Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

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The main plane is Earth, the subcontinent of South Asia, India.

In 13 years, India's population has exceeded 12 billion, and it is still increasing at a rate of 1550 million per year.At this rate, in 45 years, India's population will surpass that of Yanhuang and rank first in the world.But there is a problem here. The land area of ​​India is about 3 square kilometers, which is only one-third of the 960 million square kilometers of Yanhuang land. Would it be too crowded?

From the perspective of food supply, although India has a small land area, it does not have the mountainous west and the central region with a relatively harsh natural environment like Yanhuang.Calculated from the area of ​​arable land alone, India's arable land still exceeds Yanhuang's 18 billion mu of arable land.The land area of ​​Yanhuang is 960 million square kilometers, but only 13% is cultivated land, that is, about 1 square kilometers; India has a land area of ​​3, but more than 55% is cultivated land, that is, 165 million square kilometers. And it is in the tropics and subtropics , solar light is sufficient, crops grow rapidly, and the productivity per unit of arable land is much stronger than that of temperate countries, so India is a major food exporter every year. From this perspective, God loves India so much!

But a good foundation does not mean that everything is ok. Because of the implementation of Western "democratic politics" in India, the result is not only the birth of many "political families" and "military families", but also the descendants of many congressmen are congressmen and businessmen. It is a businessman, and the descendants of the poor are poor. This kind of "class solidification" phenomenon is similar to that in Yanhuang, and the problems of investment delay and low efficiency brought about by its loose political system are also very obvious.

In India, there is a sharp contrast between the speed of development and infrastructure. India does not have a decent expressway, and the infrastructure of Delhi Airport is only equivalent to the level of a train station in a prefecture-level city in the country; economic growth is in sharp contrast to the poor population.The number of people living in extreme poverty has reached 4.5 million. This is estimated according to the latest poverty line announced by the World Bank, that is, the daily income is less than 1.25 US dollars. Of course, the corresponding Yanhuang data is about 2.54 million (not a lot).But the most bizarre thing is not these, but India's caste system.

In India, the caste system originated from its "state religion" - Hinduism, which divides people into four different classes: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra.Brahmin is the monk class, the first caste, the highest status, engaged in cultural education and sacrifice.The Kshatriya, the warrior class, is the second caste, second only to the Brahmins, responsible for administrative management and combat.Vaishya is commoner, the third caste, engaged in commercial trade.Sudra is the fourth caste, the lowest status, engaged in agriculture and various physical and handicraft labor.At the same time in India, various castes have derived many sub-castes (or sub-castes, sub-castes).

In addition, in addition to the above four major castes, there is another kind of people who are excluded from the castes, the so-called "untouchable untouchables", also known as "Dalits".Most of them are Indian Dalits because they married people of different classes or cross-caste marriages and their descendants.In India, regardless of the original caste of a man and a woman, as long as one of them is a Dalit, his descendants are all Dalits and become untouchable.Untouchables are considered too dirty to be considered "human".Dalits make up 4% of India's total population.Before India's independence, Dalits had absolutely no opportunity or qualifications to receive education.Even now in the 25st century, untouchables are not allowed to wear shoes on the streets of India, and must stand anywhere, even if there are many empty seats around.Even in many areas of India, untouchables are deprived of their personal rights to participate in work by the local society, and can only live by begging every day.

India, Eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, Shahabpur village.

At 5 a.m., Sara was sleeping on a cot pitched outside the hut.Sarah herself and her family have been working in leather making for hundreds of years in India, because Hinduism dictated that his family was only allowed to do it.Because the Saras belonged to the tannery caste—one of dozens of menial or “unclean” occupations throughout India’s history—the Saras belonged to the “untouchables,” or untouchables.

Sarah's family of five usually live in two adobe huts.The hut is surrounded by an uncultivated wasteland where human and animal waste can be seen everywhere.Sarah's wife, named Sushila, is engaged in another "unclean" job--delivery to women in the village.In India, midwives are despised by Hindus because they touch the placenta, and they think it is dirty.

At this moment, the sky was slightly brighter, and the branches above Sarah's head were faintly shadowed. After waking up, a clumsy crow jumped up and down among the branches, making the branches and leaves rustle, and awakened Sarah in her sleep.With sleepy eyes open, he tiptoed out of the cot, past a dozen or so dingoes curled up sleeping, ready to start his usual busy day.

Sarah, 45, works two jobs to support her family.Every morning, he rushes to the shoe repair stall in the Shahabapur market to repair shoes for others.As for another job, it was skinning dead cattle and sheep.Every evening after the shoe repair stall closes, he will pedal a tricycle to pull animal carcasses, peel off the skin, and then throw the carcasses to the wild dogs around, and then sell the simply processed skin and bones to a local trader business.This allows him to earn 500 to 1500 rupees ($11 to $33) a month.

Although he worked hard, being a Dalit, even at home, he often lived in fear that at some point, his hated neighbors in the village would set fire to his hut.As for resistance, Sara hadn't thought about it at all.Due to the government’s indifference and the habit of ethnic hierarchy, not to mention here (Indian villages), even in large and small cities in India, untouchables who are threatened with death will not get much help after reporting to the police. A certain untouchable family was brutally burned to death.

It's still early, and Sarah needs to do some simple "washing + defecation" work before going out.

