Chapter 22: Entering India continued After devouring their food in the cafeteria, everyone was finally full and full, so everyone got a cup of black tea and prepared to rest for a while before setting off. yznn At this time, the LCD TV in the restaurant was playing local news, and the most sensational news content in New Delhi today is obviously the large march in the urban area with a scale of 200,000 people protesting against price increases.
From the screen, several squares in the urban area can be seen The streets and main streets were crowded with angry Indians, holding signs of various sizes to protest the soaring onion prices.
Opposition politicians from all walks of life rushed to the parade site, chanting slogans, and fanning the flames.
There were also a bunch of "famous Indian speakers" pointing fingers and making fallacies in the studio.
The scene was really lively.
Even in Ramlila Square not far from the cafeteria, a group of demonstrators who could not eat onions were waving flags and shouting slogans.
"It's too exaggerated to launch such a big movement just because of the increase in onion prices.
If it were in China, even when the prices of domestic vegetables such as beans and garlic soared, it seems that we didn't see it.
So many people should take to the streets for a walk together."
Watching the scenes on TV of passionate people, loud slogans, uproar in the city, and nationwide response, Wang Qiu complained incomprehensibly, "It's just a price increase for a vegetable.
Even if it is too expensive to eat, so what?"
Just eat something else.”
"Haha, onions are not an ordinary vegetable for Indians," Commissioner Bai Quanyi shook his head and commented, "Moreover, if an Indian is so poor that he can't even afford onions, then he basically has no hope of eating them.
It’s time to serve the food.”
According to Bai Quanyi, an "India expert", in India, the price of onions is a big issue related to the daily livelihood of India's 1.1 billion people, because onions play an extremely important role on the Indian table, and almost all Onions can be seen in Indian cuisine, and the smell of onions can be smelled in almost all staple foods.
In the words of an Indian reporter, without onions, all dishes are eclipsed and all rice is tasteless.
According to statistics, New Delhi alone consumes at least 400 tons of onions every day, and the country needs tens of thousands of tons every day.
Onions are one of the cheapest vegetables in the Indian market.
If you walk into any vegetable market in India, you will find that onions, potatoes, and tomatoes are always the most sold, because these are the three main vegetables in India.
The cheapest "street food".
If someone in India can't even afford onions, it means that he can hardly eat vegetables.
In this way, onions, which are essential on the daily table of ordinary Indians, have evolved into a typical "political Vegetables" is a very sensitive political issue in India.
Every significant increase in onion prices triggers mass demonstrations in the streets and even changes in political parties.
The current skyrocketing price of onions cannot be blamed on God.
Rather, it is largely due to the government's failure to do its job, and the opposition parties are naturally holding on to it.
"Speaking of which, the current Indian government is also trying to kill itself.
It is probably to achieve some political achievements on the one hand, and to accept bribes from public relations personnel on the other hand.
It actually ordered a large number of police stations all over India without any on-the-spot investigation.
The state promoted the planting of Monsanto's genetically modified onions and other genetically modified vegetables, which are said to increase production and resist pests and diseases.
They even called it the Vegetable Revolution, but it turned out to be Revolutionary."
Bai Quanyi shrugged his shoulders and mocked the emperor and said, "Just like Russian tanks squatting in the Indian desert, the genetically modified onions of the American company are not suitable for the high temperature and rainy climate of the Indian subcontinent at all, and soon large tracts of them appeared.
No harvest.
After the incident, the Indian central government was busy shirking responsibility from each other, and had no idea how to deal with the aftermath.
After such procrastination, hundreds of bankrupt farmers committed suicide by drinking pesticides in the countryside, and in the city Onion prices have skyrocketed and demand exceeds supply.
Coupled with the hoarding of some unscrupulous traders, onions are now more expensive than mangoes.
The recent price seems to be 90 rupees per kilogram."
After hearing this, Wang Qiu lowered his head and counted with his fingers.
According to the exchange rate, one rupee is equivalent to about one dime of RMB.
Ninety rupees per kilogram of onions is equivalent to four yuan and five cents per catty.
It is indeed a bit expensive, but as for Are we going to gather people and take to the streets for a collective walk just because of this?
If the Chinese do the same thing, it is estimated that around the Spring Festival every year, a bunch of grocery shopping ladies will besiege the local government compound.
Anyway, from a Chinese perspective, it’s really hard to understand.
It seems that it can only be understood as an Indian characteristic.
"Well, you can't compare the income level in China with that in India.
For example, I know a police station chief in New Delhi whose monthly salary is only 30,000 rupees.
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In China, he works in a sweatshop and works on the assembly line to make mobile phones.
I guess You can get so much, but it’s already counted in India They are middle class.
And the young driver who drove us just now, the monthly salary given to him by the embassy is 9,000 rupees, which is 900 yuan.
I am afraid that in China, even a black driver without a license can be hired.
