The gray sky, dilapidated houses, and busy factories make up the background color of this place, and on this basis, every citizen of the city does not seem to be a living person, like ants and insects, but exists as a part of the town, and when he walks, it is like ink splashing, always rendering in groups and blurring into a film.

They are screws, gravel, and wild weeds, filling every rumbling and smoking factory!

Looking further away, it is the old Hanshui county town that has been reactivated, which is almost indistinguishable from Hanyang, but there are fewer factories, more residential buildings, and some commercial buildings have begun to have some shops, but they are sparse and thin, far less than the modern Hankou.

At this time, everyone already feels that they are in the outside world, if you look back at Hankou, you can clearly feel the difference between the two, the Hanshui River is not long or wide, and the Hankou and Hanyang on both sides are two completely different town scenes, as if there is a natural barrier, completely separating the two.

"Ahem!"

Hua Yuxiu's fish scale markings have faded today, probably because she has just bathed in human blood, and her perfume today is a lot stronger, thinking to cover up the blood.

After crossing the bridge, she had already driven into Hanyang, she seemed to be unable to stand the turbidity of these chimneys, and said delicately: "Roll up the car window, the air in Hanyang is like mixed with sour soup, a poor and sour smell." ”

Tan Yanqiu nodded and comforted: "This is the industrial town of Jianghan, and the smell is really bad, but Boss Hua, you have to endure it first, so where to go, there are still some decent houses here, and when you go to the river market, the smell is not only not good, but also not good-looking." ”

As they spoke, the car swept through the streets and alleys of the main road, and when they approached the old Han Gong Bridge, they could already see the river market in the middle of the Hanshui county.

The old Han water has been diverted as early as the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and for hundreds of years, the main river has been cut off, the riverbed has been exposed, and some sections of soil erosion and soil erosion have been completely filled, or there are no traces of the riverbed at all.

Only a few small ditches have been artificially widened, barely enough to serve as drinking water for boats, and most of the riverbed has been eroded by the wind and sand to the point that it has lost its curved banks, and it looks like there are shallow ditches and wide pits in front of you, which are gently undulating.

The two bridges crossed the two banks and crossed over the river market, and they stopped at the north of the bridge and got out of the car and walked to the riverbed, where iron railings had already been built along both banks.

Look down by the railing, the whole old river channel is only seventy or eighty meters wide, and the length is only nearly five hundred meters, the two sides of the riverbed are rugged and uneven, there are slope dirt roads along the riverbed to the bottom of the river, the wavy soil slope is full of wild trees and shrubs, a large number of shacks and grass huts are piled up on both sides of the dirt road on both banks, forming a picture of sheds with different height differences.

After reaching the bottom of the river, you can see the three- and four-story buildings built of bricks, stone and wooden beams, these alleys and alleys completely paved the bottom of the river, according to the water diversion canals, which are distributed on both sides one after another, and the shacks and miscellaneous houses on the soil slope are connected, and there is no boundary.

In any case, the house at the bottom of the river can finally lay the foundation, and it can also build a lot of commercial buildings, most of them are still the outside of the street in the previous dynasty, and the pattern of the courtyard inside, only a small number of commercial buildings have been influenced by the West, and there are also some Western patterns and external decorations that are not earthy, and the material is not good and it looks very cheap, and there is a sense of absurdity of pheasant painting.

In any case, the business here is very prosperous, full of pits and valleys are full of shop signs and light box pictorials, ditches lead water to various blocks, it can be seen that there are mostly riverside stilted buildings along the river, and in the distance, it becomes a courtyard and a lane.

At the end of the stone pier of the two bridgeheads, you can see the old-fashioned elevator with a drop of dozens of meters, rumbling from top to bottom, looking at the mechanical style is like the iron cage of the miners up and down, most of them are the old styles that are eliminated, and the people who come to the river city either walk downhill or take the mine ladder.

Looking at the overall situation, the river market is like a vegetable pot full of strange flowers and plants, and there seems to be a ghost market boundary that does not belong to Jianghan in the big pit, like a colorful patch on the clothes, abrupt and obvious but just right.

"It's hard to imagine that Jianghan still has such a place."

Song Siyuan always thought that Hankou was the whole of Jianghan, until he entered Hanyang, he knew that the urban texture created by commerce and the urban texture created by industry were completely different.

She picked up the binoculars and looked around, the telephone and telegraph lines followed the old elevator of the mining machine, bringing telegraph and electricity to the river city, and at the end of both ends there were tall and spacious drainage arches, which communicated the water veins between the ink lake and the Yangtze River, causing the excess water in the canal to be drained, so that the canal in the river city could flow living water.

You can even see the black-clad vigilantes in the river city, with huge searchlights on the iron railings near them, most of which are used for night lighting!

Modern city, old money and expensive land, civilian market...... Even though Jiang Han has been strict about his own planning, he still failed to completely erase the river city, but was forced to admit the existence of the river city, if you say that the government is kind, it is too naïve.

At that time, the government meant to completely relocate the city and fill it in and rebuild it into a new city.

The people of the land of Huxiang have been martial and cunning in ancient times, known as the nine-headed bird in the sky, and the nine streams in the market dare to stand up with the government for their livelihood, and there are many contradictions in it, and it is the three religions and nine streams of the river city who work hard to get the government to compromise and let the river city survive to this day.

In other words, no one knows better than the people in the river city what is called a dry wharf and what is a market culture.

"This place is wonderful, the market is full of things, the rivers are integrated, and this is the dry dock of Jianghan!"

Tan Yanqiu muttered Song Siyuan's words, and couldn't help but praise: "The market is full of things, and the rivers are integrated...... Miss Song really has a pair of discerning eyes. ”

He continued: "The people of Jianghan are indeed martial arts and shrewd, even in the face of foreigners, they are neither humble nor arrogant, back then, after Jianghan opened the port, the Westerners originally wanted Jianghan City to build more bars, dance halls, cafes, and cinemas to meet the needs of foreigners who came to Han, and guess what? ”

Tan Yanqiu continued: "Jianghan City has not dealt with foreigners so far, those foreign bars, foreign dance halls and so on, are only limited to the boundaries of foreign ports, out of the port boundary, basically you can't see any shops serving foreigners, their scope of activities is limited to the boundaries of foreign ports. ”

"Go to the Chinese realm, it is all for the entertainment of the local people in Jianghan to build a stage, even, Jianghan City also built the theater building and the amusement park adjacent to the port boundary, even if the outside is modern, the inside is still opera and amusement, and there is no intention to let foreigners come at all, the Chinatown shops outside Jianghan have formed a pattern of opposition to the foreign and Han shops in the foreign port, which is what we see on Jianghan Road, and the foreign Han competition is colorful."