Chapter 1817: The Kingdom of Bunkers

Albania is actually not a big country, only 28,000 square kilometers, which is more than half the size of Baodao Province, but it has a very interesting alias called the ‘country of bunker’.
This bunker is not a ‘bunker’ as described in Huaxia Internet’s vocabulary, but a genuine ‘bunker’. In such a small country, there are more than 750,000 large and small bunkers! You know, their total population at the time was less than 2 million! On average, three people own a bunker!
Albania is the tenth country that has established diplomatic relations with China, and it is also one of the few social-society-dominant-righteous countries in Europe.
Everything was fine at first, but in the 1960s, this country began to fall into a diplomatic dilemma, and relations with Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union deteriorated. At that time, in order to resist their possible invasion, they built bunkers all over the country, but These bunkers have never been of practical use, because there was no fight at all.
And the amount of quick concrete they need to build the bunker is more than three times that of the famous Maginot Line! The cost is also doubled. This is because they choose extreme terrain for building bunker, such as cliff coastline, wide mountain top, etc., which makes transportation costs and material requirements very high.
Albania's industrial base is extremely weak and its economic strength is not good enough. What if they don't have the money to build these bunkers? I asked Huaxia for help. At the beginning, the materials involved were hard goods, such as steel, cement, wood, food, and so on. Later, they simply asked for money.
At that time, China was also in a diplomatic dilemma. On the one hand, it was at odds with the West; on the other hand, it was not good at dealing with the former Soviet Union. Therefore, it also needed to open up the diplomatic situation, so relations with Albania rapidly heated up.
At that time, China's assistance to Albania was no exaggeration to say that it was a nationwide effort!
Including Albania’s light weapons production line; the entire Albanian Air Force, at that time, China’s most advanced fighter jet J-7, half of the aid was given to Albania, and China’s return was that Albania and other 23 countries submitted proposals in the United Nations, and China returned to the United Nations. Become one of the Five Constants.
But what happened later is more speechless: Albania asked China to provide assistance to their country's sixth five-year plan, the total amount was as high as 5 billion yuan. In that year, whether China had 5 billion in the whole country, I would like to say otherwise. And China has been assisting Albania for more than ten years. They should have the ability to be self-reliant, so they have reduced the scale of assistance.
People who say ‘fighting rice, taking rice grudges’ are really true. In view of the lack of money, Albania is unwilling. The leaders criticized China in public, and the relationship between the two countries finally broke.
If the relationship is simply broken, it can’t be said that Albania’s ‘sufficient death’. At that time, the people of that country were still living without worry. There was even a stage when Albania was the fastest-growing country in Eastern Europe. As a result, what happened later successfully turned Albania into one of the poorest countries in Europe. That is MLM.
We’ve heard of the story-destroying a person or destroying a family and lamenting that the story-destroying harms people, we still don’t understand Albania.
MLM directly destroys a country here.
No matter how many names are changed for all these MLMs: whether it is fundraising or financing, it is in the final analysis one sentence: tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.
Albania carried out a transition from a planned economy to a market economy in the 1990s. The economic development was called a rapid boom, but at the same time there was a huge problem, that is, the three state-owned banks monopolized the country’s public deposits and financial industries, and the economy was developing. However, the banks could not keep up with the reform process. Many of the original bad habits persisted. At that time, more than 50% of the total loans in the three major banks were bad debts that would not be returned.
Who would dare to deposit money in such a bank? So the common people are holding cash in their hands, and banks are afraid to issue loans anymore. You borrow 100 yuan? I can only give you 45 yuan, and the interest is still high. Over time, this Albanian bank is just a decoration.
But those small and medium-sized enterprises need funds. Where do these funds come from? So private lending began to flourish. Those private companies attract public deposits under the guise of high interest rates. And then lend it to those small and medium-sized enterprises. The Albanian government saw, hey, yes, it can contribute to economic growth, so instead of hitting it, it supports them in doing so.
As a result, the whole of Albania became lively. These companies collected the money and used it for smuggling, drug trafficking and other illegal activities. Many new companies have also sprung up and established. Albania was a mess at the time.
