Five hundred and ninety-four to the country of Mexico
Mexico, when you think of this country, people always associate it with crime and drugs.
Anyone who knows a little bit about the international community knows that Mexico is a country with an extremely high crime rate and a rampant drug epidemic. In particular, drug dealers regard drugs as high-voltage lines in China, and drug dealers are like rats crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats them. But this is not the case in Mexico, where the drug industry can drive the country's economic development.
There are thousands of crimes and armed conflicts in Mexico every year, and the world's largest criminal syndicate is located here, which is known as the Gulf Group. The local police seized their weapons, which can be said to be equivalent to an "arsenal", which shows how powerful their armed forces are.
In 2007, the Gulf bloc in Mexico established the "Rothettes", which has its own special armed forces, and these armed forces are quite powerful, all of them are retired elite police officers and snipers from all over the world. Their weapons are also very sophisticated, judging from the later seizures, they are not only equipped with RPG-7 rocket launchers, fully automatic rifles, but also a series of military weapons such as high-end sniper rifles, which shows the chaos of Mexico - and such a group, not one, there are as many as four.
Moreover, the Mexican government not only has no way to effectively crack down on drug traffickers, but it is good that it can save its own life. For example, once a police squad of 11 people unfortunately entered the ambush circle of drug dealers, and was not only beaten violently, but also killed in the end. Even kneeling and begging for mercy were indifferent to the drug dealers, and the scene was bloody. The power of these drug dealers is unimaginable, and they are completely unafraid of the government and kill people at will. From the common people to the mayors and governors, they can't escape their guns.
When you go to such a country, you must first think about your own security.
Of course, if you take out law and order and crime and drug dealers, Mexico is actually a paradise country.
It is a country that is both ancient and enchanting, that is, the blend of simple and fanatical Mayan culture and Aztec, almost the entire history of the Americas, a land shrouded in magical colors, too long and too wide. And many amazing and ephemeral civilizations have made their home here β ancient Indian cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Olmega and Teotihuacan have been discovered here, and 21 monuments have been declared "Cultural and Natural Heritage of Humanity" by the United Nations, especially in the tropical rainforests of Mexico.
In short, this is a very contradictory country.
When Li Huan flew to Mexico, the capital of Mexico, Li Ang and others, dressed in Central American clothes, were already outside the airport to greet Li Huan. They were wearing floral shirts and sunglasses that only locals could wear, which almost made Li Huan unrecognizable. After receiving Li Huan, Li Ang took his three brothers and drove two locally-made "Tuge" brand SUVs to Li Huan to the largest bay hotel in Mexico City.
This hotel is one of the few safe areas in Mexico, because the four armed groups also understand that no matter how arrogant they are in the country, in the end, their products, that is, those white powders and transparent crystals, will also be sold to foreign tycoons, so they unanimously demarcated a ceasefire area, no one is allowed to shoot near the Bay Hotel, otherwise they will be hunted down by the cooperation of the four armed groups, although this is an underground rule, but the implementation is quite good, even the city government residence is not as safe as the Bay Hotel.
Of course, the consumption here is also surprisingly high, and the world-famous seven-star hotel in Dubai is not even a fraction of the cost compared to the Gulf Hotel. After all, the cost of your accommodation here also includes the protection of the four major armed groups.
In the high-rise suite of the Bay Hotel, as soon as Li Huan walked into the room, he smelled a strong cigar smell, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.
"Hurry up and open the window, and tell you fellows that you don't smoke cigars like smoking, such good cigars have been ruined by you!" said Leon.
"Mexico's cigars, you can enjoy them. Li Huan smiled.
"Oh, sir, you know that, too?" said Leon
I thought, "I thought you rich people only smoked Cuban cigars." β
Although Li Huan does not smoke, he knows that Mexican cigars are usually cheaper than most other regions and have a mild taste, but they usually have a unique aroma compared to other cigar regions. Some of their best cigars are produced in the Mexican town of St. Andrea Starkstra. A humid and mild climate is conducive to the quality and taste of cigars. In this region, cigars are often rolled by hand for reasons of tradition β just like the concept that Cuban cigars are rolled on a virgin's lap.
"You're the rich now. Li Huan teased.
"Hehe, isn't this also a blessing to Mr., otherwise we wouldn't dare to think about today's day. Leon said.
"Yes, yes, after I got the money back, my wife filed her taxes with the IRS, and the tax collector looked at me with red eyes. β
"Haha, I built a big backyard water park for my son and daughter, and now my home is the most popular around. β
"I bought myself a Porsche, the first one on our street!"
Hearing Li Huan say this, in addition to Li Ang, the other three also echoed.
Indeed, Li Huan's "gift" has brought earth-shaking changes to their lives. First of all, Citigroup's taxes are very heavy, although it is not checked whether it is a legitimate source, but legitimate income will face high taxes, these taxes are the basis for ensuring Citigroup's hegemony and welfare, and no one wants to escape. But let's not forget that Citigroup is a classic meritocracy, where the rich will legislate in a way to avoid taxes, such as "legal gifts".
As long as it can be proved that there is no interest between the two parties, and that the money is from a legitimate source for reasonable reasons, the tax on the gift is almost zero.
Li Huan and Li Ang have no interest relationship between them, and how the money given to them came from is known to everyone in Los Angeles, and it must be legal. And Li Huan's reason for giving them was that he "sacrificed his life to protect himself during the earthquake", and the reason was reasonable, so this large sum of money was almost not looted by the IRS and went into their pockets.
