship arrived in Hong Kong.Du Yuesheng settled down at No. 18 Kennedy that Lu Genquan found for him. On May 27, the Shanghai National Army withdrew from Shanghai because it could not resist the attack of the People's Liberation Army. On the same day, Yang Hu, Wu Shaoshu and others led the People's Liberation Army from Daxi Road.The Communist Party appointed Chen Yi as the mayor of Shanghai.After Chen Yi entered Shanghai, the first thing he did was to openly call the senior Shanghai gentry in Hong Kong, the "five leaders" of finance and business, Du Yuesheng, Chen Guangfu, Li Fusheng, Song Liuzhang and Qian Xinzhi.

However, Chen Yi's long telegrams were like nothing, and the "five tycoons" did not reply with a single word, so Chen Yi sent Xu Caicheng, who had a good relationship with the "five tycoons", with the status and relationship of the secretary-general of the Shanghai Local Association, He made a special trip to Hong Kong to welcome the "five tycoons" Du, Chen, Li, Song and Qian back to Shanghai.Xu Caicheng played a gimmick with Chen Yi to escape from the tiger's mouth for himself. After he arrived in Hong Kong, he never came back. He stayed in Hong Kong and never returned to Shanghai.

Afterwards, people of all colors from the Du Mansion arrived in Hong Kong one after another.The house at No. 18 Kennedy is not only unreasonable, but also out of shape. The living room is not like a living room, and the rooms are not like a room. However, there are quite a few people in the Du mansion in Hong Kong. From Du Yuesheng down, there are Mrs. Sun on the third floor, Yao Yulan and Meng Xiaodong, the eldest son, and the eldest daughter-in-law Weifan and his wife have four children. The second son Weiyuan and the third son Weiping The seventh son, Weishan, and the eighth son, Weisong, are still studying, plus the eldest daughter, Du Meiru, and Meng Xiaodong's adoptive daughter, Yangjuan. There are more than 20 family members in the family alone, not to mention There were 4 people who came out, including Xu Daosheng, the driver's young asan Zhong Xiliang, the chief secretary "Little Duck" and his subordinates, the male servant Lu Yuan, Xie Zixin, the female hired sister, and the younger sister. The servants accounted for 10 people. as much.

As for the house on the ground floor of No. 18 Kennedy, the Lu Genquan family lives upstairs, and the Du mansion downstairs has neither a garden nor a fence. There is only one semi-circular and semi-square living room, the main room has only 3 rooms, and the rest of the small rooms are separated by the gap of the corridor. One is used as the office of Secretary Hu Xuwu, and the other three rooms are for Du Meiru. And Du Weishan, Weisong two brothers.The two rooms of Yao Yulan and Meng Xiaodong were attached outside Du Yuesheng's large room, facing each other and communicating with each other.

After allocating the rooms for these few people barely, there will be no room for people to live in.The small room next to the kitchen can only accommodate one or two servants, and the other servants must live outside, leaving early and returning late every day. Therefore, Mrs. Chen on the second floor once traveled from Taiwan to Hong Kong. Instead, she lived in the Xinning Guest House. Mrs. Sun on the third floor lived with her son outside. Arriving in Hong Kong by sea ship, the family of six spent 20,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy a floor on Jianhua Street, which is across the street from Wang Xinheng, who also came from Shanghai.For the other three sons and one daughter who got married, Du Wei lived on Fort Street, Du Weiyuan and Weixin lived on Java Street, and the second daughter, Du Meixia, married Jin Yuanji, the fourth young mistress of the Jin Mansion, and Jin Tingsun was brought out from Shanghai. Our family also lives on Java Street.

After arriving in Hong Kong, Du Yuesheng was depressed due to his mental and physical strength and the limited environment at that time. He had already lost his ambition to start a business to support his family and make long-term plans.For the living needs of such a large family, he himself needs huge medical expenses of more than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, and the one-month expenses in Kennedy alone cost at least 60,000 Hong Kong dollars. Du Yuesheng brought a large family to Hong Kong, What is he planning?I have no choice but to "sit and eat the mountains and empty mountains" until they are used up.This contemporary celebrity and big spender in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng, had only two properties when he left Shanghai in 1949, one of which was US$100,000, which he gave to his friend Song Ziliang because of the pre-saved children's education expenses. Ask him to bring him to the United States to run "business" on behalf of him.The other sum, about US$300,000, was the proceeds from the sale of the Ququ mansion on Dumei Road. With the help of Yang Guanbei, it had already been proposed to be stored in Hong Kong to meet Du Yuesheng's living needs when he fled to Hong Kong.

