"426" refers to a "military commander",
also known as a "Red Pole",
overseeing defensive and offensive operations,
while "49" denotes the position of "soldier or rank-and-file member.
Enforcer.
Prince of the 14k.
Growing up on the filthy streets of Hong Kong had given Jing Sheng the advantage he had needed to work his way towards the top of the Triad food chain.
His parents had become the victims of loan sharking, and therefore could not afford to pay the heavy debt in which had been inherited willfully.
A deal was easily made, and the only child of the Sheng family would be given up for adoption to that of the 14k.
In time, he would be raised in the shadow of the Triad forefathers.
He would learn the importance of money, and how it got you everything in life.
Inevitably, the most important lesson he would ever learn was that violence was the quickest way to solve one's troubles
as violence would inevitably become the bane of Jing's petty existence.