Macau's most renowned industries were tourism and gambling.
To be precise, they were the various industries that had developed around gambling as their core.
To put it more bluntly, gambling!
Half of Macau's gambling industry belonged to the Ho family, the family of Macau's gambling king.
The remaining half of the market was controlled by several Big Water Pipes from Hong Kong Island and the Yi Family.
Viewed in that light, the Macau Yi Family did not seem particularly powerful.
In reality, however, gambling was merely the business the Macau Yi Family showed the outside world.
The underground arms market was where the Macau Yi Family's true foundations lay.
At Luo Danian's sudden mention of the Macau Yi Family, a flicker of interest appeared in the eyes of most of those attending the meeting.
Strictly speaking, the Hong Kong Island Police Force had some past ties to the Macau Yi Family.
After all, everyone qualified to attend this meeting was either a member of the Police Force core management or one of Zhou Quan's trusted subordinates.
They could practically recite every step of their boss's rise through the ranks.
As Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lee Man-bun had more authority to speak about the Macau Yi Family than anyone except Zhou Quan.
His rise to his current position, and even Wong Bing Yiu's becoming the Police Force's second commissioner after the handover-
Behind all of that lay countless connections to the Macau Yi Family.
That political contribution of nearly US$1.5 billion back then had come from a relative of the Macau Yi Family.
Kwan Chai-ba, once a notorious underground arms dealer in Southeast Asia, had deposited almost ninety percent of his wealth in his wife Ching Wing-si's bank account.
Ultimately, a series of operations by Zhou Quan brought the couple down