Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Overloading of transportation vehicles is a common situation all over the world, but overloading is a relatively rare situation like in India.

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

"This is already considered a small number. One of my comrades in arms, a Gurkha U., told me that the car in northern India can accommodate three times the number of people here." Fan Meng whispered in French that the driver could not understand. Liang En and the others said.

Liang En believed this because he had seen on TV the Indian trains with people hanging outside the carriages and piles of people on the roofs, and the iron sheets of the carriages could not be seen.

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

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

"Apart from the fact that they have more metal, the living conditions are worse than those of the poor people in my hometown." Jeanne sighed as she looked at the terrible situation around her. She really didn't expect that there would still be people living there after hundreds of years. So bad.

If it is a situation where everyone lives in a very bad situation, such as in tribal areas in Africa, you may not think anything of it, but the mansions of several rich people not far from these slums produce a magical realism style of painting.

"There's no way this is Mumbai, the most prosperous city in India." Liang En explained quietly while looking out the window. "There are more than 10 million people in the entire urban area, and there are three to four 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 with no water supply, no electricity, and almost no social and 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 city and land becomes 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 market. People, vehicles and various animals are all crowded together. What's worse is that there are no traffic police to divert traffic at all.

The main reason for this situation is that Indians in this place do not obey traffic rules very much. When driving, I change lanes when I want to, and when someone behind me honks my horn, I change lanes.

Fortunately, there was a vehicle with heavily armed policemen in front of the convoy that Liang En and the others were in, so they were finally able to open a passage through the crowd and let everyone 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 were said to be rooms, they were actually not even shacks. Many of them were just a few wooden sticks supporting the roof of a straw shed, with the walls attached. nothing.

Those with slightly better conditions would build a house out of iron sheets, but other than using more metal, their lives were not much different from those of the poor in Joan of Arc's time, as if time had stopped completely.

Obviously, this kind of simple house cannot provide much shelter at all. The only news worth celebrating is that the temperature in Mumbai is relatively high. Even the lowest temperature in the coldest month of January is 17 or 18 degrees Celsius, so people can live in the thatched shed.

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

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

Moreover, the clothes of the pedestrians I saw were also much neater - Indians have a very strong sense of class, so poor people generally rarely come to this area. Of course, the policemen holding 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's class is all white-collar workers or rich people, and you can also see a few Western tourists.

This large area of ​​​​South City is the most beautiful place in Mumbai, with very beautiful beaches, continuous boulevards, and magnificent buildings from the British rule everywhere - Bombay University, Bombay Railway Station, and the Revenue Office and Courts.

Therefore, it is completely understandable that some Indians miss the British colonial era now. After all, compared with the construction done by the British back then, Indian officials can now say that they have made a mess.

As far as Liang En knows, the reason why Indian trains are so slow is because most of their railway systems were built during the British colonial era, but those systems have been in operation for more than a century and are difficult to handle modern busy railway transportation.

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

To be honest, although India gave people a very bad feeling before, this hotel is no less than the top hotels in most countries. 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 very simple. During the British colonial period, Jamsetji Tata and his British friends went to have tea at Watson's Hotel near the Taj Mahal Hotel, but because they were from India People were kicked out.

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

Jamshedji Tata here is the largest conglomerate in India today and the founder of the Tata Consortium, the oldest consortium in India. However, he is not the dominant ethnic group in India, but a Parsi. This is a group of followers living in India who believe in the prophet Zoroastrian (also known as Zoroastrianism).

Parsi means "Persian". They are descendants of the Zoroastrians who immigrated to India from Persia to escape Muslim persecution.

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 Karaj, Pakistan.

Naturally, the Indian reception staff were responsible for handling the formalities. Liang En and the others took this opportunity to take a look. The interior of the hotel is magnificent, with art everywhere, the arcades are elegant, and the central staircase has the solemn style of the late 19th century.

Soon, all the procedures 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 too tiring. No matter how strong everyone's physical strength is, they can't help but feel a sense of fatigue coming into their hearts at this time, and just want to find a place to take a good rest.