Homo sapiens.

Chapter 257 Non-Existent Transportation Channel
22, April 1.

Although Tianzhu and Assam have not officially ceased fighting, the two sides have a tacit understanding and each stopped the frontal exchange of fire.

However, Assam did not respond directly to Lucia's mediation, but chose to "close the country", blocked all borders, and arranged a large area of ​​​​minefields on the border.

The outside parties also feel very troublesome about the completely closed Assam region. Obviously, Assam's performance is not like the behavior of a normal force at all.

Hong Shavadi.

Yangon.

Inside the office building of COFCO's Hongshawadi branch.

Lai Shengli has obtained a lot of materials, and a special technical assistance team from China is also here at this time.

The leader of the aid team is a man with glasses.

"Manager Lai, what is the grain production and inventory of Hongshawadi this year?"

Lai Shengli put down the analysis report of satellite remote sensing: "This year, the rice in Hongshawadi can produce about 3000 million tons, and with the addition of corn, soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes, the total amount can reach 1.1 million tons."

He paused for a while and continued: "As for the inventory, Hongshawadi does not have an official reserve, but the reserves of the three major groups can actually be regarded as official reserves. According to the disclosed information, their grain reserves should be around 3300 million tons. .”

The man with glasses picked up the grain export analysis report of Hongshawadi, which listed the quantity, export destination and price of Hongshawadi grain exports.

According to the data collected by COFCO Group.

At present, Huaguo is the largest grain purchaser in Hongshawadi. The contract to be executed this year has reached 3263 million tons, including 1427 million tons of soybeans, 1130 million tons of corn, 27 tons of sweet sorghum, and 56 tons of peanuts. The rest is rice.

The second largest buyer is Persia, followed by Luzon, Xiba, and South Korea.

These procurement contracts are well-documented, so the man in glasses did not doubt their authenticity. What he really cares about is the 3300 million tons of grain in Hongshawadi's inventory.

After all, judging from the satellite remote sensing data, the farmland in the entire Assam region has been completely abandoned, and only a part of the valley plain in Zhuyu is still maintaining agricultural production.

You know, the entire Assam region plus Zhuyu has a population of 5500 million.

Such a large population needs to consume at least 1100 million tons of grain a year.

Now without agricultural production, how can Assam support a population of 5500 million?
Among the surrounding areas of Assam, only Hongshawadi can supply such a large amount of food, which is why the man with glasses came to Hongshawadi this time.

He has basically confirmed that Hong Shawadi is behind the scenes to support Assam's affairs, but 1100 million tons of grain is not a small amount.

The junction between Assam and Hongshawadi is basically a mountainous area, and there is not even a decent road. This makes the man in glasses very confused about how Hongshawadi transported food to Assam.

This is another reason why Tianzhu chose to temporarily truce.

After all, the 5500 million people do not farm by themselves, so even if Assam robbed the previous grain stocks, it would not last 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 deep thought.

Suddenly a thought came to the man with glasses: 'Could it be an underground tunnel? '

He thought of the fact that Assam was almost fully engaged in tunnels and small mountain villages at this time. Now the cities in Assam basically have no population.

Tens of millions of people live in the mountains and underground, which is really crazy, and it also shows that Assam's tunnel technology is good.

If a large number of tunnels can be dug in the mountainous area at the junction of Hongshawadi and Assam, it can indeed avoid satellite surveillance in the sky.

It’s just that the man with glasses estimated that Assam is now almost fully under the wartime mechanism, not only needs 1100 million tons of food, but also needs a lot of living supplies, guns and ammunition.

To meet this level of material transportation needs, the number of underground tunnels must be quite a lot.

The man with glasses checked the data of Huaguo last year with his mobile phone. The total length of the railway is 14.7 kilometers, and a total of 21 billion tons of goods were transported in 47.7 years.

Even if the railway transportation speed of Hongshawadi is the same as that of Huaguo Railway, it will need about 1000 kilometers of railway.

And this is an underground railway, the man with glasses felt his scalp tingle when he thought of the amount of work.

Thousands of kilometers away on the subway, the man in glasses laughed at himself, thinking too much, so he quickly threw this unrealistic idea out of his mind.

But apart from the possibility of importing the underground railway, he couldn't think of other possibilities.

It's also a conundrum plaguing intelligence agencies around the world.

Hongshawadi and Dongba, who are most likely to import food and supplies into Assam, have been carefully analyzed several times by major intelligence agencies, but still no problems have been found.

Obviously, the self-sufficiency rate of the Assam branch is difficult for the outside world to understand.

It seems that the population of 5500 million is a lot, but the more than 300 underground bases before the Assam branch can absorb a population of 1200 million.

The current expansion project is expected to increase the number of underground bases to more than 2400 within half a year, achieving the upper limit of the underground population of [-] million.

At the same time, the secret underground city (part of which is a doomsday base) hidden in the western mountainous area of ​​Hongshawadi can also accommodate a population of 800 to 1200 million.

On the surface, Zhuyu can accommodate a population of 300 million, and the underground base currently being expanded in Zhuyu can also accommodate a population of 500 million.

The rest of the population has established small villages in various mountainous areas.

By the end of this year, each small mountain village will build its own underground town one after another, and then go underground in an all-round way.

Assam's current grain reserves are partly based on the previous confiscation. About 1473 million tons of grain have been confiscated from the private sector. In addition to the 262 million tons of grain stored in various underground bases by the Assam branch, it is actually enough for such a large population. Been taking it for 18 months.

Each base itself can also produce food and various foods.

At present, the grain self-sufficiency rate of the Assam branch is about 31%, and it will increase to about 50% in June and 90% by the end of the year.

And this self-sufficiency rate is actually calculated on the basis of a population of 5500 million.

But in fact, there are about 1100 million people in the Assam branch living in the western mountains of Hongshawady, and this part of the population is supported by the Hongshawadi branch.

In other words, at the end of this year, the Assam branch actually has no pressure to support a population of 4400 million.

There is no need to import food from Hongshawadi at all.

Especially the dozens of bases near the Assam Oil and Gas Basin use the extracted gas to build dark plantations underground, which not only achieves self-sufficiency in food, but also produces a large amount of meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits .

The bases in mountainous areas are adapted to local conditions, such as underground hydropower for those with oil shale, and gas-fired power for those with oily shale.

If there is nothing in the hard place, don't expand the scale, just maintain the status quo for the time being.

From the outside, it seems that Assam has abandoned agricultural production. In fact, Assam's agricultural development is very fast.

After all, the production efficiency of organic matter such as starch and sucrose in the crops in the dark plantation is more than ten times that of conventional photosynthesis.

This means that under the same conditions, the production efficiency of indoor agriculture without light will be more than ten times higher than that of traditional indoor agriculture with light.

For the underground Assam branch, this kind of light-free indoor agriculture solves the shortage of underground space and improves energy utilization.

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