Yu qiaqing

Yu qiaqing

Yu qiaqing (1867-april 26, 1945), a native of Cixi, Zhejiang Province, was a patriotic national capitalist and shipping magnate in modern China.

In 1881, he went to Shanghai as an apprentice. Since 1892, he has successively served as comprador of Deutsche Bank Lulin, Sino Russian Dao Sheng Bank and ABN AMRO Bank. Since 1898, he participated in the negotiation with the Council of the French concession in the Siming office incident. In 1906, he initiated the organization of the Chinese team of the International Business League. In 1908, he set up Siming bank, and later organized Nanyang Business Association as vice president. Ningshao, Sanbei and Hongan shipping companies were founded successively. The three companies had more than 30 ships with a gross tonnage of more than 91000 tons, ranking first among the domestic private shipping companies at that time.

He supported the restoration of Shanghai in the revolution of 1911. In 1920, he co founded the Shanghai Stock Exchange and served as the chairman. He also served as president of the National Association of industry and commerce, President of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, etc. During the May 30th Movement, in the name of the May 30th incident Committee of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, he arbitrarily revised the terms of negotiation with the imperialists and proposed to stop the strike. In 1927, he supported Chiang Kai Shek to launch the "April 12" counter revolutionary coup. Later, he served as a director of the Shanghai special Municipal Council, a supervisor of the central bank, a member of the National Economic Committee of the Kuomintang government, and a member of the board of directors of the public concession Administration for Industry and commerce. During the Anti Japanese War, he organized Sino Italian shipping company in Shanghai, and served as the president of Shanghai refugee relief association. He managed to make a profit by selling rice. In 1941, he went to Chongqing and organized Sanmin and Sanbei transportation companies to transport materials and support the Anti Japanese war. On April 26, 1945, he died in Chongqing. In November of the next year, he was buried in Longshan, his hometown of Cixi, Ningbo.

Life of the characters

Childhood anecdotes

Yu qiaqing, born in 1867, has a poor family. His father's name is Wanfeng, and Yu Wanfeng has three brothers. Wanfeng lives in a young age and is unable to start a family because of poverty. Later, through matchmaking, he married a woman surnamed Fang in Fanshi. After passing through the family, Fang gave birth to two sons, named ruiyue in the first place, namely Yu qiaqing, and Ruifang in the second place. Yu qiaqing's father died when he was 6 years old, and his mother worked hard to make a living. After studying in a private school for three or four years, Yu qiaqing dropped out of school because of his poor family. He collected clams and snails in the sea and subsidized his family. Yu's mother is hardworking, kind and reasonable. It is said that at that time there was a man named Yu Runfu in Longshan who built a big house in the countryside, which aroused the envy of the villagers. Yu's mother said to her young son, "if you get rich when you are old, you should do something beneficial to your hometown instead of just enjoying it for yourself." Yu qiaqing was extremely filial to his mother, and he did everything his mother ordered him to do. In addition to being close to women, he is self reliant and thrifty, and his expenses on food and clothing are only equal to those of the middle class. They are willing to donate money to their hometown's public welfare undertakings, such as setting up parks, running schools, setting up ferry ports, and building small railways. According to the price calculation before the August 13 incident, his public welfare funds in Longshan area almost exceeded all his property at that time. This shows that Ningbo people have a strong sense of local culture, but their nature has something to do with their mother's education.

When Yu Qiaqing first arrived in Shanghai apprenticeship, he left the boat at the sixteen paving pier. It happened to be raining hard. He was afraid that the cloth shoes were wet. He went barefoot to Rui Kang's painting line and was regarded as "barefoot God of wealth" by his boss. It is said that the boss dreamt that someone would come to help him the night before yesterday. Later, when Yu qiaqing came, the boss gave him a different look.

Make a fuss in court

In the first month of this year, Li Huang, an official family member of Guangdong nationality, came from Guangdong Province, Sichuan Province, and sailed through Shanghai by Yangtze river steamer. It is the custom of Cantonese people to keep maidservants. The more maidservants there are, the more prominent the master is. Li Huang had more than ten maidservants with him, but they were suspected to be human trafficking by the house detective. Li Huang was detained and interrogated in the joint trial court. Jin Gongbo is the Deputy Judge, and the jury is the British Deputy Consul. After interrogation, he ordered Li Huang's family to be sent to the women's detention center for further investigation. However, de weimen suspected that Jin Gong was protecting her and forced her to be sent to prison. The two men argued in court. When Jin Gongbo exercised his power, he ordered the British sergeant on duty to send Li Huang to the women's detention center according to the sentence. Instead of obeying the order, the British Sergeant bolted the gate of the court, reprimanded him loudly, even raised his hand to beat him, which aroused the public indignation of the Chinese in the audience. They stood up to protect him and beat him. The news spread and set off a chain reaction. Among the citizens, those who had been bullied and oppressed by the concession captains responded and immediately went on strike in Shanghai to protest.

