Chapter 5: Going deep into the tiger's mouth

The Golden Triangle is close to the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. Specifically refers to the Daqili, Wanhong, Kokang, Xingcheng, Jingdong, Wa State in northeast Myanmar; Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Sheng, Mi Mai in northwestern Laos; Huisai, Mengsai, Fengshali, Nanta and other regions.

At the northern end of Meisai Town Street is the Meisai River, and on the other side of the river is Daqili Town in Myanmar. There is a stone bridge connected to the river, and a archway at the bridge is erected at the "northmost point" archway. Residents of the two countries can enter each other for visa-free 5 kilometers. There are lively and prosperous 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 gown, black pants, and a red ribbon tied around his waist. He sat on the viewing building and looked at the town at the foot of the mountain. Behind him were several young men wearing exotic clothes like him. Those people were all masters familiar with jungle warfare, namely Wu Xiangui, Ma Hongchen, Liu Debiao, Ding Ding, and Liu Cheng.

"What happened to Guo Tao? There is no news yet?" Tu Xiong put one leg on the railing, leaning against Zhao Jianhui, wearing a big red double-breasted gown and big red pants, a yellow cloth strap around his waist, and a colorful scarf wrapped around his head. It would be so funny and funny.

At that time, Guo Tao was responsible for intelligence reconnaissance and collection, and he cultivated a lot of eyewitness in his efforts. This time, Zhao Jianhui brought him here in hopes that he could use his relationships to understand the current situation of the Golden Triangle.

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

This place is full of vast jungle, basically the hinterland of the Golden Triangle, located in the center of the military controlled areas of the three major drug lords, Fuen, Kunchai and Jiapeng. In addition, local forces of all sizes such as Shan Gang, autonomous army, police, bandits, and thieves, it is really not easy to enter and exit safely.

The formation of the Golden Triangle drug base has a close relationship with foreigners.

In 1825, a fully armed British expedition team arrived at the so-called "Golden Triangle" area today. The expedition team took the survey terrain and engulfed the thief. They quickly expelled most of the indigenous people with advanced weapons that the locals had never seen before, and set up camps with Kokang County in the north of the Golden Triangle. Through a comprehensive investigation of this area, the British believed that this place was very suitable for planting opium. After three years of trial planting, it was very successful, so they began to plant large areas in Kokang, Damengyang and other places. Most of the harvested opium was sold to the mainland of the Qing Dynasty, poisoning the Chinese people.

The actions of foreign thieves were strongly opposed by the Burmese dynasty. The local Shan gangs rose up to fight against them. In addition, the Qing government also interfered, so they quickly expelled them.

However, they had fully understood the economic value of this and its geographical strategic value as a future invasion of the Chinese Empire. So they quickly started war on Myanmar with British India as a base, and twice armed occupations destroyed the Burmese dynasty and incorporated it into India as a province.

In 1840, the First Opium War between China and Britain, and the Qing Empire was defeated. On July 24, 1886, under the force of the British, the Qing Dynasty signed the humiliating Treaty of the Sino-British Conference, and ceded the four counties of Kokang and Banhong in southern Yunnan to the British. In this way, the British completely controlled the Golden Triangle region and began to sow the seeds of sin on this land.

After Kokang County was ceded, Lin Honglie, the former governor of Kokang, angrily resigned from the position of prefect of Cheli (Jinghong) granted by the Qing court, and led more than a thousand loyal officers and soldiers to fight against the British and thieves alone. Luo Zhiman, the leader of the local Shan Gang ethnic group, also strongly opposed the British and thieves who were sent to the British and thieves to grow opium, lifted the pole and resisted the British and thieves. The Luo tribe was soon bloody suppressed by the British army and was forced to lead the remaining troops to retreat into the mountains and insist on fighting. After Lin Honglie raised his troops, Luo Zhiman led his troops to join and formed the "Anti-British Blue Flag Army" with Lin.

After the formation of the Blue Flag Army, Lin Honglie was the Grand Marshal. Luo Zhiman was named General, and he was recruited as a loyal and brave righteous man. He had more than 20,000 troops and fought with the British army for a long time. The Blue Flag Army confronted the British army for five or six years. During this period, it destroyed a large number of opium fields, eliminated the British army's vitality, and gave him a powerful blow. The British were helpless against this army, so they used diplomatic means to put pressure on the Qing court and demanded to send troops to cooperate in suppressing the Blue Flag Army. The extremely powerful Qing government was forced to accept the demand. It is a pity that the loyal and righteous and fighting Blue Flag Army was attacked by the enemy on both sides and had no reinforcements. Although they vowed to resist to the death, they were outnumbered and began to retreat step by step. In the end, Lin Honglie and Luo Zhiman led 5,000 soldiers to retreat to the Salwen River, and were surrounded by the British and Qing army. The five thousand elites finally ran out of ammunition and food, stained the Salwen River, and all died heroically.

After the failure of the Blue Flag Army, the British and the British were unimpeded in their unstoppable service to force the local people to grow opium, and ultimately made the Golden Triangle region an opium base today and a place of origin for drugs strongly accused by Western authorities, including the current British government. And the four counties of Kokang, which belonged to China, have been controlled by Myanmar to this day.

The coexistence of various military forces in the Golden Triangle and the complex faction was caused by the escape after the defeat of **.

After the defeat in 1949, the first part of the Eighth Army in the ** Yunnan region had no way to retreat, and merged into the 93rd Division with the remnants of the ** Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force stranded in the local area.

