Chapter 10
After all the old traditions and most of the adult animals were dead, Ming replaced the Top Animalists leaders with young animals. There were no adult animals alive, except for Ming, Ping Pong and Ping Pong's three other gang members. Nobody dared to go to Linga Farm, for it was a violent place. One day Ming had a thought, "Ping we don't have any trading partners. We need better materials, but Animal Farm refuses to trade with us!" said Ming. "I thought we did have trading partners." said Ping Pong. "No fool, the other Animalists farms refuse to go near the farm. So I'm going to have to turn to my last resort, the Infidels!" said Ming. "Not the Infidels!" said Ming, she squealed and fainted.
The next day a pig came to the farm. He was in charge of a farm called, "The Untied Infidels of Farms". His name was Ritchie. He passed a few baby animals going up to the house. Some of them gasped and remembered that one of the dummies looked like him. "Doesn't that look like one of the dummies?" asked a calf. "Oh my it's the leader of the Infidels, what is he doing here?" asked a piglet. "I say we kill him!" said a puppy. But before they could attack him, Ming came onto the porch and welcomed him into the house. The baby animals decided to spy on them. They looked through the window. "Ritchie I need to trade with you, you see no other Animalist farms will trade with us, because they're scared too come here." said Ming.
"But we're Infidels and you're an Animalist, it doesn't make any sense." said Ritchie. "I know this one joke. On Linga Farm, a teacher asks the young animals, "Whose your daddy?" all the young animals yell, "Comrade Ming!". Then she asks, "Whose your mother?" they answer, "Linga Farm!" then she asks, "So what does that make you want to be?" they say, "An orphan!"." Ming started laughing, while Ritchie, faking his laugh, took it as a bad joke. The baby animals looked at each other. They couldn't believe that their beloved leader was making jokes about "The Abolishment of Old Traditions." "See I can laugh at myself after all. I think I made Napoleon proud." said Ming. "Didn't Napoleon kill a bunch of his own animals?" said Ritchie. Ming waved his front foot like he didn't care at all and then stood up on his hide legs, which surprised the baby animals and Ritchie.
"Napoleon was a true Animalist, heck I am too. He made Animal Farm an industrial farm. Therefore Old Major should be kissing Napoleon's feet!" said Ming. Then a kitten whispered to a puppy, "I thought Old Major and Napoleon were the good guys." "They are I think," said the puppy. "It's too bad that Old Major was a fool and Napoleon didn't spread Animalism enough. But I did. I'm not a fool like them," Ming said. Now the poor baby animals were confused by this statement. "I don't understand, since when is killing your own animals a good thing, it's evil." said Ritchie. "Ritchie my friend, Animalism has noting to do with morals, it says everyone is equal, but really, what by your definition is equality?" asked Ming.
"What about happiness, love and freedom?" asked Ritchie. "They don't mean that kind of equal, they just mean that everyone is the same. Those stupid children don't understand that I don't care about them. I originally wanted to get rid of the Top Animalists, but "The Abolishment of Old Traditions" got completely out of control. A lot of their parents went against me and my beliefs, so they had to pay. Now they don't have anyone to tuck in bed. All they have is me, their god and new father." said Ming. "Ok let's change the subject, let's talk about those trading plans." said Ritchie all saddened. "Ok Comrade Ritchie." said Ming. The baby animals snuck away from the house and started crying their eyes out. They felt betrayed by Ming, not only because he was trading with the Infidels. He had lied to them, manipulated them, and destroyed their innocence completely.
"We have to tell someone about Ming!" said a kitten. So the group of baby animals spread rumors about Ming's evilness, they were laughed at by a lot of the other baby and young animals. Eventually the rumors got back to Ming. The baby animals who spied on Ming were sent to the slaughterhouse, but some of them were lucky to escape.