"When a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea... You don't know why they left, but that goodbye was his last..."
- "After forever"
In 2003, Infernal Affairs 2 was released.
The biggest villain, Ni Yongxiao, is played by Wu Zhenyu.
The character of Ni Yongxiao is the biggest highlight in "Infernal Affairs 2", his image is different from the traditional Fight and Kill Hong Kong underworld, Ni Yongxiao is more inclined to the Western mafia.
It is described in eight words: deeply hidden, calculating.
Han Chen was deeply touched by this, and in "Infernal Affairs 3" he said to Chen Yongren: "There is a kind of person who does not know when to be good to you and when to kill you..."
In "Infernal Affairs 2", Ni Yongxiao is saddled with the mission of reviving the family.
The return dinner as a turning point in the play was filmed in the "Jumbo Seafood Boat" that He Hongshen handed over to the eldest son of the second room, He Youlong.
Coincidentally, it was the restaurant that Ni Yongxiao's father most frequented during his lifetime.
Before going, Ni Yongxiao said seemingly calmly: "After getting this time, our Ni family can raise their heads and be human beings in the future." ”
However, in the end, he died in his brother's arms, and he could not see the day when the family raised their eyebrows.
In reality, the "Jumbo Seafood Factory" lost 9.8 million yuan that year, of course, for the rich and invincible gambling king family, this little money is nothing...
So, what about 680 billion?
The Hong Kong government's fiscal revenue in 2021 is 591.1 billion yuan.
Thailand's fiscal revenue for half a fiscal year was 1,276.872 billion yuan (about 255.3 billion yuan, and about 500 billion yuan for the whole year).
This figure of 680 billion is more than the fiscal revenue of most Southeast Asian countries in a full year.
This is the amount of money involved in the "illegal gambling money laundering case" of Zhou Zhuohua, the so-called "Macao small gambling king washing rice" just yesterday.
On the 11th of this month, the gambling king Ertai Lan Qiongyi died of illness at the age of 79 in Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.
The latter matter was handled by He Chaoqiong.
After her mother's death, He Chaoqiong did not appear in public for more than ten days, and when she reappeared, she had a haggard posture and two large eye bags on her face.
Two years ago, when the gambling king Ho Hung Sun died, Ho Chao Qiong was also the organizer of the funeral.
At that time, although she did not apply fat powder, the whole person looked like a burst of combat effectiveness, and a person charged in front of the entire family to face the media and the outside world.
Her father's three wives and four concubines, more than a dozen children are behind her, and she is the leader of the family.
Nowadays, she rarely shows fatigue in front of the media, and everyone is tired!
Five days ago, the "Jumbo Seafood Boat" was slowly dragged away from Hong Kong under the attention of countless citizens, and five days later, the latest news came.
The big ship overturned and sank on the high seas, from Ho Hongshen's 2013 golden birthday party to the closure of business, leaving port at a loss, sinking, nine years.
The circumstances of Zhou Zhuohua's money laundering case were announced almost on the same day.
In the darkness, it seems that the big hand of fate controls everything and pulls out the grass snake gray line across the century in this "building up and falling down" story.
The ship overturned, where should the great family go?
One
In 2020, in Wenzhou, more than 1,000 kilometers from Macau, police smashed an extraordinarily large online gambling group headed by Zhang Ningning.
After several days of investigation, it was found that the head of this group pointed directly to the Macau Suncity Group.
Macau Suncity Group has a strong network of contacts in the mainland, and after the police launched the investigation process, the news quickly spread to Macau, and the media learned of the progress, and the lips were cold, and dangerous signals hung over The Suncity Group.
Rumors go in two directions: First, Suncity Group is in financial crisis; Second, Suncity Group is involved in illegal money laundering activities.
Chow Chun-wah, CEO of Suncity Group and known as the "Macau Little Gambler" in the middle of the night, posted a clarification video in which he said with a black face:
"Suncity Group is a law-abiding company in Macau, and we have never sent a colleague to promote or carry out any gaming business in the mainland."
The dim background of the video, Zhou Zhuohua's erratic eyes, and the pretense of calmness now seem to be flawed.
After the clarification video was released, on the surface, everything seemed to be calm, but the news that Zhou Zhuohua secretly sold his shares in Suncity Group at the price of a fracture exposed his panic.
On December 26, 2021, the Christmas party had just finished, and Zhou Zhuohua was arrested in Macau.
As the case became clearer, Zhou Zhuohua's online gambling model gradually came to light.
Suncity Group has 199 shareholder-level agents, 12,000 gambling agents and more than 80,000 online customers in the mainland.
These gamblers can become members by transferring 100,000 yuan per person, and the platform flows nearly trillion yuan per year.
Undercurrents are surging and huge loss of funds.
Zhou Zhuohua's legitimate business is actually a one-stop gambling service, they set up asset management companies in China, helping gamblers exchange assets for chips, and then using underground money banks to transfer funds.
At the beginning, who was the patron behind Zhou Zhuohua, everyone knew it.
Now the fourth tailiang Anqi, who teases Sun every day, was once the biggest patron behind Zhou Zhuohua.
Nowadays, what the fourth room urgently needs is how to get rid of this huge storm and let those who have touched the bottom line of the law stay at the level of Zhou Zhuohua forever.
Two
There were early signs that Zhou Zhuohua had been arrested.
As early as July 2019, the Economic Reference Newspaper published an article calling Zhou's "Suncity Group" "a poppy.".
After Zhou Zhuohua was arrested, the first people involved must be people inside the gambling industry.
An Yixuan's husband Chen Ronglian and Wu Peici's boyfriend Ji Xiaobo are all once famous stacked yard boys in the jianghu, and now the end is very ugly.
