Early the next morning, Yang Jing got on the jeep he had taken when he came here again and headed west through the mountains and primitive jungles.

Just as Wu Qinmao said, the road from Myitkyina to Hpakant, which is more than 100 kilometers long, is not a road for people to walk on! Compared with this section of road, the road from Mandela to Myitkyina is simply a two-way four-lane highway!

You say this is not a road, but this winding, bumpy road has clear boundaries with the primitive jungle on both sides. But if you say this is a road, who the hell would believe it?

This is clearly a long muddy pond that was trampled out by an elephant in the jungle!

Yang Jing saw no less than a hundred elephants along the way. These elephants were either carrying huge bamboo baskets filled with jadeite, or simply tied up some huge jadeite with rattan and let the elephants drag them on the ground...

Of course, there are more local Burmese people carrying things on their shoulders.

The Phakant mining area is located deep in the mountains to the west of Kachin State. Although it borders Sagaing State, the area is truly a primitive jungle area. If jade had not been discovered in that area, it would definitely be a no-man's land.

The jeep Yang Jing was riding in couldn't run fast at all. The road was full of mud and potholes. If you weren't careful, the car would get stuck. On the 170-plus kilometer road from Myitkyina to Hpakant, the car got stuck 13 times. If there weren't a lot of elephants on the road that could pull the stuck car out, Yang Jing and his team would have had to walk to Hpakant one by one the first time they got stuck.

Especially when crossing Kumen Ridge, Yang Jing's liver and intestines were almost thrown out.

Such a road made Yang Jing really doubt how to transport the jadeite raw stones dug out from the mining area. Could it be that he could only use elephants or people to carry them out?

We set off at around five in the morning and didn't arrive at the Lao Pangan mining area until around nine in the evening.

As soon as Yang Jing got off the car, he almost fell to his knees and couldn't get up again. This was such a torture that no human being could endure!

The jade mining areas in Myanmar today are far from being comparable to those after the new century. In fact, even after the new century, when the price of jade skyrocketed, the major jade mining areas were still in ruins. Except for the accommodation of the mine owners and the jade raw stone warehouse, other places are not places for people to live.

The owners of jade mines are all billionaires, but these billionaires will never spend money on mine workers.

It is only 1986, and the place is even more horrible to look at. Although Yang Jing can't see anything, he can feel the dilapidated state of the place from where he stays at night.

Yang Jing and Wu Qinmao actually lived in a bamboo house, which was supported by bamboos, with the floor about one and a half meters above the ground, and the whole house was woven with bamboos.

It is said that living in a bamboo house is quite romantic, but if there are a few pigs raised under the bamboo house where you live, and there is only a bamboo raft between you and the pigs, I guess you will not think that living in a bamboo house is romantic.

Although the bamboo building was not directly connected to the ground, the pigs below were really unbearable. Not to mention the pigs' grunts, the smell alone made Yang Jing almost vomit.

In the end, Yang Jing couldn't resist the sour taste, and regardless of the severe pain all over his body, he asked an officer who followed him to find another room for him.

This room cannot be called a "house", it is just a thatched hut...

A thatched hut is a thatched hut, at least it doesn’t have that sour smell, which is enough for Yang Jing to have a good sleep on the bamboo bed in the thatched hut.

When Yang Jing woke up the next morning, he discovered that more than 95% of the houses here were thatched houses. The bamboo house he stayed in for the first time last night was considered a high-end house here. This kind of bamboo house was usually where the mine owner or manager lived.

Of course, there are also houses built with stones in the mining area. Those houses are very large. Needless to say, they are warehouses used to store jadeite raw stones.

Whether in the new century or in the 1980s, in the jade field, manpower and even human life are not valuable at all. There are tens of thousands of miners working here, even if each person only has a salary of about 12 cents a day - even in 2016, the miners here only earn 1 dollar a day...

The only valuable things here are the stones of different sizes and shapes - raw jadeite.

After breakfast, Yang Jing and Wu Qinmao set out again. The mine that Wu Qinmao opened in Damukan Mining Area was still some distance away from Laopakant Mining Area - Yang Jing and Wu Qinmao needed to ride on elephants for about half a day.

The Damukan mining area is only about 30 kilometers away from the old Phakant mining area, but even after the new century, there is no road connecting the two mining areas, only a mountain road trampled by elephants.

Therefore, Yang Jing, Wu Qinmao and their entourage had to ride elephants through the mountains for most of the day before they could reach the site. It was a little slow to ride an elephant, but it was really comfortable. A rattan chair was placed on the elephant's broad back, and people sat in the rattan chair. As the elephant moved forward, the rattan chair swayed from side to side, just like a rocking bed, very comfortable and not bumpy at all.

Yang Jing even had a good sleep in the rattan chair...

As for the large box that was unloaded from the jeep that Yang Jing was riding in, it was placed on the back of the elephant together with Yang Jing.

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