From Arms Dealer To King of War

Chapter 1451 Emergency Situation

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, the prosperity of Zaranj is a bit beyond Boss Qiao's expectations.

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

Qiao Jia was sitting 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 there was not a huge flow of people, there was a real sense of prosperity.

Theoretically, Zaranj belongs to the Aqiong Khan, but at this stage, the Taliban obviously do not have the ability to take over the place, so it has become a no-care zone.

Then this neglected area 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 is also 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.

Theoretically, 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 rabble.

Perhaps they also know in their hearts that their ‘career’ will not last long, so they are not at all interested in infrastructure construction, 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 scenes 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 Zaranj has a sense 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 wandering 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 parts and formed a social system that restricted each other.

  Generally speaking, people will not mess up under this kind of system, because no one can control it.

Qiao Jia was crowded in the back compartment of the van with Dorian and Ayo, 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 no wonder this is so **** 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 kind of situation is very common in Zaranj. 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.

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

Qiaojia looked at several militants who were following the middle-aged man and urging them from time to time. He shook his head and said, "Like this?

In the past, they just sat at home and waited for the farmers to deliver the "harvest". Now they have to send people to the countryside to go to each door and have people watch and collect the goods..."

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 have delayed it long enough. Farmers in the Balochistan region have 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 would also improve the service quality of these drug lords. This is also a good thing.

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

 Dorian has actually 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 a huge gain.

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

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

Boss Qiao who was following them heard a series of gunshots coming from the branch road before they realized what was happening...

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

 The three of them were very experienced. They did not sit in the car and be beaten passively. Instead, they got out of the car and used the cover of surrounding bunkers to suppress the enemy and buy the van time to retreat.

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

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

 At the moment when the group of people who were relatively close to Boss Qiao and the others opened fire, Qiao Jia finally realized what had 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, sending the armed men escorting the van fleeing in all directions.

Seeing the three ignorant children falling on the car in a **** state, Qiao Jialian 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 hat on his cloak and opened the car door with force...

 “Get out of the car and kill them, all of them…”

 (End of this chapter)