The crimes involved in the triad mainly include drug trafficking, organizing prostitution, gambling, gambling, and extortion. Some of the jobs that are most closely related to the triad in Hong Kong include nightclub watching, sparrow restaurant operation, and debt collection by borrowing companies.

But in recent years, some associations have begun to get involved in the film industry and electronics manufacturing. Hong Kong's film industry has become more and more prosperous in recent years, largely because of the influx of money. Some of these funds come from Taiwanese and Southeast Asian studios, and the other part is gray income from local communities.

For example, Li Xuan's eldest brother Li Ke took over the family carnival pictures, which was originally a company used by Heletang to launder money. It's just that these people who are mixed up on the road, there is no problem in letting them fight and kill, but it is really not that material to go to business and make money.

So even if you can point a gun at Liu Dehua's head and ask him to nod to film for you, it will still be a bad movie. It's just that for these companies that don't want to drink, whether the movie can be released and make money is the second problem, and in the process of making a movie, they can skillfully make a movie with an actual cost of only 1 million into a big production of 10 million with financial means.

This is equivalent to laundering 9 million of them. The cost of laundering money through this method is much lower than that of other means. This is the real reason why the Hong Kong triad involved in the film industry on a large scale in the eighties and nineties.

Otherwise, would the little profit from making a movie be sold to make money? Even if you go to a nightclub, a high-end nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui pays at least a few million Hong Kong dollars every month. And making movies is by no means a business that makes money and matches, even if it is the three giants of the Hong Kong film industry like Asian Entertainment, Golden Harvest, and New Arts City. There are by no means a few projects that fail every year.

The reason why the underworld will coerce celebrities to take over the script is that they hope to use the popularity of celebrities to sell films. More importantly, it is also for the convenience of accounting. Because of a big production with a production cost of 10 million, if there are not a few popular superstars to support the scene. How do you make the Hong Kong government's audit department believe that this film project really cost 10 million.

Of course, there are still some community film companies that are willing to follow the rules, such as Family Carnival Pictures after Li Ke took over. and Yongsheng Film Company, which was established several years earlier than another time and space, after seeing that Hele Tang not only easily laundered money by making movies, but also made a lot of money.

As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, and each row has a doorway for each line. Even if you are a dragon crossing the river, you can only really eat if you are accepted by the head snake of the land. Enter a new industry. It is necessary to abide by the rules of this industry, which is the premise that you can become bigger and stronger.

In addition to the film industry, the electronics industry is also one of the new industries that Hong Kong associations have begun to get involved in in recent years. Hong Kong's community bosses do not fight and kill, but set up factories to be the bosses, which is actually inextricably linked to Li Xuan.

In the widely circulated history of the "God of Wealth Lee", his first pot of gold was in the summer vacation after graduating from middle school, when he worked in a foreign trade company, he invented a printer Han card, thus winning the trust of Japan's Seiko Epson Company.

He then used his talent to convince Seiko Epson to agree to sell arcade motherboards on credit, leading to the creation of two classic arcade games, Tank Wars and Hong Kong Cubes.

And this is actually artificially hidden. A not-so-glorious black history. The beginning of Li Xuan's real career was to cooperate with Letang's Red Stick Scar Qiang to open a copycat factory that imitated Japan's popular arcade machines.

It's just that after accumulating the first pot of gold, Li Xuan quickly joined forces with the community. and intellectual property infringement and other illegal acts. In order to make his launch run smoothly, Li Xuan even designed an Apple gambling machine for Scar Qiang as compensation.

A few years ago, it was still strong with the red stick scar of Hele Hall, and now it has been promoted to the club's sitting hall. After Li Xuan withdrew. The copycat arcade factory, which was renamed Hutchison Electronics after being taken over by Scar Keung, has now become a well-known electronics company in Hong Kong.

Including the likes of Macau, South Korea, Malaysia. As well as many well-known casinos in Las Vegas, USA, are important customers of Hutchison Electronics. Because with the rapid development of integrated circuits. Casino owners quickly began to replace the original mechanical old Tiger machines with electronic old Tiger machines. Hutchison Electronics is the world's largest manufacturer of old electronic machines.

