Explain the significance of the Rat Hunt.
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✨ In order to check the menace, is the French authority started the right hand scheme in 1902 .
✨the French hired Vietnamese worker and paid them for each day caught.
✨ As many as 20,000 actual cost in a single day .
✨ Rat hunting become a profitable business for the natives . ultimate is a French were forced to stop the program .
✨ It did not prevent the bubonic plague which Swept through the area in 1903 and its subsequent years.
✨ The rat menace marked the limits of French power and restricted their civilising mission
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1. the city Hanoi was reconstructed with new sewer systems and technology.
2.this sewer system ultimately became the breeding grounds for rats.
3. by this , there was rise of the deadly bubonic plague caused by the rats in the cities.
4. this was a modern city and so the colonizers wanted it to be plague free.
5. they hired the Vietnamese to kill the rats and they were to be paid for it.
6. this was the chance for the Vietnamese to earn money.
7. they had to kill the rats and clip their tails as a proof and show it to the colonizers.
8. slowly the rats started to dissapear and the Vietnamese started to fear that their income would now come to an end.
9. now they started to clip the tails and set the rats free.
10. some even started growing rats to earn money.
11. there was no effect on the reduction of the bubonic plague.
12. the colonizers slowly started knowing the fact.
13. they immediately stopped the bounty programme.
14. the city had no improvements and further suffered the plague that continued.
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