chapter 6

  "I had a fight with someone, it's okay, just a minor injury." jayjam Gupta chuckled, "Master jogo, I heard that your house is going to be taken away by the bank. If If you have no place to live, come here. My words are very useful in this area."

  He is tall, more than 1.9 meters tall. Next to him, Jayjam Gupta is short, only 1.6 meters tall. He can only to Gal's chest.

  When Gal was talking, he started by gently poking Gal's waist. When Gal continued talking without noticing, he raised his foot and kicked him hard, causing Gal to stumble and almost fall down.

  "What nonsense are you talking about?" Jayjam stared at Gal, "Master jogo, he has a problem here, don't mind."

  He pointed to his head.

  Gal stood up straight and wanted to ask Jayjam why he kicked him, but at this moment he also realized that what he said just now was very inappropriate, so he smiled awkwardly aside.

  "How could Master jogo come here?" Ketu felt a little displeased when he heard Gal's words just now, "Those matters will be resolved immediately, and Master jogo will pay off the debt soon." "That's right.

  " That's right." Luke echoed, "Master Jogo came here today to see the workshop and understand the situation. Master Gupta is inconvenient to move now, and the young master will be in charge for the time being.

  " They feel relieved a lot. They are really afraid that the jogo family will go bankrupt, and they will also be greatly affected.

  KeTu and LuKe respect jogo not only because Aunt Sesi works as a servant in his house, but also because of their caste.

  Although the jogo family is the third-class Vaishya, Ketu and Luke are the fourth-class Sudra, and caste is suppressed.

  India has abolished the caste system at the legal level, but the influence of this system is ubiquitous in real life.

  It's better in the big cities, and the caste system in those backward rural areas has hardly changed and is deeply rooted.

  Ketu's family has darker complexion but not completely dark. For example, his sister Sarah is actually quite good-looking.

  Generally speaking, marriages between different castes will not be recognized, so almost all marriages of the same class.

  A high caste can marry a low caste woman, but the woman must pay a high dowry.

  It is basically impossible for a high-caste woman to marry a low-caste woman.

  In the past life, I occasionally heard that a high-caste woman eloped with a low-caste man and was eventually punished by beheading her brother. The man's sister was sentenced to rape by the village, which meant that the men in the village could go together, which was very special. cruel.

  Of course, in the previous life, this situation had changed a lot.

  For example, many male stars from the lower castes in Bollywood, even some from the Dalit caste, have married Brahmin wives. After all, it depends on whether they have money.

  For example, Mukesh Ambani, who has been India's richest man for more than ten years, is from the Vaishya class, but his wife is from a Brahmin middle-class family.

  Whether a high-caste woman can marry depends on whether the man is wealthy enough.

  After all, not all Brahmins are rich, and there are also many who are poor.

  Many things can be solved with money.

  If you really want to distinguish a person's class, you generally have to look at the industry he is engaged in and the living conditions of his family.

  In Hinduism, caste is represented by wearing the Brahma Thread, a rope worn on the wrist.

  Only Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas are eligible to wear the Brahman thread. According to caste, it is subdivided into different colors and styles. Sudras and untouchables are strictly prohibited from crossing the border.

  The red and white threads are exclusive to Brahmins, the Kshatriyas use yellow, and the Vaishyas generally use black.

  Even after Modi became Prime Minister in his previous life, he still only wore a black brahman thread on his wrist, showing his strict hierarchy.

  "Some people came to the workshop to cause trouble a few days ago, saying that the boss owed them money and interest, and that they wanted to use the machines in the workshop to pay off the debt," someone said.

  These words surprised jogo, it must be Gudalli.

  This guy really wants to destroy his family.

  Not only did he move various items from home, but he also wanted to destroy his father's foundation. Is this to prevent his family from making a comeback?

  No way to survive.

  Last night, he had a chat with Gupta Sr. about Gudali, because he was curious about what happened to make Gudali hate his family so much.

  Old Gupta kept sighing, saying that sometimes he relied too much on his old age, which made Gudali lose face.

  In fact, in front of outsiders, old Gupta often couldn't help but say, look, Gu dali was brought out by me back then, if it wasn't for me, he wouldn't have achieved what he is today.

  In fact, there was no malice in what Gupta said. From a certain perspective, it was a way of showing off and bragging, wanting people to know that he had a good eye and saw the right people.

  But it didn't sound like that to Gudalli. He felt that the elder Gupta was humiliating him.

