After a long time, Long Chuan gradually calmed down. He said

"The 93rd Division is destined to be a historical tragedy. Although their plight was not without pity, in order to survive, they cultivated opium, which caused the spread of drugs and made the area a source of drugs in the world. "I said,

"Tell me more about that, can you?" Long Chuan nodded and said,

"The Golden Triangle sits at the junction of three countries: Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. Because in such a complex area, it is difficult for managers to really rule deeply. As a result, law and order is very chaotic. For a long time, there was a rampant drug epidemic here, and the locals also took it for granted that drug trafficking was a part of their lives. Since most of the drug-making factories are located deep in the mountains, they have escaped the search of the local government. Dense woods are the best cover, and at the same time, the guards are strict, and you can move at any time at the slightest hint of wind and grass. At the same time, the factories have a lot of self-use troops, and these armies are more used as guards for their factories in addition to fighting. In order to make these soldiers work hard, some factories pay them very well, and can even pay dividends according to the profits of drugs. Therefore, most of the soldiers lived a comfortable life. Drug traffickers grow large quantities of opium poppies in their jurisdictions, and not only that, but they also set up taxes on drug transit and even build their own brands on top of that. The company I worked for before naturally had its own heroin and morphine refinery, which was located in a deep mountain forest in the company's controlled area, and the factory was heavily guarded, making it impossible for outsiders to approach it. I used to work as a guard in one of the factories, which was a rudimentary refinery that could be relocated at any time in a few thatched huts. I have seen firsthand the process of refining opium, morphine, and heroin. In the first thatched hut, several people first boiled raw opium in a large iron pot. On the side, a large pile of raw opium, the size of a volleyball, was wrapped in a plastic bag and piled up in the house. A man puts raw opium in an iron bucket, and the bucket is filled with water. After it was placed, another person put the iron bucket into a large iron pot with boiling hot water, and used the hot water in the pot to heat the water in the iron bucket. It is said that the water temperature should be kept at around 80 degrees Celsius, because if the water temperature exceeds 85 degrees Celsius, the quality of the morphine will become very poor. One man constantly stirred the raw opium in the iron bucket with a wooden stick, and the raw opium gradually dissolved in the water, while the other kept an eye on the thermometer in the pot and the firewood under the pot. When the raw opium had completely dissolved, a third man poured a large scoop of quicklime into the iron bucket, while the man with the stick kept stirring it, and the quicklime broke down the opium into morphine and less caine. At this time, the opium liquid is milky in color. As a result, the stick stopped stirring, and the other alkaloids, calcium sulfate, and insoluble gum in the opium liquid all settled to the bottom of the barrel, and the opium liquid turned pale brown. The first man lifted the bucket and poured the opium liquid from a tense wooden frame into another bucket, through which the opium was filtered through the taut cloth to filter out the sediment. The filtered opium was heated again as before, and a third man put in two large scoops of ammonium chloride and stirred it. Ammonium chloride crystallizes and presettles morphine, and then filters through the cloth, morphine is separated from the solution, and these gray-yellow crystals are morphine. According to these people, ordinary 10 kilograms of raw opium can only be refined into about 1 kilogram of morphine. This first-course morphine is grayish-yellow and not 100% pure, and it still contains some cocaine. After this morphine is pressed into lumps, the people of the Golden Triangle are commonly known as yellow batches. Some of the refined morphine crystals were sent to the next room to be refined into purer morphine, while most of them were shipped to heroin factories hidden elsewhere in packets. In another straw room, I saw a worker using a graduated cylinder, pouring the measured acetone into the refined morphine in a large enamel basin, then stirring gently to let the mixture work chemically, and then filtering the solution through filter paper to obtain a snow-white color. The worker told me that this was morphine with a purity of more than 99%. This morphine is pressed into lumps, which are called white lumps. To refine morphine into heroin, chemicals such as acetic acid pastry need to be added, filtered, and crystallized. One of the highest grades of heroin is called

"white powder",

"Chinese flour", its heroin content can reach more than 90%. After entering the 60s,

The "Golden Triangle" has seen a faster development of drugs, and production has increased dramatically. In the central area, merchants often gather and gather from all directions.

Not only people from Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos, but anyone who travels here can visit it.

Many foreign drug traffickers took the opportunity to take drugs out. At the same time, drug traffickers have also taken advantage of the favorable conditions of convenient transportation, opening up to the outside world, and close relations with Western countries to divert drugs from Bangkok.

Since then, Bangkok has replaced Saigon as the drug capital of Southeast Asia. In the golden age after the 60s, the various drugs produced by the Golden Triangle silently poured into Western countries and the world, shaking the world.

At that time, in this murderous and mysterious three-way zone, there were three main forces. One force is the local hill peoples, who are the main force in the cultivation of opium poppy.

They are economically backward, living in poverty, and have no education to speak of. Opium poppy cultivation is the main source of income for the local population.

They used opium as a panacea for all ills, which led to the addiction of many people from an early age.

This is also an important reason for the continuous prohibition of drugs in this area. The second force was the 93rd Division.

Their involvement in drugs, in addition to the instinctive requirements for survival, has deep historical roots. Because many of the backbone members of the 93rd Division were landlords and bullies, gang leaders, big tobacco dealers, and old military officers who had fled from Yunnan, they were no strangers to opium poppies after being nurtured by the great smoke of old China.

Among the patchwork of the remnants of the army, there are also some local naïve and curious teenagers who have thrown themselves into the remnants of the army.

What cannot be ignored is that it was among these children who followed the remnants of the army that grew up the most prestigious opium generals and opium kings in the Golden Triangle, one of them was named Luo Xinghan and the other was called Kunsha.

The third force is armed drug cartels of all kinds. Since the rise of the drug trade in the Golden Triangle, many people have set up smuggling forces to carry out the drug trade and control the purchase and refining of drugs.

But with the pursuit of interests by drug dealers, after countless bloody competitions by countless people, the Golden Triangle region has gradually entered a new era. ”