Hongxing

Biodata

Organization and Leadership

Leadership System

• Leader: Chosen through meetings and votes among the district Bosses. Chiang Tin-yeung wins office through this process, and Gu Sheng later secures support for his own candidacy 81 138.
• District Bosses: Control local territories and businesses. During Gu Sheng’s leadership campaign, Hongxing has eleven Bosses, with Sham Shui Po’s position still vacant 138.
• Local ranks: Red Poles, White Paper Fans, and Straw Sandals oversee smaller groups of venues and associated income streams 44.
• Initiation: Recruitment can include a formal initiation ceremony, as shown when Gu Sheng accepts Chen Dong and his companions 24.
• Corporate structure: The reorganized Hongxing has a head office and several branch companies. District Bosses are instructed to register their men—including disabled members—as Hongxing Security employees 224 256.

Before Gu Sheng becomes Leader, Hongxing’s central authority is limited. Chan Yiu admits that he cannot command the other Bosses or halt the arranged battle against Tung Sing. Under Gu Sheng, the organization becomes much more personally unified around its Leader 146 325.

Notable Personnel

Gu Sheng’s personal entourage is not automatically identical to Hongxing’s membership. Before the arranged Tung Sing battle, Fung Yu-Sau and Shen Xue are not yet members, Ah Wu still belongs to Wo Shing Wo, and Tin Yeung-sang’s group serves as Gu Sheng’s bodyguards rather than as gang members 141.

History

Early Territorial Expansion

Gu Sheng leads Hongxing men against Tung Sing reinforcements, using seven vehicles to disrupt the larger enemy force. He kills Flyboy Kun and Xu Fei, prompting Tung Sing’s rout, then orders the wounded evacuated before police arrive 10.

Hongxing subsequently breaks Hung Lok’s control of Tin Shui Wai. Its coordinated attacks isolate Gentleman Sing, scatter Concrete’s men, and overwhelm Tai Bo Ball’s territory. Gu Sheng’s men also obtain information about Hung Lok’s drug locations, accounts, cash, ledgers, and membership lists 28.

Causeway Bay becomes a major source of wealth and prestige. Hongxing initially holds three highly profitable streets, later controls four of the district’s nine streets, and eventually brings the entire area under its banner through Gu Sheng’s campaigns 44 70 101.

Leadership Crisis and the Sanlian Gang

After attacks on Hongxing’s leadership, Chan Yiu convenes the Bosses to choose a new Leader and organize retaliation against the Sanlian Gang. Chiang Tin-yeung secures election after promising to double their monthly income within six months and expand business into Thailand 81.

Gu Sheng proposes sending Chan Ho-nam to handle retaliation and using successful participation to fill vacant branch leadership positions. Greyhound, Sang Fan, and Zuo Tai accept the assignment 81.

The organization’s standing remains vulnerable despite its response. Later accounts describe three consecutive Leaders dying under unexplained circumstances, with several Bosses also lost during the conflict with the Sanlian Gang 101 147.

Macau Casino Conflict

Hongxing acquires a casino on Macau Island but initially lacks the manpower and intelligence network enjoyed by local gangs. Mo Lo-bing exploits this weakness, demanding a twenty-percent cut—twice what he takes from other casinos—and launching attacks that leave dozens dead or injured 109.

Ding Yao secretly backs Mo Lo-bing, promising him half the casino if his pressure prevents Hongxing from opening it. The fighting temporarily confines Hongxing’s men to the casino 109 112.

Gu Sheng later counters threats through coordinated armed operations. Wang Jianjun organizes fifteen squads to strike twenty-three Wo On Lok locations, killing Shui Fong Lok and several lieutenants. The survivors go into hiding, and Macau Island’s gangs are shaken by the attack 122.

Defeat of Tung Sing and Gu Sheng’s Accession

Following Chiang Tin-yeung’s death, Gu Sheng campaigns against Hon Ping for Hongxing’s leadership. He secures support through personal loyalty, financial offers, territorial opportunities, and intimidation 138.

An arranged battle against Tung Sing dramatically strengthens his position. Hongxing’s specialists overwhelm the opposing fighters; Gu Sheng personally kills Shui Ling and seven of the eight members of her Ten Greats who attend. Tung Sing’s ordinary members lose their nerve as their leading fighters fall 144 145.