Two years ago, at the funeral of the gambling king Ho Hung-sun, He Chaoqiong personally spoke, and Zhou Zhuohua and his people were not allowed to enter the ceremony site.
After Zhou Zhuohua and his younger brother sat silently on the street for a while, Ash slipped away.
Later, He Chaoqiong also informed the three rooms and four rooms to draw a clear line with Zhou Zhuohua's "Suncity Group" and Chen Ronglian's "Lijun", thanks to He Chaoqiong's far-sightedness, although the epidemic is serious, the he family's losses are also tens of billions, but their foundation is still there.
Nowadays, most of the He family's huge gambling empire is in the hands of the second house women.
Ho chao-chung is mainly in charge of MGM and she is also the president of the Hong Kong Women's United Association.
She was 60 years old, and it had been almost thirty years since the death of the person she suspected the most loved in her life.
Her sister Ho Chiu Fung is the CEO of Shun Tak and she was elected Chairman of Po Leung Kuk in Hong Kong.
MGM and Shun Tak's main business are both casinos, and everyone knows the situation in recent years, and the shrinkage of He Chaoqiong's sisters is not a small amount.
At present, as long as the gambling cards in the second half of the year do not fall, then the second room can fight for another five hundred years.
Only not long ago, a humble news said: Huo Qishan and Huo Qizhong, members of the third generation of the Huo family, joined the board of directors of Australian Entertainment, and sat on an equal footing with the three seats in the second room of the He family.
How many things did the second room of the He family go through when he got these three seats?
How bad is the reputation of Huo Qishan and Huo Qizhong in the third generation of the Huo family?
The second house woman gives up her personal happiness: He Chaoqiong gives up her relationship with Chen Baiqiang and accepts the marriage with Xu Jinheng, the prince of the Ship King's family;
"Kidnapping" the old father: In 2011, the He family's huge dispute for property, He Hongshen was asked by the second room and three rooms to read the agreement in front of the camera, admitting to transferring the shares to the name of the second and third wives, he seemed to be dizzy and slurred, but when he turned around and the fourth wife took him back to the mansion, he immediately denounced his favorite daughter He Chaoqiong in high spirits, and claimed to sue the second and third rooms.
Such a hard-fought thing, in front of the Huo family, the magnate of the correction card, people just sent a few children who were recognized as unformed in the family to do this idle job.
Oh, you fought to the death and live, and it was what others didn't want...
If you are a second-room and a few capable brothers and sisters, will you also have a time of resentment?
Three
When the "Jumbo Seafood Boat" was at its most glorious, it was like a royal palace on the sea.
At its peak, it could accommodate up to 2,300 people to dine at the same time.
The Dragon Chair, located in the middle of the Golden Ruan Hall, took two years to complete, and provided rental of dragon robe punch card service during business, fifty yuan per person, the price is affordable and good.
In 1995, in the Hollywood movie Godzilla came to Hong Kong for a day trip, and he wanted to engage in a treasure seafood boat.
Star Ye once won here with the "Eclipse of the Soul";
Ni Yongxiao received a police arrest warrant here.
On the surface, the "Jumbo Seafood Boat" is just one of the many industries under the name of the gambling king, however, only when it sinks, we will be shocked by the significance of this big ship.
It is like a shining building, an indispensable neon light;
Just like the gaming industry led by Ho Jia in Macau, it once flourished for half a century, accumulating huge wealth and becoming synonymous with the glory of Hong Kong and Macao.
Is it also time for the song to disperse?
Four
The gambling king had four women in his lifetime.
Needless to say, the second half of her life was spent almost in various surgeries and treatments.
Her youngest daughter He Chaoyi once said: "Mother, as a woman, is of course unhappy. But unlike her father, she gave birth to five of us, where else could she go? ”
Regarding the third wife Chen Wanzhen, He Chaolian said:
"My dad came from my mom's first love.
For us, she gave up her own socializing and sacrificed a lot.
When I was young, I had a very serious depression, took a lot of medicine, used to cry, and couldn't sleep every day. ”
In addition to the four wives who "fight with people and have endless fun in fighting with heaven", the three wives all have more or less psychological hidden diseases.
Even the four wives who are the most racking their brains and have their hands and eyes in the sky have times when the corners of their eyes are low and their tones are complaining.
To the third generation of children, the second room that is most powerful, but they refuse to have children, the fourth room wife has fought for a lifetime of favor, and more than a dozen children have witnessed the despair and scars of their mothers in marriage.
And witness the mothers fighting for the core of the huge gambling empire, those strange and cold, the world is cold.
How many people were there, their homes were broken, and their wives and children were scattered.
A big V once broke the news that because of the epidemic and the Zhou Zhuohua case, Taiwanese gambling king Jack Ku could not mention 317 million in the SUNCITY Group VIP account.
At the beginning, Suncity Group said 30% off the withdrawal, jack Ku team people are not willing, and then changed to 40% off, 50% off, now all frozen.
What about the Ho family itself?
He Chaolian, who was assigned to the "Fisherman's Wharf" in the family's production, said, "I am very poor now", and she also can't make money because of the epidemic, so she had to stare at Dou Xiao's income in the entertainment industry.
Postscript:
There are conspiracy theories that the "Jumbo Seafood Boat" was deliberately pulled to the high seas shipwreck, do not know what secrets there are on the ship, it is worth such an operation, we only know that all the details, vaguely seem to hint at the arrival of an era inflection point.
The once huge gambling industry is probably at the end of the crossbow;
The Asian gambling king, who once provided a lot of material for countless gossip magazines, may become a legend.
The times are so hasty, destroyed, reforged, re-composed, fateful who knows which is the legend, which is the end.