Chapter 290: Arms
"Cole, three people have died in our operations on the Burmese side in the past four years! All of them were sent by me!" Mike Ale's first words made Yang Jing startled.
Yang Jing knew that Myanmar was very chaotic at this time, in fact, Myanmar has not been calm since the end of World War II, strictly speaking, Myanmar's civil strife is even comparable to the intensity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Myanmar has not been truly unified for decades or even into the twenty-first century.
However, Yang Jing really did not expect that the political situation in Myanmar in the early 80s was relatively stable, so Yang Jing dared to ask Mike Ale to arrange for someone to go to the jade mining area in northern Myanmar to open mines. According to Yang Jing's idea, in the early 80s, Americans were also very open in Burma. As long as the people sent by Mike Aal don't die in the Shan State in the east and don't let the big drug lord Khun Sa touch, there is basically no problem in terms of personal safety.
But three people have died in the past four years, what is the situation?
Seeing Yang Jing's face gloomy, Mike Ale explained with a wry smile: "Actually, I blame me for this matter, I didn't take into account their experience when selecting people, and as a result, the five people sent over did something that shouldn't have been done over there, which caused the anger of the people in power in Kachin State, only two of those five people escaped, and the other three all died there." ”
Sighing, Mike Ale said helplessly: "It's so chaotic over there, and the level of chaos is something I never thought about." Those five are all retired Navy SEALs. ”
"What the hell is going on?" Yang Jin asked in a deep voice.
"Those five guys did a really good job at the beginning, using the dollar to open up some roads on the Kachin side, but those five guys were not peaceful people, and they actually pointed a few local women at the tip of their guns, which caused serious chaos, and the local armed forces killed three ...... on the spot."
"How can you hire such a scumbag...... Yang Jing wanted to hold Mike Ale accountable, but seeing that he also looked guilty, Yang Jing endured it and endured it.
"What happened to the remaining two people?" Yang Jing took a long breath, suppressed the fire in his heart, and asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, those two guys were sent to Canada by my guys, and they both died in a car accident. "It wasn't my hands, it was the two guys who drank too much and drove the car into a lake on the side of the road, which was ...... the winter before last."
Yang Jing nodded slightly.
"Then I realized that I couldn't blatantly send Americans over in that kind of chaotic place, so I found an Asian immigrating from Burma in the United States and asked him to preside over there. This guy did a very good job, it took less than a year to get in touch with Peng Jiasheng, who had been silent for several years, and used me to find someone to smuggle past arms for him, so that Peng Jiasheng became strong again, and then our things over there became a lot easier. ”
"Peng Jiasheng?" Yang Jing was also shocked when he heard this name. This Peng Jiasheng's prestige in Myanmar in the last century was no less than that of Khun Sa, especially in Kachin State in northern Myanmar, where Peng Jiasheng in his heyday could be said to be the king of Kachin State.
It was only in the 70s that Peng Jiasheng suffered a series of blows and gradually fell into silence, until he rose again in the late 80s and early 90s to dominate Kachin State again.
However, although Peng Jiasheng fell into silence at this time, the four King Kongs under his command controlled the military power of Kachin State, and Peng Jiasheng was still the king of Kachin State hidden in the shadows.
"Mike, the guy you're looking for is using arms to impress Peng Jiasheng?"
"Hmm. Mike Aller smiled and nodded, "I didn't expect this big warlord with the nickname of 'King Kokang' to be so easily impressed, I just contacted an arms broker active in the Middle East through a friend, and then got a thousand AK47s and a hundred RPG7 individual rocket launchers from that guy, plus some corresponding ammunition, a total of less than 700,000 US dollars, and the result was directly Peng Jiasheng." ”
Hearing this number, Yang Jing couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and asked with a smile: "Are they all second-hand arms?"
"Hehe, what kind of soldiers do you think those so-called Kokang allies can be? Those soldiers of the Kokang Alliance are actually just a group of young and strong young peasants. Equip them with second-hand AK47 and RPG7, which are already extremely high-end weapons for them. According to Wu Qin-maung, oh, this person is the Burmese Asian I was looking for, and many soldiers there still have weapons from World War II. So, even a second-hand AK47 is excellent for the soldiers over there, and as for the RPG7, it is equivalent to a high-end weapon for them. ”
Yang Jing also shook his head with a wry smile helplessly, isn't that the case? It's the 80s, not the 21st century. Even in the conflict that broke out in northern Myanmar in 2015, the local soldiers in northern Myanmar were only armed with AK47s.
