Chapter 292: Lifting a Rock and Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Sitting in the broken jeep that was blowing everywhere, Yang Jing only felt very regretful. If it weren't for the fact that he was in full view, he really wanted to travel to the original time and space all at once, and then directly to the Nanqi mining area, so that he would no longer have to suffer this kind of crime.
Speaking of this, he also blames himself, he has only heard about how difficult the road in northern Myanmar is, so Yang Jing doesn't know how to make his brain so hot, he has to experience it himself, and the result is now this almost catastrophic tragedy.
Even the mechanized roads in rural China are a hundred times stronger than those in northern Burma! And this is actually the road from Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in the north. If this is put aside in China, this is the national highway of the Eight Classics.
But here, the so-called highways are rare even in the urban area of Mandalay. As for the more than 550 kilometers from Mandalay to Myitkyina, Yang Jing really has no way to describe this road. It was a hundred times worse than the worst road he'd ever seen in his life!
Yang Jing really regretted dying, he really didn't expect that northern Myanmar in the 80s would be so bad......
If it weren't for Mr. Nicholas Ballmer, who was with him on his way to Myitkyina, and a local driver in Myanmar, Yang Jing really wanted to shuttle back again......
On the 500-kilometer journey from Mandalay to Myitkyina, this broken jeep and the big truck carrying smuggled arms behind it went on a hard journey for two and a half days! When Yang Jing climbed out of the car, he only felt that all the bones in his body were groaning......
The lean Nicholas Ballmer patted Yang Jing on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Mr. Smith, your physique is not good, you need to exercise." ”
The soreness all over his body made Yang Jing not even bother to say anything to refute.
This Nicholas Ballmer is the Middle Eastern arms dealer found by Mike Alletto, an American, who is said to have been a middle-level manager of Raytheon, and then he didn't know how to offend people, and ran away to the Middle East, but he exploded with amazing energy in the Iran-Iraq war that broke out a few years ago, and became a very famous underground arms dealer in the Middle East.
Of course, he is only famous as a lone arms dealer, and he is not even a fly compared to those rogue states.
But even so, when some people need "goods", they will still find him. For example, last time Mike Ale was found by someone else, and then transported 1,000 AK47s and 100 RPG7s to Kachin State in northern Myanmar, as well as corresponding ammunition.
This kind of petty business is not even easy to take care of in the eyes of the arms dealers who are the spokesmen of those countries, but for a private arms dealer like Nicholas Ballmer, who has always adhered to the principle of "no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is meat", the arms business of several hundred thousand dollars is enough for him to make 100% of the pure profit.
Those AK47s and RPG7s don't make much, but those ammo make a lot of money. Ammunition in the USSR is very cheap, so cheap that you can't imagine, especially when the Soviet Union has become more and more uncomfortable in recent years, ten boxes of vodka can be exchanged for these AK47 and RPG7 ammunition for a certain division commander......
The first business made Nicholas Ballmer some money, but he didn't take it seriously at the time, because it wasn't a big business for him.
But just a year later, there are orders coming from there again, and this time it is no longer AK47 and RPG7, which have long been eliminated Soviet-style arms, this time people have a full set of American machine guns and heavy machine guns, and there are "Stinger" individual surface-to-air missiles that have just been equipped with American troops on a large scale.
Although the number is small, the profits of advanced weapons such as the "Stinger" individual ground-to-air missiles are still very large, especially the fact that people need four bases of ammunition for one mouth, and the profits earned in this business are quite considerable.
In particular, this kind of individual surface-to-air missile, which just appeared on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 1986, hit the Soviets, especially the Soviet Air Force, but the devil cried wolf, a large number of Soviet war eagles broke their wings in the sky, and a large number of pilots were killed in foreign countries -- as long as the Stinger hit the plane, it was generally directly destroyed or there was no time to parachute at all.
Moreover, the performance of the "Stinger" is stable, full of lethality, and more importantly, the anti-jamming ability is strong, and the previous missiles were quickly broken by the Soviet military jammers, but the "Stinger" is unbreakable and difficult to interfere with.
It is no exaggeration to say that the appearance of the "Stinger" immediately changed the status quo of the Soviet army's complete air supremacy on the Afghan battlefield, and also made immortal achievements for the Soviet army's final defeat in Afghanistan.
In particular, the unit price of the "Stinger" is only about 50,000 US dollars, and if you add four bases of ammunition, just ten "Stingers" and ammunition alone are a million-dollar transaction, and Nicholas Ballmer is enough to make more than 500,000 US dollars in the "Stinger" sale.
Then Nicholas Ballmorke was amazed.
Could it be that Burma, which is tattered and poor and can't afford three people to wear a pair of pants, can afford this kind of thing?
Unlike Afghanistan, which is now a battlefield of confrontation between the two super-empires of the United States and the Soviet Union, and a testing ground for various advanced weapons such as Eagle Sauce and Hairy Bear. And what kind of thing is Burma? It's been fighting for more than 40 years, and it's a broken place that no one cares about.