Sarah's small hut is surrounded by a simple fence surrounded by thorns and bushes.Now he is squatting on the wasteland outside the fence to defecate.For about a quarter of an hour, after pouring out "Tube primrose" and feeling refreshed physically and mentally, Sara was under the unfriendly gaze of villagers wearing blue plaid sarongs and T-shirts (villager uniforms).Climbed a neem tree next to the hut, broke a twig from the tree and slid down.He carefully peeled off the bark, and then began to knock the branches with his front teeth, softening the ends into a fibrous brush, and then began to brush back and forth between the back teeth and gums.Because neem contains a mild antiseptic substance, it has become the toothbrush of tens of millions of poor Indians.After brushing his teeth, he split the branch in the middle and began to scrape the tongue with the green part inside.After everything was over, Sarah naturally threw away the used neem sprigs and finished cleaning her mouth for the day.In addition, it needs to be explained that because the neem tree is regarded as "public property" in the village, Sarah has the right to use it.Of course, other people can come to his house to break branches and brush their teeth at any time.

Sara's wife, Sushira, usually starts to get up around this time as well.Years of poor life have already obliterated Sushila's youth and taken away her years.But for this point, Su Shila not only did not feel regretful, but was greatly relieved in his heart.

You must know that in the village of Shahabpur, under the strict caste system environment, men of higher castes only need a few rubles or a few handfuls of rice to occupy the body of a "Dalit" woman (according to surveys, up to 40% Non-Dalit men express support for this ancient tradition).Even within the "Dalit" group, there are distinctions between high and low, and high-status "Dalits" can bully low-status "Dalits".So until Sushila's youthful beauty faded, she and Sara lived in terror almost night after night, as drunken Patel youths would often yell outside her family's hut, demanding **** .

Regarding all of this, as early as 1949 in the last century, the Indian "untouchable" leader Ambedkar ruthlessly criticized: "Except for the lair of localism, the cave of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism, Besides, what are the benefits of a village?"

This is India, an India with splendid ancient civilizations such as the Taj Mahal; an India with a large number of beautiful Victorian buildings in modern England; an India where defecating everywhere is commonplace; an India where selling rock sugar can turn black because of flies crawling , the buyers still eat and swallow their stomachs as usual; an India that buys a large amount of arms and aircraft carriers in order to dominate South Asia; an India with internal and external contradictions.

On January 14, 1, it was such a country, and a great internal crisis began to appear.Due to last year's Leonid meteor storm, most of Bangalore was destroyed. Secondly, a port facility in India near the east was completely wiped off the earth because it was hit in the middle by another meteorite fragment!And these are not the worst. After all, no matter how great the disaster loss is, it is just a "point" loss. Compared with the 6 square kilometers of India's territory, Ah San can still hold on.

But in the end, there was a blow that completely sank India up and down—the Indian Ocean tsunami, which caused the entire coastline of India to be attacked and flooded by tsunami to varying degrees, a large number of port facilities were damaged and destroyed, and sea shipping lines were interrupted. Stagnation.Industrial blood oil cannot be transported in, and what is transported in cannot be refined because of the damage of the seaside refinery. Commodities such as food may become moldy and damp due to soaking, or they are hoarded in the interior of India due to traffic interruption.The economic veins of the entire country were largely disrupted.Coupled with the loss of the IT elites in Bangalore, many domestic software companies have problems. Therefore, since the Leonid meteor storm hit in September 13, three months have passed. Even though India has dispatched a large number of troops and armed police to rescue, The work of sorting out and rebuilding the entire country still seems elusive.

Due to the lack of a sufficient number of helicopters and engineering excavation equipment, many remote villages have not yet received rescue. The entire country is full of pessimism, anger, anger and depression, like a blast furnace with increasing pressure, which is about to explode critical point.

India's capital, New Delhi.

"Recently, the statistics of the coastal areas have come up. The three states where Mumbai, Calcutta and Ahmedabad are located (three of the five relatively important industrial regions in India, all of which are concentrated in the coastal areas, where the United Kingdom before independence A solid foundation has been laid) the loss exceeded 40%, and many factories were seriously damaged.” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said to himself with an ugly face while holding the summary report.

"Bangalore (Madras-Bangalore Industrial Zone, the fourth more important area) has also lost more than half of it, and it will be difficult to restore it to its original state in a short time." Indian Secretary of State Laxman said.

In India, the prime minister holds the real power of the government, and the State Council under his control has a secretary of state and several state councilors.But there is no Deputy Secretary of State.

"That is to say, except for Nagpur (India's 'Ruhr Industrial Zone', coal and steel production accounted for 34% of the country, mainly producing electricity, heavy machinery, chemicals, non-metallic products, which belong to the heavy industry base), all other regions was hit hard."

"Yes, Your Excellency, and now the post-disaster rescue and reconstruction work in various places is in jeopardy, and now there is a lot of public grievances among the people. The opposition party is seizing the opportunity and wantonly inciting the media to carry out public opinion attacks on us. Our situation is very dangerous." Secretary of State Lax Mann reminded.

"It seems that we need to take some action to divert the attention of the domestic people." Prime Minister Singh whispered in a voice only he could hear.

Thus, a war in the South Asian subcontinent that was planned and unexpected by Wang Fan began.