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Chapter 579

The Golden Triangle borders Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos.Specifically, it refers to Tachileik, Wanhong, Kokang, Xingcheng, Jingdong, and Wa State in northeastern Myanmar; Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Saen, and Mimae in northern Thailand; Huixay, Muang Sai, and Phongsaly in northwest Laos. , Nanta and other areas.

The northern end of the main street in Mae Sai Town is the Mae Sai River, and on the other side of the river is the town of Tachileik in Myanmar.The river is connected by a stone bridge, and at the head of the bridge there is an archway "the northernmost point". Residents of the two countries can enter each other's territory for 5 kilometers without a visa.There are lively and bustling markets in both places, attracting a large number of residents from Thailand and Myanmar to buy and sell here.

Zhao Jianhui was wearing a white double-breasted coat, black trousers, and a red ribbon around his waist. He was sitting on the observation deck, looking at the town at the foot of the mountain.Behind him stood a few young men in Thai clothes like him.Those few people are masters who are familiar with jungle warfare, they are Wu Xiangui, Ma Hongchen, Liu Debiao, Ding Ding, and Liu Cheng.

"What happened to this Guo Tao? There is no news yet?" Tu Xiong leaned on the railing with one leg, and sat leaning against Zhao Jianhui. A yellow cloth belt, and a colorful silk scarf wrapped around the head, how ridiculous it is.

Back then, Guo Tao was in charge of intelligence reconnaissance and collection work, and he trained a lot of eyeliners in Tachilei.This time Zhao Jianhui brought him here, hoping that he could use the relationship he had back then to find out the current situation of the Golden Triangle.

It has been three days since they entered the Myanmar-Thailand border, and Zhao Jianhui and others have already inquired clearly. If they want to find the kind of beautiful butterflies that can cure diseases, they must go deep into the Mengya Mountains occupied by drug lords.

This place is full of wild jungles, basically the hinterland of the Golden Triangle, in the center of the military-controlled areas of the three major drug lords, Fu En, Kunchai, and Jia Peng, plus the Shan Gang, the Autonomous Army, the police, bandits, thieves, etc. It is really not easy for local forces, big and small, to get in and out safely.

The formation of the Golden Triangle drug base is closely related to the British.

In 1825, a heavily armed British expedition team arrived in today's so-called "Golden Triangle" area.Using advanced weapons that the locals had never seen before, they quickly expelled most of the aborigines and set up camp in Kokang County in the northern part of the Golden Triangle.After a comprehensive inspection of this area, the British believed that this area was very suitable for growing opium. After three years of trial planting, it was very successful, so they began to plant it on a large scale in Kokang, Damengyang and other places.Most of the harvested opium was sold to the mainland of the Qing Dynasty, poisoning the people of the country.

The actions of the British thieves were strongly opposed by the Burmese dynasty. The local Shan gangs rose up to fight against them, and the Qing government also intervened, so they were soon expelled.

However, the British and barbarians, who took aggression and expansion as their basic national policy, have fully understood the economic value of Myanmar and its geographical strategic value as a future invasion of the Chinese Empire.So soon the British India was used as a base to start a war against Burma, and the two armed occupations destroyed the Burmese Dynasty and merged it into India as a province.

In 1840, the first Opium War between China and Britain, the Qing Empire suffered a disastrous defeat. On July 1886, 7, under the coercion of Yingyi, the Qing Dynasty signed the humiliating "Sino-British Conference Burma Treaty" with it, ceding the four counties of Kokang and Banhong in southern Yunnan to Yingyi.In this way, Yingyi took full control of the Golden Triangle area and began to sow the seeds of evil on this land.

Lin Honglie, the former magistrate of Kokang County, angrily resigned from the post of magistrate of Cheli (Jinghong) granted by the Qing government after Kokang was ceded, and led more than 1000 loyal officers and soldiers to fight against the British bandits alone.Luo Zhiman, the leader of the local Shan clan, also strongly opposed the British and barbarians enslaving the people to plant opium, and rose up against the British bandits.Luo's tribe was soon bloody suppressed by the British army, and was forced to lead the remnants of the army to retreat into the mountains and persist in the struggle.After Lin Honglie raised an army, Luo Zhiman led his troops to defect and formed the "Anti-British Blue Banner Army" with Lin Hebing.

After the formation of the Blue Banner Army, Lin Honglie was made the Generalissimo, and Luo Zhiman was named the General. They recruited more than [-] loyal and brave soldiers and fought against the British army for a long time.The confrontation between the Blue Banner Army and the British Army lasted for five or six years.During this period, a large number of opium fields were destroyed, the effective forces of the British army were wiped out, and they were dealt a powerful blow.Yingyi had nothing to do with this army, so he resorted to diplomatic means to put pressure on the Qing court, asking to send troops to cooperate with the suppression of the Blue Banner Army.The extremely corrupt Qing government was forced to accept the request.It's a pity that the loyal and warlike Blue Banner Army was attacked on both sides and had no reinforcements. Although they vowed to resist to the death, they were outnumbered and began to retreat steadily.In the end, Lin Honglie and Luo Zhiman led [-] soldiers to retreat to the Salween River, where they were surrounded by the British and Qing troops.The [-] elites finally ran out of ammunition and food, blood stained the Savin River, and all died heroically.

After the failure of the Blue Banner Army, Yingyi unimpededly forced the local people to vigorously grow opium, and finally made the Golden Triangle area today's opium base and the birthplace of drugs that the authorities of Western countries, including the current British government, strongly accused.The four counties of Kokang and Banhong, which originally belonged to China, have been controlled by Myanmar so far.

The coexistence of various military forces and complex factions in the Golden Triangle was caused by the flight of the national army after the defeat.