But here it is already a good job that everyone envies.
In India, those businessmen who want to obtain approval documents, even if they bribe ministerial-level officials of the central government, the average price is only 800,000 rupees.
If the money is placed in any department in Beijing, they may not be able to get it at all.
A few days ago, someone wrote in a newspaper about the richest man in a certain county in India.
His family’s annual income was only two million rupees, and he was already boasted by journalists as if he lived in a palace.
A tour guide at a tourist attraction in Delhi, the capital, did not count.
With tips, the average basic salary is four thousand rupees per month.
An ordinary chef in a roadside restaurant can probably be hired with a monthly salary of 2,500 rupees.
The servants who wash clothes and wipe dishes are the worst off, because they have no skills and their monthly salary is only a few hundred rupees."
Bai Quanyi said eloquently, "Think about it, with this level of income, how can they afford onions worth 90 rupees per kilogram?"
"Uh, why do I suddenly feel like the overseas Chinese in the United States looked at their mainland compatriots in the 1980s?"
Levi, who was sitting aside, interjected.
"This is indeed the feeling.
According to statistics, there are about 800 million people in India whose monthly salary is less than 3,000 rupees."
"In other words, the monthly income of most Indians is less than 300 yuan, so they are really poor."
Wang Qiu shook his head and sighed, then glanced at the dazzling array of dishes on the long table next to him, "So, how much does our buffet cost?"
"One thousand two hundred rupees per person is a relatively affordable price," health specialist Bai Quanyi said flatly.
At this moment, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel that "the wine and meat in the rich family stinks, and the roads are frozen to death"
It seems that any ordinary Chinese tourist who arrives in India will probably have the illusion of becoming a rich man instantly.
However, in the final analysis, this is all the Indians' own business.
None of the people present here are the Virgin Mary with excessive compassion, and facing the threat of the zombie apocalypse, they simply can't care about such trivial matters.
However, just as they were about to check out and leave.
At that time, I was attracted by the new TV picture.
On the TV screen, an interview with the demonstrators in Ramlila Square appeared: An unknown person had hastily built a wooden platform under the landmark Delhi Gate, and a trembling old man stood on it, holding a An onion model made of foam plastic was preaching something into the microphone.
Every time he spoke a few words, there was a burst of applause and cheers from below.
There was also a beautiful woman in a sari holding his arm.
"Isn't this Mr.
Ayu and his daughter-in-law?
They seem to be in the square next to us."
Looking at the energetic look of the old man on TV, Wang Qiu couldn't help but smack his tongue and said, "Hey, this old man has only been back to India for a few days and he's already leading a political rally.
He's really in danger.
Don't go to the embassy now.
We'll go directly there."
Find them in the square next door.”
After a hard time of crowding, Wang Qiu and the others finally found the old man with the same name as King Asoka of the ancient Indian Mauryan Dynasty in Ramlila Square before they were burned by the scorching sun and suffered from heatstroke.
Supporting his daughter-in-law Karina on the podium.
The other party obviously also recognized Wang Qiu and others who had just been separated for a few days, and followed them to the Chinese Embassy in a very cooperative manner, and each underwent a comprehensive physical examination.
Then, the results of the examination gave Wang Qiu and the others mixed joy and sorrow.
They found that Mr.
Ayu and his daughter-in-law were both healthy and showed no signs of being infected with the T-virus.
There was no need to worry about a zombie craze in the Indian capital for the time being.
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What is worrying is that his son Chandra, who accompanied Mr.
Ayush Shukla for medical treatment at that time, is not in Delhi now, but has returned to his hometown in Bihar to handle some important investment and business matters.
In this way, because they still need to keep the Indians secret and cannot tell the truth about the possible spread of the T-virus, Wang Qiu and the others cannot let Mr.
Ayu forcefully call his son from more than a thousand kilometers away for no reason.
I can only rush over to find someone and get tested.
For this reason, the question of how to get to the destination in Bihar as quickly as possible was assigned to the head of Baiquanyi Health Commissioner After making several phone calls with a frown, Bai Quanyi said: Wang Qiu and the others were in such a hurry that they were leaving today.
It was impossible to book train tickets for a while.
As for domestic flights in India, Not to mention the tickets.
Fortunately, he managed to find a domestic tour group departing from New Delhi for Bihar this afternoon.
If he said a few nice things, he could ride on their tour bus.
However, the nature of this tour group seems to be somewhat special.
"Are there any Buddhist holy sites over there for the Buddhist pilgrimage tour group?"
Wang Qiu blinked in surprise, seemingly thoughtful.
"Don't you know that Bihar in India is the earliest birthplace of Buddhism?
The Bodhi tree where Buddha Sakyamuni attained enlightenment grew right where you are going."
Bai Quanyi handed him a tourist flyer. , while explaining. oshow7: