The Republic of China is a strange era. In this era, there have been many warm-blooded young people in China, and there have also been people who started from scratch until they were in an absolute monarch position in a certain area, including warlords, such as He Zhang. But there are also people who are full of rivers and lakes, such as Huang and Du.

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Personally, I think that if you want to really understand a certain historical period in detail, you can't just look at books published by publishing houses with official flavor, but also look for the most authentic history from memoirs.

We all know that. Once upon a time, there was such a great man in Shanghai, an absolute monarch and a disciple of the gate, with hundreds of people, who was very powerful. He is Huang. Cheng is Huang's favorite student and one of Huang's most trusted students. What this article says and writes are all his memories, which can be found in reading the history of the Republic of China.

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Huang was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 1868, and entered a private school at the age of 8. Speaking of it, he is still a cultured hooligan. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, his father died and he had to enter Mengjiangtang Temple to do odd jobs.

Huang entered the patrol house in the French Concession mainly with the help of his neighbor Tao. Huang and Huang are neighbors, and Huang's mother often helps her mother-in-law wash clothes. Over time, Tao's mother-in-law saw that their mother and son had a hard life and expressed deep sympathy. Once, Huang's mother Toto's mother-in-law found Huang a job in the patrol room.

1900, the patrol room openly recruited China people to patrol, and Huang signed up. At this time, Tao's son just graduated from Shanghai Sino-French School and entered the French Concession as an interpreter. Tao asked his son to say hello at the police station, so Huang was admitted to the third-class police.

At that time, only 20 people were recruited under house arrest, and later it was reorganized into a detective team (also called plainclothes detectives). Tao translator recommended Huang as the foreman, who was then called the "Twenty Party".

Huang and other big brothers.

At first, the legal power of arrest was in the hands of French detectives, and Huang was assigned to manage the public security around Shiliupu Wharf. As early as when Huang was a handyman, his ability to deal with local ruffians and hooligans was fully demonstrated, and he had long been "brothers" with hooligans and members of the Qinghong Gang in the area of the City God Temple.

After he became a policeman, he consciously "hung out" with these people, so the relationship between the dark sides of society gradually increased. It's time for him to display his talents.

First of all, he bought off a group of hooligans who used to steal with some small favors and used them to create infighting. It is amazing to use a group of thieves to catch other thieves, not to mention at that time. Sometimes, we will take the means of "thief shouting to catch thief" and "pretending to force".

He arranged a group of dreamers, arranged when and where to steal, and told another group of hooligans to report to him in the French Concession. Then he tipped off the French police and took the initiative. Then Huang personally led the team and arrested them. After these bandits were put into the patrol room, Huang arranged them one by one and released them from prison in turn. After seeing Huang solve several cases many times, the house arrest authorities paid more attention to him and his prestige gradually improved.

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Huang, who made a scene in the execution ground and bandit class in Shanghai, and the support and attention of French imperialism made Huang even more unscrupulous.

He began to attack the "upper middle class" in Shanghai. Huang carried out a series of extortion on them, and the means were extremely hidden.

He often incited some Hong Qing gang members and local ruffians to make trouble in front of shops or troubled areas, and even pretended to fight and swear, which affected the business of shops and kept customers away from troubled areas.

Huang is patrolling the streets with police and plainclothes. Everywhere he went, these hooligans ran away. Sometimes Huang will deliberately catch a few hooligans to punish them. Shopkeepers and rich people all think that Huang is really capable, and even send him money and gifts on a monthly basis during the Chinese New Year holiday, treating him as a patron saint.

Even at that time, some people posted a post to worship him as an old man, some people worshipped him as a father and some people worshipped him as a husband.

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For those rich and powerful people in Shanghai, such as Rong Desheng, who enjoys the reputation of "king of flour" and "king of cotton yarn", he kidnapped and extorted money. (I searched the website for Rong Desheng, and there was a kidnapping, but I didn't explicitly say that it was Huang Gan's. )

He instructed his confidant disciple Ding Yongchang to kidnap Rong Desheng and once extorted hundreds of thousands. As for being rich, this kind of behavior is even more common. These victims were robbed of a lot of property, and finally had to ask Huang to come forward to solve it to avoid future troubles.

The matter of power going to heaven also began with the kidnapping of Bishop Yao, a French Catholic priest. In order to open up a missionary base, he personally took a train from Shanghai to Tianjin to open a church and took several boxes of Yin and Yang with him. However, the Zhang Zongchang army, which was idle, stopped and robbed them, tied them to the supervision of urban and rural areas in Shandong, and prepared to extort huge sums of money.

This incident broke out and caused a sensation at home and abroad. The French consul attached great importance to it and asked the patrol office to solve the case as soon as possible, even offering a high price reward, but there was still no progress.

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Huang is very concerned about this matter, and he thinks it is a good opportunity for him to rise to the top. So he frantically mobilized his men to secretly look for clues. As luck would have it, this kidnapping case only got the clue from a foreign population by stripping 100 yuan. The man named Han Rongpu was an adjutant under the former Wu.

Because he is familiar with military affairs, our army and Zhang Zongchang's army are stationed near Lincheng, and both sides have heard about the bad things they did, so Han Rongpu told Huang what he heard. Huang was so happy that he immediately paid Han Rongpu 150 yuan to go back and inquire about the location of the kidnapping, and promised him a large reward.

Han Rongpu was moved by the Four Rewards. Sure enough, a few days after his return, he found out where Bishop Yao was being held. He came to Shanghai for the second time to discuss the ransom with Huang. However, Huang is scheming. After giving Han Rongpu the promised heavy money, he offered 1 0,000 yuan to let Han Rongpu buy off the guards, and promised to pay 2,000 yuan when Huang and others arrived at Bishop Yao's detention place to help them escape to other places.

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So according to the agreed date, Huang personally took a dozen plainclothes, disguised as soldiers of the Zhang Zongchang Army, and quietly rescued Bishop Yao.

Huang paid off several guards for only a few thousand yuan, and even saved Bishop Yao from danger. After the matter was settled, Huang was given the privilege of reusing the arrest room, promoted to inspector general, and sent eight policemen to protect his personal safety. At this time, Huang became more and more powerful and famous, and he became more and more loyal to French imperialism.

Gold has been the inspector general for more than 20 years, and he is still behind the scenes after retirement. After retirement, Shen Defu and Ren Shuiyang served as inspectors. Because he didn't flatter Huang, he was squeezed out by the remaining party members arranged by Huang. In the end, this position is still held by Huang's cronies.

Huang He and other senior officials.

Huang, who calls himself a generation, has never worshipped the old man or opened a fragrant hall. According to the regulations, he can't accept an apprentice, so he is called "loophole". But he calls himself "Tian Zi generation" because he has great potential. He is closely related to Zhang Jinghu and Cao of the highest generation in green gang.

Huang is greedy and pragmatic. Anyone is welcome to send money to worship him as a teacher. Therefore, he accepted as many as 3000 apprentices. Together with his disciples, his influence spread not only in Shanghai, but also in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Old Huang Jinrong sweeps the streets.

On the last day, the frail old man responded to the government's call for reform and began to sweep the street. Two years later, this famous man in Shanghai fell ill with a fever and was in a coma for a few days, then closed his eyes. At the age of 85.