From arms dealer to king of war

With the addition of the 'Knife Squad', Qiao Jia's manpower is sufficient.

Of the three locations, Sharp Knife, Jazz and Team A led by Boss Joe are responsible for one each.

The three teams each lead a PB support group of 10 people. The Russians recruited by these "jackals" from their hometown are actually not bad.

Compared with the job-hopping Wagner who stayed in Tobruk to work, they even had a slight advantage in technology and equipment.

The three groups set out at ten o'clock and rushed towards their respective targets.

Qiao Jia chose a residential building near the center of Newark, New Jersey...

It took about an hour to drive from P·B Farm, and they arrived at the scheduled location.

It's almost midnight now...

Qiao Jia and the others sat in a low-key business car and passed through the dirty streets. Finally, they stopped on a driveway sandwiched between a community and a low-rise commercial street. Opposite was a dense low-end community.

There are really few cars on the road in downtown Newark, and those who occasionally pass by seem to be in a hurry.

The large number of homeless people, buddies wandering the streets, street girls standing under street lights, drug dealers hiding in hidden alleys, and drunken and trouble-making punk youths opened Qiao Jia's eyes.

Perhaps due to professional reasons, Qiao Jia didn't think it was very dangerous here, and the legendary drug addicts everywhere didn't appear, but the fact was that white people were rarely seen here at night.

The total time Qiao Jia spent in the United States was not long. He had never really understood the customs and customs of this place.

In the past, I had only heard about it, but after seeing the actual situation, Qiao Jia realized that what someone had told him in the past that the so-called middle class in America lived in the suburbs, and that it would be dangerous at night in the city center, was probably true.

Unemployment, racial issues, gangs, drug dealers, and a large number of homeless people in the gray area all gathered in the city center late at night.

What attracts them to gather here is the public facilities in the city center.

The United States is indeed too big, and New Jersey, which is close to New York, is not as prosperous as people imagine, and its population is far from dense.

Underground trading anywhere requires a place. The city center with neon street lights and even 24-hour convenience stores has become a hotbed of the gray world.

The most critical source of popularity is the homeless homeless people.

They are the main consumers of cheap drugs, and the market formed based on them will naturally attract people in need.

Because drug dealers need a fixed source of customers, and drug addicts who want to find drug dealers have to come here. After there is traffic, street girls appear here.

They can satisfy some of the needs of drug addicts who buy the virus, and even enjoy themselves.

And gangsters will naturally gather around...

The reason why homeless people gather in the city center, which is the basis of everything, has a very cruel logic, that is, they cannot settle elsewhere.

Most of the urban areas are public facilities, and they have the right to find shelter from the wind and rain here.

But suburban communities are different. They are all private places, and homeless people walking around in them will quickly attract the police, or they will be violently driven away by joint defense organizations formed by local people.

Qiao Jia, who has gradually developed a ruler's thinking, can easily see the core logic in this kind of nightlife with American characteristics or characteristics of capitalist countries.

The city center is where the service industry is most concentrated in any city and where many people work.

In the past, Qiao Jia always heard people preach that the old and the United States were more advanced. They loved living in the suburbs, where they lived in big houses and breathed fresh air.

In fact, it’s all bullshit!

Qiao Jia doesn't see any convenience in living in the suburbs?

Putting aside the luxury houses, the low- to mid-level communities are actually pretty average.

Not only is the location remote, but transportation costs are high.

It takes 40 minutes to drive to the supermarket, so what's the point of being 'convenient'?

Migrant workers all over the world are actually the same. Even though the living area and public security situation are quite different, they all want to live closer to where they work.

However, the areas around the city center of the United States happen to be relatively dangerous places, and many apartment communities that were supposed to be in good locations ended up being cheap communities.

The core reason for this is that the public facilities in the city center can provide the resources for homeless people to survive.

Then a series of gray industries triggered by the gathering of homeless people will naturally lead to a decline in public security.

The decline in public security will naturally cause the surrounding housing prices to fall, making it difficult to rent houses. Landlords will have to accept immigrants, or those who have lost their credit and cannot rent houses in good communities come to rent.

Could this be any better?

People all over the world feel that the middle class in the United States particularly loves the suburbs, maybe just because not all places are Manhattan.

According to Qiao Jia's understanding, the ultimate dream of many people who work and live around New York is to have an apartment near Central Park.

The transportation there is convenient, life is convenient, and the night is not dangerous.

The root cause of all this lies in excessive urbanization and structural poverty.

These homeless people who are homeless due to laziness or bankruptcy have nowhere to go. They live on relief funds. Bankruptcy and loss of credit prevent them from finding a suitable job or even renting a better house.

Public facilities have become their last refuge, and then the bustling area during the day becomes an area where gray transactions are rampant at night. Even the police don't like to come here.

Many people in China are now advocating for land privatization, and even want to allow farmers to put their fields on the market.

But those with vested interests will never consider what will happen to landless farmers once they go bankrupt in the city?

Once a large amount of land is annexed, farmers are driven into the city, and Chinese companies simply don’t have that many labor positions, what will the city look like?

