Section 429 Investigation
When I opened the homepage of the document, lines of shocking words suddenly came into Zhao Zhikai's eyes.
The daily food rations for refugees around Jingyi Base were not truly implemented from the beginning. Almost all warehouses just took out a little something to deal with. Since the production of materials in the base city came from underground farms, there was almost no problem of expiration and deterioration. Despite this, people still tampered with the food distributed to refugees.
The officers of the general logistics management department purchased large quantities of mutant organisms from the front-line combat troops at extremely low prices. Due to military order control, this process is certainly impossible to be public to public, but the wealthy consortium intervenes, and undertakes the cargo transportation and exchange of goods between the two places. Taking each kilogram of mutant organisms as an example, the procurement price of the general logistics department from the wealthy consortium is about twice the average price. According to relevant regulations, the front-line troops must extract relevant glands from the killed mutant organisms to make energy potions.
Apart from this, the bodies have no effect anymore. After all, not all troops are 505 Army, and not all bases and cities are as short of food as the new Guiyang base. Although the meat of mutant creatures is harmless to humans, few people within the military are interested in them. The wealthy consortium transported a large pile of carrion that had been picked up by no means to the Beijing No. 1 base, exchanged money from the logistics managers, and then took out a part to bribe the front-line troops officers to ensure the smooth transportation route and maintain this good deal for a long time.
A large amount of canned food, bacon, and ham are produced in this case. Of course, the outer packaging still has words such as "braised pork" and "high-quality ham". In the raw material ratio table, the main ingredients used for production are either live pigs or cattle and sheep.
No one tasted the difference between this canned food and real pork products. The ingredients for lunch meat were ground finely, and the meat pieces in the braised meat can be made of large pigs and beefs. Their muscle fibers were almost no different from the original edible species. These canned foods were sent to the front line supply troops and included in the list of refugees who were given to the base city. After a while, more pigs and cattle and sheep were released from the cages at the underground farm of Jingyi Base. They were still sent to the meat processing plant, and after being slaughtered, they were transported out of the city in a frozen state, becoming expensive collections in the freezing warehouse of the wealthy consortium.
Of course, these fresh meats are not given in vain. In order to get them, the wealthy consortium must pay a lot of money. The frozen meat will soon enter the hotels, bars and entertainment venues in various base cities and be sold at a high price. In this world, some people starve to death, and there are always some people who have no worries about food and clothing, and they even don’t want to eat any ghostly mutant creatures. Taking Jing No. 1 as an example, there are many wealthy Islamists in the Civilian Area A. Even in the collapse of civilized society, they still abide by the rules, believe in Allah, and eat the so-called cleanest food in the Quran.
As the only legal currency recognized by the United Nations, blue coins can be circulated anywhere in the world. Its currency value is very strong. Compared with peacetime periods, the purchasing power of 2,000 yuan is equivalent to about 10,000 yuan. Of course, this comparison is still based on the commodity selling price in the domestic market at that time.
The premise of being absolutely impossible to over-issuing currency ensures the stability of the blue coins in the minds of users. Strictly speaking, the monthly salary received by officers and soldiers can fully meet daily needs. Taking Jing No. 1 base as an example, there are a large number of cinemas and amusement parks inside. The broadcast of the video is of course an old work in peacetime, and all kinds of entertainment projects in the amusement park are video games. In addition, there is also a spacious virtual scene viewing room. It is a kind of use of light movie imaging technology and preset electronic image synthesizers to form virtual scenes in a fixed space, making people feel like they are in a special viewing mode in different natural environments such as seashores, mountains, snow fields. All scenes are fake, but the scenery seen by the naked eye is very real, which can create immersive pleasure and satisfaction.
In some areas far away from abandoned cities, such as real seasides and tourist areas, the military also set up cordons to turn them into internal cultivation areas to meet the needs of tired officers and soldiers.
All these entertainment programs are free to military members. According to convention, such facilities must first meet the troops who retire from the front line to rest. Due to the large number of monks and low porridge, the per capita rotation period is as long as more than three months. In contrast, soldiers are more willing to spend dozens of dollars to get a D or computer from an abandoned city from a black market in civilian areas, and then they can see whatever they want. Even there are many foreign TV series that were banned during peacetime.
This is just one aspect of daily entertainment.
Bars and nightclubs are still the favorite places for officers and soldiers to go to. There are wine and women there. Maybe they are not very beautiful, but they are very revealing in their clothes, and they are coquettish enough. Men actually like this type of people who take the initiative to show off their charm in front of them, want to refuse, and welcome them, so that you can hug them but cannot get real satisfaction.
All this requires money. Although bars and nightclubs are opened by wealthy consortiums, they also have absolute obedience and fear of the military. But this mentality is only for senior figures like Zhao Zhikai. People like brigade generals or division commanders can have limited free orders in nightclubs, and occasionally receive free services of about 100,000 yuan a few times. If the boundary of enjoyment exceeds, they have to pay for the extra figures themselves.
