Rebirth of India: Superior

India’s county level is composed of government staff headed by the county magistrate, who belong to the administrative category; there is no court at the county level, but there are judicial officials sent down from the province; the county has 5 elected members and 2 appointed members in proportion to the population. The effectiveness of the law is reduced as the administrative unit is reduced. In the basic administrative unit of the village, the villagers only know customary law. The operation of a county is that the county magistrate has administrative power on the surface, but behind it are the power games of the chief noble landlords. In Mr. Sanyi’s village, except for civil servants appointed by the province, other ordinary civil servants need to be recognized by the local nobles after obtaining basic qualifications before they can take office. If they offend them, they will be resigned immediately.

Feeling that this topic was a bit sensitive, Shakru changed the topic and said, "Mr. Vias, looking at your tea garden, the harvest this year should be good."

Sang Yi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, this year's harvest is very good, and because our Assam black tea is becoming more and more famous, more and more people come to buy it, so I am very satisfied with this year's income. I even gave these farmers under my command 30% more food."

Since 80% of the land in the village belongs to Mr. Sanyi, those farmers without land work under him. They have to hand over all their harvests to Sanyi, and then Sanyi will give them food according to their performance this year and the number of people in their family, but there is only food, no money, so if they want to make some money, they have to ask for leave from the landlord during the slack season and borrow travel expenses so that they can go to the city to work.

Although Shakru did not think this was a very kind act, he still said against his will: "Mr. Vias, you are such a kind person!" Although it was not convenient for Sanyi to admit this directly, seeing his beard curled up with joy was enough to show his happiness, and the butler beside him took the opportunity to flatter him: "That's right, our Master Vias is a well-known philanthropist. Not only does he give a lot of food to his farmers every year, but he also gives them travel expenses to work outside without borrowing money. Many escaped slaves nearby want to seek refuge with the master. , but due to the rules and face, the master didn't dare to accept it. "

The few people chatted for a while, and felt that it was almost noon, so they set out to go back. But on the way back, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes with a bell hanging around his neck suddenly jumped out of the bushes on the side of the road, ran towards Shakru's team, and shouted: "Respected Master Vias, thank you for saving our family, please accept my respect and gratitude, let me kiss your boots!" As he said, he rushed over and wanted to kneel beside Sanyi to kiss his boots. (In the countryside, untouchables must carry bells with them so that others can know of their arrival and avoid them in advance.)

The housekeeper, who had been smiling and seemed very kind, suddenly rushed over with a ferocious face, tearing at the middle-aged clingy man, and shouted angrily: "You Dalit, get out of here quickly. How can you, an untouchable, touch such a noble person as Master Vyas?" Then he shouted to the male servant beside him: "Are you all wooden? Hurry up and drive this guy away!"

The housekeeper's behavior reminded Shakru of an Indian proverb "It is better to offend the master than the housekeeper." This is roughly the same as the Chinese saying "It is easy to see the King of Hell, but it is difficult to deal with the little devils." In front of the master, the status of these servants is not even as good as a pet dog, but compared with other farmers in the village, their jobs are still very enviable. They have a fixed income every month, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing. They can pretend to be powerful outside and fan the flames in front of the master, so many times these people are also the backbone of maintaining the hierarchy.

In the end, the middle-aged man failed to kiss Mr. Cheng Wei Yas's boots, but even so, after returning home, Sanyi still burned the boots that the man had touched, and washed his feet with milk and salt, because in Hinduism, milk is holy and salt can drive away evil spirits.

It can be seen from this that, except for low-caste gangsters, high-castes will not bully the untouchables, because in their view, any contact with the untouchables is unclean, so no one will bully them casually, and of course, no one will help them, unless at certain times they may do something good for the untouchables in order to win votes.

So Shakru asked Sanyi curiously: "Mr. Vias, the Dalit just said that you saved their whole family, what's going on?" Sanyi sighed and said: "A few months ago, a large-scale malaria outbreak occurred here, and it spread very quickly. I was worried that my farmers would get sick or die, so I spent money to buy a batch of penicillin and quinine and distributed them to all the farmers. By the way, I also distributed some to the untouchables to prevent them from infecting my farmers. I didn't expect that I would be entangled by them because of this incident. It's really unlucky."

Although India is the world's largest producer of generic drugs (India does not recognize drug patents, once expensive drugs from Western countries are launched, Indian pharmaceutical companies can openly copy similar products. These generic drugs are cheap, and the efficacy is almost the same as "genuine drugs". They are not only widely used in India, but more and more foreign patients go to India to buy drugs.), but the cheap price is for foreigners, especially Europeans and Americans. For the lower-class people in India, they still cannot afford drugs. Moreover, although India claims to have free medical care, the medical facilities of public hospitals are extremely backward. In rural areas, the situation is even worse. Not only are the medical skills of doctors not good, but the most important thing is that drugs are in short supply, so this so-called free is actually not of much use. (This is similar to the situation in North Korea)

However, Shakru was still a little puzzled: "Mr. Vias, when encountering such a large-scale infectious disease, shouldn't the government come forward to purchase drugs for treatment? How can you pay for it all?"

Sanyi snorted coldly: "Government? Can you still count on them for this? It is true that there is disaster relief money, but in fact, the money I get is not enough to buy medicine. I have to pay a lot myself, otherwise, how can those untouchables be so grateful to me."

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