Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 1031 1016 [Du Clan Ancestral Hall]

The Elephant Hotel,
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"Godfather, your reputation is now known throughout the Golden Triangle!" Yan Xiong picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Du Yongxiao.

Du Yongxiao frowned: "Are you the one behind this again?"

"How could that be? It's all because the people here love you voluntarily. For example, the popular song, "The Golden Triangle Can't Be Without Du Yongxiao," was created by them. I didn't instruct them at all."

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

"Haha, it's my duty. It's worth sacrificing my life for my godfather. By the way, godfather, there is something I want to report to you--" Yan Xiong's expression became serious.

"What's the matter?" Du Yongxiao asked while taking a sip of tea.

Yan Xiong said: "Isn't this right? 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 Hall Conference."

"Uh, what?" Du Yongxiao was stunned.

Seeing this, Yan Xiong hurriedly explained, "Godfather, don't get me wrong. I'm not using your name to show off. The Du Clan Ancestral Hall here somehow knew that you came from Hong Kong and your last name happened to be Du, so they invited you to attend the meeting, saying that we are blood relatives and it's time for everyone to get together!"

Du Yongxiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this.

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

It wasn't that these people knew Du Yongxiao's important status and took the initiative to invite him. On the contrary, the Du Clan Ancestral Hall here somehow knew that Du Yongxiao was from Hong Kong, and in order to make up 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 and participate in the Du Clan Ancestral Hall Conference. At that time, Du Yongxiao can not only have a free meal, but also get to meet many Thai celebrities with the surname Du.

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

"How dare they? These people are fools. They don't know that you are so famous. They think you are an unknown person and they just want to make up the numbers. Of course, if you are unwilling, I will refuse this matter to avoid embarrassing you."

Du Yongxiao heard Yan Xiong say this and laughed, "Why refuse? Since you've already agreed, I'll go and take a look. After all, my last name is Du too. It's not easy for everyone to make a living overseas, and it's even harder to get together - the Du Clan Ancestral Hall Conference. Well, it's good to go and take a look and see how our Du family is doing overseas."

"Haha, I'll arrange it right away!"

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The Chinese are very hardworking. Many of them travel around the world and build their careers abroad. The most famous ones are the Chinatowns in the United States, the United Kingdom and other places, as well as social organizations with hundreds of years of history such as the Hongmen and Qingbang.

Compared with these, the power of Chinese clans overseas should not be underestimated, especially in Southeast Asia. The major castes that drifted overseas from Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places have taken root there, established clan associations, and helped and supported each other.

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

The history of the surname Du is very glorious from historical documents. It is said that one of the 25th sons of the emperor was named Qi. Yao's surname was Yi Qi, and the Du family came from the Qi surname, and they were descendants of Emperor Yao.

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

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

In addition, there are also settlements of the Du family in Sichuan, Deyang, Pengshan, Mianyang, Chengdu, Shanxi, Yongji, Taiyuan, Lujiang and Huoshan in Anhui, Hangzhou in Zhejiang, Xiangyang in Hubei, Gaoyou in Jiangsu, Linzhang and Zhengding in Hebei, Weifang and Zhangqiu in Shandong and other places.

The Du surname is the 53rd most common surname in Taiwan, mainly distributed in Taipei, followed by Miaoli, Hsinchu, Tainan, Changhua, Taichung and other places. It began roughly during the Yongli period of the late Ming Dynasty. In Douliu, Yunlin, a man named Du came to the area to open up the land.

At the end of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, some people with the surname Du settled in Houlong Town, Miaoli County; at the end of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Du Ruimao and Du Luancheng from Fujian settled in Shen'ao Village, Tamsui Town, Taipei, etc. Some of them migrated overseas. Some of them migrated overseas. The largest branch of them came to Thailand, known as the Thai Du family, and is also one of the authentic Du families.

The base camp of the Thai Du family is in the southern part of Chiang Mai, Thailand. There is a large piece of land here that belongs to the Du family. The Du family is also very famous in this area. Even the highest officials in Chiang Mai have to be respectful when meeting the elders of the Du family and respectfully call them "old man".

When Du Yongxiao arrived at the Du clan ancestral hall with the invitation, the outside of the Du family mansion was already bustling with activity, as if it were New Year's Day. Many Du clan members came from all over Thailand, and some local wealthy aristocrats also came to celebrate.

In fact, the Thai Du family had a purpose in holding this clan temple conference before the Ten Thousand Buddhas Conference.

Thailand's economy is developing rapidly, and various major forces inside and outside the government are competing with each other. The Du family is unwilling to be a bystander in this competition and wants to stand up and become a competitor. However, the power of the Du family in Thailand has not reached that level. For this reason, they can only rely on this clan temple conference to demonstrate their capabilities and let people inside and outside Thailand see how united the Du family is and how powerful they are, so as to grab 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 many branches, including 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, Du Xingbang also invited other branches of the Thai Du family. When all together, there were actually hundreds of people.

Among them, the lineage of Shanghai tycoon Du Yuesheng is the most famous.

As we all know, on August 1951, 8, the former "Shanghai Emperor" Du Yuesheng died of illness in Hong Kong, accompanied by his lover Meng Xiaodong and children. He was only 16 years old that year.

