Chapter 1038: Persuading Bashar
Damascus, where large-scale fighting has been subdued in this dilapidated capital city for more than a year, but sporadic clashes are still taking place from time to time.
The Assad regime still maintains control over the area, with nearly 30,000 government troops stationed in and around the city, patrolling government soldiers and occasionally Russian-made tanks and armored divisions passing through.
Although it still seems to be a bit of a chaotic atmosphere, the lives of the residents in the city have basically stabilized, and the occasional sporadic wars have not affected the life in the city.
After all, the water and electricity supply in the city is normal, and some government offices are also working every day.
But in fact, everyone knows that the water and electricity supply here is all provided by the Future Technology Group, and in fact, the Assad regime simply does not have the funds to pay for the water and electricity supply.
For the people, it is natural for the government to provide water and electricity, as if the people pay taxes, and the water and electricity provision also requires residents to pay water and electricity bills.
This is the most basic social life service guarantee, but since ISIS established in Raqqa, the power supply has been intermittent, and even evolved to the point that the future technology group needs to undertake the power supply.
At present, 60% of the electricity used in Syria is transmitted from Tartus to the national power grid in Syria, and then from the national grid to every household.
For every kilowatt-hour of electricity, the Syrian government has to pay a sum of money to Future Technology Group, and for many local warlords. There's nothing to say, electricity is free and they are able to receive utility bills from residents. And there is no need to hand it over to the Assad regime.
As a result, the Assad regime is increasingly unable to pay for electricity and future technology groups, and the Assad regime, which occupies the high righteousness of the Syrian government, cannot afford to provide electricity, so it can only stick to it.
And with some other support, the Assad regime is already heavily indebted to the Future Tech Group alone.
A ****** of debts is owed, even if Assad regains full power. It's not something you can afford to pay back anytime soon.
However, as the saying goes, there is no pressure on the debt, and Bashar knows better than anyone else. The more money you owe, the situation is completely different.
Moreover, the Future Technology Group has never asked him for money, nor has it asked the Assad regime for a single cent of debt. Debts owed. There is also no interest.
It's just that the normal debts every day are accumulating day by day, and now three years have passed, and the debt owed by the Assad regime has reached 15 billion US dollars.
With such a huge debt, many countries cannot pay it off in a year, after all, no matter what country it is, there are many rigid expenditures that cannot be avoided every year.
A few other countries have been able to come up with more than $10 billion in surplus funds to repay their debts after making the necessary financial expenditures.
For those countries that have been passively remaining in fiscal deficits for a long time. Not to mention that you can afford it, you can only owe more and more.
Not to mention a regime that can almost be said to exist in name only. The political and economic cities controlled by the Assad regime provide the Assad regime with less than $2 billion a year at most.
The Assad regime is even poorer than the ISIS forces, which were able to sell oil and loot and extort money.
The most important thing is that the backer of the Assad regime is also a poor ghost, and Russia is definitely the poorest of all the big countries.
And for the Assad regime, it really can't afford to pay it back unless the future technology group is forgiven of its debts.
In fact, Cai Ruichen has never thought of collecting debts from the Assad regime, although this debt is huge, accumulated over three years, but Cai Ruichen has not yet seen it.
In Cai Ruichen's view, Syria will be his own sooner or later, and the wealth will also be his own, what debt do he ask for himself?
Today, in the official residence of Bashar in Damascus, Bashar secretly met with a young man in the secret room of the official residence.
In fact, this young man has never left this government residence, and he has not left since he came in secretly three years ago.
About the existence of this person, even Bashar's cronies do not know, even Russians and the whole world know.
"Mr. Lin, is the time really determined?" Bashar showed considerable respect for this young man.
"Mr. President, the time has been decided, and in order to avoid trouble, I hope you really follow the plan." Mr. Lin said dryly.
"But......" Bashar hesitated, but before he could say it, he was rushed by Mr. Lin and said: "Mr. President, you should know very well that your teacher is eighty-six years old, and the reason why he stood up is just to make peace in Syria, haven't you thought it through now?" ”
Seeing that Bashar was a little silent, Mr. Lin continued: "At present, the attitude of various countries has been very obvious, you have been isolated, and it has been a year for Russia and the United States to secretly make a deal!"
Establish the Syrian Federation, even if Russia still supports you as the supreme leader of the Federation, but you still have nothing, the local government is highly autonomous, and you will even have military power dismantled.
If it weren't for the intervention of Future Technology Group, Syria would have been in chaos again, and the only thing you can do in this situation is to trust us.
For the peaceful reunification of Syria, let your teacher temporarily control the regime for a year, and when the Syrian regime is completely stabilized, there will be elections for a new regime, and then you will be able to ascend to power in the open.
What's more, do you think that the current government army still has the ability to confront the National Salvation Army with a well-established military organization?"
The last sentence reached Bashar's heart, the power of the National Salvation Army was rapidly expanding, and the government army under his command no longer had any advantage.
And the Future Technology Group can also provide direct air force support to the National Salvation Army, which makes the government army even less capable of confrontation.
The most important thing is that Russia has not replied to him clearly, only saying that if the future technology group intervenes, it will be difficult for the Russian side to support him again as it did before.
Originally, Bashar thought that Prussia and Beijing would send troops to Syria again, and then they would be able to negotiate with the National Salvation Army, and then get a result acceptable to both sides.
And this is what the Western world wants to see the most. (To be continued.) )