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Chapter 70 Kowloon Walled City
"Are you talking about serious literature like "Sinful Place"?"

Hearing this, William Chen shrank back in fright, folded his hands on his chest, and looked at Xian Yaowen blankly, "Adam, do you like men?"

"Relax, even if I like men, I won't like you." Xian Yaowen said with a mocking look on his face: "Touch your beard, and then look down at your belly."

"Thank you for not liking me. I can't imagine being liked by a man." William Chen put down his guard, sat up straight, and said again: "Are you sure you don't like me?"

"William, this joke is not funny at all."

Xian Yaowen regretted taking the evil book "Sinful Place" as an example.

"Okay, let's have lunch together?"

"No, I have to go back to the business office to check on the phone."

"do you have time at night?"

"Have."

"Let's go experience the nightlife in Kowloon Walled City?"

"OK."

Xian Yaowen did not stay long at William Chan Law Firm. Before lunch, he had already gone to the downstairs of Alexandria Building and had lunch at a restaurant. He thought the food tasted pretty good, so he asked for a handwritten menu and phone number. In the future, when you don’t want to go downstairs, you can also order takeout.

Sometimes, it’s a bit bad to read too much about business. When he went upstairs, Xian Yaowen was also idle. His thoughts spread from ordering takeout to lotus leaf rice. He could talk to a restaurant to cooperate with the leftovers. After mixing , repackage the lotus leaves, steam them twice, and then sell them in the wooden house area. For the residents of the wooden house area, this kind of lotus leaf rice will be a very affordable and delicious way to improve their meals.

Thinking about it carefully, this idea is not very practical. The diners who go to the restaurant may not be of high quality, and any kind of pickled food may appear on the dish. It is okay for people to eat leftovers, but not pickled food.

Since this road failed, he thought of opening a chain of fast food restaurants to provide large quantities of affordable fast food, which would be a good idea...

Forget it, this idea doesn't work either. It won't make much money, and it will cut off the small restaurant's livelihood.

When two meals a day was not enough, he thought of making Western-style fast food. At this time, McDonald's already existed, but KFC seemed not to have been founded yet. So he went to the United States to establish a new brand...

Rest, there is no such time as this in the United States.

McDonald's and KFC have been developing for decades before they can be considered decent. In the next ten years, it will be easy to talk about investment anytime, but the fast food restaurant is not the Boeing Company that makes airplanes. It is not involved in national security, and no consortium takes a serious look at it. No one They will prevent you from investing.

He stored the investment in the to-do list in his mind and then spread his thoughts.

By the time he stepped into the office, he was already running around, thinking of no fewer than ten ideas. All of them were feasible and could make money. However, they either made too little, or it was too early, or they just didn’t want to do it subjectively. , anyway, it’s just a fun thought, and it’s meaningless for the time being.

Cheryl was running the newspaper office and she was away. He stayed on the phone throughout the afternoon and perfected some details of the management system and work process of Zhonghua Garments.

At five o'clock, Cheryl came back after running around all day. When she learned that she hadn't eaten anything at noon, Xian Yaowen helped her order the first takeaway. While waiting, Cheryl listed the list of newspapers and expenses. come out.

Not to mention, these days, newspapers charge a lot for writing soft articles. Advertising fees, writing fees, and carriage fees are all very high. The position of a "small headline" ranges from two to three hundred to seven or eight hundred. Calculated together, the rental fee is The cost of the venue plus the cost of the soft copy means that a signing ceremony will cost thousands.

This money can't be saved, and it will cost several thousand. The publicity is just a starting point. When the thirteen-year-old shelf is set up, he also plans to get another "Textile News" that is distributed free of charge to textile companies, a set of Combination punches are still waiting to be punched out.

After giving some explanations to Cheryl, Xian Yaowen was called away by William Chen’s phone call...

Crossing the sea, the group came to Chia Ping Tat Road, the only way to enter the Kowloon Walled City. As soon as they got off the car, Xian Yaowen smelled a big surprise. A choking smell went straight into his nose. After careful analysis, he could smell it. The smell of honey, tobacco leaves, and lime water mixed together.

Just when he was wondering what the smell was, his eyes had already seen a rickety fellow Taoist curled up in the corner of the wall. He was wearing a tank top and shorts full of holes, and his thin body couldn't help but twitch.