The victory restores Hongxing’s prestige and makes Gu Sheng a legendary figure among young gangsters. By chapter 149, he has become Leader of Hong Kong Island’s largest triad, commanding tens of thousands of men 147 149.

War Against the Other Triads

Hongxing’s attacks on Wo Shing Wo, the Big Circle Gang, the Chaozhou Gang, and other organizations provoke attempts to form a coalition against it. Rival leaders argue that allowing Gu Sheng to continue expanding would endanger every remaining gang 196.

The ensuing conflict combines street offensives with targeted shootings. Hongxing attacks Hunggai’s Prince Edward Road territory and surrounds the Big Circle Gang’s forces from opposing directions. Across the fighting, Hongxing suffers more than two thousand casualties, mostly wounded rather than killed 198 200 204.

Several opponents cease hostilities or hide, while Hongxing continues pressing Hop To and Hunggai. By the later reconciliation banquet, rival Bosses openly accommodate Gu Sheng, and Hongxing stands far ahead of the island’s other gangs 205 220.

Thailand and Malaysia

Hongxing sends hundreds of men to Thailand to reclaim Chiang Tin-yeung’s properties from Sin Sin Ho. Ah Ye and Shark Yan coordinate with KINGS GROUP, which prevents local gangs from intervening. Their raids leave more than a hundred of Sin Sin Ho’s men wounded 227.

Sin Sin Ho sells his properties to the German Mafia for twenty percent of market value, hoping to draw the Germans into conflict with Hongxing. Hongxing subsequently attacks Hell’s Angels territory with gunmen and grenades 227 228 232.

In Malaysia, its conflict with Wah Kee escalates into repeated killings and plans for retaliatory assassinations. Wah Kee’s branches consider hiring mercenaries, while Small Wah Kee pursues an alliance with the German Hell’s Angels. Zhang Chun’s men later destroy German and Small Wah Kee forces before evacuating through Kuantan to Pattaya 260 285 292.

Renewed Domestic Consolidation

After Tung Sing ambushes Gu Sheng on Victoria Peak, Ah Tung orders Hongxing’s Bosses to mobilize. Hongxing overwhelms Tung Sing’s positions across Yuen Long and drives it from its territory 336.

Hongxing later absorbs Chung Yee Shun. Gu Sheng captures Lian Ho-lung and Lian Ho-tung over an unpaid nineteen-million debt, revealing that their refusal to support Hongxing during its war was his underlying grievance. Loyalists are purged, the gang dissolves, and its remaining force joins Hongxing 358.

Expansion into Japan

Hongxing establishes business ties with the Yamaguchi-gumi before becoming involved in large-scale fighting in Tokyo. Its forces recruit Japanese-speaking Chinese guides, including former Hop To members displaced by Hongxing’s earlier victories 158 375 376.

Zat Tau, Shark Yan, and Long-haired Hung lead attacks on multiple yakuza headquarters. Zhang Chun’s subsequent assault on the Sumiyoshi-kai headquarters costs his team five dead and approximately a dozen wounded 376 380.

Gu Sheng negotiates a partnership with Sanwa-kai vice chairman Eguchi Toshinari. Eguchi seeks control of Tokyo’s underground market, recognizing that Hongxing generally establishes itself through violence before shifting into legitimate industries. Gu Sheng separately offers Gao Jie control of Taitō and Sumida wards if he kills the Sanwa-kai chairman 380.

Businesses and Finances

Traditional Revenue

• Entertainment and hospitality: Bars, nightclubs, bathhouses, saunas, hotels, and restaurants form an established revenue base 44 168.
• Parking and rents: Supplement income from venue supervision 44.
• Business stakes: Local leaders use Hongxing’s name to obtain shares in bars and nightclubs 44.
• Dues: Before its transformation, the central organization collects about twenty million per month in dues 266.

Causeway Bay’s density makes territory there especially valuable: Hongxing’s original three streets contain more than a hundred bars and nightclubs, alongside numerous other businesses. A handful of venues there can earn more than several streets in Yuen Long 44.

