50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 716 Black Alert Line

It is this common phenomenon of visiting each other's homes along the border that allows residents of villages on both sides of the border to influence each other.

If the village on the other side suffers a complete crop failure, the villages in this country will definitely help their relatives to some extent, and the people on the other side will also try to sneak over.

Sun Zhiwei could easily guess from his imagination that some villagers from Khun Sa's plantation would take the flowers and plants that no one wanted to buy, process them into products, and bring them across the border to sell for money.

Although we are still in the early stages of reform and opening up, and the relevant economic policies have a limited impact on this area, our villagers are indeed living better than those on the other side.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the village across the street has become a planting base, and every household can receive a considerable amount of money every year.

However, as long as it remains Khun Sa's plantation base, various wealth-harvesting policies from the Khun Sa Group will follow.

Not only did they suppress prices to buy raw materials, but they also used tricks such as high-priced grain, high-priced fertilizer, and usury to constantly ensnare the villagers.

In just a few years, these mature harvesting methods will allow the villagers to earn back all the money they received from planting.

Furthermore, it will cause the villagers in the planting base to owe Khun Sa Group high-interest loans.

The ultimate goal of these policies is to turn the entire village population into free tobacco farmers for the Pontianak Group.

Villages like Paqian Old Village are just a microcosm of the 3000 villages in this region.

Sun Zhiwei drove the Apache to the vicinity of the border in order to establish a perimeter.

There are more than 100 villages within 10 kilometers of our border in the Golden Triangle region.

Most of these villages are tobacco-producing villages belonging to the Khun Sa Group. They are only responsible for growing the poisonous weeds, and rely on the Khun Sa Group to supply all other needs.

The villagers in these villages live almost like slaves of the Khun Sa regime.

The poisonous weeds near our village must be destroyed. Sun Zhiwei plans to burn down all the poisonous weed fields in the planting bases within a 10-kilometer radius of the border.

The burning of the fields was not dangerous. These villages, which had become planting bases, were so dangerous that even Khun Sa dared not resist them, let alone an armed helicopter.

In just a few hours, he burned down the tobacco fields of more than 100 nearby villages with incendiary bombs.

Burning them once won't work; it could even corner these villages.
So, after burning the tobacco fields, he also airdropped a batch of grain to each village to ensure they wouldn't starve before the next harvest.

After dealing with the issues at the planting base, he flew back and forth twice along the line 10 kilometers from the border.

On his first mission, he directly threw napalm bombs, creating a burning zone 100 meters wide and 100 kilometers long.

On his second trip, he used seawater to extinguish the fire all the way.

He not only extinguished all the fires in the black burning zone created by napalm in the previous trip, but also artificially created a barren saline-alkali area.

The seawater used to extinguish the fire was collected during his last raid on Monkey Island.

Because it is very effective at destroying cities and fortresses and leaves no trace, he never poured out the millions of tons of seawater stored in the space, but kept it for future use, and now it has come in handy again.

If you look at this place from a satellite at this time, you can see a very obvious black line 10 kilometers outside the border.

The land along this black line has been completely soaked by seawater, making it difficult for plants to grow there again.

This was the cordon he had created. He believed that every drug dealer who crossed this terrifying cordon would seriously consider its origins.

To maintain this perimeter, he will definitely have to come and clean it from time to time.

Over time, this place will truly fulfill the purpose of the warning line he envisioned.

On March 16, Sun Zhiwei reappeared at the Xishuangbanna Hotel, and the inspection team, which had been conducting research for a month, finally completed its mission.

Zhou Zhenhai, the head of the inspection team, also reported the situation during this period to Sun Zhiwei.

First, there's the change in Paqian Old Village. The flowers and plants they planted were all burned by the anti-drug squad on the very day they were raided.

When the inspectors entered the village, the village chief shot himself. In his confession, he took all the blame upon himself.

After learning about his actions, Sun Zhiwei admitted that although he was not a good village chief, he was still somewhat responsible.

The cableway at the top of the mountain was also dismantled; yes, dismantled, not destroyed.

The experts who came to assess the cable said that the material was very good, and just selling it based on the material alone, the dozen or so tons of steel would be quite valuable.

So they specially sent someone with explosives to slide to the other side, blow up the large rock on the other side that was used to fix the steel cable, and then retrieved the steel cable from this side of the mountain.

In the end, the city hall arrested a few accomplices and gave most of the villagers lenient sentences.

Then, the city hall sent a team of economic crop experts to teach the villagers how to plant rubber trees artificially.

The dream of generations of people in Paqian Old Village has finally been realized in this process of destruction and reconstruction.

The cost included the life of a village chief and the entire Yanlong family. For Paqian Old Village, which has only 42 households, this cost was considerable.

I heard that, based on the situation in Paqian Old Village, the anti-drug squad has eradicated several similar villages in the past two weeks, achieving a major victory.

Besides the news about Paqian Old Village, the inspection team actually found several investable projects among the mountain of old documents.

When Zhou Zhenhai consulted him, Sun Zhiwei waved his hand and approved the investments ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan.

Sun Zhiwei kept the inspection team behind to sign investment agreements and handle subsequent investment matters, but he himself did not stay any longer and went directly to Sanmen City.

Another missing soldier, Li Cong, was from Xiaoyuegou, Lushi County, Sanmen City. Sun Zhiwei still has no news of him.

This is a very strange thing. A grown man, not a woman or child, could not possibly have been abducted.

After he disappeared without explanation, Sun Zhiwei, through his connections with Guotai, reported the case to the local county police.

According to the police investigation, Li Cong's family was safe and sound, so it was obviously not the villagers who were greedy and wanted to harm him.

However, Li Cong himself disappeared after leaving home on the eighth day of the first lunar month.

That means Li Cong disappeared on his way to Shenhe.

This is going to be troublesome. There are mountains and rivers along the way, so he needs to walk first, then take a bus, and finally take a train to reach Shenhe.

This is a journey of thousands of miles, involving many different modes of public transportation, and it was during the Spring Festival travel rush. How could we possibly find it?
(End of this chapter)