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Character for Xiao (surname)
The Xiao Ziang Family is a family-based Tong in the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
The Xiao Ziang Family is a Tong that is structured in a similar fashion to the Mafia. It's members are expert martial arts, preferring it to the use of firearms. A good number of them are physical adepts. The Tong is notorious for its cruelty, the use of torture for the extraction of information, and to instill fear in their extortion targets.[1]
Like the other Tongs in the UK, it's involved in drug dealing, gambling, BTL chips, guns, bioware, prostitution, and extortion.[2] It's focus is on establishing commercial monopolies via the application of violence. Businesses which resist will see them publicly attacked with Tong soldiers carrying hacking weapons or they will be firebombed.[3] The Manchester Tong coordinates and organizes with the Nottingham Tong of the Si Peng Family.[4]
References[]
- ↑ London Sourcebook p.49
- ↑ Prime Runners p.68
- ↑ London Sourcebook p.49
- ↑ London Sourcebook p.118
Index[]
- London Sourcebook, 49, 117, 118
- Shadows of Asia, 196
- Prime Runners, 68