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The Hpakant region is the earliest place for jadeite mining in Myanmar, and there are records of jadeite mining since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is said that around the 13th century, a packer in Yunnan, China, on his way back to Tengchong from Burma, picked up stones on the side of the road and placed them on his horse in order to balance the weight of the two sides of the horse's belongings.

The packer went home and took a closer look, and the stone he picked on the way seemed to be green, which could be used as jade, and after polishing, it turned out to be green and lovely, which was better than nephrite.

Since then, Myanmar has been a major producer of high-quality jadeite in the world, at least so far, no other place in the world has been found.

In the 80s of the 18th century, the Qianlong Emperor extended his territory to the Hpakant region of northern Burma, where he discovered a rich jadeite mining area, and since then, jadeite has been widely used as jade, and its glory soon surpassed that of nephrite.

There are about 160,000 people living here, of which 60,000 are local Burmese and the other 100,000 are jade miners from major Myanmar companies.

There are many Burmese Chinese living in Hpakant, who have lived here for hundreds of years, and are faintly headed by the Hu family, who ran a Chinese school a few years ago, and now there are six or seven hundred Chinese students studying in it.

After a long journey of nearly 8 hours, the two vehicles finally entered the birthplace of Myanmar's jadeite: the Hpakant region.

After entering the realm of Hpakant, the road has become more and more difficult to walk, because a good road, inexplicably will be blown open a gap, which is done by various companies that dig jade, so that the off-road vehicle has to make frequent detours.

The excavators, which Hu Rong called "strange hands", can be seen everywhere, they do not know the pass with the word "VIP" written on the off-road vehicle, and they are often blocked on the side of the road for more than half an hour.

After more than two hours, the car drove into the city of Hpakant, Zhuang Rui looked at the following table, from more than 8 o'clock in the morning, it is now nearly 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and it has been tossing on the road for nearly 10 hours.

Zhuang Rui used aura to comb his numb body from time to time along the way, and now the situation is not bad, but he is a little mentally tired.

And the two professors were a little unbearable, yesterday's face was pale, today it became sallow, and vomited several times on the way, when they got off the car, they were all supported down by the two soldiers, but the faces of the two soldiers were not very good-looking.

Hu Rong was also a little embarrassed to see the appearance of these two professors, and after settling them into the only hotel in Hpakant, "Yudu Hotel", he ran back and forth to arrange the kitchen of the hotel to cook porridge for the two of them, and he didn't bother to greet Zhuang Rui for a while.

"Alas, brother, I'm sorry for you two, let's go, go home......"

After nearly an hour, Hu Rong waited until the two professors Feng and Chen had fallen asleep, and then he had time to greet Zhuang Rui, Zhuang Rui and the soldiers were all sitting at the front desk of this guest house-like hotel.

Before Zhuang Rui could answer, a Burmese soldier suddenly stood up and said a few words to Hu Rong in Burmese.

When Hu Rong heard this, his face suddenly showed displeasure, he pointed to it, and the words that came out of his mouth revealed a sternness, and those soldiers didn't dare to look at Hu Rong and nodded again and again.

"Peng Fei, what are they talking about?" Zhuang Rui touched Peng Fei, who was sitting beside him.

"Brother Zhuang, that soldier just said that the two of us are foreigners, and they will accompany us throughout the whole process, which means that they want to monitor the two of us ......"

Peng Fei angrily pouted at Hu Rong, who had a stern face, and then said: "Brother Hu is reprimanding them, saying that we are his relatives, and their task is to accompany and protect the two professors, not to accompany the two of us, Brother Hu is asking, do they not want to do it?"

Zhuang Rui laughed at Peng Fei's words, no matter which country it is, it will overwhelm people with power, Hu Rong obviously knows the chiefs of these two people, and now he is scaring them.

In fact, Zhuang Rui didn't know that the three Burmese soldiers who were trained with sweat on their backs were not afraid of their commanders, but were really afraid of Hu Rong in front of them.

If the Burmese government still has some control over Mandela, then in Hpakant, the government's influence has become almost zero, and the power here is so complex that even if Hu Rong sends someone to kill them, the government will have nothing to do.

Under the repeated explanations of those soldiers, Hu Rong's face slowly improved, and after a few more words, those people nodded like shrimp, and they didn't dare to say anything like accompanying them.

"Let's go, brother, I see that you are quite energetic, I will give you a warm reception at night, and we will have a good drink......"

