The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Riding an elephant to hunt tigers, this was the most fashionable activity for Indian princes and British aristocrats dozens of hundreds of years ago. Zhang Nan had only heard of and seen old pictures of tiger hunting before, but he didn't expect to be able to go. Tiger hunting is such a day. Eight? One? Chinese website? W≥W≠W≈． ≥8=1≤Z=W≈. COM

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Since the 19th century, the British royal family, nobles, soldiers and even wealthy people from all walks of life have been fanatics of Indian tiger fighting.

At that time, the British gentlemen traveled to the ancient and mysterious colony of India. If you don’t have a few tigers, you can’t get a picture of the dead tiger with a shotgun when you return to London. It’s a shame. You are all embarrassed to say yourself. Been to India.

In 1911, George V came to India and killed 39 Bengal tigers during an 11-day hunting event.

And that Edward VIII was the Duke of Windsor who gave up the throne for love. This kid not only inherited the throne of his father George V, but also inherited the blood of his Lao Tzu who loves to hunt tigers, and he also likes to go hunting tigers in India.

Don't love the country and love the beauty.

Don't love the country, love the tiger!

Of course, the British king's fight against tigers is exciting but not dangerous: riding a tall elephant, surrounded by hundreds of servants, it is like going to war.

The subordinates first drive the tiger out of the habitat. The King of England only needs to hold a powerful shotgun to aim and shoot. All other dirty work is done by his subordinates.

However, British tiger hunting was also a newly learned hobby at the time. This tiger hunting, the Indian kings are the **** fans of tiger hunting.

From the end of the 19th century to the 1970s when tiger hunting was banned in India, no one has ever counted how many tigers were hunted in India, but some princes in Western Rajasthan have hunted nearly 26oo tigers, and a prince in Madhya Pradesh Even one person killed more than 1ooo!

However, the tiger hunting scene that opened up the scene dozens or hundreds of years ago is invisible in India today, at least on the surface.

Protect it.

The tiger in India is the Bengal tiger, or the national beast of India: India has been deforesting heavily under the government's initiative since the 1950s. As a result, the tiger's living environment has deteriorated; and over hunting, especially driven by the animal trade , The number of Indian tigers dropped sharply.

In 197o, the Indian government enacted a law prohibiting tiger hunting. In 1973, the then Prime Minister Gandhi advocated the implementation of the "Tiger Protection Plan" and designated 9 national parks as special protection areas for tigers. Later, 14 more were added. The site of the Hui Valma's house was next to each other, which caused the old Valma to be extremely troubled.

Humans cannot enter the reserve to hunt tigers, but tigers do not care about the laws enacted by human beings. They often wander around on the site of Valma's house. Moreover, the nearly 1,000 square kilometers of undamaged forest was originally the habitat of tigers.

Four years ago, in 1984, the Indian Forest Department announced that the number of wild tigers had increased from 1827 in 1972 to 4oo. This represented that the Indian tigers were finally out of danger, which also allowed those who "harassed" the land of the Varma family. There are more and more tigers.

Zhang Nan knows that India will become the country with the most tigers in the world in more than ten years, and the country with the most tiger attacks: the second most populous country in the world has the largest number of tigers in the world, and tigers can eat people. Of course, news of people killing cannibals will happen frequently.

Nowadays, most Indians respect and fear tigers, saying that tigers are "half gods and half demons"!

Obviously, India has banned tiger hunting, but there is a saying in the world that is very marketable: Law is law, and people are people.

There are always people who take the law as unfamiliar, or use flexible methods: if they have no strength, they will become criminals, and those who are able to work well will be fine at all, reasonable and legal.

The Valmar family doing something that seems to be forbidden by law on their own turf will obviously belong to the latter.

Isn’t it just hunting? Let alone India. A few years later, China started to ban guns. Except for hunting teams that hunt wild boars during the hunting season, other people don’t talk about hunting. Having a gun is a crime.

But in China, there are international hunting grounds for hunting wild animals. An argali is about five or six thousand dollars: wild!

And this situation will continue to earn foreign exchange.

By the way, to earn foreign exchange, the coal bosses can only play with the chickens caught in the chicken farm because they did not approve in advance!

It's no wonder that the hunting ground was heavily exposed on the Internet 2o years later, and almost drowned in saliva!

There are tiger skins in the manor that have been preserved after the tiger hunt last year, but Valmar will not send those tiger skins to Zhang Nan. After listening to Xiao Valmar’s words about “the tiger skins you hunted are meaningful as a souvenir”, Zhang Nan thought about the day he would go to Haiqing Province to fight a few argali, rock sheep, etc. to show off!

But let's just think about it. At the beginning, I was an old angry young man in the network navy, so I won't go to harm China's first-level protected animals.

After the afternoon tea was over, everyone went to a gun room in the castle to select the guns to be used in the next few days in advance.

