American Strategic Deception Bureau

　In this situation, the various cheap alternatives launched by Zoe the Goddess appear very attractive to addicts.

　- Instead of spending dozens of dollars on a small bag of hemp tobacco that is only enough for two or three days of smoking, why not spend a little more money to buy a new type of green plant that you can pick leaves or squeeze juice from at any time, and that also smells great, and put it at home to enjoy often?

　Although those playboys and degenerates often don't care about taking care of green plants, nightclub owners are still happy to grow their own plants.

　He looked at the price list and cautiously asked, "Mr. Jin, isn't this price too cheap? My colleagues all say that this is simply giving away benefits! Recently, someone bought goods from me and sold them in San Francisco and Seattle. Because most of them are new varieties that even the police don't know about. So it's very safe. I can make a huge profit of 300% in one round trip!"

　Mr. Jin, I think we can earn this money ourselves..."

　"Ah, Professor Zoe, I think it's best for you to focus on the production side. After all, there's no end to making money, and safety is what's most important."

　Fili laughed and waved his hand in refusal, saying, "If you focus on teaching and imparting knowledge, and on helping your students grow some cute little things to supplement their tuition, local drug dealers will only come to you for supply, or buy through your students. You will still be a 'botanist with a passion for gardening.' Even if you are sued by the prosecutor, we can easily find a way to help you exonerate."

　But if you really want to seize the gang's sales channels... Sorry, you have to fight on your own, we will not provide any protection.

　Besides, why are you in such a hurry to make money? I have never asked you to hand over even a penny of profit! "

　"I know, sir, these plants were given to me free of charge. Thank you very much for your generosity."

　Upon hearing this, Zoe, the witch, bowed her head in fear and trepidation and apologized, "It's just that you don't want money, and you don't ask female believers to sleep with you..." She looked up at Marita beside Fili and asked cautiously, "What is the reason for this?"

　"Of course it's to cultivate the market and expand the consumer base! Just like decades ago, when Standard Oil Company, in order to expand kerosene sales in the East, gave away large numbers of kerosene lamps for free to the Chinese who were accustomed to candles for lighting."

　Phiri replied, “You can’t sell shoes to someone who is used to going barefoot, and you can’t sell elixir to someone who is not used to taking it.

　Rather than selling goods at high prices for quick success, I hope to expand the market so that the bureau can make money and fill the coffers of my colleagues.

　In the early years of the Republic of China, Mobil, in an effort to expand the kerosene market in rural China, where consumption was relatively uncommon, launched a massive kerosene lamp giveaway, giving away large quantities of fully filled lamps for free to the Chinese population. While this decision might seem illogical at first, after using them for a while and experiencing the benefits of brighter, less smoky lamps, people began ditching candles for Mobil kerosene for their lighting.

　Fili felt that the same commercial marketing operation could be repeated in the domestic anesthetic market in the United States in the 1960s.

　You have to know that the 1960s in the United States was not only a rebellious era, but also a turbulent era. It was a time of war, a time of rushing into space, a time of awakening for people of color, and a critical turning point in the American people's journey towards drug use.

　In other words, it was from the hippie wave in the 1960s that the United States became the world's largest drug consumption market.

　In the 1950s, drug abuse in the United States was not a serious problem, with fewer than one million users. However, amphetamines at the time were considered "smart drugs," not drugs. Otherwise, by the standards of the late 20th century, even President Kennedy would have been an addict.

　But by the end of the 1960s, 20 million people nationwide were using weed and drugs, most of them young people. This was especially true on American college campuses. According to a Playboy survey, a staggering 47 percent of college students had smoked weed—and that was a conservative estimate!

　In this regard, Firi couldn't help but sigh: Why can't the remaining half of the college students also enjoy taking anesthetics?

　In this North American land where "birth is free and death is random", everyone should take drugs and be sick. This is the correct way of life!

