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"Because if we occupy the town, our nature will change!" Zhao Haijun said calmly, "In the eyes of the Thai government, the British colonial authorities in Myanmar, and the French colonial authorities in Laos, we are just a group of bandits. Tolerate us to a certain extent. If we occupy the town, we will no longer be bandits, but anti-government armed separatist forces. First, let us attract more attention and firepower, and second, it may give us And the second son behind us is causing trouble.
Remember, our principle is what the Second Young Master told us at the beginning, 'develop in a low-key manner and make money silently'.
Remember, we need to keep a low profile, the lower the profile the better, the less attention the Thai government, the British, and the French attach to us, the better, understand? "
The adjutants nodded.
Zhao Haijun smiled: "What's more, Chiang Rai and other towns in or near our territory are not occupied by us, but the people in the town are completely infiltrated and controlled by us. What's the difference? Well, stop talking nonsense and do things quickly!" He put away his smile, "Xiao Wang, you take someone to Bangkok immediately, and send 30 US dollars to General Chachai as a thank you gift, thank him for me , thank him for cooperating with us again, and leaked to us the military intelligence, combat plan, and marching route of the Thai army's encirclement and suppression of us. In addition, tell him that the cooperation is happy. I hope that the two sides can continue to cooperate, and I hope he can introduce More high-level military and political leaders in Thailand 'know' us, and the gifts will naturally be very generous.
Xiao Zhang, you should also take a trip, go to Yangon and Hanoi, and bring 20 US dollars to Major General Harrison and Major General Balzac respectively, and tell them that we need to buy weapons and equipment from them. In addition, we hope they can help us find out Take a look at the attitude of the British colonial authorities and the French colonial authorities towards us, and then go to the country after finishing, and ask the second son to allocate a batch of weapons and ammunition to us.
Xiao Li, come here!" Zhao Haijun handed over a few pages, "I marked it on it, there are 27 tribes actively supporting our operation, you go to inform these tribes, because they are doing very well, Therefore, their future dividends will be increased by 20.00%; there are four other tribes who have adopted an attitude of obedience to our action. Now you take people to the valley to cut off the heads of the dead Thai soldiers and divide them into four. These four tribes serve as a warning. In addition, we must strengthen surveillance on these four tribes, buy their internal people, and replace their leaders if they are disobedient. If they dare to engage in conspiracy and tricks, follow the old rules and wash them. Kill one as an example to others!"
"Yes!" The adjutants stood at attention solemnly, and then went to carry out the order.
At the same time, there is a vast and flat basin inside the Golden Triangle, where poppies are swaying in the wind all over the mountains and fields. Some villages are scattered in the basin, and the construction is obviously professionally planned. Places that are almost impossible to spot if a plane passes by.
In the village, several processing factory-like buildings were emitting puffs of smoke, and some people in white coats and gas masks were busy inside, performing their duties.
The "production activities" here have been fully standardized, systematized, and subdivided into tools, from planting to cultivation, from picking to harvesting, from processing to refining, which can be called "one-stop".
There are not only farmers, workers, and soldiers, but also businessmen, agronomists, botanists, and chemists. There are not only cottages, farmland, processing plants, and barracks, but also shops, restaurants, schools, cinemas, bars, and singing and dancing. Halls, etc., seem to be a miniature society where "although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs".
This seemingly isolated paradise is actually the largest drug base in the world.
At this time, the drug cultivation area in the Golden Triangle has exceeded 50 mu, with an annual output of more than 800 tons of opium.
The local residents of the Golden Triangle basically divide their labor in this way: children go to school, elderly provide for the elderly, men fight wars, and women plant poppies.
A public trial is being held in the open space of the largest village in the basin.
More than 200 local men were kneeling on the ground with their hands and feet tied behind their backs. Thousands of people gathered around, half of them were armed men with live ammunition, and the other half were locals, and dozens of them seemed to be local tribal leaders and the like. people.
Outside the open space, two mg-34 machine guns pointed fiercely at the bound people.
