'Second Brother Feng', rendered in Thai from Teochew as Yi Ko Hong[e]), was a Chinese businessman, philanthropist, and secret society member who was active in early twentieth-century Siam.

His father, Zheng Shisheng (鄭詩生), was a peasant who fled China during the First Opium War but died en route to Thailand.

[2] While working for gambling magnate Liu Jibin (劉繼賓), Zheng became a member of the clandestine Chinatown-based 'Tian Di Hui' (天地會) or 'Heaven and Earth Society'.

In 1909, he dissented from the popular Chinese sentiment against the king's most recent tax reforms and refused to partake in a three-day-long strike action.

[2][4] Hong Taechawanit began to build a conglomerate in Thailand, which comprised pawnshops, a printing press, a shipping line,[2] a theatre,[5] and the biggest gambling house in the country.