Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 535
Overloading of vehicles is a common situation all over the world, but it is also a relatively rare situation that can be overloaded as exaggerated as in India.

For example, along the way, Liang En and the others saw several vehicles piled up with people and goods. The word "full" was used because the vehicles were piled with goods four to five meters high and twice as wide. There are many people sitting on top of the goods.

"That's not enough. One of my comrades-in-arms, a Gurkha U., told me that the car in northern India can accommodate three times as many people as here." Fan Meng whispered to the driver in French, which the driver could not understand. Liang En and the others said.

Liang En believed this, because he had seen Indian trains full of people hanging outside the carriages and the roof of the carriages on TV before, and the iron sheet of the carriages could not be seen.

Of course, there are not many such trains in India today, because India has now strictly banned this very unsafe way of riding in consideration of safety issues, but this practice still exists in Bangladesh, which is also in the Indian cultural circle.

Considering the cultural relics on the car, Liang En and the others had a police car to clear the way, but the speed that was only a little faster than riding a bicycle made everyone feel a little annoyed, and even began to worry about whether they could reach their destination before dark.

"Besides they have more metal, this is worse than the poor people in my hometown." Joan of Arc sighed looking at the terrible situation around her. She really didn't think that there would be people living in it hundreds of years later. so bad.

If it is the kind of situation where everyone lives in a bad situation, such as African tribal areas, you may not feel anything, but the mansions of a few local tyrants not far from these slums have produced a magical realism style of painting.

"No way, this is Mumbai, the most prosperous city in India." Liang En explained in a low voice while looking out the window. "There are more than 1000 million people in the entire urban area, and there are 400 million migrant workers who come to work."

Although the urban area of ​​Mumbai is not small, it is definitely not as big as imagined, so most of the migrant workers can only find a place for themselves in this place without water supply, electricity supply, and almost no social public services. land.

As the convoy continues to move forward, the houses of low-income people in Mumbai on both sides of the road are getting closer and closer to the edge of the road, because it is closer to the urban area and the land is becoming more and more precious.

Of course, as a result, there are more and more vehicles and people on the road.The entire road is now as congested as a bustling bazaar, people, vehicles and animals are all crowded together, what's worse, there is no traffic police to ease the traffic at all.

The main reason for this situation is that the Indians in this place do not obey the traffic rules very much.If you want to change lanes while driving, you can change lanes. If someone behind you honks your horn, you can change back. If no one presses the horn, you can change to the past. Even the distance between cars cannot fit a ping-pong ball.

Fortunately, there was a vehicle with fully armed police officers in front of the convoy where Liang En and the others were, so they finally managed to open a passage through the crowd for everyone to move forward slowly.

At this time, everyone in the car also saw more clearly the appearance of the rooms on both sides of the road. Although they are said to be rooms, they are not even shacks. nothing.

Those with slightly better conditions will build a house with iron sheets, but except for using more metal, their lives are not much different from those of the poor in Joan's time, as if time has completely stopped.

Obviously, this kind of simple house can't provide much shelter at all. The only news worth celebrating is that the temperature in Mumbai is relatively high. Even in the coldest January, the lowest temperature is 1 or [-] degrees, so the grass shed can also live in people.

Fortunately, as Liang En knows, the entire city has a huge internal gap just like India itself. For example, the wealthy areas in the east of Mumbai are really no worse than those prosperous areas in European and American cities.

For Liang En and the others, who had spent an hour entering the rich area, it really felt like they had entered heaven from hell. Although there were still a lot of people, at least there were not so many, and they were not as crowded as the canned sardines before.

And the clothes of the pedestrians I saw are also quite neat - Indians have a very strong sense of hierarchy, so those poor people generally seldom come here. Of course, the policemen with bamboo sticks at various intersections also played an important role.

The people walking on the streets in this area are basically Indians working nearby. Today, the class is full of white-collar workers or rich people, and there are also a few Western tourists.

This large southern part of the city is the most beautiful place in Mumbai, with very beautiful beaches, continuous boulevards, and magnificent buildings from the era of British rule everywhere - Mumbai University, Mumbai Railway Station, as well as the tax office and courts.
Therefore, it is completely understandable that some Indians miss the British colonial era. After all, compared with the construction of the British back then, the Indian officials can now be said to be a mess.

As far as Liang En knows, the reason why Indian trains are so slow is that most of their railway system was built in the British colonial era, but those things have been in operation for more than a century, and it is difficult to bear the modern busy railway transportation.

The two parties first went to a museum in this area to carry out the final delivery work, and then drove to the hotel this time, which was also the Taj Mahal Hotel that President Golden Dawn had booked for them.

To be honest, although India gave people a bad feeling before, this hotel is no less than the top hotels in most countries, and it is even called the best hotel in India that symbolizes India's self-esteem and wealth.

The reason why a hotel can have such a reputation is also very simple. During the British colonial period, Jamsetji Tata and British friends went to Watson's Hotel near the Taj Mahal Hotel to drink tea, but because they were Indians, they were rejected. out.

At that time, Tata was already a very successful entrepreneur and fully entitled to be respected by people.After experiencing that incident, Tata secretly made up his mind to build one of the most luxurious hotels in India.The Taj Mahal Hotel is a boutique created by him.

Jamsetji Tata here is the largest consortium in India today and the founder of the Tata consortium, the oldest consortium in India. However, he is not the main ethnic group in India, but the Parsis.This is a group of believers who live in India and believe in Zoroastrianism (also known as Zoroastrianism), the prophet Zoroaster.

Parsi means "Persian".They are descendants of Zoroastrians who emigrated from Persia to India to escape persecution by the Muslims.

They mainly live in Mumbai and several towns and villages in the north of the city. Of course, there are also some people in Bangalore and Karaji in Pakistan.

Naturally, the reception staff from India would do the formalities, so Liang En and the others took this opportunity to take a look.The interior of the hotel is magnificent, full of works of art, the arcade is very elegant, and the central staircase has the solemn style of the end of the 19th century.

Soon, all the formalities were completed, and then Liang En and the others walked upstairs under the guidance of a waiter, preparing to go to their room to rest for a while.

After all, the road just now was really tossing, no matter how strong everyone's physical strength is, at this time, they can't help but feel a sense of exhaustion in their hearts, and they just want to find a place to take a good rest.

(End of this chapter)