I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state.

Come out from grandma's place.

Yang Ming walked forward and found something different from when he first arrived.

When he first arrived, many residents of Kowloon Walled City deliberately avoided him.

Now many men, women and children inside are coming out and watching from a short distance away.

From the clothes, looks, etc. of these people, Yang Ming could tell a lot.

"Mr. Yang, I know you. I often see news about you in the newspaper."

A man wearing a red vest and bending over walked over directly.

At first, Zhang Guohua and others were a little wary.

"Hello."

"Mr. Yang, hello, my name is Lai Guowen."

The old man introduced himself.

"Mr. Lai, I would like to come and understand the situation of Kowloon Walled City."

"of course can."

Lai Guowen asked Yang Ming to step aside.

When he sat down next to him, Yang Ming looked at the children aged seven or eight. Not only were they dirty, they were also fighting with each other.

At this time, students in Xiangjiang should be going to school. Why are these children here?

"Mr. Lai, don't they go to school?"

Lai Guowen nodded and shook his head.

"Most children in Kowloon Walled City do not have the conditions to go to school. There are kindergartens and primary schools, but most people have no way to go to school. These children have long been the labor force of the family."

Yang Ming was really surprised.

In the past, he felt that the country was poor and many families could not afford to send their children to school.

It is actually the same here in Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.

So what happens to these children who don’t read?

Yang Ming didn't need Lai Guowen to explain, he also understood that basically, in addition to becoming coolies, child laborers, and laborers, some of these children also became new members of criminal gangs.

Including gangsters, stealing, robbing, or other things.

Basically, they are all formed in this environment.

If they are lucky, they can leave this place and live and work in other places in Hong Kong, which may change their destiny. Most people will have a bad impression if they hear that these people are from the Kowloon Walled City.

"We have primary schools and kindergartens here, which are run by the Christian charity The Salvation Army. However, not everyone or every family is willing to send their children to study."

Yang Ming nodded.

"Then where do you usually work?"

"Work? We have processing plants here and various service industries."

There are also some working in the metal processing industry in the building.

Most of these factories are concentrated between the basement and the fifth floor.

In the basement facing the road, there is an unlicensed dentist, a stall, a tea ceremony (café), and a shop selling "dogs".

It is said that processed foods popular in Xiangjiang, including fish dumplings (fish balls) and meat products, are produced in processing plants with few hygiene standards.

In addition to these, of course there are casinos, but they are controlled by the associations inside.

Lai Guowen didn't say it, but Yang Ming also knew it.

"How do you solve your domestic water problem?"

"Mr. Yang, we have drilled wells 77 meters or deeper in 90 locations here, and use electric pumps to pump the water needed for daily life into water tanks on the roofs of buildings. From there to each home, the water passes through thin tubes Transportation. However, as the population skyrockets, especially with the arrival of a large number of new immigrants, the original well water is no longer enough, and some people will use cars to sell water here."

"Isn't the water from the Xiangjiang Water Company flowing here?"

Before Yang Ming came, he thought water from Xiangjiang Water Company was provided here.

For example, Xiangjiang tap water provides salt water, mainly used for flushing toilets, and fresh water, which is used by residents for domestic purposes.

If there is no salt water here and can only be solved by water from wells, you can imagine the difficulties involved.

"No, people from Xiangjiang Water Company will not come here because they cannot collect water bills."

This time Yang Ming finally understood.

"What about your electricity?"

"Electricity for daily use? Only some people use it. Most people don't turn on the electricity at night. We don't know where the electricity comes from. Anyway, we have to pay those people to use electricity."

. . .

Yang Ming also learned a lot from Lai Guowen.

"Mr. Lai, where do you live? I want to visit your home?"

Ah!

Sir Young wants to see where he lives.

Lai Guowen was a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Lai, is it inconvenient?"

"No, I'm just afraid that Mr. Yang might feel uncomfortable seeing it."

Lai Guowen took Yang Ming and others out of here and walked around to one of the buildings.

Mr. Lai lives upstairs.

He did not live alone in one place, but in a group of people.

Yang Ming, Mailisi, Zhou Kaixuan and others were accompanied by Sir and others.

All the way there.

Lai Guowen said: "Mr. Yang, be careful. It is very dark here during the day as well as at night. The stairs are equipped with electric lights, but they often break down."

The light in the stairway is not on now, it may be broken.

As Sir turned on the flashlight he had brought in advance, Yang Ming noticed the narrow stairs going up.

The walls of the stairs were dirty and filled with various advertisements. Yang Ming was shocked when he saw those advertisements.

This is actually Hong Kong, because judging from those advertisements, everything is illegal.

Arriving at the fifth floor.

After Lai Guowen knocked on the door.

Someone opened it inside.

Lai Guowen went in first.

"Mr. Yang, please come in."

Yang Ming went inside, and when he saw it, he was really shocked.

Because what I saw inside were actually iron cages.

There are two people sleeping in each iron cage. There are old people and middle-aged people, all of whom are men. In fact, in this narrow iron cage, a person cannot lie down completely straight inside. That is to say, if you want to sleep, you can only lie half down or sleep on the side.

In the short term, there may be nothing, but in the long term, in this case, the waist bones will definitely be curved.

"Sir Yang, this is where we live." Lai Guowen said.

Zhou Kaixuan on the side said: "Boss, this should be the cage house in Xiangjiang."

Many people may not know what a cage house is.

These were the cage houses they just saw.

Hong Kong cage houses, also commonly known as "bed houses", are mainly located in old buildings such as Kowloon. The residents are usually new immigrants or older people. They are a group of old, weak and poor people at the bottom of society living in canned "slums". The beds are surrounded by barbed wire, like cages; in addition to beds, the "cages" also contain various daily necessities.

These people who live in "cages" are vividly called "cage dwellers".

"Cage houses" are slums that look like canned sardines. Many old, weak and poor people gather in beds in old buildings, each surrounded by barbed wire. Each bed is like a cage, hence the name "cage dwellers".

In the 20s and s, building wooden houses was an important way for the poor in Hong Kong to solve their housing problems.

At that time, there were 30 wooden house residents, half of whom were from families born in Xiangjiang, or who had been living in Xiangjiang before 1946.

In the 80s, the number of log cabin residents increased to .

Residents of wooden houses in mountainous areas use one public water pipe for every 500 people, and 100 people share a wooden cesspool. Garbage is everywhere, sewage flows across the ground, and the stench is overwhelming.

In 1971, a newspaper in Hong Kong reported that 15 people lived in a 35-foot by 50-foot building in Kowloon. Each person occupied an average of 10.5 square feet, which was not even the size of a coffin.

Here in the Kowloon Walled City, there are tens of thousands of people living in 27000 square meters, most of whom are the poorest or new immigrants who have just immigrated from the country.

There are also some elderly people who have been living in Kowloon Walled City.

They have little income, so they can only live where they live.

Yang Ming took a closer look. The area here may not even be 50 square meters. There are actually ten iron cages here. Two people live in each iron cage. That is, 50 people live in 20 square meters. One person is 2.5 square meters. rice.

Yang Ming really couldn't believe it.

When Yang Ming came to Xiangjiang in his previous life, he knew that at that time, there were still hundreds of thousands, or even more than 200,000 people living in such cage houses or coffin houses.

Now, when he saw it with his own eyes, he was really surprised.

For example, Yang Ming's mid-level villa in Repulse Bay has thousands of square meters, while these people live in only a few square meters. One can imagine how big the gap between the rich and the poor in Xiangjiang is.

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