After taking over Wu Jiasheng's forces, Zeng Rong immediately made a decision that all officers and men of Wu Jiasheng's troops would enjoy salaries, and the monthly salaries of the officers and men would be 80 percent of the soldiers in Kachin State.

There is also a stipulation that after passing the test six months later, the officers and men of Wu Jiasheng's unit will be treated the same as those of the soldiers of Kachin State, regardless of each other. Zeng Rong's move immediately stabilized the hearts of the brave soldiers.

Even when they were scattered among the various units in Kachin State, these courageous soldiers had no complaints. For these soldiers, being rich is a father! The power of money is greater than anything else! What's more, it is popular among the people of Kachin State that for ordinary people, being a soldier is the best profession. Then he went to Zeng Rong's factory as a worker. These two kinds of people, in the eyes of the people of Kachin State, have status!

To a large extent, Zeng Rong is using money to smash a force that can be called a strong army in Myanmar, but Zeng Rong can afford to smash it! In the whole of Myanmar, only Zeng Rong can afford to smash it! Just a steel mill and an aluminum alloy factory, Zeng Rong's profits are more than six billion US dollars. Moreover, Kachin State's economic source is more than that, Kachin State basically monopolizes the entire Myanmar jadeite, these jadeite mines are under the unified management of Kachin State's political axe, and under the operation of Huang Tao, the profits have been greatly increased compared to before. Moreover, a large amount of Kachin State production supplies are exported to the whole of Myanmar and even other Southeast Asian countries.

Coupled with the small population of Kachin State and the streamlining of the administrative structure, a lot of money has been invested in building up the army.

The political axe army has more than 300,000 troops, and its annual military expenditure is only $500 million, while Zeng Rong's investment in the army last year was more than $2 billion.

After absorbing the Kokang troops, Zeng Rong immediately ordered the troops to start grabbing territory and attacking the territory of Shan State on a large scale. On the one hand, the army is pressing, and on the other hand, there is the temptation. The Kachin State army did not make much effort and took over a large amount of territory.

In fact, the warlord leaders are very smart, and it is difficult for them to continue to maintain a situation of division under the attack of the political axe army and the Kachin army. Instead of being annihilated, it is better to directly surrender to sincerity, take a large amount of money, and go abroad to be a rich man.

As a warlord in Myanmar, I naturally know that being a warlord leader is actually very hard and tiring. In addition to worrying about the invasion of other forces, he also has to worry about the rebellion of the people below, and countless people have to rely on him for food.

As a result, Wu Jiasheng's actions caused many warlord leaders to imitate, and they surrendered to the political axe army one after another, and the side they surrendered to naturally chose Zeng Rong's side.

Why? Because Zeng Rong can treat their subordinates well! Moreover, the economic strength of Kachin State has recently been very strong. Moreover, the quality of life of the people in Kachin State is also quite good. This led these warlords to believe that after they left Shan State. The common people of Shan State will not suffer. Although when they ruled the Shan State, they thought about oppression, but when they actually handed it over, they also wanted the people of the Shan State to live a good life, which is a strange phenomenon.

Many warlords speculate that behind Kachin State is the political axe of Hua Guo! This is not surprising, because these sensitive people naturally know that Kachin State is actually calling the shots, but it is actually a young man from China. Coupled with the industrial level and economic development of Kachin State, in their eyes, only one country can support the entire Kachin State! But what they don't know is that what supports the entire Kachin economy is a strange snake.

"xxx, this time the war is completely for the people of Kachin State!" Knowing that the remnants of the Shan troops had chosen to surrender to Kachin State, Aung San Suu Kyi was in a state of fire!

It was the political axe army that worked hardest, and it was Kachin State that picked up the cheapest, and it was not enough to collect people, but also to collect a large amount of land. This made Daw Aung San Suu Kyi very uncomfortable.

"Taking advantage of the current momentum to defeat the Shan State, let's attack Kachin State!" One general said, "In the past, a large part of the troops were guarding against the Shan Coalition Army, and the Shan State army was basically wiped out, and we were able to use more troops to attack Kachin State!" ”

"Wait! Let's make peace with them first! Non-aggression against each other, their armored army is very troublesome. Wait, let's digest the territory of Shan State first! If we try to strengthen the equipment of the troops, the territory of Kachin State will be expanded, and there will be more people to support, I don't believe that their funds will not be used up! Aung San Suu Kyi said.

After more than half a year, under the frenzied land grabbing of territory by Kachin State and the political axe army, there was basically no resistance in the entire Shan State.

There are still private soldiers, but they are all private guards with the surnames of dozens of people. These private armed squads pose no threat to Kachin State or the political axe army.

