The Crooked Story of Chief Wang Bao

Plot Synopsis

Wang Baozhang, who had made a lot of ill-gotten gains by forcibly conscripting able-bodied men, came up with new tricks again in the late 1940s. In the name of "Chiang Kai-shek's Ten Commandments for the New Life", he colluded with the corrupt local Kuomintang elements to levy heavy taxes on the common people, causing great unrest and making their lives miserable. Thus, one after another ugly farce of mutual deception was staged. Wang Baozhang opened a pawnshop, and even Third Sister-in-law had to pawn her chastity in it. The harmful "Happy Donation" made the beautiful Li Yaomei become demented, and, as if by some strange twist of fate, she married the idle Pan Tuobei. The scheming Wang Baozhang made Pan Tuobei, who ran a teahouse, suffer a double loss - losing both his wife and his resources. Li Laoshuan and Wang Baozhang, each having their own backers, both set their sights on the lucrative post of the head of the tax collection office. Who would emerge victorious in this open and covert struggle?