Chapter 109 [Complex Rural Relations]
Seeing that Master Bel Singh was so stubborn and refused to listen to anyone's advice, he was determined to build the road. What could they say? They could only help their master, so they rested in the town for a night. On the third day, early in the morning, Bel Singh returned to the Lagar Valley with his servants, especially the old butler.
Wasn't the old butler responsible for monitoring the industrial companies of the Singh family in the town? No one could replace the old butler. So why did the old butler follow Bel Singh back to Lagar Village? There was a reason.
Things were divided into priorities. Now several industrial companies in the town have basically been on the right track. They all have independent financial offices. With Master Singh's strength, who dares to embezzle? So it was no problem for the old butler to leave for a period of ten days or eight days.
The second reason was that the old butler had been a butler for the Singh family for a lifetime and had more than 50 years of experience. That was not for nothing. Who in the dozens of villages around didn't know who the 65-year-old Jamal Lal Singh was?
The only person who knows the situation of those villages in Lagar Village the best is the old housekeeper. The person who is responsible for contacting those villages to come to Lagar Village for a meeting is none other than the old housekeeper. Others do not have this face. No one except the housekeeper can make the landlords of those villages come to Lagar Village through mountains and rivers. Do you think it is okay for the old housekeeper not to come back?
On the way back, the master and the servant had a detailed chat on the bamboo sedan chair. The old housekeeper also introduced the situation of the villages in the mountains to Master Bel Singh in detail. In fact, the most difficult village among these villages is a Brahmin village. The leader of the village is a Brahmin who is arrogant.
In addition, it is the top caste, and it has always looked down on the Singh family, the Shah family, and these Kshatriya high castes. Wherever he goes, he acts as if he is superior to others. Many villages with small populations depend on this Brahmin village for survival. It can be said that this Brahmin has a hundred responses, and it is quite difficult to deal with this Brahmin.
There are two villages with conflicts, one is Kshatriya and the other is Vaishya. Everyone must have asked the master of the Vaishya village, how dare he compete with a Kshatriya noble master, the story is so rich that it is simply said. This Kshatriya high-caste master is just a very ordinary Kshatriya who lives on land management. Although he has no worries about food and clothing, his overall strength is really not as good as the opponents of the villages of the Vaishya Alliance who are hostile to him.
Both sides are not at the same level in terms of economic strength or village population. Five or six Vaishya castes can really fight against a Kshatriya together. Although they cannot directly threaten the life and property safety of this Kshatriya, they will not show mercy to those ordinary Shudra villagers by making trouble everywhere.
After so many years of confrontation, the Kshatriya landlords have suffered heavy losses, and they are getting worse year by year. In addition, this Kshatriya master lives in the mountains. He doesn't like to socialize, so the two sides have accumulated conflicts for decades or hundreds of years, and no one can do anything about it. It has been deadlocked until now.
Do you think it is complicated enough? From the perspective of Hinduism, Brahmins are in charge of the priesthood, and Kshatriyas are in charge of secular power. The third sex, Vaishya, is a free peasant small business operator who supports the Brahmin and Kshatriya high castes with donations. That is to say, Vaishya is the cornerstone of true Hinduism, and the backbone is also the people who have the right to enter the temple and are qualified to wear the holy thread.
As the saying goes, taxpayers, as long as you don’t break the law, what can the Kshatriya high caste who is in charge of secular power do to me. As long as I don’t violate the religious rules, what can the Brahmins who are in charge of the priesthood power do to me? This is why four or five Vaishya castes can compete with one Kshatriya caste.
They will not directly threaten the personal safety of the Kshatriya caste nobles and the safety of their family members, but they will attack those villagers. You can protect one or two, can you protect thousands of villagers every day? The two sides fought for decades and finally neither could do anything to the other. There are five large villages with more than 2,000 people. I and Asha Village are allies and will definitely stand together.
Whether it is my father-in-law or my brother-in-law, they will support my decision to build the road. But the arrogant Brahmin village is more difficult to deal with, and there are conflicts between the two sides. The Vaishya caste village and the Kshatriya caste village have irreconcilable conflicts. Five equals to three abandoned, and the remaining villages are small villages with less than 1,000 people, and there is no way to compete with my Lagar Village.
They can be subdued by tough means, but many of these villages rely on the arrogant Brahmin village for survival. There are also many villages that have conflicts with both sides, which is equivalent to a big country, and it is so complicated to have several subordinate small countries.
Lagar Village also has several subordinate villages, and the population is not large. The largest will not exceed 600 people, and the smallest village has only more than 300 people. The population that several village writers can provide together does not exceed 2,000 people. It is too difficult for us to do it. To build a road, you not only need money, but also people.
The reason is that it is impossible to build roads. We can only blast rocks to make steep slopes gentler. It is good enough to have a country stone road that can be used for motorcycles, bicycles, and carts. Therefore, the road surface of the mountain passage will not use cement or asphalt roads, but the blasted rocks will be placed on the foundation.
This stone road is no more than ten meters wide, and the labor required is very large, and they must be young and strong. The old people who must be able to move stones are not considered, so it is impossible to build this stone road out of the mountain without tens of thousands of people.
Talent is the key to success or failure, and what Belsinger lacks most now is people. It is okay to ask Master Singh to take money, but where can tens of thousands of people be gathered? It’s a headache, it’s really a headache. I didn’t expect that the relationship between these villages in the mountains is so complicated, almost catching up with a small United Nations. But since I have made up my mind to build a road, I have to push forward no matter how difficult it is. I don’t believe that evil. Without you rotten eggs, I won’t make trough cakes.
After staggering back home, Belsinger sent his human mule Brook to Asha Village to inform his father-in-law and brother-in-law. Came to Lagar Village to discuss the road construction, and also informed those villages that only the old housekeeper was the head of the family, so the next morning asked Park to take good care of the old housekeeper. Go into the deep mountains on a sedan chair to inform the villages in the deep mountains. Don't waste time talking to these people. The more you try to explain to them the pros and cons of building a road, the more they think you are begging them.
Without them, the road building can't be done at all, which makes Belsinger very angry. Don't waste time talking to them. The old housekeeper has only one task, to inform them that the road is going to be built. If you don't come, we will build it ourselves. But you are not allowed to pass through the road we have built. If you want to use this stone road out of the mountain, you can pay the toll. If you don't have money, don't even think about it.
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