Holding an MP-28 submachine gun, Tang Feihu walked unhurriedly in front of the 200 people who were tied up, squinting at the dozens of tribal leaders among the onlookers from time to time, and said in a neither high nor low voice: " It’s not that you don’t know the rules, we told you on the first day, follow us, do things faithfully, ensure that you can eat well, drink spicy food, get dividends every month, your children can go to school, we build a school here , build hospitals, build roads, your men fight with us, you will get bonuses for meritorious deeds, and pensions for death, your women will farm for us well, and besides, have we bullied you? Have we killed people for no reason? ?Did we rape your women? Did we bully men and women? No? No! We set the rules, and we have to abide by them.
Our purpose is to lead you to make a fortune together.
How nice it is for everyone to make a fortune together!We are worthy of you, and you must also be worthy of us, but! He raised his voice sharply, pointing his gun at those kneeling on the ground, "What did you lifeless things do?"One of your three tribes is colluding secretly with outsiders and is going to betray us, right?One is to buy weapons privately, plot evil, and prepare to rebel, right?Another is to intercept opium without authorization, not to hand it over, and to make up nonsense that the opium field was washed away by the flood, isn't it too greedy?We already have a rule that all opium must be handed over, and we will distribute the dividends uniformly.
Tsk tsk tsk, the three of you have broken the rules here, so you can't blame us.
According to the rules, those who participated in this matter, that is, more than 200 of you, will all click! "
The cry of begging for mercy immediately rang out.
Tang Feihu looked at the onlookers, and said with a ferocious expression: "Show me clearly! If you don't follow the rules, you will end up like this! If you follow the rules, work hard, and be loyal, you can live a good life and get rich!" He waved his hand violently, "They're all dead!"
The sound of machine gun fire rang out, and blood spattered three feet in an instant.
In the dark and damp soil, a tunnel is slowly but firmly extending forward.
In the tunnel, forty to fifty strong men with dirty faces were digging like rain. They were dressed in rags, but their equipment was very formal. They wore safety helmets, and the miners' lamps on the hats shone bright beams of light. They did not Using large-scale machinery, relying only on tools such as shovels, shovels, and picks in the hands to work, pairs of hands covered with calluses are covered with blood blisters, and pairs of black eyes are shining with determination.
In a certain corner of the tunnel, three young people gathered together. They were all relatively clean. Obviously, they did not participate in the work. They used the light of the miner's lamp to repeatedly check the thick stack of materials, documents, and maps in their hands. , The map is full of dense marks, signs, and routes.
The three watched carefully and discussed in low voices. Two of them were Jin Dingguo and Zeng Liwei who were sent to the Golden Triangle by Jiang Weiguo a long time ago to plant, manufacture and sell drugs.
"Damn it!" Zeng Liwei looked at the map in his hand, gritted his teeth and shed tears, "I've been busy for five months! Five months! It's almost here! Is it useful? Old Chen, old Chen, your thoughts must be Be reliable! If not, I will strangle you to death!"
The third young man who was called "Old Chen" by Zeng Liwei was named Chen Rui, and he was also a young overseas Chinese who devoted himself to serving the country.
"It's better to believe in something than in nothing!" Chen Rui was also in a state of extreme agitation, excitement, apprehension, and nervousness, "If you don't try, your hope is zero. If you try, there is hope." !Even if it’s only one percent hope, it’s still hope!”
"One ten-thousandth hope has to be tried!" Jin Dingguo looked firm, "You are all aware of the domestic situation. Starling (Jiang Weiguo) is now in charge of several provinces in North China. He wants to work hard and do a good job. It's a big deal, but everything is inseparable from the word 'money'.
Starling is too short of money!If he doesn't have money, he can't do those big things!Starling has ordered us to get him money by any means!This project is a must!If it succeeds, the significance is simply immeasurable! "
Zeng Liwei dropped the map in his hand, folded his hands and closed his eyes: "Bless our ancestors! Bless our ancestors!"
Chen Rui said with a smile: "Brother Zeng, this is not in China, the ancestors of our Chinese people can't hear it!"
Zeng Liwei kicked Chen Rui: "Sincerity leads to spirit! Shut your beak! I just said that if we fail to fetch water from the bamboo basket, I will strangle you to death!"
"Captain!" A young man who was digging the tunnel ran over panting, his voice trembling, "Dig it through!"
"Go and have a look!" Chen Rui, Jin Dingguo, and Zeng Liwei hurriedly followed.
At the end of the tunnel was a rough stone wall that had turned black from the soil and the years.
