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Chapter 273 Chapter 272 Tiger Trouble

"Uncle, thank you for last night. How to get to Shajiaping?" Tang Zhitong walked out of the room and saw old man Zhang squatting at the door smoking a cigarette. He took out his cigarette and asked with a smile on his face.

"That... young man, this is Shajiaping." Hearing Tang Zhitong's movements, Old Man Zhang stood up and squeezed out a smile on his face, bringing out the irritation on his face.

"The relationship is great! Where is the little tiger? I came here with money, and I will never default!" Tang Zhitong was overjoyed and quickly took out a match to light a cigarette, wishing he could take the two little guys back immediately.

After walking on the mountain road for a day, Tang Zhitong realized that he had made things simple. It was not easy to come here, so he hurried back to do business. Now that he had time, he could visit the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties twice.

"That... is too young to make a living." At this point, Old Man Zhang didn't hide it, and the smile on his face became even more ugly, and he confessed directly to Tang Zhitong.

"Dead?" Tang Zhitong was deeply surprised, thinking that his trip was in vain? ?

"I'm afraid of filling my waist. We'll go into the mountains to search again early tomorrow morning. We can't let Nen go back empty-handed." Old man Zhang immediately added in a dialect.

"We still have tigers here?" Tang Zhitong was a little skeptical. Tigers require a relatively large space to survive and will only gather when there is sufficient food.

"Yes, we know where it is, but we haven't caught it yet." Old Man Zhang said firmly.

"Oh. How many people are going tomorrow? Are there any guys?" Tang Zhitong asked, patting Wuliuban on his shoulder.

"There are more than ten people, and all the militiamen from our team are going, taking the guys and the dogs." Old man Zhang pointed to the dog in his yard and said.

"Is it far? Can you come back that day?" Tang Zhitong continued to ask.

"We left early so we could call back and forth." Old Man Zhang said vaguely. The reason why he agreed to go to Xiangshuiyan was because he wanted to take some action and show it to Tang Zhitong. In the end, if he couldn't be caught, he still did it so that he could have an explanation for all aspects. …

"Okay, let me go there too." Tang Zhitong hesitated and said.

Tang Zhitong was a little hesitant. This time he was not going up the mountain to hunt rabbits, but running for tigers. The danger system was higher. But according to Old Man Zhang, if he could fight back and forth in one day, Tang Zhitong would probably not be far away.

If there is really no gain, Tang Zhitong is not going to persist. Safety is the top priority. At the worst, he can ask the team to write a death certificate for the little tiger and take it back to hand over, and Wang Yan will think of other solutions.

"No answer!" Old man Zhang glanced at the five or six half on Tang Zhitong's shoulder and agreed happily.

The reason why Old Man Zhang agreed to let Tang Zhitong go was that he could not only strengthen his own firepower, but also directly show it to Tang Zhitong, killing two birds with one stone.

After finalizing the matter, Tang Zhitong began to exchange names with Old Man Zhang. They were just talking and did not bother to formally know each other.

Because this area is deep in the mountains and old forests, far away from the imperial city, although it is also affected by the climate, the intensity is much smaller than that in the plains.

This can be seen from the villagers' expressions and their food. Their faces are dull and their food is thick.

Tang Zhitong was staying at Old Man Zhang's house. He was given food stamps and had no problem eating. However, the way he squatted by the door to eat with a soup plate bigger than his face made Tang Zhitong a little uncomfortable...

After dinner, Tang Zhitong inquired about the situation of South China tigers from Old Man Zhang.

Due to repeated hunting in recent years, the South China tigers here have run into the deep mountains and forests to hide, and they do not dare to enter the villages to look for food.

Shajiaping and several nearby villages formed a tiger hunting team. They went into the mountains together a while ago and shot a tigress. The people from Shajiaping stayed behind and did not catch it, so the credit was halved. However, they were not lucky. When they continued to search, Picked up two tiger cubs that have not yet been weaned.

