Chapter 1643 - 1643: The Crime Haven of Wa Le Bang
In the subtropical rainforest region, the living environment is inherently harsh, with too many poisonous insects, snakes, and ants. Epidemic diseases are also a major survival problem.
Liu Zhizhong also understands history and knows that most of the residents in this area had ancestors who escaped from our Great Country.
To call it an escape means they were fleeing disaster or running for their lives.
The policies towards some border citizens and the Minority by the ruling class in our Great Country's history, those who understand, understand well.
With the addition of some exiled criminals and tribespeople, generation after generation, they became the indigenous people here. In ancient times, one person committing a crime could implicate their entire family and nine generations, which was quite excessive.
Actually, besides their own language, most of these indigenous people can understand some Mandarin.
Of course, up to now, the lifestyle and culture here are still closely linked with that of the Great Country. Electricity, telecommunications, and living supplies largely rely on procurement from the Great Country.
Of course, these civilians live under the rule of the military government or under the rule of warlords. These rulers also understand their importance and rarely massacre the innocent.
Modern and contemporary rulers all understand one truth: wealth is always created by the people, and indiscriminate killing of the innocent harms the rule. Before, for military expenses, they even led the people to plant poppies! Sure, poppy cultivation still exists now, but not particularly much, yet the yields are still quite significant.
Although the taxes for the common folk here are quite high, and the wages for working for the warlords or rebel governments are low, in general, it's not to the point of being unable to survive, not to the point of losing their lives.
But if you talk about happiness, it's not particularly strong, let alone being far ahead in any sense.
Some of the locals here are still working in the already dismantled telecom fraud gardens, haha…
As Liu Zhizhong flew, he looked at the exotic subtropical rainforest countryside under the sunset, and his mind filled with historical knowledge and humanistic feelings, feeling quite emotional.
He came to a conclusion that on this nearly 200,000 square kilometers of land, there are at least more than ten local warlord factions and rebel governments, where six million descendants of ancient refugees survive, seeing no clear tomorrow, only living arduously in the present.
Such a vast region can be considered sparsely populated, with decent resources. At the same time, being at the crossroads of three countries, there's always been border disputes, neither governed by any, yet governed by all three, powers intertwined, wars sporadically break out, truly the suffering of the people.
Once, the United Nations wanted to take trusteeship of this area, but no Great Country dared to take over. First, it's chaotic, second, there's really no fat to skim. A country must consider its own interests.
Precisely because this area called Vallebang is in this state, it has also become a paradise for crime, with drug traffickers, organ traffickers, telecommunications fraudsters gathering, a long-term miasmic environment. As long as there is money to be made, any kind of business can be done.
No one knows when it started, but this place became a paradise for telecom fraud. But it's certain: our Great Country and the related countries' crackdown was too fierce, so the criminals fled to Vallebang and developed telecom fraud gardens, becoming a crime paradise. As long as the local powers are paid a sufficient protection fee, you can do whatever you want.
And the big bosses behind these activities are invariably Great Country People. Great Country People, haha, looking at the world, no one targets Great Country People more fiercely than Great Country People themselves!