The Eighth Army of the former National Army in Yunnan, after the defeat in 1949, had no choice but to enter the current Golden Triangle area and merged with the remnants of the original National Army's Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force stranded there to form the 93rd Division.

After 1949, as the remnants of the national army, they were ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to shrink back in the Golden Triangle area because they could not return to Taiwan, and waited for the "recovery" to make a comeback.Since Taiwan was a member of the United Nations at that time, the Thai government appealed to the United Nations twice for "illegally stationing troops in the territory of other countries". Taiwan could not deny the existence of this objective military power, and sent two former senior officials of the Eighth Army Ask them to withdraw all the way to Taiwan.Due to various reasons, only a very small number of people arrived in Taiwan through all kinds of hardships and hardships, and the vast majority of them stayed to retain military forces to prevent Thailand's armed encirclement and suppression.

The 93rd Division of the remnant of the Kuomintang, which has been defeated repeatedly under the people's army, is a small test of the Thai army, which is several times its size, so that the Thai government dare not underestimate it.Finally, the Thai government realized that they were not the opponents of the 93rd Division, so they took the initiative to seek peace.The Thai government is willing to provide an area for the 93rd Division to settle down, but they are not allowed to leave the enclosure.The only condition is that the 93rd Division is required to act as a mercenary to encircle and suppress the Thai guerrillas who also find it difficult for the Thai government forces.

For their own survival, the 93rd Division had no choice but to agree to live and die for other governments on the territory of other countries, in exchange for a place to live, which is today's famous Mengya Mountain in the Golden Triangle area.The cruel historical background left the well-equipped 93rd Division in South Asia. When the dream of "Chairman Chiang"'s counterattack was shattered, these troops in foreign countries became the children of "milkless mothers".

Due to the excessive poverty in the Golden Triangle area, it is impossible to grow food at all, and the local lack of medical care and medicine, these defeated troops use opium to solve the source of supplies.Since then, opium cultivation in the Golden Triangle has entered the stage of "intensive development" from a family-by-household smallholder production model.

In addition, there are countless miscellaneous troops and small groups of armed forces from various tribes in the Golden Triangle, and they often fight with each other for drug benefits.Coupled with the conquests and suppression by the governments of Burma, Thailand, and Laos, the 93rd Division had to sleep with one eye open in order to survive. This cruel living space has trained a team that has been fighting fiercely.

Time flies, and the strong and strong men who left their hometowns are old, and their descendants-the three drug lords of Fen En, Kunchai, and Jiapeng gradually come to the fore.

Especially Fen En, the most powerful of the three major drug lords, his father and grandfather were both Han Chinese. He married the daughter of the chieftain of the Shan tribe in the Lemo Mountain in northern Myanmar, and miraculously became the chieftain of the Shan tribe in the Lemo Mountain in northern Myanmar.This guy has three names, the Chinese name is "Li Xinqi", the Burmese name is "Na Yue", and "Fen En" is his Thai name.

But En's vision is precise, and he has long seen the great prospects of the drug business.He used all kinds of tricks to fight and fight, and incorporated all the small gangs nearby, and established a unified army and a relatively independent territory in northern Myanmar.

After owning the territory, Fu En began to flex his muscles in the drug business.He took measures to encourage local people to grow opium, spent huge sums of money, and constantly updated refining equipment.

Fen En has a bit of "brand awareness". In the wild jungle, he actually developed and refined No. 98 heroin with a purity of 4%, which attracted drug dealers and addicts all over the world. 70%.

In addition to drug trafficking, Fu En also smuggled gems and arms.Fen En continued to expand his army, reaching more than 2 at its peak. He opened and closed cards in the jurisdiction and collected various taxes and fees, making the Golden Triangle a "state within a state".

In order to fight against the government forces, he used the money from drug trafficking to constantly update his weapons and equipment, and his weapons have always been more advanced than the government forces in Myanmar, Thailand and other countries.

Later, due to the vigilance and indignation of the whole world due to the proliferation of drugs, many countries have reached a consensus on the eradication of drug production and drug trafficking. The three major drug lords' military-controlled areas, Kunchai and Jiapeng, launched a large-scale attack.However, Fu En did not trust the Shan people, and a large number of Chinese descendants were employed among high-level military and political officials, which aroused the anger of the Shan people. En's power has been seriously weakened.When Zhao Jianhui, Tu Xiong and others went deep into Burma to fight, Fen En had only 2002 troops under his command.

Under the command of Zhao Jianhui, Wei Mingyu and other young officers, they had raided Fu En's lair several times, interrupting the production of the three major drug lords. There are only a few hundred people following around, and life can be described as poor and destitute.

However, with the withdrawal of troops from other countries, these people have shown signs of resurgence in recent years.What is the current situation, where are the drug lords such as Wu En and how many people are under their hands? Zhao Jianhui really has no clue.

In order to catch a few butterflies, I went deep into the Burmese-Thailand jungle again. I didn't find a good medicine to cure the disease, but my old enemy kept his life in it. That was not the result Zhao Jianhui wanted.

He asked Guo Tao to take Sun Liyun to find the previously established intelligence network. He wanted to find out the situation before researching and formulating a route into the Myanmar-Thailand jungle. It has always been Zhao Jianhui's good habit not to fight unprepared battles.It was precisely because of this habit that Zhao Jianhui was able to beat the enemy many times in the battle against drug lords and saved his life.

He knew that he had gone missing and sneaked to the Myanmar-Thailand border this time. He had no support from friendly troops and no source of intelligence. Once he encountered those people, the degree of danger would be higher than before, so he would be more cautious .

Continue to ask for flowers and votes, and I won't say more about the others.