Chapter 40: Rooted in Lancang
In the following years, Mr. Udama continued to travel to various battlefields in Lancang, living a fighting life where revolutionaries had no fixed place to live. He is a person who is loyal to his love, and the Danmani in his love can no longer tolerate others in his heart. He was obsessed with his first love and expectations all his life, living alone and never married.
After the liberation of Lancang in 1975, Mr. Udama became the first Minister of Education, but later died of illness on the job. He passed away quietly with his endless thoughts about Danmani and his dreams of love, and the song "Chamba Flower" he left behind has been sung for more than half a century and is still evergreen.
The night breeze on the banks of the Mekong River carries a hint of coolness, gently blowing through the coconut palms and plantain tops, making the bamboo building look cold. Through a few soft rays of moonlight through the window, Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao both found that all the women in the room, including Xiao Shuiya and Xu Tianyi, had tears flashing in their eyes. The surroundings were silent, the air seemed to freeze, and no one wanted to break the temporary silence in front of them.
Xu Tianyi suddenly broke the silence of the wordless, "The people of Lancang were deeply oppressed by the colonial, and people lost the freedom of love, and they all had the pain of losing their country. When you enter Lancang from China, you must cherish and understand the Lancang people's noble pursuit of love. Each and every one of us, like Mr. Utama, should regard the beautiful love as a part of our lives and the goal of our life......"
Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao didn't think about anything else, and they didn't think deeply about Xu Tianyi's words, on the contrary, the beautiful and sad melody of "Chamba Flower" echoed in their ears again and again:
"Ah, the Champa flower, the flower of Lancang, beautiful as the stars; We are extremely happy, you grew up in the land of Lancang. When we are far away from our dear motherland and in a foreign land, you are our inseparable and dear friend, and we will live forever. Ah, Chamba flowers, the soul of Lancang, clear and fragrant. ”
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Living in a huge manor on the banks of the Great River is completely different from living in Xiao Yuan at the foot of Yu Mountain. Without the heavy pressure of the course, they had almost nothing to do every day except for some more detailed South Asian materials that Xu Tianyi provided that they had to read. Over the course of a week, they have a clear sense of immersion in their understanding of the Indochina Peninsula and the countries of South Asia.
At the same time, they also have an in-depth understanding of this so-called Naga company.
The full name of the company is "Lancang Naga Bamboo and Wood Harvesting and Trading Company", which is mainly engaged in the development of log resources in three forest farms and the trade in China's underground border. Using "European capital", Xu Tianyi registered the Naga Company with Longji and Yingya, and bought about 300 square kilometers of pristine rainforest resources.
Mr. and Mrs. Xu Tianyi own 65% of the shares of Naga Company, and within a few years, Naga Company has extended its tentacles to every corner of South Asia. In particular, Naga's trade with China has allowed South Asian countries to obtain high-quality and low-cost Chinese daily necessities, small electrical appliances and building materials, and Naga's influence is also expanding.
The original president of the company was Xu Tianyi's husband Zhu Guoying, and now, Xu Tianyi is the actual helmsman of Naga. However, in terms of management, she only thinks out of ideas and never participates in direct management. The operation and management of the enterprise is carried out entirely by the general manager of Long Ji. The internal operation of the Dragon Dai clan is actually in charge of Yingya, the housekeeper (the head mother of the clan).
Although the Longdai tribe is a modern large tribe, it has strong characteristics of a matriarchal society. Women are absolutely dominant in the family, and Yingya is the central figure of the entire clan.
The Naga headquarters has been destroyed, with heavy casualties, and rice operations in Siam and jade mining and processing in Honsavady have largely come to a halt. Now, Naga's main business in Lancang has become the company's main source of income during the most difficult period. The biggest problem Xu Tianyi is currently facing is the financial dilemma.
After the destruction of the headquarters, the Naga financial system was completely paralyzed and the ability to pay ceased to exist. Due to the disappearance of various current accounts, bills and vouchers, contract texts, etc., the company's losses and debts cannot be estimated for the time being. Each branch fought its own battle, barely maintaining the business situation. Important companies such as the Chao Phraya River Rice Bank were also attacked at the same time, and their operations were in trouble.
Rebuilding the financial and credit systems, restoring the ability to pay, and reorganizing the branches are the most urgent tasks facing Xu Tianyi.
Xu Tianyi is determined to use Lancang as a base to revive the Naga majesty. In less than a week, she screened the personnel of the Lancang office, and based on the office, reorganized the headquarters of the Naga company, quickly restored the financial system with the branches, restored the credit relationship between the Naga company and the major banks in the world, and all financial relations, and by the end of the week, the payment capacity had been re-formed, and the company began to operate slowly again.
At the critical juncture of Naga Company's life and death, Yingya played an irreplaceable and important role.
Naga's Lancang Company is completely supported by Yingya alone. She expanded the harvesting and trade of red acid branches on a large scale, and personally contacted officials of the Annan State Trade Bureau, urging Annan to settle the timber trade payments for the past six months. The operating balance of the Lancang branch has played a supporting role in the entire Naga company to overcome the operating difficulties.