The wealthy consortium is not a charity and influence. Everything they do is for profit. This has been like this since the early days of ancient civilization, and it has not changed yet.
Even if senior officers are like this, the lower-level officers and soldiers can be imagined.
There are indeed many memories worthy of nostalgia in peacetime. For example, beer, although there is a separate beer manufacturer inside the Jing-1 base, which specializes in the supply of the troops. However, this beer is far less tasteful and taste than civilian products in peacetime. For example, beer, dark beer, draft beer, and subtle category differences will never appear in military products. For example, barbecue and ham, the bacon slices and roasted ham in the bar taste delicious, the heat is just right, especially the hot oil slowly overflows on the tip of the tongue, and the special taste of the teeth biting the shredded meat is not comparable to the monotonous lunch meat.
Many soldiers like to see sexy dancers wearing miniskirts and mesh stockings. The army will never allow female soldiers to provide them with such services, and the base clothing factory will not produce sexy underwear. All of this requires the so-called "material recycling team" to be organized by the wealthy consortium to obtain from abandoned cities.
Now even fools know that monsters are everywhere in abandoned cities. There has become the most dangerous place in the world. The more dangerous the area, the greater the value of the goods, and this rule is always true. Under the stimulation of the heavy-priced banknotes from the wealthy consortium, some people who are desperate to go to the abandoned cities for profit. Naturally, the high heels brought out from it are often covered with blood, and sexy underwear may be the trophy obtained by a living person as bait. There are also valuable diamond and gold jewelry, as well as brand leather bags, lighters, and various luxury goods that are extremely expensive in peacetime.
In short, as long as you have enough money, you can buy them in the underground market of the base city, you can taste any kind of good wine in the bar, and you can ask any woman to come and play with it at nightclubs.
This is the magic of money, which has not changed from ancient times to the present.
The wealthy consortium is very clear about the needs of subordinate officers and soldiers. Although many consortiums have been preparing since peacetime, they always have shortcomings in living and so on. The most direct manifestation is weapons and ammunition.
Secretly purchasing weapons from subordinate officers and soldiers has become the best way for many wealthy consortiums to accumulate equipment. Many soldiers and logistics managers are desperate about the future and their lives are extremely empty. Controlled weapons such as 30mm caliber single-soldier cannons are easily sold. A large-caliber shell can be exchanged for a wonderful night's enjoyment in a nightclub. The battlefield first aid kit is a shortage of goods that are scrambled by everyone on the black market. Anyone may catch a cold and get sick. Now that there is no hospital, the only way to obtain antibiotics is the army.
As for the rations that were supposed to be distributed to refugees outside the city, they are also one of the best sources of profits.
Although the military ration tastes average, the energy and quality are absolutely guaranteed. Although the wealthy consortium has its own farms, it also stores a considerable amount of military rations to provide them to their respective hunters and mercenaries. Once the rations leave the base city, they will be replaced by the rice and flour prepared by the wealthy consortium in advance. Since sufficient benefits must be given to the handling personnel during the exchange process, taking a ton of commonly used compressed cakes as an example, it can only be exchanged for about 700 kilograms of rice and flour.
If the amount of rations is insufficient, the personnel responsible for distributing can of course have a way to settle the food. The most common method is to use pre-calculated methods to evaluate the weight of dry flour and added moisture, and then steam and cook the dough according to proportions, using the actual weight of the molded steamed buns or noodles as the per capita standard for distribution. All calculations and deductions are carried out under computer simulation. After this calculation, one thousand kilograms of flour can actually get about 1,500 kilograms of food. The extra excess is of course swallowed by logistics personnel privately, and the energy consumed in cooking food is completely left to the refugees. In other words, the military is only responsible for distributing rice and flour. As for the method of taking specific consumption, it is entirely your own business.
Even so, refugees still cannot get enough food quotas. On the day when the quota notice was issued by the military headquarters, the distribution of refugee food was monopolized by gangs and groups outside the city. They controlled all the order and traffic routes of the sub-site, and reached an agreement with the officers and soldiers who transported the food. They were responsible for unloading goods from trucks, unboxing and distributing food, and filling out the names on the daily food collection form. The officers and soldiers had nothing to do, and they were very satisfied that someone would take the initiative to help them share these troubles. Of course, everyone knew that gangs and civil groups would definitely benefit from it. As a reward for officers and soldiers, they could get blue coins based on the specific amount of goods. If they did not want banknotes, they could also enjoy free of charge in bars, nightclubs and other places opened by gangs in the city.
In this case, the refugees actually get very few rations. According to the initial standards, adult men and women can get 700 grams of staple food, 100 grams of meat (canned and other cooked products), 200 grams of vegetables, 20 grams of fat, 5 grams of sugar, and 10 grams of salt per person per day. But the reality is that the amount of rations for refugees is only one-quarter of this standard, or even less.
