Riding an elephant to hunt tigers, this is the most fashionable activity of the princes of the princely states of India and the British nobles dozens of hundreds of years ago, Zhang Nan has only heard of and seen those old photos of tiger hunting before, but he did not expect that he would be able to hunt tigers one day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fashionable sports that ordinary people can't enjoy.

Since the 19th century, the British royal family, aristocrats, military personnel, and wealthy people from all walks of life have been fanatical fans of tiger fighting in India.

At that time, the British gentlemen, who traveled to the ancient and mysterious colony of India, if they didn't shoot a few tigers, they couldn't get a picture of a shotgun and a dead tiger after returning to London, it was a shame, and you were embarrassed to say that you had been to India.

In 1911, King George V traveled to India and killed 39 Bengal tigers during an 11-day hunt.

And that Edward VIII is 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's love of fighting tigers, and also liked to go tiger hunting in India.

I don't love the country and love the beauty.

I don't love the country and love to fight the tiger!

Of course, the King of England fights a tiger, which is exciting but not dangerous: riding a tall elephant and surrounded by hundreds of servants, the pomp and circumstance is almost like going to war.

The men drove the tiger out of its habitat first, and the king only needed to aim and shoot with a powerful shotgun, and his men would do all the dirty work.

However, the British hunting tigers is also a newly learned hobby, this tiger hunting, India's earth kings are the backbone lovers of tiger hunting.

From the end of the 19th century to the 70s, when tiger hunting was banned in India, no one counted how many tigers were hunted in India, but some princes in the western state of Rajasthan alone hunted nearly 2,600 tigers, and a prince in Madhya Pradesh even hunted more than 1,000 alone!

However, the tiger hunting scene that opened up dozens or hundreds of years ago is not visible in India today, at least on the surface.

Protection.

India's tiger is the Bengal tiger, or the country's national animal: since the 50s, the tigers have been deforested under the auspices of the government, and overhunting, especially driven by the animal trade, has led to a sharp decline in the Indian tiger population.

In 1970, the Indian government enacted a law prohibiting tiger hunting, and in 1973, the then Prime Minister Gandhi advocated the implementation of the "Tiger Protection Plan", demarcating 9 national parks as special reserves for tigers, and later adding 14.

People can't go into the reserve to hunt tigers, but tigers don't care about the laws made by humans, and often wander around the territory of the Varmar family, and the nearly 1,000 square kilometers of untouched forest were originally the habitat of tigers.

Four years ago, in 1984, India's forest department announced that the number of wild tigers had increased from 1,827 in 1972 to 4,000, which meant that the Indian tiger was finally out of danger, and more and more tigers were "harassing" the Walmar family's land.

Zhang Nan knows that in another decade or so, India will become the country with the most tigers in the world, and it will also be the country with the most tiger attacks: the country with the second largest population in the world has the world's largest number of tigers.

Nowadays, the average Indian person respects and fears the tiger, saying that the tiger is "half a god, half a devil"!

On the surface, tiger hunting has been banned in India, but there is a saying in the world that has a very market: law is law, and man is man.

There are always some people who ignore the law or use workarounds: if you don't have the strength, you become a criminal, and if you are able to be flexible, you will be fine, reasonable and legal.

The Varmar family doing something on their own territory that seemed to be legally forbidden would obviously belong to the latter.

Isn't it hunting, not to mention India, a few years later China began to ban guns, except for the hunting team in the hunting season to catch wild boar or something ordinary, others don't talk about hunting, having a gun is a crime.

But in China, there will be international hunting grounds, where you can hunt wild animals, and a argali, about five or six thousand dollars: wild!

And this situation will continue, earning 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 have not been approved in advance!

No wonder that hunting ground was exposed on the Internet after 20 years, and it was almost drowned by spittle!

In the manor, there will be tiger skins that have been preserved and processed after the tiger hunt last year, but Valmar will not give those tiger skins to Zhang Nan. Listening to Xiao Valma's words about "it only makes sense to commemorate the tiger skin he hunted", Zhang Nan thought about going to Haiqing Province one day to hunt a few argali, rock sheep or something!

But think about it, forget it, I was also an old and angry young man in the Internet water army, so I didn't go to harm the first-class protected animals in China.

After afternoon tea, everyone went to a gun room in the castle to choose the guns they would use in the next few days.

And one of the housekeepers who has been working as an invisible man in the sun room just now will have gone out to prepare for tomorrow's tiger hunt: little Valmar said that hundreds of people will be dispatched for several days, depending on how his person's harvest will be decided to end the tiger hunt. There is also the weather, heavy rain is not suitable for going out to hunt tigers.

