Chapter 256 Non-Existent Transportation Channel
22 years, January 16th.
Although India and Assam have not yet officially ceased hostilities, both sides have reached a tacit understanding and have stopped direct fighting.
However, Assam did not respond positively to Lucia's mediation, but chose to "close the country to the outside world", blocked all borders, and laid large minefields on the borders.
All parties outside also find the completely closed Assam region very difficult to deal with. Obviously, Assam's behavior is not like that of a normal force at all.
Hongsavadi.
Yangon.
The interior of the office building of COFCO Group’s Hongsawadi branch.
Lai Shengli obtained a lot of information, and a special technical assistance team from the country was also here at this time.
The leader of the aid team is a man wearing glasses.
"Manager Lai, what is the grain production and inventory in Hongsavadi this year?"
Lai Shengli put down the analysis report of satellite remote sensing: "This year, Hongsavadi can produce about 30 million tons of rice. Together with corn, soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes and the like, the total amount can reach 110 million tons."
He paused for a moment and continued, "As for the inventory, there is no official reserve warehouse in Hongsavadi, but the reserves of the three major groups can actually be considered official reserves. According to the disclosed information, their grain reserves should be around 33 million tons."
The man with glasses picked up Hongsavadi's grain export analysis report, which listed the quantity, export destination and price of Hongsavadi's grain exports.
Based on data from various sources collected by COFCO Group.
Currently, China is the largest grain purchaser in Hongsavadi. The contract to be executed this year reaches 32.63 million tons, including 14.27 million tons of soybeans, 11.3 million tons of corn, 270,000 tons of sweet sorghum, 560,000 tons of peanuts, and the rest are rice.
The second largest purchaser was Persia, followed by Luzon, West Pakistan, and South Korea.
These purchase contracts are well documented, so the man with glasses did not doubt their authenticity. What he really cared about was the 33 million tons of grain in stock in Hongsavadi.
After all, according to satellite remote sensing data, farmland in the entire Assam region has been completely abandoned, and only a part of the river valley plains in Zhuyu still maintains agricultural production.
You know, the entire Assam region plus India has a population of 55 million.
Such a large population requires at least 11 million tons of food per year.
Without agricultural production, how will Assam feed its 55 million people?
Among the areas surrounding Assam, only Hongsawadi can supply such a large amount of food, which is why the man with glasses came to Hongsawadi this time.
He has basically confirmed that it was Hongsavadi who was supporting Assam in causing trouble behind the scenes, but 11 million tons of grain is not a small amount.
The border between Assam and Honsawadi is basically mountainous, and there is not even a decent road. This makes the man with glasses very confused as to how Honsawadi transports food to Assam.
This is another reason why Tianzhu chose to temporarily cease fire.
After all, 55 million people don’t farm themselves, so even if Assam grabs the previous food reserves, it will certainly not last long.
India is waiting for Assam to collapse on its own and then take the opportunity to regain lost territory.
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 situation in Assam, which was now almost completely covered with tunnels and small mountain villages. Now, the cities in Assam were basically empty of people.
It is really crazy that tens of millions of people live in the mountains and underground, and it also shows that Assam has good tunnel technology.
If a large number of tunnels could be dug in the mountainous area at the border between Honsawadi and Assam, it would indeed be possible to avoid satellite reconnaissance from the sky.
The man with glasses made an estimate and found that since Assam is now almost completely in a wartime mechanism, it will not only need 11 million tons of food, but also a large amount of daily necessities, guns and ammunition.
In order to meet this level of material transportation needs, there must be a large number of underground tunnels.
The man with glasses casually checked China's data for last year on his mobile phone. The total length of railways was 147,000 kilometers, and a total of 4.77 billion tons of goods were transported in 21 years.
Even if Hongsavadi's railway transportation speed is the same as that of China's railways, it will still require about 1,000 kilometers of railways.
Moreover, this was an underground railway. When the man with glasses thought about the scale of the project, his scalp suddenly went numb.
On the subway for thousands of kilometers, the man with glasses laughed at himself, thinking that he was thinking too much, and quickly threw this unrealistic idea out of his mind.
But apart from the possibility of input from the subway, he could not think of any other possibility.
This is also a difficult problem that plagues intelligence agencies around the world.
Honsawadi and Donba, which were the most likely places to import food and supplies into Assam, were carefully analyzed several times by major intelligence agencies, but no problems were found.
Obviously, the self-sustainability rate of the Assam division is difficult for outsiders to understand.
55 million people may seem like a lot, but the more than 300 underground bases in the Assam branch can absorb 12 million people.
The current expansion project is expected to increase the number of underground bases to more than one thousand within half a year, achieving the upper limit of the underground population of 24 million.
At the same time, the secret underground city hidden in the western mountains of Hongsavadi (part of which is the doomsday base) can also accommodate 8 to 12 million people.
Zhuyu can accommodate 3 million people on the surface, and the underground base currently being expanded in Zhuyu can accommodate 5 million people.
The remaining population settled in various mountainous areas and established small villages.
By the end of this year, each small mountain village will gradually build its own underground town and then move completely underground.
Part of Assam ’s current food reserves come from previous confiscations. About 14.73 million tons of food were confiscated from the public. Together with the 2.62 million tons of food previously stored by the Assam branch in various underground bases, this is actually enough to feed so many people for 18 months.
Each base can also produce grain and various foods.
At present, the food grain self-sufficiency rate of Assam division is about 31%, which will increase to about 50% in June and about 90% by the end of the year.
This self-sufficiency rate is actually calculated based on a population of 55 million.
But in fact, there are about 11 million people of Assam division living in the western mountainous area of Hongsawadi, and this part of the population is supported by the Hongsawadi division.
That is to say, by the end of this year, the Assam division will not be under any pressure to feed a population of 44 million.
There is absolutely no need to import grain from Hongsavadi.
In particular, the dozens of bases near the Assam oil and gas basin use the extracted gas to develop large-scale dark , which not only achieves food self-sufficiency, but also produces large quantities of meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits.
The bases in mountainous areas are designed according to local conditions, with underground hydropower being used where possible, and gas-fired power generation being used where there is oil shale.
For a miserable place with nothing, don't expand the scale, just maintain the status quo for the time being.
To the outside world, it seems that Assam has abandoned agricultural production, but in fact, Assam's agriculture is developing very rapidly.
After all, the efficiency of crops in lightless plantations in producing organic matter such as starch and sucrose is more than ten times that of conventional photosynthesis.
This means that under the same conditions, the production efficiency of lightless indoor agriculture will be more than ten times higher than that of traditional lighted indoor agriculture.
For the Assam division, which is underground, this lightless indoor farming solves the problem of insufficient underground space and improves energy utilization.