　It doesn’t matter if you don’t like smoking cannabis. You can replace it with various forms such as incense, tea, cakes, candies, and enema suppositories. Those who can’t stand smoking cannabis because of the stench or because they don’t smoke can also enjoy the ecstatic happiness through other hallucinogens!

　Even more interesting is that historically, the hemp tobacco smoked by American hippies during the Vietnam War was largely crude, without long-term cultivation, and contained very low levels of hallucinogenic compounds. If one ever lost interest in smoking, quitting was easy—something said to be even easier than quitting smoking.

　However, Fili has now created a new strain of hemp with twenty or even thirty times the hallucinogenic content. While it's certainly more potent, once you're hooked, quitting isn't easy! You'll be spending a lifetime on drugs, bankrupt as hell!

　In short, as a 21st-century time traveler who adhered to the modern-day standard of "burning money before you can profit," Fili felt no pressure at all to sell drugs at low prices, a practice considered both immoral and foolish by the public at the time.

　You have to know that in the era before he traveled through time, any new industry like food delivery or shared bikes, if it burned less than 10 billion yuan a year in its early stages, would be too embarrassed to even greet people when going out.

　Now, he hasn't even taken on venture capital, taken on loans, or given away drugs at a loss. He's just selling drugs at a low price with a small profit. This is really very conservative.

　Compared with making huge profits, it is more important to expand shipments as quickly as possible, broaden connections and sales channels.

　The top priority at this stage.

　As for the idea of ​​cheating on women, playing with hippies, sleeping with "ice girls," and "drug slaves," Fili felt that it was a bit too strong a taste, and he couldn't quite stomach it. Besides, he already had several healthy, obedient female slaves at home. He had little interest in tricking female believers into giving themselves away.

　"It's not much of an achievement to just cause trouble in one school. Let's continue to expand and become stronger, and strive to make the whole country excited!"

　Fieri encouraged Zoe, the fortune teller, by saying this, and then asked how her network was developing at USC and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

　It turns out that her "spiritual society" that relies on the cultivation of "new herbs" as a selling point is quite popular on campus!

　Even science and engineering students, seeking to stay energized and cope with the rigors of studying and exams, frequently visited her "spiritual retreat" to buy energizing herbs. Artists, in particular, relied on drugs to "dream" and find inspiration. Many university students, seeking a quickie or to avoid military service by failing physical exams, sought help from Zoe, fearing the possibility of death or disability.

　Even several black gangs outside the school, as well as gypsy witches and black witches who opened fortune-telling shops, often asked people to come to her in a roundabout way to buy herbs, or buy seeds to try to grow their own - Zoe never refused any of them.

　Next, Zoe also knew many Hollywood stars and people in the entertainment industry. She could often promote her "psychedelic green plants" at various parties, allowing these decadent men and women to "enjoy" and "feel good" - in the past, she could only provide some hemp and small pills, and mainly relied on her sweet talk to get through some channels. Now that she can come up with so many very interesting new things, she is naturally more popular.

　Listening to Zoe talking enthusiastically about the various strange people she met on the USC campus, the young-looking Phili and Marita, who also had a young face, couldn't help but become interested. They simply changed their clothes, pretended to be freshmen who wanted to enroll, and followed Zoe to visit and wander around other clubs.

　Then, Fili discovered that Zoe, the fortune teller, was indeed quite skilled and could get along well with everyone. She was a natural born social butterfly.

　Whether they were hipsters playing rock and roll in bands, artistic young people writing poetry or painting on canvas, top students poring over tomes, or athletes working hard, even some crazy art professors, they all greeted Zoe with a smile.

　As for those clubs with names that sounded unethical, such as nudity clubs, sleeping clubs, and love clubs, they treated Zoe like a savior.

　For example, the president of the Truth Society, a muscular young man with long hair and a big beard, wearing only a pair of underwear, grabbed Zoe's hand and thanked her profusely, saying that ever since they took the new medicine given by Professor Zoe, the inspiration in their minds has been like a fountain, gushing out continuously and cannot be stopped... Moreover, in the past they were always fooled by those drug dealers. Not only did they spend a lot of money, but they also didn't know what they bought. Sometimes they were fooled into buying veterinary anesthetics, and other times the medicine bottles they bought simply contained urine.

