After resting for more than an hour, several people boarded the helicopter again, and they only drank some water, but they did not dare to eat, otherwise they would vomit out what they had eaten.

The flight lasted nearly two hours, and from the helicopter there was already a faint presence on the ground, and at nearly five o'clock the helicopter also landed in a military camp in Myitkyina, where troops were basically stationed outside the city.

"Two professors, Brother Wang, Brother Qian, let's pick you up tomorrow, and take a good rest today."

"It's good."

After getting off the helicopter, Wu Gang looked at the pale faces of several people, and knew that they would not be able to eat anything at night, so he used the car he was waiting in the barracks to send several people to the most luxurious hotel in Myitkyina.

Wang Ding looked from the car, Myitkyina is far worse than Yangon and Mandalay, at least in those two cities, there are some modern buildings, but here, all you see are low wooden houses, reinforced concrete buildings are very rare.

The so-called luxury hotel is just a five-story building, except for a 21-inch bulky color TV and an old yellowed air conditioner, there is no electrical appliances, no water heater to boil water, and the waiter has to send it over. Wang Ding and the others were really tired, and after taking a shower in the room, they all went to bed.

Although Wu Gang also has a house in Myitkyina, the Wu family's roots in Myanmar are in Hpakant, and he also lived in a hotel with Wang Ding and others today. By the next morning, two imported SUVs had stopped in front of the hotel.

This is Wu Gang's private car. If you take the car provided by the military, it is probably the old Beijing Jeep 212 made in China, which was once at a certain time. China has supported such a batch of jeeps in Myanmar.

The tires of these two off-road vehicles are very large, and the deer and disc are set off very high, and they seem to have been modified by the guide door.

When he came by helicopter yesterday, Wang Ding had seen the roads around here, which were basically mountain roads, if he was the RV before Wu Gang. If you can't walk two miles, you will lie down.

Wang Ding, Qian Le, and Wu Gang sat in a car, and there was another Burmese soldier from Mandalay, and the other two soldiers sat in a car with two professors, Ma Liang.

Although along the way. The three Burmese soldiers didn't speak much, and they kept their composure, but Wang Ding still felt that they were paying attention to their every move. It's just monitoring your own behavior. And on their waists, but unabashedly hung in pistol holsters, Wang Ding did not 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 investigate the jade mine, but to find the treasure from the forest.

Wang Ding is not so noble. What the island country snatched, buddy is to take it back to China to build Hope Primary School. That's better than the cheap Burmese warlords.

After getting into the car, Wang Ding's car drove in front and slowly drove out of the city, don't look at Myitkyina's relatively poor, but the population is quite a lot, the narrow streets, full of children running bare-assed, so the car can not speed up at all, just a few kilometers, driving for nearly half an hour.

Thinking about China's planning and planning for childbirth since the end of the 70s of the last century, it is still very necessary, otherwise in the past few decades, I am afraid that the population will not be 16.7 billion by now, and it is very possible to double it again.

Originally, I thought that when I got to the outside of the city, the speed of the car could be accelerated a little, but Wang Ding couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw the small pebble paved road, this kind of road can't be driven fast at all, otherwise it is estimated that the tires will not be able to hold up Pakang.

Myitkyina is still the capital of Kachin State, and the roads are in such poor condition that the warlords must have cared about the territory and no one cared about these things.

If you want to talk about Kachin State, it is actually the Jingpo people in our country, but the Jingpo people are much happier than them, at least they will not roll in the mud when they go out on rainy days.

After walking through a stone road, Wang Ding realized that he still thought that the journey to Hpakant was more than simple, the road ahead was already completely dirty road, one high and one low, and the people in the car were dancing up and down with the bumps of the car, if it were not for the steep mountains here, Wang Ding would rather do a helicopter again.

This bump is bearable, but when he thinks of the plastic bombs and grenades in Qian Le's bag, Wang Ding is a little restless, which makes Wang Ding feel like he is sitting on an explosive bag.

Wang Ding is not a military fan, and he doesn't know that the plastic bomb will not explode without special detonation, even if it is burned, but this heart is in vain.

Seeing those low wooden houses on both sides of the road, there are children running everywhere, I can't help but think of a sentence I often see in rural China: "If you want to be rich, have fewer children and build more roads." ”

This sentence is very suitable for Myanmar, which has gold, silver, copper mines and many gem mines, and the people's living standards are about the same as those of war-torn African countries, and the root cause of this is still the government.

The Wu Gang family has been rooted in Myanmar for hundreds of years, and has witnessed the ups and downs of Myanmar in the past hundred years, which can be said to be the best witness and bystander.

At the beginning of the last century, Burma was always 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 power and broke away from British rule.

It's just that due to the large number of ethnic groups in Myanmar, in addition to the government army, each place basically has its own local army, plus the Kuomintang rout in the Golden Triangle, Myanmar has always been a warlord separatist, wars are continuous, and each occupies the mountain as the king.

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

Although now Wang Ding and others are all singing and dancing, they are all happy under the control of the government. But in fact, in the jadeite mining area of Myitkyina, which stretches for more than 150 kilometers, the relationships are extremely complex, and small wars often break out. Of course, these things are not appropriate to be announced to the outside world.

