When you think of gangsters, you may think of the popular Hong Kong gangster movie "Confused Boy", in which the brotherhood between Chen Haonan, Shan Ji and others is memorable.
The real gangsters are not like the whitewashed peace in the movie, with a darkness that people can't imagine, and the "godfather of the gangster" Hu Xuyong was once a very headache for the Hong Kong police.
He once covered the sky in Hong Kong, and hundreds of police officers dispatched to arrest him, so what kind of person is Hu Xuyong? Why is the police so fearful? Today let's talk about his story.
Gangsters abound
Hu Xuyong, formerly known as Pan Zhiyong, was born in Foshan, Guangdong in 1948, and his father was a famous local landowner in the old society.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, coinciding with the era of change, my father watched the collapse of the landlord class, fearing that he would also be liquidated, so he immediately packed up all his belongings and fled with his family to settle in neighboring Hong Kong.
Hu Xuyong has a good family, coupled with opportunities everywhere in Hong Kong, his father took the money from the sale to invest, and there was a lot of gains, and the family's life became more and more prosperous.
His father, who has seen big scenes, also knows the importance of education, and Hu Xuyong has lived in a wealthy family since he was a child, which also provides good conditions for his intellectual enlightenment.
After entering elementary school, Hu Xuyong's grades were very good, and his father had high hopes for his bright and studious son.
He himself has no culture, and when talking about business, those rich people look at him like they are looking at the "big money" in the countryside, and this distinction makes him feel like a cattle in his throat, hoping that Hu Xuyong can fight for himself.
In order to get a better education, his father sent Hu Xuyong, who graduated from elementary school, to a well-known local bilingual aristocratic school. The children of this school are either rich or expensive, and they hope that their sons can be married to more upper-class children.
I never expected that the class stratification had long been divided among the children, and those classmates looked down on the "son of the nouveau riche" like the thinking of the rich, and often gathered to ridicule and isolate the bearded brave who fled from the mainland.
In addition, the school is also a predominantly English-speaking school, and Hu Xuyong has achieved average English results since elementary school.
The parents of the school's students are almost all wealthy returnees, and they have lived in English-speaking living conditions since childhood, and speaking English is a piece of cake for them.
Hu Xuyong lost his natural advantage in English, and gradually he could not keep up with the teacher's progress, and his grades naturally plummeted, so his father scolded him.
Beard Yong, who has been mentally tortured, is under increasing pressure, and in order to vent his emotions, he began to mingle with some punks, often skipping class to go out to fight, and bullying classmates to get some spiritual satisfaction.
The social turmoil in Hong Kong in the middle of the last century coincided with a special period of change, and many violent industries emerged and the economy developed rapidly.
But there are no legal rules that match it, and things like corruption, drug trafficking and gambling are common.
In this context, more and more people have become unemployed vagrants, gathering to pick quarrels and provoke trouble and form gangs.
The idle flat-headed people became powerful tyrants overnight, and such gangs did some shady things and were called underworld and gangsters.
In order to seize this huge wealth, Hong Kong gangsters sprang up for a while.
In order to strengthen their own power, gangsters need to inject fresh blood from time to time to recruit people to the outside world, and 15-year-old Hu Xuyong came into contact with gangster 14K at this time.
The counterattack of the little brother of the horse boy
The young and frivolous bearded Yong watched so many poor people turn into big guys, and he himself was moved, thinking that he was bullied and snubbed, he couldn't help but clench his fists, slowly firming his thoughts, must become such a person.
Under the recommendation of a friend of the "little gangster", Hu Xuyong joined the strongest gangster at that time - 14K.
As a fledgling, he can only be the lowest horse boy brother, and his main responsibility is to blackmail others to make a little money. Gradually, Hu Xu Yong is no longer willing to be a horse boy and wants to climb up.
Relying on a ruthless force, he also made a certain reputation, and took in many younger brothers with violence and violence. In order to show his domineering, he grew a beard, hence the name Beard Yong, but what really made him famous was becoming an agent of the Sparrow Hall.
At the age of 23, he found the owner of the Kowloon Sparrow Restaurant, which was often harassed by mainland gangs, and prepared to negotiate a deal with him.
Promised the boss: "You let me be the agent of the Kowloon Sparrow Pavilion and pay me a protection fee of 7,000 Hong Kong dollars a month." I can guarantee that those grandchildren will never dare to fight your idea in the future, can this deal be done or not, boss? ”
The boss looked at the bearded Yong with a fierce face, and then thought of the gangsters who disturbed him and could not do business, and agreed to his request in his heart.
After that, Hu Xuyong replaced the door of the Kowloon Sparrow Pavilion with an electric roller shutter and waited for the mainland's gangsters to come and kick the pavilion.
He also used the Sparrow Pavilion as a springboard for his promotion, and his younger brothers chose to fight back, both glory and loss, in order to buy 30 machetes just in case, ready to fight to the death with the Big Circle Gang.
In those days, Hu Xuyong and his little brother squatted outside the sparrow hall every day, waiting for the other party to throw themselves into the net.