And just now, I’ve been a steward of the invisible man in the sun room, and this will have gone out to prepare for tomorrow’s tiger hunting: Little Valmar said that hundreds of people will be dispatched for several days, depending on how this person’s gains are. Decide what to end the tiger hunt. There is also the weather, and heavy rain is not suitable for hunting tigers.

At that time, many strong laborers in the nearby villages will be gathered by the village elders, and they will take the guys to participate in this tiger hunting activity: their characters are to drive all kinds of prey in the jungle, including tigers.

Just now Zhang Nan came to realize that the 25oo square kilometers of land owned by the Varma family was the data after removing the privately owned land by the high-caste elders in the villages.

As for the elders, they were actually the original vassals of the Valma family, and they are now landlords, but they are usually tens or hundreds of hectares of land, and they are completely surrounded by the Valma family's land.

Not only in this county, but in other parts of Kerala, there are also many landlords who were once vassals of the Valma family. Although they do not have the subordinate relationship, they belong to an interest group. Ma’s will is respected-this is a huge political force that no one can ignore.

The car of the Valmar family can drive directly into the apron of Trivandrum International Airport to pick up people. This is the privilege of a huge political force.

When chatting just now, Zhang Nan had the final say: the county to which the district belongs, in fact, except for a small plot near the county seat, is completely owned by the Valmar family!

Old Valmar still ruled this land in the manner of his father, the earth king, and it seems to Zhang Nan that this will continue to be the case for at least decades.

"What else can the local government do?"

Really curious.

......

On the way to the gun room, Alice asked Zhang Nan secretly: "Ellen, are you really going to hunt tigers?"

"are you going?"

It seemed that Alice was a little tangled, and she seemed to want to go and a little worried.

"Go if you want. Sitting on an elephant's back is not dangerous. It's okay to see the excitement. It's a rare opportunity. In fact, even if we don't fight, the tigers will also die, the same ending."

They hunt and kill the tigers in their own territory every year, and the Indian government cannot nationalize the land of the Varma family, otherwise it will lose the ruling foundation of the Indian government itself-the Indian government does not have this right at all, and the local states Not to mention that the highest level of New Delhi is actually ruled by a group of big landlords and big capitalists, and it will never issue any policies or laws that endanger the interests of the group.

"Those tigers are also very poor."

Hearing what Alice said, Zhang Nan laughed and said: "Sympathizing for the weak is the greatest disrespect to nature. Compared with hunters, tigers are weak. This is a society where tigers cannibalize and kill tigers."

Fifty knows the destiny, see through it long ago. People live for a lifetime, with this life and no afterlife, as long as they don’t violate their conscience and do whatever they like, there will be no chance in the next life.

"That's what Hitler said."

"Oh, read it?" Zhang Nan smiled.

"I saw it in the book."

Zhang Nan shook his head and said, "Women had better not read that madman's book. It's not good to be too strong."

Alice didn't answer, just smiled and nodded slightly.

The gun room is here, and it really has all kinds of weapons like Little Valmar said. Most of them are a little old, but they are well maintained. Obviously, people often take care of them here.

The No. 8 parallel double-barreled shotgun recommended by Little Valmar was powerful, but too heavy. Zhang Nan bought himself a classic Soviet-made "Baikal" IhZ-43 parallel double-barreled No. 12 shotgun.

There is even a huge No. 4 single-barreled shotgun, which can hit an elephant at close range with one shot—the recoil is also terrifying!

No. 4, No. 8, No. 12...This caliber number is a unique caliber marking method for smoothbore shotguns. For example, the most common 12-caliber shotgun means that its caliber is the same as the diameter of a 1/12-pound shot ball. Just one pound of pure lead is melted and cast into 12 small balls~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The diameter of such a small ball is the caliber of this shotgun.

The smaller the number, the larger the caliber of the gun.

The single-head and deer shells of No. 8 shotgun shells have been used to hunt lions and rhinos in Africa and tigers in India, and they are terrifying.

No. 4 shotgun ammunition is even more abnormal. Generally equipped with shotguns for hunting birds at long ranges, because with such a large caliber, single-head bullets or deer bullets require extremely strong people to withstand the terrifying recoil: Legend has it that there was a silly Indian hunter in the United States who used a No. 4 shotgun to shoot a 1oo gram single-headed bullet, and shot a bison at a distance of 6oo yards!

However, these two large-caliber shotgun ammunition have long since been discontinued, but they have been extinct in the US market for fifty to sixty years. Zhang Nan looked at the ammunition. They were quite new, and they seemed to be in Arabic.

So I asked little Valmar about the bullet: He chose a shotgun size 8.

"Imported from the Middle East, many princes still like such big guys, and there are special small ammunition workshops. The quality is very good, and it is more reliable than the products of large factories. Don't you really try?"