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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 Sven glasses, walked in slowly.

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

Now Cai Ruichen can already imagine the lively scene of the base in the future.

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

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

"What's going on?"

After receiving the urgent file, Cai Ruichen habitually asked, and then opened the file as soon as possible.

Although the intelligence has been clearly written, Chao Leizhen still replied: "At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Islamic State left Tikrit in batches with 20,000 troops, and the Islamic State militants who were lurking in the city of Samarra in advance also launched a surprise attack on the Iraqi Defense Forces stationed in Samarra, and Samarra is now in full swing into war." ”

"Sure enough, I can't sit still, inform Idris and come to me as soon as possible." Cai Ruichen closed the intelligence file, gave an order to Chao Leizhen, and then spoke: "Let all the soldiers of the security company be promoted to the third-level combat readiness state." ”

Chao Leizhen took the order and sat down directly on the sofa, his fingers gently tapping on the armrests of the sofa.

"Sure enough. ISIS really can't sit still. Natasha's face returned to seriousness. Said.

Cai Ruichen heard this. Just nodded calmly, ISIS can't sit still, in fact, it's all reasonable.

Even he can see that the situation in the occupied areas of the Islamic State, which is under economic pressure from all sides, is not very stable.

Even the tribes trading along the Silk Road in the ISIS-occupied areas are buying large quantities of grain in Baghdad, suggesting that war is on the verge of breaking out.

For the past four months, Cai Ruichen has been studying the current economic situation of the Islamic State. The result is a very difficult statistic for ISIS.

First of all, the military scale of the Islamic State has grown to 80,000, and the rigid expenditure on military spending alone has reached one billion dollars every year.

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

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

Otherwise, the army without pay will soon be dispersed, and all the ruling forces will quickly come to naught.

And the financial source of the Islamic State, mainly the dumping of oil, was only twenty to thirty dollars per barrel, at the beginning. It brings in almost $500 a day for ISIS.

But now I'm afraid there are not even two million dollars, because Russia keeps airstrikes on those oil trucks. As a result, ISIS's oil sales channels have been blocked.

Oil revenues have fallen, and even the most basic military spending for ISIS is not enough.

Of course, ISIS does not rely entirely on oil exports for its revenues, and the real bulk of its revenue is tax revenue in the occupied territories.

The people in the occupied areas did not resist the rule of the Islamic State, but many young people who did not have jobs joined the army of the Islamic State.

But these are all conditional, first of all, if you are an occupying district government, if you want the people not to oppose your rule, the most basic points must be achieved, that is, to ensure the most basic service guarantee of society.

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

This is precisely what ISIS lacks, because ISIS does not have the technicians and workers to provide the operating conditions for enterprises in the occupied territories that provide basic living facilities for citizens.

In the beginning, there was a very interesting phenomenon in the ISIS-occupied areas.

ISIS forces occupy a city, but instead of destroying power stations or water plants, they send troops to protect the factories and the workers inside.

This will allow the power generation and water supply in the occupied areas to remain in normal operation.

But they don't pay the workers, they let the Iraqi government pay for them.

Interestingly, the Iraqi government has also agreed to pay all the benefits, wages, pensions, and bonuses of these Chinese industrial workers in the occupied territories every month.

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

Half of the so-called tax revenue is deducted directly from ISIS, and the rest of the wages and bonuses, as well as the cost of running the factory, are given to the factory.

In the beginning, ISIS could use this to generate almost $400 million a year from Iraq and Syria.

Some people may accuse the Iraqi and Syrian governments of being stupid, but they are not, because Iraq and Syria's national water and grid architecture is not supported by the power plants and reservoirs in the ISIS-occupied areas.

If they stop the wages and maintenance costs of these factories, the electricity and water supply of the 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 also an unavoidable fact.

This strange side also includes the tacit agreement between the two sides in terms of taxation, the commercial tax levied in the area occupied by the Islamic State, and the tax certificate issued will also be recognized by the Iraqi government and will not be taxed.

The Iraqi government's commercial fleet will not be taxed separately after the Iraqi government's commercial tax certificate is issued.

So there is absolutely no obstacle to trade in Iraq and Syria, because either side knows that commercial taxation must be stable.

It is only in Iraq and Syria that such a strange scene is being played, even by Kurdish forces and rebels in Syria.

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

However, the Iraqi government, which has been the main leader for several years, has stopped doing its job and directly cut off the monthly wages and benefits provided to the ISIS-occupied areas.

The Islamic State did not have the money to pay for the operation of the factories, which caused most power plants and water utilities to stop providing electricity and drinking water to the people.

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