After experiencing the chaotic time of the big circle gang making trouble and sweeping the field every day under the Feixiong Gate, and recuperating from the injury for more than three months, Liangkun found that the territory of Hung Hing Mong Kok is really calm now.

Get up at noon every day for lunch, play mahjong in the afternoon, go home to cook and eat after picking up Ah Zhen after work, go out to do things after dinner, and "go out" if you have business.

However, when Liangkun thought that Wei Dingbang's main purpose of arranging him to enter the hall of Hung Hing Mong Kok was destined to fail, Mong Kok, a red light district where warblers sang and danced, and was drunk with gold, was surging again.

Liangkun received a notice not to go out to do business today, the Big Circle Gang has given an ultimatum to Hong Xing Wang Jiao Tang, and Hong Xing Wang Jiao Tang Master Fei Xiong decided to dry the horse.

As a member of the hall of Hong Xingwang Kok, especially Feixiong's protégé, Liangkun was named and asked to participate in the horse drying.

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Drying a horse is not the same as opening a film.

The opening film is not the start of the filming, but a group fight. Participating in this kind of club activities, it is not good to be bad, generally only the boy participates, and the people who are not the boy are called (such as the demolition of the house who sells small doses of drugs, the groom like Liangkun, the doorman of the valet parking, etc.), often not only does not play the role of strong prestige, but those who abuse the number of people often take the lead in fleeing when they see casualties, affecting the morale of the whole team. Therefore, the maximum number of people who actually open the film is often only a few dozen.

Drying horses is different, make an appointment, make an appointment, and start arranging horses on both sides, just looking for street boys and gangsters, in fact, this kind of scene is bluffing, and basically can't fight.

Dozens or hundreds, or even thousands, of people confronting each other in the streets are just showing off their strength, which is similar to the extras invited. In the era of the "Four Detectives", there were even companies that specialized in this kind of business: how many horses do you need, what are the requirements, they specially help you organize such a group of "actors", and the appearance fee of Ma Zai is about one to twenty Hong Kong dollars, and this market has to change with the different nature of the "appearance" event, and the most important occasion is fifty yuan.

When the lame man Wu Shihao first smuggled to Hong Kong, because of his tall and muscular body, he made a living as an "extra" for a long time, until he married Xie Wanying, the queen of drugs, and began to enter the lucrative industry of drug trafficking, which ended his "acting career".

In Hong Kong, the cost of opening a film is very high: everyone has to be rewarded at least before "sending troops", and preparing weapons is another expense; After the fight, the injured will have to be treated, the dead will have to pay funeral expenses and settling-in expenses, and if you don't get it right in a fight, you will bankrupt the boss. "You need to be cautious in fighting, if you lose the fight, you will go to the hospital, and if you win, you will go to the prison cell", this sentence is not just said by the policeman's uncle.

Therefore, negotiating in the form of "drying horses" is not really a hands-on, but an act of showing off force to each other. Usually neither side carries weapons, and the winner is usually determined by the number of mobilized people or even the "neatness" of the lineup. At the end of the day, the organizers themselves don't want to fight.

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In the process of arranging horses, Liangkun finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

After 1949 and before 1966, the mainlanders who smuggled into Hong Kong basically did not set up their own associations, and generally joined local associations: among the "three major drug lords of the Chaozhou Gang", Wu Shihao, the "lame man", smuggled to Hong Kong in 1962, joined the Hongxing branch Hong Yiqun, and the brothers Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen, the "white powder horse", and Ma Xizhen, the "golden horse", smuggled to Hong Kong in 1953 to join Fu Yixing. After Ma Xizhen, the "Golden Horse," was arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Ma Xiru, who had already absconded to Taiwan, took advantage of the contacts he had accumulated in the past to ask a number of "Justices of the Peace" to jointly guarantee the "Golden Horse" Ma Xizhen, and then the "Golden Horse" Ma Xizhen gave up the bail and fled to Taiwan, where he joined up with the "White Powder Horse" Ma Xiru.

After 1966, the situation was very different, and the people who were smuggled into Hong Kong were basically defeated dogs and discarded products in the movement. And even these "defeated dogs" far surpassed their predecessors in terms of organization and combat effectiveness, and they formed a "big circle gang" to fight the local community in fear. The local community was forced to unite in order to confine them to the sin city of the Kowloon Walled City.

(As for the smuggled immigrants to Hong Kong before 1949, they basically came in a whole group, and Dongxing and Hongxing actually entered Hong Kong at that time.)

Because they are also Hongmen associations and have local friendship, not only have they not been squeezed out by the local associations, but because of their background and support of the "Scraping People's Party", they have attracted the remnants of the defeated soldiers of the Nationalist Army stranded in Hong Kong to join one after another, and they have grown rapidly and grown into a large association that stands tall with the "prefix of harmony", including the associations of Heliansheng, Heyisheng, and Heanle.

In this process, in order to establish the authority of the police, the "four major detectives" supported Dongxing, Hongxing and other cross-river dragons, and suppressed local snakes such as "Hezitou", which also brought great help to the rise of Dongxing and Hongxing. Or take the "three major drug lords of the Chaozhou Gang" as an example, "Lame Hao" Wu Shihao is the underworld partner of "Inspector 500 million" Lei Luo, Hongxing leader Jiang Zhen is Lei Luo's uncle and father-in-law, and Lei Luo's political rival Yan Tong is the same as the "white powder horse" Ma Xiru and the "Golden Horse" Ma Xizhen brothers belong to Fu Yixing. ）

This time, the entrance of Hung Hing Mong Kok was to demonstrate to the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers", a big circle gang that was preparing to break out of the Kowloon Walled City and occupy a piece of territory in Mong Kok.

(The Big Circle Gang is a general association composed of people smuggled into Hong Kong from the mainland, not a unified gang organization in the strict sense, but just a general term.) The term is widely used to distinguish it from older traditional societies that are mainly made up of locals.

There are many organizations in the Big Circle Gang, and they do not belong to each other. Dadong, who was pit by Liangkun before, is one of them, and the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" are another gang, which is said to be named because the leaders are the two brothers Jiang Long and Jiang Hu. ）

In the past, the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" repeatedly used "smashing and robbing" methods to deal with Hung Xingwang Kok Tangkou, including smashing the strong horse pen, just to extort protection money. -- Extorting protection money from gangsters, the innovative thinking of the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" is also excellent.

After encountering stubborn resistance, the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" spoke to the entrance of the hall in Hung Hing Mong Kok, preparing to go down in person and cut at least a piece of fat from the territory of the hall in Hung Hing Mong Kok.

Looking at this farce in front of him, Liangkun couldn't help but think of Lu Xun's words in "Just a Collection: A Little Miscellaneous Feeling":

Those who were once bold should be retro, those who are being bold should maintain the status quo, and those who have not been bold should be innovative. Probably so.