I lost my vegetative state, and I became the richest man in the world

Chapter 519 Cage House!

Come out from grandma.

Yang Ming walked forward and found that it was a little different from when he just came here.

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

Now many men, women and children have come out and are watching not far away.

Yang Ming could tell a lot from the way these people were dressed, their expressions, etc.

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

A stooped Arbor in a red vest 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 want to come to learn about the Kowloon Walled City."

"of course can."

Lai Guowen asked Yang Ming to step aside.

When he was sitting next to him, Yang Ming looked at the seven or eight-year-old children. Not only were they dirty, they were still fighting with each other.

During this period of time, the students in Xiangjiang should go to school. Why are these children here?
"Mr. Lai, don't they go to school?"

Lai Guowen nodded, then shook his head again.

"Most of the children in the Kowloon Walled City are not able to go to school. There are kindergartens and primary schools, but most of them cannot go to school. These children have long been the labor force of the family."

Yang Ming was really surprised.

He used to think that the country was poor, and many families could not afford their children to study.

Here in the Kowloon Walled City in Xiangjiang, it will be like that.

So what happens to these children who don't read?
Yang Ming didn't need Lai Guowen to tell him. He also understood that basically, apart from becoming coolies, child laborers, and laborers, some of these children became new members of criminal gangs.

Including punks, or doing robbery, or other things.

Basically, they are all formed in this environment.

If you are lucky, you can leave this place and live and work in other places in Xiangjiang, which may change their fate. Most people will leave a bad impression when they hear that these people came from the Kowloon Walled City.

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

Yang Ming nodded.

"Then where do you usually work?"

"Work? We have processing plants here, as well as various service industries."

There are also some metalworking industries in the building.

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

In the basement facing the road, there are unlicensed dentists, stalls, a tea ceremony (cafe), and a shop selling "dogs".

Processed foods popular in Xiangjiang, including fish dumplings (fish balls) and meat products, are said to be 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 anything, but Yang Ming knew about it.

"How do you solve your domestic water problem?"

"Mr. Yang, here at 77 sites, we have drilled wells 90 meters or deeper and pumped the water needed for daily life with electric pumps to tanks on the roofs of buildings. From there to each home, water flows through thin tubes. Transportation. However, with the population boom, especially the large number of new immigrants coming in, the original wells are no longer enough water, and some people will use cars to sell water here.”

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

Before Yang Ming came, he thought that the Xiangjiang Water Company provided water here.

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

If there is not even salt water here, it can only be solved by water from wells. One can imagine the difficulties inside.

"No, people from Xiangjiang Water Supply Company won't come here because they won't be able to receive water bills."

This time Yang Ming understood.

"Then what do you use electricity for?"

"Household electricity? Only some people use it. Most people don't turn on the electricity at night. We don't know how the electricity comes from. Anyway, if you want to use electricity, you have to pay those people."

. . .

From Lai Guowen, Yang Ming also learned a lot.

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

Ah!
Sir Young is going to see where he lives.

Lai Guowen was a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Lai, is it not convenient?"

"No, I'm just afraid that Mr. Yang will feel uncomfortable when he sees it."

Lai Guowen left here with Yang Ming and others, and went around to one of the buildings.

Mr. Lai lives upstairs.

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

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

All the way there.

Lai Guowen said: "Mr. Yang, be careful. It's dark here both day and night. There are electric lights on the stairs, but they often break down."

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

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

On the wall of the stairs, I don't know how dirty it was, and there were many kinds of advertisements posted. Seeing those advertisements, Yang Ming was shocked.

This place is actually Xiangjiang, because judging from those advertisements, all of them are against the law.

Come to 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 the inside, he was really shocked.

Because what you see inside is actually an iron cage.

There are two people sleeping in each iron cage. There are old people and middle-aged people. They are all men. That is to say, if you want to sleep, you can only lie down halfway, or sleep on the side.

There may be nothing in a short period of time, but in a long period of time, in this case, the waist bones must be bent.

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

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

Many people may not know what a cage house is.

These were the cage houses they saw just now.

Xiangjiang cage house, commonly known as "bed house", is mainly distributed in old buildings such as Kowloon. The residents are generally new immigrants or the elderly. It is 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, there are various daily necessities in the "cages".

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

The "cage house" is a slum that looks like a can of 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 people".

In the 20s and 60s of the [-]th century, living in wooden houses was an important way for the poor in Xiangjiang to solve their housing problems.

At that time, there were 30 wooden house residents, half of whom were born in Xiangjiang, or had lived in Xiangjiang before 1946.

In the 60s, the number of wooden house residents increased to 80.

Every 500 residents of wooden houses in the mountain area use a public water pipe, and 100 people share a wooden cesspit. Garbage is everywhere, sewage flows sideways, and the stench is suffocating.

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

Here in the Kowloon Walled City, 27000 square meters, tens of thousands of people live, most of them are the poorest, or new immigrants who have just immigrated from China.

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

They have no income, so they can only live in places.

Yang Ming took a closer look. The area here may not even be 50 square meters. There are ten iron cages here, and two people live in each iron cage, that is, 50 people live in 20 square meters, and 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 10,000+ people, or even more than 20 people living in this kind of cage house or coffin house.

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

For example, the mid-level villa in Repulse Bay where Yang Ming lived was several thousand square meters, and these people lived in only a few square meters. It is conceivable how big the gap between the rich and the poor in Xiangjiang is.

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