Chapter 749

"Come on!"

Zhao Qirui said with a smile: "you families, one or two of them are rich. How can you not know that you can work together to repair the road? I don't believe that you can't benefit from the infrastructure?"

"Brother Zhao, you are joking. You don't understand it."

Xu Youhai stood up and said helplessly: "when my family just got a foothold here, I also wanted to build roads. But Myanmar was a mess at that time, and there was no way to organize it. Now, even if our family wants to build roads, we can't pay for other people who sweep the snow in front of the door and don't care about others' frost on the tiles, can we?"

At that time, Uncle Xu said, "don't you gather together to discuss..."

At the end of the speech, Chu Chen saw that everyone looked at him with a smile, which made him a little confused. So he scratched his head and asked, "did I say something wrong?"

Xu Youhai said with a smile: "if you put this idea in your domestic environment, it can really be realized, but Xiaochen, don't forget, this is Myanmar!"

"What do you say?" Chu Chen asks curiously.

"Ah Chen, don't forget that there are always wars here." In fact, Zhao Qirui also understood what Xu Youhai said. He just complained about what he said before. Seeing that Chu Chen asked, he explained a little.

"War? It's not always said that there are wars in some areas near the border. How can we... "

At this point, Chu Chen patted his head, and he already wanted to understand what was going on.

Generally speaking, apart from land, what war is for is all kinds of resources. In the eyes of the government and various local forces, jadeite is now so valuable that it's a piece of meat that makes people salivate. It's also a matter of course that there will be a war in the light of the situation in Myanmar.

As a matter of fact, it is similar to what Chu Chen thought. For various historical reasons, there have been many big and small battles in Myanmar, and many places are dominated by local warlords.

In the late 1980s, the value of jadeite gradually became more and more prominent, and became a hot spot in the eyes of the public. As a result, mitjinna area became the focus of contention between the government and local forces. This kind of dispute has not been completely settled until now.

As for why this kind of thing has not been disclosed, Chu Chen guessed that it was blocked by all parties.

"I see!" Xu Youhai shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "actually, we businessmen also want to have a stable environment and good infrastructure, but it's not realistic at all in the present situation. You occupy the mountain today, and you may be driven away by others tomorrow. Under this situation, who is willing to do anything about infrastructure?"

Hearing this, Chu Chen has nothing to say. In the final analysis, the situation in Myanmar is still the most difficult for the people in the lower class. As for the big families in the upper class, no matter what, as long as it doesn't affect their earning, how much does it have to do with the people?

In the past, Chu Chen didn't quite understand the old saying that he would rather be a peace dog than make trouble and leave others. However, the scene in front of him made him understand that although it was ugly, it really made sense.

The next road was more bumpy than before. Everyone held the handle of the car, and they were not interested in talking. Fortunately, the car was strong enough. The car was reinforced, and the glass was thick bulletproof glass. Otherwise, if it was replaced by other cars that had not been modified, Chu Chen would fall apart after two steps.

On the road from mitjina to pagan, there is a checkpoint every 20 or 30 kilometers. Although it is only a vehicle blocking tool made of a few pieces of wood, plus a large number of soldiers with live ammunition, Chu Chen thinks that unless it is an armored car, there should be not many people who will rush to the checkpoint foolishly.

What's more, Chu Chen's three cars were all pasted with the state guest's pass in front of them. In addition, the soldiers knew Xu Youhai, so when they saw Xu Youhai, they let him go without much inspection.

Of course, this is also Xu Youhai's big face. If it's someone else, it's polite to stop him. If the soldiers suspect that you are planning something wrong, they may be questioned and beaten severely.

In this way, after three hours of bumping, the car finally arrived at mogang, which is the main traffic road in northern Myanmar. Besides, there are Ruby and amber mines nearby. It is the largest jade city in Myanmar and an important town in northern Myanmar.

When the car arrived at the door of a hotel, Xu Youhai let everyone out of the car, and then ordered some food for everyone to have a rest while eating.

Three hours of turbulence, even Chu Chen can't stand it, not to mention Zhao Qirui and others. They all look sad.

Yi Hong Guo rubbed his sore arm and said with a bitter face, "ah, I'm old in the end. I didn't know how to take this road before, but I can't stand it now."

