Chapter 1451: Emergency

At dawn the next day, Qiao Jia entered Zaranj in a truck transporting wedding supplies.

As a small city at the junction of Afghanistan and Iran, Zaranj's prosperity exceeded Boss Qiao's expectations.

This is a 'lawless land' at the heart of Balochistan, and the economy underneath has given rise to a strange prosperity.

Qiao Jia sat in the compartment of the van, looking at the scene on the street through the gauze...

The roads in Zaranj are very dilapidated, but some of the commercial houses along the streets on both sides of the road look relatively new.

Various vendors set up stalls along the street, and people bargained loudly. Although it was not a crowded place, there was a real sense of prosperity.

Theoretically speaking, Zaranji belongs to the Aqiong Khan, but at this stage, the Tower L class obviously does not have the ability to take over the place, so it has become a no-care zone.

Then this no-care zone actually gave rise to a strange prosperity.

Focusing on the economic benefits generated by the drug trade, traders traveling between Iran and Pakistan have provided sufficient material trading channels for various organizations and tribes.

Qiao Jia was well-informed, but Zaranji still left a deep impression on him.

Any prosperity in this world that is based on the drug economy is false and unsustainable.

In theory, it's all money. As long as you are willing to invest, good changes will naturally occur in a city.

But in fact, among the farmers who grow opium poppies to support their families, the tribes who purchase raw opium, the warlords who refine and wholesale HLY, the middlemen who smuggle HLY, and all the people related to Zalan Ji in this chain, no one has ever thought about changing Zalan Ji. Ji's appearance...

Infrastructure!

This is the biggest difference between a real government organization and a bunch of ragtag people.

Maybe they also know in their hearts that their 'career' will not last long, so they don't care about infrastructure at all, for fear that after investing in it, it will be wasted and others will be advantaged.

The prosperity of Zalanj is naturally formed due to demand, and it will naturally decline due to changes in demand.

The prosperous scene Qiao Jia saw along the way seemed to show that Zaranj was not too affected by the Western War, but the people who stopped and chatted around the hookah parlors on the streets always looked worried.

The whole Zaranji has a feeling of the Republic of China in the movie. The people are busy all day long and have no time to pay attention to the outside world. The roads are full of street children and beggars. The dilapidated public infrastructure and the luxury of private buildings form a sharp contrast.

Compared with the ignorance of the common people, those at the top of society are calling friends and exchanging information to find the next way out.

In this environment with obvious class separation, violence replaces order and becomes the key to restrain the environment from sliding into chaos.

The streets and alleys are full of strong men with eyeliners and guns. Only locals can tell which organization or tribe these people belong to.

These armed forces divided Zaranj into many pieces and formed a social system that restricted each other.

People generally won't mess around under this kind of system, because no one can control it.

Qiao Jia, Dorian and Ayo were crowded in the back compartment of the van, wearing a sack-like cloak as a cover.

Through the linen on the car window, Qiao Jia pointed to a flatbed truck being towed by a man and said, "It's so fucking good..."

Dorian followed Qiao Jia's finger and saw that it was a middle-aged man dragging a small car containing raw opium. There were three children, two boys and one girl sitting in the car. The oldest child was no more than 10 years old, and the youngest was He is probably only 3 or 4 years old.

This situation is very common in Zaranj, and what is even more common is that this man is followed by several armed men with guns...

Dorian knew why Boss Qiao was a little angry. He spread his hands and said: "Boss, it is impossible to change the social ecology here until the war in western Afghanistan is completely over.

But there are good things, that is, the price of raw opium is rising. In order to compete for the supply of supplies, these armed groups not only offer very good prices, but also provide some services..."

Qiao Jia looked at several armed men who were following the middle-aged men, urging them from time to time. He shook his head and said, "Like this?

In the past, they just had to sit at home and wait for the farmers to deliver the harvest, but now they have to send people to the countryside and have people watch the goods being collected..."

Dorian said nonchalantly: "Boss, this is good for your plan. You must know that the drug dealers have tripled the price of raw opium in order to meet Moussa Suleiman's requirements.

We delayed it long enough, and the farmers in Balochistan basically sold all their raw opium.

Now that they have money, as long as we can ensure the supply of food on the market, we can stabilize those farmers.

Isn't this what you want? "

After hearing this, Qiao Jia nodded slightly and said: "I didn't expect that the Western War could improve the service quality of these drug lords, which is a good thing.

Let these people take out all their money before they die, so that we can spend less in the future..."

In fact, Dorian has always been a little confused about Boss Qiao's 'generosity', but after such a long time, he has become accustomed to the 'boss' miracle'...

Because every time he feels that the boss is wasting money, the boss will make huge gains.

When this happens too often, everyone becomes accustomed to condoning the boss's 'waste'.

Just when the vehicle passed the middle-aged man towing the flatbed truck and turned into a side road, the van in front suddenly stopped and began to accelerate and reverse.

Before Boss Qiao and his men following behind realized what was happening, they heard a series of gunshots from the side road...

"Pah pah pah pah..."

At the same time as the AK gunshots rang out, Ronnie, Medical Officer Bird, and Rhino, who were sitting in the van, rushed out of the car and started to fight back...

The three were very experienced. They did not sit in the car and passively take the beating. Instead, they got out of the car and suppressed the enemy with the cover of the surrounding bunkers, buying time for the van to retreat.

But just as the van withdrew from the enemy's shooting range and began to turn around, another wave of enemies appeared from their right rear...

At the same time, a group of people appeared from the left rear of Qiao Jia's vehicle...

When the group closer to Boss Qiao opened fire, Qiao Jia finally realized what happened...

The bullets were not aimed at the van. The 7.62mm bullets hit the three children sitting on the flatbed truck, and then extended backwards, hitting the armed elements escorting the van and making them flee everywhere.

Seeing the three ignorant children fall on the car in a bloody mess, Qiao Jia was stunned for a moment--

He realized that he might be unlucky enough to be involved in a battle for raw opium, so he decisively pulled up the hood on his cloak and pulled the door open with force...

"Get out of the car, kill them, all of them..."