What changes will a huge sum of nearly $20 million bring to their lives?
You can think of it with your toes.
First of all, Citi people have no habit of saving, almost all Citi people have a huge loan to repay in their heads, and they repay the loan as soon as they get the money. After repaying the loan, there is actually nothing too much to spend. And the loan of hundreds of thousands of dollars was astronomical for the previous time, but now they have tens of millions of dollars given by Li Huan in their hands, which is simply a drizzle.
At the level of tens of millions of dollars, as long as the financial management is appropriate and you don't squander indiscriminately, it is enough to eat interest for a lifetime.
So now they're in love with cigars, a luxury they couldn't have imagined before β hundreds of dollars a cigarette.
So when Li Huan said this, their gratitude to Li Huan was overflowing.
"Alright, let's get down to business. Li Huan smiled faintly and interrupted everyone: "Li Ang, you said that your informant found out that they were about to enter the rainforest, what is the situation?
"It is accurate that the Indians have reached the small town of Mahatura, and a little further on, inside the rainforest. We were just talking by phone this morning, and the news was accurate. "Moreover, the news says that they are purchasing the things they need to enter the jungle, and there are quite a few of them, and there are even some automatic rifles, according to the food they procure, the journey back and forth is at least ten days." β
After speaking, Li Ang spread out a map, drew a circle on it with a red pen and pointed it to Li Huan: "According to the distance estimate, the place they are going to should be in this area." β
Li Huan looked at it: "Huo, here?"
The area outlined by Li Ang was a rectangle of about one hundred square kilometers, which happened to be where the high priests were goingβnot Li Huan's unpredictable prophet, but
Leon's inferred range of movement based on the amount of their supplies would not be very precise, but it would never be a big problem, but the problem was that the location of this rectangular area happened to be the Mauschitian Mountains.
The Spearsky Mountains, this is a very awkward and very unpopular name.
The whole world knows that rainforests are very dangerous, but few people know that the Mauschia Mountains are the most dangerous places in the world's rainforests, especially the civilizations that once existed in the rainforests.
The Mesoamerican jungle, best known for its Mayan civilization, has attracted the curiosity of people all over the world, and in the days when Europeans were still wearing trousers, the Mayan civilization was able to reach the highest level of construction in the world, and it was possible to carve and process solid stones. Through long-term observation of celestial phenomena, we have mastered the solar eclipse cycle and the movement of the sun, moon and Venus; carvings, painted pottery, and murals have high artistic value, and are called "the Greece of the Americas".
In particular, the Mayan pyramid standing in the jungle represents the highest culture and architectural craftsmanship of the Maya people.
What is even less known is the Aztec civilization that Li Huan and they are looking for, this blood-based dynasty, although the history of existence is very short, but it also has high military, political, cultural and artistic achievements, but there is a real hammer that was wiped out by the Spaniards, compared to the Mayan civilization, it is a lot less mysterious.
Of course, there are some more unknown legends, such as the legend that there was once a mysterious ancient city in the Mauschitian Mountains, dating back to about 1000 to 1200 AD, and it is said that someone once caught a glimpse of a mysterious ancient city with a white wall among the treetops, known to the locals as the "White City".
Some say it is the predecessor of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, the mysterious Ermec culture.
The Olmec is a culture that is earlier than the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, it is a forgotten culture, early Spanish and Indian historians have described the Olmecs who lived in ancient Mesoamerica: tattoos, black teeth, shaved hair, beards, but for unknown reasons, they were gradually forgotten, until the 40s of the 20th century were rediscovered, and they attracted the attention of scholars, but no one has been able to unveil the mystery of this national culture.
At the Olmec ruins, there are many carvings of different shapes, made of monolithic boulders, which are large in size and strange and vivid in shape. The most amazing are the huge statues of human heads, which are more than 2.5 meters tall and weigh more than 30 tons, carved out of basalt.
Interestingly, in the Olmec settlement, these carving materials could not be found, and it was necessary to trek through mountains and rivers to a long place to collect these stones, and I really don't know how the Olmecs carried them under the primitive production conditions! These large statues have flat faces, eyes with characteristics, prominent eyeballs, heavy eyelids, flat and broad nose, the most peculiar features of the mouth, half-open, exposing gums, flat and upturned upper lip, and curved lower lip, which is quite similar to the mouth characteristics of jaguars. The jaguar is said to have been worshipped by the Olmecs, so some have speculated that the use of these stone carvings is related to religious worship sacrifices.
In fact, in the international community, there are many institutions and scholars who want to go to the Mauschitian Mountains to find out, but they have not been able to make the trip.
At the end of the day, in addition to the protection of the rainforest, there is one of the most important reasons, that is, drug traffickers in Mexico. Mexican drug dealers like to grow drugs in the rainforest, where the temperature and humidity are just right for those natural drugs to survive. If the Mauschitian Mountains were in China, they would have been fenced off for admission, and if they were in Citigroup, they might have been used as private hides by the rich to build villas and estates β but it was in Mexico, the second most chaotic place in the world after the Gulf of Aden.
Rainforests, mosquitoes, birds, wild beasts, snakes, and drug dealers who always like to hide in the jungle.
If none of this is nothing, then there are even worse.