Chen Rui ordered in an orderly manner: "Everyone, wear a gas mask! Prevent poisonous gas that is harmful to the human body! The oxygen generator will immediately produce oxygen! You guys, use the cutting machine to start cutting the stone wall! Hurry up!"
"Will it be heard by outsiders?" Jin Dingguo asked.
"We're 20 meters underground!" Chen Rui laughed, "What the hell!"
Zeng Liwei touched the cold black stone wall in front of him, and laughed: "The locals say that three terrible things may happen when this stone wall is opened. One is that the secret passage behind the stone wall leads to the sea. It will pour in, drown us, and flood the entire city; the second is that there are thousands of cobras entangled in the secret room behind the stone wall. If it is opened, those cobras will roar out and eat us to the bones; In the secret room behind is the devil imprisoned by the ancient gods, if you open it, the devil will appear and destroy the whole world!"
Chen Rui laughed: "It's all fart! They are all pretending to deceive people! I have studied this place repeatedly. It is far away from the sea, and it is impossible for sea water to pour in. As for the cobra, it is even more nonsense. The secret room inside It has been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, there is no oxygen and no food such as rats, how can the cobra survive in it? As for the devil, haha, aren’t we the devil? We have sold so many drugs and killed so many people! We are the devil! Is the devil still afraid of the devil?"
Jin Dingguo also smiled: "Yes! We are devils! What are you afraid of? This place is a temple, but we dig tunnels in, which is blasphemy in itself! But we are devils, and blasphemy is our duty. Well! For the sake of money, let him go!"
Amidst the roar of the cutting machine, the stone wall was cut little by little into a narrow hole that can be drilled by a single person. Looking inside through the hole, it was so dark that there was no sea water, no cobras, and no devils. .
Chen Rui, Jin Dingguo, and Zeng Liwei managed to stabilize their beating hearts, put on gas masks, picked up weapons and flashlights, and got in one by one.
Under the light of the flashlight, what appeared in front of them was a secret room like an underground hall. After seeing the scene in the secret room clearly, the mood of the three of them suddenly fell to freezing point. There were only some brick fragments and garbage in the secret room. All gone.
"Fuck!" Zeng Liwei couldn't help swearing due to the huge disappointment.
"Oh!" Jin Dingguo sighed softly.
Gritting his teeth and sullenly, Chen Rui walked back and forth, inspecting, and searching in the empty secret room resolutely. After a few minutes, he shouted loudly: "Come quickly!" He pointed at the corner of the secret room. Several large boulders piled up in piles.
Jin Dingguo, Zeng Liwei and others rushed over and moved the stones away with great effort. Immediately, they were ecstatically aware that there was a new entrance to a secret passage under the pile of stones.
Without any hesitation, Chen Rui, Jin Dingguo, Zeng Liwei and others opened the stone slab at the entrance of the secret passage, revealing a dark secret passage below.
Several people got in without hesitation, and moved forward cautiously and slowly.
The secret passage is not only dark, but also extremely quiet. There is an old and ancient atmosphere in the air. Chen Rui and his party can clearly hear their own breathing and heartbeat. They are all very nervous, but not for their own safety. As for nervousness, they are ready to put their life and death on the line for the motherland. They are now desperadoes. Their nervousness is because they are nervous for the next discovery, and they are afraid that they will get nothing.
Just a few minutes later, Chen Rui, who was walking in the front, noticed a little yellow reflection flickering in the darkness far away from the secret passage, and several of them hurriedly shone their flashlights there. Immediately, the dazzling golden reflection almost flooded the secret passage .
After lunch, Jiang Weiguo left the residence to go to work with a red handprint on his face and a heavy heart. His mood at work was heavier than going to the grave, because his office was full of official documents, and nine out of ten Quotations are generally inseparable from the word money.
Jiang Weiguo wants to build the six provinces and one city in his hands, expand the Nanjing Army, and take into account the construction of other parts of the country. Grand plans can be packed in sacks, but every grand plan is based on money.
Without money, all plans are empty talk, and without enough money, many plans have to be discounted or delayed or cut off directly.
Those official documents, those proposals were basically equivalent to a reminder notice, which drove Jiang Weiguo into a state of desperation.