　They were even sold a motorcycle fuel additive in capsules, described as a "mind-expanding treasure." The hallucinations were truly powerful, but they also nearly died. The entire club was nearly wiped out by a mass rave!

　Now with the fresh magical plants provided by Professor Zoe, they no longer have to be cheated and exploited by unscrupulous drug brokers!

　Professor Zoe not only sold them finished products but also generously provided seeds and seedlings. So, all of their members have now fully embraced the self-sufficient "commune spirit," finding an abandoned house and growing aromatic hemp, psychedelic kudzu, and jiding tea!

　——Well, the United States has always been a vast country with a sparse population. Even in a prosperous place like Los Angeles, it is not difficult to find a vacant lot.

　Of course, most young students don't have the energy or space to grow their own hemp. But they can make full use of their personal space and grow something else instead. Simply buy a mini glass grow box the size of a lunch box and grow magic mushrooms in your dorm room. In the event of an inspection or a parental visit, the compact "mushroom box" can be tucked away in a drawer.

　Even better, because these mushrooms are fungi, they don't even need sunlight to grow! Just remember to water the growing medium in the box occasionally, then toss it in a drawer or cupboard and wait for these amazing mushrooms to grow quickly in the shade.

　Then pick a mushroom, stick out your tongue and lick it, and you will see colorful little people dancing in front of you...

　Therefore, the USC campus is now full of artistic youths and literary girls who are secretly growing different varieties of "magic mushrooms" in small boxes. There are even handicraft masters who meticulously decorate the planting boxes, turning them into "Mushroom Kingdom" fairy tale themed landscape boxes!

　At first glance, this Mushroom Kingdom landscaping box really has a bit of a Super Mario feel!

　As for the various weird mushroom cakes, mushroom biscuits, mushroom chocolates and mushroom powder drinks, there are so many varieties that even Phili is amazed.

　Hey, if you could use the energy you get from taking mushrooms to study, you wouldn't be failing exams and having to take make-up exams every other day!

　In addition to being easy to grow and hide, psychedelic mushrooms also grow fast.

　In addition, dual-use catnip, or "super catnip", which allows "owners and cats to have fun together", is also a popular planting project for hippies and drug addicts.

　Watching the pretty girls rolling around and playing with the cute cats, sticking up their butts and stretching... is really indescribable fun.

　Of course, if it was a guy picking his toes having fun with a cat, the scene would be a little unbearable to watch.

　Many people have the misconception that the luxury goods they buy from others are likely to contain malicious quality issues: methanol mixed into wine, leaves mixed into tea, excessive pesticide content in fruit, or barbecues sold at street vendors using gutter oil. However, things you grow yourself in pots or in your garden are guaranteed to be green, natural, and pollution-free, allowing you to enjoy them with confidence.

　This is especially true for drugs, which are sold illegally and come with no after-sales guarantee. Even if a buyer buys a truly terrible fake or inferior product, and suffers serious health problems before experiencing pleasure, or even dies from the drug overdose, the buyer can only blame themselves for their bad luck.

　But if the seedlings or seeds are handed over to the buyers, and they are allowed to watch the anesthetic plants germinate and grow... they will think that this thing is grown by themselves, without any messy things added, and is absolutely safe and reliable - and the consumer market will be cultivated.

　However, if Fieri can use extraordinary means to eliminate the offensive symptoms such as the stench produced by smoking weed and taking drugs as much as possible to make it look not so bad, then the other byproducts of the current anti-traditional movement under the banner of hippies are really impossible to conceal.

　Just like the USC doctor, who grumbled over the "herbal tea" Zoe brewed for him. Today's female college students are even more slutty than the lowest prostitutes. In recent years, the number of pregnant women visiting him has increased by more than twenty times, and the number of patients with STDs and hepatitis contracted from using unclean needles has also skyrocketed. The blonde girl who just left had three illegitimate children before she was twenty. Now she's pregnant with her fourth. I wonder how she managed to get into college despite being so pregnant...

