The original name of Diaojingling was Zhaojingling. In 1905, a Canadian opened a flour mill here. As a result, he went bankrupt due to poor management in less than three years. The boss named Lenny also hanged himself in the factory.

So Hong Kong people called this place "Danger Neck Ridge" because the name is not very elegant, and later it was changed to the homophonic "Diaojing Ridge".

The official name of the Hong Kong and British government here has always been Rennie's Mill. Unless you are a local who is familiar with Hong Kong place names, you don't know about it at all.

Before the 1950s, no one settled in Diaojingling. Its originated from the fact that after Mr. Jiang failed in the mainland, a large number of defeated soldiers who had no time to board the ship and retreat to the treasure island flocked into Hong Kong. The British Hong Kong government placed them in the remote Diaojinglingling.

At that time, the Doujingling Mountains had no roads and no water and electricity. They almost formed a country, and they received a large amount of relief funds from Mr. Jiang. Therefore, before Hong Kong's return, it was always the famous "Little Treasure Island". It spoke Mandarin and planted the blue sky and white sun flag. National Day activities were held every October 10th.

Of course, Zhou Yang would not really go to Tiaojingling to find relatives. In fact, on the third day after he arrived in Hong Kong, Andres Kwana had already completed his historical mission.

The British Hong Kong authorities have a special Chinese extension residence office on Queensway in Central. Chinese who do not obtain permanent residence rights need to come here to apply for a temporary ID card if they want to stay in Hong Kong for a long time.

The process of applying for a temporary Hong Kong ID card is not complicated. It takes more than three hours to get the temporary ID card with a green seal.

The reason why it takes so much time is mainly because Zhou Yang went there too late. He thought that the office would open at nine o'clock, and it would definitely not be too late to arrive at eight o'clock.

As a result, when he arrived at the scene, there was a large number of people queuing up there. Most of them were smugglers who had no legal status like Zhou Yang, and many of them were wearing red guard uniforms that were very popular in the 1970s.

Although Hong Kong and the Deep Sea Special Zone are separated by a river, it is still very dangerous to sneak around. Because the border investigation on the road is relatively strict, many people jumped into the sea to swim. If they are exhausted in the middle, they can only sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the sharks.

Even if you successfully travel to Hong Kong, it is only the first step in the Long March. The New Territories are not considered the urban area of ​​Hong Kong, and there is still a straight line distance of fifteen kilometers from the real Nine-LC area.

If there were no relatives and friends in Hong Kong to pick them up, it would be difficult to cross the blockade of Hong Kong police when they were not familiar with the place. Once they were intercepted by the police in the middle, they would fail and be sent back to the mainland directly.

In contrast, Zhou Yang was much lucky, and he ate and slept well all the way, and arrived in Hong Kong smoothly.

Obtaining a temporary ID card does not mean that he immediately has permanent residence in Hong Kong. He also has to come to the office for residence every three months to renew his qualification to stay in Hong Kong.

Only after one year can you truly obtain the right to residency in Hong Kong. During this year, Zhou Yang is not allowed to leave Hong Kong, otherwise he will be denied entry.

After applying for a temporary ID card, Zhou Yang immediately went to a nearby Hang Seng Bank to open an account, and exchanged all the remaining US dollars and Yuntong checks in his hand into Hong Kong dollars and deposited them into the bank.

There was also a small incident when redeeming the check. The bank's counter staff dared not deal with it and wanted to find their supervisor to solve it. According to Yuntong's rules, as long as the reserved signature on the check is consistent with the second signature handwriting, the bank can redeem it.

However, Zhou Yang's one-time exchange amount was quite huge, and the signature on the check was not his own. So the supervisor called Yuntong Company on the spot, checked the numbers of each check one by one, and confirmed that it was not reported lost, and then agreed to cash the checks.

After such a delay, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when Zhou Yang left the bank. He immediately called the real estate agent to come and sign the rental contract.

The reason why Zhou Yang did not apply for an ID card yesterday was because he had been looking for a house for a day. After all, when you fill in your personal information, you must leave your residence address, so he needs a place to settle down.

Zhou Yang ran for a whole day yesterday and finally took a fancy to a house on the 18th floor of Rende Building, located on the Tangshui Road, North Point. This house has a two-bedroom and one-living room structure, with a practical area of ​​about 40 square meters and is decorated relatively neatly and cleanly.

The monthly rent is HK$1,500, which is higher than the monthly salary of most ordinary employees in Hong Kong. However, Zhou Yang's available funds are almost 50,000 yuan in exchange for Hong Kong dollars. So he simply took the lead and chose a more spacious house.

Although the North Point is not as good as Central and Wan Chai, it is also a bustling place on Hong Kong Island, with traffic and crowded people on the streets.

Because Zhou Yang can't speak Cantonese and speaks Mandarin. The agent who helped him find a house, he thought he was the manager of a Chinese-funded institution. After all, a monthly rent of 1,500 yuan is not something that ordinary employees can afford.

North Point has always been a gathering place for Chinese institutions. The Qiaoguan Building, Qiaohui Building and New Capital Building next to Rende Building have been a famous gathering place for leftists in Hong Kong since its completion in the 1960s.

In addition to the crowds of Chinese institutions, another major feature of North Point is that Minnan dialect is more popular than Cantonese. As early as the Republic of China, Guo Chunyang, a South China trader who was born in Hu Jian, bought a large area of ​​flat land near North Point with a high price from the Hong Kong government to build a building.

Due to the friendship between the village, the North Point and surrounding areas have become a place where many Minnan people gather. In order to facilitate the management of public security, the Chinese policemen who patrolled here in the 1960s and 1970s all asked to speak Minnan dialect.

When Zhou Yang returned to North Point, the agent had already been waiting for him in the house. The details of the rental contract had been negotiated yesterday. However, because Zhou Yang had not yet applied for an ID card, he only paid a deposit and was delayed until today to sign the contract.

The furniture and electrical appliances in the house were all complete. He first went to the Huafeng Guofu Store on the ground floor of Qiaoguan Building to buy a lot of daily necessities, and then went to the vegetable market and convenience store to sweep it, filling the refrigerator and storage cabinets in the kitchen.

The dinner for single men is naturally not very complicated. There is a roast salmon on the street downstairs. Zhou Yang bought half a pound of char siu, fryed an egg by himself, and cooked a small pot of rice in an electric rice cooker. A simple supper is finished.

After dinner, he began to browse the "Xinbao" he bought before, which is the only newspaper in Hong Kong that mainly focuses on financial news. He will next go to Hong Kong stocks to try the waters, and "Xinbao" is an important source of information for him to judge market trends.
Chapter completed!