After seeing off Yong Ye, Du Yuesheng seemed to let out a long sigh of relief. He turned around and took Qin Chuan's hand enthusiastically, talking affectionately all the way, and walked into the villa.

Du Yuesheng did not stop at the main building of the unique Western-style building in front. Instead, he pulled Qin Chuan directly through the hall and came to the backyard. There was also a Chinese-style villa building there. The two of them entered the villa directly.<

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Qin Chuan knew that this villa was equivalent to the inner residence of Du Mansion. Only people who were extremely close to him would come here. Other visiting guests could only visit Du Yuesheng in the front building.

After Du Yuesheng became famous in Shanghai, he seemed to have an inexplicable sense of awe for literati. He had always been low-key and kind to literati, and would try to make friends with them whenever he had the opportunity.

Among the literati he interacted with, there were not only former presidents Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui, but also big figures and scholars such as Yang Du and Chinese studies master Zhang Taiyan. As for ordinary literati such as lawyers, writers, newspaper owners, etc., the scope of his friendship was even wider.

For example, in the main hall of this villa, the couplet carved on red sandalwood that reads "Three thousand guests at the Chunshen Gate; five feet of sky south of Xiaodu City." was specially given to Du Yuesheng by Li Yuanhong.

Even the name Du Yuesheng was given by Master Zhang.

Du Yuesheng's original name was Du Yuesheng, and was later named Yong by Master Zhang, with the word Yuesheng. Yong was originally a bell-shaped instrument in ancient times, and it also means a big bell. Sheng is also an instrument, but it is a wind instrument, named Yong.

, the word is Yuesheng, the bell and tube complement each other, and the name and the word are very suitable.

When Du Yuesheng met Li Yuanhong and Master Zhang, they were both down and out. At that time, Du Yuesheng not only treated them with great respect, but also gave them a large sum of money. As the saying goes, true love is revealed when you are down. From then on, both of them were very fond of Du.

I am extremely grateful and have close contact with you.

Walking into the flower hall of the villa, four people were already sitting on the sofa, chatting leisurely.

Seeing Du Yuesheng holding Qin Chuan's hand affectionately and walking in, the four of them stood up with smiles.

Before Du Yuesheng could stand still, he laughed heartily. He pulled Qin Chuan over and said to several people, "Come, let me introduce to you. This is our famous and popular writer in Shanghai, who is a new member of the internal affairs department."

Director of the Supervision Office of the Ministry of Supervision in Shanghai, brother Qin Chuan and Qin."

Then he pointed at the four people and introduced them to Qin Chuan one by one.

According to Du Yuesheng's introduction, these four people are Lu Jingshi, the director of the Military Law Department of the Songhu Garrison Command, Chen Guangfu, the general manager of the "Commercial Savings Bank" in Shanghai, Qin Liankui, a famous lawyer in Shanghai who is known as the "Grand Lawyer of the Republic of China", and the other one is more recent.

A young man who is only a few years older, around 24 or 25 years old, is Du Weifan, the adopted son of Du Yuesheng's eldest wife, Shen Yueying.

Listening to the names of these people, Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly click his tongue. In addition to Du Weifan, who is now assisting Du Yuesheng in managing dozens of projects under the Du family's name involving finance, shipping, minerals, textiles, education, securities, film and television, catering, etc.

In various industries such as entertainment, opium dens, gambling stalls, etc., Du Yuesheng currently has more than 70 titles of chairman, manager, and chairman. Without anyone to help him, it is really difficult.

The other three are all well-known figures in Shanghai today. The fact that these people can gather under Du Yuesheng and be willing to be his younger brothers shows how powerful Du Yuesheng is.

Lu Jingshi wears glasses and is slightly bald. He has a very elegant and fair appearance. Although he is only in his thirties, his behavior is extremely capable. He was born as a postal boy in Shanghai in the 13th year of the Republic of China and gradually became prominent.

Entered the Youth Gang seven years ago

He became a disciple of Du Yuesheng, and with Du Yuesheng's help, he initiated the organization of the Postal System Federation of Trade Unions in the 18th year of the Republic of China. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, he served as an executive member of the Shanghai Special City Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang. Last year, he began to serve as the military legal director of the Songhu Garrison Command.

In addition, Lu Jingshi is also the actual presiding officer of Du Yuesheng Hengshe. Some matters of Hengshe are organized by Lu Jingshi. He is the chairman of Hengshe. Interestingly, Du Yuesheng only serves as the honorary president, and the position of president has always been vacant.

Wearing myopia glasses, Chen Guangfu has a kind face and a shrewd look. He is in his fifties and was born as an apprentice. He is very hardworking and has taught himself English. At the age of 22, he participated in the international exposition held in the United States with the Manchu envoys.

Entered the Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and returned to China after graduating in 1909.