Corporate Transformation

• Security: Members are registered as employees, and protection payments are presented as contractual security fees 224 251 259.
• Entertainment: The transformation includes an entertainment company and film-related business 167 354.
• Real estate: Property and real-estate operations form part of the move into legitimate industries 167 380.
• Arcades: Gu Sheng negotiates an initial purchase of eight hundred machines from the Yamaguchi-gumi at HK$16,000 each 158.
• Macau casino: Remains a major overseas operation; Wai Ting-bong notes that casino gambling is legal there and outside his jurisdiction 167.

Gu Sheng’s stated policy is to abandon the traditional underworld economy. Wai Ting-bong observes that he barely touches heroin, high-interest loans, arms, or gambling dens. Later police reports describe Hongxing as having abandoned its gray-market businesses and become a corporate group 167 256.

That legal restructuring does not end coercion or violence. Hongxing pressures newsstands to prioritize Tin Tin Daily, while overseas observers identify its pattern as using force to enter a market before establishing legitimate businesses 272 380.

Documented Financial Figures

Manpower and Combat Capabilities

Paid Membership

• Hongxing has tens of thousands of members, with just over twenty thousand receiving regular payments during the coalition war 198.
• Gu Sheng’s men are described as salaried professionals who spend their days working for the gang and practicing martial arts 111.
• Territorial growth creates recruitment needs; Gu Sheng accepts applications from Hunggai’s Pao Man and Ah Kwan because existing manpower cannot cover the expanded holdings 208.

Specialist Fighters

• Hongxing has a longstanding reputation for producing fighters, but Gu Sheng assembles an unusually large concentration of experts 157.
• Fung Yu-Sau, Shen Xue, Ah Wu, and Shark Yan gain wider recognition after the Tung Sing battle 147.
• Their ability to break enemy morale is decisive: once Tung Sing’s specialists die, its ordinary members collapse despite the scale of the battle 145.

Armed Operations

• Vehicle attacks: Vans are used to break formations rather than treating gang fights as blade-only contests 10.
• Coordinated raids: Wang Jianjun’s Macau operation strikes twenty-three locations through fifteen squads 122.
• Heavy firepower: Overseas forces use automatic weapons and grenades, overwhelming opponents equipped mainly with handguns 232 292.
• Overseas limits: Early Macau operations suffer from weak local intelligence and limited manpower; later campaigns rely on partners, guides, and evacuation routes 109 227 292 376.

External Relationships

• Tung Sing — Major rival, crippled in the arranged battle and later expelled from its Yuen Long territory after the Victoria Peak ambush 145 336.
• Sanlian Gang — Public enemy during Hongxing’s leadership crisis; Ding Yao also secretly backs the attack on Hongxing’s Macau casino 81 109.
• KINGS GROUP — Thai business partner that blocks local interference in Hongxing’s campaign against Sin Sin Ho; Ah Ye serves as liaison 227.
• Yamaguchi-gumi — Japanese commercial partner. Kusakari Kazuo proposes closer organizational ties and a marriage between Gu Sheng and his daughter Nanako, though the supplied passage does not establish that the marriage occurs 158.
• Wah Kee — Malaysian enemy whose branches organize retaliation, mercenaries, and assassination plans after repeated clashes with Hongxing 259 260.
• Hell’s Angels — Overseas enemy involved in the Thailand property dispute and later cooperation with Small Wah Kee 232 285 292.
• Sanwa-kai / Eguchi Toshinari — Prospective Tokyo partner seeking underground-market control alongside Hongxing’s legitimate-business expansion 380.
• Hong Kong Police Force — Monitors Hongxing while becoming institutionally connected to the welfare fund spearheaded by Gu Sheng. Officials recognize its corporate transformation but remain aware of its criminal origins 167 256.

Distinction from Hongxing Society

• Hongxing Society is a separate organization, led by Flying Dragon, with Leopard managing its Causeway Bay affairs 70.
• Gu Sheng offers territory to subordinates who can defeat Hongxing Society, demonstrating that it is a rival rather than another name for Hongxing 70.
• When Gu Sheng mobilizes against Eight Taels of Gold, Hongxing Society initially prepares for an attack before discovering it is not the target 95.