The convoy passed through the city, and the city gave Zhang Nan a good feeling: close to the sea, clean, and the familiar sickle and hammer logo could be seen everywhere. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The roads here are similar to those in Mumbai, with two-way single carriageways, and although you can see the sacred cows as always, there are a lot fewer of them than in the suburbs of Mumbai.

"Boss, how far do you get to that Mr. Varmar's estate?"

Alice, who was sitting on the side, was concerned about the distance: except for those sacred cows, this team is simply a god blocking and killing gods, and the Buddha can run at a speed of six or seventy-eight yards in such bad road conditions!

"It's about 50 kilometers away, and Walmart says his family's estate is about 60 miles from the airport, and we've driven about 50 kilometers, which is exactly half there.

Don't worry, it'll always arrive. ”

60 miles, 90 kilometers from the city, a bit far.

The road conditions are not bad, but after passing through the city, the urban-rural junction on this side is not as clean as the airport, Zhang Nan thought viciously: "Do Indians also know what a face project is?"

Well, even if it's worse here, it's still a few streets better than around Mumbai.

On both sides of the highway, you can already see the state of the countryside, almost all of them are bungalows, and many of them are thatched-roof houses that are almost extinct in the south of the Yangtze River in China.

In fact, the few thatched houses left in the 80s in China have been designed to be used as utility rooms since they were built, or used to raise pigs or something, and even the mud wall houses are tiled roofs.

However, the thatched houses here in India are inhabited, and they seem to be lower than those that Zhang Nan is familiar with, and some of them are very large, which may not be simply due to poverty, but also related to the climate, habits and customs.

"The countryside here is not much better than in Mumbai, it's just cleaner. ”

Hearing Alice's words, Zhang Nan said with a smile: "Clean is actually development, and the village here is obviously neater and planned than the place where we buy chickens."

Where there is planning, there is development, and I guess the life of the people here is still a little hopeful. ”

The Communist Party of India is clearly doing a good job in Kerala.

......

20 minutes later, Zhang Nan told Alice one thing: the convoy had entered the land owned by the Varma family, and it would be about 30 kilometers away from the destination manor!

Zhang Nan has never been here, how do you know?

Because the convoy turned from a gravel road into a reasonably good asphalt road, and Varma had said before: starting from the asphalt road, all the land on both sides belonged to their family, and even the asphalt and stone paving on the asphalt road were paid for by their family.

It's awesome, and I build my own road, in order to go out conveniently!

If you don't repair it, you can't do it, his family's land has reached a length that is difficult for outsiders to imagine.

There are also a number of villages scattered on either side, and needless to say, the villagers here are all farming for the Varmar family - a combination of gentle hills and small plains, full of farmland and woods, and it seems that a large number of cash crops are grown, and huge plantations seem to be betel nut, coffee, tea, and sugar cane, all of which are the property of a single family.

Alice was dumbfounded when she heard it, and asked Zhang Nan: How much land does that Varma family have?

"Together with the woodland, about 2,500 square kilometres. ”

Well, "I occupy the territory of that Baylor Mansion in the capital..."

I used to feel that this was quite awesome, but compared with this Valma, Zhang Nan felt that he was at least a small shrimp in terms of the land area he owned, and he was still the smallest!

Baylor Mansion in Beijing, old villas in Shanghai, mountaintop manor in the hometown of Yan County... All plus a piece, and this one...

Forget it, let's not talk about it: people are more popular than dead people!

Alice was even more incredulous, feeling that she was not listening to a medieval story: this Nima was the land area of a common county!

As soon as he said to the boss, Zhang Nan said: "This county here is bigger than their house, according to the administrative division, the county is about 2,700 square kilometers, except for a small piece in the corner of the county, other land and the government have nothing to do with the actual relationship."

I guess the county magistrate was depressed enough. ”

Absolutely depressed, India has to elect parliamentarians, and those peasants voted for whoever is the landlord, to put it bluntly, although the Valma family has lost the title of "prince king" and has lost the right to rule the entire Kalala state, but in the county it is an out-and-out soil emperor.

According to Zhang Nan's previous understanding of the local government in India, as long as Varma does not like the county magistrate in this county: to say a word, the county magistrate will have to get out.

Well, even if the state is much better than the rest of India today, as long as there is no real landlord to divide the land, the rural land situation is still like this.

It occurred to Alice that there seemed to be such large landowners in the West: "There should be such big landowners in Australia, but it is basically pasture and wasteland. ”

"Don't be, in fact, Britain now has a super big landlord, or the duke's title, at least tens of thousands of square kilometers. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan thought of a person and said: "I don't know who is the largest landlord in the world, but it is said that the eighth largest landowner in the world is in Australia, and it is a family called Kidman, which owns 24 million acres, about 100,000 square kilometers of land.

This is supposed to be the largest privately owned, non-monarch-owned, non-government-owned land, which seems to be larger than Hungary's land area.

The royal families in the Middle East may own a larger land area, but to put it bluntly, they are monarchs, so the eighth in the world is actually the first in the world. ”

Zhang Nan originally wanted to say another thing about Nicole, but fortunately, his mind turned: this Nicole should not be famous in Hollywood, and she is still her star in Australia.

"Stay away from Brother Tom, Brother Tom has a problem!"

The brain was a little distracted while talking, but fortunately it was pulled back by Alice.

"Boss, is that Varma still the lord of the Princes?"

"Ahh His family is long gone, and he has no right to collect taxes, but this large piece of land was bought by his family before, and it may seem a little different from the land of the whole state before India became independent. I don't understand this specifically, it's too complicated.

However, it is the same whether taxes are collected or not, and their families do not have to pay taxes, because they are farmers, and the landlords of the rich countries are also farmers. Moreover, the low-level peasants in India rent the landlord's land to cultivate, and the grain must be handed over in entirely, after which the landlord will give you rations.

All these expenses and pesticides are paid by the landlords, and the peasants are actually destitute by relying on the land alone. ”

Alice was shocked again!

"Aren't those peasants left with nothing?!"