Later, the local government also discovered that this was not right, and began to pass laws to restrict private fundraising, including their central bank’s request to investigate and deal with companies that violated regulations, but they were all involved. Behind these companies are colluding with local officials. What is the chief attorney general? Big figures such as the attorney general have exonerated these companies in law, and even the speaker of the parliament personally advertised fund-raising companies. The whole country is crazy.
The craziest time was in 1996.
At that time, the United Nations stopped its sanctions on the Yugoslav League. Those companies that depended on smuggling were cut off huge amounts of income and could no longer pay their previous deposits. Therefore, they could only further raise interest rates and attract more people to invest. The party was re-elected with the funding of these fund-raising companies, and it also supported illegal fund-raising to the greatest extent, and their scale is getting bigger and bigger. In that year, these illegal fund-raising companies even increased the monthly interest rate to 40%! In other words, depositing a sum of money in these companies can double it for two and a half months. This is really a good thing in the sky!
Who was making money back then? Workers do not work, farmers do not plant land, everyone sells their houses and all their savings, two-thirds of the country's people invest all their belongings in these companies, all dreaming of getting rich overnight.
At that time, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund both discovered the seriousness of Albania's domestic situation and reminded them of the country's ideas, while their President Sali Berisha personally defended the legality of these companies.
The consequences can be imagined. When some of these fund-raising companies went bankrupt and some fled, the whole country began to panic. Countless people returned before liberation overnight, and many committed suicide in despair, and the country began to fall into madness.
Everyone took to the street and started beating, smashing and looting
Especially in the south, those protesters directly robbed the arsenal and clashed with the authorities’ military police on many occasions. Sali-Berisha passed the national martial law order and used the army to suppress the riots.
But something more embarrassing happened: because the government has lost its credibility, the army and police are also on the side of the protesters, the whole country is in chaos, and the arsenals and barracks have opened their doors to the protesters. People robbed a lot of weapons and ammunition, which gave them the power to riot.
As for what those soldiers do? Most of them are also victims, and they must try to make up for their losses, and even drove the army tanks home, preparing to find a chance to sell it one day. . . . . .
In Albania at that time, all the bank shops were ransacked and a large number of automobile buildings were burned down. The whole city has become a dead city. All shops, schools, airports and stations are closed. There is no one on the street without a car. What’s more terrible is that the prisoners are also released. Those prisoners are holding weapons on the street. There is no fear. So in the end, everyone can only stay at home holding their guns and close their doors, afraid of being killed and robbed.
Of course, they are not the most unlucky. The most unlucky are the foreigners in Albania. The wealthy people in Albania had ran away long ago, and the foreigners there became scapegoats. At that time, China had several In the project, almost everything was looted by the locals, and even the car of the Chinese diplomat was taken away.
The evacuation of Chinese citizens began at that time. In addition to the embassy, ​​Albania left five people behind, and all Chinese people were evacuated. In less than a month, more than 3,000 people died and more than 20,000 were injured in Albania.
And this chaos lasted for more than a year. At that time, Albania was a man with a gun, rushing to the police station, robbing shops, and having a gun was the law. The locals just shot two shots to find happiness. A total of 700,000 guns and 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition fell to the civilian population. You can imagine how chaotic there is!
In other words, this person has no brains. Sali Berisha, who was ousted in chaos, is now the Prime Minister of Albania, but now the domestic economic policy has maintained continuity, and the local people live better than before. It's so much better, now the average monthly income over there has reached one hundred dollars. . . . . . Who said Europe is rich in places?
It’s like there is providence in this secret. Any country that treats China badly will be retributed, but anyway, these two countries have had a honeymoon period. If they hadn’t picked the lead back then, maybe China would still have it. Did not return to the United Nations yet.
Just at this point, Xiao Peng really couldn't ignore it when he saw an Albanian girl being bullied. As for this girl and what is going on with them? What do you care about? That is what the police should investigate!
However, it didn't take long for the police to actually come, but not to investigate the girl's stealing.
Xiao Peng was still observing the injury of the Albanian girl and was about to ask about the current situation in Albania. As a result, several men walked up to Xiao Peng: "We are the police! Now suspect that you are related to an injury case, you come with us."