On the seventh day, the people of the big circle gang finally killed here, Hu Xu Yong sat in the sparrow hall, looked at the people with contempt, and when all the people on the other side entered the sparrow hall, the electric roller gate automatically fell with a wave of his big hand.
The people of the Great Circle Gang sensed a crisis and prepared to retreat without saying a word, but Hu Xuyong didn't want them to walk out of this door alive, and directly slashed at the leader of the Big Circle Gang with a machete.
The tense situation was out of control, and both sides saw that their leaders had moved, and immediately copied the guys and joined the battle.
Hu Xuyong prepared well in advance, and soon gained the upper hand, and the people of the big circle gang fell into the trap and could not extricate themselves.
The other party beat more and more ruthlessly, beard Yong lost patience, made a neck wiping action, the little brother understood that the hand would rise and fall, and there was a piercing scream in the sparrow hall, and after a while, blood flowed into a river.
The leader of the big circle gang saw that the other party really wanted their lives, and no longer had the arrogance at the beginning, and immediately took his little brother to kneel and beg for mercy, and swore that he would never harass the owner of the Sparrow Pavilion again, which was only let go by Hu Xuyong.
The owner of the Sparrow Pavilion was also frightened by Hu Xuyong's desperate ruthlessness, and offered the protection fee and the hard work fee with both hands.
Soon the story of the Sparrow Hall spread, and Hu Xu Yong became famous overnight, and many bosses who were entangled by other gangsters immediately sought refuge in him, and soon took the position of agent of many casinos and nightclubs.
Quickly becoming famous, he was immediately reused by 14k and even eventually became one of the 14k leaders.
He was eventually apprehended
Hu Xuyong did not rejoice for long, and the Hong Kong police have come to their senses and set about rectifying the underworld forces in Hong Kong.
They set up the Independent Commission Against Corruption to specifically crack down on criminal and evil forces, and under the attention of the government, many criminal and evil forces collapsed. Looking at this situation, Hu Xuyong also understands that the development of the gang is difficult, and he must find a new way out.
At that time, Hong Kong's film industry ushered in a golden age of development, and he set his sights on the film industry, investing in the boss of a film company and making a lot of money.
But the good times did not last long, the movie owner was shot for some reason when he provoked someone who should not be provoked, and the cooperation between the two did not work.
In 1988, Hu Xu bravely saw that Macau's gambling industry was in full swing, and he was so moved that he hit the Macau gaming industry with the idea of getting a piece of the pie.
Macau's local forces are not vegetarian, and the moment Hu Xu Yong entered Macao, he was targeted by local forces, and the two sides regarded it as fire and water and fought bloody battles many times, and there was a lot of trouble.
After Macao's path failed, Hu Xuyong turned his attention to the mainland, and after returning to Hong Kong from Macao, he was planning to come to the mainland to do business.
Fast forward to 2002, when the 55-year-old returned to his birthplace of Guangdong and opened a huge nightclub.
On the day of the soft opening, he was dancing with a group of people in the middle of the dance floor to celebrate, when hundreds of police officers rushed in.
Hu Xu Yong and others, who were not prepared at all, were immediately surrounded by the police, and the muzzle of the black hole hole reached Hu Xu Yong's head, and then handcuffed by the police and sentenced to one year.
The rules in the mainland are different from those in Hong Kong, Hu Xuyong's connections and prestige do not work, his nightclub was forced to close before it opened, and the base camp was also investigated by the police, so he could only choose to hibernate.
With the passage of time, Hu Xuyong also ushered in his old age and was tired of fighting and killing, choosing to stay away from the original bloody life and live his life in peace.
In 2010, Ge Zhixiong, the son of the founder of 14k, passed away, and the leadership position was not competent, and Hu Xuyong, who spent his old age, was elected by everyone as the speaker of 14k.
He watches over 14k to prevent them from making trouble, and is ready to change his ways, maybe he did too many bad things in his previous life, and Hu Xuyong suffered retribution.
In 2005, he was diagnosed with cancer, underwent a series of chemotherapy, cut off the liver and stomach, the effect was indeed minimal, and he died in the hospital in 2016.
Hu Xuyong's funeral cost nearly 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and the sacrifices occupied half a street, and the paper villa and the sparrow house were all related to his career during his lifetime.
Even the owner of the Macau gambling hall, Situ Yulian, also attended, and all the bigwigs of the rivers and lakes showed up to send Hu Xuyong the last ride, and even many police officers came to mourn.
One person at the scene said, "The scene was a huge scene, very rare. It is enough to prove the quack status of the godfather of the underworld. ”
With the passing of Hu Xuyong, the glory of 14K has also become history, and Hong Kong's underworld era is nearing its end.
In general, Hu Xuyong's life can be described as legendary, but behind the underworld hides the sufferings of ordinary people, how many people died at the hands of the underworld, and how pitiful those people are.
Cherish life, stay away from criminal and evil forces, stay away from pornography, gambling and drugs, only in this way can society be more harmonious. What are your different views on this matter?