Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 545 Hunting
After a day of rest in this palace-like mansion, the next day they rode an elephant and walked towards the forest.This time the elephant not only brought hunting supplies, but also the digging supplies that Liang En needed.

"What are you thinking?" Looking at Liang En who was staring at the elephant thoughtfully, Joan of Arc leaned over and asked in a low voice. "I think you seemed to have something on your mind when you set off today."

"Yes, I'm indeed thinking about something." After being told by Joan, Liang En turned his head and smiled at her and said, "I'm thinking about those British colonists in the Victorian era more than 100 years ago who rode such The image of an elephant going out to hunt a tiger."

The British nobles who loved hunting more than 100 years ago did not forget to expand their "hunting territory" in the colonies. From the local fox hunting culture to the tiger hunting craze in the Indian colonies, the British showed their enthusiasm for hunting and fun to the world.

In the nearly 200 years of Indian colonial history, the British not only brought Western modern civilization to India, but also released the pleasure and blood of a powerful country.

In the backward but fresh territory, the British colonists quickly discovered the local entertainment - hunting.In the late nineteenth century, one of the most popular pastimes of the British colonists in India was hunting the country's majestic wildlife, especially the Bengal tiger.

This was originally a traditional pastime for Indians, but the British turned this activity into a mass extinction of the beasts in India.

In order to demonstrate the power of the white people and the royal power of the British aristocracy, especially the rule of India. Beginning in the 19th century, the British set off an upsurge in killing Bengal tigers.

The British came to relatively backward India to hunt tigers, and they no longer used ancient bows and spears, but powerful muskets.

At that time, hunting seemed to no longer require "heroism". There were often scenes of noble "hunters", surrounded by dozens of people, riding on the back of elephants and holding muskets, shooting tigers without any danger or excitement.

In this way of "hunting", it is not uncommon for a "hunter" to kill several tigers in one day. For example, in 1911, King George V visited India and killed 11 Bengal tigers during an 39-day hunt.

British gentlemen at that time, traveling to the ancient and mysterious colonial India, if you didn’t shoot a few tigers, it would be a shame if you couldn’t take a photo with a shotgun and a dead tiger when you returned to London. You are ashamed to say that you have been there India.

Due to the growing popularity of tiger hunting, people even set up bounties for killing tigers at one point.Local Indians are also involved in tiger hunting as a means of earning a living.

This fire of hunting tigers has lasted for a long time. Even after India's independence in 1947, amateur hunters, hunting travel agencies, full-time hunters, and even ordinary farmers and herdsmen still participated in tiger hunting activities.

毫无节制的杀虎游戏与不断高涨的虎制品热潮致使印度的孟加拉虎数量骤减。1870至1970的短短100年间，孟加拉虎的数量就由4万只减少到2000只以下。

In 1971, the Indian government finally realized the seriousness of the matter and issued a ban on the killing of tigers. At that time, Prime Minister Gandhi advocated the implementation of the "Tiger Protection Plan", designating 9 national parks as special protection areas for tigers, and later added more Got 14.

In this case, the tigers in India finally stopped the trend of continued decline, until today it has become the country with the most tigers in the world.

The proliferation of wild boars is also directly related to the lack of tigers. For animals such as wild boars, they multiply so fast in the absence of large carnivores as natural enemies that they affect the local ecology.

"Who are those people, and why did they join the team?" Seeing some Indian villagers coming into the team from all directions with wooden spears in their hands, Liang En grabbed the walkie-talkie and asked, and soon he got Mr. Varma's answer.

It turned out that these people also belonged to Mr. Varma's subordinates, and they were mobilized this time to take weapons and go to the forest to drive away the prey, including wild boars.

At this time, Liang En also learned that the area of ​​the territory mentioned by the driver sent by Varma yesterday was only the area directly under it. Besides, there are many territories of high-caste elders and landlords.

Most of these elders and landlords were retainers of the Varma family in the past. Although they no longer have a subordinate relationship, they still belong to an interest group, and they all respect the will of the Varma family.

And if you add the land owned by these scattered forces together, you will find that all the villages in the entire region except the city belong to this family. This is why the Varma family is the emperor of the land here, and they can respond to everyone.

However, the hunting process was a bit lacklustre, because the prey had been driven directly to the open field by the farmers from the zoo, and Liang En and the others only had to aim at the prey and pull the trigger of their guns.

"I feel a little bored." After knocking down five wild boars with six shots, Joan put down the rifle in her hand and showed a bored expression, because this kind of hunting did not excite her at all.

"This is the hunting method of the nobles. It is safe, but a little boring." Liang En also put down his rifle and said with a smile, "Those nobles may find this method exciting, but in our opinion, it is purely boring gone."

However, when the two of them started to think about when to eat, the situation suddenly changed. A litter of wild boars not only did not escape after being discovered, but was aroused and rushed around wildly, and several of them were rushing. to nearby farmers.

Because the bodyguards were all around the elephant to protect the safety of the owner and distinguished guests, those people couldn't react when their sight was blocked by the elephant and some surrounding obstacles.

Although Liang En and the others discovered this scene, they had already unloaded the bullets in the gun for safety reasons. At this time, it was too late to reload and shoot.

As for the pistol, they didn't bring it at all. After all, there was no need to worry about the sudden attack of the wild boar on the elephant. At this time, carrying a pistol seemed a bit cumbersome.

After realizing that the gun was unusable, Liang En immediately leaned forward and grabbed the armor-piercing javelin from a shelf on the elephant's back, then aimed at the wild boar that was about to rush into the crowd, and threw the spear in his hand vigorously. arms.

I saw the javelin draw a graceful arc in the air, and then hit the wild boar's neck, nailing the wild boar to the ground, and then those people who reacted hurriedly plunged their weapons into the wild boar's body Killed the wild boar.

"It's simply too powerful, just like those legendary warriors." When he came to the killed wild boar, Mr. Varma said in a surprised tone.

After all, after throwing a javelin nearly 20m away, being able to accurately hit the wild boar's neck and pin the wild boar to the ground is definitely not something that ordinary people can do, at least this strength has surpassed [-]% of human beings.

Therefore, Mr. Varma's admiration at this time is definitely from the heart. After all, when this kind of picture that only appears in novels and movies suddenly appears in reality, the impact on people is absolutely huge.

(End of this chapter)