Although Tianzhu and Assam have not officially ceased fighting, both sides have a tacit understanding and have stopped direct exchanges of fire.
However, Assam did not respond directly to Lucia's mediation. Instead, it chose to "close the country", blocked all borders, and deployed large minefields on the borders.
External parties are also very troubled by the completely closed Assam region. It is obvious that Assam's behavior is not like the behavior of a normal force at all.
Hongsawady.
Yangon.
Interior of the office building of COFCO’s Hongsawady branch.
Lai Shengli obtained a lot of information, and a special technical assistance team from China was also here at this time.
The leader of the assistance group is a man with glasses.
"Manager Lai, what is Hongsawady's grain output and inventory this year?"
Lai Shengli put down the satellite remote sensing analysis report: "This year's rice in Hongsawady can produce about 30 million tons. Adding corn, soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes, the total can reach 110 million tons."
He paused for a while and continued: "As for the inventory, there is no official reserve in Hongsawady, but the reserves of the three major groups can actually be regarded as official reserves. According to the disclosed information, its grain reserves should be about 33 million tons.
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The bespectacled man picked up the Hongsawady grain export analysis report, which listed the quantity, export destination and price of Hongsawady grain exports.
According to data collected by COFCO Group from all parties.
Currently, China is the largest purchaser of grain in Hongsawady. The contracts to be executed this year reach 32.63 million tons, including 14.27 million tons of soybeans, 11.3 million tons of corn, 270,000 tons of sweet sorghum, and 560,000 tons of peanuts.
The rest is rice.
The second largest purchaser is Persia, followed by Luzon, West Pakistan, and South Korea.
These purchase contracts were all well-documented, so the man with glasses did not doubt their authenticity. What he really cared about was the 33 million tons of grain stored in Hongsawady.
After all, judging from satellite remote sensing data, farmland in the entire Assam region has been completely abandoned, and only a part of the river valley plain in the Zhu region still maintains agricultural production.
You know, the entire Assam region plus the Zhu region has a population of 55 million.
Such a huge population needs to consume at least 11 million tons of food a year.
Without agricultural production, how will Assam support its 55 million people?
Among the areas surrounding Assam, only Hongsawady can supply such a huge amount of food, which is why the bespectacled man came to Hongsawady this time.
He has basically determined that it is Hongsawady who is behind the trouble in Assam, but 11 million tons of grain is not a small amount.
The junction between Assam and Hongsawady is basically mountainous and there is not even a decent road. This makes the man with glasses very puzzled as to how Hongsawady transports food to Assam.
This is another reason why Tianzhu chose a temporary truce.
After all, 55 million people do not farm themselves. Even if Assam robs the previous food stocks, it will certainly not be able to sustain it for long.
Tianzhu is waiting for Assam to collapse and then take the opportunity to regain lost ground.
The man with glasses looked at the satellite remote sensing map, raised his glasses, and fell into thinking.
Suddenly a thought came to the bespectacled man's mind: 'Could it be an underground tunnel?'
He recalled that Assam was almost fully developing tunnels and small mountain villages at this time, and now Assam's cities basically had no population.
Tens of millions of people live in mountainous areas and underground, which is indeed very crazy. It also reflects Assam’s excellent tunneling technology.
If a large number of tunnels can be dug in the mountainous areas at the junction of Hongsawady and Assam, it will indeed be possible to avoid satellite reconnaissance in the sky.
But the bespectacled man made some calculations. With Assam now almost in a wartime state, it would not only require 11 million tons of grain, but also a large amount of daily necessities, guns and ammunition.
To meet this level of material transportation needs, there must be a lot of underground tunnels.
The bespectacled man used his mobile phone to check the data of China last year. The total length of railways was 147,000 kilometers, and a total of 4.77 billion tons of cargo was transported in 21 years.
Even if Hongsawady's railway transportation speed is the same as that of the China Railway, it will still require about 1,000 kilometers of railway.
And this is the underground railway. When the bespectacled man thought about the amount of work, his scalp immediately went numb.
Thousands of kilometers on the subway, the bespectacled man laughed at himself, thinking too much, and quickly threw this unrealistic thought out of his mind.
But apart from the possibility of importing the underground railway, he could not think of other possibilities.
This is also a problem plaguing intelligence agencies around the world.
As the most likely places to import food and materials into Assam, Hongsawady and Dongba have been carefully analyzed several times by major intelligence agencies, but no problems have been found.
Obviously, the self-sustainability rate of the Assam branch is difficult for outsiders to understand.
It seems that a population of 55 million is a lot, but the more than 300 underground bases in front of the Assam branch can absorb a population of 12 million.
The current expansion project is expected to increase the number of underground bases to more than 1,000 within half a year, achieving the upper limit of the underground population of 24 million.
At the same time, the secret underground city (partly a doomsday base) hidden in the western mountains of Hongsawady can also accommodate a population of 8 to 12 million people.
Zhuyu can accommodate 3 million people on the surface, and the underground base currently being expanded in Zhuyu can also accommodate 5 million people.
The remaining population has established small villages in various mountainous areas.
By the end of this year, each small mountain village will gradually build its own underground town, and then completely move underground.
The current grain reserves in Assam are partly based on previous collections. About 14.73 million tons of grains have been collected from the private sector. Together with the 2.62 million tons of grains previously reserved by the Assam branch in various underground bases, it is actually enough for such a large population.
Been taking it for 18 months.
Each base itself can also produce grain and various foods.
The current food self-sufficiency rate in Assam is about 31%, which will increase to about 50% in June and about 90% by the end of the year.
This self-sufficiency rate is actually calculated based on a population of 55 million.
But in fact, there are currently about 11 million people in the Assam branch living in the western mountainous area of Honsawady. This part of the population is supported by the Honsawady branch.
In other words, at the end of this year, the Assam branch will actually have no pressure to support a population of 44 million.
There is absolutely no need to import food from Hongsawady.
In particular, the dozens of bases near the Assam oil and gas basin use the extracted gas to develop lightless plantations underground. They not only achieve self-sufficiency in food, but also produce large amounts of meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits.
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The bases in mountainous areas are adapted to local conditions. Those with underground power can use underground power, and those with oil-bearing shale can use gas power.
If there is nothing in a miserable place, we should not expand the scale and just maintain the status quo for the time being.
It seems to the outside world that Assam has abandoned agricultural production, but in fact, Assam's agriculture is developing very rapidly.
After all, the production efficiency of crops in lightless plantations of organic matter such as starch and sucrose is more than ten times that of conventional photosynthesis.
This means that under the same conditions, the production efficiency of lightless indoor agriculture will be more than ten times higher than that of traditional lighted indoor agriculture.
For the underground Assam branch, this lightless indoor agriculture solves the lack of underground space and improves energy utilization.
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