CHAPTER XLII
Under everyone's careful care, Wu Fenbin quickly recovered his health, and within a few days, this kid was alive again. And they, the ** person, also temporarily lived in this nameless small mountain village. There are only more than 10 households in this small cottage, with less than 100 people. Most of them are hunters, but opium poppy is also grown.
In the past few days, An Ruizhi has been thinking about the solution to the drug problem in the Golden Triangle that he thought of in the water prison, and he asked Lao Yang to take him around the scattered mountain people's homes, and he wanted to go deep into the mountain people to investigate and understand their actual situation.
As they walked along the mountain paths, they would occasionally see small patches of land carved out of the mountains and forests, all of which were planted with poppies. The white elephant clouds, the red elephant blood, floating in the green mountains and forests is beautiful.
It was the first time that An Ruizhi had seen this beautiful flower up close, and when he walked into the field, he smelled an intoxicatingly sweet fragrance in the air, and it was unbelievable that such a beautiful thing was actually a drug that caused headaches all over the world.
It is difficult to connect beauty and death in the human mind, but the situation in front of him forced An Ruizhi to draw an equal sign between the two words. Just as the word "heroin" really means "heroic new invention". Bayer, a well-known German pharmaceutical company, could never have imagined that their "heroic new invention" would become the number one killer that endangered the world.
A few smokers were cutting tobacco pulp in the field, and An Ruizhi went to the field to watch them work in order to see their operation clearly.
Seeing someone coming, the smokers straightened up, a sincere smile appeared on their tired faces, and Lao Yang greeted them with the same enthusiasm, and An Ruizhi asked them how their lives and income were. The honest mountain people also took the opportunity to take a short break and answered An Ruizhi's questions without concealment.
The price of heroin is 50 times that of gold, and An Ruizhi could not imagine that these opium poppy growers would not be able to make ends meet in a year, and the money from selling large cigarettes could only sustain their livelihood for half a year, and they could only live by hunting and digging wild vegetables for half a year.
After a while, the smokers continued their labor, bent down, holding in their hands a special tool tied together with several thin sharp blades, and slashed twice on the poppy shell, from top to bottom, and soon milky white juice seeped out of the knife and hung thickly on the husk. The raw pulp turns brown the next day, scrapes it off with a scimitar, and then leaves it in a cool place to dry, and it becomes raw opium.
The two walked out of the poppy field, and Lao Yang said to An Ruizhi: "This tobacco cutting pulp is very hard and tiring work, and I can't straighten up after a day of back pain, these smokers have back problems, and they are forced by life to have no choice." ”
"If there were other crops that earned more than growing opium poppy, would they switch to them?" An Ruizhi suddenly asked Lao Yang a question that he had been thinking about for a few days.
"Of course it will, but the environment and climate here are very difficult to adapt to growing other things, and the other thing is that they don't have the cost to change to other crops, and the people who buy the tobacco paste will give them money in advance to plant poppies, and then come and buy their tobacco paste, and they can't do that by planting other things."
Wise nodded silently, he realized more and more that drugs were more and more a social problem in the Golden Triangle.
"Brother Yang, I saw that you greeted the mountain people very warmly when you met them, and you are very familiar with them?"
"Some know, some don't. I always feel that if I treat them like this, they will treat me the same, so I like to greet people, whether I know them or not, haha......" Lao Yang replied with a smile.
Lao Yang's optimistic attitude towards life also infected An Ruizhi, and he smiled and said: "Thank you, Brother Yang, I really learned a lot from you." ”
"Brother An is really joking, I haven't been to school since I was a child, and I haven't stepped out of the Golden Triangle, I don't know what the outside world is like, what can you learn from me?"
An Ruizhi said with emotion: "Some people's philosophies cannot be learned in school, and they need to be experienced in life. ”
"I don't understand what you're saying, you're a literate person." Speaking of this, Lao Yang paused for a while, and then said in a hurry: "Brother An, there is something...... I don't know...... Hey......"