Later, he served as the general manager of the Bank of Jiangsu Province in the late Qing Dynasty and the consultant of the Bank of the Republic of China during the Republic of China. In the 13th year of the Republic of China, he and several friends raised 100,000 yuan to establish the "Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank". In just a few years, it became its own bank.

Capital grew from 100,000 to 5 million, and he became a leader in Shanghai's financial community.

Since then, he has successively served as director of the Finance Committee of the Kuomintang Party, member of Jiangsu Province, director and managing director of the Central Bank of the Kuomintang Party, director of the Bank of Communications, and senior adviser to the Ministry of Finance of the Kuomintang Party.

Now it not only owns the Shanghai Postal Savings Bank, but also owns half of the shares of "Baofeng Insurance Company", a joint venture with Swire Pacific Bank of the United Kingdom. The "Postal Savings Bank" has grown into one of the few big banks with strong capital in Shanghai. The bank has its own

The capital has reached tens of millions, and the annual deposit and loan amount exceeds 200 million.

The intersection between Chen Guangfu and Du Yuesheng happened in the 18th year of the Republic of China. A batch of goods for which a bank loaned a huge sum of money sank in the Yangtze River. However, the savings bank suffered a run and tens of millions of deposits were withdrawn within a few days. The bank was about to

After bankruptcy and crisis, Chen Guangfu found Du Yuesheng, whom he had never interacted with before. Without saying a word, Du Yuesheng immediately squeezed out one million yuan from the property under his name.

He entered Chen Guangfu's bank, and then contacted two gambling and drug banks in Shanghai to raise two million, and deposited them all in the savings bank. Not counting this, he also recruited many bosses from various industries in Shanghai to transfer funds deposited in other banks.

It only took a few days for Chen Guangfu to completely stabilize the situation and survive Brother Nan. This is how Chen Guangfu has reached his current position in the financial world.

Qin Chuan didn't know much about Qin Liankui, except that he was the most famous lawyer in Shanghai today, specializing in handling large-scale lawsuits.

He was in contact with Du Yuesheng and even has been surrounding Du Yuesheng since then. This is all because ten years ago, when he first debuted, he lost a lot of money in a casino opened by Du Yuesheng. Not only did he lose all his cash, but he also owed four thousand

Yuan's gambling debt, nil

Nai had no choice but to sign a check for 4,000 yuan and lost almost all his belongings. What he didn't expect was that that night, Du Yuesheng had someone send the 4,000 yuan check back and told Qin Liankui that

Four thousand gambling debts were written off in one stroke.

In short, Du Yuesheng was very kind to these four people, especially Lu Jingshi and Chen Guangfu.

From the information Qin Chuan has read, I remember that Du Yuesheng often said, "Others save money, but I save favors."

Although Du Yuesheng has smooth access to both black and white channels and has made countless money, he can make money and even spend money. He not only makes friends with high-ranking officials, celebrities, intellectuals, heroes in the world, but also common people, all he wants is to sue

Everyone who came to his house tried their best to help, which gave him a wide network of contacts in Shanghai and a huge appeal. Even the bosses came to him to mediate labor disputes, and then all ended happily for both the workers and the bosses.

As a result, the Du Mansion spends more than 2 million yuan every month. In addition to the expenses of the Du Mansion, most of them are used to fund friendships.

Even when he died in Hong Kong, he only had a deposit of 110,000, but not long before, he burned all the hundreds of millions of IOUs in the safe.

Just as a few people were chatting with Qin Chuan, the servants had already prepared a banquet under the command of a butler-looking person. It seemed that these people were all close to Du Yuesheng, and they came here specifically to accompany the guests.

After the banquet was arranged, except for the six of them, all the other servants in the flower hall left, and even the door was closed tightly.

Although the banquet at Du Mansion did not have many dishes, only six meat and six vegetables, everything was extremely exquisite. Obviously a lot of effort was put into today's banquet. The drinks were white wine, red wine, and beer, and white wine and

Red wine is valuable wine that has been stored for many years.

Baijiu is the Fenjiu that has been on the market for 50 years. At this time, the famous wines in later generations are still not well-known, at least not as famous as Fenjiu. At this time, all large-scale formal banquets drink Fenjiu, and high-ranking officials and dignitaries drink Fenjiu.

The same is true.

In order not to spoil the fun, Qin Chuan only drank a small glass of Fenjiu, then claimed that he was not a good drinker and started drinking beer instead.

Like all banquets, compliments and greetings are unavoidable. Except for Du Weifan, the people here have little sense of presence. They just serve Qinchuan and add wine to everyone. The rest are famous figures from all walks of life.

Naturally, most of the time they talk about the praiseworthy aspects of the other party.

