At the kind invitation, Zhang Nan also tried the No. 8 shotgun selected by Little Walma. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Loaded with single-headed bullets and deer bullets, the first deer bullet was fine, and it felt half as great as the recoil of the No. 12 shotgun;

Smoothbore shotguns have the highest recoil when firing a single shot, and the more and smaller the projectiles in a bullet, the smaller the recoil, which is different from ordinary rifled guns.

Zhang Nan returned the shotgun to Little Varma, shook his head and smiled: "I still use No. 12, you are really not used to it." ”

Not reluctantly, turnip greens have their own good.

Lin Ming also tried the Ying 77 he selected, and after getting familiar with the two rounds, the manual rifle stood at a distance of 100 meters and played a semi-automatic rhythm, and the impact point was all within the range of a fist's size and jaw.

The crowd gave a thumbs up and gave them a thumbs up.

Zhang Nan smiled on the side: If they had seen the performance of their brother-in-law and Brother Guan competing with each other, they would all be so shocked that their jaws would drop!

......

Before he could get back to the castle, a senior servant came to report something to one of the butlers who was with him—there were seven or eight ordinary butlers in the Varmar family, and there was a chief butler in charge, and the butler who was waiting here was only one of them.

It's not a direct report to the master, just like reporting level by level within the government, and skipping the level is a violation.

If a servant has something to report, he can't just come up and report it in the conversation between the host and the guest, but must report it to the butler first, which is a strict hierarchy: just like a servant who pours wine can't serve a plate, and a servant who serves a plate can't serve a drink.

Who made the Indians accustomed to hierarchical divisions, the division of labor was very fine, and there were many distinctions between high and low among the servants.

Those who serve by the master's side are higher than those who work outside, those who trim the garden have a sense of superiority over those who clean up the garbage, and those who guard the yard look down on those who clean the toilets...

A traditional servant will never do work that is lower than his own status, and a low-status servant cannot do a job that a high-status servant can do.

After listening to the report of the old housekeeper, old Varma said with a little regretful expression: "Mr. Allen, Mr. Jia Yin, our tiger hunt operation will be postponed for a day or two, and the weather forecast says that there will be rain from tonight until tomorrow afternoon. ”

Spread your hands, helpless.

Hunting, no one wants to go in a raincoat, so just wait, anyway, I don't care about the day or two.

Zhang Nan suggested that tomorrow, while the weather is normal, you can go to the Padmanaba Swamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram first.

This trip is actually for the treasure in that temple!

The management of the Padmanabha Swamy Temple is in the hands of the Varma family, because this temple was rebuilt by the ancestors of the Varma family more than 400 years ago, and the management has been in the hands of the old Varma after the independence of India.

And the amount of treasure in it is unbelievable!

In 2001, an intelligence officer known as Sandara-Lajan during the Indira Gandhi government settled near the temple after his retirement.

As a devout Hindu, the Sandara Lajan, who was over seventy years old, insisted on going to the temple at 2 a.m. every day to pray for up to eight hours a day.

In 2009, Sandala-Lajan found that the temple was not being kept secure enough, so he filed a complaint with the Kerala High Court, demanding that the government should take back the management of the temple and take responsibility for the disposal and theft of the temple's property.

If old Varma knew that such a thing would happen now, it is estimated that the whole family of that nosy Sandara-Lajang would be dead!

The intelligence is in the country, and the typical dog meddles with a mouse, but this is exactly what the Indian government wants: there is no way, Ah Sange will be poor, and he will not even have the money to build an aircraft carrier!

In January 2011, the Kerala High Court ruled that the temple was taken over by the state government.

Prior to the formal takeover, a seven-member committee was tasked with taking stock of the temple's total assets and making an inventory for filing.

Before the inventory began, it had been discovered that the temple had six underground chambers, numbered from A to F, and that the two chambers, numbered "A" and "B", had not been opened for nearly 140 years.

On June 29, 2011, people opened Room A and four other secret rooms, and found treasures such as nearly 1 ton of gold ornaments, diamonds, precious stones, as well as more than 1,200 gold chains weighing about 2.5 kilograms, 3 gold crowns, 3 and a half feet tall diamond-encrusted statue of Lord Vishnu, and other gold coins and gold products......

It is estimated that these treasures are worth more than 1 trillion rupees, or about 145 billion yuan, or more than $20 billion!

Most of the Indian temples contain treasures, even the gold objects that are displayed and enshrined on the surface are huge wealth: the richest temple in India was the Tirubati Temple in Andhra Pradesh, with a fortune worth 32,000 crore, a record surpassed by the Padmanaba Swami Temple in 2011.

The discovery of the treasure in the temple quickly caused a sensation throughout India, and in order to ensure the safety of the treasure, the Indian government sent special forces and set up three lines of defense to guard it day and night.