During lunch, Jiang Weiguo was absent-minded. Liu Wugou asked him what he was thinking, and he said, "I want money!" He looked at Liu Wugou's pretty face, and said short-circuited, "If someone buys it with me for 100 million yuan, You're fine, I'll sell you, and the construction funds for the thermal power plant in Datong will be available!" After hearing this, Liu Wugou slapped Jiang Weiguo angrily, and the slap was a little harsher, making Jiang Weiguo face Left a red handprint.
When he arrived at the door of the office, Jiang Weiguo saw Liu Qihu, the head of the North China District of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, waiting for him.
"Big seat!" After waiting for Jiang Weiguo, Liu Qihu greeted him with strides, and his whole body was beaming with joy: "Good news!!"
Jiang Weiguo was listless: "What good news? Have you dug up a treasure?"
Liu Qihu's next sentence surprised Jiang Weiguo: "Yes! We have dug up a treasure!"
"Ah?" Jiang Weiguo opened his mouth wide, "Is it true?"
The Maritime Statistics Bureau also has an organization in India. It is a branch in India. After all, India is the most important colony of the United Kingdom at this time. It is also necessary to collect information about India. Of course, it is not urgent. Therefore, the Indian Branch of the Maritime Statistics Bureau The first major task of the company is nothing but drug trafficking, selling drugs from the Golden Triangle to India, which has a population of [-] million and a huge market.
There is an action team leader named Chen Rui in the Southwest Division of the Indian Branch of the Maritime Statistics Bureau. He is an overseas Chinese born and raised in Kerala, India. He has heard such a legend since he was a child. The local Padma was built in the 16th century. There is an astonishing amount of treasure hidden in the underground chamber of the Nabaswamy Temple, but no one has ever dug it out, because this temple is dedicated to Vishnu, one of the three main gods of Hinduism. Indians believe in Hinduism very much. So no one dares to "offend the gods".
After Jiang Weiguo got the two provinces of Shandong and Jin, he had been worrying about funds. He ordered the Maritime Statistics Bureau to "make money by any means possible."
Although Chen Rui is not a high-level executive of the Bureau of Maritime Statistics, he has also received such instructions. Originally, the instruction he received was to "increase the sales of drugs to the southwestern region of India, and the bureau urgently needs a large amount of funds." After receiving this instruction, Chen Rui used his "crazy brain", he thought, it is said that there are a lot of treasures hidden in the underground chamber of this temple, why not dig it?After making up his mind, he asked his superiors for help, and got support from Jin Dingguo and Zeng Liwei, who were busy producing and selling drugs in the Golden Triangle.
Several people organized a group of excavation teams composed of Indian overseas Chinese. In order to deceive others, they specially opened a building material processing factory far away from the temple, and then carefully dug tunnels to the underground chamber of the temple. People and the British colonists in India, so they didn't dare to make a big show, didn't dare to use machinery and equipment, and didn't dare to use too many people. They worked hard manually, digging bit by bit like snails and turtles, and dug a full five After several months, the underground chamber of the temple was finally dug through.
After being mentally prepared to die inside, Chen Rui and his party entered the secret room, and were disappointed to find that there was nothing inside, but then found a more secret secret passage in the secret room. Not long after entering, they discovered "Hills of gold, precious stones, diamonds, a great deal of gold coins, several golden crowns studded with precious stones."
Indians like gold very much. Religious Indians "compete to dedicate the most precious thing to the gods". The so-called "most precious thing" is naturally gold.
The Padmanabaswamy Temple was built by the king of the Travanco Kingdom, which ruled southwestern India more than 300 years ago. The local Indians who worshiped Vishnu dedicated a large number of gold products to the temple. In order to worship Vishnu, they were finally buried in the underground chamber of the temple. In addition, it was more of the savings of the Travanco Kingdom and the tributes from neighboring countries to the Travanco Kingdom.
根据陈瑞、金定国、曾力伟等人的查探，地下密室共有六个，光是在第一个密室里，他们就发现了：超过1200根的金链、3个黄金王冠、总重量近1吨的零散黄金饰品、多达17公斤的金币、1只用黄金铸造的足有1.2米高的亚洲象雕像、1座1米多高的镶嵌钻石的毗湿奴的神像、超过70颗钻石和宝石等。
In the next five secret rooms, Chen Rui and others discovered a large number of gold treasures, which were much larger than the first secret room. It is conservatively estimated that the gold exceeds 10 tons, and because it is gold products and works of art, its value is higher than that of pure treasures The gold bricks and gold ingots are taller, and there are also a large number of diamond gems.
