Chapter 251: Goal: Kowloon Walled City
Stopping and looking at the slum in front of him, Xiao Jian's eyes flashed with a fierce light, this is the first target he chooses to start, the largest slum in Hong Kong and even in the East... Kowloon Walled City !!
Dirty, messy, poor, these three words are Xiao Jian's first impression when he sees the legendary Kowloon Walled City in front of him, but it is such a slum, but it is also a taboo in the whole of Hong Kong, the police don't care, and the pornography, gambling and drugs in it are directly placed on the table, fighting, stealing, killing... and so on everywhere.
If the most well-known associations in Hong Kong are 14K, New Ngee An, and Wo Shenghe, then the Kowloon Walled City in front of it even has the strength to confront it, not one-on-one, but one-to-three confrontation.
Of course, there is not only one force in the entire Kowloon Walled City, and even its power is not much worse than that of Hong Kong, and the reason why Xiao Jian set the first target here is not because it is strong enough, but because it is legal to kill people here, and he can do it unscrupulously without worrying too much.
Raise your legs, in the undisguised greed and killing intent around you... Under the gaze, Xiao Jian walked into the Kowloon Walled City in front of him, and while looking around, he recalled the information he had collected about this place.
If the world's largest slum is Kibera in Kenya, then the most legendary is the Kowloon Walled City. Although it is not well-known in the East, in Western countries and Japan, the Kowloon Walled City has been mythologized again and again.
In 1941-45, during the Japanese invasion of China and the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, all the walls were demolished in order to expand the nullah of Kai Tak Airport, and after the Japanese surrender, street sleepers began to live in the Kowloon Walled City, and successfully resisted the British government's entry into rectification in 1948.
Since the Hong Kong police and the colonial government did not have the right to enter, the mainland regime refused to administer it. The Kowloon Walled City has become a hotbed of crime and a slum, and it has even described the local jurisdiction issue as "three regardless" (i.e., the mainland does not care, the United Kingdom does not care, and Hong Kong does not care).
And the Kowloon Walled City, if it really goes back to the Qing Dynasty, can even be traced back to the Qing Dynasty.
Hong Kong Island has been a British colony since 1842. In 1847, the Qing government expanded Kowloon Flood into Kowloon Village, and transferred the Dapeng Battalion, which was originally stationed in Mirs Bay, to confront Victoria City on the other side.
In 1898, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories became colonies in the Sino-British "Extension of Hong Kong Boundary Clause", but the Kowloon Walled City remained under the jurisdiction of the Qing garrison despite the arguments of Qing diplomats. It became an enclave of the Qing Dynasty located in a British colony.
However, in May 1899, the British ordered an invasion of the Walled City to drive out the Qing Dynasty officials in the city. Adulterer. Poison. Hawkers... and other gathering places for 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 heroin was exported.
At the same time, all kinds of prostitutes. Courtyards, casinos, dog rings... A large number of underground food processing factories without safety supervision, unlicensed doctors, illegal immigrants, etc., have sprung up like mushrooms.
In 1973-74. More than 3,000 police officers were dispatched to force their way into the walled city and eradicate the underworld forces in the walled city. Later, the walled city was 'Jedi, and reinforced concrete houses sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and illegal expansion and unauthorized construction were strict. The streets are as narrow as corridors.
Residential water comes from eight public water pipes or wells. In the early 1980s, it was estimated that there were 35,000 residents of the walled city, and the crime rate was much higher than the average in Hong Kong.
Since the Walled City is the territory of the Mainland, it is, in principle, an enclave of the Mainland within Hong Kong. As a result, a Kowloon City People's Congress was set up in the area, which had no real powers, in an attempt to move closer to the mainland government.
Although it has a mainland background, it is actually an autonomous organization, which is not subject to mainland control and domination, and is only used to emphasize that Kowloon City is not a British colony.
Due to the lack of water insulation system, the entire Walled City drips water everywhere 365 days a year, although it drips everywhere, but there are only 8 real water pipes, all of which are controlled by powerful gang leaders in the Walled City, providing water to various underground factories under the gangs.
Because the police never set foot here, in the 70s and 80s, the law and order near the Kowloon Walled City deteriorated.
Many robbers openly robbed in broad daylight, as long as they turned around and fled back to the Kowloon Walled City, the police were powerless to pursue, and even all kinds of wanted criminals in Macau, Taiwan, and Malaya would rush to the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong to seek refuge in desperate situations.
Dark, dirty, all kinds of prostitutes. The narrow dark passages with neon lights that come and go dark, the labyrinthine corridors like anthills, the leaky walls, the heroin addicts crouching around the corner, and lawlessness, lawlessness, and anarchy, this qiē has become synonymous with the Kowloon Walled City.
However, according to information obtained by Xiao Jian from the "Book of Stars and Huàn", without his intervention, the legendary Kowloon Walled City would have been transformed into a 31,000-square-meter Kowloon Walled City Park.
Roughly one year later, in 1987, the British and Chinese governments reached an agreement to turn the area into a park.
However, the implementation of the demolition experienced great twists and turns, and it was not until the spring of 1994 that construction began, costing more than 60 million yuan, and then it took several years to complete.
If he wants to complete Xiao Jian's plan, in addition to this, there is also a place that is more suitable to be his base camp, not to mention, this is a three-regardless zone where murder is not guilty, as long as he has the strength, then he can even rule here in one day.
Stopping and looking at the small shop in front of him that bought and sold all kinds of cold weapons, Xiao Jian's eyes couldn't help but flash a gleam, and he walked in with his legs raised.
"Take what you want to buy, don't bargain, put down the money, and take the weapon." As soon as Xiao Jian stepped into the store, a hoarse and harsh voice rang out.
Looking up, inside the small shop, a man with an ordinary appearance, no more than 30 years old, exuding a piercing chill all over his body, and carefully wiping an iron sword with a cloth appeared in his sight.
"Found it, the first one..."
(Thanks to qaz78910 for the tip.) (To be continued.) )