If the world's largest slum is Kibera in Kenya, perhaps the most legendary is the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. Although it is not well-known in the mainland, in Western countries and in the world, the Kowloon Walled City has been mythologized again and again.

Unlike the slums in other parts of the world, the Kowloon Walled City is located in Hong Kong, where the economy is highly developed. What's more, because of its unique architectural style and neon lights all over the city, the sci-fi apocalyptic atmosphere created by it, and the special situation that the police dare not step into it, etc., all make the Kowloon Walled City the most "charming" slum on the planet.

The history of the Kowloon Walled City can be traced back to the Song Dynasty in China, and it was the garrison of the Guanfu Salt Works. In the seventh year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1668), the authorities set up a nine-dragon pier platform on Bijia Mountain, and in the twenty-first year of the Kangxi reign (1682), it was changed to Jiulong Xun. In the fifth year of Jiaqing (1810), the authorities moved the fort that used to guard the gate of the Buddha Hall to the side of the Kowloon flood.

After Hong Kong Island became a British colony in 1842, the Qing Dynasty expanded Kowloon Flood into Kowloon Village in 1847 and transferred the Taipeng Battalion, which was originally stationed in Mirs Bay, to counter Victoria City on the other side. In 1898, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories became colonies under the "Treaty on the Extension of the Boundary of Hong Kong", but the Kowloon Walled City was still under the jurisdiction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became a Chinese enclave located in the British colony. The walled city was the office of Qing Dynasty officials, and its status was about the same as that of a modern consulate. However, on December 27, 1899, the British invaded the Walled City, drove out the people inside the city, and abandoned the occupation and management of the Walled City and the garrison.

During the invasion of China and the occupation of Hong Kong, the army demolished all the walls in order to expand the nullah of Kai Tak Airport. After the surrender, the homeless people began to settle in the Kowloon Walled City, and in 1948 they successfully resisted the British political axe and entered into rectification. Because the Hong Kong police and colonial government did not have the right to enter, and the Chinese regime refused to administer it, the Kowloon Walled City suddenly became a hotbed of crime and a slum, and even described the local jurisdiction issue as "three regardless" (i.e., China does not care, Britain does not care, Hong Kong does not care). Since then, the population of Kowloon Walled City has increased dramatically without a political axe, and it has become a gathering place for murderers, gangsters, drug dealers and other fugitives. It has also become the location of various underground factories. By the 70s, the population of Kowloon Walled City had grown to 25,000, and 90% of Hong Kong's drug exports were made from it. At the same time, all kinds of large and small hospitals, casinos, dog rings, etc. have sprung up like mushrooms. Including a large number of underground food processing factories without safety supervision, unlicensed doctors, illegal immigrants, etc., are gathered here.

By the late 80s, the population of Kowloon Walled City had grown to 50,000, with an average living area of only 4 square meters per person. All kinds of illegal buildings are built one layer after another, and even 98% of the entire Walled City has no sunlight 24 hours a day, and electric lights are also lit at noon. Since the Hong Kong British government does not supply electricity to this place, the only source of electricity is to secretly connect the street lamp cables; Secretly connected wires are often pinched, and power outages become commonplace.

At the same time, due to the non-existence of the water barrier system, the entire Walled City was dripping everywhere 365 days a year. Although there is dripping water everywhere, there are only eight real water pipes, all of which are controlled by powerful gang leaders in the Walled City, who supply water to various underground factories under the gang. Ordinary villagers need water, pay for it from gangsters, and then fetch water from the few branch pipes. 99.9 of the villagers' homes do not have mailboxes. The sanitary conditions of the entire walled city were also at their worst, with rats, insects and ants eating and sleeping with people.

Dark, dirty, narrow tunnels with neon lights that come and go, labyrinthine corridors like anthills, leaky walls, addicts crouching around corners, and lawlessness have all become synonymous with the Kowloon Walled City.

Since the police never set foot here, in the 70s and 80s, the law and order in the vicinity of the Kowloon Walled City deteriorated. Many robbers openly robbed in broad daylight, and as long as they turned around and fled back to the walled city, the police were powerless to pursue them. In fact, all kinds of wanted criminals in Macao, Taiwan, and Malaya will rush to Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City to seek refuge when they have no way out.

For such a mythical place, of course Chen Yihua thought of going to see it, after coming to Hong Kong, Chen Yihua was very busy in order to open a company, but he once secretly went there to take a sneak look, but it was only on the periphery, of course, he didn't dare to go inside.

Hong Kong is short of land, but the Kowloon Walled City is three to four hundred meters away from the nearest building on three sides, and this section of the city is all roads without any buildings.

Chen Yihua felt that in 1975, such a building could become one of the seven wonders of the world, no wonder a cartoonist in later generations said when demolishing the Kowloon Walled City: "I would rather they demolish the Egyptian pyramids back then."

