Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 1030 1015 [At the height of his powers]

The battle in the Golden Triangle just started and ended quickly.

It should not take more than an hour.

Before Sharu Khan had the chance to mobilize missiles to scare the assassins trained by Cai Cha, they all raised their hands in surrender.

That's right, King Kong sent 300 elite soldiers to work together with Buakaw, and in less than an hour they completely wiped out the gang of bandits.

This move left countless people, especially the bigwigs in the Golden Triangle, dumbfounded.

They have always boasted of their large number of soldiers and generals, but this time they were all silent. The 300 elite soldiers sent by King Kong told them what "elite" means.

Compared with the black mercenaries who fought in Kenya, these people in the Golden Triangle are simply a ragtag army that will be defeated at the first blow and are even worse than chickens and dogs.

As for those warriors who were said to be loyal to Chaichai, when they encountered mercenaries, they would kneel down with their hands raised high and weapons begging for their lives.

Death is death, but no one in the world really wants to die. Who wouldn’t want to die if they could live?
It can be said that the Golden Triangle changed hands overnight, and the originally stable situation was completely broken.

I guessed wrong.

Buakaw takes the top spot.

The first thing Buakaw did after taking office was to call together other bigwigs in the Golden Triangle to discuss how to "turn from darkness to light" and collectively join their great benefactor Du Yongxiao to eradicate opium and build prosperity together.

Du Yongxiao is a big money sponsor.

The Golden Triangle is also a Feng Shui treasure land.

There are many things you can do here, and it doesn't necessarily have to be smuggling or drug trafficking.

Du Yongxiao gave these desperate criminals a brand new way out. He opened pharmaceutical factories, sugar factories, coffee factories, etc., and planted precious Chinese herbal medicines, coffee, rice, vegetables and sugarcane. He also opened nurseries and welfare homes and recruited workers to bring welfare to the people of the Golden Triangle.

Du Yongxiao's purpose of doing this is actually very simple -
He is not a good man, on the contrary, he is a shrewd businessman.

He did this in order to firmly grasp and control the Golden Triangle, and finally build it into his own country!
It can be clearly seen from the map that the entire Golden Triangle region covers an area of ​​about 2.5 square kilometers, covering the northern part of Chiang Mai Province in Thailand, the southeastern part of Bolikhamxai Province in Laos, and the northeastern part of Shan State in Myanmar.

Singapore, which is also one of the four future Asian tigers, has a total area of ​​only about 725 square kilometers. In other words, the Golden Triangle is equal to Singapores.

Du Yongxiao planned to build this place into a brand new country with prosperous and stable economy and politics, even surpassing Singapore.

Du Yongxiao now has plenty of money, so he can engage in economic activities unscrupulously. He treats the Golden Triangle as his own "experimental field", carries out reform and opening up, and pursues the path of economic development.

Invest one hundred million, and if that’s not enough, invest three hundred million, five hundred million, or even one billion!
Du Yongxiao just didn't believe that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in this small place, and that they couldn't develop the virgin land here?! Besides, the economic transformation of the Golden Triangle in the previous life was very successful, from growing poppies to growing sugarcane, fruits, rice, etc., and it was also successful step by step through trial and error.

Now, with her foresight, Du Yongxiao can cultivate the land into what it will belong to in the future without any trial and error, so that the people here can live a stable life sooner and no longer have to go hungry, live in fear of war all day long, and live amidst constant gunfire.

It can be said that Du Yongxiao is their great benefactor, the savior of the people of the Golden Triangle, and their blazing sun.

Of course, Du Yongxiao's wealth is secondary. If you want to transform a lawless area like the Golden Triangle where warlords rule and drug lords are rampant and ensure stable and sustainable economic development, you must have a stable political environment, surrounding environment, and international environment, all of which require the "maintenance" of the military.

Du Yongxiao also has missile troops provided by Shah Ruhan, mercenaries brought by King Kong, and intelligence support from the British MI6 and the American FBI. These are enough for him to crush all local warlords! Whoever disobeys him will go to hell, without a break for a day, and he will kick them out in minutes!

This is definitely not alarmist or exaggerated. This time, Buakaw rebelled against Chaichai with the secret support of Du Yongxiao and killed Chaichai's assassins. By the way, he also eliminated several warlords who were usually extremely arrogant and disliked everyone, directly turning other warlords into "good boys" collectively.

To deal with people like them, Buakaw followed Du Yongxiao's instructions, "Either kneel down and submit, or be buried in the grave!" There was no room for negotiation.

Du Yongxiao's ruthlessness completely silenced the warlords, both big and small.

They made up their minds that a little impatience would ruin a great plan, so they wanted to compromise first and then find a chance to resist and return to the top.

Unfortunately, who is Du Yongxiao?

