Tao Jiang

**Tao Jiang** is a character in *Family Business* who is the secondary antagonist for Nacho Sanchez in his first story arc. He was the son of Wei Jiang of the Hong Kong Triads.

## Personality

Tao Jiang is a headstrong, vain and foolish spoiled only child who lacks the maturity and responsibility to take on the business tasks his father bestowed upon him. Typically rather than working in the criminal enterprise, Tao was too busy getting drunk or high on drugs which led to his father's hatred over his son for both damaging his reputation and being a useless waste for a son. However, Tao did have a secret desire to impress his father when pushed, but his youthful confidence led him to overestimate his abilities and get himself and his family into trouble.

## Biography

### Early Life

Tao Jiang was born on January 7 1995 in Langshan, China and speaks Mandarin Chinese. He only knew a few English words, and was accompanied by a translator named Ken Nao for this reason. His father was Wei Jiang, the leader of the Hong Kong Triads. While Wei was ruthless and easily capable of bringing retribution to anyone who opposed him, Tao had proven to be quite an inept Triad successor, displaying the typical traits of a spoiled only child. Constantly getting wasted and lacking any sense of initiative business skills at the meetings he was supposed to attend with Nao handling. Due to this behavior, his father utterly despised his son but always tried to give Tao a chance to prove himself that he's a capable businessman and leader. Despite these chances, Tao continued to go to business meetings either drunk or high.

### Expanding Businesses

Wei started seeking to fulfill the goal of expanding business into Los Angeles County, California, U.S., so, giving his son another opportunity, he sent Tao and his translator to make contact with Nacho Sanchez, one of the area's most prominent drug dealers. Tao set up a meeting at the local bar with Nacho's right-hand man, Sebastian Bolsa, to discuss business matters with the hopes of partnering with the Sanchez crime family through Nacho. He was spoken for by Nao, because Tao was high on meth and did not take the meeting seriously, much to Nacho's chagrin. However, Nao managed to convince Nacho and Seb not to leave, promising that, if they partner, they would make a huge profit. Nacho decided to hear Nao out and agreed to show them their coke operation, but they were suddenly attacked by a crew of the Archangels led by Terry Hubbs and Clayton Smith to avenge their killed President, Robert Hockstetter. Tao and Nao were frightened by the experience as they hid during the bar shootout. When it ended, Nao said he had seen enough, and he drove Tao away.

Afterwards, Tao decided not to work with Nacho because of his unpredictable and reckless behavior. Tao chose to look for more potential business partners to work with, which Nacho learned of and he confronted Tao at the bar they met at, where Tao was waiting for the Baker Brothers. Nacho questioned Tao of who he wanted to partner with, but they refused to say anything, so Nacho violently assaulted Tao until Nao revealed they were the Baker Brothers. In a fit of psychotic rage, Nacho headed to the Bakers' ranch and ended up killing most of the brothers and destroyed the ranch in a gasoline explosion. Nacho then waged a war across the entire county against the rival dealers in an attempt to force Tao into agreeing to work with his family however this ultimately failed as Tao was forced into fleeing from the county to meet with his father back in the city at his casino penthouse.

### Attempted Revenge

Tao met Wei at his penthouse; Wei, aware that Tao had not come back with any desired results and had only dented his and his organization's reputation by making them look weak, offered his son a drink before gut-punching it back out of him, forcing him to clean it up and informing him of his mistakes. Tao was visibly intimidated by his father but he claimed that he would rectify his errors through retribution. Tao returned to the county with a crew of thugs and raided Nacho's home with the intention of murdering Nacho. However, Nacho was away from his home, so Tao murdered his dog, trashed the place and stolen his muscle car spitefully. They though encountered Seb outside and proceeded to brutally beat him up, then left him for dead after taking his belongings, including his phone, keys and gun. Before leaving, Tao mockingly told Seb to inform Nacho of what happened and that he'd be coming after him again. Nacho returned home and was heartbroken to discover his dog's corpse, then found Seb and put him in his bed to "sleep off" his injuries, taking care of him through the night.

