If the owner of a company often doesn't come home at night and his family doesn't know anything about his whereabouts, his wife is likely to suspect that he is having an affair outside. For example, there is such a capitalist, who often does not come home at night, and his wife asks him what he is doing outside, and he only answers that he is doing business, and as for other things, he never talks about it.
The wife is curious about her husband's whereabouts and gradually begins to wonder if he is having an affair. His wife asked him what he was doing, if there was a woman outside, and the capitalist just shook his head helplessly, with a painful expression, but said nothing.
The capitalist's name was Lu Xuzhang, he was born in 1911 and worked hard to create a large company.
Lu Xuzhang's life is like a roller coaster, from a business giant to a red **, his story is full of drama and legend. He has intersections with many Kuomintang bigwigs, and some of them are even his business backers.
His business is very large, there are branches all over the country, and when the development is at its best, the company's assets are as high as tens of billions. He was called a "capitalist"! However, his family life was not harmonious.
He was busy with business, often away from home, and often went out in the middle of the night. His wife, Mao Meiying, became suspicious of him, and she found that he always didn't come home at night, or came back late.
She began to suspect that he had someone outside. Once, when he came back very late, Mao Meiying couldn't help but get angry: "What are you doing outside?" As usual, he talked about business with a few friends.
However, Mao Meiying did not let him "pass". She cried more and more sadly, but he could not speak, just sat and sighed. It wasn't until around the time of the founding of New China that the truth was told to everyone: he was the red of our party!
Why is Lu Xuzhang the red ** of our party? How did he get involved? Why didn't you even tell your wife for so many years? Let's listen to the author in detail. The story of Lu Xuzhang's fortune began in 1925, when he was only 14 years old.
He dropped out of school and decided to go to Shanghai to make a living and break out of the world. His story teaches us that everyone has the potential to become a legend, as long as we dare to pursue our dreams, not be afraid of difficulties, and have the courage to challenge.
Welcome to Shanghai, Lu Xuzhang joined the steamship company to get familiar with the business, and attended the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Business Tutorial Night School to learn how to run business and calculate accounts.
He grew up in a rice shop, had a strong interest in business, and learned quickly. After accumulating knowledge and experience, the young Lu Xuzhang had his own entrepreneurial idea.
In 1932, he and his friends founded Everbright Bank, which mainly dealt in Western medicine and medical equipment, but due to lack of funds, it closed down in less than half a year. This failure made him realize that he could not carry out any business without money.
In 1933, he and his partners founded the Chinese Bank, which continued to deal in western medicine and medical devices, and expanded its mailing business. With the company's profitability, Lu Xuzhang increased investment and expanded the scale of operation in the second year, and the vast number of Chinese banks gradually became a small-scale western medicine firm.
Although Lu Xuzhang is a businessman, he loves his motherland deep in his heart. In elementary school, he was exposed to revolutionary ideas, and later in Shanghai, as the revolutionary situation developed, he gradually became involved.
In 1937, Lu Xuzhang participated in the training class for anti-Japanese and rescue cadres led by the Shanghai underground party, received revolutionary education, and joined the Communist Party of China in October of the same year under the introduction of Yang Haolu, a member of the Communist Party.
In the vast number of Chinese banks, Lu Xuzhang actively recruited party members, and even developed his own partners into party members, making the vast number of Chinese banks a secret contact point. However, Lu Xuzhang cannot remain indifferent to the current situation.
As the Japanese army continued to occupy China's territory, the people were forced to move to Chongqing, and Lu Xuzhang could only develop the vast number of Chinese banks to the southwest and set up a branch in Kunming.
However, he finally chose to go to Chongqing and began his work on the hidden front. In January 1939, the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China was formally established in Chongqing, and he served as secretary.
During this period, the Southern Bureau was in dire need of cadres, so Lu Xuzhang was transferred to Chongqing and began his work on the hidden front.
After the recommendation of Liu Xiao, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Lu Xuzhang was finally chosen. Why is that? There are two reasons for this. First, Lu Xuzhang did an excellent job in Shanghai, organizing fundraising, supporting the anti-Japanese resistance, and participating in charity performances ......Lu Xuzhang's many activities in Shanghai have been very good.
