Chapter 59: The Kowloon Walled City
"What's the solution?" Wang Zhi immediately asked.
"Do you know the Kowloon Walled City?"
"Of course I know, many entertainment articles that have been reborn in Xiangjiang will mention this place."
Wang Zhi still knows a little about the Kowloon Walled City, which is known as the world's most legendary slum. Its history can be traced back to the Song Dynasty at the earliest, and in modern times, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty ceded the Xiangjiang River, the Kowloon Walled City was still under the jurisdiction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the sovereignty still belonged to Zhongguo.
After the end of the war, because the Zhongguo government refused to administer the enclave, and the Xiangjiang police and colonial government did not have the right to enter it, the Kowloon Walled City suddenly became a hotbed of crime and a slum. Since then, the population of the Kowloon Walled City has increased dramatically under the condition of anarchy, and it has become a gathering place for murderers, criminals, 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 sea was exported from it. At the same time, brothels, casinos, dog rings, etc. have sprung up. 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 four square metres 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 British government in Hong Kong does not supply electricity to this place, the only source of electricity is to secretly connect 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 water drips 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 households do not have mailboxes and postal codes. The sanitary conditions of the entire walled city were also at their worst, with rats, insects and ants eating and sleeping with people.
Dark, filthy, brothels of all kinds, narrow neon corridors, anthill-like labyrinthine corridors, leaky walls, crouching addicts, and lawlessness and anarchy have all become synonymous with the Kowloon Walled City.
Since the police never set foot in the area, by the 70s and 80s, the law and order in the vicinity of the Kowloon Walled City had 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. Even all kinds of wanted criminals in the area of AOMEN, Wanwan, and Malaya, when they are desperate, will rush to the Kowloon Walled City to seek refuge.
Despite its low profile in China, the Kowloon Walled City has been mythologized again and again in Western countries and Japan because of its unique architectural style and the sci-fi-apocalyptic atmosphere created by the neon lights that fill the city.
"But what does this have to do with household registration?" Wang Zhi asked.
"After the Kowloon Walled City is demolished, as long as the people inside are not wanted criminals, they will get Xiangjiang's household registration, and you can take this opportunity to obtain Xiangjiang's household registration." Lu Revolution explained that although the household registration obtained in this way is not very innocent, it will not have anything to do with himself.
"But who knows when it will be demolished, whether it will be a year or two years or three or four years?"
"I don't know about this, but I think with your ability, you should be able to think of a way to get the Xiangjiang government to demolish the Kowloon Walled City in advance, such as controlling the Hong Kong Governor to issue orders or something." Lu Revolution said tentatively, the reason why he put forward this suggestion was also to test how many hole cards Wang Zhi had.
"Okay, wait until I go back and check some information first, and then give me all the Hong Kong dollars you have left."
After getting more than 50,000 Hong Kong dollars from Lu Revolution, Wang Zhi opened the space door and returned to the main world, stopped all the download tasks on the computer, and then began to inquire about the information of the Kowloon Walled City. As a result, I found that my understanding of this Kowloon Walled City was too shallow, first of all, this is not exactly a sin city, the Kowloon Walled City is divided into two districts, the east and the west, which is the evil place where people imagine that dirt and dirt are hidden, and the west area is where ordinary good people live, and it is clearly distinguished.
Most of the people who live in the West District are because of the ordinary residents who are greedy for the cheap rent here, and even most of them have Xiangjiang ID cards, and there are customary rules here, which are not the so-called impossible zones, on the contrary, they are more stable than the Xiangjiang outside, and the so-called underground factories inside are not the fake factories that Wang Zhi imagined at the beginning, they are food processing factories and ordinary toy factories, which are opened here because the labor here is cheap and there is no need to pay taxes, and there are many dentists and Chinese medicine, although they are all unlicensed, However, the information says that many people from outside the Walled City came to see the doctor, so that a street of dentists appeared in the Walled City.
Moreover, although the demolition of the Kowloon Walled City was only completed in 1994, from 1987, that is, this year of the Seven World, the Xiangjiang government decided to demolish the Kowloon Walled City, as for the process of demolition, Wang Zhi saw two theories: one is that the cleanup began on November 28, 1991, and then in 1993, the Xiangjiang government could not bear it anymore, and dispatched 5,000 police to detain tens of thousands of people and completed the demolition for a year; Another theory is that the last residents of the walled city moved out in 1990.
Wang Zhi chooses to believe the first of these two contradictions, because most of the sources say so, and the statement that the last resident moved out in 1990 is much more false, and contradicts some sources that say that "there are people who have lived in the Walled City all their lives who would rather die than leave".
There are still six years left before 1993, and Wang Zhi naturally cannot wait for six years, so he can only use his own means to get the Xiangjiang government to demolish Jiulongzhai ahead of schedule as Lu Revolution said.
But this matter is not in a hurry, there are still a lot of things to do for the time being, there is no time to do this, and it is not that when the Kowloon Walled City is demolished, you can get an ID card by mixing in the residents, at least you have to live in the Walled City for some time before and get acquainted with the neighbors next to you, so that they can prove that you are from the Walled City, but this is just to make the identity a little better, after all, most of the ordinary residents in the Walled City have ID cards, and only a few people do not have ID cards, and they must be checked one by one to see if there are any wanted criminals or the like, Then it is not clear whether to apply for Xiangjiang's ID card for you or send it back to China, because it is not written on the information.
