Xu Guang's face was pale at this time, although he knew that the bomb would not detonate or explode on its own, but with such a bump, he was afraid that he would be found with the bomb, if Wu Gang really saw it, it was not that he couldn't eat and walked around.

In order to soothe his impatience, Xu Guang looked outside.

He saw children running around in the low wooden houses on both sides of the road, and he couldn't help but think of a phrase he often saw in rural China: "If you want to be rich, have fewer children and build more roads." ”

And if this sentence is used in Myanmar at this moment, it is very suitable, Myanmar has gold, silver, copper mines and many gem mines, and the people's living standards are about the same as those of war-torn countries in Africa.

The Wu Gang family has been rooted in Myanmar for more than 100 years, and has witnessed the ups and downs of Myanmar in the past 100 years, so it can be said that it is the best witness and bystander.

At the beginning of the last century, Burma was a British colony, but later the British Empire lost its prestige and was driven out of Burma by the island nation, and then with the help of China, Burma re-established its regime, and after that, it also broke away from British rule.

It stands to reason that after the founding of the country, they should work hard, but due to the large number of ethnic groups in Myanmar, in addition to the political army, each place basically has its own local army, plus the Kuomintang rout in the Golden Triangle came to this place to occupy the mountain as the king, Myanmar has always been a warlord separatist, and the war is continuous.

By the late 80s, the value of jadeite ore gradually became prominent, and the Myitkyina region became the focus of contention between the political and local forces, and this dispute has not been completely subsided until now.

It's like the Wu family can have their own armament here, and to a certain extent, it is also the nod of the political fu. Of course, the premise is to let the government get a piece of the pie.

In this way, what everyone sees now is singing and dancing, on the surface. This is under the control of the government, but in fact, in the jadeite mining area of Myitkyina, which is more than 150 kilometers long, the various relationships are extremely complicated, and the actual controller is the real master.

Skirmishes often break out into these forces, which, of course, are not appropriate to be announced.

Wu Gang and the people in Wu Gang's family belong to this kind of local force, and the mine protection team trained by their family can become an army after a certain period of time. Competing with the political fu army, the current calm. It is nothing more than the result of a compromise between the forces of all parties.

Under such circumstances, including Wu Gang's family, no force is willing to invest funds in infrastructure construction, because this territory is yours today, and if you build it, maybe it will be robbed by others tomorrow, who wants to do this thankless thing.

Therefore, weapons like Han Chong and Xu Guang were known to Wu Gang. He wouldn't care. Those. Compared to the arsenal at home. It's not inconspicuous at all, and the security guards patrolling the perimeter of his house are all carrying former Su Lian's AK submachine guns.

in this area. People who don't have a bit of a relationship background don't dare to go deep at all. Otherwise, maybe someone will tie up the meat ticket, if you are lucky, you may be able to redeem it, if you are unlucky. Then make fertilizer for the flowers and trees in the jungle, and you will definitely die in this place.

Xu Guang looked at the outside world and found that Wu Gang didn't pay attention to himself at all. It's not so nervous. But due to the bumps in the car, Xu Guang didn't speak much, and Han Chong did the same, holding the deputy above the door with his hand. Looking around in the car boringly, he noticed something different.

Han Chong took a closer look, the car he was sitting in, the doors were reinforced with copper plates, and the window glass looked. It's a little different from the usual glass.,Maybe it's the legendary bulletproof glass.,

On the glass of the car in front of Han Chong, there is a very conspicuous pass, according to their translation, it means "state guest", although there are not many cars encountered along the way, they will take the initiative to pull over and make way for their convoy.

This also illustrates the power of the Wu family in Myanmar.

On the road from Myitkyina to Hpakant, there is basically a checkpoint every twenty or thirty kilometers, although it is only a vehicle stop made of a few logs, but it is very practical.

Every time he was far away from the checkpoint, Wu Gang would poke his head out and greet him in Burmese, and these soldiers seemed to know Wu Gang, and they didn't even glance inside the car, so they moved away from the wooden shelves and let the car pass.

After more than three hours of turbulence, Han Chong and others arrived at Mong Gong, which was the important place from Myitkyina to Hpakant, and where the Chinese Expeditionary Force launched the Battle of Mong Gong Valley.

After Wu Gang got out of the car to go through some formalities and rest for more than half an hour, the two cars continued to Hpakant.

After Meng Gong, the road became more and more difficult to walk, there was no road surface at all, and the off-road vehicle just followed the roadbed pressed out by the large truck carrying the rough stone, and moved forward with difficulty.

According to Wu Gang, a few decades ago, the jade miners who lacked machinery, just like the jade miners in Xinjiang, carried the jade out of the mountains on their shoulders and arms, but their tools were changed from donkeys to elephants from Burma.

In Myanmar, elephants are their national treasure, and elephants are a means of transportation for the Burmese people, and it is common to ride elephants through forests and meadows.

On both sides of this overgrown road, there are tall trees that can't be seen from the treetops, these trees are distributed on the mountain range, which looks a little gloomy, and Wu Gang said that there are all kinds of dangerous creatures hidden here, and every evening and early morning, there will be miasma, so it is very dangerous here.

Wu Gang's words made Han Chong creepy, he was reflecting on his treasure hunting trip, it didn't seem to be as simple as he thought, even the light in the sky couldn't shine into the forest, like a monster drinking, black and devouring all the people and creatures that entered.