"At least twenty large factories can be built!" Jiang Weiguo smiled happily.
Chapter 406 In full swing (3)
Jiang Weiguo is now the illustrious "King of North China" in command of six provinces and one city in North China. His territory is larger than the Japanese-occupied area. Except for Outer Mongolia and Xinjiang, which were infiltrated and controlled by the Soviet Union, his territory is the largest among the many princes in the country, but Outer Mongolia And the "quality" of Xinjiang is not as good as his six provinces and one city.
However, although the "King of North China" sounds majestic, it is miserable to do it. With a land of about 120 million square kilometers and a population of about 9000 million, it is not a small country in the world. up.
With such a large territory and such a large population, Jiang Weiguo was exhausted.
The head of the family knows that Chai Mi is expensive, and Jiang Weiguo is completely miserable.
The army and finance are the two top priorities for Jiang Weiguo. The latter is even more important. In order to get as much money as possible, Jiang Weiguo racked his brains, searched his brains, used all means, and did everything he could. Generally speaking, his There are two parts to the countermeasures. One is to vigorously build and develop the economy of the six provinces and one city to enrich fiscal revenue, and the other is to use various "heresy" methods to make money.
Digging for treasure, although this sounds illusory and unrealistic, it is not that Jiang Weiguo has not considered this method.
However, the benefits of digging treasures are different from the concept of ordinary people. A treasure that is dug up is indeed an astronomical windfall for a person, but it is still just a drop in the bucket for a country.
The Indian branch of the Bureau of Maritime Statistics stole more than ten tons of gold from the underground chamber of the Padmanabaswamy Temple in Kerala, southwest India. The amount of this treasure can be described as "amazing". However, Jiang Weiguo was just happy, not ecstatic, why?Because spending this wealth on a person can indeed make him extravagant and spend money like water, but spending it on someone like Jiang Weiguo is only enough for him to squeeze his teeth.
At this time, the international gold exchange rate is that 1 ounce of gold is equal to thirty or forty dollars (due to the chaotic and turbulent world situation at this time, the paper banknotes of various countries are affected by fluctuations, and gold is an absolute hard currency, so the actual value of gold is more than international gold. exchange rate), then 1 ton of gold is about 150 million U.S. dollars, and 10 tons of gold is 1500 million U.S. dollars. However, since the Indian gold stolen by the Maritime Bureau is basically a work of art, the value is higher, and there are many Diamonds, gems, and crowns, but with all the money, the total value of this treasure is only about 2000 million US dollars.
What is $2000 million to someone like Jiang Weiguo?It's only the price of two hundred planes.
The country's expenditure is very huge, not to mention the wartime, the war's expenditure is completely burning money, such as torpedoes, a torpedo is 3 US dollars, which is 10 in legal currency. Jiang Weiguo is now a major general, and his monthly military salary is 160 yuan. In addition to his government salary, it is only about 200 yuan a month. If he does not eat or drink for 50 to [-] years, the money he saves can buy a torpedo and mortar shells, which are just the most basic things in the army. A kind of shell, but the cost of a mortar shell is equal to the annual income of a farmer planting ten acres of land.
It is conceivable how much money will be burned to fight a battle or even a war?Therefore, in the winter battle launched by the Nanjing Army, they had no strength to continue fighting as long as they reached Chengde, because their money was exhausted.
Jiang Weiguo still has a lot of money. If you analyze it carefully, there are the following:
The first was Hitler's aid.
After the formal establishment of the Germany-China-Japan Triple Alliance, Hitler kept his promise and generously assisted China (as well as Japan, mainly to continue to expand the navy), and allocated [-] million U.S. dollars in loans to China every year (China does not need to repay the money, Only need to use tungsten sand, bristle, tung oil and other industrial raw materials to repay the debt), in addition, there are some free funds to increase, plus the expenses of German aid personnel (technical personnel), weapons and equipment, machinery and equipment, etc., Germany at this time Give China almost [-] million US dollars a year;