"Let me think of where to start," Jürgen picked up his briefcase from his feet.

"Let's talk about this first." The SS major took out another folder from his briefcase.

"This was found by the Grey Sword team in the house where Lamu was hiding." Jürgen flipped through the folder and pulled out a page of the file and placed it in front of Randolph.

"What are these?" Randolph looked down at the document and saw that it was full of strange symbols and letters.

"According to Lamu's confession, it was a ciphered ledger with symbols that recorded the location, time, quantity of sales and the name of the buyer in order." Jürgen leaned over and pointed out to Randolph.

"I don't understand, what buyer, what is he selling?" Randolph was even more confused.

"He's selling, that's it." Jürgen pulled out another cardboard box from his briefcase.

"What is this?" Randolph opened the carton and found that there was still a layer of wrapping paper inside, and when he opened the packet, it revealed some partially clumped white powdery objects.

"Here's twenty grams of phenylmethyl bud base, which some people also call cocaine." Jürgen picked up a pinch of powder with his fingers.

"This is cocaine?" Randolph had heard of the world-famous drug for a long time, but this was the first time he had seen it in kind.

"This Lamu, he's actually selling drugs?" Randolph pushed the box back to Ürgen, with a deep disgust in his eyes.

"Yes, he is ostensibly an RAF officer, but in private he is a drug dealer." Jürgen twisted his fingers, and some of the yellowed powder sparsely fell back into the paper bag.

"We have tested it, and the purity of this packet of cocaine is not very high, and it is mixed with a lot of impurities such as starch, and it has obviously undergone secondary processing." Jürgen took a piece of tissue paper from his briefcase and wiped his powdered fingers.

"Lieutenant Colonel Randolph, now I have the honor to tell you that we have discovered one of the largest and most complex criminal networks to date, and this Mr. Lamu is a very important part of this network." The SS major said respectfully.

"Criminal networks?! What's going on? Can you elaborate on that? Randolph was happy again, he loved to hear gangster crime stories the most.

"It all started after Lamu was promoted to non-commissioned officer." Jürgen closed the cardboard box and pushed it into the middle of the table.

"At that time, Lamu was full of spirits, thinking that after years of hard work, his fate had finally changed." Jürgen picked up his cup and took a sip of his coffee.

But one day, a companion who had been in the fraud gang suddenly came to the door, and now Lamu doesn't understand how the other party knows where he is. The leader of the gang is very interested in Lamu's current identity and threatens to denounce him to the military in order to blackmail Lamu into working for the organization again. Jürgen said, pointing to the document.

"So he succumbed? I'm referring to that Lamu. Randolph asked.

"He had no other choice but to either work for these people or be court-martial and kicked out of the army by the military. And once the news is revealed, there will be a brutal lynching of the higher castes waiting for him, and he will die if he falls into the hands of those guys. The SS major replied with a sneer.

"So they forced him to sell this?" Randolph gestured to the box.

"At first, they didn't involve him in drug trafficking, but only through his connections, using RAF planes, to smuggle contraband in Southeast Asia. India was the stronghold of British forces in the Far East, and the RAF had military transport routes across every colony. The main commodities they smuggle are precious metals, precious stones, precious medicinal herbs and foreign currency, which are strictly controlled, as well as cocaine produced in Japan. Jürgen gestured to the cardboard box.

"You're saying that these things are made in Japan?" Randolph's eyes widened in surprise.

"There is no doubt that we have found the mark of Japan's Sankyo Pharmaceutical Company, which is the largest cocaine manufacturer in the Far East, on some of the wrappers." Jürgen pulled out a photograph of a wrapper with a blue triangle stamp on it.

Here the author would like to mention the cocaine trade in the forties of the twentieth century, and I hope you don't think I'm irrigating.

There is a lot of information about this drug in the society that can be queried, so I will not go into detail here. At the beginning of its birth, Europeans were not aware of its harm at all, but because of its special pharmacological effects, it was widely used in the treatment of a variety of diseases, and the European medical community at that time even regarded it as a pediatric drug to treat asthma in children.