　Alas, doctor, you are only seeing the beginning.

　In the next few decades, the postmodern secular life of the entire Western society will only become more and more eye-catching - mass orgies, partner swapping, group drug use on the streets, and group stripping and having sex in the streets... will all become "normal entertainment activities."

　Children are persuaded by teachers to undergo sex reassignment surgery, homosexuality becomes a privileged group, and it will also become politically correct in the Western world.

　Even the "sinful cities" of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by God in the Bible probably didn't have such a magical style.

　Of course, at your age, you probably won't be able to see this scene alive, so it's better for you to die early and rest in peace...

　——Listening to the school doctor's complaints about the current "decline of morality", Fili silently complained in his heart:

　Then, Fili and Marita finished their visit and investigation today, and made an appointment with the fortune teller Zoe, asking her to bring her most trusted students to the Marilyn Monroe Body Spa on Malibu Beach during the summer vacation to help Miss Monroe open the club.

　Next, when they were sent out of the school gate by Professor Zoe, they found that the traffic outside was so severe that the car could not get out at all.

　Because, amidst the noisy sound, a group of young people who looked like hippies were marching on the street in front of the school. They were shouting all kinds of random slogans and holding banners with slogans on their heads, such as "Only love, not war" and "End the war immediately".

　As was a characteristic of the 1960s, most of the male hippies in the parade looked slovenly, with long, messy hair like a bird's nest, wearing faded Rolling Stones T-shirts and worn jeans full of holes. At first glance, they looked like homeless people.

　The female hippies, on the other hand, look exceptionally gorgeous, wearing colorful hairbands or floating garlands. Their fabric-saving clothes are revealing and sexy, and their bold outfits of small vests and hot pants allow them to show off their breasts and beautiful legs, making them look exceptionally attractive and sexy.

　Especially the female hippies who were in the lead, they stripped naked, held flags in front, and charged forward naked, leaving the police and the public who tried to stop them at a loss, and they could only watch them make a fuss.

　"Oh, these anti-war youths are so energetic, aren't they? They just had a march last Friday, why are they causing trouble again today?"

　Looking at the hippies marching in anti-war protest, Associate Professor Zoe couldn't help but complain.

　"Um, don't you know? Professor, the US military in Vietnam just suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Kampot in Cambodia. Our army lost nearly 10,000 men. The Ministry of National Defense announced an urgent increase in conscription quotas, with a focus on recruiting university students."

　Fili shrugged his shoulders. "So, in order to avoid going to the battlefield, they really need to make a fuss..."

　Based on the successful experience of "attacking Hanoi", they once again attacked the rear of the Viet Cong to contain its expansion.

　Of course, if they wanted to directly attack Saigon, the capital of the Viet Cong's "Southern Republic", the unprepared US troops stationed in Vietnam would not be able to do so for the time being.

　Therefore, General Westmoreland set his sights on Cambodia, preparing to use the "Khmer Republic" government-in-exile, which had retreated to Phu Quoc Island and was hiding under the wings of the US military, to send troops to Cambodia and try to restore the rule of this right-wing pro-American regime, or at least restart the Cambodian civil war.

　According to the CIA, the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge supported by the Viet Cong have been causing public outrage in Cambodia for more than a year. Various drastic social reforms and high taxes have caused serious social unrest. Rebellions have broken out one after another in various places, and urban riots have occurred frequently.

　——The old Cambodian regime in this dimension was not abandoned and overthrown by its own people because it made people's lives miserable and incurred public outrage.

　It was the sudden assassination of Prince Sihanouk and the inherent flaws of the country's political system that led to the subsequent collapse of the palace struggle among the top government officials. Afterwards, the country was caught off guard and in chaos when it encountered a massive invasion by the Viet Cong, which led to a lot of trouble and the country was declared destroyed in just over a month.

　Under such circumstances, the Cambodian people welcomed the change of regime without knowing the consequences before they had a chance to feel the evils of the old regime.

　Furthermore, the Khmer people of Cambodia and the Kinh people of Vietnam have a deep-seated hatred for each other since ancient times, a relationship comparable to that between China and Japan in modern times. Now suddenly under Vietnamese rule, nationalist sentiment has naturally erupted. Furthermore, the Vietcong's rule over the Cambodian territories was far from gentle. Instead, they engaged in intensive plundering to sustain the war effort, comparable to the "surplus grain collection teams" of the early Soviet era during the Red and White Wars.

　Even worse, the Khmer Rouge were even more ruthless in their social transformation than the Viet Cong, treating urban residents as enemies and even deliberately destroying and clearing out cities in their occupied areas. They then drove the city dwellers to the countryside to do hard labor.

　The natural result was widespread rebellion among the Khmer people, who were subsequently charged with counter-revolution and brutally suppressed by the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge.

　At the same time, there were constant conflicts between the Khmer Rouge and the Viet Cong. Le Duan and Pol Pot, two leaders who were both somewhat insane, launched a series of battles around control and counter-control, which was somewhat similar to the various games between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries at the end of World War II.

　——As Le Duan established the "Indochina Federation", his ambition to annex Cambodia became increasingly apparent, and the Khmer Rouge's resistance became increasingly fierce.

　In view of the above situation, General Westmoreland, commander of the US forces in Vietnam, believed that as long as a combat-capable army could be sent to escort the "Khmer Republic Government-in-Exile" occupying the island back to the mainland, occupy a piece of land in the old territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia and hang up a sign, then it would be possible to quickly get the response of many "volunteers" and overthrow the "unpopular" and "brutal rule" of the Viet Cong over the Khmer people.

　Even if the resurgent Khmer Republic could not gain a foothold in the capital, Phnom Penh, it could at least hold some territory along the coast, keeping the Vietcong in Cambodia and preventing them from crossing Cambodia again and launching a new invasion of Thailand.

　Thailand will also be able to clean up its backyard without interference and eliminate the Thai Communist guerrillas and various rebel forces that are emerging in the country.

　——If we advance, we will recover Cambodia; if we retreat, we will preserve Thailand. This is General Westmoreland’s ambition!

　Since they had to avoid Red South Vietnam, the US military had no choice but to search for a suitable landing site along Cambodia's 400-kilometer coastline. The preferred landing target was naturally Cambodia's largest port city, Sihanoukville (Kampong Som).

　However, there was a large Soviet escort fleet anchored in Sihanoukville at the time, and no one knew when it would leave.

　Although the Cold War tacit agreement was that both the US and the Soviet Union would avoid direct armed conflict, and the Soviets generally wouldn't initiate a fight with the US military, if the US military directly attacked the Soviets, the Soviets would definitely not surrender and sit idly by.

　At the same time, in order to maintain its own maritime supply lines, the Viet Cong also heavily defended Sihanoukville, stationing at least three divisions of troops.

　Therefore, in order to avoid the strong and attack the weak, Westmoreland had to change the direction of attack and prepare to launch a landing operation in Gongbu.

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　Kampot, located southeast of Sihanoukville, near the coastline of the Vietnam-Cambodia border, is a small city, far less important and lacking in port facilities than Sihanoukville. However, Kampot is closer to the capital, Phnom Penh, and its defenses are far inferior. Due to its low importance, Kampot was not garrisoned by any Vietcong troops, instead being handed over to the far weaker Khmer Rouge.

　Moreover, Kampot's coastline is only a dozen kilometers away from Phu Quoc Island. The US offensive force, starting from Phu Quoc Island where the "Khmer Republic Government-in-Exile" is currently located, does not even need a large landing ship. As long as they take a landing craft, they can successfully cross the sea and land within an hour.