  In his opinion, the old Gupta only lent him a few hundred rupees, and he was where he is today because of his own ability.

  It has to be said that Gudalli himself was narrow-minded, and he held a grudge for these things. When the old Gupta was in trouble, he came up and stepped on him severely.

  "Those guys were vulnerable. We took care of them and ran away. The workshop is fine." Gal shouted.

  "Your injury is..." jogo reacted immediately.

  "I just got hit, it's okay." Gal said with a smile.

  "Thank you." Jogo said after a moment of silence.

  Gudali probably asked gangs from the slums to come and cause trouble. Then Gal and Jayjam also had a group of brothers who helped protect the workshop.

  jogo was led by everyone to visit five workshops. The conditions were really poor, and the cotton produced here was basically of the lowest quality and the lowest price.

  The output that can meet the export standards is about half, which is almost just meeting the minimum export standards, and the price is not high.

  The other half that do not meet export standards can only be sold to locals, often in places like slums, not to mention the price.

  Even so, the elder Gupta has still made money over the years.

  Soon it was noon, and Rook invited jogo to his home, as well as Gal and Jayjam.

  jogo didn't refuse, just eat a little casually, he wasn't so particular now.

   Sesi is also there. They haven't been guarding jogos house these days. It's probably because the things in the house have been emptied out, and the people ordered by Gudali haven't come to the house anymore.

  "Wow, today is so rich." Ketu exclaimed repeatedly as he looked at the food brought out by Sara.

  "Don't make a fuss, the young master is here, otherwise how can you eat?" Sara rolled her eyes at her brother.

  To make rice with your hands, add curry vegetable soup and then eat it with your right hand.

  Of course, jogo's previous meals were much better than these, but he knew that Sara made this meal specifically to entertain him, otherwise the food would usually be very poor.

  The taste was mediocre, but Jogo was still very moved.

  "Uncle Sesi, the strike at the dock is getting louder and louder. When will it stop?" jogo asked about the strike, which has been reported in local newspapers and radio these days.

  "Anyway, they are going to make trouble, and we won't get involved." Uncle Sesi said, "I know there are some people with ulterior motives who want to use this to benefit themselves." jogo smiled, but Uncle Sesi could see it clear.

  The organizers of these strike marches are often related to some local political parties. For the benefit of their own parties, inciting people to cause trouble is a very important and effective method, which is generally the approach of the opposition.

  "Who knows which canal is blocked, otherwise there wouldn't be a strike." Ketu said.

  "What do you know?" Uncle Sesi glanced at him and said, "The port is very crowded. Maybe one day the port will be blocked, and someone will always take advantage of it to cause trouble." "The port is crowded?" jogo was confused

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  "Master, now the ships are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more, and the port is still so big, so..."

  Uncle Sesi didn't continue, jogo naturally understood.

  But his heart was shaken, and an idea appeared in his mind.

  "Mumbai New Port?"

  In the previous life, Mumbai Port was divided into Old Port and New Port.

  Mumbai is a peninsula, and the Old Port is the current port. It is on the southeastern coast of Mumbai and is the city center of Mumbai.

  jogo remembered that because the old port was becoming more and more crowded, and the water depth in the old port was less than ten meters, as the tonnage of ships became larger and larger, it was not conducive to the long-term development of the port.

  Therefore, the Indian government built a new port with a water depth of 12-14 meters in the suburbs more than ten kilometers across the port. It is also called Navasheva Port, which is almost 12 kilometers away from the India Gate of the Apollo Terminal.

  There are two India Gates, one in Delhi and one in Mumbai.

  In its previous life, the New Port only accommodated container ships and was the largest container port in India, while the Old Port in the central area of ​​Mumbai accommodated bulk cargo ships.

  "It seems that construction started in 1989." jogos heart was pounding.

  There are still three years to go. At this time, the government may have a plan, but may not yet have selected a specific location.

  Because in jogo's memory, he had not heard news about the new port, it is possible that planning has not been put on the agenda.

  Isn't this your opportunity?

  The construction of a new port requires a large amount of land, starting with an area of ​​several dozen hectares, with one hectare equal to 10,000 square meters.

  Before the plan is implemented, if I can enclose a piece of land there, I can get a large amount of compensation if it is expropriated.

  The area where Navasheva Port will be located in the future is actually more than ten kilometers south of the current Navi Mumbai.

  Navi Mumbai is a satellite city of Mumbai started in 1972 by the state of Maharashtra.

