In the film, Andy Lau plays the mayor, who has little knowledge, and then decides to join the police force to make a living. It coincides with the corruption of the police force, and the fledgling mayor is unwilling to go with the flow because of his integrity and is excluded by his colleagues. Inspector Chen Tong admired him very much. With the support of Chen Tong, Mayor gradually gained a foothold in the police and later became a detective with the help of his father-in-law.
Slowly, Lv Le, who had been the chief inspector of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, was black and white, and he was an absolute monarch. Later, he and Xiong Yan, Han Sen and Lan Gang called Hong Kong "the four Chinese detectives" and colluded with gangs to collect huge bribes (including that document). Lv Le is recognized as the first of the four.
The corruption cases of the four major detectives were exposed by the colonial government in the 1960s. Former Governor MacLehose set up the Independent Commission Against Corruption on 1974 to curb the increasingly rampant corruption in the police force. This famous action of "killing tigers" caused panic in the police force and even triggered a conflict between the police and the people.
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1949, the hot-blooded young mayor became a policeman. At that time, the treatment of the Hong Kong police was not high, and it became common for the police to collect protection fees from merchants. The mayor didn't want to go along with them and was excluded by his colleagues. He also offended Detective Tong Yan, who had been in power for some time and was in danger of being suspended. However, Inspector Chen Tong secretly admired him and defended him.
The daughter of the mayor and grocer, Xia two of a kind, but Xia's parents didn't want her daughter to suffer with him, so they tried to stop her. The mayor drowned his sorrows by drinking, went to the casino of the underworld to make trouble and was beaten. Thanks to the rescue of Inspector Chen Tong, he helped him raise a dowry of 50,000 yuan.
However, the fire in Dongtou Village, Kowloon in 195 1 year destroyed the mayor's dream. The mayor's family escaped, but Xia's family was buried in the fire, and Xia himself was never heard from. In the late 1950s, the mayor experienced the factional struggle of the police force. After several ups and downs, he gradually got used to the Hong Kong police force, performed well in collecting protection fees, and was finally promoted to inspector.
As a detective, the mayor standardized the system of collecting protection fees in the district, reduced conflicts from all walks of life and won the respect of superiors. It coincides with the retirement of the inspector of Yau Tsim District. Both the mayor and Tong Yan became strong competitors for this position, and they started their own actions. At that time, the mayor met someone unexpectedly, which shocked him.