But now is not the time to think about this, let's go to the Kowloon Walled City to occupy a place first.
I returned to the seventh world, and when I saw that it was not dark, I shrank back again, and I must use any door to go to Kowloon, and I will definitely be seen if there is no obstruction near any door during the day, so it's better to go at night.
When it got dark, when Wang Zhi went to World No. 7, he didn't see Lu Revolution in the room, and he didn't think much about it, just thought that he was going to socialize, and directly took out any door, thinking about the appearance of the Kowloon Walled City in the photo, and walked through as soon as he opened the space door.
Walking through any door, you can see the vague outline of a city, and the windows reveal a little light, like a post-apocalyptic city, which is why Westerners respect the Kowloon Walled City, because it is different from the shantytown buildings composed of tarpaulin, bamboo and wood in people's impressions, but the modern cement buildings layer upon layer, and you really don't think that it is a slum from the outside.
It was night, and it was not very convenient to do anything, so Wang Zhi found a secret place to open the space door and return to the main world.
The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, Wang Zhi came to the No. 7 world again.
After first looking around to make sure that no one saw him come out of the space door, Wang Zhi looked up at the sun, and after confirming the direction, he walked to the west of the Walled City, the west area belongs to the orderly area in the Kowloon Walled City, and it is better to break through from here.
In fact, when he entered here, Wang Zhi found that the Kowloon Walled City was not a slum, at least the western district where Wang Zhi is now located, there are factories, clinics and even convenience stores, and the people who live here basically have legitimate jobs, although the clothes on the children playing here look old, they are not torn, and their bodies are not as thin as the children in the foreign slums that Wang Zhi saw in the documentary before.
And Wang Zhi only saw children, not a slightly older child, it is said that he was sent to school outside, and as Wang Zhi went deeper, he met more and more people, but no one paid too much attention to him, who was obviously an outsider, and it was obvious that people from outside often entered here, and they were already surprised.
After turning around inside for a while, Wang Zhi saw the rental information at the door of a small convenience store, and walked in, the area here is not very large, about six or seven square meters, except for a small door leading to the inside, the rest of the place is full of groceries, a bald man in his forties and fifties is sitting inside, and he is almost holding a newspaper in his hand.
Seeing Wang Zhi coming in, he immediately raised his head: "What do you want to buy?" ”
"Boss, I see that there is a vacant room for rent written outside?" Wang Zhi tried to ask.
Hearing Wang Zhi's words, the bald man immediately said: "Yes, I have a vacant house here, and the family who originally lived there has earned money and moved out, do you want to rent it?" ”
"Take me to see it first." Wang Zhi said that although renting a house is just a pretense, he occasionally has to come to live for a while, which is too bad.
"Yes, you can." The bald man immediately stood up and walked out: "Follow me!" ”
Although I don't know why the bald man didn't find someone to help him look at the store and show him the way, Wang Zhi didn't ask much, and followed the bald man to the back of the shop, there was a narrow alley, and after entering, he found that this was a stairwell leading to the upper floor.
The bald man took out the key to open the door, and when he entered, Wang Zhi found that this was a large house, square, about twenty-five square meters, there was a window in the direction of the door, with a glass window, there was only an old-fashioned wooden wardrobe and a bed composed of benches and wooden planks in the room, and there were no other tables and chairs or anything like that, and it was generally clean, but the wall in a corner near the window was black, and the window was also, it should be the oil smoke produced by the family who lived here before when cooking.
Although he was not very satisfied with this place, Wang Zhi didn't want to look for it anymore, and he didn't live here anyway, so he asked, "How much is the rent here?" ”
"100 yuan a month, paid once a month."
One hundred Hong Kong dollars is really too lazy to pick up one hundred Hong Kong dollars for Wang Zhi, so he took out a hundred Hong Kong dollars without thinking about it: "I rented it here." ”
Seeing Wang Zhi so bold, the bald man was also a little surprised, after all, the people who came to live in the Kowloon Walled City were poor, and there was no one who did not bargain for such a big expense as rent.
But an accident is an accident, the money still has to be collected, and after taking the hundred-yuan bill handed over by Wang Zhi, the bald man said with a smile: "Go to my store and give you a receipt." ”
So they went to the bald man's shop together, and he opened a receipt to Wang Zhi, which was very simple, just writing that he would receive Mr. Wang Zhi's rent of 100 yuan a month on a certain day, and then sign it below.
After issuing the receipt, the bald man gave Wang Zhi a key, and since then, Wang Zhi has been regarded as a person in the Kowloon Walled City.
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First of all, about the rent, I don't know much about the price of Hong Kong, I wanted to write five hundred, but then I found a vague information, saying that the rent in Hong Kong in 87 was 350 January, and I heard that there were 150 outside, so I wrote a hundred, if there is a mistake, please understand the situation at the time of the friend to correct.
Then recommend a friend's book.
Lost in the foggy world, ISBN 3657487
Brief introduction:
The whole world is shrouded in fog, and everything is withering! The vitality of the whole world is swallowed up by the fog, and only strong life can struggle to survive in this world!
This is a world of destruction!
Living here is the greatest luxury!
Now Wang Lai is standing blankly in front of the world, isn't it a good game? Why is everything so real?
Is it really dead or not? Or can you go back?
Wang Lai couldn't help but think in his heart, but let others try this!
If anyone else......
PS: Elements of this book: system, survival, apocalypse, evolution, mutation