The most urbanized country in the world is Brazil, where conglomerates and private farmers have bought up most of the farmland.

After those landless farmers entered the city, they could only build slums one after another on the surrounding public lands.

Do you think people want to live in the mountains? That's because all flat places are owned by their owners.

The landless farmers in India are even worse. Because India is more crowded, they lose their land and can only build slums around the city.

The characteristic slums built on both sides of the railway are not because those people really like them there, but because there are public lands on both sides of the railway, and those who build houses on private land will be beaten to death.

"Freedom" is indeed important, but most people in this world cannot control "freedom" reasonably and rationally, because most of us cannot escape the hunting of business groups.

The consequence of complete privatization of land is that most people's land will be absorbed and occupied by large groups.

Qiao Jia has no say in other places, but in China, Qiao Jia feels that those who propose to trade farmers' land on the market and completely urbanize China should be beheaded.

Some of these people are spokespersons for certain capitals, and most of the rest are vested interests!

Just like real estate developers and real estate speculators!

They do not break the law, but in order to protect their own interests and gain more profits, they cannot see or pretend not to see the plight of others.

There are no benefits at all. Just follow the nonsense about democracy, freedom and privatization. It is purely because you are full.

China's industrialization cannot support so much labor force...

Nowadays, as long as they don't suffer from serious illness, urban people can still have food as long as they are willing to work hard. The biggest problem for people coming out of rural areas is to "go home and farm".

Once farmers' land is annexed and so many laborers abandon agriculture and enter the city, labor prices will first fall, and then housing prices and rental costs will rise.

As competition intensifies, more structurally impoverished people will be created.

In the end, even if you give up industrial upgrading and return to labor-intensive low-end processing industries, you can barely feed everyone.

Even if everyone can accept a very low salary, once there is a problem in the international market and excess products cannot find a way out, the consequences will be so bad that people cannot imagine.

Qiao Jia's car stopped on a quiet street. The TV in the window of a second-hand electrical appliance store on the roadside was playing the speech of the black guy in the white house in Congress...

The theme is ‘Return to Asia-Pacific’.

Qiao Jia knew that the real competition within the big country would begin at this time.

China's low-end processing industry will be impacted by Laos and the United States' intervention in the Asia-Pacific region...

Because China suffered an unprecedented imported inflation due to the Wall Street financial disaster in 2008.

The United States used China's cheap materials to stabilize domestic prices, and then printed massive amounts of money, causing commodity prices to rise wildly, leaving China, a country that imports materials and raw materials, to bear most of the inflation for it.

In order to prevent prices from becoming ridiculous, a large amount of money poured into the real estate market and large infrastructure industries.

Price control is okay, and the stock market is evaporating a lot of redundant capital, but there is still too much money left. The financial attributes of real estate have been amplified, and housing prices have become bizarre. In the end, a group of vested interests have even formed that are too big to lose. Groups lead to consequences...

The wages of ordinary people have increased a lot, but the rise in labor costs has led to a decrease in the competitiveness of the low-end processing industry, causing many manufacturers to begin to relocate in order to survive.

Under this background, the Jialiang trade presided over by Qiao Liang was like being soaked in a honey jar.

Qiaojia's violent opening of the Afika and Middle East markets gave some small and medium-sized enterprises that had no time to adjust, a breathing space and time to upgrade.

But this is simply not enough...

Qiaojia can't help much anymore, because he only has one oil field and a crude oil export port in Tobruk, and his money is limited!

Qiao Liang even realized this problem earlier than his brother, because people kept giving him lessons.

From the professors at their school to the brains who deal with him, they are all trying to instill macro thinking in him...

Both brothers are from rural areas, but Qiao Liang is more responsible than his brother!

Because of his special status, people have chatted with him more than once to inquire about the possibility of migrating low-end processing industries to Afika.

The most typical ones are highly polluting plastic, cement, ceramic tile and other material factories.

There are also some factories such as leather goods and bags.

Qiao Jia has not continued because the area where his influence radiates is not a good investment environment.

Central Afika, as the name suggests, is in the middle of Afika. Due to the traffic conditions here, once low-end industries cannot be digested locally, there is no need to think about exporting. Transportation costs will eat up all profits.

Qiao Liang didn't understand, but Qiao Jia understood that those people were hinting that they should bring Kinshasa Congo under their control.

The Congo River terminal plan proposed by Mr. Jin of Norinco is the key to this.

The export-oriented economy is not limited to the overseas export of products. The overseas export of low-end industries that Chinese people are most familiar with and the export of capital are also part of it.

Regarding these, Qiao Jia is still willing to accept the offer, but this matter will take a long time to plan, because if the relationship with the United States and France cannot be balanced, P·B's troubles will be endless.

Boss Qiao has so many people who eat with him, and he has to be responsible for everyone!

The most important thing now is the general election in front of us. If the old woman is not dealt with, changes may occur in Iraq at any time, and P.B. will not have peace in the next few years.

Just when Qiao Jia was lost in thought, a guy in a black hoodie came to the side of the car, gently knocked on the window, and then made a gesture that could take action...