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No matter how complicated the situation in the country is, Corning no longer has the time and energy to take care of it at this time. Since the first day he came to Chiang Rai, Corning has spent every day in heavy work. Fortunately, with a steady and decisive boss like Chen Pu, personally taking charge of the command, Corning's pressure has been greatly reduced, and he was able to spend as much time as possible to discuss the establishment and development plan of the Chiang Rai economic entity with Xu Ziliang.

Nearly three years have passed since the Asian financial crisis from June 1997 to July 1998. This financial disaster, which began to develop from Thailand to almost sweeping the entire Asia, caused Thailand's economic losses to extremely heavy, politically turbulent, and is still recovering slowly.

At present, the economy in Thailand has not yet fully recovered. People are afraid of talking about it, are anxious, corporate debts are heavy, banks are full of bad debts, and the asset and liability situation of bank institutions has deteriorated significantly, resulting in heavy losses, debt-rich banks restrict loans and tighten monetary foundations. Many banks are unable to cash in savings or repay debts, and are on the verge of bankruptcy at any time. People's assets have shrunk greatly, and the government situation is no longer stable. People's trust in the government has declined year by year.

In such a bad environment, Chiang Rai Province, the northernmost border province of Thailand, was not spared.

Although this border provincial government has a population of less than 50,000, it has been hit relatively less due to its weak industrial foundation and relatively lagging economic development, etc., but it cannot survive and regroup. Even the development of the pillar industry tourism industry has stagnated due to the overall collapse of the economy, and even a rapid regression has occurred.

Under this extremely difficult economic situation, Xu Jiawei came in time with a huge investment plan of 50 million US dollars. Why didn’t the Chiang Rai government, which was helpless, be overjoyed?

During the two most difficult years of the Chiang Rai government and people, after major consortiums around the world evacuated their investments and cleared their property rights relations, the generous Xu family and son not only jointly built the best hospital in the northern provincial government with the Chiang Rai government, but also established the Rende Yuanbo Foundation, which once again and again put millions of strong US dollars into the charity cause of Chiang Rai. It greatly alleviated the pressure on the government and stimulated the people's confidence in overcoming difficulties. The Xu family and son were also deeply grateful to the Thai royal family, governments at all levels and people for this.

Therefore, the grateful prefect of the Chiang Rai government (equivalent to the local mayor of Thailand) Worajisong Sohn, Chamber of Commerce Chairman Botha, and many other government officials and business celebrities accompanied Xu Ziliang and his party for three consecutive days. They conducted a comprehensive investment and inspection of the entire Chiang Rai area, and personally selected a site for Xu Ziliang's real estate company on the beautiful Meikao River, and sold 210 acres of construction land at the best price.

In return for this friendly behavior, Xu Ziliang immediately solemnly promised the officials that on the basis of establishing the "Ching Rai Real Estate Company", the original Chiang Rai Pharmaceutical Factory will double the size of the original Chiang Rai Pharmaceutical Factory within one year and upgrade it to "Ching Rai Pharmaceutical Company". The Thai (Asian) Brothers Foundation will donate 200,000 US dollars to the Royal University of Chiang Rai at one time to help poor students complete their studies.

After a brief discussion, the thankful Chiang Rai government and the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce unanimously agreed to hire Xu Ziliang as the director of the Chamber of Commerce of Chiang Rai, and also strongly supported Xu Ziliang's "Chinese Chamber of Commerce" established by Xu Ziliang and the Chinese Association and the plan to establish a bilingual school for Thai and Chinese.

At this point, Corning Group finally firmly seized this rare development opportunity and quickly expanded its strength. From then on, it has gained a firm foothold in Chiang Rai, laying a good foundation for all-round development in the future.

At night, in the office of the Thai (Asian) Brothers Foundation, Corning and Chen Pu were quietly sitting at the round table, listening carefully to the heated discussion between Xu Ziliang and his six think tanks and assistants. The meeting was also attended by two middle-aged assessment experts from famous Hong Kong investment consulting firms.