In such an environment, if you want to hunt for treasure and find the Four Seasons Cup, it is really a bit of a moth to the fire.

"Han Chong, Xu Guang, let me tell you two, there are a lot of black bears in Myanmar, you don't know the bear bile of that thing, but it is called liquid gold, but now the number is also very rare. If you are interested, ask them to accompany you on the hunt another day. ”

"Hunting? Why don't you call me? Bi Yue said a little angrily.

"Bi Yue, it's too dangerous for girls to hunt. The black bear here is particularly ferocious, and you have to knock it down and kill it in a matter of seconds, or the consequences will be terrible. ”

"I shot with my brother." Bi Yue said to Wu Gang.

"Okay, add you one, Han Chong, are you interested?"

It's not that Han Chong is not interested in hunting, it's just that Han Chong hasn't seen a black bear yet, and he wants to get other people's bear bile. Forget it.

"Well, I didn't think about it."

"You can practice it, in fact, hunting in this part of Myanmar is a normal behavior, I will go to the mountains to put a few shots in the mountains, shoot some pheasants or something to improve the food."

"That's good." Han Chong agreed.

That being said, Han Chong naturally has a more important task than hunting, and before, Han Chong was looking for a cup. But when you arrive in the Hpakant area, it is inevitable that you will have other ideas.

You know, Hpakant is the earliest place for jadeite mining in Myanmar, from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. There is a record of mining jadeite jade.

It is said that around the 13th century, a packer in Yunnan, China, on his way back from Myanmar to Chongteng, picked up stones from the side of the road and put 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. The stones selected on the way seem to be green, which can be used as jade, and after polishing, they are green and lovely. It's better than nephrite. Later, people went to the Hpakant Muang Gong area to mine this gemstone, and since then. Myanmar has been a major producer of high-quality jadeite in the world, and at least so far, no jadeite has been found anywhere else in the world.

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

There are many Burmese Chinese living in Hpakant, who have lived here for hundreds of years, and are faintly headed by the Wu family, who ran a Chinese school a few years ago. Now there are 1,000 Chinese students studying in it.

Han Chong can come here, if he can collect more jadeite, of course it will be good.

After a long wait, after a long journey of nearly 3 hours. The two vehicles finally entered the birthplace of Myanmar's jadeite: the Hpakant region.

After entering the realm of Hpakant. The road is becoming more and more difficult to walk, because a good road will inexplicably be blown open a gap, which is done by various jade excavation companies. As a result, off-road vehicles have to make frequent detours.

The excavators that Wu Gang called "strange hands" can be seen everywhere, they don't 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, Han Chong looked at the table below, and tossed on the road for nearly 9 hours.

Both professors regretted coming here a little at this time. They looked a little embarrassed, yesterday their faces were pale, and today they have become sallow, like they are dying. And they vomited several times on the way, and when they got out of the car, they were all helped down by the two soldiers, but the faces of the two soldiers were not very good-looking.

It seems that the military is also a little physically unable to bear it in this kind of place.

Wu Gang was also a little embarrassed when he saw the appearance of these two professors, and after settling them into the only hotel in Hpakant, 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 Han Chong and Xu Guang for a while.

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

After nearly an hour, Wu Gang waited until the two professors, Ma and Liang, had fallen asleep, and then he had time to greet Han Chong, who and the soldiers were all sitting at the front desk of this guest house-like hotel.

Before Han Chong could answer, a Burmese soldier suddenly stood up and said a few words to Wu Gang in Burmese.

When Wu Gang 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 Wu Gang, and nodded again and again.

It turned out that the two soldiers were saying that they wanted to spy on Han Chong and Xu Guang because they were foreigners, but Wu Gang reprimanded them Your task is to accompany and protect the two professors, don't know who your duty is.

If the Burmese government still has some control over Mandela, then when it comes to Hpakant, the government's influence has become almost zero, and the forces here are so complex that even if Wu Gang sends someone to kill Han Chong and them, the government has no choice.

But Wu Gang regarded Han Chong as a distinguished guest.

Under the repeated explanations of those soldiers, Wu Gang'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 anymore.

"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."

"Okay."

Han Chong was generously invited.

"Let's do it together."

Wu Gang greeted everyone, and the four 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 gave a very standard salute, obviously frightened by Wu Gang just now.

Wu Gang's family lives in the north of Hpakant, and after the car drove for more than half an hour, Han Chong saw a complex of buildings from a distance.

The reason why it is said to be a building complex is because the building that Han Chong saw had a high wall in front of it, like a city within a city, and the gate was built like a watchtower, and there were people standing guard with guns on their backs above and underground, and in the middle of the watchtower, there seemed to be a firepower point.

When the people standing guard at the door saw Wu Gang, 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, and some children are frolicking at the door of each house, and what Han Chong hears in his ears is all Chinese, which makes him feel as if he has come to a small town somewhere in China.

"It wasn't that big before, it was built in the 70s of the last century, and now there are nearly 30,000 Chinese living in it, most of whom are family members of employees in our company......"

Wu Gang introduced his home to Han Chong, with a proud look on his face.

This city within a city was built from Wu Gang's grandfather, until he was a full 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.

"Awesome, Angkor, now I know why you are so respected, and your contribution to the Chinese is worthy of this respect." (To be continued......)