The Rise of Nanometers

Chapter 625 Lajia Line

The waves of the Ocean of Ceylon were turbulent, the Deccan Plateau was hot and dry, and the Ganges River was flooding.

It has had a huge impact on the land of South Asia.

As a small force in the south, Langka has been living in the cracks. Its economy has been fully penetrated by Tianzhu. It can only rely on its neighbors in the north to barely resist this penetration.

However, things have changed since 2012. Especially after the civil unrest in Tianzhu last year, Gurkha breathed a sigh of relief.

For this small force caught in the cracks, it is not yet known whether it is a blessing or a curse. It is just the wave of the times, but it is difficult to stop it.

To the north of Gorkha, with the Himalayan ridge as the dividing line, a two-way railway and highway pass through a mountain pass.

Three months ago, this super highway connecting Lhasa and Kathmandu was finally completed.

Kathmandu is the capital of Gorkha. As one of the most backward regions in the world, the economy here has been stagnant for a long time. The main industry is tourism, and the food self-sufficiency rate is about 97%.

There is not much arable area in this region. About 80% of the area is high mountains and plateaus. From north to south, the climate is plateau frigid climate, plateau temperate climate, and plain valley subtropical climate.

At this time in Kathmandu, the streets and alleys were covered with heavy snow. Under the influence of global cooling, the zero-degree isotherm continued to expand southward and downward.

Coupled with frequent floods in summer, Gorkha's agricultural planting area has decreased by about 12.6% this year, and its food self-sufficiency rate has dropped from 97% to about 86%.

The food gap is as high as 14%, leaving nearly 7.5 million local people with insufficient food supply.

In previous years, we could barely purchase some grain from Tianzhu, but this year Tianzhu itself is suffering from famine.

Moreover, Gurkha did not have the money to buy it, let alone the channels to buy it.

Because in the past, 97% of Gurkha's foreign trade channels went through Tianzhu. Now Tianzhu is a mess. Even if the grain is purchased in the international market, it cannot be transported in.

As for the amount of air transport, it cannot even feed tens of thousands of people, let alone millions of people.

At this time, Kathmandu Railway Station.

A 50-car train was driving slowly in the wind and snow. Judging from the number of cars in the train, it was a freight train with a full load of about 4,000 tons.

Under the command of the station dispatching room, the train entered the loading and unloading area dedicated to trucks.

In the truck loading and unloading area, transport trucks belonging to Feipeng Group quickly unloaded the containers on the train and transported them away.

At the same time, the locally produced crude minerals were loaded onto the train. After a while, the train left the loading and unloading area and headed north.

Dongcheng District of Kathmandu.

Time Supermarket has been operating here for more than three years and has opened 8 branches in this city. It is currently the only supermarket in Kathmandu that can supply food at low prices.

Kissinger said that whoever controls food can control the world.

At present, Gorkha has no choice, otherwise a great famine will be inevitable.

At Time Supermarket in Dongcheng District, there was a long queue at the door. Many middle-aged women braved the wind and snow, carrying cloth bags, waiting anxiously.

Nia held a dozen Huayuan tightly in her hands, not daring to let the coins out of her sight. The others were similar, they were all wary of their little hands.

The local currency has almost collapsed, mainly because the previous Gorkha economy was severely infiltrated by Tianzhu. Once Tianzhu's economy collapsed, they were also unlucky.

When the Gorkha officials saw this situation, they were helpless and simply broke the pot.

There is now no further deterioration in Gorkha's economy.

In order to save the economy, the local government can only open up its market and allow Chinese companies to enter mining, telecommunications, infrastructure, water affairs, power generation, aviation and other fields.

The tourists who came this year brought about 17.2 billion yuan in revenue to Gorkha, which is a very huge amount of revenue.

If all this money is used to purchase grain, 30 million tons of rice can be purchased.

Of course, due to transportation problems, Gurkha could not buy food even if he had money.

However, with the completion of the LAC line, in the past three months, Feipeng Group and Fengmin Agriculture have cooperated to transport 1,241 freight trains to Gorkha, including a total of 24,000 wagons of grain, totaling about 1.84 million tons. .

The current population of Gorkha is approximately 28.98 million, and 1.84 million tons of grain is enough to feed 6 million people for about a year.

It was such a huge input of grain that quickly stabilized local prices. People can eat no meat or vegetables and fruits, but they cannot live without food.

Unconsciously, it was Nia's turn. She hurriedly pushed the shopping cart and walked towards the food area.

But she didn't dare to go too fast, because there had been incidents of stampeding by customers before. After that, Time Supermarket strengthened its management. If it was found that people were crowded, they would be blacklisted for a month, or even blacklisted for life in severe cases.

The sudden famine severely affected Kathmandu, which was already densely populated. During the summer and autumn of this year, thousands of people starved to death.

Many people still have lingering fears. If they cannot buy cheap food from Time Supermarket, the consequences may be very serious.

When they came to the food area, they mainly had rice, potatoes and dried corn kernels. Nia looked at the prices. Today, the price of high-yield rice (super hybrid rice) was 0.96 Chinese yuan per kilogram. Although this kind of rice does not taste good, the price is sufficient. Cheap.

In fact, Time Supermarket doesn't make much money. After all, transportation costs are quite high. The comprehensive cost to Kathmandu is about 0.62 to 0.68 yuan. Subtracting warehousing labor and the like, one kilogram of rice earns 0.12 yuan.

Of course, there are other delicious rice varieties in supermarkets, but the price is usually 2 to 3 yuan per kilogram.

The meaning of super hybrid rice itself is that it can be eaten in large quantities. If people are starving to death, who will care about the bad taste.

Nia, who is very careful about her budget, feels a sense of security when she looks at the mountains of rice in front of her. Visiting the food section every day has become her daily routine in the supermarket.

In fact, she bought 500 kilograms of rice a week ago and stocked it at home.

Only those who have experienced that kind of hunger will understand that gold, silver, jewelry, cars and houses, and religious scriptures are all empty.

The mountains of food in this supermarket were the majestic gods that calmed her mind.

Even if her family has a large amount of food stored, every time she comes to the supermarket, she will come to the food section with a pious heart, like a pilgrim, to take a look.

There are actually not a few people like Nia. In these difficult times, the sense of security brought by food is almost irreplaceable.

After a while, there were more than a dozen fresh potatoes in her shopping cart, then she went to the vegetable section and selected carrots and onions, and finally bought half a frozen chicken.

She hadn't eaten curry rice for a long time, so she planned to prepare a meal of curry rice for several children.

Passing by the checkout counter, some current news from Tianzhu was playing on the TV nearby. She saw the war-torn city, the skinny refugees, and the unpredictable and extreme weather.

Looking at the ingredients on the shopping cart, Nia couldn't help but sigh: Being full is also a kind of happiness.

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