Chapter 178 Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand Tons of Grain

PS: Maybe many people don't have a concept of Bagua City, and Gorgeous will upload one in the work.

The two chapters are one, one chapter is a guaranteed update, and the other chapter is 420 monthly passes plus updates.

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In the conference room on the first floor of the base.

A conference on the development of the territory is being held.

Today's territory has filled the entire occupied area with nearly 80,000 square kilometers of land, even in China, it is also a large province.

However, the population of this territory is not very good, and all the residents in the territory have all received identity cards and household registrations, and according to the statistics of the established Civil Affairs Bureau, there are currently more than 2.7 million legal residents in the territory. And in the past two or three months, a large number of refugees have poured into the territory, and according to incomplete statistics, the number of these refugees has reached at least 800,000.

According to the data given by the base, the number of legal residents in the territory is the same as the number counted by the Civil Affairs Bureau, but the people's sentiment index is currently less than 60%, which means that nearly half of the people have not reached the point of very much support for Li Lan and the territory.

This is also common sense, after all, the construction within the territory has only started for two months, and many people have not yet felt the benefits brought by the territory, so naturally they do not have a strong sense of belonging. Moreover, this popular data is just an overall statistic, and the support rate of the 700,000 residents in the Bagua City is absolute.

The residents of Bossaso also have a lot of supporters for Li Lan, and the average popularity index has reached less than 60%. In other words, there are still many people who are not satisfied with Li Lan.

But. Li Lan also believes that time has passed. Naturally, there is such a thing as popular sentiment, because he has never wanted to harm the interests of the Somalis. Of course, for those guys who have ill intentions and secretly propagate malicious public opinion, Li Lan will kill one by one.

Don't worry if you can't find out, there are military dogs in every village, and Li Lan is not afraid that someone with a heart will make a ghost and arrest one by one. And in the course of these two months. Hundreds of people have been detected by military dogs, and what followed was arrest, interrogation, and then eating guns.

The residents of Bagua City, with the support of Farah and Mohammadi, are also constantly publicizing, and documentaries are broadcast in turn in the territory, in order to achieve the effect of gathering the hearts of the people.

"Since the end of the war, reconstruction in Bossaso has been carried out immediately, after a little more than two months. We have rebuilt a large number of houses in Bossaso and repaired some partially damaged houses, so far, the residents of Bossaso. Eighty percent of the residents have already moved back to their original homes, and two percent of the residents will settle the housing problem in the next three months. ”

"The port of Bossaso has been cleaned up and expanded, and now there are ships docking every day. Trade is also recovering rapidly. However, these freighters are currently coming from China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and some non-NATO countries. And NATO countries have already passed a trade ban on us. They even want to impose trade sanctions and other measures on us through the United Nations. However, the resolution was not adopted. NATO member states, on the other hand, are now only unilaterally prohibiting bilateral trade. However, it will not be long before the impact of these countries on our trade will be rapidly leveled out under the leadership of China and Russia, and it is expected to grow. ”

"The latest batch of grain for China to support us has all arrived, and it is currently all stored in the underground grain storage warehouse in Bagua City, according to the commander's instructions, we have not paid China, and the other party has not discussed this matter. According to the records, this batch belongs to the fourth batch of grain, totaling 600,000 tons, and the Chinese side has also sent the next batch of grain delivery Jihua and timetable, and within three months, there will be a batch of grain totaling 600,000 tons. ”

"As of yesterday, more than 850,000 people in the territory had been hosted, and today's rainy season continues to be dry, with four million people directly affected in a few months, and there are also unsustainable refugee camps on the Ethiopian side. As a result of our great success in policy advocacy and public opinion building, which has led to the arrival of many refugees from Ethiopia and central Somalia, plus refugees from Somaliland and Puntland, it is expected that in the next six months, the number of refugees arriving in the territory will exceed one million, and by then, will we be able to accept nearly two million refugees? This also requires detailed statistics. ”

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At this moment, there are many people sitting in the conference room, in addition to the original Mohammudi and Farah, there are many new faces, some of them are Somalis with good management ability, and they are loyal and personal qualities are up to standard, and some are Li Lan specially let some soldiers with management ability transfer to government departments.

After all, the army needs to be built, and the development of the territory must also keep up, otherwise there will inevitably be a great imbalance, and when the time comes, what will he use to feed this army, and who will support the army and support him.

