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For a long time, the Napo region of Myanmar has been economically underdeveloped, the political power is not unified, the beliefs are different (most of them believe in Buddhism, Kachin State believes in Christ), internal chaos, power division, and there are more than 100 ethnic groups in the fart area.
Coupled with the remnants of the past forces that the allergic party fled a few decades ago, how chaotic and chaotic it is.
As early as the sixties and seventies, various separatist forces vigorously cultivated opium poppy, most notably in the Golden Triangle. At its peak, more than half of the world's drugs (number four) came from here.
The Myanmar government has repeatedly besieged and suppressed warlords in northern Myanmar, not because they want to fight drugs, but because they want to take back de facto control of these lands.
But the situation in northern Myanmar is too complicated, the geographical environment is complicated, ordinary people put on military uniforms and carry guns to fight, and if they take off their military uniforms, they are good citizens.
Moreover, the strength of drug lords is not weak, and all the money from drug trafficking is used in the armed forces.
The Golden Triangle is located on the border of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, and when any of these countries encircles and suppresses, the drug trafficking armed forces can fight if they can, but they can't fight and run. Anyway, running over a few hills is the territory of another country ...
In addition, the armed forces of Burma, Laos and Thailand are too crotch-pulling, and there is no way to take the various drug cartels.
Later, with the mediation of the United Nations and China and the United States, the Myanmar government and local armed forces had many negotiations. But the Myanmar government and local warlords and local warlords have been fighting back and forth for many years, and mutual trust has long been lost...
The junta needs money to buy guns and develop armaments, and in that environment surrounded by enemies, their thirst for money forces them to stop drug trafficking.
After entering the nineties, the international community's tolerance for drug trafficking became lower and lower, and with the support of the United Nations, the Myanmar government carried out many encirclements and suppressions in northern Myanmar's Golden Triangle and other places.
It wasn't until the mid-nineties that the Golden Triangle's drug lord Khun Sak surrendered to the Thai government.
It seems that the international anti-drug work has achieved a great victory, but is it useful for him to surrender alone? It is nothing more than being accepted to Thailand for the elderly. The armed forces under him dispersed into several drug lord organizations, and continued to sell drugs and fight back and forth...
The first to announce his surrender to the Burmese government and implement the anti-drug plan was Lin Mingxian, son-in-law of King Peng Jiasheng of Kokang.
The Myanmar government reciprocated by not only supporting the replacement of poppy cultivation with cash crops, but also approving the development of tourism and gaming in the Fourth Special Region (Xiaomengla) of Shan State, where his forces are based.
In this regard, my rabbit also has a tacit attitude, and even hopes that the armed forces in northern Myanmar will be stronger. After all, from a political point of view, a divided neighbor is more in our interest.
Lin Mingxian's abandonment of drugs and gambling was also forced by all aspects of pressure, and he had no choice but to choose, but what he didn't expect was that as the first person to eat crabs, this road was actually taken by him.
Just in time for the domestic economic development in the nineties, gambling became popular. Investors, gold diggers, gamblers, and border drug smugglers flocked to the city, and in just a few years, Xiaomengla developed from a poor mountain village to a well-known gambling town...
Everyone knows that drug trafficking makes money, but that thing is not expensive in the production area, and the income of local people from growing poppies is not as cost-effective as growing food.
The gambling industry makes more money, and does not have to take too much risk, and with the money-making effect of Xiaomengla, other separatist forces have also shifted their pillar industries from drugs to gambling.
It is worth mentioning that even when the gaming industry in northern Myanmar was at its hottest, local drugs were still rampant, and drug cartels were just turning from blatant drug trafficking to sneaky ones.
Around casinos in northern Myanmar, the most common are thin, straight-eyed addicts. For these people, the military forces have adopted an attitude of resignation and left to fend for themselves.
Many addicts sleep on the streets, most of them with AIDS.
It is worth mentioning that northern Myanmar, as the most famous drug trafficking base and casino area at that time, clearly stipulated that locals were not allowed to enter the casino or take drugs.
At least those mountain soldiers are strictly forbidden to take drugs, and once they are discovered, they will be severely punished, and they are usually shot directly.
Xiaomengla's first casino was "Blue Shield", the owner of Zhao Wei. As the first boss to support Lin Mingxian in the gambling industry, after the development of Xiaomengla, the fourth special zone also took special care of him.
The booming development of the casino has stimulated other separatist forces in the surrounding area, and the casino area has sprung up.
Kachin State has set up the Maizarang Special Economic Zone, the Bok Kang Entertainment Company in Wa State, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, and the Sino-Vietnamese border Mong Cai has also begun to develop the gambling industry.......
The competition in casinos is very large, and in the environment of big waves, Blue Shield has not developed well in Xiaomengla, mainly to compete with those rising stars with international capital and connections.
Zhao Wei later went to the Lao border, moved Xiaomengla to Laos, and jointly established the "Golden Triangle ASEAN Tourism Area" with the Lao government, and established the largest local casino "Golden Mumok"
The existence of Golden Kapok directly suppressed Nao Kham's "Golden Triangle" casino, yes, Nao Kham who caused the Mekong River tragedy.
The reason why Nuo Kang hates Chinese is firstly because his drug cartel has been cracked down on by China, and secondly, because of Zhao Wei of Jinkamian.
Zhao Wei has an official platform in Laos and is a Chinese, and is more favored by Chinese gamblers than Nao Kang, who is a drug lord.
It is said that it is an overseas casino, in fact, the source of customers is Chinese, and the investment in casinos is also Chinese. In addition, most of the local shops have Chinese signs, using renminbi, and the streets are full of Chinese-speaking people.
By the way, North Korea has also set up border casinos on official platforms, and the main source of customers is also Chinese, but it has not been blacklisted in China for a few years.
The first place we went was Maizayan. Brother Liao first opened a casino on Jiangxin Island in Ruili, and later overseas casinos became more and more popular, and he also moved his mind and found a few partners to negotiate an economic zone with the Kachin State military government.
Among the partners, there is Boss Tan of Hong Kong, Carter, the grandson of King Kokang, and a big boss surnamed Dong.
Speaking of Boss Dong, Ruili locals should know that in a few years, he was a top 1 billionaire in Yunnan Province, and he also held the position of a member of the provincial and municipal CPPCC.
I don't have a good impression of him, obviously he is a big boss with a net worth of billions, he wants to earn any money, his heart is still small, and he can't talk in an official tone ...
In fact, when the northern border casino in Myanmar was first developed, cities close to the border still supported it to a certain extent.
Of course, the slogan is to support tourism development at the border.
The most valued by Kachin State officials is Boss Dong, after all, people have the right to speak officially along the border, which can provide a lot of convenience for the economic zone.
Northern Myanmar's infrastructure is particularly poor, and most border casinos rely on domestic snorts for power and communications. This is one of the reasons why when the domestic crackdown on overseas casinos was later launched, they were quickly destroyed.
