Chapter 723: Riots arose
The Kingdom of Pico is a very special country, although it is a constitutional monarchy, but the king is the de facto head of the country, which is very different from other constitutional monarchies in the world. There are not many citizens in the Pico Kingdom, only more than 30,000 people, but the foreign population is very large, most of these people are factory workers from Southeast Asia, adding up to more than 100,000!
In fact, if it weren't for the recent total blockade of the Piqué Kingdom by Country M, which has resulted in the fact that there are no more foreign tourists in the Pico Kingdom, the population of the entire country would be even larger.
In order to ensure the interests of the native population, the successive kings of the Pique Kingdom did not admit these immigrants as permanent residents of the country, and they issued temporary residence registrations to these immigrants. In this way, the inhabitants of the Pico Kingdom are artificially divided into two classes, one is the original inhabitant of the Pico Kingdom, and the other is a temporary resident.
There is a great disadvantage to this kind of resident situation in the Piqué Kingdom, those residents with temporary residence registration will not have any sense of ownership of the country, in their hearts, the Pique Kingdom is their life station, they come here just to get a vote here and leave.
In normal peacetime, this mentality of these aliens would not be a problem, but when the situation in the Pico Kingdom is in trouble, this drawback is fully exposed.
The first thing that those immigrants think about is not how to unite all their forces and the country to tide over the difficulties, but how to keep themselves alive and even take advantage of the chaos! If there are external incentives, this kind of thinking will immediately turn into an uncontrollable riot.
Sadly, this external trigger is gradually taking shape, and a riot is brewing.
The sudden earthquake has caused a huge disaster to the kingdom of Pique, and it is roughly estimated that more than 20,000 people have been injured and more than 1,000 people have died.
The most panicked thing for the inhabitants of this country is not the water and electricity outages, but hunger!
The kingdom of Pico basically does not produce food, almost all of the food relies on imports, and due to the economic blockade of country M before, the whole country has fallen into a food crisis, and recently due to the continuous efforts of China and the International Committee of the Red Cross, although country M has allowed grain to enter the kingdom of Pique, most of the people who come to send food to the kingdom of Pico are international aid organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, and those big international grain merchants have no one to come to the kingdom of Pico to do grain trading.
The danger here is too great, and no one wants to provoke the tyrannical soldiers of country M.
Because of these reasons, the food in the Piqu Kingdom has been in short supply, and the government buys all the food and distributes it to every resident of the Pico Kingdom in the same amount every day. In the process of distribution, the resident population has two or two taels more rice per day than the foreign population. This filled the hearts of those outsiders with resentment, and at the same time, they tried every means to get food.
After the earthquake, the shortage of food in the Pico Kingdom has been even worse, and seven or eight hours have passed since the earthquake, and many people have not even eaten a mouthful of food! They are already hungry.
When Bentley announced that all the victims would go to the Tianlong Food Factory to collect food, all the people on the entire Pico Island rushed to the Sky Food Factory, and thousands of victims surrounded the entire Tianlong Food Factory.
Zhao Ziwei, who returned to Tianlong Food Factory, set up more than a dozen food distribution points outside Tianlong Food Factory, and took out all the food and grain stored in Tianlong Food Factory to help the victims.
Those resident residents of the Piqué Kingdom are better, for the benefit of the country, they all lined up in a long line according to the requirements of the staff, and received the food distributed to them in an orderly manner, but those outsiders didn't care so much, they began to constantly disrupt the order of food distribution that Zhao Ziwei worked hard to maintain, some shouted loudly, some cut the queue casually, and some pushed people forward in the queue indiscriminately? The scene gradually got out of control, and from local riots to overall turmoil, the originally neat ranks became a mess, and thousands of people rushed forward for fear of falling behind.
Zhao Ziwei loudly ordered the security guards of the food factory to maintain order, but how could the poor security forces of the food factory withstand the thousands of victims?
In the end, the army of victims composed of outsiders directly overwhelmed the food distribution point set up by Zhao Ziwei outside the Tianlong Food Factory, and snatched up the food, and then these people shouted loudly to rush to the Tianlong Food Factory.
Zhao Ziwei saw that the scene was out of control, and immediately withdrew the staff of Tianlong Food Factory into the factory, and then closed the door of the factory tightly at the first time.
The wall of Tianlong Food Factory is not built of bricks and tiles, but an iron fence more than three meters high, and the warehouses and workshops in the factory area are also made of convenient building materials with foam sandwich.
So although the earthquake came so violently, Tianlong Food Factory was quite well preserved. Invisibly, Tianlong Food Factory has become the base camp of the Pico Kingdom's earthquake relief, if this place is impacted, the entire earthquake relief work will be paralyzed, and the entire Pico Kingdom will be finished.