While people are amazed by the temple's treasures, the yet-to-be-opened Chamber B is the center of attention: it is the largest of the six chambers and is rumored to contain the largest number of treasures.

This time the matter was a big problem, and the excavation of the opening of the B tomb was stopped, and the question of the ownership of the discovered treasure immediately caused widespread controversy.

Believers generally believe that the treasure was found in the temple and therefore should belong to the temple, and people in the community tend to demand that the treasure be used for the welfare of the people, on the grounds that the treasure is taken from the people and should be used for the people - in view of the consistent virtue of Ah Sange, it is estimated that "many people" would become very rich if he did so.

For $10,000 to alleviate poverty, $9,000 can become a "handling fee and necessary consumption fee", and it is estimated that many people hope that the government can do this, waiting to stuff the "handling fee" into their pockets.

In the eyes of many historians, it is an opportunity to build the Louvre Museum of India and display the treasures.

As for who the treasure will end up with, Zhang Nan has not yet reached a conclusion before his rebirth, and it remains to be decided by the Supreme Court of India.

Pull it off, pull it slowly.

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Going to the temple to visit was said before, and when I heard Zhang Nan's words, old Valma said: "Well, Mr. Allen is interested in our faith and religious culture, which is very good, then I will arrange it tomorrow."

Davenral, let people go and inform the temple of the sacrifice first, tomorrow at 12 noon it will be closed for half a day, I will go to the temple in person. ”

Little Valmar on the side immediately said, "Yes, father." ”

Well, the head of the family travels to the temple under his own management, just to put on this example.

However, Old Varma's next words made Zhang Nan want to take a piece of tofu and hit the wall by himself!

"Mr. Allen, the Padmanaba Swamy Temple has been under our family's stewardship for hundreds of years since it was rebuilt by our ancestors. Come with me this time, and your bodyguards will also change into our national costumes, otherwise there will be a few respectable sacrifices that will lack a little flexibility. ”

Zhang Nan smiled: "No problem, Mr. Varma." Do as the locals do, and thank you and your family for your generosity and openness. ”

Non-Hindus are not allowed to enter, and the old Varma came to the head of the family to travel, which is also clearing the way for Zhang Nan's visit plan.

Zhang Nan agreed with his proposal, which made the old Valma not embarrassed, and the old man tilted his head and said: "For more than four hundred years, the believers of our entire kingdom have been dedicating their wealth to the temple and to the great god Shiva.

In the past, people who were not Hindu believers were not allowed to enter, not only because of faith, but also because there was so much wealth in the temple that people could be corrupted by the devil. ”

Zhang Nan nodded and said, "I know this, there are huge amounts of gold gathered in many temples. ”

Then old Varma laughed, "That's it." My ancestors didn't value wealth and only liked land, so my father offered more than a ton of gold to Lord Shiva. And my ancestors offered more gold and precious stones, which are well documented in my family's records.

This would be in the temple basement, with at least hundreds of tons of gold and precious stones. I've seen records that my great-great-grandfather once gave a baby elephant made of gold, weighing two tons..."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan felt that his head must have been kicked by a donkey!

Kick at least 100 times!

When his mind came back to his senses, Zhang Nan asked, "Mr. Valma, take the liberty of asking, such a huge amount of wealth is worth at least billions of dollars, aren't you and your family worried about the theft of the treasure?"

At this time, Valma smiled happily and said, "Mr. Allen, you don't understand this. That belongs to Lord Shiva, and the believers of the great Lord Shiva will not offend the objects of the gods and will defend the wealth of the gods to the death.

And for us brahmins, the richer the temple, the richer we are.

Of course, Mr. Allen, this is please..."

"I understand, Mr. Valma, that I am not a man who likes to talk too much, or I will go to hell with my tongue plucked. ”

Buddhism is no longer popular in India, but the old Valma knew what Zhang Nan meant by what he said, and he was very satisfied with Zhang Nan's reaction.

knew that Zhang Nan was a super-rich man, otherwise Old Varma would not have told the guests about this twist and turn in the temple: if he knew that Zhang Nan, a super-rich man, had originally come for the treasures of the temple, he would have either been so angry that his blood vessels burst, or he used the gun in his hand to beat this hateful heretic into a hornet's nest!

At this point, little Walma explained the relationship between the brahmins and the wealth of the temple: as long as the brahmin did not go stupid enough to incur astronomical debts, he would never go bankrupt!

Because once the brahmin is short of money, he can go to the temple and receive it.

Some Brahmins, who did not mix well in the cities, returned to the countryside and lived a decent life with the money they received from the temple every month, and they were able to buy land and become famous landowners, just for a while.