Chapter 585: A Magical Realm
In the temporary headquarters outside the valley, Major General Hassanger frowned, looking at the military digital map in front of him, and there was no expression on his black-red face.
This secret operation was a bit sudden, originally this group of agents from Huaguo infiltrated the country disguised as tourists, came here several times, and then began to secretly investigate and explore the mysterious base in the valley, during which no one was alarmed, especially the local government.
However, the news leaked out of nowhere, and the secret services of several major countries rushed to rush over to try to get a piece of the pie, but inevitably a conflict broke out with the Chinese, and the matter became bigger and bigger, which attracted the attention of the local government.
At first, the local government underestimated, and thought it was an ordinary gang fighting for territory, so a police officer and several police cars came to check the situation.
How could these policemen, who were poorly equipped and lazy, be the elite opponents of the secret departments of the major powers? They were beaten up in a single moment, and they were almost wiped out.
This time, the local government realized that the situation was somewhat serious, so it summoned a large group of police, carried new explosion-proof equipment, and dozens of police cars took to the road in a mighty manner, in order to suppress these hateful gangsters in one fell swoop.
However, in the face of a group of vicious lions, these poor policemen were no different from sheep, and after a duel, they suffered heavy losses, and even the chief who led the team was wounded by a stray bullet.
The local government had no choice but to inform the local garrison and the central government of the situation and request support. After the necessary prevarication, a regiment of troops was finally brought in, surrounded the valley with tanks and artillery, and then shouted and ordered the men inside to lay down their arms and surrender.
Although they are not afraid of these low-quality Indian troops, due to the limited amount of ammunition they carry, the elites of China and those countries do not want to tear their faces for the time being, and use various means to drag the Indian military and wait for domestic reinforcements to arrive.
Low in the air, a group of large willow-leaf-shaped aircraft invisible to the naked eye swept by at high speed.
In the spacious and comfortable cabin, Zhao Xinglan's avatar can clearly see all kinds of scenes in the city on the ground through the screen in front of him. It feels like three words: dirty, messy, and poor.
This was originally a description of the railway station environment in China more than ten years ago, and now it is almost a historical word. But after entering India, she saw it all the way, and she realized that this concept was actually the most suitable for them.
Even in big cities like New Delhi and Mumbai, slums are everywhere and on an astonishing scale, and people can be seen defecating on the streets from time to time, after all, this is a country with so poor infrastructure that even toilets are rare.
Moreover, India appears to be a unified democratic republic, but in fact it is no different from the feudal dynasties of ancient China.
The king is divided, and it was like this during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the center was the Zhou Dynasty, and the various princes who were divided into feudal areas established their own vassal states. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the central government was strong, and the vassal states respected the king, but in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the royal family declined, and everyone did not bird the central government to set up their own doors
Every state in India today, equivalent to a province of China, can be regarded as a vassal state in the Spring and Autumn period, and the central government of India is equivalent to the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty at that time. Each state has very great privileges in the legislation and the judiciary, especially in taxation. If you are transporting goods from a large city, such as Mumbai, to neighboring Gujarat, you have to pay taxes not only to the other state, but also to the cities through which the other state passes! In India, the tax paid to the central government is called DUTY, and tax specifically refers to the taxes of various states and cities.
Imagine that this is equivalent to you delivering goods from the imperial capital to Binhai, and you have to pay taxes to Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Binhai along the way! This makes it very difficult to do logistics in India.
Another big problem is that "books are the same text, cars are on the same track", and standards such as weights and measures must be unified, which is common knowledge during the Qin Dynasty in China. Unfortunately, there is no such concept in India today.
The official language of India is Hindi, but it is not spoken by nearly half of the country's population!
Because there are twenty to thirty states in India, each of which has its own official language. This is not a Chinese dialect, but a completely different language in terms of writing and grammar! Today, Indian banknotes are printed in 23 major languages to indicate denominations. And that's not even counting the N different languages spoken in each state, but when added up, there are more than 300 languages spoken in all of India.
What kind of problems can the language barrier cause?
The first is that the eradication of illiteracy is very difficult. You are finally able to write in your own language, but you are still blind and illiterate in the next state! This has created many obstacles for Indians to move within their own country. Some people don't even leave their villages for the rest of their lives, because the language he speaks is different from the one around them!
When it comes to eliminating illiteracy, according to India's official standards, if you can write your own name and basic sentences, you are not considered illiterate! However, after some people learn to write their names, because they have never had the opportunity to write, and after a few days they forget it, so India's rate of eliminating illiteracy should be counted as a regression rate! This means that this person has changed from non-illiterate to illiterate again, isn't it strange?
Then there is the vicious problem, that is, the cultural monopoly! You may ask, why can't the state promote the Indian language, just as China popularized Mandarin?
No, in order to maintain their cultural "independence", many states refuse to teach Hindi, and don't forget that each state is legislatively independent. Chennai and Hyderabad speak only Tamil and do not speak Hindi. It's a lot like Quebec in Canada, which doesn't teach English in order to maintain its position in French.
As a result, the language that binds all Indians together is English, not the Hindi language, which is a very sad part of India.
Why is such a huge country like this?
Because India was not a complete country when it became independent from the British! Note that the whole of India was a cultural concept, not an administrative one. When the British were there, they destroyed the indigenous kingdoms, co-opted the local Tusi, and simply kneaded together hundreds of small countries and princely states that had nothing to do with each other, which led to the later India.
(PS: India is a magical country, in every way, hehe...... )
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