There was a wave of mobs encircling and patrolling everywhere. One of the patrolling houses was set on fire by the mobs, so that the patrolling officers did not dare to come out on duty and all of them went off duty. The British concession authorities even ordered the arrest of five or six hundred people, which was unprecedented disorder. Yuan Haiguan of Shanghai Daotai and Guan jiongzhi, the chief judge of the joint trial court, repeatedly negotiated with no result. At the right time, the Qing government sent five ministers, including zaizae, duanfang, Dai Hongci, Li Shengduo and Shang Qiheng, to study abroad. They passed through Shanghai, fearing that the situation would expand and it would be difficult to end. After consulting with Su Songtai and Yuan Haiguan, they selected Zhu Baosan, Zhou Jinzhen, Shi Ziying and Yu qiaqing as representatives to mediate with the Ministry of industry. But the British were unreasonable and the mediation was fruitless. Zhu Baosan, Zhou Jinzhen, and Shi Ziying traveled several times, but they felt that they could not solve the problem. Yu qiaqing was the only one left. Every night, he invited leaders from all walks of life to discuss countermeasures. From time to time, he told the authorities of the Ministry of industry about his interests. The Qing government sent Zhou Fu, Minister of Nanyang and governor of Liangjiang, to Shanghai to investigate the case The Ministry of industry and the Bureau apologized to the Chinese authorities and withdrew the assault on the head of the Chinese official. Li Huang and the Chinese arrested for the strike were all released. The opening of the market was held at the same time. After the conditions were agreed, Su Songtai Dao, yuan Haiguan, the chief judge of the joint trial court, Guan jiongzhi, and business representative Yu qiaqing walked Nanjing Road to persuade the stores to open. After this incident, Yu qiaqing's reputation in Shanghai was greatly improved.

The revolution of 1911

Yu qiaqing supported the revolution of 1911 in that period. He once vacated his house for secret activities of the alliance, sent people to protect the safety of Chen Qimei, the head of the Shanghai Branch of the alliance, and donated money to solve the financial difficulties of the interim government. In 1915, in order to oppose the twenty-one articles proposed by Japan, he organized a national salvation fund group in Shanghai to expand its strength, safeguard national industry and crack down on Japanese goods. However, in the early 1920s, Yu qiaqing was involved in the struggle of warlords. Because he supported Duan Qirui's Beiyang government, he was harassed by the direct warlord sun Chuanfang. In 1924, Duan Qirui appointed him president of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and vice president of all China Chamber of Commerce. In October of the next year, he had to resign under the pressure of sun Chuanfang.

During the 1911 Revolution, Yu qiaqing actively supported Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary activities and opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor in the second revolution. At the beginning of the May 30th anti imperialist movement, he supported strike and strike, and then reduced the negotiation conditions to compromise with the imperialist forces. Before and after the great revolution, he supported the Northern Expedition and opposed sun Chuanfang. After the April 12 incident, he supported Chiang Kai Shek to clear up the party and oppose the Communist Party. During the war of resistance against Japan, he insisted on resisting Japan and patriotism and was not a traitor. After the Japanese occupied the concession, he left Shanghai for Chongqing and went to the rear area to run Yunnan Burma road transportation to support the war of resistance against Japan.

Northern expedition period

Yu qiaqing was concerned about the public welfare of his hometown. He had invested in founding schools, dredging Fengpu lake, and building Zhensheng, Zhenda, Zhenluo and other highways, which won the praise of the people of his hometown and the people living in Shanghai in Ningbo. On July 2, 1931, when the Japanese military fanned the wave of Anti China and Anti China in Korea, he took the lead in organizing the Committee of Anti Japanese aid to overseas Chinese in Shanghai, and made a public speech denouncing Japanese militarism. On the 14th of the same month, he also announced that he would break off economic ties with Japan, which shows the patriotic position of a national capitalist. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Yu qiaqing flatly refused to be the mayor of the puppet government of Shanghai, and risked his life to organize the Sino Italian shipping company in partnership with the Italian businessman taminachi to transport rice to Saigon, Rangoon and other places, in order to solve the food shortage crisis caused by the crowded refugees in the concession. In the spring of 1941, he left Shanghai and went to Chongqing via Hong Kong. He organized Sanmin transportation company with Wang Xiaolai and others, accumulated funds to buy 300 three ton dodge cars in Hong Kong, and transported hardware accessories from Myanmar, Rangoon and other places for military supplies. On April 26, 1945, Yu qiaqing died of acute lymphadenitis in Chongqing at the age of 79. In November of the same year, the coffin was sent to Sanbei by special ship and buried on Fulong mountain.

Anecdotes of characters

After Yu qiaqing went to Shanghai as a student, he went from apprenticeship to running street, and then went to a foreign firm to become a comprador. It can be said that it was a good fortune and smooth sailing. At that time, there was a popular story about "barefoot God of wealth" in Shanghai.

In 1881, at the age of 15, Yu qiaqing was brought to Shanghai as an apprentice by his mother, Yu pengjiu, who was of the same race, to earn a living. At the same time, there were two students who went to Shanghai. One went to a bank in dawangmiao, Nanshi, and Yu qiaqing went to Ruikang, maojianong, Wangping street. It is said that Yu qiaqing was supposed to enter the bank. That day, Yu pengjiu took them to Ruikang first. When it was raining, Yu qiaqing was reluctant to wear the new shoes his mother gave him, so he took them off and went into the shop barefoot. As soon as I entered the gate, because the ground was muddy and slippery, and the children from the countryside arrived at the dock for the first time, they were so flustered that they slipped and fell down. Their hands and feet were facing the sky, just like "Yuanbao". When Xi runru, the boss of Ruikang, saw him, he quickly got up, helped him up, looked at the country boy carefully, and asked him to be his apprentice.

It turned out that boss Xi had a dream on the first night when he saw a "barefoot God of wealth" enter the door. The God of wealth, with a long face and wide mouth, is similar to Yu qiaqing. When Yu qiaqing entered the door, he fell and his hands and feet turned to the sky, which was like a "living treasure". People in business are not happy when the "living treasure" rolls in. He thought that Yu qiaqing was the one who answered the dream

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