He is a world-renowned drug king, but he claims that he has never sold drugs to China, only to Western countries, he has six divisions of troops, even the Americans are very afraid of him, and he is the biggest drug lord in the Golden Triangle, Kunsha!
So, how exactly did Kunsha get started? What is his final end?
As we all know, there is a world-famous sinful place in Southeast Asia, its name is the Golden Triangle, and because it is located at the junction of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, it is a real three-way zone.
Because of its humid climate and special soil, no crops could be grown, but that changed when the British invaders brought poppies.
When the poppy reached the Golden Triangle, people in the Golden Triangle quickly discovered that if they planted it, they didn't need to care about it, and it could grow luxuriant on its own.
So the local people began to cultivate a large number of local people, and the Golden Triangle gradually became the world's largest drug production base. And in the nearly 100 years since, many big drug lords have emerged here.
Kunsha was born in Myanmar in 1933, and because his father was from Dali, Yunnan, he also had the name Zhang Qifu.
His father fled to Burma, where he eventually worked as a toastmaster, established a small industry there, and once controlled the local military and political power.
And he has always been proud of himself as a descendant of Yanhuang. But when he was three years old, his mother died of drug use. More unfortunately, my father was also assassinated because of his feud.
So he became an orphan. So in order to survive, he followed the grandfather of the Ma Gang around, and it was this experience that made him understand the real Golden Triangle.
Because of his father, he has been hunted down over the years, and at the most dangerous time, he was assassinated four times in one month. But fortunately, the identity of the grandfather horse gang, the enemy family is difficult to find.
But he did not become depressed, let alone take revenge on his enemies because of anger. Instead, he chose to seriously study all kinds of knowledge, hoping to one day be able to live on his own.
Eventually, he was admitted to the Myanmar Military University, where he learned a lot of military-related knowledge. It was because of this experience that he laid the foundation for managing the army and building a drug empire in the future.
In the blink of an eye, he has become a 30-year-old man, as the saying goes, standing at thirty, so when choosing a career, he found that the prospects of growing drugs in Southeast Asia were very good, and if he planted it on a large scale, he would definitely make a lot of money.
But to do this here, you can't do it alone. In order to increase his influence, he began to prepare to find some allies for himself. So he began to take a detailed inventory of the forces entrenched in the Golden Triangle.
In the end, he decided to join a big man, so he joined the man's army, because he had a military school background, and he was particularly good at things.
Therefore, he quickly gained the appreciation of the big guy, and seeing that the time was ripe, he proposed to marry the big guy's daughter, and this big guy saw that Kunsha was also a talent, so he did not object, so he became the second in command of the entire group.
Soon after, he proposed to his father-in-law to grow poppies here. The big guy couldn't resist the temptation of money, so he agreed to the plan and put him in charge of everything, and it was this behavior that opened Pandora's box for the whole world.
Kunsha knows that in order to build a drug empire, he must have a strong armament. So he used his father-in-law's power to form a guards.
Over time, the drug business has become bigger and bigger, and it has gradually become one of the top forces in the Golden Triangle.
But his ambitions don't stop there, he wants to dominate the entire Golden Triangle, so he also pays attention to the situation in China.
After seeing that the Kuomintang had retreated to Taiwan and fled to the Golden Triangle, he knew that in order to fulfill his ideals, he had to cooperate with this group of Kuomintang remnants, so he sent people to contact the Kuomintang remnants.
But his father-in-law opposed this act, and in order to fulfill his dream of dominating the Golden Triangle and give his new ally a name, he actually killed his father-in-law with his own hands and cut off his head.
Seeing that this man was so decisive, the Kuomintang felt that Kunsha could be used to them, so it accepted the request for cooperation.
After gaining stronger allies, Kunsha began to expand even more wildly, and he united the surrounding forces through constant annexation and united these forces to form an army, which he personally trained.
At this point, he has a lot of territory, but if he wants to go further, he needs a moment.
But soon the opportunity came, and in 1962 the Burmese military staged a coup d'état and established a junta, which declared that anyone who declared allegiance to the junta could legally grow and sell drugs.
Soon sensing the opportunity, Kunsa decided to submit to the Burmese military government. Upon learning of his submission, the government was overjoyed and immediately appointed him commander of the Regional Self-Defense Forces and granted the power to recruit troops on its own.
At that time, in the Golden Triangle region, the most powerful was not him, but Luo Xinghan, who not only had more territory than him, but also had more troops than him, so Kunsha had never dared to clash with Luo Xinghan.