An Ruizhi looked at Lao Yang curiously, "Brother Yang, you have always been a cheerful person, why did you suddenly become stumbling, what do you say, my life is saved by you, what else can't you promise?" ”
Lao Yang seemed to have made a lot of determination, and finally said: "Our brothers have discussed it several times, and I want you to take us to do it together, I can see that Brother An is a capable person, and there are countless mountains in the Golden Triangle, and those who are a little capable are all commanders themselves, why do you want to follow Gao Kan?" He's a guy who eats meat and doesn't spit out bones. ”
Lao Yang's words made An Ruizhi stunned, and a few words suddenly cleared the clouds that had been pressing on his heart in the past few days, and he had been thinking about how to act next in the past few days? How to complete the task assigned by the leader when leaving Gaokan? As Lao Yang said, what else can not be done by taking advantage of the special form of the Golden Triangle region to pull up a man by himself, and it complements his own idea of completely solving the local drug problem, how could he not think of this idea?
Lao Yang saw that An Ruizhi didn't speak, thinking that An Ruizhi didn't agree with what he meant, so he smiled honestly and said, "Brother An, don't care, I just said casually, it's okay if you don't agree." ”
An Ruizhi saw that Lao Yang had misunderstood him, and hurriedly said: "Brother Yang's attention is too good, it is exactly what I have been thinking about in the past few days, because I am not familiar with the local situation, I didn't dare to mention it, I didn't expect it to be said by you first." ”
"Really?" Lao Yang asked excitedly.
"Of course it's true." An Ruizhi said very seriously.
"It's great that you don't have to look at other people's faces again. Let's go back quickly and announce this happy event to our brothers. Lao Yang dragged An Ruizhi and turned around and walked back.
An Ruizhi asked Lao Yang as he walked, "Brother Yang, is it good to buy weapons?" ”
"Drugs and guns may not be easy to buy anywhere else, but these two are the best things to buy in the Golden Triangle, as long as you have the money, you can buy as much as you want."
"That's easy, what about the M16? Can you get it? An Ruizhi asked again.
"Haha, no problem, but the price of M16 is too expensive, and one M16 tops several AK47s."
"There's no problem with the money, let's replace everyone with the same M16 first, what do you think?" An Ruizhi said with a smile.
"Great, I always dreamed of changing a good gun, Brother An, I'm on the right path with you." Lao Yang had an excited expression on his face, as if the old gun on his shoulder had been replaced by a brand-new M16.
"We have to pull up a team, not too many personnel, but the best weapons and equipment, not only the best in the Golden Triangle, but the best and most advanced in the world." An Ruizhi said with a smile.
Back at the station, Lao Yang happily went to announce the good news to his partners, while An Ruizhi talked to Wu Fenbin in detail about the ideas he had considered during this time, and Wu Fenbin also agreed with An Ruizhi's plan very much.
An Ruizhi concluded: "The implementation of the whole plan is a huge and complicated work, and I want to go back to China and explain the whole content of the plan to the command. ”
"Yes, the first stage of the plan is relatively simple to implement, and the latter stage must have the support of the local government, which is difficult for our army to complete, and I think it will take some time for the higher leaders to approve this plan." Wu Fenbin said thoughtfully.
"You can recuperate here first, and then make a decision when I get back."
Wu Fenbin nodded, "Okay, you can rest assured, with Lao Yang, nothing will happen to them here." ”
Wu Fenbin's words reminded An Ruizhi, he thought for a while and said: "It may take a while for me to return to China this time, don't we still have a sum of money, when you are convenient to move, you will purchase some weapons and equipment with Lao Yang, and give them all different guys, all of them will be replaced with M16." In addition, buy some food and daily necessities to support these people in the cottage, their lives are really too hard, and they can't eat enough. ”
"No problem, in addition, if you buy a radio station, you can contact the command."
"Yes, we can wait for the command command to make a decision. I'll leave tomorrow and go back. ”