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Chapter 985 The Colonial Era of the Empire (First update, please subscribe)
Heaven!

Nothing but!
Any Chinese who was in an African colony would have such thoughts when they first came to the country.

Without him, reality!

Here, even the most ordinary Chinese people can live a very rich life. This is the biggest feature of the colony, and it is also a reward given to the brave colonists by the colony.

In this colony, they have long been used to the life of being carefully served by servants. They are used to enjoying a sumptuous dinner in the gentle evening breeze. While they are enjoying their dinner, the servants standing by the table , will considerately provide any service for the masters.

Of course, for a newcomer like Cheng Tao, such a life is bizarre, even unimaginable.

However, the life he enjoys is just the ordinary life of ordinary people.

For some upper class people, their life on this land is truly incredible.

A cool and refreshing breeze blows on the grassland in the morning. After entering the dry season, the boundless green grassland has withered a little. All the plants on the grassland, including animals, of course, are waiting for the rain to come.

Holding a rifle in his hand, Long Dingchuan was carefully looking for prey on the grassland. He saw several beautiful antelopes appearing on the nearby hillside. They were tall, dark in color, and had long and curved horns on top.

"My lord, they are on their way to find water."

The native who followed Long Dingchuan in only shorts pointed at the antelope and whispered in blunt Chinese.

"Captain."

Before Warrant Officer Tamura finished speaking, Long Dingchuan said.

"Come up!"

When the words fell, he chased towards the antelope without hesitation. He had already made up his mind to put a stuffed antelope head in the living room, so a group of more than a dozen of them crept along the river valley carefully. Go ahead, hoping to intercept them by the river.

Before they reached the river, the two antelopes had crossed the river safely.When the third saw them, it turned and ran back, and disappeared down the hillside like a spirit.However, a quarter of an hour later, Long Dingchuan and the others caught up with it at the top of the slope, and wounded it with a single shot at a distance of more than 400 meters.

"I hit it!"

Like all hunters, after hitting the prey, Long Dingchuan shouted excitedly, and then chased after it.Before hitting the prey, people take every step very carefully, avoiding the windward side of the bushes, carefully avoiding the reeds, and being vigilant and always watching the left and right.However, once the prey is about to fall into the palm, people will run as hard as they can, not caring what accidents will happen in front of them.

The antelope led them to run for nearly two kilometers on the rocky hillside. From time to time they gave hope, but they did not give them a chance to shoot.At last it led the hunters round a ridge.

Just when Long Dingchuan raised his rifle again, a rhino suddenly appeared.

"Don't shoot!"

Suddenly, Warrant Officer Tamura raised his rifle.

"There are rhinos!"

Yes, it's a rhino!
What appeared in front of Long Dingchuan was a scene he would never forget—the open plain, the vast grassland stretching all the way to the mountains in the distance.

A rhino stood in the middle of the plain like that, about 400 meters away, showing a black silhouette.There it grazed quietly, and above it the snow of Kilimanjaro rose under a blue dome.

Snow mountains and rhinos form an eternal picture.

Hunting rhinos in the wilderness is an absolute simple matter!

Holding the rifle, Long Dingchuan believed that he would definitely be able to hit it with one shot—just shoot it in the head or heart.

If it hit its vitals, it would surely fall to the ground.

Of course, if it hits other parts, the rhino will rush towards him frantically. At this time, he will either shoot at it again, or it will be too late to shoot. It depends on luck.

Still, he knew he couldn't shoot.

"My lord, all rhinos belong to His Majesty the Emperor, no, you can't shoot them!"

Yes, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, all rhinos on the land of the Ming Dynasty belong to His Majesty the Emperor, and ordinary people are strictly prohibited from hunting, otherwise it will be regarded as "disrespectful to the royal family".

Not just rhinos, but elephants too.

Why is such a law enacted.

The reason is quite simple. A few years ago, immigrants who flooded into Africa discovered that there were a large number of rhinos and elephants living in this land, and the immigrants fell into madness.

Rhino horns and ivory—these are valuable treasures!
In just eight years at Sidley, more than [-] pairs of ivory and more than [-] rhino horns were exported from various ports.Faced with the reality that rhinos and elephants were being hunted in large numbers, the royal family issued a decree directly, not directly prohibiting hunting, but declaring that all rhinos and elephants belong to the emperor!
Since then, hunting elephants and rhinos has become disrespectful to the royal family.

This kind of animal protection is simple and rude. Of course, at the same time, large areas of protected areas have been designated to protect wild animals in Africa.

And now, they're on the edge of the reserve.

Looking at this magnificent scene, Long Dingchuan retracted the gun and said with some regret.

"Pity!"

Just as the words fell, the antelope appeared in his sight again, giving him a chance to shoot.

Without the slightest hesitation, Long Dingchuan raised his hand to pick up the rifle, took aim, and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

With a gunshot, the antelope fell down, while the rhino in the distance was still grazing quietly, as if everything in the world had nothing to do with it.

When Long Dingchuan put away his guns, the natives who followed them ran towards the prey. This was the job of those natives, not only as guides, but also to provide various services.

"Congratulations, Captain, you have yet another exhibit in your living room."

Warrant Officer Tamura complimented,
"It's just an antelope. There is a lion in Mr. Chen's living room. Unfortunately, lions don't hunt casually now..."

Lions can still be hunted, but there is a quota. The Kenyan colony is so big that the annual quota is only [-]. Such a small quota is not enough for local officials and wealthy businessmen, and he... is just an outsider.

"Haha, Captain, if you had come two months earlier, it would be the hunting season. Chief Chen and the others would definitely invite you to the hunting party. Every year there will be a quota of 10 lions..."

The gathering mentioned by Warrant Officer Tamura is very common in the colonies, that is, officials and officers ride horses and hunt randomly during the hunting season. They will make specimens of their prey and send them to a certain school in the empire—mostly from their hometowns Schools not only have specimens of prey, but also their hunting majesty.

Luxurious banquets and grand hunting gatherings, this is the simple and ordinary life of most of the upper class in the colonies.

In fact, this is just the ordinary life of the suzerain country personnel in most colonies. What does the power of the empire have to do with ordinary people?

Maybe they don't have much direct experience at home, but in the colonies, they can clearly appreciate the series of benefits brought about by the power of the empire.

In this land, even the most ordinary Chinese people are masters...

(End of this chapter)