At this stage, neither Eagle Sauce nor Mao Bear has any idea about that place, and that kind of broken place has almost no strategic position except for mountains and mountains, and the two superpowers have no intention of being interested in that place at all. If it weren't for the fact that in the future, in order to obtain the outlet of the Indian Ocean, the rabbit would have taken action against the poor mountain and bad water that had been completely destroyed, otherwise even the rabbit would not be interested in taking care of that place.
Now, what are you doing with the "Stinger" over there?
Mr. Nicholas Ballmer, who had not been able to tear up his sister, was so intrigued that he decided to accompany the man who wanted the arms on a trip to northern Burma.
It's not hard to get there, but if you can open up another market outside the Middle East, wouldn't it be another income?
The chaos in the Golden Triangle is well known to the world, and if you can use these two arms deals to break into the arms market of the Golden Triangle and occupy an important position in it, then won't the arms trade in this area become your own bag?
So, with this in mind, Nicholas Ballmer met with Mr. Cole Smith at a secret location in Mandalay, and the introducer was the purchaser of the last batch of arms, Wu Qin-maung.
Wu Qinmaung had already been informed by Mike Ale, knowing that the middle-aged American in front of him, who was almost forty years old, was actually the biggest boss behind him, but Wu Qinmaung really couldn't understand that a billionaire like this would have to risk coming to a rotten place like northern Myanmar?
Even Wu Qinxiang himself admitted that if it weren't for the annual salary of one million dollars, he would never return to this place that gave him nightmares again. Even though this was once the place where he was born and raised.
Now, Wu Qinxiang couldn't help but laugh for a long time when he saw the boss who was no different from falling apart.
A big boss like this kind of pampered person is simply asking for hardship when he comes here.
However, what should be concerned is still to be cared for.
"Boss, are you all right?Do you want to rest in Myitkyina for two days before we set off?There are still nearly 200 kilometers to go from Myitkyina to the Mukan mining area, and that part of the road is more difficult than the one just walked, I am worried about your physical ......."
Yang Jing shook his old waist, nodded slightly, and said to Nicholas Ballmer: "Nick, let's take a rest here tonight, I really can't walk, and if I walk like this again, I'm afraid I'm really going to see God." ”
When Nicholas Ballmer was waiting for Yang Jing in Mandalay, he also learned a little about this mysterious boss from Wu Qinxiang's mouth, and he vaguely knew that this compatriot who looked younger than himself was a rich man with a net worth of hundreds of millions, and he also came from a fairly large family.
Nicholas Ballmer is even guessing that this Cole Smith even has a fake name, maybe his real identity is even from the eight major families in the United States......
As an arms dealer on the verge of life and death, Nicholas Ballmer certainly knows who can and cannot be offended, and it is clear that this rich man, who is very likely to even have a fake name, is definitely not something that an arms dealer like him can afford to provoke.
So, Nicholas Ballmer smiled very cheerfully, "Mr. Smith, if you feel tired, we can rest for the night." Looking at you like this, it's time to take a good rest. I'm not in a hurry, so I don't have an opinion. ”
Yang Jing grinned and said with difficulty: "Wu, then please find a hotel to live in, it is best to take a hot bath." Oh Maiga, it's a really hard road, I have to take a hot shower tonight. ”
Wu Qinmaung nodded and said, "BOSS, don't worry, although Myitkyina is not rich, I can still find a hotel that satisfies you." ”
Although Myitkyina is the capital of Kachin State, it was still a rather poor and backward city in the 80s, let alone a hotel, and it was difficult to find even a slightly decent hotel.
However, Wu Qinxiang was born and raised in Myitkyina, so he didn't have to worry about finding a hotel that matched the boss's wishes.
It's really not good, even if you take the boss to your relatives' house.
In fact, to put it mildly, Yang Jing is also self-inflicted. Myitkyina has two airports, one is a small airport located in the city of Myitkyina, which was established as early as World War II. The other airport is a large airport with a 3.5 km runway.
However, the two airports are now under the control of the Kachin army, and in early 1986 they were taken down by Peng Jiasheng, who had just received weapons support from Wu Chin-Maung.
It is precisely for this reason that Yang Jing, who could have come to Myitkyina by plane, can now only enter Myitkyina by jeep. The situation in northern Myanmar has risen again because Peng Jiasheng's Kachin army has taken control of Myitkyina, and the Burmese army controls the southern side and does not allow any planes to enter Myitkyina......
If it weren't for Mike Aller's support for Peng Jiasheng's batch of arms last year, maybe Peng Jiasheng would still be living in seclusion.
Now it's a good thing, Peng Jiasheng, who has received arms support, actually took Myitkyina in one go, and finally Yang Jing could only enter here by jeep. From another point of view, Yang Jing can be regarded as lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot......