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Text 00434, Myitkyina

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    After resting for more than an hour, several people boarded the helicopter again. They only drank some water and did not dare to eat. Otherwise, they would have to vomit out whatever they ate during the bumpy ride.  The flight lasted for nearly two hours. From the helicopter, someone could be vaguely seen on the ground. At close to five o'clock, the helicopter also landed in a military camp in Myitkyina, outside the city in Myanmar.  Basically there are troops stationed there.  "Two professors, Brother Wang and Brother Qian, I will meet you tomorrow. Let's take a good rest today." "Okay." After getting off the helicopter, Wu Gang looked at the pale faces of several people and knew that they would also be there at night.  There was nothing left to eat, so he sent a few people to the most luxurious hotel in Myitkyina in his car waiting in the military camp.  Wang Ding looked from the car. The city of Myitkyina was far behind Yangon and Mandalay. At least in those two cities, there were some modern buildings, but here, it was so eye-catching.  All you see are low wooden houses, and reinforced concrete buildings are very rare.  And the so-called luxury hotel is just a five-story building. Apart from a 21-inch bulky color TV and an old yellowed air conditioner, there are no electrical appliances or a water heater.  The waiter also needs to bring it to you.  Wang Ding and others were really tired. After entering the room and taking a shower, they all went to bed and fell asleep.  Although Wu Gang also has a house in Myitkyina, the Wu family¡¯s roots in Myanmar are in Hpakant. Today he also stayed in the hotel with Wang Ding and others.  The next morning, two imported off-road vehicles parked at the door of the hotel.  This is Wu Gang¡¯s personal car. If he were to take a car provided by the military, it would probably be the old Yanjing Jeep 212 made in China. At a certain period of time, the country had supported a batch of jeeps like this in Myanmar.  The tires of these two off-road vehicles are very large, and the wheels are very high. It seems that they have been modified with guide doors.  ¡°When he came by helicopter yesterday, Wang Ding had seen the roads around here, which were basically mountain roads. If he had used the RV that Wu Gang had before, he would have fallen asleep within two miles.  Wang Ding, Qian Le and Wu Gang were sitting in a car. There was also a Burmese soldier who came from Mandalay. The other two soldiers were sitting in a car with Professor Ma Liang.  Although the three Burmese soldiers did not speak much along the way and remained calm, Wang Ding still felt that they were paying attention to every move of him and others, that is, monitoring his behavior, and  On their waists, there were pistol holsters hung unabashedly. Wang Ding had no doubt that there were no real guys there.  This made Wang Ding a little uncomfortable, because the purpose of his visit this time was not to inspect the jade mine, but to find treasures in the forest. If he followed these soldiers, could he find treasures and give them to the Burmese government?  Wang Ding is not that noble. If you take the things that the island country snatched away and build a Hope Primary School in China, it will be better than getting it cheaper than these Burmese warlords.  .  After getting on the bus, Wang Ding's car drove in front and slowly drove out of the city. Although Myitkyina was relatively poor, it had a large population. The narrow streets were full of naked children.  , so the car couldn't speed up at all, and it took nearly half an hour to drive just a few kilometers.  It is very necessary to think about the family planning that China started in the late 1970s. Otherwise, in the past few decades, I am afraid that the population will not be 16.7 billion by now, and it is very likely to double again.  Yes, Wang Ding shuddered when he thought about that situation.  Originally thought that the car could speed up a bit when we arrived outside the city, but when Wang Ding looked at the road paved with pebbles, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. It was impossible to drive fast on this kind of road, otherwise the tires would probably not be able to support Pagan.  Myitkyina is actually the capital of Kachin State, and the road conditions are so bad. Presumably the warlords are only interested in occupying territory, and no one cares about these things.  Speaking of Kachin State, it is actually the Jingpo ethnic group in our country, but the Jingpo people are much happier than them. At least they won¡¯t roll in the mud when they go out on rainy days.  After walking on a gravel road, Wang Ding realized that he had overestimated the journey to Pagan. The road ahead was completely filled with dirt, and the people in the car followed the car.  The bumps and dancing ups and downs. If it weren't for the steep mountains here, Wang Ding would rather fly in a helicopter again.  This bump was bearable, but when he thought of the plastic bombs and grenades in Qian Le's bag, Wang Ding became a little restless. At this moment, Wang Ding felt like he was sitting on a pack of explosives.  Wang Ding is not a military fan. He does not know that plastic bombs can be set off by fire without special detonation.It won't explode, but this is a waste of time.  Seeing children running everywhere in the low wooden houses on both sides of the road, I couldn't help but think of a saying often seen in rural areas in China: "If you want to be rich, have fewer children and build more roads." This sentence is used in Myanmar,  It couldn't be more suitable. Myanmar has gold, silver, copper mines and many gem mines, but the living standards of the people are almost as poor as those in war-torn African countries. The root cause of this is still the political ax.  The Wu Gang family has been rooted in Myanmar for hundreds of years. It can be said that they are the best witnesses and bystanders who have witnessed the storms of Myanmar for a hundred years.  Myanmar was always a British colony at the beginning of the last century. Later, the British Empire lost its majesty and was driven out of Myanmar by the island country. Then with the help of China, Myanmar also broke away from British rule after reestablishing its political power.  .  It¡¯s just that Myanmar has many ethnic groups. In addition to the political army, each place basically has its own local army. In addition to the Kuomintang troops in the Golden Triangle, Myanmar has always been divided by warlords. There are constant wars, and each one occupies the top of the mountain as the king.  of.  By the late 1980s, the value of jade mines gradually became prominent, and the Myitkyina area became the focus of competition between political forces and local forces. This dispute has not completely subsided until now.  Although what Wang Ding and others see now is singing and dancing, and everyone is happy under the control of the government, in fact, in the jade mining area of ??Myitkyina, which stretches more than 150 kilometers, various relationships are extremely complicated, and they often break out.  Small-scale war, of course, these things are not suitable to be announced to the outside world.  Wu Gang and the people in Wu Gang's family belong to local forces. The mine protection team trained by their family can turn around and become an army at a certain period of time to compete with the political ax army. The current peace is just a matter of various factions.  The result of compromise by the forces on the other side.  Under such circumstances, no force, including Wu Gang's family, is willing to invest funds in infrastructure construction, because the land is yours now. Once you build it, it may be snatched away by others tomorrow.  Who is willing to do such a thankless job?  Even if Wu Gang knew about the weapons Wang Ding and Qian Le carried, he wouldn't care. Those gadgets were inconspicuous compared to the weapons arsenal at his home. The security guards patrolling the perimeter of his home  The personnel all carried Soviet AK submachine guns on their backs.  In this area, people without any connections would not dare to go deep, otherwise they might be kidnapped by someone. If you are lucky, you might be able to redeem it. If you are not lucky, you might give it to someone in the jungle.  Flowers, plants and trees are used as fertilizer.  The car was really bumpy, and Wang Ding was not in the mood to talk. He held the handle on the door tightly with his hand and looked around in the car out of boredom, but he discovered some differences.  Wang Ding took a closer look. The doors of the car he was sitting in were reinforced with copper plates. The window glass looked a little different from the flat glass. Maybe it was the legendary bulletproof glass. Wang Ding  There is a very conspicuous pass stuck on the car glass in front of Ding. According to their translation, it means "guoguo". Although there are not many cars encountered along the way, they will take the initiative to pull over and give them  The convoy gives way.  On the road from Myitkyina to Hpakant, there is a checkpoint basically every twenty or thirty kilometers. Although it is just a traffic stop tool made of a few pieces of wood, it is very practical.  Every time he was far away from the checkpoint, Wu Gang would poke his head out and say hello in Burmese. These soldiers with live ammunition seemed to know Wu Gang. They didn't even take a look inside the car before they moved the wooden shelves.  Let the car pass.  After more than three hours of jolting, Wang Ding and others arrived at Meng Gong, which is an important place from Myitkyina to Hpakant and where the Chinese Expeditionary Force launched the Battle of Meng Gong Valley.  After Wu Gang got off the bus, went through some formalities, and rested for more than half an hour, the two cars continued to drive to Hpakant.  After passing Meng Gong, the road became more and more difficult to walk. There was no road surface at all. The off-road vehicles just followed the roadbed pressed out by the big trucks transporting rough stones, and moved forward with difficulty.  According to Wu Gang, a few decades ago, those jade pickers who lacked machinery were just like the jade pickers in Xinjiang. They relied solely on their shoulders and arms to transport jade out of the mountains. It was just their tool.  The donkeys from Xinjiang were replaced by elephants from Myanmar.  On both sides of this overgrown road, there are tall trees whose tops cannot be seen. These trees are distributed on the mountains and look a bit eerie. In addition, Wu Gang said that there are various dangers hidden in them.  The miasma will be produced every evening and early morning. Many people who stray into the forest rarely survive.  Wu Gang¡¯sThe words made Wang Ding's hair stand on end. He was reflecting on his treasure hunting journey. It seemed that it was not as simple as he thought. The forest where even the light from the sky could not penetrate was like a monster roaring, swallowing everything black.  The people and creatures that enter.  Under such an environment, if you want to hunt for treasures and find treasures, it is really a bit like moths rushing to the flames.  "There are a lot of black bears in Myanmar. You don't know that the bear bile is called liquid gold, but the number is very rare now. If you are interested, ask them to accompany you two dozen hunting another day." "Hunting.  "It's not that Wang Ding isn't interested, it's just that Wang Ding hasn't seen what a black bear looks like, so he thought about getting someone else's bear bile, so he might as well forget it.  Hunting is a normal behavior in Myanmar. He would go to the mountains to shoot some pheasants and improve his food.  The Pagan area is the earliest place where jade was mined in Myanmar. There have been records of jade mining since the 13th and 14th centuries.  It is said that around the 13th century, there was a porter in Yunbian, China, who was on his way back to Chongteng from Myanmar. In order to balance the weight of the items on both sides of the horse's baggage, he picked up stones from the roadside and placed them on the horse's baggage in the Pagan Menggong area of ??present-day Myanmar.  .  The porter took a closer look when he got home. The stone he picked on the way seemed to be green and could be used as jade. After polishing, it turned out to be green and lovely, even better than nephrite.  Later, people went to the Pagan Mengong area to mine this gemstone. Since then, Myanmar has been the main producer of high-quality jadeite in the world. At least so far, no jadeite has been found anywhere else in the world.  of.  There are about 160,000 people living here now, 60,000 of whom are local Burmese, and the other 100,000 are jade quarry workers for major Myanmar companies.  There are many Burmese Chinese living in Hpakant, and they have lived here for hundreds of years. Obviously, they are headed by Wu. Wu Gang ran a Chinese school a few years ago, and now there are six to seven hundred Chinese students studying there.  .  After a long journey of nearly three hours, the two vehicles finally entered the birthplace of Myanmar¡¯s jade: the Hpakant area.  After entering the realm of Pagan, the road becomes more and more difficult to walk, because if the horse staggers well, a gap will be blasted inexplicably. This is caused by various jade mining companies, so the off-road vehicle has to frequently  of detour.  And the excavators that Wu Gang calls "weird hands" can be seen everywhere. They don't recognize the pass with the word "VIP" written on the off-road vehicle, and they are often stuck on the roadside for more than half an hour.  It took more than two hours before the car entered the city of Pagan. Wang Ding looked at his watch and spent nearly 10 hours on the road.  The two professors both regretted coming here at this time.  They looked a little embarrassed. They were pale yesterday and turned sallow today. They vomited several times on the way. When they got off the bus, they were helped down by the two soldiers, but those two  The soldier's face was not very good-looking either.  It seems that the soldiers are physically unable to bear it in a place like this.  Wu Gang was a little embarrassed when he saw the appearance of these two professors. After settling them in the only hotel in Pagan, he rushed back and forth to arrange for the hotel kitchen to cook porridge for the two of them.  He didn't even bother to greet Wang Ding and Qian Le.  "Hey, brother, I'm sorry for you two. Let's go home" After nearly an hour, Wu Gang waited until Professor Ma and Liang fell asleep before he had time to greet Wang Ding.  He and the few soldiers were all sitting at the front desk of this guesthouse-like hotel.  Before Wang Ding could answer, a Burmese soldier suddenly stood up and said a few words to Wu Gang in Burmese.  When Wu Gang heard this, a look of displeasure suddenly appeared on his face. He pointed at the top, and the words he spoke were harsh. The soldiers did not dare to look Wu Gang in the face and nodded repeatedly.  It turned out that the two soldiers wanted to monitor Wang Ding and Qian Le because they were foreigners, but Wu Gang reprimanded them that your task was to accompany and protect the two professors, so you don¡¯t know who you are responsible for.  If the Burmese government still has some control over Mandela, then if Pagan is banned, the government's influence will become almost zero. The forces here are complicated. Even if Wu Gang sends people to kill them, the government will not be able to control them.  There is nothing that can be done.  After the soldiers explained again and again, Wu Gang's complexion gradually improved, and after saying a few more words, the soldiers nodded like shrimps and no longer dared to say anything about accompanying him.  "Let's go, brother, I see you're quite energetic. I'll pick you up tonight, and we two brothers will have a drink." Wu Gang greeted Wang Ding, and the three of them left the hotel and got into an off-road vehicle, and those fewThe soldier came out immediately, and when the car started, he gave a standard salute. It was obvious that he had been frightened by Wu Gang just now.  Wu Gang¡¯s family lived in the north area of ??Pagan City. After driving for more than half an hour, Wang Ding saw a group of buildings in the distance.  The reason why it is called a building complex is because the building Wang Ding saw had a high wall in front of it. It was like a city within a city. The gate was built like a watchtower. There were people standing guard with guns on their backs above and below.  And there seemed to be a firepower point in the middle of the watchtower.  When the people standing guard at the door saw Wu Gang, they immediately saluted. Their postures and movements were more formal than those of the soldiers just now.  This city-within-a-city occupies a large area. There is a main street in the middle. They are all cement-paved roads, which are better than the asphalt roads in Pagan City.  The houses in the city are neatly planned, all of which are bungalows. Some children are playing at the door of each house. What Wang Ding hears is all in Chinese, which makes him feel as if he has arrived in a small town somewhere in China.  .  "This place was not big before. It was built in the 1970s. Now there are nearly 20,000 Chinese living here, most of whom are family members of our company's employees" Wu Gang introduced his home to Wang Ding, his face  Full of pride.  This city-within-a-city was built by Wu Gang's grandfather for three generations. Now, the Chinese City has become the largest force in Pagan. Not to mention other things, it is the miners who can immediately arm themselves with weapons.  Raise an army of thousands of people.  It took nearly five minutes to drive from the door to Wu Gang's residence. At the door of a large house, there were already five or six people waiting there.  This welcoming dinner opened Wang Ding¡¯s horizons. The dishes on the table were full of delicacies from both mountains and seas.  There was a dish that Wang Ding couldn't name, but when he asked, it turned out to be elephant trunk. There were also braised pangolin meat, and some dishes made from animals he had never even heard of. Not to mention the taste.  It's absolutely amazing.  (To be continued.)
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