"A second-hand AK is $47,280 a piece, an RPG is $7,300 a piece, and if you count the ammunition, it costs less than $700,000 in total, which is very cheap, really cheap," said Mike Aller. You must know that the three people who died, and the pension I gave them alone amounted to 500,000 dollars! Alas, I should have used this method a long time ago if I knew that the indigenous soldiers were so easily impressed. ”
Yang Jing also felt a little ridiculous, "Forget it, let's pay for the points, after all, it's three lives." ”
"That U Khin Maung is doing very well in Kachin State. He was Burmese himself, and I asked him to go there as a jade merchant, and with the arms he provided to Peng Jiasheng, U Khin Maung's status in Kachin State is now quite high. ”
Yang Jing smiled and nodded and said, "Hehe, with Peng Jiasheng's Kokang King under his protection, no one in Kachin State dares to touch Wu Qin's appearance." ”
"That's right, after Peng Jiasheng got the batch of arms we provided, he came back again after he had been in seclusion, and soon took control of the situation in Kachin State, and Wu Qinmaung, as the person who provided him with arms, was naturally protected by Peng Jiasheng, so we were able to successfully open up a mining area in the area you mentioned last year. ”
After a pause, Mike Aller continued: "It's just that I should have personally made a trip to Huaxia in August last year, taking advantage of the good relationship between Pete Wu and the government over there, secretly opening up the transportation route from the Hpakant mining area to China, and then transporting those ores to China, and you came ......."
Yang Jing waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. Compared to that mine, this investment is more important. It doesn't matter if it's a year or two late. ”
Myanmar's jadeite didn't go crazy until the late 80s and early 90s, and now it's only 1986, and Burmese jadeite is still half-dead. Although the price of jadeite in Southeast Asia is very high, but without the huge market of China, the price of jadeite rough in Myanmar is actually not high, even in the public market.
The current Myanmar jadeite market is not as crazy as the 21st century, now nominally the jadeite mining rights in Myanmar are in the hands of the Myanmar government, but the real jadeite mining area is now controlled by the Kachin State army, with the confrontation between Kachin State and the Myanmar government, the amount of jadeite on the Myanmar jadeite market can be imagined.
Those jadeite ores can't even be shipped out of Kachin State, how much jadeite can be on the public market?
Yang Jing just wanted to take advantage of the confrontation between the north and the south of Myanmar during this period, quietly open up a mining area from there, and then dig up enough jadeite rough to transport back to China for memory, and after the peace over there, it is not so easy to dig jadeite ore from there.
Yang Jing asked, "Mike, how is that Wu Qin's appearance? I mean, can it be trusted?"
Mike Aller shook his head slightly and said: "BOSS, in fact, I can't say for sure about this matter, on the surface, it seems that Wu Qinxiang should indeed be fine, after all, his family is still in the United States, and I gave him an annual salary of up to one million US dollars, he has no reason to betray us." It's just that you also know that there is no way for me to find Wu Qinmao to preside over the work over there, after all, he is not a person I know the bottom of, so ......"
Yang Jing nodded slightly, thought for a moment and said, "Can you still contact that arms dealer?"
"There's no problem with that. ”
"Okay, then you can contact that guy again and ask him to prepare ten more Stinger individual anti-aircraft missiles, thirty M2HB heavy machine guns and one hundred M60 general-purpose machine guns, and at least four base ammunition, I need him to ship these things to Myitkyina for me within a month. The price can be raised a bit, but make sure to deliver it to Myitkyina on time. ”
Mike Aller gasped when he heard this, "Boss, what are you doing here?"
In northern Myanmar in this era, the M60 general-purpose machine gun is already an absolute weapon of destruction, as for the M2HB heavy machine gun of 50 caliber, it can be used as a cannon in northern Myanmar, and the "Stinger" individual anti-aircraft missile only began to be produced in small quantities in 1983, and now even in the US military, it is also a high-end weapon.
Yang Jing smiled slightly and said: "There is no other meaning, I plan to visit that Kokang King Peng Jiasheng in a month, of course, the necessary gifts must be missing." ”
"BOSS, but Wu Qinxiang has done a good job over there, you don't need to risk yourself. It's too messy over there. ”
"Hehe, don't worry, since I want to go over, I have full confidence that I will retreat. Moreover, I went there this time, just in time to open up the ore transportation route from the mining area to China. It would be good if you informed Wu Qinmao and Pete Wu and asked them to cooperate with me in a month's time, and what to do will be done after I pass. ”
PS: Bow and thank "Yuhan" for the 500 tip, and "Ice Octave" 100 for the tip.