Over the past year or so, Farah has gone from the initial cooperation to now becoming, like Mohammadi, who willingly stays under Li Lan and becomes a qualified economic director. Of the many people in the conference room, two or three were Farah's original right-hand men, and the remaining two or three were promoted by Mohammadi. The remaining ten or twenty people were all professional soldiers under Li Lan's command.

Some of them were spies, some were conscripts, some were engineers, and many more were Chinese soldiers and American GIs. According to Li Lan's criteria for selecting people from the outside world, in addition to these people, the remaining six Somalis are all qualified.

In fact, Li Lan never intended to reject the Somalis, after all, building a country requires talents from all walks of life, and grassroots management also needs many people, and it is impossible for Li Lan to use all these Red Police soldiers. After all, the stall is bigger, and the demand for personnel has also risen, and Li Lan, a Red Police soldier who retired due to injury, can only fill the vacancy first, so that their abilities can be fully utilized.

In the selection of Somalis, the first consideration is character and loyalty, and the rest is competence and talent. For more than a year. Only these six people can enter Li Lan's eyes, and the rest of the people. Guys who are not loyal and have bad moral integrity, Li Lan will not use them again. The remaining preliminarily qualified people are also in grassroots practice due to the problem of ability.

Farah already had a lot of assets in Bossaso, and when he was abroad, he also cultivated a lot of talents, so in the targeted talent selection, those people he trained were basically selected, and a few people with strong abilities were selected. Li Lan was also very kind to see them. They are also qualified to attend some important large-scale conferences.

After the first students of the Somali university he founded, many of them will be filled with government authorities. However, Li Lan is not worried, their teacher is a retired soldier of the Red Police, and he is not worried about loyalty, and there are also military dogs, and the military dogs cannot detect small problems, but it involves the safety of the territory and Li Lan and the residents. Then you can't escape the insight of military dogs. This is also one of the guarantees, at least it can make Li Lan feel more at ease to use these people.

As soon as the meeting began, the person in charge of various matters took the lead in reporting the situation and then waited for Li Lan's decision.

For the development of the territory. Li Lan also maintained a lot of attention, in addition to army building, he also needed to understand the implementation of every policy in the territory. Formulate a general development policy, and the rest is to pay attention to the construction of people's livelihood. and the fluctuation of popular sentiment in the territory.

Today's meeting is just a regular meeting every week. Hear about the basic development of the territory. In the previous meetings like this, there were no important things, but Li Lan wanted to use today's meeting to determine some things. But he needs to settle all these ordinary things before he gets down to business.

After listening to all the reports, Li Lan spoke: "The construction work of Bossaso still needs to be accelerated, and such a speed has not met my expectations at all. The daily delivery of cement from the port of Bossaso is now enough for us to continue to expand our construction capacity, and three months is too long for us to keep our residents in tents. Therefore, the construction department must find ways to improve efficiency. Need equipment, need people, submit a report directly to me and I will solve it in the fastest time.

As for the trade in the port, we should also pay attention to the fact that there must be no negligence in welcoming them, and every cargo ship entering the port needs to be familiar with the cargo and the owner of the cargo on it. Everything we procure should also be shipped to the relevant departments as soon as possible. No one can have the idea of being paralyzed and slack, and occasionally getting by is likely to lead to extremely bad consequences.

At the same time, I should pay special attention to the transportation of machinery and equipment, and I hope that outsiders will know about the confidential matters. Whether it's you, the people in charge, or the people under you, I want to remember our secrecy regulations, and I don't want to see you invited to the Secrecy Bureau one day. ”

These words are not aimed at Li Lanwu, but to avoid any unnecessary mistakes. What was the port of Bossaso before? It is the largest port of entry for grain, and the favorite port of call for all international arms dealers. Many of Bossaso's taxes actually come from grain merchants and arms dealers, and Awel Weishenme can build such a powerful shili because of the filial piety of these arms dealers and grain merchants.

A ton of grain can be sold for five or six thousand dollars in Somalia, which is several times more expensive than the international price of grain.

Arms dealers, on the other hand, have made this the largest landing point for arms into the North African market, South Sudan and Somalia, where the profits of the arms markets can reach hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And the most important source of arms is the port of Bossaso.

