Chapter 144 Weird Relationship

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"It's so lively today."

A leisurely voice came from the gate of the base, and Chao Leizhen, who looked like a pair of gentle glasses, walked in with gentle steps.

Today is indeed very lively, there is one more hero who teaches, and in a few days, I am afraid that the four heroes of the PLA regular army's sea, land and air missiles will also appear one after another.

The current Cai Ruichen can already imagine the lively scene in the base in the future.

However, the relaxed atmosphere suddenly became tense because of the urgent document in Chao Leizhen's hand.

Everyone dispersed in an orderly manner, leaving Chao Leizhen a straight line to walk towards Cai Ruichen.

"what happened?"

After receiving the urgent document, Cai Ruichen asked habitually, and immediately opened the document to read it.

Although the information was clearly written, Chao Leizhen still replied: "The Islamic State left Tikrit in groups of 20,000 troops at eight o'clock in the evening, and the Islamic State was lurking in Samarra in advance The militants also launched a surprise attack on the Iraqi National Defense Forces stationed in Samarra, and Samarra is currently fully involved in the war."

"Sure enough, I can't sit still anymore. Tell Idris to come to me as soon as possible." Cai Ruichen closed the intelligence document, gave Chao Leizhen an order, and then said: "Let all the soldiers of the security company be promoted to Level 3 combat readiness."

Chao Leizhen took the order and sat down on the sofa, tapping the armrest of the sofa with his fingers.

"Sure enough, the Islamic State really can't sit still." Natasha said with a serious expression on her face.

When Cai Ruichen heard the words, he just nodded calmly. It is reasonable for the Islamic State to be unable to sit still.

Everyone including him can see that the situation in the occupied area of ​​the Islamic State, which is under economic pressure from all sides, is not very stable.

Even the tribes that traded on the Silk Road in the territory occupied by the Islamic State. They all purchased a large amount of food in Baghdad, which also shows that the war is on the verge of breaking out.

In the past four months, Cai Ruichen has been studying the current economic situation of the Islamic State, and has come up with a very difficult data for the Islamic State.

The first one is that the military scale of the Islamic State has grown to 80,000.

The rigid expenditure of military expenditure alone has reached one billion U.S. dollars every year.

It includes soldiers' salaries and training costs, but does not include war costs.

But this one billion is the most basic rigid expenditure, and not a penny is missing.

Otherwise, the army without military pay will be dispersed immediately, and all the ruling forces will be disbanded. will quickly disappear.

The Islamic State's financial source is mainly oil dumping, which is only 20 to 30 US dollars per barrel. At the beginning, it could bring about 500 US dollars in income for the Islamic State every day.

But now I am afraid that there is not even two million US dollars, because Russia's non-stop air strikes on those oil vehicles have blocked the oil sales channels of the Islamic State.

Oil revenues have fallen, and it is not enough to even meet the most basic military expenses of the Islamic State.

Of course, the income of the Islamic State does not depend entirely on oil exports. The real bulk is the taxation in the occupied areas.

The people in the occupied areas are against the rule of the Islamic State. In fact, there was no resistance. Instead, many unemployed young people joined the army of the Islamic State.

But these are all conditional. First of all, you are a government in an occupied area. If you want the people not to oppose your rule, the most basic points must be done, that is, to ensure the most basic social service guarantee.

Basic social security mainly includes fuel, domestic water and electricity, education and commodities needed for basic life.

And this aspect is exactly what the Islamic State lacks, because the Islamic State does not have many technicians and workers to provide operating conditions for enterprises that provide basic living facilities for citizens in the occupied areas.

At the beginning, in the area occupied by the Islamic State. There is a very interesting phenomenon.

ISIS militants occupy a city, but they will not destroy those power stations or water factories, but will send troops to protect these factories and the workers inside.

Enables power generation and water supply in the occupied area. maintain normal operation.

But they will not pay the wages of these workers, but let the Iraqi government pay.

Interestingly, the Iraqi government also agreed to pay all the benefits, wages, and pensions of these private industrial workers in the occupied areas every month. There is no shortage of bonuses.

The most interesting thing is that the money first went to the hands of the Islamic State, and then paid by the people of the Islamic State.

The Islamic State directly deducts half of it as a so-called tax, and then gives the remaining wages and bonuses, as well as the cost of operating the factory, to the factory.

In the beginning, the Islamic State was able to use this method to collect almost $400 million a year from Iraq and Syria.

Some people may call the Iraqi and Syrian governments idiots, but they are not, because the national water conservancy and power grid structures in Iraq and Syria are supported by the power plants and reservoirs in the Islamic State-occupied areas.

If they stop the wages and maintenance costs of these factories, the national electricity and water supply in those two countries will not be guaranteed.

Comparing the paralysis of water conservancy and power grids across the country, even if it seems strange, it is an unavoidable fact.

This weird aspect also includes the tacit understanding between the two parties in terms of taxation. The business taxes collected by the Islamic State in the occupied areas, and the tax payment certificates issued by the Iraqi government will also be recognized by the Iraqi government, and no additional taxes will be collected.

After the Iraqi government's commercial convoys have issued the Iraqi government's business tax certificate, the Islamic State will not collect additional taxes.

Therefore, in Iraq and Syria, there is no obstacle to commerce at all, because any party knows that business taxation must be stable.

Only then did such a weird scene take place in Iraq and Syria, even if it was the Kurdish armed forces or the rebels in Syria.

It's a weird scene, but if it can be maintained continuously, the lives of the people will not be greatly affected. Of course, this is to exclude those cities that have been completely destroyed by the war.

However, the Iraqi government, which has been taken advantage of for several years, quit the business and directly cut off the monthly wages and benefits that were routinely provided to the Islamic State-occupied areas.

The Islamic State itself has no money to pay for the operation of those factories, which has caused most of the power plants and water companies to stop providing electricity and drinking water to the people.

In just two months, it has almost reached a very harsh point, and the people in the occupied area are also full of complaints. (To be continued.)