Chapter 80 Ballots

"Oh, that's it, so you're really not going to take it?" Shakru continued.

Tasim hesitated for a moment before saying: "You can't take it in this proportion, this is our family's treasure, why give the big head to others, all I am holding them now, when they can't bear it, they will naturally come to me." Then he changed the subject: "Now it seems that you kid is still the most thief, you kid took a bunch of things and ran away, and it is a golden chain with no symbols, even if the government wants to beat your idea, there is no excuse." Hey, if I knew that I would follow your example, I would have deposited some of the treasures in the bank vault first. ”

Shakru comforted: "My gold chains are the most worthless things in the treasure, and when the government returns the treasure to you after a while, your harvest will be at least hundreds of times that of mine, and then I will envy you!" ”

While Shakru and Tasim were discussing the treasure, there was also a meeting within the Kerala government to discuss the issue.

The Minister of Finance first said: "Governor, the matter of the Padmanaba Swami Temple cannot be delayed any longer, and now we have invested too much money in this temple, and if it continues like this, it will definitely affect the flow of funds for other projects." (The strange official position of the state governor is not made up by me, the heads of the 27 states of India are called state governors, if you don't believe it, you can Baidu the "Indian states")

"What can a temple have to spend its money? You in the Treasury just like to be alarmist. The Minister of Agriculture on one side said in disbelief.

The Minister of Finance defended: "How much money can it cost? You know, almost three million rupees have been spent on security now, and if it continues like this, it will be barely enough to make a budget of 100 million rupees, don't believe me, ask the police department, the situation there is serious right now. ”

The police minister on the opposite side nodded and said: "The Ministry of Finance is indeed not alarmist, because the value of this treasure is too high and the attention is too great, it has attracted a lot of jewelry thieves, and it is said that several top experts have also become interested here." As a result, our Police Department has mobilized a large number of people to take care of security.

First of all, there are 50 plainclothes police officers stationed in the temple at all times, and everyone must provide proof of Hindu before entering, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter; Second, I also arranged for fifty police officers to be stationed outside the temple; Thirdly, there is an indefinite number of temporary guards. Finally, ten metal detectors and monitoring probes were installed at key points of the temple. ”

The head of the state who sat in the first place nodded and said, "Well, although the cost of this arrangement is a little bigger, it is still relatively tight, but is the number of monitoring probes installed a little too small?" ”

The Minister of Police said with a bitter face: "Of course it is too little, such a large temple, it is not enough to rely on only ten monitors, but those believers outside the temple are too difficult to speak, even these ten, we have worked hard to win them, and they will not be allowed to install more." ”

The Minister of Finance also cooperated: "Yes, in fact, the biggest problem now is with these believers, neither let us install modern monitoring equipment, nor let us transport the treasure away, we must leave everything in the temple, but in this way, the safety of the treasure cannot be guaranteed, and secondly, we are not busy in vain." ”

"The biggest problem should be the Varmar family, if they are willing to cooperate with us, then we can now convert the treasure into cash." The Minister of Agriculture does not seem to have a good relationship with the Minister of Finance and still disagrees with him.

The Minister of the Interior, who had not spoken, shook his head and said: "Actually, the biggest problem is still with the believers, if they don't embarrass us, then even without the cooperation of the Varma family, we can sell this batch of treasures." But Tasim's announcement was really unexpected, and no collector dared to buy it when he made such a statement. ”

"Chief, why don't we take a step back? Give that Varmar family a little more? The Minister of Finance said tentatively.

"How can that work? The temple is obviously in our hands, why should it be given to the Varmar family? ”

"Can you do it without distinction? Without his dissolution statement, these treasures can't be sold at a high price, and Varma is not a soft persimmon, is there still little pressure on us from public opinion these days? And if there is no happy outcome in this matter, then what will happen to our votes when the next election comes? ”

The word "ballot" seemed to hit the soft underbelly of the state governor in an instant, and at this time he suddenly thought that although the Varma family did not have much energy in the state government, they were after all an old family that had been operating in Kerala for many years, and they were inextricably linked with those rural nobles. (Although India claims to be democratic, because many people at the bottom are not well educated, the votes in the villages are generally cast by landlords like Mr. Wen Sanyi, so if you offend these people, you don't have to count on the votes in their hands.) )

So after thinking hard for a long time, the governor gritted his teeth and said to the Minister of Finance: "You go to this Tasim to have a good talk, we can make concessions on the above, but at most we can only let 50 percent, talk a few more times when talking, don't expose the hole cards at one time, and strive to keep a little more." ”

During the protracted tug-of-war negotiations between Tasim and the finance minister, the bulletproof car ordered by Shakru finally arrived, in fact, it was still Shakru who took advantage of the factor that Mercedes-Benz wanted to open up the Indian market, otherwise it would not have been possible to mention the car so soon.

This time Shakru ordered the latest Mercedes-Benz 500SE of the Mercedes-Benz bulletproof series, and today's bulletproof cars have not only relied on blindly thickening steel plates to solve the problem, 500SE is full of Kavler bulletproof soft cloth, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene puncture-resistant fiber Spectra, impact-resistant alloy deck, high-hardness multi-layer glass and other top scientific and technological materials, so that its own bulletproof ability has reached the highest B4 protection level in Europe at that time. From fuel tanks to bulletproof tires to evacuation systems, M80Ball pistols, AK-47s, assault rifles, M-16 rifles and NATO 7.62 cm rifles can be taken without penetration.

But the first time Shakru's new car traveled far away was a surprise to everyone, because he was going to Princess Sakina's "palace" in the middle of the jungle.

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