And Zhao Hanyan was also speechless. When his group of classmates came to Asan Country, someone suggested going to Taobao, saying that the people here are typical examples of people who are stupid and have a lot of money. However, they did not expect that they are the real fools who are stupid and have a lot of money.
Just as Han Kongque taught Zhao Hanyan and Han Xing a lesson, someone came over and reported something to Zhao Hanyan.
"What's wrong?" Han Peacock asked.
Zhao Hanyan said: "There are people outside threatening the villagers here and want to know what we have done."
"Is it just this?" Han Peacock asked.
Zhao Hanyan said: "Just this, I think we can't hide the fact that we let people dig up tree stumps."
Han Kongque said: "It's okay. I saw that there are still many middle-aged and elderly people idle in this village today. Go and tell them that if anyone is willing, they can go to the north of the village not far away and dig out all the tree stumps there.
When you come back, as long as you dig out one of them, you will give them two thousand rupees."
"Brother, is this okay?" Han Xing asked after Zhao Hanyan left.
Han Kongque naturally had his own ideas, so he said nonchalantly: "It's just a delay. Now it depends on whether those people are greedy or not. If they talk heart-to-heart and give us enough time, they will discover all the plans by then."
, it’s just a futile effort.
So, don’t pay attention to them. I believe they won’t take action until they fully understand what we are doing. When they want to take action, we won’t be afraid of them.”
"I'll go take a look." Han Xing said.
Han Kongque said: "Just take a look. This village is more united and stronger than we imagined."
"I know." After Han Xing said that, he hurried away. Now he has harvested so many small-leaf red sandalwood tree stumps. If something unexpected happened at this time, it would be too frustrating.
Outside the village, on a main road leading to the jungle to the north, a car was parked in the middle of the road. There were two tents on the flat grass on both sides of the road.
At this time, next to a tent, a Dalit man was prostrate outside, while several others were sitting inside the tent.
"Gupta, I thought you would never leave the village again!" said a young Asan.
"Malik, don't talk nonsense. Just ask, what have they been doing during this time?" said the young man named Bender.
Malik looked at the man named Guputa and said, "You heard it too. Tell us everything you know."
"Great Lord Malik, we really didn't do anything." Guputa lay on the ground and whispered.
Bender said to Malik: "Our Chief, what you said doesn't seem to work!"
Although it sounds nice, everyone here can hear Bender's sarcasm towards Malick.
Of course, Malik naturally heard it. As a heir to a chief in the early Dalit tribal era, he should enjoy the respect of all Dalits, rather than this perfunctory way.
You must know that the word Malik means tribal chief, and as a Dalit and the lowest untouchable, Gupta actually dared to despise him, a nobleman.
"Gupta. Do you want to tell me? If you don't tell me, I will ask your son to tell you personally." Malik said sharply.
"Dear Malik, we really didn't do anything. As you can see, we just helped those foreigners dig some tree roots." The Ancient Musical Pagoda has long been no longer the original Ancient Musical Pagoda.
Ever since the village got its first gun, their thoughts have actually changed unknowingly. Although they are still afraid of these nobles, they no longer have the same precarious feeling as before, and it can be said that they have gained a little more confidence.
"Digging tree roots? Are you lying to a three-year-old child? They are fine after they have eaten enough. Do they need to come here to dig tree roots?" Malik said sternly, wanting to completely suppress Gupu Tower.
At this time, Zhang Qiang, a Chinese who had been sitting in the tent, said: "Bender, ask him to ask what kind of tree roots they dug. Maybe Gupu Tower didn't lie."
Bender once studied in China and was classmates with Zhang Qiang. This time Zhang Qiang was invited to travel to Asan Kingdom and happened to come across Han Peacock's actions. What's even more coincidental is that Zhang Qiang knew Korean stars. Because Korean stars have been so popular recently, he
Have to know.
Although Bender is a Brahmin noble and a big landowner, his hometown is too remote. There is basically no industry here, and because the land output is extremely low, he, a big landowner, is also a rich man.
There isn't much money at all.
Not to mention Zhang Qiang, he is just a child of an ordinary small businessman family in China. Although his family has several million yuan in savings and a small factory, these are just to make his life easier.
, and cannot live too freely.
With these two people together, Ziru started to have other thoughts about Han Kongque and the others.
Of course, the reason why they dared to provoke Han Peacock was because this was the Asan Kingdom. Here, Bende did have the strength to suppress Han Peacock. Otherwise, Zhang Qiang would really not dare to provoke Han Peacock.