Therefore, this is by no means a trivial matter on the part of Li Lan, who does not want any more arms to pass through the port of Bossaso, and although this will cost him a lot of money, he has no hesitation. As for those international grain merchants, Li Lan is very welcome, and he is willing to buy grain from them, but the price must be in accordance with the international grain price, and the price cannot exceed 30% at most.

At the same time, Li Lan is also worried that some countries will use the port of Bossaso to create incidents. When the time comes, it is not impossible to have a cargo ship full of munitions, dock in the port, and then make a living. After all, now that he is on the cusp of the storm, what should be avoided as much as possible is still avoided.

If they can be fearless, the Black Hawk fighters at the base have now taken off for normal training.

It was precisely because of Li Lan's order that the port of Bossaso gradually became depressed. However, will Li Lan be worried that no one will come back from the port of Bossaso? The opposite is true. He hoped that those cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods would come less and let normal trade take place. Or rather, the lawful trade he set was a lot of dealings. And he is confident that the period of real prosperity of Bossaso is not far off.

And one Bossaso is not enough. Bagua City also needs a port.

However, for the construction of the Bagua City port, Li Lan did not want to do it manually. In addition to the slow time, it is also that he does not have the ability to build a port capable of docking large ships now, Jishu has it, and the engineers are fully competent, but the equipment problem is not so easy to solve.

At the same time, Li Lan also planned to build a military port, and the site selection of the two ports had already been completed. It's just a short time. Before that, Li Lan had to start some preparatory work and renovate the selected Haode site in order to accommodate the construction of the port as much as possible.

Especially in terms of military ports, it is necessary to carry out terrain modification work quite a little in advance, after all, military ports are different from ordinary ports, and there are more things that need to be paid attention to.

There is another point, and that is the problem of highways, whether it is a military port. It is still an ordinary port, and it needs a smooth road passage to be able to quickly circulate goods. And for the sake of the economic form of Bagua City, Li Lan also plans to build two large container cargo ports. When the two are completed, they will become one as a whole. In addition to this, there are special terminals dedicated to the transportation of oil and gas. Additional construction is also required. In this way, Jihua was built according to the newest port of Bagua City. There will be three ports, one military port. To do this, Li Lan needed to build five wharves with different functions.

The formulation of this port jihua was carried out according to the construction capacity of the base, and the base can build many kinds of ports, which is also enough to meet Li Lan's needs in all aspects.

In Bossaso, after the first sub-base vehicle arrives, Li Lan will first expand the port of Bossaso, although Bossaso is already a major economic city in Somalia, and the port is also one of the two major ports in Somalia, but in Li Lan's eyes, the current port of Bossaso is really not very good. In China, almost every coastal city can find one or two ports like this, and the daily cargo throughput is extremely limited. When the family business grows in the future, it will definitely be expanded, and this matter will soon be put on the agenda.

"As for the Chinese grain, you can take as much as you want, and if they say one day that they need us to pay money, then come and report to me immediately. However, I believe that such a thing will not happen, so you can take it boldly and confidently, and you will receive as much as you give. It's the rainy season and you're facing a drought, so even if you get a few million tons, you can pull it back with confidence. I'll take care of everything.

As for the issue of refugees, we should not see one by one, because our territory currently relies on imports for food, except for meat. There is also a limit to the number of refugees who can be in Ghana, and I say this not to say that I do not accept refugees, but that it needs to be rationally coordinated, not in the spirit of relief, resulting in the more than two million residents of the territory falling into a situation of lack of food.

According to China's current long-term support for our grain, we will be able to receive 1.2 million yuan of grain in half a year. In addition, China will also support our group of agricultural experts and excellent seeds within half a year.

Now immediately count, according to the supply of 1.2 million tons of grain in half a year, how many people can we take in? Then decide how many refugees to take. ”

In terms of China's grain support, Li Lan has never mentioned it to China, but in the past two months, two batches of more than one million tons of grain have already arrived, and another 1.2 million tons will be sent in the next six months. Listening to Zeng Zhihua's tone, as long as Li Lan still needs it, as long as he speaks, the grain will definitely be fully supported by the country.

Li Lan knows very well that China has always been a big importer of grain, and it used to be a big exporter of grain, but in recent years, it has restricted a lot of exports. But sending food over like this without words made Li Lan not know what to say many times.

