Recaps

Song Tianyao navigated the Zhang Family’s fight over Likang as gang alliances and old Hung Mun ties drew his family into danger. The stretch ended with Song back at Likang, waiting to see how the Zhang brothers would deal with Zhang Yuliang.

• Chu Xiaozhong disrupted the Five Counties merchants’ boats after they backed the Zhang Family, while Zhang Yuliang offered Song Tianyao the seven companies’ agency rights for five million dollars.
• Zhang Yujie returned to Hong Kong, disciplined the defiant merchants, and told the Chu Family he would settle the Pharmaceutical Association dispute and deal with Ah Sin and Zhang Yuliang.
• Zhang Yujie rejected dividing the family’s property, while Zhang Yuqi warned him that Zhang Yuliang might expose the family’s dealings with pharmaceutical employees.
• Li Caifa offered Chen Zhongying half his morphine output for 14K’s help against the He-prefix gangs, as Zhang Yujie arranged for Zhang Yuliang to be blamed and sent to Macau.
• Song Chengqi accepted Ge Zhaohuang’s offer to revive East Liang Mountain, but Song Tianyao’s men caught Bayonet Wing and other 14K members watching his family home.
• Song Tianyao recognized his grandfather at the confrontation with Chen Zhongying, and Song Chengqi stopped the Fuyixing men from attacking 14K before sending Chen away.
• Golden-Tooth Lei and the Fuyixing elders backed Song Tianyao after learning of his third uncle’s death, and Golden-Tooth Lei decided to retire once their current business was settled.
• Song Tianyao returned to Likang and cleaned the office, while Chu Xiaozhong arrived with Chu Xiaoxin and Kong Wing-yan to await Zhang Yuliang’s appearance.

Song Tianyao turned the Zhang Family’s medicine scandal and gang conflict into leverage, while Zhang Yujie was arrested and put on trial. Zhang Yuliang was killed in court before he could testify, leaving Zhang Yuqi poised to decide the family’s future.

• Zhang Yuqi brought Zhang Yuliang home, while Zhang Yujie arranged for him to face questioning over counterfeit medicine and repaid Likang one million Hong Kong dollars.
• Song Tianyao organized the movement of genuine medicines, enlisted Zhu Xuguang’s help in arranging a gang clash, and prepared to use the Zhang Family’s actions against them.
• Shek Chi-yik learned that The Observer had exposed the military medical supplies scandal, and Song Tianyao warned him that the customs warehouse would be attacked and burned.
• The Green Gang, 14K, and the He-prefix gangs fought at Central Pier, where Chen Zhongying killed Li Caifa and police killed Chen Zhongying as Song’s men set the customs warehouse on fire.
• Zhang Yujie was arrested and charged after merchants blamed him for the warehouse fire and the Zhang Family’s sale of military medical supplies, while Zhang Yuliang confessed against him.
• Song Tianyao arranged donations and political payments from the medicines’ proceeds, met Zhang Yuliang in a safe house, and paid Golden-Tooth Lei to protect his people and business.
• At Zhang Yujie’s trial, Ding Jiafeng stabbed Zhang Yuliang before he could testify, and the judge adjourned proceedings and ordered Zhang Yujie held in Victoria Prison.
• Song Tianyao told Chu Xiaoxin that Zhang Yuqi stood to benefit most from Zhang Yuliang’s death, but they still had to see whether he would save Zhang Yujie or seize control of the family.

Song Tianyao and Chu Xiaoxin’s bid to rescue Meng Wanqing set off a violent clash between Yan Hung, Fuyixing, and Tan Changshan’s men. Yan Hung brought Meng Wanqing to the Dulles Hotel, while Golden-Tooth Lei turned against Fuyixing’s elders and Song Tianyao prepared to hear what had happened.

• Zhang Yuqi took control of the Zhang family, sold its companies, and claimed he was sacrificing himself to free Zhang Yujie, though he had confessed to arranging Zhang Yuliang’s murder.
• Song Tianyao and Chu Xiaoxin ordered Golden-Tooth Lei to find Meng Wanqing, who had been seized over her brother’s opium debt, and Golden-Tooth Lei discovered that Fuyixing’s Rat Xiang had taken her.
• Chu Xiaoxin refused to support Fuyixing’s collaborators, and Song Tianyao used Chu’s Justice of the Peace status to enlist Cheung Wing-kam and Yan Hung in the rescue.
• Wong Wan-chiu staged Meng Wanqing’s rescue to gain her trust, then tried to force himself on her, while Fish Ming and Yan Hung’s officers closed in on the men holding her.
• Yan Hung raided Rat Xiang’s apartment and went to Fung Yu Restaurant, where he shot Wong Wan-chiu and escorted Meng Wanqing away.
• At Tong Sai pier, Yan Hung shot Tan Changshan and continued through the armed crowd with Meng Wanqing, while Golden-Tooth Lei’s men attacked Fuyixing leaders Yanjigui and Shendasheng.
• Yan Hung brought Meng Wanqing to the Dulles Hotel, where Song Tianyao arranged for her to rest and prepared to hear his account as Golden-Tooth Lei ordered the Fuyixing brothers into action.

Song Tianyao secured Yan Hung’s police promotion, left Likang, and searched for a business of his own. After choosing wigs, he traveled to San Francisco to investigate the opportunity.

• Song Tianyao offered to secure Yan Hung’s police post and tasked him with recovering the Fuyixing collaborators’ property deeds and rents.
• Yan Hung became a Senior Detective Sergeant and told Meng Wanqing that her missing brother had been killed.
• Song Tianyao opened the British-German Western Pharmacy for his parents and arranged for Yan Hung to manage Likang’s dock affairs.
• Song Tianyao left Likang, began a relationship with Meng Wanqing, and rented an apartment near the University of Hong Kong.
• Song Tianyao helped Scribe Hui trade vegetables with British barracks and offered to fund a supply company when the army placed larger orders.
• Song Tianyao chose wigs as a business after researching American demand and planned a trip to San Francisco.
• Song Tianyao visited Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi, gave Sister Xiang money for their care, and promised to take them home.
• Song Tianyao arrived in San Francisco, where Tang Boqi met him and took him into the city.