Kun Sha, Chinese name - Zhang Qifu, the first poison king of the Golden Triangle. In the 1960s, after the remnants of the Kuomintang fled, drug lord Kun Sha began to build his own armed forces. He is engaged in drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle. He exchanged drugs for a lot of wealth, and when he was the strongest, he had 6 divisions in his hands.
Kun Sha once said bluntly: Westerners used to sell opium to China, and I will return it now, and I have never sold a gram of drugs to China... Kun Sha once took Chairman Mao's famous words as his own life standard. However, his fate was very tragic. What kind of person is Kun sha? How did he rise to power?
The Golden Triangle is the epicenter of drug trafficking in Asia, home to drug lords large and small. Among them, Kun Sha was the most famous drug lord in the 60s and 70s of the last century.
Kun Sha once said: It was the Westerners who opened the door to China through opium, and now they have to use drugs to return these accounts. He said he had never sold a gram of drugs to China.
As a generation of drug lords, Kun Sha's words need to be carefully studied. After all, the golden triangle drugs are sold in all directions, and where these drugs will go is definitely not something he can control alone. No one can live with money.
These drug dealers, for their own benefit, may do whatever they want. When Kun Sha was doing well in the Golden Triangle drug business, drug trafficking in the southwest of the mainland was the most active.
So, what kind of person is Kunsha? Why did he have a lot of fame in the Golden Triangle? On what basis did he gather his power?
Kun Sha was born in February 1933 in Shan State, Burma. It is said that Kunsha's ancestral home is in present-day Dali, Yunnan. Kun Sha's father is Han Chinese and his mother is Burmese. Kun Sha lost her mother at an early age and was raised by a relative.
His Chinese name is Jang Chee-fu, the Burmese name is Guanyue, and the Thai name is Khun Shah. There is an intriguing story behind each name. Kun Sha's life is indeed more ups and downs and waves than ordinary people.
Since he was born, he has been hiding everywhere because of the vendetta between the tribes. Kun Sha's young escape caused him to develop a bloodthirsty frenzy for uneasiness.
In other words, the struggle between the clans makes Kun Sha both afraid and helpless, and he has spent his whole life escaping the fear of escaping the wilderness when he was young. This sense of fear dominated him to go further and further down the path of becoming a drug lord.
In 1949, the Chinese War of Liberation entered the final stage. Chinese People's Liberation Army gradually liberated most of China's territory from north to south. On October 1, New China was officially established, and the Chinese people celebrated together.
While the Chinese people rejoiced in the victory of liberation, the other side of China, the Golden Triangle, was undergoing earth-shaking changes. The remnants of the Kuomintang fled to the Burmese border under siege and suppression by the People's Liberation Army.
One of the teams was the 709th Regiment of the former 8th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the leader of the regiment was the Kuomintang general Li Guohui. Li Guohui's team was about a thousand people. Such a force is completely insufficient to resist the PLA's offensive.
However, if you want to use this thousand to do bad things, it is more than enough. It should be known that the remnants of the original branch of these Kuomintang units have elite weapons, have gone through several battles, and have rich combat experience. Ordinary people will not be their opponents.
After Li Guohui's troops fled to the Burmese border, they began to sell drugs in order to survive. Using their armed forces, they soon monopolized the local drug business. Li Guohui, who had tasted the sweetness, gradually expanded his power and extended his tentacles to the entire Golden Triangle region.
He found that the entire Golden Triangle region resembled an untouched gold deposit, and under his armed coercion, no one in the Golden Triangle dared to compete with him. Isn't this a hundred times better than fighting for Chiang Kai-shek's life? Li Guohui decided not to return to the headquarters and settled down here.
Among these remnants of the Kuomintang forces, there was a Kuomintang lieutenant general named Li Mi, who founded the "Anti-Communist And Anti-Russian Military and Political University" in the Golden Triangle region for the purpose of expanding forces, which was actually to cultivate forces for his own drug trafficking team.
Coincidentally, Kun Sha, who was hiding outside, mistakenly hit and bumped into the military training of the "Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Military and Political University." Among the military universities was a 20th cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy named Zhang Suquan.
Zhang Suquan found that Kun Sha was a talent worth cultivating, and to put it bluntly, Kun Sha looked like an ambitious person. Such a person, even if his ability is not so outstanding, he can also set off a lot of turmoil with the blessing of the armed.
Under the promotion of Zhang Suquan, Kun Sha slowly embarked on the road of military and drug trafficking. In 1961, the Kuomintang Li Mi's troops disturbed regional order and sold drugs, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Burmese government, which sent troops to surround and suppress them.
In order to survive, the remnants of the Kuomintang had less than 10,000 troops, and they were stunned to win the battle against the Kuomintang's army of more than 15,000. The Burmese government has done nothing about them.
When Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan heard the news, he was very happy and sent a congratulatory telegram to celebrate Li Mi's defeat of the Burmese army. Since then, the remnants of the Kuomintang have become more and more rampant. Laos, Myanmar and other countries in the Golden Triangle jointly sent requests for assistance to the United Nations.
The United Nations, by resolution, warned Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan. In desperation, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to order the recall of his troops. The remnants of the national army in the Golden Triangle were fewer than two corps in number.
As an adult, Kunsa returned to his hometown and succeeded his father as Toshi. During the retreat of the Kuomintang troops, the Golden Triangle created a power vacuum. Kun Sha took the opportunity to form his own armed forces to help him start a drug trafficking business.