Second, it was precisely because of his excellent work that he was targeted by enemy agents. For the sake of safety, he had to let him go. Prior to this, Lu Xuzhang had already decided to go to the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese volunteers in Jiangnan, and his superiors also approved it.
However, on his way to Chongqing, some things happened. The organization informed him to go to Chongqing to become a "capitalist", which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while, and he still wanted to go to the New Fourth Army to kill devils.
The organization told him that he was asked to go to Chongqing so that he could use the vast number of Chinese banks to establish a secret base there, transmit news, carry out economic work, and accept the leadership of the first party.
Only then did Lu Xuzhang understand the organizational arrangement, and he didn't want to go to the New Fourth Army, so he went directly to Chongqing. After arriving in Chongqing, in order to carry out the work smoothly, it is natural to need camouflage.
Lu Xuzhang is a capitalist on the surface, so he must be a capitalist. The vast number of China Bank set up branches in Chongqing, and went to Kunming, Chengdu, Xi'an and other places to operate Western medicine and purchase medical equipment; On the one hand, we make friends with all kinds of people, build good relationships with all parties, and attract investment.
Late one night in the summer of 1940, Lu Xuzhang took advantage of the night to come to the Eighth Route Army office in Chong**yan Village, he came here to meet a person, that is, ***
As soon as they met, Lu Xuzhang seemed very excited, and immediately stepped forward to shake hands: "Vice Chairman Zhou, hello." * smiled and said to him: "Comrade Lu Xuzhang, hello!
This is the first time we've met! After the two sat down, they went straight to the point and chatted with him about their work: "Comrade Lu Xuzhang, after you come to Chongqing, you will directly contact me for your future work, and the majority of party members within the Bank of China will contact you, but you can't contact the underground party in Chongqing." ”
I understand that this is for security reasons. Lu Xuzhang nodded. ** Chatted with Lu Xuzhang all night until the rooster crows outside, and it will soon be dawn.
In order to avoid being discovered by the agents, he must leave quickly. Before leaving, ** held his hand again and said to him: "The latent work is very difficult, you're a 'capitalist' to play a good role, like a lotus, out of the mud without staining, dealing with people from all walks of life, remember to be in the same stream and not dirty!" ”
Vice Chairman Zhou, I took note of it. Lu Xuzhang nodded solemnly, and then left Hongyan Village. On the way back, Lu Xuzhang's mood couldn't calm down for a long time, and the words kept ringing in his ears, and the battle that belonged to him was coming!
After the vast number of Huaxing set up a branch in Chongqing, on the one hand, it was not difficult for Lu Xuzhang to operate, after all, he had also opened the company for so long and had brains.
The difficult thing is that if you want to open a good company in Chongqing and obtain intelligence, you can't do it without knowing a few Kuomintang **.
Due to the introduction of his business partner, Lu Xuzhang met Shi Gongmeng, the commissioner of Chiang Kai-shek's chamberlain, Liang Ruojie, a major general of the Military Command Bureau, and others. He curryed favor with these Kuomintang ** through warm exchanges and gifts, and soon established a close relationship with them.
At a banquet, Shi Gongmeng was a little drunk, and Lu Xuzhang said to him: "We are all from Zhejiang, you just have to come to my house in the future, my wife can make your favorite Zhejiang cuisine ......."Shi Gongmeng was moved, because Zhejiang had already fallen, and they were forced to come to Chongqing, far away from home, who doesn't want to go home?
Who doesn't want to eat a bite of hometown food? After a sip of wine, Shi Gongmeng promised Lu Xuzhang that he would help him in the future. After that, Shi Gongmeng often came to Lu Xuzhang, and he always lived in the dormitory of the vast number of Huaxing, and Lu Xuzhang treated him with good wine and meat.
Relying on these two "talismans", it is more convenient for Lu Xuzhang to engage in underground work.
Lu Xuzhang is the boss of the vast number of China Bank, and his life experience is full of legends. This small company eventually became a large company with deep funds and a tough back-office.
In just a few years, Xiaohua Bank has set up branches in major cities and established a cooperative relationship with Squibb, the second largest pharmaceutical company in the United States. Some people will say that in this case, the vast number of Chinese banks must have made a lot of money, right?