He is an old grave digger who loves to dig holes for people and never give them any chance!
When those warlords, big and small, swore to follow Du Yongxiao's arrangements and be loyal to him, Du Yongxiao immediately used money to bribe their trusted subordinates.

Let them take their place and bring down these old warlords collectively!

This tactic of "replacing the old with the new" has been proven to be effective. The newcomers are eager to take over and don't care how good the old warlords are to them. The words righteousness and loyalty have never existed in the Golden Triangle.

Here, there is only naked money and the power to kill for it.

In fact, Du Yongxiao also knew that relying on these new warlords to maintain the prosperity and stability of the Golden Triangle was not a long-term solution. Just as Yan Xiong said, doing so would only lead to trouble.

However, Du Yongxiao smiled contemptuously. To him, these people were not big tigers at all. At most, they were just some unruly civet cats. It was actually very simple to control these civet cats. Just feed them and teach them a lesson every day, so that they would be afraid and scared and would not dare to have any thoughts of rebellion.

Of course, this is not a long-term solution. In Du Yongxiao's plan, these people will be replaced by the future people of the Golden Triangle.

The power of the people is the most powerful force. What Du Yongxiao relies on and will mobilize in the future is also the power of the people.

Du Yongxiao wants to give them everything they need, such as food, clothing, shelter for survival now, decent jobs for the future, education for their children, welfare benefits in society, etc.

Du Yongxiao gave them self-respect and a happy life, and the only requirement was that they support themselves!
Therefore, in this regard, Du Yongxiao focused on "education" and issued orders to Buakaw to comprehensively carry out the "Two Sports and One Exhibition" in the Golden Triangle.

The two movements were the "poverty alleviation movement" and the "literacy movement", while the one exhibition was the "overthrow of warlords and launching new life exhibition activities".

First of all--
Du Yongxiao gave Yan Xiong 10 million US dollars and sent Yan Xiong as a supervisor. With the cooperation of Buakaw, he "brought warmth" to all the civilians in the Golden Triangle and launched a comprehensive and large-scale "poverty alleviation activity."

Send rice, grain and oil to those people who have suffered from war, and renovate their houses.

In addition, they were given calves for farming, dairy cows and sheep in pens, and piglets.

According to Du Yongxiao, "it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish." People should be taught to be self-reliant and not always rely on government assistance. In fact, the people here also want to live a good life, grow crops, raise livestock, and have a good family. However, the warlords were constantly fighting, and in order to raise military funds, they were not allowed to grow crops and other cash crops, and were only allowed to grow poppies.

They worked hard to raise chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, but as soon as the war broke out, they were all snatched away by the ruffian soldiers, leaving them with nothing.

So it’s not that they don’t want to farm and raise livestock, it’s that the situation doesn’t allow them to do so.

Now Du Yongxiao has unified the Golden Triangle with his strong economic and military capabilities, and has completely turned the page on the warlord separatist situation. These suffering people who have been hiding in the Golden Triangle, who have no idea what will happen tomorrow and whose life and death are determined by fate, have finally found a way out.

In addition to economic poverty alleviation, what is even more amazing is that Du Yongxiao actually developed the Golden Triangle based on the "Nanniwan" in the previous life.

A hundred years ago, Nanniwan was densely populated, with abundant water resources, fertile land, and prosperous production and economy. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing rulers provoked ethnic disputes and slaughtered each other, turning this place into a desolate place with overgrown weeds and thorns, sparsely populated, and wild animals roaming.

Later in March 1941, our 3th Brigade launched the famous mass production campaign in Nanniwan, turning Nanniwan into the South Beauty.

It can be said that the Nanniwan spirit is an important part of our fighting spirit. Its spiritual core of self-reliance and hard work has inspired generations of Chinese people to overcome difficulties and win victory.

Now, Du Yongxiao directly copied the "Nanniwan Spirit" and used it in the current Golden Triangle.

As a result, the people in the Golden Triangle immediately launched a massive production campaign in full swing.

Du Yongxiao asked Buakaw and many other warlord generals to set an example and take the initiative to carry out large-scale production. He also wrote inscriptions for Buakaw and other leaders, and wrote the inscription "The spirit of hard work and dedication" for Buakaw. He also commended the soldiers of Buakaw's army and named them "The vanguard of the creation of the world."

At the same time, Du Yongxiao ordered many artists from Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company and PolyGram Records Company to rush to the Golden Triangle to perform "comfort performances."

Zou Wenhuai, boss of Hong Kong Golden Harvest Films, and Yan Xiong, president of PolyGram Records, delivered speeches of condolences.

Lyrics by James Wong, music by Joseph Koo. The famous song "Under the Lion Rock" sung by Roman Tam was adapted into "Above the Golden Triangle" and goes like this:
“There are joys in life, but there are also tears.

We all met in the Golden Triangle.

At least there are more laughter than sighs, but life is bound to be bumpy.