Wu Gang and the people in Wu Gang's family belong to the local forces, and the mine protection team trained by their family can become an army in a certain period of time, competing with the government army, and it is now calm. It is just the result of a compromise of all parties.

Under such circumstances, including Wu Gang's family, no amount of power is willing to invest money in infrastructure construction. Because this land is yours today, and if you build it, maybe it will be robbed by others tomorrow, who wants to do such a thankless thing.

Like the weapons that Wang Ding and Qian Le carried. It was known to Wu Gang. He wouldn't care, those things were nothing compared to the weapons depot at home, and the security guards patrolling the perimeter of his house were all carrying Soviet AK submachine guns.

In this area, people who don't have a little relationship background don't dare to go deep at all. Otherwise, maybe someone will tie up the meat ticket, good luck. Maybe you can redeem it, but if you're unlucky, you can make fertilizer for the flowers and trees in the jungle.

The car was really bumpy, Wang Ding was in no mood to speak, he held the deputy above the door with his hand, and looked around in the car boredly, but he found some differences.

Wang Ding took a closer look, the car he was sitting in, the doors were reinforced with copper plates, and the window glass looked a little different from the glass of Pingchuan, maybe it was the legendary bulletproof glass.

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

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, Wang Ding and others arrived at Menggong, which was the important place from Myitkyina to Hpakant, and where the Chinese expeditionary force launched the Battle of Menggong 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 were like the new jade miners in Xinjiang, who relied on their shoulders and arms to transport the jade out of the mountains, but their tools were replaced by donkeys from Xinjiang to elephants from Burma.

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 mountains, which look a little eerie, and Wu Gang said that there are all kinds of dangerous creatures hidden in it, and every evening and early morning, there will be a miasma, "Many people who strayed into the forest rarely survived.

Wu Gang's words made Wang Ding terrifying, he was reflecting on his treasure hunting trip, it seemed that it was not as simple as he thought, even the light in the sky could not penetrate 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 treasure, it is really a bit of a moth to fight the fire.

"There are a lot of black bears in Myanmar, you don't know the bear bile of that thing, but it's called liquid gold, but now the number is also very rare, if you want to be interested, ask them to accompany you two dozen hunting another day."

"Hunting?"

Wang Ding is not without interest, but Wang Ding has not seen what a black bear looks like, thinking about getting other people's bear bile, so forget it. Hunting in this part of Myanmar is a normal behavior, and he will go to the mountains to shoot a few shots and shoot some pheasants to improve his food.

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.

It is said that around the 13th century, there was a packer in Yunbian, China, on his way back to Chongteng from Burma. In order to balance the weight of the two sides of the horse's baggage, the roadside stones were picked up and placed on the horse's pack in the area of present-day Hpakant Menggong in Myanmar.

The packer went home and took a closer look, and the stones he had picked up on the way seemed to be green. It can be used as jade, and after polishing, it is green and lovely, which is better than nephrite. Later, people went to the Hpakant Mong Kung area to mine the gemstone, and since then, Myanmar has been a major producer of high-quality jadeite in the world, at least so far. There has not been another place in the world world where jadeite has been found.

There are about 160,000 people living here. Of these, 60,000 are native Myanmar, while 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 led by the Wu family. Wu Gang had run a Chinese school a few years earlier. Now there are six or seven hundred Chinese students studying in it.

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 has become more and more difficult to walk, because a good horse will inexplicably be blown open a gap, which is the various excavation jade companies, so that the off-road vehicle has to make a frequent detour.

And the excavator called "strange hand" by Wu Gang can be seen everywhere. They don't know the pass with the word "VIP" written on the off-road vehicle, and they are often stuck on the side of the road for more than half an hour.

More than two hours passed. The car drove into the city of Hpakant, Wang Ding looked at the table below, and tossed on the road for nearly 10 hours.

Both professors regretted coming here a little at this time. Their appearance is really a little embarrassing, yesterday their faces were pale, today they have become sallow, and they vomited several times on the way, and when they got off the bus, they were all supported 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 Wang Ding and Qian Le 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 Wang Ding, who and the soldiers were all sitting at the front desk of this guest house-like hotel.

Before Wang Ding could reply, 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 Wang Ding and Qian Le, because they were foreigners, but Wu Gang reprimanded them Your task is to accompany and protect the two professors, don't know who Lu Dao's duty is.

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

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."

Wu Gang greeted Wang Ding, 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 frightened by Wu Gang just now.

Wu Gang's family lives in the north of Hpakant, and after driving for more than half an hour, Wang Ding saw a building complex from a distance.

The reason why it is said to be a building complex is because the building that Wang Ding saw has a high wall in front of it, 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.

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, some children are frolicking at the door of each house, and what Wang Ding hears is 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......"

Wu Gang introduced his home to Wang Ding, 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 number one force in Hpakant, not to mention the miners, who can immediately arm a force of thousands of people when they take weapons.

From the door to Wu Gang's residence, it took nearly five minutes to drive, and at the door of a large mansion, there were already five or six people waiting there.

This reception dinner opened Wang Ding's eyes, and the dishes on the table were full of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

There was a dish Wang Ding couldn't name, and when he asked, it was actually an elephant trunk, and there was also braised pangolin meat, as well as some dishes made from animals that he had never even heard of, not to mention, the taste was really amazing. (To be continued......)