He needs food, a lot of food. According to Li Lan's original jihua, it was to buy from China. But as it turned out, he didn't need to open his mouth at all. At the beginning, Li Lan wanted to make a satellite phone call and personally thank the No. 1 chief. He understood that the only person who could make such a decision was the No. 1 chief. After all, it was 2.2 million tons, which was converted into the comprehensive price of grain in China, and the value of these grains has reached several billion Chinese yuan.

Later, Li Lan finally did not dial the satellite phone signal recorded by the assistant. He thinks that the word xiexie is too light, because he will use practical actions to repay the country in the future, rather than two light words.

As for the issue of refugees, Li Lan really wants to take in these refugees, after all, these refugees will develop into his supporters in the future, and they will most help improve his status in the eyes of the Somali people. Over the past year or so, Li Lan has understood the truth most clearly: what is taken in advance must be given first, and those who have attained the Tao will help more and those who have lost the Tao will have little help.

At present, there are more than 2 million inhabitants in the territory, accounting for nearly 25 percent of the entire population of Somalia, and as long as he receives another 2 million, nearly half of the Somalis will be gathered in the territory. As long as he can get the nearly half of the Somalis to support him, his resistance in Somalia will be greatly reduced in the future.

Therefore, whether it is out of humanitarianism or for the sake of preparing for the future, Li Lan will continue to take in refugees, but it is not endless, after all, the capacity of the current territory is limited. The so-called capacity is not land, after all, there is no problem at all with more than 80,000 square kilometers to accommodate millions of people, and the limitation of accommodation is reflected in the aspect of food.

At any time, Li Lan needs to ensure that there are more than one million tons of grain stored in the territory, which is already a very close to the limit of the limit, so in the next six months, this 1.2 million grain needs to be supplied for the grain consumption in the territory. Of course, this also includes helping refugees.

However, there is one point, that is, Li Lan obviously did not calculate in detail, that is, how much grain is in this 1.2 million tons. Next, Farah immediately gave an answer as soon as Li Lan's voice lagged down, so that Li Lan realized the true value of this batch of grain.

"One million tons multiplied by one thousand kilograms per ton, and after deducting the consumption of 0.5 kilograms per person per day, this one hundred and twenty tons of grain can meet the needs of five million people for four hundred and eighty days."

"Isn't there a mistake?" After Li Lan heard this, he was stunned for a moment, he hadn't calculated these things for a long time, and it was obvious that he hadn't calculated them first first. These days, Li Lan has been focusing on the development of the military aspect, and he has only thought about some general principles and detailed things about the problems of people's livelihood, but has not had an in-depth understanding of them.

"Absolutely not, these numbers are the result of my many calculations." Contrary to Li Lan, Farah cares about Somalis very much, and he very much wants to save one more Somali every day, so he is naturally very aware of these things.

"Is the 0.5 kilogram of grain in your calculation enough?" Li Lan frowned, eating one pound of grain a day, which was obviously not enough, but before Farah could answer, he said again: "However, according to this data, no matter what, this 1.2 million tons, used on five million people, can last for eight months." Enough is enough. ”

"What does the sir?" Muhammadi said.

"What I mean is very simple, we take as many refugees as we have. It's also my part. Li Lan directly decided.

"I'm going to treat all the Somalis xiexie you." Hearing Li Lan's words, Mohammadi and Farah, as well as the other six Somalis in the conference room, hurriedly got up and bowed to Li Lan to thank him.

Seeing their excited appearances, Li Lan didn't know what to say for a while.

As a patriot, Li Lan naturally admires those patriots, even if the love is not the same country. Because as a citizen, you can be dissatisfied with the country's regime, but you can't be patriotic, you can't help loving your own nation. (Gorgeous solemnly declares: This is the view of the protagonist and does not represent the view of Gorgeous.) All the criticism caused has nothing to do with gorgeousness. If you have different opinions, please go to Somalia and have a face-to-face exchange with Li Lan. Also, remind everyone: bring your own air tickets, and buy a few more copies of various personal insurances. In case of any accidents, Magnificence is not responsible. )

Perhaps seeing his own shadow in the eyes of these people, Li Lan pressed his hands, indicating that they could sit down, and said, "Actually, we are all the same kind of people. (To be continued......)