It is difficult to be free of worries, since we are in the same boat.

Let us work together in the Golden Triangle, abandoning our differences and seeking common ground.

Let go of the contradictions in each other's hearts and pursue the ideal together. People in the same boat swear to follow each other, fearless and unafraid.

We are together at the end of the world, and we will overcome all difficulties hand in hand.

All of us, with hard work, wrote that——
Immortal and brilliant quotes, let go of the contradictions in each other's hearts. Let's pursue our ideals together, and those who are in the same boat will follow us.

Fearless and unafraid, we are together at the end of the world."

From then on, this popular song "In the Golden Triangle" was born. After being sung by the local famous singer Jin Sharon, it became popular all over Southeast Asia and became a household name. Everyone knows that the Golden Triangle has changed a lot, from a lawless area where smuggling and drug trafficking were carried out, to the beautiful star of Southeast Asia today.

Secondly, Du Yongxiao also vigorously launched a "literacy campaign" in the Golden Triangle.

Before Du Yongxiao took control, most people here were illiterate. They relied on counting stones to calculate when buying things, and they couldn't even memorize the simplest multiplication table.

Du Yongxiao ordered Yan Xiong to serve as the "literacy education ambassador" here and ordered him to successfully eliminate illiteracy in the Golden Triangle within three years.

After receiving the order, Yan Xiong immediately found Buakaw to discuss how to carry out and start the literacy campaign.

Under Yan Xiong's earnest guidance, Buakaw hired many Chinese teachers from other places to teach directly in Chinese, and promoted the idea that the Golden Triangle had belonged to Greater China since ancient times, so learning the unified Chinese language was just a way to "return to one's roots."

Those Chinese teachers were very scared at first, thinking that the Golden Triangle was a dangerous place full of warlord infighting, poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts. But after arriving here, they realized that the world had changed.

Lured by high salaries, they actively carried out literacy campaigns, providing free Chinese cultural knowledge and mathematical knowledge to local people.

Local people, from the elderly in their seventies and eighties to those wearing open-crotch pants, all came here to study and absorb the power of cultural knowledge - for those who took the initiative to come here to study, they could get a bottle of soy sauce!
In parentheses, the most important point is that there is a large portrait of Du Yongxiao printed on each bottle of soy sauce.

In the photo, Du Yongxiao looks majestic, with a big bun and a Zhongshan suit. There is a line of words below: "The great savior of the people of the Golden Triangle, Mr. Du Yongxiao!"

Yan Xiong's purpose in doing this is very simple. He wants to make these people clearly realize that it is his godfather Du Yongxiao who brings them happiness and provides them with food and drink. He cannot let bastards like Buakaw steal the limelight. He wants to deeply implant the six words "Great Savior Du Yongxiao" into the hearts of the people!

In fact, in addition to soy sauce bottles, there are also such photos and words on rice bags, salt seals, and under grain and oil trademarks.

So much so that the local people cannot do without the six words "great savior Du Yongxiao" when eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

The first Chinese lesson they took was "We Come from Greater China", which mainly tells the historical development trajectory of the Golden Triangle. Of course, some parts were slightly modified to make it easier for them to understand.

The second heaven lesson was adapted by Yan Xiong himself, and its title is "That day he came, and the day dawned! The great savior Du Yongxiao saved the people of the Golden Triangle from the water and fire"!
For this purpose, Yan Xiong even found someone to write the lyrics and compose the music, and he created a song called "Flowers Are Red" -
"The flowers are red, the sun is smiling, and the Golden Triangle has produced a man named Du Yongxiao. He seeks welfare for the people and creates a new world for the people..."

The lyrics are full of emotion, full of Yan Xiong's meticulous respect for his godfather Du Yongxiao, and express the admiration of the people of the Golden Triangle for Du Yongxiao.

Finally, at the instruction of Du Yongxiao, Yan Xiong and Buakaw launched the "Overthrow the Warlords and Start a New Life Exhibition" in the Golden Triangle.

The main purpose of this activity is to let the people "remember the bitter past and think of the sweet present". In the past, they were hungry and poorly clothed, which is in sharp contrast to their current happy life.

In the past, they lived in fear and anxiety amidst the warlords' infighting. Now, they live a happy life and receive free poverty alleviation and education from Mr. Du. They are happier than going to heaven.

Under such a strong contrast, the people of the Golden Triangle are more attached to their hard-earned happy life today, and they strongly support and endorse Du Yongxiao's rule, and fight to the end with those big warlords of the old society!

With these three thunderous reforms, Du Yongxiao's reputation in the Golden Triangle is at its peak!
As for——
Even the surrounding countries are well-known for him and are extremely curious about him!
Especially in Thailand——
The top management even took the initiative to extend an olive branch to him, inviting him to participate in the most grand Ten Thousand Buddhas Festival that is about to begin!

(End of this chapter)