Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

Shenxiang Hotel,

In the VIP guest room-——

"Godfather, now your reputation has spread throughout the Golden Triangle!" Yan Xiong handed a cup of tea to Du Yongxiao.

Du Yongxiao frowned: "Are you the one doing it again?"

"How could it be? It's all because the people here spontaneously love you. For example, the popular song "The Golden Triangle cannot be without Du Yongxiao" was created by them without any instructions from me."

Du Yongxiao took the tea and smiled: "This is really difficult for you!"

"Haha, that's right. It's worth sacrificing your life and blood for your godfather. By the way, godfather, there's something I want to report to you -" Yan Xiong's expression became serious.

"What's going on?" Du Yongxiao asked, sipping his tea.

Yan Xiong said: "Isn't it? The Thai royal family invites you to participate in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival. Before that, the Du Clan Ancestral Hall in Thailand also wants to invite you to participate in the ancestral meeting."

"Uh, what?" Du Yongxiao was stunned.

Seeing this, Yan Xiong hurriedly explained: "Godfather, don't get me wrong, it's not me using your name to show off, it's the Du Clan Ancestral Hall here that somehow knew you were from Hong Kong and happened to have a surname of Du, so they invited you. Participating in the conference together, saying that we are connected by blood, let’s get together!”

When Du Yongxiao heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry.

After asking carefully, I realized that what Yan Xiong said was true.

It was not that this group of people took the initiative to invite Du Yongxiao because they knew his identity. On the contrary, the Du family ancestral hall here knew that Du Yongxiao was from Hong Kong. In order to increase the number of people, they took the initiative to invite Du Yongxiao to participate.

To put it more bluntly, these people have no idea who Du Yongxiao is or what his status is. Just because Du Yongxiao’s surname is Du, they plan to let Du Yongxiao take advantage of it and attend the Du Ancestral Hall Conference. By then, Du Yongxiao will not only have a free meal, but also You can get to know many Thai celebrities named Du.

Du Yongxiao frowned: "You really didn't betray me?"

"How dare you? These people are also fools. They don't know that you are famous, godfather. They think you are some unknown little person. They just want to use you to make up the numbers. Of course, if you are unwilling, I will refuse this matter. Drop it to save you from trouble."

When Du Yongxiao heard what Yan Xiong said, he smiled and said: "Why are you refusing? Since you have promised me, I will go and have a look. After all, my surname is Du. It is not easy for everyone to make a living overseas, and it is even more difficult to be able to unite together - Du Clan Ancestral Hall The conference, well, it’s a good idea to go there and see how our Lao Du family is doing overseas.”

"Haha, I'll make arrangements right now!"

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The Chinese people are very hard-working, and many of them have traveled around the world and built their careers abroad. The most famous ones are Chinatowns in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other places, as well as the hundreds-of-year-old Hongmen, Qinggang and other social organizations.

Compared with these, the power of Chinese clans cannot be underestimated overseas, especially in Southeast Asia. During the first generation, major castes drifting overseas from Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places took root abroad and established clan associations to help and support each other.

It is reported that from 1920 to 1970, there were as many as 345 overseas clans and clans, with the largest number in Southeast Asia. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia were the main destinations for Chinese migration. destination.

The history of how people with the surname Du got their surname is very glorious from the historical records. It is said that one of the emperor's twenty-fifth sons was named Qi. Yao's surname was Yi Qi. The Du family came from the Qi surname and was a descendant of Emperor Yao.

During the pre-Qin period, Du family spread and multiplied in present-day Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces.

From the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Du family was widely distributed in present-day Henan, with people living in Nanyang, Neihuang, Weihui, Dengfeng, Yanshi, Xuchang, Linxian, Dengzhou, Linbao, Luoyang, Xinye and other places; Du family is more prosperous in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

In addition, present-day Sichuan, Deyang, Pengshan, Mianyang, Chengdu, Shanxi, Yongji, Taiyuan, Huoshan, Lujiang, Anhui, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Xiangyang, Hubei, Gaoyou, Jiangsu, Linzhang and Zhengding, Hebei, Weifang, Zhangqiu and other places in Shandong are also There is a settlement of Du family.

The surname Du is the 53rd most common surname in Baodao. It is mainly distributed in Taipei, followed by Miaoli, Hsinchu, Tainan, Changhua, and Taichung. It roughly started during the Yongli period of the late Ming Dynasty. In the Douliu area of ​​Yunlin, there was a man named Zheng Gongtunsheng named Du who came to cultivate the land.