### Capture and Execution

At the Dames n' Games strip club in the city, Tao and his friends celebrated in a hot tub accompanied by strippers and with a supply of champagne and cocaine. However, a concerned Nao warned Tao of the likely comeback from Nacho, but the proud and arrogant Tao showed no fear or care. Nao tried to convince Tao to be more careful and even got frustrated to the point of taking the drink away from Tao, causing him to throw a temper tantrum and he threatened Nao. Eventually, a shootout ensued in the club where Nacho and his crew arrived to kill Tao. While Nacho and his gang dealt with Tao's bodyguards, Tao cowardly ran away and thereby revealed his fear, even using a stripper as a human shield to try to save his own skin. Tao escaped the club in nothing but a bath towel, then phoned his father only to be ignored cruelly. Tao realized that his own father would not be coming to help him and that he was going to die, then he fled into a nearby alleyway upon hearing Nacho and his crew searching for him. Seb then suddenly ambushed Tao and punched him in the face twice, knocking Tao unconscious and paying him back for what he did to him. The unconscious Tao was then dragged into their van and they successfully captured him, taking out into a remote location in the county desert.

Tao woke up in the van bound and gagged with duct tape and he heard a shovel digging outside, then the backdoors opened to reveal to a terrified Tao that he had been abducted by Nacho, Seb and two other henchmen Vicente Colon and Martin Villacres. Nacho violently grabbed Tao and threw him out of the van, then pulled out a knife to scare Tao only to cut his restraints. Before Tao could make a move, Fernando aims his gun at Tao to stop him from running and Nacho ordered him to dig his own grave with the shovel, refusing to listen to Tao's pleas and desperate offers in exchange for his release. In response, Nacho stomps on Tao's groin and angrily shouts at him to start digging. Nacho took sadistic joy in toying with Tao, which included verbally mocking him and the Jiang family and offered him a bottle of water only to pour it on the sand, then shoved his hand into the wet sand while telling him to enjoy it. After Tao had finished digging the grave, Nacho prepared to execute Tao with his shotgun and asked him if he had anything to say before he died. Tao desperately asked Nacho to wait and made one final attempt to convince the maniac from murdering him with many offers such as money and power. Seb realized this and stopped Nacho from killing Tao immediately, pulling him away to negotiate with Nacho on using their hostage to bargain with Wei for ransom money. Nacho angrily refused, but Seb reluctantly came to a compromise of killing Tao after receiving the money. Seb tried to warn Nacho of Wei's wrath, but Nacho didn't listen and he told Tao that he gets to live a bit longer. Before Tao could respond, Nacho used the stock of his shotgun to break Tao's leg and then ordered Fernando and Martin to restrain him inside the nearby shack.

Tao was seen bound, gagged and blindfolded to a chair within the shack while Seb used Tao's phone to call Wei to negotiate the ransom cash. However, Wei revealed he did not care about his disgraced son and rejected the offer, prompting Nacho to take off the duct tape from Tao's mouth and shoot his other leg to cause Tao to scream so Wei could hear him on the phone in an attempt to persuade him to accept to deal. Wei though hung up on the phone and Tao was tortured by Nacho as personal revenge for killing his dog. During the torture, Tao questioned why Nacho was going to extreme lengths to punish him for killing just a dog, visibly upsetting Nacho and he tried to hold back the tears, so he took out his emotions by hurting Tao which included beating him with a baseball bat, waterboarding him, electrocuting him with car cables and ripping out some of his teeth with a pair of pliers. When Tao was barely alive, Nacho intimidated Tao with his prized machete, Joaquina, but suddenly Fernando and Martin burst into the shack to warn Nacho and Seb of an unknown gang incoming. Nacho then quickly murdered Tao with Joaquina to fulfill his desired vengeance, stabbing him through the throat.

Nacho recognized the hostiles as members of the Hong Kong Triads led by Wei's underboss, Tsai Lin, whom ordered her men to storm the shack and kill whoever was inside. Before the gang could break in, Tao's corpse tied to a chair with a bag over his head was flung outside. Tsai and her men held their fire and, unknownest to her that he was dead, pulled the bag off of his head only to discover a grenade stuffed in his mouth. Tsai took cover but the explosion killed several of her men, which later ensued in a shootout between Nacho's crew and Tsai's remaining forces.