Seeing Xu Ziliang's rigorous and scientific work attitude, Corning was very impressed. In the decision-making meeting that concerns the group's development destiny in Chiang Rai for several consecutive nights, Xu Ziliang's outstanding talents and business vision were perfectly reflected, showing a calmness and keenness far beyond his actual age. It was not until this time that Corning finally felt completely relieved and believed that Xu Ziliang could take responsibility alone.

From the fifth day, Kang Ning decided not to attend Xu Ziliang's meeting anymore, but just read the minutes after the meeting. At this time, his energy had shifted from economic development to the large part that Chen Pu was responsible for.

The entire Chiang Rai region has a population of about 1.13 million, divided into twelve counties and three branches. To the north and northeast are two neighbors in northern Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Chiang Rai is 168 kilometers away from the sister city of Chiang Mai, with many mountains, forests, seas and rivers. It is a famous fish and rice town in Thailand. The famous tourist locations in Chiang Rai Province are: Messe, Chiang Sheng, Golden Triangle and Messe La. These four places with a large population and relatively developed economy are also areas that are now focused on development in Corning's plan.

That night, Chen Pu, Guan Zhongming, Liangshan, Liu Hailan, Fan Gang and Jia Feiyu, who was in charge of communication and contact, carefully listened to Kang Ning's report on Xu Ziliang's recent work progress. After listening to Kang Ning's concise introduction, although there was nothing on his face, he was secretly anxious. In comparison, the work they were responsible for was much worse than Xu Ziliang's performance.

Corning was not dissatisfied with anything, but expressed high appreciation for the progress everyone has made:

"Hailan and Agang have done a good job. It took you less than a month to integrate three Chinese gangs and continue to develop like this. In less than three months, you should be able to occupy half of the Chiang Rai underworld. Your work is not small, and it is not as difficult as Ziliang for nearly two years of preliminary work preparation. I am very satisfied with this achievement! Hailan, your Thai language is the most standard. Therefore, your work intensity will be the largest among all our brothers in the near future, especially the arms trading line. You have to spend more energy to further strengthen. From now on, Brother Guan will fully cooperate with your work.

With Brother Shan as your backing, you can take a little bigger step appropriately. The more than 800 long and short guns in the camp have been successfully solved, but the ammunition may not be able to keep up for a while. This matter must be done step by step."

"Yes! I've been staring at this matter very tightly." Liu Hailan's face was full of smiles, and she obviously worked continuously. She finally had a look: "Last night, I finally met Peternovic, one of the most famous arms merchants in Southeast Asia in Chiang Mai. This Russian has been in Thailand for eight years and speaks fluent Thai dialect. Because we have successively purchased ak47 and more than 30 pistols from him in small batches over the past year. He is quite relieved about us, especially after I and him, we have successfully conquered the two gangs of Meisai, he was very interested. He kept asking questions.

Which part of the forces are we? I told him vaguely that we belong to the North Special Administrative Region. He immediately changed his original attitude of ignoring justice and became very enthusiastic. He also said that we were very welcomed. Then he criticized the group of fellow arms traveling in Bangladesh. When it came to the rise, he personally took me to the underground gun warehouse to visit. According to our understanding, most of the weapons sources of the Peng Jiasheng tribe and Bao Youxiang tribe in northern Myanmar have been coming in through the direction of Bangladesh, and there are a lot of quantities every year. I guess Peternovic would like to take this opportunity to enter the weapons market in northern Myanmar."

Corning and Chen Pu quickly exchanged glances, then turned to Liu Hailan, and asked in a low voice: "Is that Peter's things intact? How is his real strength?"

"As far as I look, it's already quite complete. He has almost all the goods in his hands made by the Soviet Union. He should have good strength. Every time we place an order, we can get the goods within three days."

Liu Hailan said this and hesitated for a little, but finally he carefully put forward his own suggestions: "Last night, I saw a brand new SVD improved semi-automatic sniper rifle in his gun curb, which is better than our 85 sniper workmanship. This gun uses a new fiberglass composite buttstock and guardrail, and uses an improved magazine. There are threaded holes for bipods in front of the entrance of the magazine, which looks very majestic and beautiful! I asked casually, and he offered 500 US dollars per, and proudly told me that he had 170 such sniper rifles, and the supply of ammunition was not a problem. He also deliberately attracted my appetite and said that this year he could only get so many because Iraq is very messy and now there is a lot of demand. I personally think I should buy a batch and if I buy it in batches, I estimate that each one can still suppress 80 to 100 US dollars."