After 1949, as the remnants of **, they were unable to return to Taiwan, and were ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to shrink in the Golden Triangle region and wait for "lifting". As Taiwan was a member of the United Nations at that time, it was appealed by the Thai government to "illegal troops stationed in other countries' territories" twice. Taiwan could not deny the existence of this objective military force, and sent two former senior officials of the Eighth Army to ask them to withdraw all the way back to Taiwan. Due to various reasons, only a very small number of people arrived in Taiwan through endless dangers, and the vast majority of people stayed to retain their military force to prevent Thai armed encirclement and suppression.

The 93rd Division, the remnant Kuomintang troops, who were defeated repeatedly under the People's Army, was a small test for the Thai team that was several times more than its own, which made the Thai government dare not underestimate it. Finally, the Thai government understood that they were not the opponent of the 93rd Division, so it took the initiative to make peace. The Thai government was willing to provide a area for the 93rd Division to settle down, but it was not allowed to leave the enclosure. The only condition was to require the 93rd Division to be a mercenary to encircle the Thai guerrillas, which the Thai government troops also felt difficult.

In order to survive, the 93rd Division had no choice but to promise to live for other governments in the territory of other countries, in exchange for a place of shelter, which is the famous Mount Mengya in the famous Golden Triangle region today. With a cruel historical background, the well-equipped 93rd Division was thrown into South Asia, and these troops in foreign countries became the children of the "Breastless Mother".

Due to the excessive poverty of the Golden Triangle area, it is impossible to grow food at all. In addition, the local lack of medical treatment and medicine, these opium impoverished soldiers were used to solve the source of supplies. From then on, opium cultivation in the Golden Triangle entered the stage of "financial development" from a small-scale farmer production model one by one.

In addition, there are countless miscellaneous armies and small armed forces of the various tribes in the Golden Triangle. They often fight each other to fight for drug benefits. In addition, the Burmese, Thailand, and the old three countries' government forces are in a bid to suppress the fight. In order to survive, the 93rd Division must have to open one eye when sleeping. This cruel living space has trained a team that has been fighting fiercely.

Time flies, and the strong men who left their hometowns back then are old. Their descendants - Fuen, Kunchai and Jiapeng, have gradually stood out.

Especially among the three major drug lords, Fuen, his father and grandfather were both Han. He married the daughter of the Shan nationality of the Lemoshan people in northern Myanmar, and miraculously became the Shan nationality of the Lemoshan people in northern Myanmar. This guy has three names, the Chinese name is "Li Xinqi", the Burmese name is "Which Yue", and "Fuen" is his Thai name.

With accurate eyes, Fengen had long seen the bright prospects of the drug business. He used all kinds of skills to fight, recruited all the nearby small gangs, and established a unified army and a relatively powerful territory in northern Myanmar.

After having the territory, Fuen began to show his strength in drug management. He took measures to encourage local people to grow opium, spend huge amounts of money, and constantly update and refine equipment.

Fuen has a little "famous brand awareness". In the jungle, he developed and extracted No. 4 heroin with a purity of up to 98%, which attracted drug dealers and addicts around the world. The "Golden Triangle heroin" has since become infamous and eventually occupied 70% of the world's heroin market.

In addition to drug trafficking, Fuen also smuggled gems and trafficked arms. Fuen continuously expanded his army. At its peak, the troops reached more than 20,000. He set up switches and set up checkpoints in his jurisdiction and collected various taxes and fees, making the Golden Triangle a "country among the country."

In order to fight against the government forces, he used the money he obtained from drug trafficking to continuously update his weapons and equipment, and his weapons have always been higher than those of government forces in Myanmar, Thailand and other countries.

Later, due to the spread of drugs, the world has attracted vigilance and indignation, many countries have reached a consensus on drug production and drug trafficking. Since 2002, the Myanmar government has joined forces with countries such as Thailand, Laos, China, India, etc. to launch a large-scale attack on the military controlled areas of the three major drug lords, Kunchai and Jiapeng. However, Fuen did not trust the Shan people and a large number of senior military and political officials used Chinese descendants, which aroused the anger of the Shan people. In addition, the encirclement and suppression of the troops of multiple countries, more than 10,000 soldiers left the "revolutionary army", which seriously weakened the power of Fuen. When Zhao Jianhui and Tu Xiong and others went deep into Myanmar to fight, Fuen had only five or six thousand troops under his command.

Under the command of young officers such as Zhao Jianhui and Wei Mingyu, they had attacked Fuen's nest several times, which once interrupted the production of the three major drug lords. By the time Zhao Jianhui and Tu Xiong and others withdrew from the country, there were actually only a few hundred people following the three major drug lords, and their lives could be described as poor and destitute.

However, with the withdrawal of troops from other countries, these people have shown signs of revival in recent years. What is the current situation? Where are the drug lords such as Fuen and others entrenched in, and how many people are under their command? Zhao Jianhui is really confused.

In order to catch a few butterflies, I went deep into the Myanmar-Thailand jungle again. I didn’t find the medicine to cure the disease, but was left with my old rival. That was not the result Zhao Jianhui wanted.

He asked Guo Tao to take Sun Liyun to find the intelligence network he had established before. After trying to find out the situation, he studied and formulated a route to enter the Myanmar-Thailand jungle. It was always Zhao Jianhui's good habit. It was precisely because of this habit that Zhao Jianhui had attacked the enemy many times in the battle against drug lords and saved his life.
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