The most fundamental reason why Naga Company was able to deal with it calmly and did not cause any social turmoil in the face of great disasters was that Xu Tianyi had a surround vision. As early as the peak stage of Naga's business, she quietly laid this "idle chess" in Lancang, which is related to life and death.
At the beginning, when she decided to invest heavily in the turbulent Lancang, the team leader Yang Mingtao and her husband Zhu Guoying were very unimpressed. But it turns out that Xu Tianyi is completely right!
Before Xu Tianyi entered Lancang, there were only more than 2,000 people from the Longdai tribe who came to live in Vientzhen, and they were also a weak tribe in the suburbs of Vientium. The tribe's main population is distributed in villages along the border areas of Sangnu Province, living a primitive life of arson, slash-and-burn farming, and hunting in the mountains, and the tribe has no other source of income, and is as extremely poor as the entire Lancang society.
At a Songkran festival in Vientiane City, Xu Tianyi and Yingya, who presided over the tribal Songkran ceremony, hit it off at first sight. Xu Tianyi was an overseas Chinese businessman at the time, traveling in Lancang, secretly looking for a partner. Soon after Xu Tianyi and Yingya got acquainted, they learned about the predicament of the Long Dai tribe. She soon made the astonishing decision to open a trading house with the Dragondai tribe.
It is important to know that at that time, Lancang was not long after its independence, and the society was in turmoil, and there were daily wars between tribes. Zhu Guoying made it clear that he was against it at the time, and the husband and wife also blushed. Zhu Guoying couldn't argue with his wife, so he left a sentence, "Investing in Lancang, a typical meat bun beats a dog." In less than five years, you'll regret your decision! ”
But Xu Tianyi doesn't believe in evil, and the things she has thought about deeply, the nine cows can't pull it back.
She invested a lot of money, registered Naga Company with Longji and Yingya, purchased 20 CA10, CA30, NJ230 trucks and 5 BJ212 trucks from China, and set up a transport fleet. Four 80-ton sailing ships were purchased from China's province G and a fleet was formed.
The fleet is there, the fleet is there, the boatmen and car drivers are trained, but the mighty fleet and the brand-new car fleet are now too big to be real. Even Yingya's heart kept feeling weak, "Sister Xu, I can't sleep every day." It's changed so much, can we? I'm worried that we can't do it, and we'll cost you so much money......"
Xu Tianyi pursed his lips and didn't say a word, just took Yingya and Longji, drove to Phongsali, and established an office in Phongsali. Began to import China's daily consumer goods, small electrical appliances, new building materials, food, etc. directly from China's Xishuangpanna land port. The company's fleet pulls imported goods to Ramblabang and then transports them to Vientiane for sale through the fleet.
In the late 70s and early 80s, there was almost no decent industry in the entire Indochina Peninsula in South Asia, and almost all of the countries in South Asia imported or smuggled consumer goods into China through various channels. The fleet of Naga Lancang Trading Company brought into Vientham Chinese goods, both in terms of quality and price, were incomparable to other traders.
The first commercial voyage of the fleet gave the Longdai tribesmen a glimpse of what it means to "have a lot of money"!
The day after the fleet returned to Vientiane, all the cargo was sold out wholesale, and it was all cash. In just one year, in trade alone, Naga Lancang Company has recovered its costs and started to make profits. Zhu Guoying was convinced, and from then on, Xu Tianyi's decision-making power in business was greater than that of her husband.
In 1979, a border war broke out between China and Annam, and the border between China and Lancang was largely closed. China's land ports in Xishuangpanna Prefecture have severely cracked down on border smuggling and underground trade, and many traders have gone bankrupt after they could not survive. However, the Naga company was not affected at all, on the contrary, it was a dominant company and was still able to import Chinese products on a large scale.
Soon, the business of the Naga Trading Company gradually had the taste of monopoly operation, the company's competitiveness was increasing day by day, and the survival situation of the Longdai tribe took a turn for the better. By 1980, Yingya had relocated more than 10,000 dragons as tribal people to Vientiane as a whole. The establishment of the Naga Company and the development of trade also made Yingya and Longji's position in the tribe increasingly solid, and the cohesion of the tribe was also increasing.
The fact that the Naga Trading Company's wealth is eye-catching, but not substantively challenged, is a phenomenon that many observers cannot comprehend.
It turned out that the local armed forces in the Golden Triangle area, centered on Luang Namta, took the initiative to contact the Naga company in Longji in order to obtain cheap consumer goods from China. On the premise of obtaining security guarantees from the local armed forces, Longji took the opportunity to open up water transportation from the waterway into China's Lancang River, opening up a water trade route.
The Burmese Communist People's Army in Hungsavady, the Shan State Liberation Army in Khun Sa, and the local armed forces in the Chiang Mai area of Siam also supported Longji's water trade. Because, the development of water trade also makes it easier for them to obtain cheap and high-quality daily consumer goods in China.