William Chen also saw fellow Taoist Taoist Taoist Taoist Daoist Taoist Daoist Taoist Daoist Taoist Daoist Taoist Daoist Daoist Daoist Daoist Daoist Daoist Daoist Daoist.

"William, he's not dead yet."

"He will be in the arms of God tonight."

"William, as an Englishman, would you feel a little ashamed when you see this kind of scene?"

William Chen asked instead, "Adam, do you know the history of opium?"

Xian Yaowen knew the elegant meaning of the song after hearing it, and immediately sarcastically said: "Are you trying to say that people were already smoking opium during the Yuan Dynasty, and the source of opium was plundered by soldiers sent to India. During the Yongzheng period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, opium began to be taken from outside in large quantities independently. Imports, the number of imports doubled during the Jiaqing period, is it already rampant?”

"Uh-huh." William Chen nodded, "Adam, from a business perspective, there will be supply only when there is demand. The East India Company will sell opium to your country because there is a market in your country.

What you call the Opium War is what we call the Trade War. Before the war, Lin Zexu was inspecting and destroying smuggled opium while encouraging the localization of opium. In his eyes, opium was not a commodity that harmed the people, but a product that could benefit the people. A good commodity that brings huge revenue to the national treasury. Isn't the proliferation of opium in your country's Yunnan-Guizhou region the result of his encouragement?
In essence, the Opium War was a war for interests between the rulers of our two countries and the stakeholders surrounding them. You can stand in your position and accuse Great Britain of the harm it caused to your country during the war. , but cannot be prosecuted for opium. "

Xian Yaowen sneered: "You are trying so hard to defend yourself, but your family has sold opium?"

"Adam, you're slandering me. I'm going to politely take off my white gloves and throw them in your face."

"Okay, Lord Dantès, I accept your invitation to a duel. In order for us to die with dignity, I suggest using a sword."

"No, I stick with the big shotgun."

The two used the plot of "The Count of Monte Cristo" to exchange a few words, then ended the topic of opium, smoked cigars, and waited for Wang Shuning to pick them up.

During this period, Xian Yaowen put his eyes on fellow Taoist three more times. On the third time, fellow Taoist's body no longer convulsed, and his whole body was filled with the aura of death. He was probably dead.

Within two minutes, a hunchbacked figure less than 1.2 meters tall stood up in another corner. The cheekbones on his face were sunken, and his ragged clothes exposed a lot of dark, ulcerated skin. He staggered to the Taoist friend's door. In the corner, he turned over the fellow Taoist with difficulty, checked, and then looked up at where Xian Yaowen and others were standing.

"Adam, your compatriots are asking you for help." William Chen gloated. "Opium isn't cheap, is it?"

"uh-huh."

"It must take decades to smoke opium to make yourself look like this. It is conceivable that he had a huge family business before. He deserves what he has today. I am not kind enough to help such a person." people."

"Aha, I'm talking about the dead one. Don't you Chinese believe that the dead are the most important?"

"I believe the person who sold the opium to him will be responsible for dealing with the dead one. If there were no rules, Kowloon Walled City would have been filled with corpse odor." Xian Yaowen did not want to continue on this topic, so he changed the subject and said: "Why hasn't Wang Shuning come over yet? ?”

William Chen glanced at his watch and said: "We are early, there are still ten minutes before the agreed time."

"uh-huh."

The two waited for another two or three minutes before Wang Shuning came over, with only one younger brother by his side.

"Mr. Xian, William, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

"It doesn't matter, we are early."

After chatting for a while, Wang Shuning led the two of them towards the gate of the walled city.

Walking out of Chia Ping Tat Road and into the path outside the Kowloon Walled City, the lights became dim. Instead, the lights reflected in the houses in the distance were like bright stars, giving off a strange beauty.

Sin Yiu-man has never been to the Kowloon Walled City. Whether in his previous life or now, his understanding of the Walled City comes from hearsay and recent data collection. Without on-site visits and immersing himself in the small world, he cannot say he understands Kowloon City. Village.

He has heard a lot of rumors about the Walled City that are both true and not false. The most outrageous one is the myth-like story about "50,000 Qing troops garrisoned the Kowloon Walled City and mysteriously disappeared in the 1980s." The person who made up the story is the Five Elements He is immoral and lacks basic common sense. It is impossible for him to believe it.

He also didn't believe in other theories, such as the walled city was full of filth and people could be robbed or even killed at any time while walking on the road.