To Zeng Rong's surprise, Aung San Suu Kyi directly proposed to divide the territory of Shan State equally, dividing the entire Shan State into two, with the Southern Shan State being managed by the political axe, and the Northern Shan State being ceded to Zeng Rong. The political axe took the initiative to do this, but it made Kachin State, which was preparing for a war with the political axe army, feel like a fist in the air, and it was a little uncomfortable.

However, Zeng Rong agreed to the political axe's conditions, because Kachin State also needs to rest. The whole of Northern Shan State, and even the whole of Kachin State, is larger. The population is also the size of two Kachin states.

The topography of Southeast Asia is mountainous in the north, which is closer to the place where the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate collide, so the geography of Northern Shan State is more complex than that of Southern Shan. The political axe army took the southern Shan state, and in their eyes, it naturally took advantage.

However, there are many minerals in Shan State, and it is precisely because of the distance between the two tectonic plates that a large number of minerals buried deep in the land have been squeezed out by the previous land-building and orogeny movements, but most of the metal minerals in Shan State are in Northern Shan State.

Under the land of Northern Shan State, Heibao is diligently drilling. Heibao has grown to the present, has cultivated dark energy, and has a more sensitive sense of smell, which used to only be able to explore metal substances at a depth of 100 meters underground, but now it can be explored to a depth of 500 meters.

In other words, even if the minerals are buried 500 meters deep underground, the black treasure can be felt on the ground. This is a staggering number, and this data has turned Black Treasure into a terrifying prospector!

In half a month, Heibao has explored two gold mines, a silver mine, three iron mines, two lead mines, a nickel mine and a tin mine with mining significance. That's a terrifying number!

The war in Shan State has passed, and it is just another year coming, and the delivery of ultra-high hardness steel and special aluminum alloys has been completed, and more than six billion US dollars have been paid.

Soon, Zeng Rong found that even if the more than 6 billion US dollars were in place, the funds were still relatively tight. Zeng Rong did not compress the welfare benefits of Kachin and Northern Shan States, and the sudden increase of more than 3 million people immediately became a huge expense.

Although more than 10,000 soldiers were cut down in the end, 40,000 were left. The salaries of these soldiers, as well as their weapons and equipment, are a huge expense.

On top of that, the mining of the ten mines, together with the various infrastructure construction on the minerals, is also a huge amount of money.

And the biggest expense is the paving of roads! The transportation situation in Northern Shan State is very backward and must be changed! At the very least, the ore from the ten mines must be transported!

Northern Shan State, including Kachin State, is mountainous and the cost of paving roads is very high. Opening tunnels and building bridges requires a lot of investment.

Of course, Zeng Rong's current funds, if they only distribute welfare, purchase armaments, and open mines, there is no problem at all, but if they want to build roads on a large scale, this money will not be enough.

"Boss, building so many roads, the funds are definitely not enough, if the military spending is reduced, it can barely be done, but in this extraordinary period, the army must be put first." Huang Tao listened to Zeng Rong say his plan, and said with a bitter face.

Zeng Rong's plan is to at least lay a transportation network that can connect all the counties together. Nearly 5,000 kilometers of roads had to be laid, and even simple roads were a huge investment in such a densely forested area with many rivers.

5,000 kilometers, calculated at the price of 1 million Chinese dollars per kilometer, will require an investment of 500 million Chinese dollars, almost more than 800 million US dollars. However, according to the topography of Kachin and Shan States, a large number of tunnels and bridges will have to be dug on these roads, and more than 800 million US dollars will not be possible!

"Traffic is a big problem! The traffic is smooth, and the combat effectiveness of our armored forces will also be improved a lot! Zeng Rong said depressedly, there is not enough money, I don't know how long, Zeng Rong finally felt the taste of not enough money again.

"Those warlords, don't have any money left, or something that can be exchanged for money?" Zeng Rong asked Huang Tao.

"No, it's just a bunch of empty houses." Huang Tao said simply.

Since those warlords plan to go abroad to live a secluded life and become a rich man, the huge wealth they used to operate will naturally be taken with them. This is the guarantee of their happiness for the rest of their lives.

"It's so powerful, don't leave it to me at all." Zeng Rong said with a smile, "It seems that it will take a lot of brains to solve the problem of transportation." Zeng Rong thought to himself.

"It's not that they didn't leave anything, they couldn't take the drugs away, but they left us dozens of tons of drugs." Huang Tao said very depressedly.

"Drugs?" Zeng Rong was also stunned, drugs, why did he leave these harmful things for him?

"Yes, these drugs, do you want to destroy them, or how do you get them? This must be decided by the boss himself. Huang Tao said.

"Which countries do they buy their drugs from?" Zeng Rong asked.

"As far as I know, there are drugs in all countries in the world, but drugs from Shan State generally flow through Southeast Asia to China and Europe."

"Europe?" Hearing the term Europe, Zeng Rong suddenly moved in his heart, "Drugs are not destroyed, find a way to buy Europe, especially Britain!" ”

(To be continued)