Hong Kong is a city full of dreams, but it is also a city that people cannot understand.

Russell Street in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, is the most expensive place in the world. The monthly rent exceeds 1,000 yuan per square meter, which is not even New York's Fifth Avenue.

But it’s also home to the famous slum Kowloon Walled City.

There is almost a different world inside and outside the city walls. It is dark and full of all kinds of crime, and the people at the bottom live together in groups to keep warm.

Hong Kong has been populated by mainlanders since the 1950s, and its economy took off in the 1970s.

Since the 1980s, a large number of young people from the mainland have come to Hong Kong to pursue their dreams.

Celebrities such as Jet Li, Carina Lau, and Chile left the mainland to develop in Hong Kong at this time, while entrepreneurs such as Yung Hong and Hui Wing Mau also came to Hong Kong at this time.

But most of the young mainlanders who came to Hong Kong at that time did not become Jet Li or Xu Rongmao. They all lived at the bottom of society, with no future, no place to live, low income, and had nothing to do with the prosperity of Hong Kong.

Some people took the risk of committing crimes and went on the road, so the story of three robbers was left in Hong Kong.

Many people know the story of Li Ka-shing and Zhang Ziqiang, but they don’t know the story of Liu Luanxiong and Ye Qikuan.

Everything needs to be seen through the lens of reality.

So how did Ye Qikuan, a young man from a small town in mainland China, get lost in Hong Kong step by step and eventually become a gangster who shocked the world?

For most people, it is assumed that people like Ye Qikuan must be lazy and uneducated to embark on this path, but the opposite is true.

Ye Qikuan was once a passionate young man who wanted to create a happy life with his own hands, but in the end Ye Qikuan became a gangster with an AK 47 and a gun pointed at the police's head.

One of the key figures in Ye Qikuan's life is Liu Zuyao.

It can be said that the most important catalyst for Ye Qikuan's transformation from a hot-blooded young man to a gangster was Liu Zuyao. In other words, Ye Qikuan's fate was because Liu Zuyao forced him to do this.

Ye Kaikuan was born in Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, from a poor family and dropped out of school in the third grade.

Here in Hong Kong, some people from the Shanwei area have lived a good life.

The first is the famous banker Zhuang Shiping, who donated 200 billion yuan to the country before his death, and a state funeral was held for him after his death; the second is the founder of Sun Ngee Ann, who later founded the largest gang in Hong Kong and once

Known as the Emperor of Kowloon; the third is Detective Lu Yue, who is also the prototype of Lai Luo in many movies. Before the anti-crime operations in Hong Kong, he can be said to be very powerful.

The success of these figures in Hong Kong has also greatly affected the development of young people in Shanwei City.

Chaoshan used to be considered by many to be the province of Weiguojiao, where Han Yu was demoted.

Shanwei is one of the most forgotten places in Chaoshan.

Young people had no options at home, so they chose to go to the South Pacific.

Later, when Hong Kong developed, they went to Hong Kong.

At the age of seventeen, Ye Qikuan followed others to Hong Kong and later found a job there.

When he first came to Hong Kong, Ye Qikuan went into hiding for fear of being caught back to the mainland.

Ye Qikuan worked for a fan and eventually settled down.

At that time, Liu Zhijun was the boss of Ye Qikuan's factory.

Liu Zuyao is also from Chaoshan. His parents ran a grocery store in Chaoshan. Liu Zuyao grew up there in a poor family and slept on the door panel before he was 10 years old.

When Joseph Liu grew up, his parents opened a fan factory. After Joseph Liu came back from Canada, he opened his own fan factory.

But at this time, the family business was in decline, and Joseph Liu was under tremendous pressure.

The exploitation of workers by bosses is very common in the workplace now, but it can be said to be relatively common in those days because various protective measures were not in place.

At that time, Ye Qikuan was a young man full of passion and ambition.

Although his ability is not strong, he believes that he can change his life through his own efforts.

Then there was a fire in the factory. Ye Qikuan was kind-hearted and immediately went to the rescue.

The fire was finally extinguished, but Ye Qikuan was injured and hospitalized.

Not only did Ye Qikuan lose money because of his injury, he was also unable to go to work.

Ye Qikuan thought he was helping to put out the fire in the factory, so he asked Liu Zuyao for compensation.

To Ye Qikuan's surprise, the boss rejected a plan that was supposed to be a no-brainer.

Joseph Liu's argument was that Ye Qikuan put out the fire, not that he asked him to put it out, so Ye Qikuan's injury was his own fault.

After this incident, Ye Qikuan finally saw through the greedy nature of Hong Kong's rich people. He began to understand that Hong Kong society is a world of the jungle and the strong.

Soon Ye Qikuan started gambling. In order to protect himself, he joined the Chaozhou Gang in Xinyi.

Ye Qikuan became Xin Ngee Ann's lackey.

But at that time, there were at least more than 80,000 followers like Ye Qikuan, if not 100,000.

Ye Qikuan knows that the road ahead is difficult.

So Ye Qikuan decided to have a big meal with others.

In 1984, 23-year-old Yip Kai-kuan, together with other Hong Kong people, robbed a gold shop in Tsim Sha Tsui and a watch shop in Central.

In his first stage as a novice, Ye Qikuan was quickly caught by the police, and then the police began to pretend to be Ye Qikuan's stolen goods. Ye Qikuan was arrested, and Ye Qikuan was later sentenced to 16 years in prison.

In prison, Ye Qikuan did not repent. He thought the robbery was easy, but their follow-up was too careless. If they could follow up well, they could escape.