That's natural, so where does all this money end up with? Let's list a statistic, and you will understand that in the 11 years from 1937 to 1948, the vast number of Chinese banks raised funds for the party organization and earned profits of nearly 4 million US dollars!
What is the concept? It's more than 20 million yuan now, let alone at that time? Generally speaking, if the organization receives ** and US dollars donated by overseas Chinese, it will be handed over to Lu Xuzhang and asked him to exchange it for cashier's notes and fiat currency circulating in the market, put them in a sack, and deliver them to the joint location in the middle of the night.
If the amount is large, Lu Xuzhang needs to escort him personally. Lu Xuzhang has established a good relationship with those Kuomintang leaders, not only running the vast number of Chinese banks and providing convenience for the party's transfer of funds, but also covering many cadres to and from the occupied areas and the rear, using planes not only to resell, but also to send Western medicine, medical equipment and ...... to the party
After returning home, Mao Meiying obviously had some questions, looking at her husband who was wiping his sweat, she asked, "Why do you have to sell medicine in the middle of the night?" Do you want a general manager to load the car himself, isn't it ......?Lu Xuzhang put down the towel that wiped his sweat, he felt that his wife should have seen something, and said with a smile: "Is it what? ”
Mao Meiying was a little hesitant: "Don't you ......."You are ......Communist Party? Lu Xuzhang pretended to laugh: "How can you think that I am a communist? I'm just a businessman, and the price offered by the Eighth Route Army is high, so why can't I sell it?
Don't tell anyone about this, you're going to lose your head if you do. Mao Meiying saw Lu Xuzhang say this, so she didn't doubt it, and said to him: "I know, I won't talk nonsense." ”
Although Mao Meiying did not suspect that Lu Xuzhang was a communist, she suspected that he had someone outside. In the eyes of the outside world, Lu Xuzhang is a successful capitalist, who wants money and is familiar with the major Kuomintang leaders.
Lu Xuzhang often goes in and out of hotels and restaurants, and interacts with all kinds of people, among whom there will inevitably be women. With more exposure, who knows what will happen? Besides, Lu Xuzhang always goes out at night, and when he goes out, he either comes back in the middle of the night, or he doesn't come back all night, so let Mao Meiying live at home alone, how can he not think about it?
In the face of his wife's doubts, Lu Xuzhang couldn't say how bitter he was, how much he wanted to tell his wife the truth, but as soon as he thought of ***'s instructions, he controlled himself with reason, buried these thoughts in his heart, and endured them silently.
His wife didn't know the truth, and Lu Xuzhang's former friends didn't know either. In the early years, they came into contact with Lu Xuzhang and felt that he was an aspiring progressive young man.
Unexpectedly, after going to Chongqing, he became a capitalist who colluded with the Kuomintang reactionaries. Those friends looked down on Lu Xuzhang in their hearts, and some even wrote to him to persuade him to "know that he was lost", which was quite good.
What's more, he directly said that he was "obsessed with money and in the company of wealth wolves". Lu Xuzhang's personality is already relatively upright, and dealing with the Kuomintang has made him very tired, but he didn't expect to be scolded and ridiculed by his wife and friends, how can he stand it?
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Xuzhang could finally get rid of these troubles and show his true face.
On the occasion of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Xuzhang asked *** for instructions to go to Yan'an, but the organization had already arranged for him to lurk in Shanghai. Lu Xuzhang felt very uncomfortable, because he felt that being a capitalist was more uncomfortable than asking for his life.
** knew his feelings, but he still encouraged Lu Xuzhang to start from the party's cause and continue to be a good "red capitalist". Lu Xuzhang obeyed the organization's arrangement, and soon after arriving in Hong Kong, he was arranged to go to Hebei to study.
In May 1949, when Shanghai was liberated, it was decided to transfer Lu Xuzhang back, and he became a capable cadre in Shanghai. Although some people reported that Lu Xuzhang was a "capitalist", the party and ** disclosed his true identity, he is the red of our party**.
Lu Xuzhang, a person who has contributed to the cause of foreign affairs after the founding of New China, has been paying for the country and the party all his life, and is worthy of the praise of "out of the mud but not stained, clear and clear without demons".
In 1984, when he was already 73 years old, he was assigned to return to his hometown of Ningbo to advise on the city's development plan. Let us pay our deepest respect to Mr. Lu Xuzhang!