I have a promising career when I first arrived in Shanghai.
Lin Guisheng, who was born in Suzhou, came to Shanghai at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, most people's lives were not very good. It was not easy for a girl who was only in her twenties to live in Shanghai, a place where fish and dragons are mixed, but she was not as content with the ordinary as other women. She chose the most profitable business in Shanghai at that time by virtue of her unique ability to examine and judge, and opened a brothel called "Fireworks Room".
Lin Guisheng is from Suzhou, and it has been said that Suzhou produces beauty since ancient times. Needless to say, Lin Guisheng is the youngest and most beautiful "procuress" in the industry. Lin Guisheng's brothel soon won the support of dignitaries and social loafers. At the same time, relying on her business sense, she chose Suzhou girls among all Shanghai women in the local area. The girls there are young and beautiful, and many people are willing to go to her. She is very business-minded. No matter who she is, she can get on well with people, and she can get both ends meet. She also established a network foundation for the later establishment of Shanghai green gang. Lin Guisheng's brothel, like a "sudden emergence", soon became the best business in the industry.
Meet a lover and become green gang.
Lin Guisheng's brothel business soon became famous. Her brothel has many people who come here, but how can Lin Guisheng, an unusual woman, just feel at ease in a small brothel? Soon, Lin Guisheng met someone who shared her interests. On one occasion, a young French concession patrolman visited Lin Guisheng's business. This person was Huang Jinrong and later Lin Guisheng's husband. At this time, Huang Jinrong was just a small policeman, and he was not a celebrity in Shanghai at that time. Huang Jinrong fell in love with Lin Guisheng at first sight, and he was attracted by the amorous feelings of Lin Guisheng. When Lin Guisheng first met Huang Jinrong, he saw his value at a glance and felt that Huang Jinrong was a very ambitious man. Huang Jinrong later launched several enthusiastic pursuits for Lin Guisheng, and they soon got together. Huang Jinrong was nine years older than Lin Guisheng, which was also a common phenomenon at that time. They got married in Suzhou not long after they met.
After they got married, they chose to return to Shanghai again and settled down in a zone where no matter what. Lin Guisheng and Huang Jinrong are both ambitious people, and it is impossible to feel at ease with a brothel and a small patrolman. Therefore, Lin Guisheng resolutely decided to sell the "fireworks room" where he could earn a lot of money and make a comeback. Both of them are careerists, and their instinct is almost to study how to get the maximum benefit for themselves. Huang Jinrong has always wanted to expand his power, so Lin Guisheng suggested to him to set up his own gang, take the 16th shop in the no-care zone as the base of the gang, openly recruit disciples from all over the world, secretly run gangster business, accumulate money and expand his power. In this way, the prototype of green gang, the first gangster in Shanghai, came into being.
Develop green gang's famous earthquake.
The two of them used the contacts and money they had accumulated in the past to expand their power and secretly carry out business with obvious illegal nature in the underground. They engaged in the black industry, while recruiting disciples online, and Du Yuesheng, another tycoon in green gang, came in at this time. With many years' experience in knowing people, Lin Guisheng felt that Du Yuesheng was a rare talent when he first met him. Facts have proved that Lin Guisheng's vision of knowing people is correct. But Lin Guisheng didn't know Du Yuesheng at that time, so she gave Du Yuesheng 2000 yuan to test him. The fact didn't disappoint Lin Guisheng, so Du Yuesheng cleared the old scores for his brothers with the money. It can be seen from here that Du Yuesheng is an extremely loyal person, and in this way, Lin Guisheng introduced him to Huang Jinrong. Later, Du Yuesheng became sworn brothers with Huang Jinrong, becoming a great help to green gang and one of the three tycoons in green gang. On the road to becoming a gangster, Du Yuesheng could not do without Lin Guisheng's support.
Even after Lin Guisheng and Huang Jinrong divorced, Du Yuesheng had great respect for Lin Guisheng. With the efforts of the leaders of Du Yuesheng, Lin Guisheng, Zhang Xiaolin and Huang Jinrong, the development of the sect is getting bigger and bigger. Although the number of disciples in green gang was not the largest at that time, it was undoubtedly the most powerful in Shanghai. With the development of gangs, Huang Jinrong's position in Shanghai is rising day by day. Huang Jinrong's success was inseparable from Lin Guisheng's help, from being a small patrolman to an inspector and then to an inspector general.
