In fact, Colonel Kravchenko didn't ask for money just for his own enjoyment, although there was part of the reason, after all, he also wanted to live in a comfortable house in Afghanistan, enjoy hot springs, food, and even have his own hunting ground.

However, the colonel knew that everything in Afghanistan was virtual, he could not grasp it, people would eventually return to their homeland, and the colonel had not returned to Moscow for almost a decade since he was exiled.

If nothing else, when the Soviet troops in Afghanistan return home, the colonel may have to return to Central Asia to become a local commander, but the colonel does not want to go back, he wants to return to Moscow.

Relying on the previous relationship between the army and the army, Colonel Karavchenko can be regarded as a line with the old men in Moscow, but if he wants to ask someone to help him fall back, he still needs enough benefits.

The vodka and caviar enjoyed by the senior officers did not fall from the sky, as well as the jewels and limousines that their wives needed, these things will not be available to everyone, and if you want to get them, you must have money.

The colonel wants to return to Moscow and seek an equivalent position there, unless he can make a major military achievement, it will cost at least 500,000 rubles, which is not a small amount for the colonel, you must know that the ruble is worth more than the dollar at this time, and the exchange rate between the two sides has reached 1 to 0.9, that is, one dollar is 0.9 rubles.

So, this 500,000 rubles is not 500,000 dollars!

In order to scrape money, the colonel decided to first carry out a large-scale martial law and rebellion in his own control area.

It just so happened that the previous attack gave him a very good excuse.

So, the 444th Regiment rushed into the villages and towns like a wolf and arrested all the suspicious people that the soldiers saw.

Many ordinary Afghan civilians were among them, and many of them even met with Soviet soldiers, but they were retaliated against for not greeting them or letting them eat for nothing.

The 444th Regiment captured about three hundred people and then imprisoned them in the prison where the regimental headquarters was stationed.

Although generally speaking, the judicial power will not be delegated to the military units, because it is easy to go wrong, and the army has not received relevant similar training, such as interrogation, sentencing, detention, etc., you must know that prisoners of war and criminals are two completely different concepts, and cannot be unified, but the grassroots governance of the Afghan government is completely paralyzed, so these things can only be left in the hands of the Soviets.

And the consequence of this is that in the absence of evidence, only on suspicion, the Soviets, in the name of the *** partisans, sentenced these more than 300 people, all to twenty years.

There are no courts, no lawyers, no judges, just the announcement of orders.

The prison where the convicts were held did not actually function as a prison, but was a rudimentary camp of a prison cell and a wind-free playground, surrounded by barbed wire and machine-gun towers, surrounded by armored vehicles and military dogs.

The prisoners have little room to move around here, they can't take a shower, and eating is also a problem, because there is no dedicated kitchen, so what the prisoners eat depends on what the kitchen does that day, and if they are lucky, there are meat bones and bread, and if they are unlucky, there is only clear soup and slices of brown bread.

This was also deliberately done by Colonel Kravchenko, as he also set up a small kitchen for the locals, where prisoners were required to spend money to buy normal, satisfying food.

And in addition to spending money on the kitchen, Kravchenko prepared additional blankets, tents, etc. Again, you need to buy with money.

That wasn't all, after holding the prisoners for a while, Kravchenko asked an Afghan interpreter to deliver messages to the prisoners' families.

If you want them to come back safely, then you must first pay a high ransom, and the price is not too expensive, and you can make up enough by emptying their family funds and then selling their sons and daughters, smashing pots and selling iron.

This is an astronomical amount of money for many Afghans, and it may take them ten or twenty years to earn it, but now, in order to bring back the labor force at home, the families of those prisoners can no longer take care of it.

And even so, there are many prisoners who really have no money at home, so,

The prisoners were taken to the mines, where they worked day and night to dig stones.

Kravchenko has made up his mind to squeeze every cent of the value of the zone under his control, it is not right or wrong, it is only about interests, and if he wants to return to Moscow, then he can only do whatever it takes.

But even so, there is still not much oil and water that can be squeezed out, and it is necessary to count the profits to his subordinates, etc., Kravchenko is not a person who eats alone, especially to do these jobs, he must rely on his soldiers, so his soldiers can also get a penny.

This money can't be saved, the destructive power of the big-headed soldiers with guns is very amazing, and throughout the ages, it goes without saying what happens to the wages owed to the army, so many living examples are in front of you.

Kravchenko didn't dare, he could show off his might here, relying on the army in his hand, so no matter what happened, he would not treat the army badly.

But if you don't treat the army badly, your wallet will be bad, so Kravchenko finally decided that the wool came out of the sheep, so in order to make his official fortune prosperous, he had to do something that he had never dared to do before.

He decided to start with the warehouses of the 444th regiment!

When Kravchenko was shopping with Xiaomi, he noticed that there were reselling Soviet military boots and tools for sappers on the streets of Afghanistan, and the business was still very hot, the combat uniforms of the Soviet army were wear-resistant and lightweight, and the boots were also very comfortable, so many Afghans would secretly buy a pair for their own use.

Some of these items were second-hand products collected by Afghans, sewn and repaired, and then sold, or they were spare parts bought from Soviet soldiers.

But no matter how it came about, the Afghans would buy it equally, so Kravchenko was going to resell a batch of quilted military boots from the warehouse first.

And the logistics director, who was his confidant, was also shocked when he learned his thoughts, because there were a lot of supplies, and if something went wrong halfway, then everyone would not be able to eat and walk around.

However, Kravchenko has made up his mind, and his subordinates can't persuade him, plus the profits are indeed huge, as long as the action is secretive enough, they don't have to share this money with others, just take it themselves.

Also, the Minister of Logistics also gritted his teeth and clapped his hands to join in.

"We're going to wash our hands when we're done!"