Not long after Du Yuesheng's family moved to Hong Kong, a good business came to them. Speaking of which, it was a kind-hearted friend who wanted to help Du Yuesheng, and he wanted to make a lot of money for Du Yuesheng.This friend is from Sichuan, and he often travels between Chongqing, Chengdu and Hong Kong. As far as he knows, the amount of bristles in Sichuan is extremely large, and the price is low. Due to the current situation, it is impossible to export, so it has fallen repeatedly and has fallen to the cost. Within a short time, this friend from Sichuan has already decided to spend huge sums of money on major purchases, and he has already contacted the aircraft of China National Aviation Company to transport to Hong Kong on his behalf. five times the interest.

Isn't this a golden opportunity?Friends are extremely reliable, and business is very stable. If you add a few shares, you may earn three times or five times in a few days. If you don't do such a good business, when will you wait? But after Du Yuesheng heard about it, he flatly declined his friend's kindness."I don't have cash right now," he tweeted. And this business is due to the relationship between fighting for time.Du Yuesheng gave up the great opportunity to make a fortune, and Gu Jiatang next to him twitched his index finger. He didn't hesitate to lose his family and property, throwing away the 300,000 yuan of gold he brought from Shanghai, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars with all his heart.Gu Jiatang is the best at managing money among the leaders of the "little stereotyped party". His usual style of "only going in and out", is in contrast to Du Yuesheng's "spending money like dirt", so his frugal savings even surpassed Du Yuesheng after arriving in Hong Kong , this time is the biggest investment in his life.

When Gu Jiatang happily joined with full of hope, his friends in Sichuan told him that most of the bristles had already been bought and the goods were concentrated in Chengdu, and they only had to wait for the aircraft of China National Aviation Company to start fulfilling the contract and dial the plane to ship them to Hong Kong one by one.At this time, the People's Liberation Army only captured Badong, Sichuan was tight, and Chengdu and Chongqing were still as safe as a rock. No matter how fast the People's Liberation Army ran, it was impossible to threaten Chengdu with a single stroke. Therefore, after Gu Jiatang paid the stock payment, So he was determined to wait to make money.

Unexpectedly, the bristles were waiting to be shipped. On the morning of November 10, I opened the newspaper and saw that the heads of China Airlines and Central Airlines took 12 planes to Beiping to vote for the Communist Party of China. interruption. This is an extremely shocking piece of news. This major news shocked Gu Jiatang and his friend from Sichuan. The two airlines turned against each other, the route was interrupted, and no one was responsible for the contract to transport bristles. Other means of transportation were available, and this blow was too great for Gu Jiatang at the time. My friend from Sichuan lost US$3 million and was almost bankrupt. The blow made Gu Jiatang, who was heartbroken and fat, sighed, frowning, and said with a wry smile when he saw an acquaintance:

"A bill of bristles lost eighteen pounds from me." He was talking about the sudden loss of 18 pounds after his fortune was wiped out. When he was in Hong Kong, when the climate changed, Du Yuesheng’s asthma relapsed again. Du Yuesheng’s treatment of asthma still focused on both Chinese and Western medicine, and he used both medicine and stone. There were 4 doctors from Chinese medicine and 3 from Western medicine who often came to prescribe prescriptions for him. Physicians are not mediocre, and all of them are famous in Hong Kong.Due to the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, there are many doctors, and it is inevitable that there will be differences of opinion. Whose medical method should be used and which medicine should be taken, the family dare not make the decision, and only Du Yuesheng can make his own decision. Therefore, "a long illness becomes a good doctor" What he said came true, and Du Yuesheng became his own attending physician instead.In addition to relatives and friends, there are a lot of people who come and go to see the doctor. Everyone shows concern and caring for him. Today Zhang San introduces a doctor, and tomorrow Li Si contributes a folk prescription. As a result, Dr. Du Yuesheng invited more and more medicines. Miscellaneous, after a few months, he once said with self-deprecation: "Now I eat medicine as food, and food as medicine!" Du Yuesheng himself could not come up with an opinion, so he decided to invite only one doctor to take care of it, and others dared not come up with this idea.For his asthma, after all, the benefit is less than the harm, and Du Yuesheng's "emergency medical treatment" situation is difficult to treat well.