Of course, Hutchison is definitely a law-abiding regular company, actively abiding by the laws and regulations of the Hong Kong government, and has never sold an old tiger machine in the Hong Kong local market, which prohibits gambling. But if you go to the underground gambling houses in Hong Kong that operate illegally under the guise of sparrow houses, you will find that the rows of slot machines in the corners that are constantly sucking blood from the pockets of gamblers are actually produced by Hutchison.

Over the past few years, the Hong Kong Marine Police has seized a number of batches of old Tiger machines that have been exported to domestic sales. That's right, the appearance of Li Xuan's butterfly has made Hong Kong, a free port, even have a trick of turning exports into domestic sales.

In view of the particularity of the products it produces, Hutchison has even taken the initiative to report every order to the Hong Kong Police Force in advance, and actively assisted the authorities in cracking down on the illegal smuggling of old tiger machines.

Doesn't this sound particularly funny, but there are other things that make the Hong Kong police speechless. They can't wait for the 24-hour surveillance of Hele Tong, the current sitting hall Scar Qiang, and now he has simply turned into a well-known philanthropist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Hutchison Company and Scar Qiang personally donated as much as 5 million Hong Kong dollars to Li Xuan's Donghai Fund last year. Several members of the Legislative Council of the New Territories have even put forward suggestions that the Governor of Hong Kong will canonize the generous philanthropist named Shaw Wing-keung with the title of Justice of the Peace, so as to inspire more Hong Kong people to do good deeds.

Some people say that the legal system is the basis for the real survival of the underworld, because the bigwigs of the society can pay the best lawyers to exonerate themselves. For example, the founder of the Oriental Daily, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Hong Kong, was a well-known gangster in Hong Kong, one of the four major underground families in Hong Kong in the sixties and seventies. Fortune by smuggling white-powder.

Later, after the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, both Ma brothers were wanted. The eldest brother received the news in advance and absconded to Taiwan-Wan. After his younger brother was arrested, he was released on bail by a lawyer, and then abandoned his bail and absconded to Taiwan.

But the Oriental Daily, which they founded, is still protected by law. and is thriving in Hong Kong, and their son is still living a drunken life in Hong Kong. And because the Ma family controls the "Oriental Daily", few people dare to expose their old background now.

Since Hong Kong can have a newspaper tycoon born as a drug tycoon, and a philanthropist born as a social league boss, it is not a thing worth making a fuss about!

Under the stimulation of Scar Qiang and Harmony Hall, other associations in Hong Kong have also noticed the profiteering of arcades early. It's just that they weren't as lucky as Scar Qiang, and they were able to have Li Xuan's quiet support behind them.

Almost all of the current technology research and development team of Hutchison Electronics Company is from the Oriental Group, and this kind of poaching action is naturally acquiesced by Li Xuan. Other Hong Kong associations have followed suit and set up electronic companies. Naturally, it is impossible to be able to launch its own fist products as quickly as Hutchison Electronics does.

Most of these factories still rely on copycats of other popular arcade machines for their livelihood. If you want to talk about the past few years, the company with the most limelight in the arcade industry is naturally Oriental Games. But Oriental Games' arcade machines are the most difficult to counterfeit.

Because Li Xuan himself started by this means, he naturally made a series of preventive measures a long time ago. One of the most effective methods is that there are one or two indispensable chips on the arcade motherboards produced by Oriental Games, which are specially customized by Oriental Games itself. It is not a general-purpose chip that can be bought at will on the market.

In this way, even if other copycat factories want to imitate the arcade motherboard of Oriental Games, they will not be able to find all the parts. Because these two customized chips were directly commissioned by Oriental Game Company to be produced by Oriental Semiconductor Company, they were not sold on the market at all.

In the case of not being able to copycat the Arcade of Oriental Games. These copycats had to settle for the next best thing, copying the popular arcade machines of other companies like Sega and Namco. Since the rise of Oriental Game Company, Hong Kong has quickly formed a huge industrial chain for the production and distribution of arcade parts. This also makes it easy to find these copycat factories. Various parts required for production.

