The number one drug lord in the Golden Triangle, the "Godfather of Heroin" in Southeast Asia, the legendary life of Luo Xinghan

导语: Although the remnants of the Kuomintang are the founders of the Golden Triangle drug kingdom, it is the drug lord 罗星汉 who really made the Golden Triangle famous. He has different identities in the eyes of different people. In the eyes of the locals in the Golden Triangle, he is the most powerful opium general; in the eyes of the Burmese, he dominates the first generation of drug king in the Golden Triangle, and is also the founder of the heroin brand in the Golden Triangle; in the eyes of the US government, he is on the first-level wanted order. The number one drug lord, the scumbag that harmed the American people; after surrendering to the government, he became the richest Chinese in Myanmar and a well-known representative. He made a lot of contributions in many fields, especially the continuation of Chinese culture and education.

The first from the left is the elderly Luo Xinghan

Golden Triangle, Myanmar Northern Chan State, famous for its three big drug lords. The three big drug lords are Luo Xinghan, Kunsha, and 彭家声. They are of similar age and were born in 1934, 1933, and 1931, respectively. Although Luo Xinghan is the youngest, he is the first big drug lord to become famous in the Golden Triangle.

The three major drug lords have a close intersection with Miss Yang Er, the godmother of the Golden Triangle drug lords, especially Luo Xinghan, who is even said to be Miss Yang Er’s secret lover. These three drug dealers all have the characteristics of Miss Yang Er, that is, is engaged in drug trafficking, but they do not take drugs.

Luo Xing Han Zushang was a lieutenant next to Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty. After Wu Sangui hanged Emperor Yongli, his ancestors began to take root in the Yunnan-Myanmar border area. The ninth generation of the Luo family has a big boss, his name is Luo Chaoxing, because he is the fourth oldest, he is also known as the "Luo Fourth Boss".

Luo Chaoxing made his fortune by escorting and trafficking opium for the chieftain of the Guogan Yang family. He married the Duan clan. He had 4 males and 1 female. The eldest son Luo Xinghan (named Weimeng), the second son Luo Xingtang, and the third son Luo Xingming. The fourth son Luo Xingjie, the eldest daughter Luo Xingrui.

When Luo Xinghan was 13 years old, he was sent by his father to Miss Yang Er to personally pay for the school for children in the Kokang area for free. This school adopted Chinese language teaching, and the school also had a flag-raising ceremony. The flag raised at that time was the Qingtian and Bairi Flag, and there was also a Three People's Principles course, which had a profound influence on the young Luo Xinghan.

After several years of reading, Luo Xinghan mixed up with Miss Yang Er. Because he was too young, he went to some gambling stalls under the Yang family chieftain, such as serving tea and water. In the second year of the founding of New China, a large number of Kuomintang troops fled and fled to Kokang.

These skirmishers were later unified commanded by Li Mi, forming the so-called Liberation Army with the New 93 Division as the backbone. Based on Ms. Yang Er's school experience, the remnants of the Kuomintang set up a military training school in Guogan and other places, and recruited many young men with a certain cultural foundation and physical strength.

Among the earliest trainees are Luo Xinghan and Peng Jiasheng (Kunsha came from behind). After coming out of the training school, Luo Xinghan went to the Yang family chieftain's house as a formal errand. In an interview, Miss Yang Er in his later years said: "At that time Luo Xinghan was the deputy captain of the security team under his own."

Miss Yang Er He was kind to Luo Xinghan. When he was doing miscellaneous work in the casino, he suffered from gambling problems and owed a debt. When he was destitute and was collected by others, Miss Yang Er helped him to pay off his gambling debts. He also became a big soldier and followed the caravan under Miss Yang Er to do some escorts.

Luo Xingxing has always been very grateful to Miss Yang Er, and is willing to work hard for her. Once, on a whim, Miss Yang Er ran alone to an area controlled by the Burmese government forces, but was arrested and put under house arrest. When the 18-year-old Luo Xinghan defeated the Burmese-India coalition army on the remnant army, he desperately recovered Miss Yang Er with a lot of casualties.

A military coup took place in Myanmar in 1962. The new Ne Win military government changed its moderate ethnic policy and used force to force ethnic forces on the border to surrender their autonomy.

In 1963, the Myanmar Bureau government trapped family members including Miss Yang Er and some Yang family chieftains in different places. Luo Xinghan was also detained in Tachilei at this time, on the grounds that he was selling drugs and helping the "insurgents" against the central government.

Luo Xinghan has been in the caravan for a long time, knows how to deal with all kinds of people, and he is very smooth. After a trial, He expressed his willingness to loyal to the Burmese government and crack down on the rebels. At this time, the Burmese military government is also looking for a suitable candidate to divide the local armed forces and attack the remnants.

Based on the situation at the time, the Burmese military government felt that it would be more convenient for a non-Yang agent to regain courage in the future, so it reached a cooperation agreement with Luo Xinghan and released him. And Miss Yang Er, who was very prestigious in Guokang, was not released until 5 years later.