However, it happened that the Forty-Nine City Zoo sent notices to various places... By chance, Tang Zhitong came just like that. After listening to Old Man Zhang's introduction, Tang Zhitong felt a little more at ease. The tiger hunting team had plowed the mountain several times. How many tigers were left nearby?

Thanks to the development of the Internet, before Tang Zhitong came here, he paid attention to Zhou's photo fraud. It was this incident that made Tang Zhitong know more about South China tigers.

The South China tiger is a tiger subspecies unique to China. It was once widely distributed in the vast areas of East China, Central China, South China, and Southwest China.

Starting from Shaanxi and Gansu in the north, to Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, from Sichuan and Chongqing in the west, to Zhejiang and Fujian in the east, there have been footprints of South China tigers in both mountainous areas and plains.

The rise and fall of the South China tiger population is inseparable from human activities.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, fierce wars occurred in Sichuan and Chongqing. Zhang Xianzhong, the Nanming regime, the Qing army, Wu Sangui, etc. took turns to capture and kill each other. The fierce war that lasted for more than half a century resulted in the destruction of life.

At that time, the entire Sichuan area was almost in ruins, with ten houses and nine empty, and the land had been barren for a long time. The forest coverage rate in Sichuan and Chongqing reached more than 80%, which provided conditions for the large-scale breeding of South China tigers.

The wild animals in the forest can no longer satisfy the huge appetite of the increasingly large South China tiger population, so they leave the forest in droves and go to villages and towns to obtain food, thus causing the largest tiger disaster in Chinese history.

Ouyang Zhi, a scholar in Guang'an, wrote a book "Rebellion in Shu". The book said: "There is no tiger trouble in Shu during normal times. In the three or four years since the Xian bandits set up camp, tigers are everywhere, either in groups of one or twenty, or in groups of seven or seven." Eight animals traveling together, climbing over the wall of a house, floating on the water, boarding a boat and climbing a building, this is something that has never been heard of in ancient times and is not believed by people."

Coupled with the support of other historical data, the experts' basic conclusion is that the total number of South China tigers in the entire Sichuan and Chongqing region at that time was no less than 10,000!

Even in the early days of liberation, when the People's Liberation Army went into the mountains around Chongqing to suppress bandits, they encountered tigers many times and had to use machine guns, killing many of them.

This is just Sichuan and Chongqing. Other places are not much better than Sichuan and Chongqing. There are written records of "tiger troubles" from time to time.

At this time, there were supposedly hundreds of thousands of South China tigers across the country.

As the society gradually became more stable and the population increased rapidly, in order to support their families, many mountain forests were reclaimed by people to plant crops, occupying the territory of the South China tiger. The South China tiger could not find food and began to escape from the mountains and forests, eating people and harming livestock. People began to talk about the color change of the tiger. .

Tiger hunting has gradually been put on the agenda.

In the Republic of China, the tiger problem became more and more serious. In order to protect themselves, the masses spontaneously formed tiger hunting teams. During this period, the South China tigers disappeared rapidly, from hundreds of thousands to only tens of thousands.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the growth of population and economic development, human demand for land continued to expand, leading to a reduction in forest area, which severely reduced the living space of South China tigers.

How has the South China tiger ever been so angry? If there is nothing to eat, they will go down the mountain to look for it. They will not spare livestock or people, and the conflict between humans and tigers will further intensify.

Compared with human life, tiger life is of course more valuable, so various places have once again formed "tiger fighting teams", aiming their guns directly at the South China tiger.

For a time, the once feared tigers became prey. The public strongly supported this, and various commendations came in an endless stream. No one would jump out and say something like "protect the South China tiger".

Whether in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Republic of China, or the early years of liberation, the original intention of hunting tigers was to eliminate harm for the people. We cannot blindly blame or deny the decline of tigers in South China since then.

Being troubled by tigers, having loved ones killed by tigers, and losing family livestock, this kind of precarious, fearful, and grief-stricken mood cannot be sympathized with by a well-fed person.

　The Shaanxi dialect is a bit unfamiliar. Except for the familiar ones, the following plots will be replaced by Mandarin.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)