, nicknamed "Leopard Brother", taiwan province "Song lian gang" gang boss.
The Songlian Gang is a famous gang in Taiwan Province, which was once known as the four major gangs in the province together with the Bamboo Gang, the Four Seas Gang and the Tiandao League.
In the early 1980s, when the Bamboo Gang and the Sihai Gang were fiercely fighting for their sphere of influence, the young people of the "Songji Village" near the Taipei Air Force Base formed a gang and named it the "Songlian Gang".
In the early days of the establishment of the Song Federation, there were four branches of the Tiger, Leopard, Lion and Dragon, and Qin Zhiwei was elected as the helper, and Wang Zhiqiang, nicknamed "Little Leopard", was one of the masters.
At that time, members of the Songlian Gang wore white cloth shoes and hand-held gasoline barrels, which was a sloppy style and was ridiculed by the jianghu as the "wearing straw shoes" faction.
In October 1984, due to the assassination of The Chinese-American writer Jiangnan by Chen Qili, the leader of the Bamboo League, the Taiwan authorities launched a large-scale anti-gang campaign, known in history as the "One Clearance Project.", and all the big brothers of the gangs in the province were arrested and sent to Green Island and other prisons for training.
When there was a vacuum in Taiwan's underworld, the Songlian gang took the opportunity to seize land in Taipei, successively set up multiple churches, operated casinos and collected pornography protection fees, and quickly became a big gang.
In Taipei's Da'an District, Wang Zhiqiang introduced two of the earliest American-style casinos in Taiwan Province, and the business was surprisingly hot;
At the same time, the Kowloon Tong and Dongwang Nightclub Entertainment, which are operated by the Songlian Gang in Taipei's East District, also have a high reputation with huge interests.
Due to the expansion of the Songlian gang, the Taiwan police cracked down hard, and in April 1986, the American-style casino was raided, and Wang Zhiqiang was arrested and imprisoned.
In 1988, the Taiwan authorities granted amnesty to the underworld, and after their release from prison, they caught up with the period of rapid economic development and intervened in various commercial activities, the most eye-catching in the project bidding.
The Bamboo Gang and the Four Seas Gang, each of which basically has a behind-the-scenes financial owner who pays for the establishment of a business, while operating a legal business, and the other hand is involved in the underworld business.
The Songlian Gang also began to operate and develop various industries and enterprise investments, and gradually moved outward to expand its power map.
In April 1995, due to a land dispute, the Songlian Gang clashed with the Sihai Gang, and Qin Zhiwei, the leader of the Songlian Gang, was shot and killed, and Zhu Weili, the gang leader, took over as the gang leader.
A year later, Chen Yonghe, the former leader of the Four Seas Gang, and his elder brother were shot dead in their own restaurant, although they were suspected of being directed by the Songlian Gang to direct the Huaqing Gang members in the United States, but there was no evidence, and the case has not been solved so far.
In view of the bloody storm in the rivers and lakes, since August 1996, the Taiwan authorities have launched the "Special Project for The Governance of Peace" and implemented a "gang dissolution registration system" for the underworld.
In January 1997, in order to divert the surveillance and attack of the Taiwan authorities, Zhu Weili led some members of the Songlian Gang to the Taipei City Police Station to turn themselves in and announced the dissolution of the Songlian Gang.
But in fact, soon Wang Zhiqiang was elected as the leader of the Songlian Gang.
Wang Zhiqiang led the Songlian Gang to actively transform, in addition to violent debt collection and hotel sieges, he also intervened in the law to shoot houses and sign bets with professional baseballs, and soon let the Songlian Gang develop into a gang with strong financial resources.
In 2003, Wang Zhiqiang's father died of illness, and at the farewell ceremony, Chen Shui-bian actually presented the "Thick Yi Emblem" to his forehead, and for a time the name of "Leopard Brother" shook the rivers and lakes.
In 2011, Wang Zhiqiang took the initiative to give up the helper, retired to the jianghu, and then lived a dashing life, but he is still the spiritual leader of the "Songlian Gang".
On January 18, 2021, Wang Zhiqiang died of a sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 73.