　——This voyage is even narrower than the English Channel, just like the

　The river crossing operation is similar.

　Once the US military successfully occupied Kampot, it could advance westwards into Sihanoukville, cutting off the Viet Cong's sea supply lines once again, and northwards it could attack the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and restore the Khmer Republic's legitimacy!

　However, it wasn't until General Westmoreland, the commander of US forces in Vietnam, decided to launch the Battle of Kampot that he realized he was severely short of troops. Most of the elite US troops stationed in Vietnam had just completed mopping-up operations in the Central Highlands and were exhausted and in need of rest. Furthermore, most US Army troops had no training in amphibious landings, so the only option for a landing operation was to use the Marines.

　Therefore, General Westmoreland finally mobilized only 25000 troops from the 4st Marine Division of the US Army, plus 5000 troops from the four Marine battalions of the 2nd Marine Brigade of the "Blue Dragon Force" that South Korea had just sent to Vietnam, and crossed the sea from Phu Quoc Island to launch a strong attack on Kampot across the strait.

　At the beginning of the Battle of Kampot, the coalition forces fought very smoothly for a while, and could even be said to be unstoppable - there was only one Khmer Rouge armed force stationed in Kampot, and it was scattered across the vast countryside to suppress the rebellion of local "counter-revolutionaries".

　Therefore, the US and South Korean troops departing from Phu Quoc Island successfully landed on the beach in Kampot with almost no resistance, and then occupied Kampot Airport at a small cost, entered Kampot City, defeated the Khmer Rouge armed forces in just one day, and drove them out of the city.

　The "Khmer Republic Government in Exile" that had been entrenched on Phu Quoc Island for more than a year, led by General Lon Nol and a group of old Cambodian dignitaries, also made a triumphant comeback and hung up a sign of the provisional government in Kampot. Relying on the bayonets of the US military, they pretended to be the king's return.

　Those gangs and rebels who opposed the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese also gathered together, ready to "join forces" to regain the Cambodian regime.

　Immediately, the victorious 1st Marine Division left a portion of its forces behind in Kampot and at the landing site, while the main force, under air support, advanced northward toward Phnom Penh. Meanwhile, the South Korean "Blue Dragon Unit," assigned to the operation, was ordered to advance westward along the coastal highway and launch an exploratory attack on Sihanoukville.

　Up to this point, the Battle of Kampot, which was deployed with reference to the previous "blitzkrieg on Hanoi", was fought in an orderly manner and progressed very smoothly.

　The problem was that General Westmoreland launched the Kampot Campaign too late. The US-ROK landings at Kampot took place on May 2nd, at the tail end of the dry season. And as everyone knows, offensive operations were impossible during the rainy season on the Vietnam War front.

　As a result, when the 5st Marine Division occupied Kampot and continued to move north along the highway towards Takeo Province in an attempt to approach the capital Phnom Penh, this year's Vietnamese rainy season arrived early on May 5. A heavy rain and the accompanying mountain torrents and landslides instantly turned the US military's supply lines into a mess.

　Various types of US combat aircraft taking off from Phu Quoc Island and aircraft carriers also found it difficult to carry out ground attack and airdrop supply missions due to the continuous strong winds and rainstorms, and the dark clouds in the sky obscured their vision. There were also many accidents such as accidental bombing, crashes, and getting lost.

　The Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese army, who were caught off guard, also reacted at this time and began to deploy troops and fight with the US military.

　The Khmer Rouge leader and chief of staff in Takeo Province, Tha Mok (also known as Che Chun, breaking the vow of killing), a monk known for his ruthlessness and torture of prisoners of war, gathered 4000 Khmer Rouge guerrilla fighters in black in a very short period of time. They set up layers of defense along the highway, constantly harassed U.S. Marines, and destroyed roads and bridges to slow down the advance of U.S. mechanized forces.

　The Vietnamese troops stationed in Phnom Penh and Saigon also rushed to Takeo and engaged in a fierce battle with the 1st Marine Division.