But Lady Luck once again favored him, because the Kuomintang decided to retreat from Southeast Asia at that time, but many people had already settled here at that time and were no longer willing to leave, so they stayed.
Zhang Suquan is one of them, but this person is by no means an ordinary person, he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and then retreated to Southeast Asia with the defeat of the Kuomintang, and once cooperated with Kunsha, so after the Kuomintang withdrew from Southeast Asia, he chose to defect to Kunsha. He became Kunsha's chief of staff and trained the army for him.
It is precisely because of Zhang Suquan's joining that his army has become more and more regular and his combat effectiveness has become stronger and stronger. Therefore, from this moment on, he looked forward to defeating Luo Xinghan and dominating the Golden Triangle.
Soon his opportunity came, and in 1967, Kunsha received news that Luo Xinghan would personally escort tons of drugs to Thailand. He is keenly aware that this is the perfect opportunity to kill his opponent. =
But if he wanted to go head-to-head with the other party, the odds of victory were extremely small, and when he was about to give up, the chief of staff Zhang Suquan stood up and suggested an ambush on the enemy's way to transport drugs.
So he took this advice, and finally won a big victory, completely trampling Luo Xinghan under his feet. So far, he has become the most powerful man in the Golden Triangle, controlling 80% of the drugs here, and has become a veritable drug emperor.
Seeing that Kunsa was getting bigger and bigger in the Golden Triangle, the Myanmar government decided to cross the river and tear down the bridge to eliminate Kunsha.
In 1969, the Burmese government ordered Khun Sa to go to the military headquarters for a meeting, and the chief of staff, Zhang Suquan, advised him not to go, suspecting fraud.
But he knew that if he refused to attend the meeting, the government would have an excuse to eliminate them, so he decided to go alone.
As Zhang Suquan expected, as soon as Kunsha arrived at the scene, he was arrested by the military. But the government was also afraid of his power and did not dare to kill him, so it put him under house arrest.
Seeing that his boss was arrested, Zhang Suquan, as the chief of staff, had no intention of seizing power.
Instead, he chose to actively carry out the rescue. By 1973, he had assembled a 49-man death squad, but instead of rescuing Kunsa, he kidnapped two Soviet doctors who were supporting Burma.
And released the news, as long as the government released Kunsha, he released the two doctors. At the same time, the Soviet Union continued to pressure the Burmese government, and eventually the Burmese government agreed to the exchange.
As the saying goes, if you don't die, there will be happiness. Kunsha, who has returned to his own territory, is also about to usher in the peak of his career.
In the years that followed, he built a larger drug empire in Laos and Burma. Every year, tons of drugs are sent abroad, and the United States suffers the most.
In order to solve the drug problem at the source, US President Jimmy Carter sent members of Congress to the Golden Triangle to negotiate with him personally. And he also demanded that as long as the United States provided 30 million dollars a year, no drugs would flow into the United States.
But the U.S. government refused. Then, in 1982, the Thai government, at the behest of the United States, gathered a large number of troops in an attempt to eliminate Khunsa, but he did not panic at all.
He first sent troops disguised as the Burmese army to attack the Thai border, and engaged in the Thai border chicken flying dog jump. Coupled with the poor relations between Thailand and Myanmar at that time, attention was paid to the Burmese army.
He took this opportunity to bring his army to Burma and built a large number of fortifications there, and then bought a lot of weapons from arms dealers, apparently preparing to fight the Thai army.
By 1985, his army had grown to six divisions, while at the same time constantly arming himself with drugs.
When the time came in late 1993, he saw that the time was ripe to declare independence and establish the Shan State Republic. President and Commander-in-Chief himself.
Moreover, he also issued an order that people here were not allowed to take drugs, and the drugs they produced were not allowed to be sold to China, and those who dared to disobey were all shot.
The Burmese government naturally could not tolerate his independent statehood, but if it were to confront him, it would cause huge casualties, so they decided to use religion and culture to divide his army.
Within two years, Kunsa's army split and many chose to defect to the Burmese government.
Seeing this, the Myanmar military immediately organized troops to declare war on Kunsha. But he has also been operating here for several years, and naturally he is not so easily defeated. So both sides suffered a lot of casualties. Finally, in 1996, he chose to reconcile with the Burmese government.
In the end, he was placed under house arrest by the Myanmar government, and his safety was guaranteed.
We all know that drugs cause great suffering to people all over the world, so we need to stay away from drugs.