  Due to the increasing population of Mumbai, various types of housing, and congested traffic, satellite cities were established in the suburbs to ease the population.

  Navi Mumbai is somewhat similar to Pudong in Shanghai.

  The land in India is privately owned, so land acquisition is very difficult. There are many reports about this in previous lives. Because of the difficulty in land acquisition, some large-scale infrastructure such as high-speed and high-speed railways cannot be deployed. After several years and more than ten years, there are many cases of nothing. .

  Land acquisition is difficult. In fact, a large part of it is caused by the low land acquisition fee paid by the government.

  In India, in order to avoid taxation, the "market price" transaction amount registered for land transactions is far less than the actual transaction amount, and most of them are cash transactions without leaving any traces.

  In fact, not only land transactions, but many large-scale transactions are directly in the form of cash, which can evade taxes. Therefore, the government compensates according to the 'market price' shown in the registration. Will the land owner agree?

  It may be relatively easy to deal with farmers who own small pieces of land. Some local governments will use middlemen (social people) to use both soft and hard methods, tricks and abductions, and violent means to purchase land in a centralized manner, and then sell it to the government for unified development.

  And those big landlords who own large tracts of land are not so easy to deal with.

  India's judiciary is independent, and landowners can sue the government.

  Rich landlords can sue in court all the time, up to the Supreme Court.

  The higher the level of the court that finally appealed, the higher the damages awarded.

  Some compensation amounts can be hundreds of times higher than the 'market price' set by the government.

  As long as he can afford the attorney's fees, he will definitely not stop suing the Supreme Court.

  India's administrative efficiency is very slow, and the court's trial speed is no exception. It goes up level by level, plus various resistance movements, opposition parties and various non-governmental organizations. Year.

  Landlords are definitely not in a hurry, and the government or investors certainly cannot afford it. In the end, it is very likely that the project will be aborted, or the asking price of the landlord will be satisfied. In short, it is absolutely impossible to follow the 'market price'.

  Generally speaking, these big landowners are generally powerful people, and they are inextricably linked with the local government. The compensation they get will definitely not lose money, and they will not be punished like those poor and low-caste small landowners. People threatened to take the land.

  jogo knows the specific location of the new port. If he buys land at this time, no matter whether it is difficult or not, he can always buy a few pieces and wait for the appreciation in value.

  Due to the importance of Navasheva Port, the project is destined to be impossible to abort, so the cost of land acquisition will definitely be high.

  The current location of the new port is a rural area, in the wilderness, and the land cannot be sold at a high price.

  Starting now, jogo couldn't believe how many times the land price would increase by then.

  I get excited just thinking about it.

  But he quickly calmed down.

  Where's the money?

  I still owe the bank millions of rupees. Even if I use the 300,000 in my hand to buy land, it will take a few years for the value to increase, and it will not quench my thirst.

  And 300,000 rupees doesn't seem to buy much land.

  After all, you have to pay off the bank loan first, and then find a way to make money before you can buy the land.

  A penny stumps a heroic man.

  There are opportunities, but you have to have capital.

  "Mom, I want to eat." Suddenly, a timid voice came.

  When jogo heard the sound, he looked over and saw a skinny little girl of four or five years old. Her big eyes were staring at the food on her side.

  "Leni, mommy will make it for you later, you go and play first." Sara pulled her out.

  jogo suddenly couldn't eat anymore.

  In their own eyes, it was an average or even bad meal, but in the eyes of Leni and the others, it was a feast that they rarely eat for a while.

  Leni is the child of Sara and Luke. Qiao Ge has heard Aunt Sesi mention it before, but this is the first time he has seen her.

  The little girl looked obviously malnourished.

  Leni's eyes touched Jogo's heart very much. When he was in the orphanage in his previous life, because the food was really not good, a lollipop could attract the eyes of countless little sisters. Leni's eyes were the same as theirs desire.

  At that time, jogo was already a teenager and somewhat immune to sugar.

  "Didn't Leni go to kindergarten?" jogo asked Luke.

  There are kindergartens in India. For children aged 3-5, there are public schools and the fees are not high.

  Luke froze for a moment, and finally fell silent.

  jogo knew that he had made a mistake. Even if the cost was not high, most families like Luke and his family would save whatever they could, let alone kindergarten. There were many people who dropped out of primary school before graduating, so at this time the illiteracy rate in India was very high.

  (end of this chapter)