Malik asked over and over again countless times, but the answer he got was to dig tree roots. At this time, all the people in the village, old and young, were already out, and some people were even digging not far from them.
In this kind of flat area, it is really not difficult to dig out a tree stump, so as a family, at least four or five people dig out a tree stump together. Some of them are very fast, and it only takes less than an hour to dig out a tree stump.
After Bender, Malik, and Zhang Qiang made repeated confirmations, the tree stump was dragged into the village by the villagers.
"That's an ordinary tree stump. Why do you think those people dug it?" Bender asked Zhang Qiang.
Zhang Qiang said: "Is this really making root carvings? That's wrong! You don't need to come here to find materials to make root carvings. We have plenty of them in China. The cost of finding materials here is too high. There must be something wrong."
Although Zhang Qiang was a bit clever, he was a freshly graduated college student after all. He couldn't fathom or understand Han Kongque's wild and unbridled ideas, so he racked his brains without thinking about Han Kongque's purpose.
However, the commotion of the Korean peacocks was really too great. If it was just for some tree stumps, they really wouldn't have gone to such trouble, so there must be something wrong here.
Although Zhang Qiang once suspected that Han Peacock came here for the mahogany trees, after all, Zhang Qiang came here to travel and was also attracted by the mahogany resources in Mysore.
And in Mysore City, the most talked about among Chinese people is probably the small leaf red sandalwood.
But if Han Peacock came here to look for small-leaf red sandalwood, he would go into the mountain to cut down trees instead of digging tree stumps.
Although they couldn't understand it, Zhang Qiang didn't believe that Han Peacock would do useless work, so they also took up the task with Han Peacock.
In Bender's words, all the products in the mountains and forests here belong to his Bender family. Han Kongque's current behavior is stealing their family's wealth and is unforgivable.
However, Zhang Qiang almost sneered at Bender's statement. If this mountain forest really belonged to their family, would their family still use it to farm?
The resources in the mountains and forests are extremely rich. You can get whatever you want, so why bother exploiting the poor people desperately?
It is because the tenants who cultivate their land are so exploited and oppressed that the output of the land is so low. Therefore, many big landowners in Asan Kingdom are now trying to drive away the tenants from their land in order to develop.
Industry, opening factories to increase one's income.
This result did not transform the farmers on the land into workers, but instead increased the number of landless and jobless poor people in the city. This is how the slums in the city came to be.
"Bender, your housekeeper hasn't come back yet?" Zhang Qiang had already had enough of staying in this remote country without even electricity.
However, Zhang Qiang still endured it for the huge benefits he could obtain. However, he was almost reaching his limit now. If he was allowed to endure it for a few more days, he was afraid that he could not bear it anymore, so every day, he would
Ask once.
Bender said: "Seven days have passed. In the past seven days, the village has brought back a lot of tree stumps. I think that their journey to and from the jungle is only seven days at most. If I am not wrong, my housekeeper should be back soon.
.”
"I don't know if they have discovered the small-leaf red sandalwood tree. If they do find it, they can definitely sell it at a high price if it is shipped back to our country." Zhang Qiang said.
Bender also said with a bit of longing: "I hope to gain something, but unfortunately, we were born a little late. If it had been earlier, there would have been many small-leaf red sandalwood trees here."
"If I had known that they are really just digging tree stumps these days, we might as well have followed your housekeeper into the mountains! I wonder if they recognize the small-leaf red sandalwood tree. If they encounter it but don't recognize it, it would be tragic."
Zhang Qiang looked at the villagers who were constantly going in and out of the village, constantly transporting some useless tree stumps back to the village, and felt very painful. Have they wasted too much time here?
Bender didn't think so. He thought for a moment and said: "Generally, we will not enter this jungle."
"What? Didn't you say that this jungle belongs to your family?" Although Zhang Qiang felt contempt in his heart, he did not show it.
Bender said: "Although the jungle belongs to our family, since those lowly Dalits were driven here, this place has become their range of activities.
You also know that the jungle is too big and it is easy to encounter accidents, so unless there is something particularly important, we will not enter the sphere of influence of these Dalits."
With that said, Bender pointed to a Dalit female soldier who was on guard in the distance. Looking at the soldier holding a rifle, Zhang Qiang felt even more painful. This was because he was afraid of the Dalit people's force!
However, when Zhang Qiang thought about it carefully, he felt lucky that he did not insist on entering the jungle. If Bender could not refuse his request and followed him into the jungle to save face, he might really be beaten by those female soldiers.