This walled city is completely a boxy building, more than 30,000 square meters, but each house is close together without a little gap, as if it was originally a whole, the house is at least more than 20 floors high, the color of the exterior wall plus messy clothes and quilts, it is really as eye-catching as it is, Chen Yihua feels that such a building does not collapse, it is entirely because the house of more than 30,000 square meters is already a whole, and the four corners are stressed.

Zhao Hongjun and the five people were not familiar with the environment of Hong Kong when they first arrived in Hong Kong, so they lived in the Kowloon Walled City in a daze, fortunately, several of them were born in the army, they were good, and they were all smugglers, and they didn't have much money in their hands, otherwise they didn't know how to die.

Five people were crammed into a small room of only twenty square meters, with bunk and low beds.

One of the two people who didn't come today is called Wu Fan, Wu Fan is as his name suggests, he looks ordinary, like an uncle working in the farmland, and the other is a young man in his twenties named Zhao Kun, who feels very cold, taciturn and similar to Zhao Hongjun, according to He Shui later said that Zhao Kun has the best skills in their group, but the experience is not as rich as Zhao Hongjun.

The five of them got together, and Zhao Hongjun also talked about Chen Yihua's recruitment of them during the day.

"Squad leader, what else to consider, Boss Chen's salary is good, and he can live in it, how good" He Shui was already impatient to express his opinion beside him.

"Yes, squad leader, I think that Boss Chen is good, he can speak mainland Chinese, but he is a little younger, but he has his own factory, it is impossible to lie to us, and we have nothing to let him deceive" Although Zhou Fang didn't say it during the day, it seemed that he also wanted to move out.

Wu Fan and Zhao Kun had never met Chen Yihua, and they didn't know about it, so everyone let Zhao Hongjun take the idea.

In fact, everyone has long wanted to move out of the Kowloon Walled City, but they are smugglers, it is difficult to find a house outside, and they are not familiar with the place, and the second is that they have no regular jobs, and they don't have much money in their hands, so they can't save a few dollars a day in the walled city, and the protection money, rent, and water bills collected by the gangsters inside go to more than half of their salaries.

There are also many underground factories in the Kowloon Walled City, casinos, and processing factories that produce drugs, Zhao Hongjun and several people are not willing to do these illegal and undisciplined things, and several people came to Hong Kong to make money, but how to say it in the past It was also out of the army, under the party's discipline and training, Zhao Hongjun and they are naturally disgusted with these things, and several people are looking for work outside every day to do coolies.

In this group of people, everyone is also Zhao Hongjun in the direction, when they came to Hong Kong from the mainland, in their group of people, Zhao Kun is from Shenzhen, close to Hong Kong, at that time several people in Zhao Kun's house decided to go out to Hong Kong, although they decided to come to Hong Kong together, but at that time it was already said that Zhao Hongjun would take the decision on major matters after coming to Hong Kong.

In a big wolf's den like the Kowloon Walled City, because the general major events are Zhao Hongjun's ideas, the five of them can live well until now, otherwise just a few of them's temper, when they first came, the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger's surname, if it wasn't for Zhao Hongjun to call the shots, the gangsters here collected protection money, everyone went their own way, and they would definitely resist, so Chen Yihua would definitely not see a few people now.

Because of listening to Zhao Hongjun's words, a few people did not make trouble and did not resist, Zhao Hongjun wanted to understand the situation first, after all, he was born as a scout, and everything had to grasp the information before he could take care of it.

In the past six months, everyone is also a character from the 19th Army, but they are still completely stunned by the complex and dark social phenomenon here in the Kowloon Walled City, fortunately, everyone listened to Zhao Hongjun's words, there was no impulse at the beginning, they were all low-key people, you can't do high martial arts in this place, poison, kill while you are sleeping, there are any means, and several people die here every day.

Where have you seen these from the mainland, it is much weirder here than on the battlefield, at least there are comrades on the battlefield, and they are also above board, and they know how to die.

Since Zhao Hongjun and the five of them came to Hong Kong, they just wanted to earn some money for their families or something, and it was impossible to go back in disgrace, although the environment was not very good, but several people had been on the battlefield, and they had seen too much about life and death, and they would not flee back to the mainland for these, knowing that it was not their home field, and several people were also low-key people, and went out every day to find work to earn money.

For Chen Yihua, Zhao Hongjun's first impression is still very good, he is self-confident, has a noble special temperament, and is young, the main reason for his hesitation is because Chen Yihua has heard of the 19th Army.

It's only 1975, Taiwan still has a lot of spies in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan are very close, there must be spies, Zhao Hongjun knows that he shouldn't have much value, but the 19th Army is a war that China participated in as a secret force to support North Vietnam, Zhao Hongjun knows some battlefield intelligence, although China's war to support North Vietnam has ended, but he can't be careless.