The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 331 From Dancing Girl to General ([-])

A hot summer day in a remote mountainous countryside.

Above a low wooden house made of palm wood, the rainwater after the first shower fell to the ground along the wooden slats of the roof.

On a row of mango trees planted around the house, many young fruits were knocked down by the heavy rain just now.

Two boys with their tanned upper bodies exposed and wearing only a pair of patterned shorts were sitting on the promenade outside their house, swinging their two slender legs at will.

These two boys would turn their heads back from time to time to look at the wooden house behind them.

"I heard from my father that my mother may bring us a new younger brother this time. I hope it will be a younger sister this time."

The taller boy held his chin, staring intently at the rain-washed mango leaves in front of him.

The boy beside him shook his head as a few drops of rain from the cracks in the eaves fell on his neck.

He looked up at the clear blue sky and white clouds above, and said aloud, "Don't be stupid, if Grandma brings a younger sister this time, will our family still be able to live?"

"Girls can do so little work for the family, and they spend so much money when they get married. After spending our money and becoming someone else's family, I don't want a sister."

Although he is a little shorter than the younger brother beside him, he is the elder brother and the eldest son in the family.

After hearing what his brother said, the tall boy also thought of something bad.

He was silent for a while and said, "A few days ago, Hanli from next door went to Shmir with the adults to dig some diamonds for the British Company. Before he left, he told me that he had a younger sister at home who was waiting for him to earn some money. When I got the money back, I persuaded his father to marry his sister to me because he believed that I would not abuse his sister."

My brother didn't take it to heart what his younger brother said.

Because he knew that those who went to the Shimir area to mine, many times they disappeared after digging, and those people would never come back.

But I heard that the Great Britain Company is very, very rich, so if any family member has an accident and cannot come back, that family can get a large subsidy.

Hanli's family probably sent him there just for this subsidy.

But he didn't want to tell his brother about these things.

Because he didn't know whether he would be sent to Shimir to mine by his father someday.

Seeing that the elder brother stopped talking, when the younger brother didn't know what he said wrong, he wanted to say something else, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

The two boys stood up when they heard the voice, and saw a tall middle-aged man walking out of the house with a fat woman who was conservatively dressed and covered her face with a thick veil.

"Abba, how is Aunt? Is the Snow Mountain Goddess sending us a younger brother or a younger sister?"

The tall boy ran towards the middle-aged man and asked impatiently.

It's just that his eyesight is not strong enough, he didn't see his father's face is very gloomy at this time.

The latter pushed his son away impatiently and said, "Your mother gave birth to a younger sister this time, don't bother me with these things anymore, go to the side. I'm going to see the midwife now, what do you two want?" Find a way to get some food for your grandma."

Knowing that his mother gave birth to a younger sister this time, the very happy boy did not care about his father's rude attitude.

He turned around and pulled his elder brother, and the two went barefoot to the kitchen to find food for grandma.

At this time, in a seaport city hundreds of miles away from the countryside, a warship that looked like a giant iron monster in the eyes of the locals was docking neatly on the shore.

The officers who came down from the warship were all wearing army green suits and white gloves on their hands.

When groups of soldiers armed with muskets escorted the officers to their station here, many passers-by in tattered clothes avoided them and knelt down to worship them.

When some officers saw this, there was a trace of contempt in their eyes.

This is truly an uncivilized barbarian land.

These people obviously helped the British company come here to open up raw material production areas and plunder various resources, but these stupid locals treat them as the most honorable people, and they don't know what resistance is at all.

But this is better, the resources on this land are fairly rich.

In addition to the diamond mine to the north, gold and silver mines have also been discovered near other surrounding towns.

Mining ore requires a lot of hard work. Their own soldiers can never do such a thing. Making good use of these locals would be the wisest choice.

After more people saluted along the way, the officers who had just arrived here didn't care much about the locals.

After they came to their base camp, they met with the people who were originally stationed here by the Great Britain Company.

After confirming that this land contained huge benefits, the new officers couldn't help but cheer.

Since the opening of the new sea route, several neighboring countries have already made a lot of money in overseas colonies, and the new nobles of their own countries have also taken advantage of the momentum and made a lot of money. Now, the opportunity to make a fortune is finally their turn. in hand!
If you want to make money here, the most profitable and convenient way is to mine.

At first, the people of the British company who had just arrived in this country could not speak the language of the natives who only spoke Hindi, but they succeeded in recruiting some people who could speak their own language here.

Using these people, they managed to strike a deal with the ruler of the country.

Here they can sell their own cloth, tobacco, etc., and in return they will be paid accordingly.

But as the days went by, as their hands got longer and longer, they swallowed up large tracts of land here with cheap purchases, and started mining minerals on a large scale, those rulers couldn't sit still with jealousy.

For these restless people, the way of the British company is to invite the other party to eat.

After all, the longer they stay here, the more natives they can use.

Killing a group of disobedient people and helping a group of obedient people go up is a sure-fire deal.

Now this batch of warships came at the right time, and they can continue to expand their territory.

In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.

During these ten years, the British Company squeezed hundreds of billions of wealth out of this colony.

While they were so rich, they also became the real rulers of this land.

Factories emitting black smoke kept popping up on this land like mushrooms after a rain.

The once clean and clear river has become increasingly polluted, and the air is often filled with foul smells.

On the ground, the backs of the poor wandering and begging became even more rickety.

They used to live at the bottom of the society, as long as they worked hard enough, they could still have a meal.

But now, even if they beg for three to five days, they may not be able to get a bite of food.

Countless poor people were getting thinner and dying, but fat blood lice grew out of their piled corpses.

These terrifying monsters greedily devoured the huge wealth obtained from the flesh and blood of the aborigines, and continued to expand and grow until they grew into a colossus.

(End of this chapter)