Lin Guisheng is called "Bai Xiangsao" locally, which means "rogue elder sister", so we can see how unusual Lin Guisheng is. Although Lin Guisheng is one of the founders of green gang, after Lin Guisheng became famous, she retired from the background for Huang Jinrong and returned to her family to be a good wife and mother. As an extremely self-reliant and independent woman, Lin Guisheng was willing to give up her career for Huang Jinrong, which shows how much she loved Huang Jinrong at that time. She also has a request for Huang Jinrong, that is, she can only be a woman, not concubinage, not to have an affair. Huang Jinrong also agreed at that time.
Husband betrayed and left home to save himself.
Lin Guisheng retired from the background. With the development of green gang, Huang Jinrong got more and more power and money, and their love became farther and farther with their career success. After Huang Jinrong made his fortune, he became more and more inflated. At that time, he forgot all about his promise to Lin Guisheng, and Lin Guisheng was no longer a beautiful young girl. In this way, Huang Jinrong had other ideas, and his brothers Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin embraced wives and concubines, which made his heart even more unbalanced. At this moment, he took aim at a popular actor in Shanghai-Lu Lanchun.
In order to pursue Lu Lanchun, he made many bookings just to watch him sing a play. He not only paid for the bookings, but also let newspapers publicize them. It can be said that he spared no effort. Lu Xiaojia, the son of Lu Yongxiang, a former warlord, gave Lu Lanchun a drink, and Huang Jinrong had him beaten up. Later, he was kidnapped. From this, we can see that Huang Jinrong was fascinated by Lu Lanchun at that time. Huang Jinrong is not the powerless young man at the beginning, but he has become a figure in Shanghai. For Lu Lanchun, even if this man is more than 30 years older than her, it is enough to have the right and wealth.
Huang Jinrong had already given birth to the idea of marrying this beautiful woman home, so Lu Lanchun relied on Huang Jinrong's love for her and put forward the requirement that if she wanted to marry him, she could only be a wife and not a concubine. Huang Jinrong has been infatuated with what she says at this moment.
He went home without saying anything and brought it up with Lin Guisheng, but Lin Guisheng, a woman with such a strong personality, couldn't stand Huang Jinrong's having another woman, so how could she give in and be a concubine? After several unsuccessful negotiations, Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng filed for divorce. Lin Guisheng's heart is undoubtedly painful in the face of this lover who has betrayed himself. But Huang Jinrong insisted on marrying Lu Lanchun home at this time, so she left 50,000 yuan as a breakup fee to let Lin Guisheng leave. At first, Lin Guisheng would argue with Huang Jinrong and get angry, but after several times, she was completely disappointed with Huang Jinrong, her former lover.
She moved out of there and went to an apartment on Seymour Road in Shanghai. Huang Jinrong got what she wanted and married Lu Lanchun back home. Lu Lanchun didn't really love Huang Jinrong. After she became Huang Jinrong's wife, Lu Lanchun stole money from home back and forth, and later she was with another niche. Only when Huang Jinrong discovered that he was remorseful did he know Lin Guisheng's pain at that time, and only then did he know that Lin Guisheng loved himself the most. But regret is useless. Even though he planted more than 600 osmanthus trees in his yard to keep Lin Guisheng, Lin Guisheng's heart for him is dead.
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Lin Guisheng has been living in an apartment on Seymour Road since he moved there. She and Huang Jinrong didn't have children, which may be related to her early experience. Lin Guisheng died in the apartment in 198 1 at the age of 104. In a sense, it was a good end, and he was not brought with him when he was born, and he was left without care when he died. Lin Guisheng's life as a woman is legendary, starting with a brothel and then establishing green gang. A woman's achievements in such a complicated social background at that time should not be underestimated. If she had not been betrayed by her lover and was disheartened, perhaps the story she left to future generations would be even more wonderful. Later generations have both good and bad comments on her. I think people should be understood at multiple levels, and people should not be defined at will. At least, I admire Lin Guisheng's courage and self-improvement.