At dawn the next day, Joga entered Zaranj in a van carrying wedding supplies.

As a small city on the border between Ajan Khan and Iran, Zaranj's prosperity is a bit beyond Boss Joe's expectations.

It's a 'landless land' in the heart of Balochistan, and then the economy underneath has spawned a strange boom.

Joga sat in the compartment of the van and watched the street through the gauze......

The roads in Zaranj are very dilapidated, but some of the commercial houses along the sides of the road look relatively new.

All kinds of vendors set up stalls along the street, and people bargained loudly, although it was not full of people, but there was a real sense of prosperity.

Theoretically, Zaranj belongs to Apoor Khan, but at this stage, Ta Lban obviously does not have the ability to take over here, so it has become a three-way zone.

And then this three-regardless zone actually gave rise to a peculiar prosperity scene.

With the economic benefits generated by the drug trade as the core, the traders who travel between Iran and Pakistan provide ample channels for various organizations and tribes to trade goods.

Joga was also well-informed, but Zaranj still impressed him.

Any prosperity in the world that thrives on the drug economy is false and unsustainable.

Theoretically, it's all money, and as long as you are willing to invest, a city will naturally change for the better.

But in fact, none of the farmers who feed their families on opium poppy cultivation, the tribes who buy raw opium, the warlords who refine and wholesale HLY, the middlemen who smuggle HLY, none of the people in this chain who are related to Zaranj have ever thought of changing the face of Zaranji......

Infrastructure!

This is the biggest difference between a real government organization and a rabble.

Maybe they also know in their hearts that their 'career' will not last long, so they don't care about infrastructure at all, for fear that after investing in it, they will lose the price of others.

The prosperity of Zaranj is naturally formed because of demand, and it will naturally decay due to changes in demand.

The prosperity that Joga saw along the way seemed to indicate that Zaranj had not been affected much by the war in the west, but the people who stopped to chat around the shisha parlouns on the street always looked worried.

Throughout Zaranj, there is a sense of the Republic of China in the movie, where ordinary people are too busy to pay attention to the outside world, the roads are full of street children and beggars, and the dilapidated public infrastructure is in stark contrast to the luxury of private buildings.

In contrast to the ignorance of the common people, the upper echelons of society are exchanging information with friends and looking for the next way out.

In this environment of obvious class separation, the substitution of order by violence becomes the key to restraining the environment from sliding into chaos.

The streets are littered with men in the prime of life with eyeliner and guns, and only locals can tell which group or tribe they belong to.

These armed forces divided Zaranj into many pieces, forming a social system of mutual constraints.

People generally don't mess around in this kind of system, because no one can control it.

Joga was huddled in the back of the van with Dorian and Ayew in a sack-like cape.

Through the sackcloth on the window, Joga pointed to a flatbed truck towed by a man and said, "It's only fucking good ......"

Dorian followed Joga's finger and saw that it was a middle-aged man dragging a cart loaded with raw opium, and there were three children in the car, two men and one woman, the oldest of whom was not more than 10 years old, and the youngest was estimated to be only 3 or 4 years old.

This is a common occurrence in Zaranj, and even more often is the man being 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 the western part of the country is completely over.

However, it is not without good points, that is, the price of raw opium is rising, and these armed groups are not only offering good prices but also providing some services in order to compete for supplies......"

Qiao Jia looked at a few militants who were following the middle-aged man, urging 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', but now they have to send people to the countryside and let people watch the goods come up......"

Dorian said indifferently: "Boss, this is good for your plan, you must know that the price of raw opium has doubled in order to satisfy Moussa Suleiman's demands.

We have dragged on long enough that the farmers in Balochistan have basically sold all the raw opium they have in their homes.

Now they have money in their hands, and as long as we can guarantee the supply of food in the market, we can stabilize the farmers.

Isn't that what you want? ”

Qiao Jia listened, nodded slightly and said, "I didn't expect the Western War to improve the service quality of these drug lords, which is also a good thing."

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

Dorian has always been a little incomprehensible to Boss Joe's 'generosity', but he has long been accustomed to the 'Boss's Miracle' after such a long time......

Because every time he feels that the boss is wasting money, the boss will have a huge gain.

When there are more such things, everyone is used to indulging the boss's 'waste'.

Just when the vehicle was too far away and the middle-aged man dragging the flatbed truck turned into a side side road, the van in front of it suddenly stopped and began to accelerate and reverse backwards.

Before Boss Qiao, who was following behind, they heard a series of gunshots coming from the branch road......

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

At the same time as AK's gunfire rang out, Ronnie, Medic Bird, and Rhinoceros, who were sitting in the van, rushed out of the car and began to fight back......

The three were very experienced, and instead of sitting in the car and being beaten passively, they got out of the car and suppressed the enemy with the help of the cover of the surrounding bunkers, giving the van time to retreat.

However, just as the van was out of the enemy's firing range and began to make a U-turn, another wave of enemies appeared from their right rear......

At the same time, a group of people appeared in the left rear of Joga's car......

When the group of people who were closer to Boss Joe and them shot, Joga finally realized what was happening......

The bullet was not aimed at the van, but the 7.62-millimeter bullet hit the three children sitting on the flatbed truck and then extended backwards, sending the armed men who were escorting the van into flight.

Seeing the three ignorant children, the flesh and blood fell to the car in an instant, Qiao Jialeng was stunned for a moment.

Realizing that he might be unlucky enough to be involved in a battle for raw opium, he decisively pulled up the hat from his cloak and pulled the car door open......

"Get out of the car, kill them, all ......"

(End of chapter)