Is Yi Lianfeng the prototype of Zhao Hongbing in "Twenty Years of Underworld"?

The protagonist Zhao Hongbing in "Twenty Years of Underworld" is based on Yi Lianfeng.

Yi Lianfeng, Chairman of New Century Hotel, male, born in December 1962, Han nationality, graduated from Inner Mongolia Normal University for Nationalities (now Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities) in August 1985 with a bachelor's degree. Later, he taught at Zhelimumeng Commercial School and studied at Shanxi University of Finance and Economics during his teaching career. In 1992, he served as the general manager of Tongliao Foreign Trade Friendship Economic and Trade Company.

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The play is adapted from Kong Ergou's popular novel "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Twenty Years of Underworld". It is a film that reflects the long history of the Northeast region. It is a lengthy epic about social changes over more than 20 years. The story tells the shocking development of a mafia organization in a northern city over the past 20 years since 1986. This is an unusual commemoration and recollection of the 31 years of reform and opening up, and a heavy reflection on what has been gained and lost in the past few decades.