Chapter 625 Blood and Tears
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The city returned to dead silence after a burst of dense gunfire in the dilapidated streets.
On the muddy dirt road, more than a dozen bodies fell down. In front of modern guns, the human body was as fragile as a glass bottle.
The shooter was five armed men in camouflage uniforms, behind them was a small granary that stocked more than 60,000 tons of rice, corn and flour.
After a while, a Nissan pickup truck with steel plates was driven from a distance. The pickup truck's bucket was transformed into a machine gun shooting tower, and three armed personnel were on the bucket.
One of them had a golden badge next to his shirt pocket. The pattern of the badge was a tiger head, which seemed to be a manager. He was holding a telescope and observing the surroundings.
The environment around the granary is between a farmland and a mango forest. The farmland is on the northwest and the terrain is relatively flat; the mango forest is in the southeast direction, belonging to the edge of the mountain, continuing to the southeast, connecting a large mountain tropical jungle.
The pickup truck swayed and came to the defensive sentry point of the warehouse. The captain of the sentry hurried over: "Captain Rut, everything in the warehouse is safe."
The middle-aged man who jumped out of the pickup truck was the one with the Golden Tiger Micro-Seal. He glanced at the corpse more than 20 meters away, and his eyes showed a hint of disgust and worry:
"How many times has this month?"
The team leader replied helplessly: "The eighth time."
"Assign people to burn the body as soon as possible to avoid causing a plague." Rat waved his hand and ordered.
"Yes." The captain replied salutingly.
Lat then walked into the granary, where two companies under him were stationed, with a total of 137 soldiers.
The two company commanders also rushed out to welcome Lat's arrival.
One had a brown-copper skin and a big beard appeared in front of him. After the two saluted him, the big bearded man took the lead in reporting the inventory situation.
"Captain, we have not much grain in stock anymore, and now there are only about 32,000 tons left."
Rat also frowned at this. They were part of the Tiger Legion and are currently entrenched in Andhra Pradesh in the middle of the Deccan Plateau.
This granary was the industry of a local big grain merchant. After the development of the Tiger Legion, it quickly snatched the granaries and factories in nearby towns to expand its power.
Rat was originally a platoon leader of a regular army. If he had not had to force him, he would not have chosen the path today.
He inspected the situation of the granary and then came to the watchtower set up on the side of the granary, and watched the surroundings with a telescope.
On the northwest side, the farmland that was supposed to be full of rice was growing, but now it was full of weeds, which made him feel heartbroken.
Lat said with a ugly expression: "Agricultural production must be resumed as soon as possible, otherwise our food will be consumed soon."
The bearded man on the side shook his head: "Captain, as long as the Andhra Apostles in the north still exists, there will be no way to restore farming in our area."
"Damn it! All these cultists should be burned to death." Rat cursed angrily.
The chaos inside India has reached a very serious level. All countries are in chaos, and all kinds of monsters and monsters have also taken advantage of the situation.
Currently, independent armed forces entrenched in various parts of India can be roughly divided into 7 stocks, including the Tiger Legion, Tamil Union, Andhra Naturalism, Northeast Union, Deccan Army, Ganges Self-Protection Merchants Group, and the forward front.
Moreover, among these seven forces, there are also mountains inside, and their respective territories are intertwined.
With the original regular army, eight forces launched a cruel and fierce battle on this closed land.
Lat looked at the weedy rice fields in front of him and the devastated villages and towns in the distance, and felt very painful inside.
Tianzhu's economy, impacted by the continuous global economic crisis, experienced a major economic collapse a year ago.
Tianzhu's agriculture is the first to be hit. As the world's largest rice exporting region, they export about 9 to 12 million tons of rice every year.
In the overall downward environment of the global economy, ABCD is reducing prices and promoting sales while reducing production scale, trying to raise international grain prices.
Unfortunately, Greater China has completed the construction of an internal grain circulation system. The world's largest grain importer, China, Japan and Goryeo, has very low food prices.
Southeast Asia and Oceania are grain export areas; Central Asia can be self-sufficient and even export part of the grain to West Asia.
Southern Africa cannot afford it, and America is also a grain exporting region. The Western Union has Lucia and a large number of economic colonies to supply food.
Originally, West Asia and North Africa would need a lot of food. The problem is that these two regions are now in a mess and don’t have much money to buy food, or choose ABCD, the low-priced food of the Food Alliance
The international rice price has not been higher than 450 Chinese Yuan per ton since mid-2014.
This price is lost even ABCD, and the grain alliance can only be held up by relying on the overall industrial chain and internal circulation system.
Originally, for the Tianzhu, which has a population of more than one billion, their local grain output cannot even meet its own needs.
But this place is too magical and highly capitalized agriculture makes it one of the world's top grain export areas.
The big merchants and landlords ignored the fact that local people starved to death and exported a large amount of rice and other foods in their own way.
Due to the overall sluggish international food prices, the prices are very low, whether they are rice, wheat, corn, barley, etc.
This situation finally hit Tianzhu's grain export industry hard.
The Food Alliance deliberately raised the purchase price of cotton, flax and fruits, causing farmers in Tianzhu to switch to wheat fields, rice fields, cotton, flax, fruits and other economic crops.
This action actually started on a small scale in 2011 until it reached a peak in 2014.
Starting from August 2014, a major flood broke out in the Ganges River in Tianzhu, flooding nearly 23 million mu of farmland; then there were continuous droughts in the Decan Plateau and Tianzhu River Plain.
Continuous natural disasters and economic collapse, the Food Alliance took the opportunity to raise the food prices, and in an instant, a huge gap appeared in the food demand in India.
ABCD has been decapacitating production capacity in the past two years. Although the warehouse has tens of millions of tons of grain reserves, they will not sell it at a cheap price, which also raises the price of grain.
In addition, Tianzhu itself had no money to buy food, and the great famine instantly swept Tianzhu.
It was in this context that when facing the dilemma of his family starving to death, Rat, under the instigation of a person who was interested, he picked up a series of weapons and snatched the granary of the landlords and merchants.
This behavior was just a few stars at the beginning.
But as time went by, the famine did not ease, but became more and more intense, and finally reached a point where it was out of control.
Many people think that if the food shortage reaches 1%, the food price will increase by about 2 to 3%, but in reality, the food price will increase by more than 100%.
This is bloody capital.
The food gap within India has reached 17-20%, while the merchants holding a large amount of grain in their hands continue to raise prices, sell them little by little, and even deliberately hoard them.
Lat left the granary in a pickup truck again, and the dozen or so skinny corpses had been cleaned up before.
The pickup truck drove on a broken road, and two more modified pickup trucks followed, and the soldiers scanned the way.
Chapter completed!