Wherever there are people, leaders will emerge and rules will exist. The privilege of doing whatever they want will only be possessed by a few people who have the right to speak. In order to maintain the existence of their privileges, these people need to achieve a subtle level within their control. Balance is to put a cage on the privileged, so that their wanton behavior can be shackles, even if the shackles are just an illusion.

To put it bluntly, the privileged class needs to disguise themselves when they act arbitrarily, so that people who abide by the rules they set cannot tell at a glance that they are acting arbitrarily, and "people who abide by the rules" will definitely be severely punished once they do not abide by the rules.

In a place like the Kowloon Walled City, it can range from three knives and six holes to a thousand knives. People will become docile under torture. Those who murder and set fire live in the Walled City, but they may not dare to kill people in the Walled City. set fire.

Arriving at a crescent-shaped open space near the gate, Wang Shuning pointed and introduced: "This open space is also within the city wall. If planned, it can be enough to build five high-rise residential buildings."

Xian Yaowen roughly judged the direction and asked: "Does it belong to the east of the city or the west of the city?"

"No one has discovered the value of this land yet, and no one cares about the ownership issue." Wang Shuning said evasively.

Wang Shuning said this, and Xian Yaowen knew that the west side of the city had no absolute right to dispose of this open space. Once it was developed, the associations in the east side were likely to get involved.

After staying in front of the open space for a while, Wang Shuning continued to lead the two of them towards the door.

After a while, several people came to a door full of the atmosphere of a military fortress. The door frame was about one and a half meters thick. The two open doors were wrapped in fine iron. There were several yellow traces of rust spreading, which could It makes people feel a hint of history.

After stepping through the gate and entering the interior of the walled city, you can see lanterns hanging on the walls of the houses on both sides of the streets, reflecting bright or dark light. Some of the light will sway with the wind, and the range of the light will be larger or smaller.

Xian Yaowen discovered the secret at a glance. Several lanterns were filled with light bulbs and others were candles.

"Brother Wang, why don't you just use light bulbs?"

"The electricity in the walled city is secretly connected from outside. You can't use it too harshly, otherwise Hong Kong Electric will send people to check the wiring and find out the connected wires and cut them off."

Sin Yiu-man nodded, understanding that it was a tacit understanding. Hong Kong Electric could not put an end to the electricity theft in Kowloon Walled City. It could only acquiesce within the tolerable range. If it really stole too much, it would be stopped.

As for why we don't just pull in the lines and sell electricity, it must be because it's unprofitable here, and the investment in the laying network is probably not guaranteed to be recovered.

After talking about the phone call, Wang Shuning started to introduce the "water" issue without waiting for Xian Yaowen to ask.

When the Kowloon Walled City was a military fortress, there were two old wells. Later, three new wells were dug. In addition, four street pipes (public taps) were installed two years ago. Draft water depends on four street pipes and five wells.

The water source is divided into two, controlled by Xin Ngee Ann and 14K respectively. The west side of the city is okay, and you only need to pay a small maintenance fee to get free water. However, the east side of the city has to pay monthly water bills. It is said that the two societies are very short-sighted and will not let go of this small amount of money.

After talking about water, Wang Shuning also talked about public health.

Because the accumulation of large amounts of garbage can breed rats and cockroaches, and can also cause the outbreak of infectious diseases, the Government Affairs Department is afraid of being affected by the Kowloon Walled City, which is a no-care zone, so it has placed a lot of garbage baskets in the Walled City, and cleaners will come to clean them every day. Rubbish.

Having talked about hygiene, let’s come to the main issue of public security.

As soon as Wang Shuning changed the topic, Xian Yaowen felt the "security problem". It seemed that the residents of the walled city did not welcome foreign devils and fake foreign devils. Walking in the streets, people would occasionally give Chen William looks of disgust, which could also be seen from the shape of their mouths. He is not immune to the swearing words, but to a slightly lesser extent than William Chen.

Wang Shuning clarified his doubts, saying that except for Chen William, almost no other foreign devils set foot in the walled city. They believed that the walled city was a dirty and messy place, and they also regarded it as a scourge and were afraid to avoid it. At the same time, due to the special nature of the walled city, most of the residents here have a spirit of national resistance, and most of them hate foreign devils.

After clearing up the confusion, Wang Shuning began to introduce businesses closely related to public security in the east of the city, starting with the industry he operates.

There are dozens of Qinggai parlors in the walled city, and chatting with young and beautiful girls costs between two and ten yuan...

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