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Chapter 1256 Special Mission (First update, please subscribe)
Shan State.

For many people in Southeast Asia, this has always been an extremely distant term.

Although far away, this geographical term often appears in news reports in Nanyang, such as the Shan State humanitarian crisis and the Shan State no-fly zone.

In recent times, the humanitarian crisis in Shan State has turned into the humanitarian crisis in Iraq.

These news reports, without exception, showed the people of Southeast Asia a chaotic world.

For many people, this world is extremely unfamiliar and even full of dangers.

But there will always be people entering this strange and dangerous world.

The DC3 passenger plane bound for Xin'an roared over the rainforest. About half an hour after flying over Mengsa, it began to descend towards the airport.

Meng Nongfei intentionally sat on the left side of the cabin so that he could overlook the city of Xin'an when the plane flew over it. He could see the city from 1000 meters in the air.

Xin'an is just a city in the rainforest, not a capital.

Ten years ago, this was just a village in the rainforest, with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians living here. The people who drifted here opened up paddy fields in the rainforest, built houses, and settled down here.

Now, a modern city is located there. There are not only rice fields, but also some modern factories. In addition to textile factories, there are even heavy industries such as machinery manufacturing factories, and most of these enterprises are invested by Nanyang capital.

The city is not large.

"Three fives can be used to describe this city: a small city of five square kilometers, fifty thousand people, and five roads..."

This is Xin'an, the capital of Shan State.

Obviously, this place is no longer the "city of three or five" of the past. Looking down from the air, you can see that the city has more than just a few streets. Although the buildings in the city are not high, most of them are four to five stories high, it can be seen that the city's construction is very regular.

The southeast of the city is obviously the wealthy area, and those houses have their own gardens. The other side is obviously the poorer area, where there are thousands of wooden houses with tiled roofs. Those houses look similar to the houses in Nanyang, but there are some differences.

Even from the air, one could still see that the narrow roads were mostly unpaved dirt roads.

Meng Nongfei just stared at the city in the rainforest. Although he could only see the city for a while from the plane, it gave him a basic understanding of the city.

The city is located on a mountain plateau. The city's high position allows them to deal with threats from the outside world. This is the fundamental reason why they chose to build the city here, because it is easy to defend.

In the southwest of the city, there is a building with a blue roof. It is a steel-structured factory building. It should be Xin'an's industrial zone. There are houses of different sizes everywhere near the industrial zone. It must be where the workers live.

In this way, Meng Nongfei looked down at the city from the air, and at this time, they were ready to land.

Soon the plane landed at the airport. After landing, Meng Nongfei saw several MiG-15 fighter jets parked not far away.

When he saw those planes, Meng Nongfei's mouth curled up and he almost laughed out loud - after Nanyang established a no-fly zone in Shan State, the Yangon authorities accused Nanyang of supporting its separatist activities in Shan State at the UN General Assembly. Of course, Nanyang's representative to the UN General Assembly firmly denied this accusation and even took out a photo, pointing at the MiG-15 fighter jet in the photo.

"This is absolutely a trumped-up charge. As we all know, there are no MiG fighters in Southeast Asia. If Shan State is supported by us, then where did the Soviet weapons, including MiG fighters, come from?"

MiG fighters, AK47...

Everyone knows why these Soviet weapons appeared here. They were either seized by Nanyang in Siam or Egypt. In short, the appearance of those weapons here became an excuse for Nanyang to shirk responsibility.

Anyway, this is a confusing account. Nanyang has never admitted that they support Shan State, but one thing that cannot be denied is... this is indeed a "country within a country".

Meng Nonfei had no luggage in the cabin, only a briefcase. The terminal building was unbearably hot and full of buzzing flies. There were about a dozen soldiers wandering around, and a dozen policemen. They were obviously from different tribes. The policemen looked very humble, leaning against the wall, and hardly talking to each other. It was the soldiers who caught Meng Nonfei's attention.

As he filled out his immigration form, Meng Nongfei kept his eyes half closed, watching the soldiers. He passed health and passport checks, both of which were performed by police-like officers whom he assumed were Chinese.

They spoke Mandarin with a southwestern accent, which was consistent with what Meng Nongfei had previously understood - this was a place where the Tang people were in charge.

This place is like Saigon - the signs on both sides of the street are in Chinese characters, Mandarin is taught in schools, and the textbooks used in schools are the same as those in Nanyang, or even provided directly by Nanyang. Because the Burmese authorities cannot control this area, education in Shan State is mostly at the primary stage, and it mainly relies on temples and schools taught by volunteer teachers from Nanyang to provide basic education.

Everything is so familiar!
Except poverty!

Poverty is the biggest characteristic of Shan State.