In order to prevent the Tianlong Food Factory from being overwhelmed by countless victims, Zhao Ziwei personally held a portable loudspeaker and shouted to the people who were isolated outside the iron fence: "Ladies and gentlemen of the Piqué Kingdom, I am Zhao Ziwei, the chairman of the Tianlong Foundation, and also the foreign minister of the Piqué Kingdom. Don't be in a hurry, and don't panic. Although there is not much grain in our country due to the shameless economic blockade of country M, I promise you that as long as you obey the government's arrangements and receive the food you deserve in an orderly manner, you will definitely be able to tide over this difficult time! Please believe me! If I deceive you today, I, Zhao Ziwei, will be at your disposal in the future!"
Zhao Ziwei's slightly immature voice was transmitted in all directions through a portable speaker. Don't look at Zhao Ziwei's young age, there are a lot of things that have happened, and she has seen a lot of life and death, plus she is the top director of the Tianlong Consortium and the foreign minister of the Pique Kingdom, and she naturally exudes a momentum, which is mixed with the unique affinity of the little girl on her body, which makes her momentum unique and makes her words more convincing and credible.
The most important thing is that Zhao Ziwei is the daughter of former Prime Minister Zhao Tianlong, and Zhao Tianlong's status in the hearts of the people of the Piqu Kingdom is very high.
After listening to her words, the chaotic crowd around them stopped the riot and talked in small voices, probably discussing how credible Zhao Ziwei's words were.
Zhao Ziwei saw that the crowd of people outside the gate finally calmed down a little, and her heart calmed down a little, and then said: "Now please tidy up the formation and line up, and then our staff will reopen the gate and distribute food to everyone again, please be sure to maintain order and obey the arrangements of our staff!"
Zhao Ziwei is also a dead duck with a hard mouth, in fact, there is no grain in Tianlong Food Factory now. All her hopes were pinned on her brother. She believed in her brother, who said that if there is food, there will be food.
However, just as Zhao Ziwei was trying to re-establish order among the victims, she heard shouts from the crowd of victims: "Don't listen to her, everyone! This chick is lying to us! Otherwise, why did he close the door and not let us in? Tianlong Food Factory doesn't have much food at all, and the devil knows if it will be distributed to us? She can't guarantee that everyone will get food. Only by rushing into the Tianlong Food Factory to grab all the food inside can we live!"
As soon as these words spread among the crowd, the original inhabitants of Peake Island did not move, but the emotions of those outsiders were ignited again. Since there is not much food in the Tianlong Food Factory, even if it is to be divided, I am afraid it will have to be distributed to those original residents first, and when it is their turn, the ghost knows if there is any food in it?
"Yes! If you want to protect your interests, you have to rob the fuck!" someone began to heckle.
"Rush in! Fuck it!" the countless people began to shout.
Zhao Ziwei saw that her efforts had just improved a little, and she was dispersed by a word, the roots of her angry teeth itched, and her eyes immediately looked towards the place where the roar came from, trying to find who was demolishing her platform, but at this moment, what greeted her eyes was a chaotic crowd of people everywhere, where could she tell who was making trouble just now?
A guy who looked like a monkey began to climb the iron fence wall of Tianlong Food Factory, this guy's movements were very agile, his hands grabbed a thumb-thick steel bar, his body jumped and climbed up more than sixty centimeters, and then began to climb up quickly with his hands and feet.
The others saw the skinny monkey and began to climb the iron fence, and they also began to climb the iron fence. For a time, the iron fence around the entire Tianlong Food Factory was full of dense figures, and from a distance it looked like a group of ants! The difference was that this group of ants was crawling upwards and screaming in their mouths. It's like a bandit siege.
A security guard saw that things were not good, and showed the rubber baton on his waist through the iron fence and stabbed a guy in the stomach, the guy had a pain in his stomach, and he couldn't grasp the iron fence with both hands, and his body fell off the iron fence suddenly, falling on all fours.
This guy was lying on the ground and rolling around, screaming exaggerated screams and shouting: "The security guards have beaten people! The security guards have beaten people! Everyone rushed in and killed these bastards and robbed them of their food!"
"The security guards beat people! They still have the strength to beat people! Damn, beat these sons to death! Loot their house and make our home!" someone in the crowd shouted, immediately eliciting countless echoes.
The conflict was escalated in an instant, and the victims evolved from just grabbing food at the first to launching a personal attack on the staff of Tianlong Food Factory!
Rao is Zhao Ziwei has experienced strong winds and waves, but seeing the chaos in front of him, he has been with Zhao Ziwei, he saw that the situation was out of control, and immediately said to Zhao Ziwei: "Miss, we have to leave, these crazy guys can do anything!"
"No! If I leave, this place will really be over! I have already contacted my brother, and he will be able to come over soon!" Zhao Ziwei said stubbornly, a pair of small fists clenched tightly.