Before his death, Du Yuesheng left two last words, one of which was: "Don't let future generations go into the underworld!"
The powerful gangster Du Yuesheng left behind such a last words, which was tantamount to telling the world that he had to go into the underworld in this life because he had no choice, and this path was not a good one.

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

In the eyes of the world, Du Yuesheng, who possesses power, status, and beauty, is a model of a successful man. Most importantly, although he was in the underworld all his life, he lived as a true gentleman.

Du Yuesheng was not satisfied with this ending, because he was more sensitive to the black and white in the world than ordinary people. People say that everything will turn around after the extreme, and good times will come after bad times. Perhaps it was because of his deep involvement in the underworld that Du Yuesheng had such a strong desire for "whiteness".

Du Yuesheng's desire for "whiteness" is almost a "complex". In a sense, the gang 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 well 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 third sons born to his second wife Chen Guoying; Du Weiping and Du Weixin, the second sons born to his third wife Sun Peihao; Du Weishan and Du Weisong, the sons, and Du Meiru and Du Meixia, the daughters, born to his fourth wife Yao Yulan; and Du Meijuan, the adopted daughter, born to his fifth wife Meng Xiaodong. All 11 children respected their father very much, and the eldest and third sons even revealed that they wanted to be like their father. But after Du Yuesheng's last words were made public, each of them followed their father's will and did not go into 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 Weihan, the fifth son of Du Yuesheng, stayed in Shanghai to work after graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy. Although he graduated from a military academy, he was as gentle and elegant as his father, with a scholarly and refined temperament.

The sixth son, Du Weining, had been doing an extremely ordinary job and eventually died in Shanghai.

The seventh son, Du Weishan, first worked in the geological department of Formosa before moving to Canada to do business. Du Weishan is the most visible of Du Yuesheng's children. In addition to being a businessman, he is also a well-known collector of ancient coins.

The Thai lineage actually consists of Du Yuesheng’s third and fourth sons.

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

Du Yongxiang's fame 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 publicity about him, so that few people know that the current Du Yongxiang is the veritable "King of the Golden Triangle" and the future "Emperor of the Golden Triangle", whose power and status are even comparable to the royal families of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand.

Thailand's low-key publicity of Du Yongxiao has resulted in many Thais not knowing that the great god Du Yongxiao exists nearby.

The old man of the Du family, Du Xingbang, didn’t know.

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

Then again, the reason why Old Man Du took the initiative to invite Du Yongxiao this time was because it happened to be a coincidence that someone was looking for members of the Du family at the hotel and invited them to attend the clan temple meeting. They happened to hear Du Yongxiao's name and were invited to make up the number by accident.

According to Du Taigong, the more Du family bloodlines there are in this conference, the better, as it would show that there is strength in numbers.

On the one hand, they can demonstrate to the Thai government and thus obtain special treatment from the government, at least allocating a few seats in parliament to the Du family so that the Du family can have a say in both the government and the opposition in Thailand.

Secondly, he announced to all the major Du family organizations in Thailand that the Du family 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 the purpose of Du Taigong holding such a grand event at this time is to kill two birds with one stone.
When Du Yongxiao arrived at the Du family mansion, the people here didn't realize who they had invited and thought that Du Yongxiao was just a small figure in the Du family.

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 also did not take Du Yongxiao seriously. They kept trying to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy, and left Du Yongxiao aside.

Du Yongxiao was not angry about this. He came here just to play along. After all, they all had the surname Du, so he gave the other party some face.

Therefore, Du Yongxiao did not care about the contempt of Du Taigong and others. Instead, he chatted with people in the crowd and talked about some gossip, and had no time to spare.

No one knows who he is, and no one can flatter him. It feels so good to have this kind of "freedom" of not being noticed and not being the focus of the crowd.

Soon, more and more people came to attend the Du Clan Ancestral Hall meeting.

The Du mansion is a very traditional Thai building with three floors, covering hundreds of acres and having a large garden. But even so, it still seems a bit crowded with so many people gathered together.

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

The first wave was the most distinguished, and the Du family had to curry favor with them, including high-ranking government officials and those sent by the royal family to congratulate them.

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

The third wave consists of those people who are weaker than the Du family and who come to curry favor with the Du family.

In addition, there are some people who come here from nowhere to join the crowd, such as Du Yongxiao. They stand with the third wave of people and are even a head shorter than them.

Some people complain about this distinction made by Du Taigong, thinking that the Du family is snobbish, while others think that it should be this way. After all, the noble and the humble cannot live together. The noble should be on top, and the humble should be stepped on. Otherwise, who would struggle? Who would rush to be the superior?

In response, Du Yongxiao said nothing. He just focused on eating and drinking. No matter which class he was assigned to, he was happy.

Seeing how heartless he was, several members of the Du family who also came to join in the fun couldn't help but sigh, saying that Du Yongxiao was heartless and could still eat at a time like this.

In response, Du Yongxiao just smiled and did not argue.

Everyone looked down on him even more, thinking that he was of low status and had no self-respect!
(End of this chapter)