Chapter 108 [If You Want to Be Rich, Build Roads First]
At this time, Belsinger sat on the sofa, twisted his waist and neck, and his joints creaked. Then he let out a long sigh and said very tiredly. "Damn it, I ran all night, and I was also bumping on the sedan chair all night."
"Now there is no bone in my body that doesn't hurt. Old housekeeper, our Lagar Valley, the mountain road leading to the town is really bad. Do you think we should repair the road? Otherwise, if there is an emergency, it will be out of reach."
The old housekeeper Jamal was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head with a wry smile, sighed and said, "Master, let alone you, even your grandfather has thought about building this road. But this road is too difficult. You have to cross several mountains and cross two rivers."
"Don't think that the river water is very shallow now and you can wade across it, but the water volume of these two rivers is still very abundant during the rainy season. The river surface is up to one or two hundred meters. How big a bridge is needed to send it across, and how much does it cost? Our family doesn't have the strength to do this."
Master Belsinger is very clear about this, but there is a saying in China, right? If you want to be rich, build roads first. We can't give up the plan of building roads just because of the mountains. If the Lagar Valley is not surrounded by mountains, it will be out of touch with modern society if it is closed like this.
This time, the worker who fell off the cliff was lucky. He was sent to the hospital after waiting for more than ten hours and was very lucky not to die. If the Singh family was in danger, they would still be alive. Bel Singh knew that building roads was very difficult, almost as difficult as climbing to the sky.
It was to change his living environment and to be able to control his several industrial companies in the town at all times. In addition, he didn't have any strong candidates, so he could only let the old butler in his 60s stay in the town for a long time. He was responsible for supervising these industrial companies for himself. The old butler was old and weak, but he didn't have anyone who could take on such a heavy responsibility.
If the road was built and could be traveled back and forth in a few hours, the old butler would not be stationed in the town for a long time. It can also let the old people who have served the family for a lifetime spend their old age in peace, otherwise these words dare not be said, otherwise the old housekeeper must be angry.
The old housekeeper has always believed that he is strong and can serve the Singh family for 30 years. He has confidence, but the old housekeeper's body is really a bit overwhelmed. Seeing the frail body of the old housekeeper sitting on the sofa, Bel Singh felt very uncomfortable and more determined to build a road. He could not afford the cost of this road.
But there is not only our village around Lagar Village. There are four other larger villages, which share the same passage out of the mountain with Lagar Village. One of the largest villages is the family of my father-in-law. The Shah Village where the Shah family lives has a large population and is the richest. The second most populous is my own Lagar Village.
There are three other villages with a population of more than 2,000 and more than 1,000. The population of the five villages combined exceeds 10,000. What about some other small villages? So many villages, so many people, use the same mountain road out of the mountain, which proves that the road construction is not the business of one village, and the other villages should also lend a hand.
The rich contribute money, the strong contribute labor, but whoever pretends to be stupid and denies that he uses the same road out of the mountain. If you don't participate in the road construction, then don't blame me for being rude, Bel Singh thought of this and said to the old housekeeper with a smile.
"Housekeeper, I know that this passage out of the mountain is not only used by our village, but also by other villages. There are five villages with a population of more than 1,000 people, and there are also some small villages with hundreds of people living in the mountains. Don't they come out of the mountains to Sinjar Town to buy supplies?"
The old housekeeper knows what Master Singh means? But even if the Singh family is too powerful and the population of Lagar Village is large. . It is impossible to dominate among these dozen villages, let alone the Singh family, even the Shah family, which has a large population and is rich and powerful, does not have such a leader.
There is no such ability to unite. Everyone has similar status. Who are you leading? There are landlords and high-caste masters in the villages, so the old housekeeper shook his head and smiled bitterly to persuade, Belsinger said.
"Master, I understand what you mean. You want to gather all the heads of several villages. Appeal to emotions and reason, and explain the interests of road construction. You want these villages to contribute money and strength, and everyone works together to open up the passage out of the mountain."
"In this way, it will be very convenient and fast for villagers in any village to reach Sinjar Town, but your idea is good, but it is impossible to realize. These villages are all independent, and some villages are even feuds with other villages. The two sides have fought for decades or even hundreds of years."
"Our Singh family does not have the ability, let alone the overwhelming advantage, to gather all these villages to complete the feat of road construction."
Hearing this, not only Belsinger was dumbfounded, but even Marbury and Ivan, who heard about the secrets between these villages for the first time, began to face the reunion. Such a closed mountain village is so complicated, almost as complicated as the United Nations. It seems that it is not an easy task for the master to build a road out of the mountain with great ambition.
Just as the old housekeeper said, without overwhelming advantage, it is impossible to organize so many villages to work together to build roads. Who will listen to you? Although the idea is good, some villages are still hostile to each other because they are independent. Your Singh family is too powerful. What will you do if they don't buy your tricks? There is no way, you can only watch the mountain road across the river and sigh.
But Bel Singh is a stubborn person. Isn't it difficult? The more difficult it is, the more I will try. I don't believe it. These are the landlords in it. One by one, they are so short-sighted. Don't they know the benefits of building roads? Every year, selling grain and livestock is the most troublesome problem for every village.
It's crossing rivers and crossing mountains. If the grain is wet, the price will drop sharply to 1/3. Are they blind and don't see these losses? In fact, in the end, these villages still don't disperse to build roads, and don't pay or send people. Then I, Master Belsinger, will build the road out of the mountain by myself. I will set up checkpoints at both ends of the road, and anyone who passes through will have to pay me a road maintenance fee.
I built the road and bridge. If I don't let you go, then I won't let you go. If you don't want to participate in the road construction, I will let you open a passage out of the mountain by yourself. Going out of the mountain on this road I built, the huge road maintenance fee will also cause these short-sighted guys to suffer huge losses. The more difficult it is, the more I will push forward. I don't believe this evil. A living person can be suffocated to death.
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Belsinger knew that it was impossible to do it, but he still had to bite the bullet and push forward. In everyone's opinion, he was just asking for trouble. The old housekeeper persuaded him left and right but couldn't persuade him. In the end, Master Singh could only do what he wanted. Master Singh knew why this passage out of the mountain had not been built for hundreds of years after he was hit by a bag.