"The Golden Triangle is actually nothing mysterious. It is an inland mountain range with a tropical monsoon climate. Due to the complex environment and dense vegetation, it is difficult for government agencies to enter, so it has become the nest of the Grass-headed King.
In fact, those are scattered strengths. A few dozen people dare to call themselves generals, chairman, commander-in-chief and other titles. In fact, they are poor and miserable, and they only have one life.
But the Burmese army is also terrible. It can't deal with these grass-headed kings and instead allows them to grow bigger. These guys are trapped in the mountains. Over time, they can only use crooked ways to deceive us.
It's actually not difficult to deal with these guys. The problem is that we don't have the strength to get through them, so we can only stare at them from across the border.
The poorer the place, the less able the bottom class is to change their lifestyle. When you go to Myanmar, you will find that the society there is still very low-level.
Many places have village autonomy. Farmers have no right to decide what to plant or not to plant, and they don't make much money.
As long as the bottom class is given a way out, they won't resist. They are all poor, and it doesn't matter who manages it, as long as they have enough to eat. So Mr. Zhou wants to make pilot investments, and we are willing to try."
The local cadres in Ruili explained some border conditions to Ouyang Jun so that he could go out to discuss investment projects with the Myanmar side tomorrow. Even though he was just showing his face, he couldn't know everything.
It is very difficult to invest in Myanmar, and there is no money in the country now, so we can only block the border. But Zhou Qingfeng is famous. He is willing to go out and pull strings to smooth things over, and it is still possible to help with local efforts.
Especially since Ruili was just upgraded to a city in 1992, the local government also hopes to make some achievements and is very interested in the barter trade proposed by the Holy Light.
Myanmar has a lot of resources that can be developed and is very complementary to China, which is undergoing industrial upgrading. The key is to find a qualified agent. This is the biggest difficulty.
After dinner at night, the local cadres chatted with Ouyang Jun for a few words. In addition to introducing the situation in Myanmar, they also praised the helicopters for anti-drug operations. They only hated that the number of helicopters was too small and they could not conduct round-the-clock surveillance.
After chatting until late at night, everyone took a rest.
Ouyang Jun returned to the room, lay on the bed and thought about it carefully. He still had many questions in his mind - Myanmar is really too poor. It has no more than decades of industrial foundation compared to the country, and has nothing except some untapped natural resources.
But it is not easy to develop natural resources, and it also requires the support of industrialization. Mr. Zhou has too much money? Why do you have to come to this place where birds don’t shit?
After falling asleep in a daze, people from the Burmese military government came the next day. Ouyang Jun did not understand Burmese. The meeting, photos and talks were all just a formality and required translation.
Zhou Qingfeng was obviously in Ruili, but he did not show up. The photos in the press releases in the following days were of Ouyang Jun. However, these news did not spread widely. The domestic media did not even know that "Holy Light" had signed a cooperation agreement with Myanmar.
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This is a very formal agreement. The military government is also the government and has basic credibility. There is nothing wrong with the agreement itself. 'Holy Light' abides by the laws of Myanmar and invests in Muse Town opposite Ruili.
The main investment is that the Holy Light sends out a management team, hires local personnel to build roads, build houses, purchase local goods, and conduct barter and soft currency transactions.
Everything looks very formal.
But Ouyang Jun used a translator to communicate with the Myanmar side and got more information.
First of all, the situation in Muse is complicated, and the military government has no control over the area. There are too many grass-head kings in the Kokang areas of Wa State and Shan State.
Secondly, the military government has been under great pressure from the international community and has been subject to sanctions, just like a rat on the street. It just so happens that the "Holy Light" is also described as an evil monster in the Western media.
Finally, Myanmar is really poor, with its annual import and export total amounting to only one billion U.S. dollars. It is so poor that government troops were brutally beaten by local armed forces, and the military government can only control a few major cities.
With such pieces of information, when Ouyang Jun left Ruili, he was not sure whether the Myanmar personnel he met were from Yangon? Or were they from local factions? The local cadres who accompanied the negotiations pretended to be deaf and dumb.
But since the president was personally in charge, Ouyang Jun didn't care. He stayed in Ruili for three days, took the opportunity to travel, and left by helicopter.
On the third day, Zhou Qingfeng walked alone through the Ruili-Muse Port and went to the town on the other side of the river to meet with local representatives in person. Irene, who was good at seducing, stood behind him and whispered: "It's really a mess here, I only found
These ones are relatively reliable.”
"enough."
Zhou Qingfeng didn't talk too much with the local representatives, and only made imperative demands. It's not like he never thought of taking action himself to wipe out the grass-headed kings in the entire Golden Triangle area.
But it's no use.
If you don't take root and do the basic work, if you sweep away one grass-headed king, ten more grass-headed kings will emerge.
Now the request is very simple - first stabilize the public security, and the 'Holy Light' will send a 'humanitarian' assistance team to assist a batch of 'construction machinery' and help Muse locally train 'technical personnel' suitable for modern production.
Local young people who have no future and have committed crimes can now receive training from the "Assistance Group" and receive a monthly subsidy of 110 yuan, which is already a high salary in the local area. Those who excel in training can also be promoted and raised their salary.
Zhou Qingfeng believes that as long as they train for three months, these new recruits...new technical personnel can use the 'mechanical equipment' assisted by the 'Holy Light' to stabilize local security.
As for the aid mission itself, this is even less of a problem.
There is nothing else in the country, and there are a lot of veterans.
With a monthly salary of thousands, it is easy to recruit veterans to form an "assistance group". They will never get involved in local affairs, except for guidance work, at most building barracks and the like.
The specific dirty work and wet work will naturally be completed by trained local ‘technicians’.
In just three months, the local ‘technical staff’ should be able to take charge of the project on their own.
‘Holy Light’ can increase investment and develop projects in the local area. For example, ‘If you want to be rich, build roads first.’ It is normal for local ‘technicians’ to drive ‘construction machinery’ to build roads.
During the process of road construction, the construction workers of "Holy Light" must have "convinced people with their reasoning". I believe that local residents are also willing to cooperate for the sake of a better future.
Even if there is a small loss, 'Holy Light' can compensate for it, and it won't cost a lot of money.
Of course, there must be some local residents who do not understand the good intentions of the Holy Light and are opposed to occupying their own land to build roads. The Holy Light will definitely 'persuade' patiently, twice if once is not enough, and three times if two times are not enough.
Until no one objects.
After the road is built, it’s time to start farming. It’s normal for some ‘farming tools’ to appear at this time, right?
The 'Holy Light' will definitely persuade local farmers to plant harmless crops, such as rice, tea trees and rubber.
It takes four years for tea trees and eight years for rubber to enter the payback period. During this period, 'Holy Light' will definitely provide more in-depth services and more assistance, so that local people can live a stable life and get rid of poverty.
Anyway, once you’re here, you don’t want to leave. You must succeed.
Zhou Qingfeng believes that with the endorsement of the signed cooperation agreement, he can train 5,000 local 'technical personnel' in just three months.
The Caotou King of the Golden Triangle is a big deal with only a few hundred men. He has poor equipment, poor training, and is completely weak in combat effectiveness.
At most, the 'Holy Light' can kill them all in half a year. The rest is just a matter of time and effort to guide local development. But the anti-drug mission is completed.
The whole world cannot say that Zhou Qingfeng was wrong in providing aid, right? The West often does this kind of thing, and we should also learn from it.