Zhao Zhikai has forgotten how long he has watched it.
The document is very long, and all the examples listed are very detailed. Zhao Zhikai had enough time to think about a lot of things. There was no expression on his face, and it was as tight as a dead person. His body began to heat up uncontrollably, because the blood flowed faster by anger. The strange red gradually covered the whole face, so that your adjutant, who was standing opposite the desk, noticed it. He quickly turned on the air conditioner in the room, turned on the ventilation fan, and the cold breeze blew on his face and body, which made Zhao Zhikai slightly calm down and let calmness gradually reduce his anger and extinguish it.
The initial idea was good. Zhao Zhikai wanted more refugees to be protected and to eat enough so that they would not be starved to death.
But the people below don't think so. As long as there is a hierarchy in human society, corruption will have enough breeding grounds. The means of changing materials inside and outside the army is clever, and outsiders will not understand the difference. Refugees will not understand the difference between steamed buns and compressed cakes, nor will they investigate the special taste of canned braised pork and mutated biological lunch meat. They have been hungry since the beginning of the biological war. Although the rations obtained from the gangsters are pitifully small, many people have already felt satisfied.
The special classes within the base city still exist. The most terrifying and special one is religion.
As a cultural basis for unanimous decision to protect before the outbreak of the virus, several major religious scriptures and specific representatives entered the base city. Taking Shi Quanzhong, the original host of Shaolin Temple, as an example, he brought a total of five disciples and built it into a temple model in the residential area of the base city. Of course, it is impossible to sculpture the golden body of Daxing wood and earth. Shi Quanzhong and others just used several tablets and valuables such as gold Buddha in the original temple as worship. The daily rations of these monks are vegetarian dishes and rice noodles. However, the report shows that starting three years ago, Shi Quanzhong and others only used several tablets in the original temple, such as gold Buddha, as sacrifices. The daily rations of these monks are vegetarian dishes and rice noodles. However, the report shows that since three years ago, Shi
Quanzhong and others recruited believers in the base city. The way of doing asceticism in this life is very popular among many civilians and officers and soldiers. The following five disciples of Shi Quanzhong are respected as "living Buddhas". They have long been disdainful of the cabbage and carrots they have given. The room is filled with fungus, monkey erectus mushrooms, refined bean curds, and kelp that believers worship... It is said that Shi Quanzhong himself has a very picky taste and must have mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots at each meal. Although his disciples preach Buddhism, they often go to bars and nightclubs.
Even if the world is destroyed, there are always some extremely precious things that need to be preserved. For example, "The Smile of Mona Lisa", a brick on the Great Wall, and an exquisite stone sculpture in the Acropolis of Athens... Their symbolic meaning far exceeds their actual value. The reason for leaving religion before the outbreak of the virus is entirely due to the same principle. They have existed on the earth for thousands of years. As long as the seeds are left, they can sprout and reproduce again after the war is over.
Reality has been far from the initial consideration. Zhao Zhikai has always felt that the environment is the biggest factor that changes human thinking and even beliefs. The most devout Islamists are indeed worthy of respect. They would rather starve to death than eat pork. But after all, not everyone has the awareness of burning and martyrdom. People who are starving to the point of dying will always develop the instinct for survival. They will look for various excuses to eat meat to survive. This is definitely not a sin, but a reality that should be understood, forgiven, recognized, and even pity.
Look at the true faces of these so-called "people of Allah", "Christians" and "Sakya followers" in the base city. Each person provides half a kilogram of beef and mutton every month, but they feel that the meat is not fresh enough and try every means to get live sheep and cattle from the logistics management department and slaughter them privately.
The number of people attending the weekly mass is increasing, and the so-called clergy publicly distributes food to deceive more people into believing in God. Most of the food is obtained from outside the city by despicable means, and it was originally a ration for refugees.
There are also bald monks in the temple. They may have forgotten how to recite scriptures, and their minds are full of alcohol and women. This is definitely not a basisless attack. Someone once saw Shi Quanzhong's disciple in a nightclub at the No. 1 base in Beijing. The guy was wearing a expensive leather jacket, wigs and sunglasses, and sat with a bunch of dancers wearing heavy makeup. He felt that no one could see through his true face, but the surveillance screen recorded all this.
Zhao Zhikai's main energy is focused on the military and combat. If it weren't for the problem with the distribution of materials a few months ago, it wouldn't have attracted his attention. However, looking at the shocking report in his hand, he felt a sense of decadent powerlessness. He really wanted to do something to completely change the current situation. However, even though he had already sat at the high position that everyone dreamed of, he still felt restricted.
Should we eliminate all the cancers in the base city? Can we kill all these people?
Chapter completed!