Gao Lao Cheng and Mangongshi remained silent. Lin Man, Tan Changshan, and Bai Chunting were the older generation of Fuyixing. In addition to the gambling, prostitution, and drug businesses in Kowloon City, they also had a cargo business at Sai Kung Pier. Each of these big Big Brother had a combined net worth of several hundred million to tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. It could be said that before Fuyixing got involved with Likang, everyone in Fuyixing was working for these uncles to make Big-Time Tycoon.
Unlike other long-established Hong Kong gangs, the rise of Fuyixing in the last decade was mainly due to its collaboration with the invading Japanese army during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. At that time, with the nation in peril, many Hong Kong gang members returned to the Mainland to seek a living, including Golden-Tooth Lei, Gao Lao Cheng, and Mangongshi. Many others, still patriotic, joined the military and fought in the War of Resistance Against Japan, dying for their country. However, a large number of gang members chose to remain in Kowloon, Hong Kong, collaborating with the Japan and becoming Collaborator. These gang members mostly belonged to the seven triads: Fuyixing, On Wo On Lok, Wo Hung Sing, Wo Lee Wo, Tung Sun Tung Sun Wo, Single Righteousness, Wo Lin Shing.
Before the Japan officially sent troops, these gangs, numbering three to four thousand, had already been burning, killing, and looting in various areas of Kowloon, targeting ordinary civilians who were packing their bags, filled with fear, and preparing to head to the pier to take a boat to Hong Kong Island for refuge.
The most ruthless lackeys of the Japan were those from Fuyixing. Fuyixing's Red Pole, including Lin Man, Tan Changshan, and Bai Chunting, colluded with the Japanese military police, becoming their eyes and ears. They betrayed infiltrated anti-Japanese elements in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, colluded with the Japan to run Gambling dens, and monopolized the sale of large quantities of opium transported by the Japan army from Chahar and Rehe. Most heinously, Lin Man, Tan Changshan, and Bai Chunting also helped the Japanese establish comfort stations in Wan Chai and Yau Ma Tei, totaling over 600 comfort stations in Hong Kong!
After Hong Kong's liberation, Lin Man, Tan Changshan, and other gangsters who had served as accomplices to the Japanese army went into hiding for a few months before becoming active again. Because Hong Kong was a colony, apart from the Britain handling a group of war criminals according to the instructions of the International Court of Justice, no purge of Collaborator was carried out. Therefore, these gangsters and their businesses were all safe and sound. Moreover, thanks to the wealth accumulated during the war, their gang's power not only did not decrease but increased, and each of them became a multi-millionaire in the Big-Time Tycoon.
Golden-Tooth Lei, Gao Lao Cheng, and Mangongshi were all well aware of the rise to power of these uncles and Big Brother. However, now that these bigwigs had amassed great Big-Time Tycoon and power, and were taking care of many members of the gang, no one dared to mention their past as Collaborator who had collaborated with the Japan. Moreover, they were low-key enough to know that if they were to become Big Brother again and spout off about loyalty and righteousness in the Hung Mun, they would be ridiculed by outsiders. Therefore, they supported Golden-Tooth Lei, who had fled back to the mainland during the war, had a clean record, and was willing to be loyal to the gang.
In reality, Golden-Tooth Lei, as the head of the gang, had very little authority and power. Most of the time, he was nothing more than a puppet of these super Big Brother. But for Golden-Tooth Lei, he would rather be a vicious dog for the Chu Family than a puppet for those Collaborator uncles whose hands were stained with the blood of China person.
"I didn't hear anything," Gao Lao Cheng was the first to speak, saying, "As long as Secretary Song doesn't cause trouble for you, Brother Lei, I won't do anything. When your uncles were in power, Mangongshi and I were still in the countryside on the mainland. Even if I were in Hong Kong, I would stand with that Third Brother Song. We're not afraid of death, so why would we be afraid of the Japan? Being killed by other gangsters would only make us a laughingstock, but dying a glorious death in a battle with the Japan would at least make us men."
"Yeah, let's pretend we didn't hear anything. At worst, after we're done with the dock and warehouse business, the Big Brother can take the two of us to get some information out of Secretary Song. We're innocent; they can't possibly be counting us against those uncles and elders, can they?" Mangongshi scratched his head and looked at Golden-Tooth Lei: "Besides, Xianyu Shuan saved him; Fuyixing has done him some favor."
Golden-Tooth Lei glared at the dark sea and cursed, "Damn it! Bad luck! After this is over, I'll go see my uncles and tell them I'm getting old and planning to retire. From now on, the affairs of the underworld will have nothing to do with me. I've already done my duty to the gang by helping Fuyixing get in touch with the Chu Family. What happens after that is none of my business."
Chapter 160 is here.
Song Tianyao, Rotten-Life Ju, and the others escorted Song Chengqi back to Kowloon Walled City. By the time they returned to their home on Tai Wo Street, it was already two or three in the morning. After Song Tianyao Rotten-Life Ju onto the living room bench, fully clothed, and lay down. However, he had only been lying down for a short while Rotten-Life Ju dawn broke. While he was still sound asleep in the living room, Song Tianyao had already gotten up and washed. Lanmingju greeted Song Tianyao with a yawn, rubbed his eyes, and watched him go into the bathroom, feeling quite impressed with this Secretary Song.
It seems that being the secretary of a big boss is not any easier than being a person in the world of martial arts.
Just these two days of running around by Song Tianyao's side made Rotten-Life Ju's legs feel numb, and he couldn't sleep well at all. In the past two days and two nights, Secretary Song slept for less than six hours.
Fortunately, Chao Yong Yi Chan Ah-sap specially sent the strong and Rotten-Life Ju and a few truly shrewd and capable underlings over. If it were just a few ordinary members with opium addictions, they would probably have had a hard time keeping Song Tianyao company for the next two days without even having to fight.
After having breakfast at a roadside teahouse, Song Tianyao drove Second Young Master Chu's Ford 49 to Likang Company. Likang had no other employees; the only people in the company besides Second Young Master Chu were Song Tianyao and Angie Perlis, whose business card read "Head of Legal Department of Likang Trading Company. " Now that the Foreign Girl" had returned to London, Song Tianyao was the only full-time employee left at Likang.
Seeing Song Tianyao take off his suit jacket, roll up his shirt sleeves, and prepare to clean the company, Rotten-Life Ju, though uninterested in such rough work, still politely said, "Secretary Song, please refrain from using such vulgar language..."
"No need, you guys sit down and rest, I'll do it myself." Song Tianyao held a rag in his hand, wiping the tables and chairs. "Thinking too much, it's better to do some manual labor to relax."