At the end of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, some people with the surname Du came to establish a foundation in Houlong Town, Miaoli County; at the end of Emperor Qianlong's reign, Du Ruimao and Du Luancheng from Fujian settled in Shen'aoli, now Tamsui Town, Taipei, and so on. Some then moved overseas. Some then moved overseas. The largest one came to what is now Thailand, known as the Thai Du Clan, and is also one of the authentic Du Clan sects.

The base camp of the Du family in Thailand is in the south of Chiang Mai, Thailand. There is a large area of ​​land here that belongs to the Du family. The Du family is also very famous in this area. Even the highest official in Chiang Mai has to be respectful and address the elders of the Du family as "Old Master" when meeting the elders of the Du family.

When Du Yongxiao arrived at the Du family's ancestral hall with the invitation letter, the outside of the Du family's mansion was already bustling with excitement. Many Du family members came from all over Thailand as if celebrating the New Year, and some local wealthy nobles also came to celebrate.

In fact, Thailand's Du Clan held this ancestral hall meeting with the help of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Conference for a purpose.

Thailand's economy is developing rapidly, and major forces inside and outside the government are competing with each other. Du is not willing to be a bystander in this competition, and wants to stand up and become a competitor. However, Du's power in Thailand has not yet reached that level. For this reason We can only rely on this ancestral meeting to show our ability and let both the inside and outside of Thailand see how united and powerful the Du family is, so as to gain bargaining chips.

The ancestor of the Thai Du family is called Du Xingbang. He came to Thailand fifty years ago and is now eighty years old. He has branched out and has three branches, namely Du Tianlong, Du Tianhu and Du Tianbao. These three branches continue to grow, and now the Du family has become a large family of hundreds of people.

In addition to this main branch, this time Du Xingbang also invited other branches of the Thai Du family to come, and there are actually hundreds of people in total.

Among them, the branch of Shanghai tycoon Du Yuesheng has the greatest reputation.

As we all know, on August 16, 1951, accompanied by his lover Meng Xiaodong and his children, the former "Shanghai Emperor" Du Yuesheng died of illness in Hong Kong. That year, he was only 63 years old.

Before his death, Du Yuesheng left two last words, one of which was: "Don't let future generations go to the underworld"!

The powerful gangster Du Yuesheng left such a last words, which is tantamount to telling the world: he had to go to the underworld in this life, and this road is not a good one.

Such Du Yuesheng is far from the glorious him in the eyes of the world.

In the eyes of the world, Du Yuesheng, who has power, status, and beauty, is a model of a successful man. The most important thing is that although he has been in the underworld all his life, he has lived as a true gentleman.

Du Yuesheng is still not satisfied with such an ending, just because: he is more sensitive to the black and white in the world than ordinary people. People say that things will turn around when they reach the extreme, and good times will come after bad times. Perhaps it is because of his deep involvement in the underworld that Du Yuesheng has such a great desire for "whiteness".

Du Yuesheng's desire for "whiteness" is almost a "complex".

In a sense, the gangster leader Du Yuesheng has been trying to get rid of his "black identity" since the day he joined the gang.

People who know Du Yuesheng know that he is the least like a gangster in the gang. The reason for this is that for Du Yuesheng, joining the gang was originally a helpless choice when he was desperate.

Glamour has always belonged to "white" and not to "black". Fortunately, Du Yuesheng's descendants finally realized his ideal.

Du Yuesheng had eight sons and three daughters in his life, including Du Weifan, the eldest son born to his first wife Shen Yueying; Du Weihuan, Du Weihan, and Du Weining, the three sons born to his second wife Chen Guoying; Du Weiping and Du Weixin, the two sons born to his third wife Sun Peihao; four children born to his fourth wife Yao Yulan, sons Du Weishan and Du Weisong, daughters Du Meiru and Du Meixia; and Du Meijuan, the adopted daughter of his fifth wife Meng Xiaodong. The 11 children all respected their father very much, and the eldest son and the third son even revealed that they wanted to be like their father. But after Du Yuesheng's last words were announced, each of them followed their father's will and did not go to the underworld.

Du Yuesheng's eldest son Du Weifan eventually became a senior employee of a bank in Taiwan, while his second son Du Weihuan chose to go into politics and later worked at the United Nations headquarters.

The third and fourth sons Du Weiping and Du Weixin became businessmen, and their businesses were mostly concentrated in Brazil, the United States and other places.

Du Yuesheng's fifth son Du Weihan stayed in Shanghai to work after graduating from the Huangpu Military Academy. Although he graduated from a military academy, he was as gentle and elegant as his father, with a scholarly and elegant temperament.