However, this is normal here. 98% of Shan State is mountainous. In this mountainous tropical rainforest area, the arable land area is limited. In the past, the food here could not even be self-sufficient. It was not until recent years, with the help of Nanyang, that they reclaimed large areas of terraced fields and planted rice and various cash crops, thus gradually getting rid of poverty.

As soon as he got out of the airport, he felt the poverty here. The asphalt road in front of the airport was only four or five meters wide, which was probably the standard of a farm trail. There were some vendors selling fruits or souvenirs standing across the road. Meng Nongfei took a quick look and saw someone holding a pick-up sign. After he walked over, the man asked him.

"You must be Mr. Meng from Southeast Asia!"

"Yes."

"I'm here to pick you up, Ah Shan. The colonel sent me to pick you up."

Ah Shan did not take his luggage, but led him to a jeep and then drove in the opposite direction of the city.

"There are still a lot of poor people here!" On the way to the mountains, Meng Nongfei listened to the driver introducing the situation here. The driver's Mandarin was very stiff, but it did not hinder their communication.

"There is poverty everywhere in the mountains. In the past, the villagers mainly planted duck slices, but now many people plant corn, durian, and mangosteen..."

Although the American-made jeep was old, it drove on the dirt road like a fish in water. After a few hours, they finally arrived at their destination - a village in the mountains.

In the terraced fields surrounding the village, there are large fields of corn planted, which is the most common staple food in this land.

Soon, Meng Nongfei and Ashan came to a bamboo building in the center of the village, where he met the colonel. He was wearing a Nanyang-style camouflage combat uniform and a pair of sunglasses, which might be Dior or Thunderbird.

Who knows?

But what is certain is that it must be a luxury brand from Nanyang.

"Welcome to my Shan State, Mr. Meng."

As soon as he saw Meng Nongfei, the colonel was extremely enthusiastic. He invited Meng Nongfei into the house directly. When the servant served tea, the colonel apologized:
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. The conditions here are not as good as those in Nanyang. We don't have air conditioning or tall buildings, but..."

The colonel threw out a black brick wrapped in oil paper and said with a smile:

"We have the best smoke in the world!"

Looking at the black bricks in front of him, Meng Nongfei's eyes lit up. This was exactly the purpose of his coming here.

"I know, that's why I came here. I want to know why the colonel suddenly raised the price!"

Facing Meng Nongfei's question, the colonel said helplessly:

"Mr. Meng, we have been cooperating for two years. In the past two years, you have always been a very good partner. If I had not had to, I would not raise the price. But you should know that in recent years, Shan State has been cracking down on these.

General Li of Xin'an asked everyone to switch to planting corn and rice. The villages that continue to plant these things will be hit. Even I don't know what will happen next. Our planting area is decreasing little by little. Now we can only hide in the deep rain forest to plant some, so the supply and demand relationship..."

The colonel smiled and said:

"Under these circumstances, raising prices is the only option."

"15%!"

Meng Nongfei thought for a moment and said:
“That’s my bottom line, but I can buy 50 tons at a time!”

"No problem, as long as Mr. Meng comes, it's a gift to me. Don't worry, I will definitely give you priority in supplying goods in the future!"

The colonel wearing sunglasses laughed and said:

"Mr. Meng, we have a pleasant cooperation!"

“So when can I harvest?”

"You can get it anytime. The goods are in the village..."

Just as the colonel was happily ordering people to open the champagne, suddenly there was a strange noise in the air, and then someone hurried in and shouted loudly.

"Commander, Commander, it's the commando team from the Narcotics Control Bureau!"

What Narcotics Bureau!

The colonel, who was originally laughing, suddenly changed his expression. As a businessman in this business, he knew very well what it meant when the Narcotics Bureau came to his door.

Staring at Meng Nongfei, he suddenly seemed to understand something and shouted loudly.

"You, you're an undercover agent from the Narcotics Bureau! I'll shoot you to death!"

After saying that, the gun was pointed at Meng Nongfei. Facing the threat of the gun, he was not afraid at all. Instead, he took a step forward and said in a light tone:
"Colonel..."

Meng Nongfei looked at the other party and said:
"You and I both know very well what the price will be if you open fire. Now that we've come to your door, everything is over. Why should we resist?"

As he finished his words, a helicopter was already hovering above their heads, with the commandos pointing their black muzzles at the village.

Listening to the roar of the helicopter, the colonel's expression became extremely complicated. He stared at the other party for a long time before saying:

"You, you... Damn it, I'm just doing the business we're used to!"

Meng Nongfei said coldly:
"Bad habits must be changed. If you don't change them, we will help you change them!"

(End of this chapter)