罗星汉VS Peng Jiasheng

On the other side, I have the courage to hear that Miss Yang Er and her family members have been arrested, the group sentiment is excited, and Yang Zhensheng was immediately promoted. Command, pulled up a team of more than 1,000 people in Kokang to fight against the Burmese military government. In order to facilitate the battle, Yang Zhensheng's more than 1,000 people were divided into 6 teams, among which Peng Jiasheng also became a deputy captain, guarding each pass, and the two sides were at war.

However, the Burmese military government did not directly attack, but sent Luo Xinghan to persuade him to surrender. This move is very deadly, because to some extent he is the representative of Miss Yang Er and the leader of the Kokang armed forces. Soon a large number of bold young people surrendered Luo Xinghan.

Yang Zhensheng felt that the general situation was over, so he took the remnants to the south of Thailand, and the Tusi system that had continued for hundreds of years was completely ended. After Yang Zhensheng left, the Yang family started with Yang Zhenye as the leader and Peng Jiasheng as the deputy. Soon after Yang Zhenye broke up with Peng Jiasheng, Peng Jiasheng pulled out a team alone.

So far, the courage has formed the three forces of Luo Xinghan, Yang Zhenye, and Peng Jiasheng to check and balance each other. Before long, due to relatively weak strength, Yang Zhenye also fell to Luo Xinghan and became his younger brother, and Peng Jiasheng also fell on the verge of being at risk.

At this time, the Burmese military government implemented an anti-China line. An anti-China riot broke out in Yangon. Many Chinese and overseas Chinese were killed, and Chinese groups and schools were closed down. The Burmese Communist Party took the opportunity to slogans against anti-Chinese and invited the Chinese armed forces in the Golden Triangle to join forces against the Burmese military government. The first person invited to join the Burmese Communist Party was Peng Jiasheng. His team received a new political and military ideological education, and the combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

On January 1, 1968, the "Myanmar People's Liberation Army" led by Peng Jiasheng appeared in Kokang. The soldiers, as if reborn, launched an attack on the Myanmar government forces and Luo Xinghan. In March 1969, Luo Xinghan and the government army gave up courage and retreated to Gunnong.

So far, Peng Jiasheng has occupied all areas of Kokang except Gunnong and Nanhu. After that, he frequently launched offensives against government forces. In April of the same year, Peng Jiasheng served as deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region of the Communist Party of Burma and moved the government agency to Yanglongzhai, which is close to the southern umbrella port of China.  

In the Guogan Luo Xinghan and Peng Jiasheng fought hundreds of battles, the longest confrontation was more than 40 days. In the end, Luo Xinghan adopted a scorched earth policy and set fire to Old Street, the capital of Kokang. This was the second time that Old Street was burned down. The last time Old Street was made by a Japanese devils. Luo Xinghan burned the old street and moved a large number of people away, which has been criticized.

Luo Xinghan recalled this history of fighting with Peng Jiasheng in his later years and said: "I couldn't fight him (Peng Jiasheng) in the courage. The difference in strength was too great. When he couldn't win, he ran across the border to China. , We didn't dare to move as soon as he ran over there. Whoever dares to move, the guns were shot from the sky. When he came from China to fight with me, he was as powerful as he could be, and they were not afraid of death. We can no longer stalemate in Kokang with them, and the contest is impossible, so we mobilized the people to leave Kokang.” As Luo Xinghan said, by 1975, almost all the border areas in northern Myanmar, Except for Muji County, which is opposite Ruili, Yunnan, which is still in the hands of the Burmese government forces, almost all other sites are occupied by the People's Army of the Communist Party of Burma.

罗星汉VS Remnant Army

The remnant Kuomintang army in the Golden Triangle area lives on the opium business. It is an army that protects and raises the army with drugs. Armed drug trafficking force in China, and they are also a force that borrows soil to support their lives. As early as the early 1950s, Myanmar’s politicalThe government has repeatedly encircled and suppressed the remnants.

Although the remnant army was struck by the People's Liberation Army, he did not have this burden when facing the Burmese army. In addition, when encountering the People’s Liberation Army, they can choose to surrender directly. After all, they all know that there is a preferential treatment for prisoners. But surrendering to the Burmese army will only be tortured to death, invisibly adding extra combat power, so the remnant army beats the Burmese army to the ground every time. Find teeth.

The Burmese government filed a complaint with the United Nations as soon as it could not beat it. Due to international pressure, the Taiwan side evacuated the remnants to Taiwan in batches. By the early 1960s, Taiwan claimed that all the national troops had been withdrawn. The actual situation was that there were still about 4,000 troops in northern Myanmar.

But the Burmese army is still unable to defeat this thousands of remnants. Under this background, they chose the strategy of using local armed forces to deal with the remnants. Luo Xinghan has a close relationship with the remnants of the Kuomintang. Their way of fighting is a very suitable candidate.