The sixth son Du Weining has been doing an extremely ordinary job and finally died in Shanghai.

The seventh son Du Weishan first worked in the geological department of Taiwan, and then moved to Canada to do business. Du Weishan is one of the children of Du Yuesheng who has appeared more frequently. In addition to being a businessman, he is also a well-known collector of ancient coins.

The Thai line is actually Du Yuesheng's third and fourth sons.

For Du Xingbang, the old grandfather of the Du family, his power and status only fear the challenge from Du Yuesheng's lineage. As for other people, he doesn't take them seriously, including Du Yongxiao, who is now famous in Thailand.

Du Yongxiang's reputation in the Golden Triangle does not mean that he is famous in Thailand.

The Thai royal family and the Thai government are afraid of Du Yongxiao's reputation, so they deliberately restrict his publicity, so that few people know that Du Yongxiang is now the veritable "King of the Golden Triangle" and the future "Emperor of the Golden Triangle", and his power and status can even be compared with the royal families of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand.

Thailand's low-key publicity of Du Yongxiao has led to many Thais not knowing that there is a great god Du Yongxiao nearby.

Du Xingbang, the old grandfather of the Du family, doesn't know.

He is a person of prominent status and well-informed. Even he doesn't know the specific identity of Du Yongxiao, let alone others.

Then again, the reason why Grandpa Du took the initiative to invite Du Yongxiao this time was because by chance, someone was looking for Du clan members at the hotel and invited them to attend the ancestral temple meeting. Du Yongxiao's name happened to be heard by them, so they were invited to make up the number.

According to Grandpa Du, the more Du bloodlines there were at this meeting, the better, as it would seem that there was strength in numbers.

On the one hand, they could demonstrate to the Thai government and thus obtain special preferential treatment from the government, at least to allocate a few seats to Du clan members, so that Du clan members could have a say in the government and opposition in Thailand.

Secondly, they announced to the major Du clan organizations in Thailand that the Du clan was the most authentic in Thailand. Even if he was Du Yuesheng's son, so what? He was not as prosperous as Du Xingbang's family.

It can be said that Grandpa Du held such a grand event at this time with the purpose of killing two birds with one stone.

When Du Yongxiao came to the Du family mansion, the people here did not realize who they had invited, and thought that Du Yongxiao was just a casual Du clan member.

When Du Yongxiao paid his respects to Old Grandpa Du, Old Grandpa Du looked at him with contempt, and treated him as a junior. He encouraged Du Yongxiao casually with a few words and then let Du Yongxiao stay.

Du Taigong was like this, not to mention Du Tianlong, Du Tianhu and Du Tianbao, who didn't take Du Yongxiao seriously. They kept flattering those powerful people and left Du Yongxiao aside.

Du Yongxiao was not angry about this. He came here just to play a show. After all, they all had the surname Du, so they gave each other face.

Therefore, Du Yongxiao didn't care about the contempt of Du Taigong and others. Instead, he chatted with people in the crowd and talked about some gossip.

No one knew who he was, and no one could flatter him. This kind of "freedom" of not being valued and not being the focus of the crowd felt really good.

Soon, more and more people came to attend the Du clan ancestral hall meeting.

The Du family mansion was a very traditional Thai building with three floors, covering hundreds of acres and a large garden, but even so, so many people gathered together and it seemed a bit crowded.

In order to distinguish these people, according to Du Taigong's intention, they were divided into three waves.

The first wave is the most honorable, and the Du family needs to flatter them. They include senior government officials and people sent by the royal family to congratulate.

The second wave is the big Thai families that are on par with the Du family, such as the Bayu family in Thailand.

The third wave is those who are weaker than the Du family and come to flatter the Du family this time.

In addition, there are some people who come to join the crowd, such as Du Yongxiao, who is one of this kind. They stand with the third wave of people and are even shorter than the third wave of people.

Some people have complaints about this distinction made by Du Taigong, thinking that the Du family is snobbish, while others think that it should be like this. After all, the noble and the humble cannot be together. The noble should be high above, and the humble should be stepped on. Otherwise, who will struggle? Who will rush to be the superior?

In this regard, Du Yongxiao said nothing. He only cared about eating and drinking. No matter which class he was assigned to, he was happy.

Seeing him so heartless, several members of the Du family who also came to join the group couldn't help but sigh and say that Du Yongxiao was heartless and could still eat at a time like this.

In response, Du Yongxiao just smiled and didn't argue.

Everyone looked down on him even more, thinking that he was of humble status and didn't even have self-esteem!