At the beginning, Kunsha's team was only three or four hundred people. However, after Zhang Suquan joined the team, the number of people in the team began to surge. According to some scholars, which team Zhang Suquan wants to assist, this team will dominate the Golden Triangle.
It can be seen that kunsha's success is inseparable from Zhang Suquan, a key figure. In 1967, Kun Sha intercepted information that a team of Burmese Luo Xinghan was going to escort a truckload of drugs, about 13 tons. Kun Sha knew that if he could take luo Xinghan's batch of goods, he would have no worries about food and clothing for a long time.
Zhang Suquan knew that Kun Sha had the idea of robbing. He suggested to Kun Sha that if he did not want to suffer too many casualties, he would choose to fight an ambush battle and could not fight with the other side. At the suggestion of Zhang Suquan, Kun Sha successfully obtained the drug.
This drug grab incident made Kun Sha suddenly stand out in the Golden Triangle. Luo Xinghan learned that his goods had been robbed, and he swore that he was not at odds with Kun Sha. In the struggle with Luo Xinghan, Kun Sha gradually controlled 70% of the drug production and trafficking business in the Golden Triangle.
The reputation of Kun Sha in the Golden Triangle became louder and louder, and Kun Sha also gave himself the title of "Opium King". According to the trend of Kunsha's development, soon, he will dominate the entire drug trafficking business in the Golden Triangle and become a generation of drug kings.
But at this time, Kunsha ushered in a big twist and turn in his life. In October 1969, Kun Sha received a telegram from Myanmar's Northeast Military District inviting him to attend a military conference. Kun Sha didn't even think about it before he boarded a special plane to the military region.
As a result, as soon as Kun Sha got off the special plane, he was arrested by the people of the Myanmar Military Region. The Burmese government sentenced Kunsha to death on charges of drug trafficking.
At the same moment, Kun Sha's armed forces were besieged by burmese troops. The armed forces were scattered by Burmese army fire due to the leaderlessness of the dragons. Fortunately, Chief of Staff Zhang Suquan did his best to lead the remnants of elite men and horses out of the encirclement.
Zhang Suquan, who escaped, hid the remaining drugs in a safe place. Subsequently, he came up with a plan, saying that Kun Sha's encounter was actually a struggle for national independence for the Shan people, so he was oppressed by the Burmese government.
Zhang Suquan's strategy worked. Shan rebel groups expressed sympathy for Kunsha's plight. Together, they created a public opinion momentum, forcing the Burmese government to take advantage of them. At this point, Kunsha unexpectedly gained the title of "National Hero".
I have to say that Zhang Suquan is a close friend in life and a real nobleman. In order to rescue Kunsha, Zhang Suquan began to recruit soldiers and horses to quickly recover his strength.
In April 1973, the annual Songkran Festival was held. Zhang Suquan took advantage of this opportunity to send a death squad to kidnap two Soviet doctors stationed in Burma during the Songkran festival.
Zhang Suquan originally wanted to exchange soviet doctors as hostages with the Burmese government to rescue Kunsha. Unexpectedly, the Soviet Union did not care about this matter. Seeing this in the Soviet Union, the Burmese government no longer worried about the safety of Soviet doctors launched an attack on Zhang Suquan's forces.
Zhang Suquan quickly retreated with his troops. Looking at the hostages next to him, Zhang Suquan had another plan. He took a few pictures of the hostages and handed them over to the local media. He bribed the media and made them create public opinion that the Soviet Union supported the Burmese army in launching an arbitrary offensive regardless of the safety of the hostages.
The trick quickly worked, and the incident took a turn for the better. Under the pressure of public opinion, the Burmese government had no choice but to reach an agreement with Zhang Suquan, expressing its willingness to exchange Kunsha for hostages.
In this way, Kun Sha smoothly walked out of the Burmese prison. After this incident, Kunsha's reputation in the Golden Triangle once again rose. After going through prison, Kun Sha is even more convinced that only the money in his hands is important.
He picked up his own drug business again and created his own drug kingdom in the stars. In the process of establishing the drug kingdom in Kunsha, he packaged his forces as "anti-communist" and "anti-socialist" groups, thus gaining the favor of Western forces such as the United States.
In 1977, Kunsha made its first contact with the U.S. government. U.S. congressmen went so far as to offer to buy Kunsha's drugs, saying that this move was to prevent drugs from flowing into the international market. In the end, however, U.S. President Jimmy Carter did not agree to do so.
First, cooperating with drug lords like Kunsha undermines the international prestige of the United States; second, they feel that people like Kunsha are not trustworthy; therefore, Kunsha's cooperation with the United States has not been achieved. However, it is conceivable how powerful Kunsha's influence was at this time.
After Establishing a foothold in the Golden Triangle, Kun Sha hired Taiwanese chemistry experts to create high-quality drugs for him. During this period, a batch of heroin with a purity of 99.99% appeared in the Golden Triangle.
Khun Shah's heroin has gradually become a world-renowned drug brand. His ambitions have swelled to the point of building a nation. However, Zhang Suquan was the first to raise objections. Nevertheless, Kunsha established the Shan State Republic in 1993 and became the country's leading figure in bringing all the power together.
Facts have proved that although Kunsha is a good drug trafficker, there is still a big gap in running a good country. In 1995, Kunsha fell into civil strife and was deeply divided. In 1996, Khun Shah waved a white flag to the Burmese government and surrendered.
Since then, Kunsha has been under house arrest for a long time. He ended his life in depression and finally died on October 26, 2007, at the age of 74. A generation of drug lords, thus ending their lives.