The government asked Luo Xinghan how many soldiers he needed, and Luo Xinghan said that as long as one company is enough. He first wrote to the remnants of the Kuomintang Army, which roughly meant: "Although I am ordered by the government to chase you down, I don't want to conflict with you, and I hope you leave by yourself."

Luo Xinghan's purpose is very clear, everyone It's an old acquaintance, so I'll give a courtesy first and then a soldier But who knows, after receiving this letter, this remnant Kuomintang army really left. The lucky Luo Xinghan regained the territory previously occupied by the remnants within a month.

However, in fact, it is not as simple as Luo Xinghan said, a letter made the remnant army retreat. Later related parties recalled that the Kuomintang remnants were mainly afraid of the People’s Liberation Army crossing the border. After all, they were too close to the Chinese border. In addition, Luo Xinghan also gave a suggestion in the letter to let the remnants withdraw to the Thai-Myanmar border and stay there with them. Opium business. In this way, Luo Xinghan finally sent this Kuomintang remnant army gift out of Burma by virtue of tactics.

罗星汉VS Kunsha

Luo Xinghan and Kunsha are both young and gown. They often called during the 1960s. Hit it. However, the fights between them are more about robbery of money, that is, they mainly rob each other's opium. So in 1967, a very tortuous and dramatic drug lord war took place in the Golden Triangle.

That year Khun Sa collected a large amount of opium from various small opium dealers in northern Myanmar. The purpose was to sell it to the commander-in-chief of the Royal Government of Laos at the time-Winla Digong, and exchange part of the opium for his hand New weapons aided by the US military.

Once this business is reached, Luo Xinghan will be in a relatively weak position, and he does not want to sit still and start to rob this batch of opium. It didn't take long before Luo Xinghan inquired about the exact date when Kunsha's people departed from the lair. In addition, based on the use of nearly 300 mules and horses by the caravan, it was estimated that this batch of opium was 15 tons in total.

When Kunsha’s caravan passed Tachilei smoothly, that is, out of Luo Xinghan’s sphere of influence and entered the territory of the remnants of the Kuomintang, they found that the tolls demanded this time were surprisingly high and completely out of compliance. Kun Sha ran to the negotiation on his own, and the remnant army did not relax. Kunsha had no choice but to let the caravan return, and then take a detour to trade with Wenradigong.

The erratic behavior of the remnant army came from Luo Xinghan's instruction. He set up an ambush circle at the Kunsha bypass, preparing to catch turtles in an urn. Unknowingly, Kunsha's team walked directly into the ambush circle. Soon Luo Xinghan's team was divided into several sections, not connected end to end.

Kunsha's team hardly resisted, and the opium was robbed by Luo Xinghan. On the one hand, Kunsha, who learned the news, contacted Wenradigong through the radio, asking him to take the opium back. On the other hand, he sent a team to block the team of Luo Xinghan who was happily heading to the base camp.

Luo Xinghan traveled very slowly because he used mules and horses to carry the goods, so he was quickly overtaken by Kunsha, and the two sides quickly caught fire. Luo Xinghan saw that the opponent was a completely desperate style of play, and decided to station the team down and confront Kun Sha.

As a result, not long after the confrontation between the two sides, the third-party Wenradigong sent troops to come, using more advanced weapons-armed helicopters aided by the United States. Lao soldiers flying in a helicopterOn the plane, the heavy machine gun turret shot down wildly.

Luo Xinghan's team could not have fought a professional army, and soon dropped the cargo and fled around. Kunsha's team immediately cheered upon seeing this scene, and then they played a banner to tell Wenradigong that they were Kunsha's people, do not accidentally hurt them, and were ready to take back the lost opium.

But what Khun Sa didn't expect was that as soon as the flag was shot out, the Lao soldiers on the helicopter immediately set up their guns and fired at them. Kun Sha was caught off guard, and they could only drop the opium and scurry around like Luo Xinghan's team.

Kunsha forgot, Wenradikong is the commander-in-chief of the government of the Kingdom of Laos. It doesn't matter if the goods are lost. Anyway, there is no transaction yet, and the loss is borne by Kunsha. However, if this matter leaks out, even if he is the military, under international public opinion, his official position will be difficult to guarantee, and he may even be jailed.

Kunsha this batch of goods was thus swallowed by Wen Radigong in the name of anti-drug. This robbery really explained the reason why the praying mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind.

Although Luo Xinghan did not succeed in the robbery, Kunsha kept his grudges in his heart. He quickly found a chance to retaliate. Under the planning of military master Zhang Suquan, he set up an ambush and snatched a batch of opium from Luo Xinghan.

In short, the fight between Luo Xinghan and Kunsha was mainly concentrated in the years from 1965 to 1969, and the two sides had victories. In 1969, Kunsha was taken in by Burma and went to jail. Luo Xinghan seized the opportunity to develop his drug trafficking business to its heyday.

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