Hu Rong greeted Zhuang Rui, and the three of them got out of the hotel and got into an off-road vehicle, and the soldiers followed closely and sent them out, and when the car started, they also saluted very standardly, obviously being frightened by Hu Rong just now.

Hu Rong's family lives in the northern part of Hpakant, and after more than half an hour of driving, Zhuang Rui saw a building complex from afar.

The reason why it is said to be a building complex is because the building that Zhuang Rui saw has a high wall outside, like a city within a city, and the gate is built like a watchtower, and there are people standing guard with guns on their backs above and underground, and in the middle of the watchtower, there seems to be a firepower point.

After the people standing guard at the gate saw Hu Rong, they immediately saluted, and their posture and movements were more formal than those of the soldiers just now.

This city-within-a-city occupies a large area, with a main street in the middle, all of which are cement paved roads, which are better than the asphalt roads in Hpakant.

The houses in the city are very neatly planned, all of them are bungalows, some children are frolicking at the door of each house, and what Zhuang Rui hears is all in Chinese, which makes him feel as if he has come to a small town in China.

"It was not big before, it was built in the 70s of the last century, and now there are nearly 20,000 Chinese living in it, most of whom are family members of our company's employees......"

Hu Rong introduced Zhuang Rui to his home, with a proud look on his face.

This city within a city was built from Hu Rong's grandfather until he was three generations, and by now, the Chinese town has become the largest force in Hpakant, not to mention those miners, who can immediately arm a force of thousands of people with weapons.

It took nearly five minutes to drive from the gate to Hu Rong's residence, and there were already five or six people waiting at the door of a large mansion.

"Grandma, why did you come out......" Hu Rong got out of the car and went straight to an old woman.

"Ah Rong, my nephew's son-in-law is coming, of course I want to take a look......"

The old lady was not tall, her hair was completely gray, but it was neatly combed, the wrinkles on her face were very deep, she looked like she should be in her seventies, and she looked behind Hu Rong while talking, but her eyes looked very cloudy.

"Grandma, your eyes are not good, you can see ......" Hu Rong hugged the old lady and didn't say a word.

"Auntie, I'm Zhuang Rui, how is your old man?"

Zhuang Rui knew that this was Qin Haoran's aunt, so he hurriedly stepped forward and held the old lady's other hand.

"Good...... Okay, good boy, you're so tall......"

The old lady's words were in a thick Cantonese accent, and she pulled her other hand out of Hu Rong's hand and touched Zhuang Rui's face, but it was a little difficult to tiptoe, Zhuang Rui hurriedly squatted down.

"Let's go, go home, ......"

The old lady was very simple, holding Zhuang Rui back and leaving, Hu Rong originally wanted to introduce Zhuang Rui to a few other people, but now he could only shake his head and smile bitterly behind him.

Hu Rong is a parent and grandmother and others live together, after entering the courtyard, a large group of people hula came around, there are adults and children, most of them have never left Myanmar, see relatives from China, they all feel very novel, for a time to ask questions, it is very lively.

In the end, it was the old lady who spoke, and the group dispersed, and Hu Rong had the opportunity to introduce Zhuang Rui to his father Hu Junzheng.

Hu Junzheng is about fifty-six or seventeen years old, and according to Hu Rong's introduction, his father's health is not very good, so when he was in his 20s, he handed over the family business to him.

Zhuang Rui stepped forward and said hello respectfully, Hu Junzheng didn't have any fight, after helping the old mother to the table, he beckoned Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei to sit down, Peng Fei's current identity is Zhuang Rui's cousin, so the Hu family regards them as a family.

This reception dinner opened Zhuang Rui's eyes, and he can be regarded as a person who has eaten at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, but he can't name the dishes on this table.

Braised bear's paws, steamed freshwater turtles, and the dishes that were cut into slices and eaten in the mouth were very chewy, and when Zhuang Rui asked, it was actually an elephant trunk, and there were also braised pangolin meat, as well as some dishes made by animals that he had never even heard of, not to mention, the taste was really amazing.

"Child, drink more, this wine is still brewed with a tiger's whip when I was young, you are also a person who will soon get married, it doesn't matter if you drink more, take a few with you when you leave, this thing is not rare here......"

The wine that entertained Zhuang Rui was the Hu family's own liquor, and the degree should not be very high, but the thing soaked in it was a tiger whip.

Old man Hu persuaded Zhuang Rui to drink, and at the same time said that he should bring a few tiger whips back to China, isn't this about to get engaged, Zhuang Rui, who listened to it, was red-faced, and couldn't help but cry in his heart, buddy is still young, it seems to be ...... I don't think I need it yet.