Xu Youhai said with a smile: "you, you want me to say, or you are too lack of exercise, you see me and brother Zhao, which is like you?"Yi Hongguo looked at other people's spirits and said with a bitter smile, "ah! It used to be said that the body is the capital of revolution, but it's just saying it. Now, it's really a wise saying! "

At this time, he somewhat regretted that he had suffered such a big crime, in order to come here to have a look at the exploitation of jadeite, it was very uneconomic.

In fact, since he solved the "five blessings" before, Chu Chen has no interest in visiting the jade mining area. What he wants most now is to let his uncle bring the jade back to China, while he goes to England to meet Wu Ke.

However, they have already agreed to Xu Youhai's current itinerary before. I'm sorry to say I'm sorry to back off. Moreover, it's not easy for them to come to Myanmar. It's a pity if they miss this opportunity.

At this time, the waiter brought the food up, and Xu Youhai reminded him: "the road will be more difficult for a while than just now. Let's just pad our stomachs now. Don't feel sick in our stomachs at that time..."

"Ah! It's still hard to go... " When Yihong heard this, he couldn't help wailing, which made everyone laugh. However, he strongly agreed to go to the mining area before. Now, unless he can't stick to it, he's embarrassed to propose to quit.

After half an hour's rest, the crowd got into the car again and went on the bumpy journey.

After mogang, the road became more and more difficult, as Xu Youhai said, because there was no dirt road next, and the road of the car was the roadbed pressed out by the big trucks carrying the raw stones. The ruggedness of the road can be imagined. In the end, let alone yihongguo, even Zhao Qirui was upset.

"Xu Uncle, this road It's so hard to walk, so When I didn't have a car, I picked How to transport the mine How did you come out? " Chu Chen's words, was bumped several times to say completely.

Xu Youhai replied: "still What can we do when But with elephants, or Just recite it by hand... "

According to Xu Youhai, before it was not like now, there were a lot of dangerous wild animals. If an animal disaster is caused by carelessness, it is likely to pay the price of life. Moreover, because of Myanmar's geographical location, every evening in the early morning, there will be a miasma, once mistakenly inhaled, it is likely to pay the cost of life.

Although it's so dangerous, in order to survive, the common people have to be more careful, and they have to leave it to fate. They feel sad when they think about it

Fortunately, there was no accident except that it was difficult to walk along the way. At about 4 p.m., the car finally entered the main mining area of jadeite in Myanmar, pagang area. Here, when Chu Chen looked out of the car window, he could often see some modern equipment for jade mining.

As mentioned earlier, the exploitation of jadeite in Myanmar can be traced back to the 14th and 15th centuries. But after all, there is no relevant authoritative literature, so there is no exact research on when the exploitation of jadeite in Myanmar began.

Among them, Bolang of England thinks that jadeite was discovered by Tuofu in southern Yunnan of China in the 13th century, and then after polishing, jadeite comparable to nephrite was discovered.

However, in AI Cao Tai Bian, CO authored by Yin Zizhang and Yin Zijian, the ancestors of Tengchong overseas Chinese, it is recorded that "Burmese jade was discovered in 1443 by the local people from the washed river bed. Later, the overseas Chinese also found several jade mines, so they took them to Sanya arch (now mi Jinna) to trade with Tengyue border people."

But in fact, judging from historical documents and unearthed cultural relics, the exploitation of jadeite may have been much earlier than now, and sporadic exploitation was carried out in the Han Dynasty.

In fact, as early as 1885, before the British occupation of Myanmar, the area rich in Jadeite was still the chieftain land granted by "Yunnan Province fence", which belongs to the territory of our country. Therefore, there is a historical book "Yunnan Guizhou travel" records: "vacating jade". At that time, jade mining was a folk activity, and was required to present jade as a tribute to the central dynasty.

It's a pity that the Qing Dynasty was so useless that the great rivers and mountains of China were assigned to others. Whenever he thought about it, Chu Chen could not help but feel angry. But now that it's the 21st century, what can he do except curse in his heart?

Because of the bad road and frequent traffic jams, the car didn't arrive in pagan city until nearly six o'clock in the evening. They set out at more than eight in the morning. With the rest time on the way, it took them nearly ten hours.

You know, the road from MI Jinna to pagan was only 150 kilometers. It took nearly ten hours for such a distance. Chu Chen thought it was incredible.