When everyone heard this, they all seemed very excited. This is a real good thing!

This is an excellent weapon equipped by the former Soviet army in 1963. The Chinese imitation SVD is the Type 79 sniper rifle set in 1979 and the subsequently improved Type 85 sniper rifle. However, after the continuous improvement of the old men, this gun has better performance and increased its effective range to more than 600 meters. It uses 7.62x54r destined bullets, and the bore speed is 830 per second. It is strong and durable, and the accuracy is greatly improved. The buttstock design is to hollow out the rear of the wooden buttstock grip and most of the buttstock, which not only reduces the weight but naturally forms a straight grip. The buttstock is close to the center of gravity of the shoulder, and is also closer to the axis of the barrel, which can better control the jumping of the muzzle. Originally, there were not a few in the army, but now I heard that there are only 170 of them. How can these veterans not be ecstatic?

"Aning, buy dozens of them and use them. Many times, this kind of gun is better than ak47. Liangshan, who was a sniper, couldn't help but stand up and said loudly.

Chen Pu also nodded and agreed: "It's really rare. I'm afraid there will be no store after passing this village! I agree to get a batch back."

"I agree too!" Guan Zhongming expressed his excitement.

Seeing this, Kang Ning smiled, then took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a bank card and handed it to Liu Hailan:

"This is part of the bonus that Brother Xu just gave me in the fourth quarter of last year. There are a total of 680,000 US dollars. The password is to reverse the card number. I'm using it. I'll hand it over to you now. I'll buy all these sniper rifles as soon as possible. Also, see if we can buy some advanced radio communication equipment. We must establish the security link between Luang Prabang, Chiang Rai and Bang Pu Base Camp, as well as the Meisai, Daqili, La and Lao Manghai. From now on, we will draw a group of brothers from all over the country to study in a concentrated manner, and Xiaoyu is responsible for being the instructor. I will ask Brother Gan to find some talents in this area to come back. No matter when, communication is extremely important. There are too many things for us next. The conditions in Myanmar are poor. We can't always send messages on our legs, right?"

Everyone was very moved when they heard this. Liu Hailan took the bank card: "Brother Ning, you can't use so much. The money for the communication equipment is ready. The order has been arranged with Brother Chen's consent. It is estimated that the goods will be received within a week."

Corning smiled slightly: "Please take it. If you see any advanced weapon, buy it as long as we can use it, and the investment will be rewarded soon."

Everyone heard that there was a reward, so they all pricked up their ears and waited for Corning to explain. Corning just smiled and said to A Gang: "A Gang, how are your men who used to engage in drug trafficking now?"

A Gang replied solemnly: "We have stopped for the time being. If we don't integrate, I dare not let them go. Now more than 100 brothers receive 2,500 Thai baht per month. Most of them are very satisfied. After killing two rebellious boys, they gradually return to their hearts."

"Very good! We can let them take action. We must seize the opportunity to slowly expand our strength. This is a very important way of wealth in the future, so the burden on your shoulders is very heavy. You must cultivate a trusted team as soon as possible, and ask the brothers here for their doubts, pay close attention to everyone's performance, and take care of the families of these brothers, so that people can work wholeheartedly for you. I have discussed this with Ziliang. As long as the family of your brothers under your command, we will give priority to recruiting various companies for employment. Secondly, you must formulate a charter, clarify responsibilities, and be kind and powerful together to achieve results quickly. Many Chinese communities have collapsed without iron fist. When encountering stubborn or betrayal, don't be ruthless!" After Kang Ning said that, he smiled and stared at the increasingly mature Agang.

"Understood!"

When the brothers heard this, they realized that the whole plan had finally begun. They couldn't help but feel energetic and full of confidence. Note: 1. (meng)
Chapter completed!