And letting the copycat factory squeeze the competitors' genuine arcade machines is naturally something that Oriental Games is happy to see. So after several years of development. Hong Kong has a sizable market for the production and sale of copycat arcades and other pirated electronic products.

And there is no Eastern Bloc behind this. Of course. The existence of the Eastern Group's acquiescence to such infringements of intellectual property rights was premised on the fact that they did not harm their own interests.

And the Eastern Bloc itself has been a significant victim of copycat piracy. When its own interests are violated, the Eastern Bloc will not be soft on its means of counterattack. One of the important tasks undertaken by Oriental Commercial Company is to crack down on counterfeiting and counterfeiting in the market.

Looking at the main business of the Oriental Group, the technical threshold of semiconductor chips is too high, and the copycat factories have no imitation strength at all. The technical standards of the ABC series of personal computers are basically semi-public, and everyone can produce compatible machines openly, without sneaking imitations at all.

The rest of the game console and software industries are the hardest hit by copycats. In particular, almost all the software developed by Oriental Application Software Company and Oriental Business Software Company can be found in the electronic business houses in Apliu Street, Mong Kok.

Oriental Commercial Company once conducted a random survey of local computer buyers in Hong Kong, and found that more than 70% of users did not have the East-DOS operating system installed on their computers. This also forced Dongfang Application Software to directly put pressure on the major computer manufacturers to directly install the East-DOS operating system on their personal computers before leaving the factory.

While pressuring computer manufacturers, Oriental Commercial also uncovered a number of illegal factories in Hong Kong and Taiwan suspected of copying Dongfang's software in batches, and shut down these factories with the intervention of government departments.

In addition to software, the various game consoles produced by Oriental Game Company are also one of the key targets pursued by copycat factories because they sell well all over the world. Among them, arcade machines have the highest profits, but they also have the highest technical threshold. But after Oriental Games took a series of precautionary measures, it made it impossible for copycat factories to start.

In contrast, FC consoles and GameBoy consoles have a lower technical threshold. In particular, the GameBoy handheld console, its low price, forced the Oriental game company to compress the cost to the extreme, and naturally it was impossible to spend additional costs on preventing piracy.

The difficulty of manufacturing GameBoy is actually very low, so it has always been the hardest hit area by imitation. Initially, most of these copycat factories were located in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but under the strong crackdown of the Eastern Bloc, the illegal factories in these places were quickly cracked down by the authorities.

After all, whether it is Taiwan, or Hong Kong, although the relevant authorities have not paid as much attention and strictness to the protection of intellectual property rights as decades later, at least they have already enacted perfect laws. In particular, when the victim of the Eastern Bloc comes forward to report it in person, the relevant government departments are bound to take strong measures to restore their responsible image.

And since last year, the Oriental Commercial Company, which is responsible for fighting copycat piracy, has discovered a new trend. With the deepening of reform and opening up in Chinese mainland, many piracy factories have also begun to move north, cooperating with small domestic factories in a three-to-one supplemental way.

Compared with the relatively free and open business environment of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the progress of the investigation of Oriental Trading Company in China is more difficult. Even if some illegal factories can be discovered, the cooperation of local government departments is very inactive.

In fact, China's patent law was not finalized until last year, and it only came into effect on April 1 this year. Therefore, it is difficult to protect intellectual property rights in China.

What's more, these three-to-one-replenishment orders all mean that valuable foreign exchange can be obtained, so local protectionist tendencies are very serious everywhere. Oriental Commercial Company's report was either prevaricated and delayed, or even directly ignored.

In the face of this new situation, Charleson, the new general manager of Oriental Commercial, who had just taken office, decided to adopt a new way of attacking. Since the Eastern Group cannot obtain strong cooperation from the government departments in Chinese mainland, it simply lures the snake out of the hole and gets these illegal products to the regions that are willing to cooperate with the actions of the Eastern Company.

As a result, the marketing department of Oriental Commercial Company began to place some fishing orders in the name of other companies. However, when these counterfeit products actually arrived in Hong Kong and were ready to be handed over, the supplier waited for the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department after receiving the report. (To be continued......)