The objects of Qin Chuan's compliments were naturally Du Yuesheng, Chen Guangfu, Lu Jingshi, and Qin Liankui. In particular, he especially praised Du Yuesheng for his hard work for the 19th Route Army during the "January 28th Anti-Japanese War" in the 21st year of the Republic of China.

The army raised millions of funds and supplies, so much so that General Cai lamented that there was one person he could never forget the most, and that was Mr. Du.

The rest of the people praised Qin Chuan for his talent and his ability to publish two novels with different styles at the same time. He was called the most talented writer in Shanghai. Several people also praised Qin Chuan's poems. Lu Jingshi was even sitting at the wine table.

On the show, he recited the song "To the Oak" plagiarized by Qin Chuan with great emotion, which shocked Qin Chuan! He couldn't help but have a lot of affection for Lu Jingshi in his heart.

After three rounds of drinking, the conversation became more and more sexual and the atmosphere gradually became heated. Lu Jingshi first changed the topic.

"Brother Qin, what do you think of our Hengshe?"

Qin Chuan knew that the topic was coming, and then said with a drunken smile, "Mr. Du is brave and chivalrous, and has the benevolent style of ancient times. It is really a great thing for the country and the people that Hengshe members can gather around Mr. Du and participate in charitable deeds."

It’s a good thing, I highly praise Hengshe!”

Qin Chuan's words made everyone present look happy.

Qin Liankui pounded the table excitedly and said, "Brother Qin said it well. Needless to say, Mr. Du is a good person. Over the years, Mr. Du has saved countless lives. It can be said that he has made great contributions to the country and the people. He can be called our teacher.

Mr. Du founded Hengshe Hengshe in order to gather talented people with lofty ideals and do more and greater things that benefit the country and the people. I wonder if Brother Qin would like to join Hengshe?"

Qin Chuan highly praised Du Yuesheng as a person, especially since Du Yuesheng, like Wu Peifu, Duan Qirui and others, had strong national and patriotic feelings and remained unmoved in the face of Japanese coercion and inducement. This made Qin Chuan even more

I admire it, so I don’t resist joining Hengshe in my heart.

He knew the nature of Hengshe and the requirements of Hengshe members. There was no cumbersome membership procedure like that of a gang. Joining Hengshe was very simple. All he had to do was admit that he was a student of Du Yuesheng. This was actually the same as becoming a disciple of the gang.

It's the same property, just in different forms.

Qin Chuan stood up, nodded to Du Yuesheng and said seriously, "Mr. Du has been heroic and righteous for most of his life. Qin admires him very much and is willing to join Hengshe and take Mr. Du as his teacher."

When several people saw Qin Chuan happily agreeing to join Hengshe, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. They toasted one after another, but Du Yuesheng, who couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, stopped him and said with a smile, "Chengji still has important things to do, so I'll just drink the wine today.

There are many opportunities in the future.”

Turning back to Qin Chuan, he said, "Shanghai's police department is deeply intertwined, and almost everyone is not corrupt. They all have connections with black and white people from all walks of life, and some are even involved with high-level officials of the Kuomintang. It's not easy for you to do this in the inspection office."

Ah! I wonder what kind of charter you are, Chengji?"

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Du for your advice. Although this matter is not easy, you still have to do something. For those who are blind, I might as well kill a few chickens to show them."

Everyone understood Qin Chuan's words and breathed a sigh of relief. Du Yuesheng especially seemed much more relaxed. He was not worried about finding out his subordinates. He was worried that Qin Chuan had just gained great power and was eager to make achievements.

The rebound is too big, and Qin Chuan may not end well in the end.

"Yes."

Du Yuesheng nodded and said, "Just do what you have to do. If you have anything to do, we will help you. I will support you. When will your office be opened?"

"I have arranged for people to find an office location. Will the open recruitment of staff begin tomorrow?"

Hearing that Qin Chuan was looking for an office location, Chen Guangfu said with a smile, "No need to look. Our bank happens to have a property that was mortgaged to us. Now the loan is overdue, and the other party has agreed to use that property to repay the loan. For the time being, we will not

If you are ready to take action, why don't Chengji just make do with it for the time being? The place is big enough, and it is close to the French Concession in Luwan. You don't need to pay the rent, just give it a little gift as a meeting gift for my brother."

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that there was a useless location, and thanked him repeatedly, but Chen Guangfu smiled and said casually, "I heard that Cheng Ji was a little tight on money. He took out a loan from HSBC some time ago, but he paid it back very quickly.

It’s clear. I can’t let Chengji worry about money anymore. If you need money urgently in the future, you can come to me. No guarantee or mortgage is required. Just ask.”

After saying that, he smiled meaningfully at Qin Chuan.

Since everyone was happy at the banquet, it was already six o'clock in the evening when Qin Chuan left the Du Mansion, and Chen Guangfu took the initiative to take Qin Chuan home in his own car.
Chapter completed!