There are many stories about Du Yuesheng in the world, and burning IOUs on his deathbed is probably one of the most famous stories.
This is true and has been confirmed by the descendants of the Du family.
Du Yuesheng's very promising son, Du Weishan, once talked about this incident in his oral history
Before his death, my father asked my eldest sister to take back all the IOUs that others had borrowed from him from the bank safe, and tore them up in front of our family. ”
In Du Weishan's view, his father Du Yuesheng has seen many worlds and done many great things in his life. He cares a lot about some things, for example, affection! I don't care about some things, for example, money!
If you just talk about money, how much money Du Yuesheng had in his hands back then is innumerable, and it is estimated that even he doesn't know how much. It was very simple for him to ask for money, so he went to the bank to get it, and at that time, he was a director of many banks! But at the end of his life, he didn't leave any money for his family, and when he left, he destroyed all the IOUs and IOUs that borrowed his money, and it was in front of his children. He saw through it, he just didn't want the descendants of the Du family to go to those who borrowed money, and he didn't want his children to get involved in these troublesome things.
A gangster once said that Du Yuesheng's IOU hides the rivers and lakes he understands.
Others borrowed money, set up notes, and wrote IOUs, which is the rule and a gentleman's doing, but Du Yuesheng put away the IOU, but he did not ask for debts easily, which is also his consistent style, he felt that asking for debts was suspected of falling into the ground, and he admired sending charcoal in the snow all his life, and he couldn't do this kind of thing.
But while not going into debt, Du Yuesheng collected the IOU very well, which was his ** lake's hand.
The rivers and lakes, in Du Yuesheng's place, are like a coin, the front is deep and righteous, and the back is the sinister heart.
When he was alive, he kept an IOU to guard against the sinister nature of the rivers and lakes.
When he was dying, he burned the IOU to avoid the heat and coldness of the world.
Du Yuesheng's worries are not superfluous.
According to Du Weishan, the Du family later encountered an incident that he could not forget for the rest of his life.
Du Yuesheng has a close friend named Wang Xinheng. When Wang Xinheng was in the military command, Dai Li ordered him to carry out two special missions, but he failed both times and messed things up. Dai Li was very angry, so he asked for military law and killed him, but it was Du Yuesheng who mediated and interceded twice, which saved his life.
Dai Li, in order to stand up, is very cruel to his subordinates.
Later, Wang Xinheng was marched into Tongshui Prison by Dai Liguan, tortured and lost his fertility. His wife's surname was Shou, and they did not have a child of their own, so they adopted a child. According to Tang Degang, this child's name is Wang Fangfang, and when he grew up, he worked as Zhang Xueliang's assistant in New York.
When Wang Xinheng was mixing in Shanghai, he once borrowed 50 gold bars from Du Yuesheng, and among the IOUs that Du Yuesheng burned before his death, there was Wang Xinheng's one.
Later, Wang Xinheng went to Hong Kong, because he was an old military commander and had many enemies, so he was assassinated and almost died. At that time, Du Yuesheng was about to die, but when he heard the news, he still dragged his sick body and went to the hospital to visit Wang Xinheng.
The scene of saying goodbye to his best friend Jianghu touched Dumenzhong**.
At that time, Du Men's children chatted and said that Wang Xinheng would never fail Mr. Du.
Wang Xinheng was a classmate of Chiang Ching-kuo in his early years and had a very good personal relationship. After escaping to Taiwan and breaking away from the military command, Chiang Ching-kuo gave him the position of general manager of the Taiwan Cement Company, which was the most proud period of his life at that time.
What is embarrassing is that when Wang Xinheng was at his most proud, the Du family's economic situation in Taiwan was deteriorating.
Du Yuesheng's fourth wife, Yao Yulan, who was later Du Yuesheng's de facto main room, was forced to take Du Yuesheng's youngest son, Du Weisong, who later committed suicide, to find Wang Xinheng, hoping to help arrange a job in the cement company.
With Wang Xinheng's status at that time, the power in his hands, and the connections around him, it was not difficult to help the Du family and arrange a general job.
However, when Yao Yulan sent her business card in, hoping to meet, a scene that made the Du family feel cold.
Wang Xinheng didn't even see each other at all, let alone arrange a job for the descendants of the Du family.
Eating the closed door soup without psychological preparation, Yao Yulan was very angry, and on the way back, she scolded Wang Xinheng for being the most ungrateful person.
Listening carefully to Du Weishan's oral history, it is easy to make people think that when Du Yuesheng burned the note on his deathbed, he must have told the descendants of the Du family some words.
This can be seen from the Du family's attitude towards Wang Xinheng later.
Although extremely angry, the Du family later went to Wang Xinheng to pay New Year's greetings to Wang Xinheng as usual according to the traditional etiquette.
Every time he recalls this scene, Du Weishan said that there is no scale in the hearts of ungrateful people, and Wang Xinheng owes the Du family fifty gold bars, which are as light as a feather in him. This is the sinister rivers and lakes and the hot and cold world.