When the time comes, many of the strong laborers from the nearby villages will be gathered by the village elders and take their fellows to participate in the tiger hunt: their characters are to drive all kinds of prey from the jungle, including tigers.

Just now, Zhang Nan realized that the 2,500 square kilometers of land owned by the Valma family was the data after removing the land privately owned by the high-caste elders in each village.

As for those elders, they were actually the original retainers of the Varma family, and now they are also landlords, but they are generally only tens or hundreds of hectares of land, and they are completely surrounded by the land of the Varma family.

Not only in this county, but also in other parts of Kerala, there are many landlords who were once vassals of the Varmar family, and now they have no subordinate relationship between the upper and lower ranks, but they also belong to an interest group, and they all respect the will of the old Varmar - this is a huge political force that no one can ignore.

The fact that the Walmar family's car can drive directly into the tarmac of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to pick up people is the prerogative of the enormous political forces.

When chatting just now, Zhang Nan calculated: The county to which the jurisdiction belongs here, in fact, except for a small piece of land near the county seat, is completely owned by Varma's family!

Old Valmar still rules the land in the manner of his earthly father, and in Zhang Nan's opinion, it will be at least a few decades from now.

"Can the local government still do it?"

Really curious.

......

On the way to the gun room, Alice secretly asked Zhang Nan: "Allen, do you really want to hunt tigers?"

"Are you going?"

Alice looked a little entangled, and she could see that she wanted to go and was a little worried.

"If you want to go, you can't get out of danger on the back of an elephant. It's okay to go and see the excitement, such an opportunity is rare, in fact, even if we don't fight, those tigers will also die, the same ending. ”

It is impossible for the Indian government to nationalize the land of the Varmar family, otherwise it will lose the ruling basis of the Indian regime itself -- the Indian government does not have this right at all, and the local states have a lot of independent power, not to mention that the top level of New Delhi is actually ruled by a group of big landlords and big capitalists, and will never introduce any policies or laws that harm the interests of its own group.

"Those tigers are pitiful, too. ”

Hearing Alice's words, Zhang Nan said self-deprecatingly: "Sympathizing with the weak is the greatest disrespect to nature." Compared with hunters, tigers are weak, and this is a society where tigers eat people and people kill tigers. ”

Fifty knows the destiny of heaven, and has already seen through it. People live for a lifetime, there is no next life in this life, as long as they don't violate their conscience, they can do whatever they like, and they won't have a chance in the next life.

Those were Hitler's words. ”

"Oh, have you read it?" Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"I've seen it in the book. ”

Zhang Nan shook his head and said, "It's better for a woman not to 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 arrived, and it was filled with all kinds of weapons, as little Varma had said. Most of them are a bit old, but they are well maintained, and apparently people take care of them here.

The No. 8 side-by-side double-barreled shotgun recommended by Little Varma was not powerful, but it was too heavy, so Zhang Nan got himself a classic Soviet-made "Baikal" IHZ-43 side-by-side double-barreled No. 12 shotgun.

There's even a giant No. 4 single-barrel shotgun, which can knock an elephant through at close range with a single shot - and the recoil is terrifying!

No. 4, No. 8, No. 12... For example, the most common 12-gauge shotgun means that its caliber is the same diameter as a 1/12-pound mass lead ball - that is, a pound of pure lead is melted and cast into 12 small balls, and the diameter of such a small ball is the caliber of this shotgun.

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

The single-headed bullets and deer bullets of the No. 8 shotgun bullet were often used to hunt lions and rhinos in Africa and tigers in India, and the power was terrifying.

No. 4 shotgun bullets are even more perverted, and they are generally equipped with shotguns for hunting birds at ultra-long ranges, because if such a large caliber is used with a single-headed bullet or a deer bullet, it takes an extremely strong person to bear that terrifying recoil: Legend has it that there was a stupid and bold Indian hunter in the United States who once used a No. 4 shotgun to fire a 100-gram single-headed bullet, and at a distance of more than 600 yards, he shot a bison in pair!

However, these two super-caliber shotgun cartridges have long been discontinued, but they have been extinct in the American market for fifty or sixty years. Zhang Nan looked at the ammunition used, it was quite new, it seemed to be in Arabic.

So he asked little Varma about the bullet: he chose a No. 8 shotgun.

"Imported from the Middle East, many princes over there 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 big manufacturers, don't you really try it?"