In the 1960s, Ho Hung-sun and the then Macau gambling king Fu Laorong competed for the right to speak in Macau's gambling industry, causing a sensation in Hong Kong and Macao, and because the strength of both sides was equal, neither side dared to act rashly, because it was easy to set off a bloody storm in an instant, and the result must have been to be driven out of Macau by the Portuguese. Today, I will briefly talk to you about the Macau gambling king Fu Laorong, who is known as the "sharpshooter".
Ranked among the "Four Heavenly Kings of the Chinese" in Macao
Speaking of the Chinese in Macau, who is the most powerful? Presumably, the person who can say the name in the first second must be "Macau King" Ho Yin. However, in Macau in the 1940s and 1950s, the four most powerful Chinese were selected: He Xian, Liang Chang, Fu Laorong, and Gao Fuyao, who were known as the Four Heavenly Kings.
Gao Kening died in 1955, and the Gao family's business was all taken over by the eldest son, Gao Fuyao. Ko was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Reserve Police, a Director of the General Association of China and a Director of the Food Mutual Aid Association.
How high is the status of the four heavenly kings of Macau? I really can't find an adjective to express it, anyway, when the Governor of Macao and other high-ranking officials arrive in Hong Kong, they must come to visit.
The first generation of stacked horses
Fu Laorong is a native of Foshan, from childhood in the street gambling stalls, 19 years old followed his father to Hong Kong to earn a living, has done several good jobs, but he always likes the feeling of "give a fight, bicycle into motorcycle", so he often goes in and out of various gambling stalls, Macao is also a place he often goes.
When Fu Laorong goes to Macau to gamble money, he will definitely go to Gao Koning's casino. Fu Laorong often takes people from Hong Kong to Macao to play, and Gao Kening gives him a relatively generous commission, which is the earliest "stacked horse boy".
Fu Laorong's children were relatives
Fu Laorong had 7 sons and 9 daughters, of which the eldest son Fu Yinzhao and the twelfth son Fu Yinjun, with the help of Kong Xiangxi, enrolled in the Virginia Military Academy in the United States, and was a classmate of Bai Chongxi's son Bai Xianzhong.
The only daughter of the late Hong Kong actor Lee Heung-chin, Siu Tsui-yun, was the daughter-in-law of Fu Laorong and the second wife of Fu Yin-chan, who was four years older than Fu Yin-chan (1936).
Her daughter Fu Cuixiao married Zhang Chuntang, the son of Zhang Yanyuan, the "director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Republic of China" who was equally famous as Mao Renfeng.
The eleventh son, Fu Yinggang, married the daughter of The Macau figure Zhong Ziguang, "Zhong Li Ai". Zhong Ziguang was the General Manager of the Macau Water Supply Company, the Director of the Macau Electric Light Company, and the Vice Chairman of the Mirror Lake Charity Association. After the end of World War II, Zhong Ziguang ran a gold business with Liang Chang and He Xian, but unfortunately died of a heart attack in 1952.
The Fu family's "female talkers" confront Ho Hung-sun
In the early 1960s, the Macau gaming management rights were re-tendered, and Ho Hung-sin became the "strong enemy" of the Fu family, although Fu Laorong had died at that time, but He Meixian, one of the Fu family's witnesses, went to Portugal on behalf of the Fu family to compete with Ho Hongshen, who was Fu Laorong's second aunt.
Of course, the story of the Fu Laorong family is far more than that, but today I will mainly introduce you to the network of his family's connections.