The Jiang family has a family rule that prohibits gambling and opium, and even business operations are not allowed. Anyone who touches them will be expelled from the family without negotiation. Since the third young master dared to do it, he must have the courage to bear the consequences.
After moving out of the Jiang family in disgrace, the third young master planted the seeds of hatred in his heart towards the eldest wife. He hated his eldest sister-in-law for informing his father and eldest brother. If she hadn't informed him, his father and eldest brother would not have known that they were serving in the army, let alone expelled him from the family.
This was also the cause of the incident where Ah Si was stolen, but the third young master was too good at pretending. No matter how much hatred he felt in his heart, he never told others about his hatred for the Jiang family's eldest wife. Moreover, since he was expelled from the family, he often sent auspicious gifts to deliver things during major events such as the New Year, festivals, or various anniversaries. So until the child was lost, no one could have imagined that the mastermind would be the third young master.
Next, let's talk about Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng. After a few years of loving intimacy, they met a man named Jiang Zhiqing, through Yu Qiaqing, the founder of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Jiang Zhiqing claimed to have borrowed foreign debt and wanted Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng to help repay it. This Jiang Zhiqing was actually Chiang Kai-shek. He was frantically amassing profits in the Shanghai financial market. Eventually, various factions joined forces to intervene, causing him to lose not only his profits but also a significant portion of his original capital.
Initially, he sought help from the Jiang family, a wealthy merchant family, hoping they would help him because they shared the same surname. However, the Jiang family was a revolutionary capitalist family, and the men in the family were leading troops in the war, a true communist. It was impossible for them to help Chiang Kai-shek. So, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to seek help from Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng, a couple who had recently risen to prominence but had a weak foundation.
Yu Qiaqing acted as the middleman and presided over the apprenticeship ceremony. Chiang Kai-shek worshipped Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng as his master and mistress.
Why did they agree to help pay back the debt? Of course, they were attracted by the military power in Chiang Kai-shek's hands. The couple were bolder than each other, and their appetites were as big as their courage. They wanted to swallow the whole of Shanghai in one bite. They accepted Chiang Kai-shek's offer for the future, planning bigger plans.
After accepting Chiang Kai-shek's apprenticeship, he happily spread the word that Chiang Kai-shek could come to them to pay back all the money he owed in Shanghai, and they would pay it back.
With the Green Gang leader saying this, who in Shanghai would dare to actually ask for the money? Wouldn't that be asking for trouble and seeking death? So, the creditors simply accepted their bad luck and suffered a loss, and the debt issue was dropped.
The Third Young Master had always been with Huang Jinrong, so he had a good relationship with Chiang Kai-shek. Jixiang, because of his intelligence and ruthlessness, also caught Chiang Kai-shek's eye.
One day, Jixiang went to the Jiang family to deliver something, and came back to tell the third young master that the eldest young lady was about to give birth. The third young master had been planning a secret thing recently, and only a few people around him knew about it. He was just waiting for the eldest young lady to give birth.
A few days later, an insider in the Jiang family mansion reported that the eldest young lady had given birth to another boy, the fourth son born to the first wife. The third young master arranged for someone to steal the child while the eldest sister-in-law was asleep and the wet nurse was away. Because this incident had been planned months in advance, there were no clues, and the child simply disappeared without a trace.
Originally planning to take the child away, the Third Young Master's subordinate, who had just stolen the child and was about to leave Shanghai, was spotted by his former enemy and hacked to death. The enemy, unaware that the child in the rickshaw was stolen from the Jiang family, thought it was the subordinate's own child. However, according to their underworld rules, they should only bring their own case to justice and not implicate innocent people, so they spared the child. Fortunately, the rickshaw driver knew the slain subordinate and, after the enemy left, quickly took the slain subordinate and the hungry child to the Third Young Master's mansion.
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