It was not until the first and twentieth decades of the twentieth century that people gradually discovered the harm of this drug, because the industrial production of modern pharmaceutical companies reduced the cost, resulting in this kind of drug, which was originally only affordable by the wealthy class, gradually began to spread to the middle and low-class civilians, coupled with the decadent atmosphere that prevailed in the society after World War I, people who survived the war began to pursue a life of drunkenness and suffocation, so this chemical with a strong stimulant effect was abused by people as a drug for entertainment.

The United States was the first to ban the sale of this "drug" on the market, when the United States was the world's second largest manufacturer of cocaine, and this drug had been rampant in the United States, forcing the U.S. federal government to classify cocaine as a drug and begin to crack down on the cocaine trade throughout the country. Then it was the turn of European countries, with Switzerland and France banning cocaine, and Britain following suit, still listing the drug in the British Empire's pharmacopoeia.

As for Germany .... Germany's Merr Pharmaceutical Company, the world's largest cocaine manufacturer at the beginning of the 20th century, refines and processes up to 35 tons of cocaine every year, and sells this "drug" to the world through the German commercial network. It wasn't until Europe and the United States began to completely ban the cocaine trade that Merr had to cut cocaine production, which gave up the world's No. 1 title.

So to whom? It is the aforementioned Sankyo Pharmaceutical of Japan. The latitude and temperature of Europe are not suitable for the growth of coca plants, and the raw materials used in Europe are all from the Far East, mainly from British India and Dutch Indochina.

India has been cultivating coca under the guidance of the British since the eighteenth century, and all the high-quality coca leaves harvested are supplied to the British mainland, and the coca cultivation industry in Dutch Indochina is very prosperous, with an annual production of more than 1,500 tons of coca leaves, which were originally supplied to major pharmaceutical companies in Europe, but when this drug was banned, the local coca leaves lost their sales market, so the local plantation owners turned their attention to Japan.

Japan's drug-making technology originated in Europe, but they produce drugs and have taken over the entire Asian market. It is already an open secret that the main direction of sales is China, and the profits from Japan's drug trade in China have long exceeded that of all other goods combined. Japan not only sells opium in China, but also sells cocaine and heroin, which are drugs that are addicted quickly and cause serious harm, seriously poisoning the physique of Chinese civilians, and at the same time plundering a large amount of civilian wealth, creating countless tragedies in which wives and families are separated and people are destroyed, and the sequelae caused by Japanese drugs continued until the early 50s.

After obtaining the technology to refine cocaine from the British and the continuous supply of raw materials from Dutch Indochina, Sankyo Pharmaceutical began to expand its production scale frantically, eventually reaching an annual output of 25 tons. Most of them are sold to Chinese mainland, and the rest of the products have quietly flowed into India through various smuggling channels.

You read that right, from the twenties onwards, Japan replaced Germany as the primary source of drugs in India. India is the hardest hit area of the drug epidemic in Asia, and the number of drug users is second only to Chinese mainland. Although the British colonial government has been cracking down on the drug trade, the effect is only a drop in the bucket, and the drugs seized by the police every year are less than 1 percent of the total amount of drugs smuggled.

India's drug market is characterized by the fact that 90 percent of the drugs are cocaine. Most of India's drug addicts are poor and poor, and they are more addicted to the pleasure of drugs than the rich, and in order to satisfy their addiction, they do not hesitate to give the last rupee in their homes in exchange for low-quality drugs with a lot of impurities from street gangsters.

According to preliminary statistics by the British colonial government, the proportion of drug addicts in Indian cities is about 5 per 1,000, and the situation in the countryside is even more serious, with Delhi alone consuming five to six tons of pure cocaine every year, which shows how serious the drug epidemic situation in India is. Indians like to eat cocaine with their usual chewing betel nut, which is said to make the poor forget about hunger for a while, so it is especially popular among Dalit groups.

Soon the group was not satisfied with being a mere seller, and since Lamu joined, they have become a stable source of smuggling, and they have since merged with other Indian criminal gangs. They want to go from retailers to back-office wholesalers. Jürgen said with a sneer.

"I see, so what does this have to do with his murder of our pilot?" Randolph asked.

"Don't worry, Lieutenant Colonel Randolph, I told you earlier that this is a very complicated story, please continue to listen to me patiently." Jürgen replied respectfully.

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