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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2022, 12:29:25 AM »
Jiahao Hsu was a young man who had only been in Lijiang two years. His father was a minor bannerman of some shit-hole swamp in the hills of Hézhun, a Province translated as " The River Turn" clearly hundreds of years ago when the Dragon-Emperor had been giving out land his ancestor had clearly not been a great favourite as there territory struggled to grow anything tasty. When Jiahao had been born he had been sent away to the Kingdom of Lan Na and there been educated alongside various other Lijiangians who had sent their children away to avoid the carnage of the the "Mourning". It was during these crazy years that Jiahao's father Tao had established his "enterprise" and Jiahao now in his mid twenties was already helping diversify their efforts with his knowledge from his time abroad. The awful land the family held on behalf of the Dragon-Emperor and their remoteness were perfect. It meant no praying eyes and in fact it was Tao Hsu who was responsible for ensuring everything in the area was in order.

He had been given the job of ensuring this foreign "businessman" reached their home in good order.  When Jiahao arrived it was obvious who Darius was. Not many foreign visitors hung around at the airport. Most visitors were on organised tourist visits and had coaches waiting for them. Jiahao approached and checked the mans identity. It wouldn't be difficult to make things look legitimate after all many Lijiangian businesses were looking for contacts abroad. "If we were to drive to our establishment it would take us perhaps a few days and I'm sure we all have better things to do than sit in a car." Jiahao lead them back into the airport and to a desk where he showed his ID and a business card.

"Of course sir. Everything is waiting." A smartly dressed gentleman in a blue uniform came from behind the desk with a folder and lead them down a set of stairs and out behind the terminal. A series of small light propellor aircraft were parked "This is the one." the man removed some keys from a plastic wallet in the folder and unlocked the door. Over the next fifteen minutes or so the man and Jiahao checked the aircraft over and then Jiahao signed a document and the man walked away.

"Please climb aboard" Jiahao instructed as he took the pilots seat. He'd been flying for a few years now and rather enjoyed it. As he fired the aircraft up and did a few more checks he handed Darius a headset that would allow them to talk over the noise of the engines. Soon they were airborne and over the countryside of the Empire. "Now I understand you're searching for certain commodities. I am confident that whatever it is we can help with." About an hour later they were flying over Jiahao's home Province. "Below is our land." Compared to the land on the horizon it was nowhere near as lush and abundant in crops. "Sadly we're cursed with swamp that means very little grows. So we have turned to farming algae, we can utilise it as a fertiliser once processed and even as a biofuel." These were the official fronts of the family. "To the unaware eye these industries seem very harmless. They however do provide a nice cover for various other aspects of our business." The aircraft landed on a wide road close to a home nestling above some terraces cut for rice farming. With the aircraft shut down the youngster escorted their guest to meet his father.

"Good morning" Tao greeted his guest. "Welcome to our corner of Lijiang. I understand you're in search of some commodities we may have?"

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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2022, 08:10:46 PM »
Tao escorted his guest to a spot behind their large farmhouse. There was a small rocky outcrop that upon closer inspection had a large iron hatch in it. Tao took a key from around his neck and revealed a passageway. "In ancient times places such as this were used as a means of keeping good cool, today they serve the purpose of keeping things from prying eyes" Tao explained. They descended down some stone cut steps and a kind of large store-room came into view. "When I started my enterprise it was all about opium and things associated with that. Now the younger generation have a much wider taste." He removed a old ammunition tin from a neatly arranged book case shelf. "This for example is LSD destined for Silverhills in East Moreland." He snapped the lid shut and replaced the box taking down another a few shelves down. "And these are MDMA for Claith in Ui Cenneslaig." Once more he replaced the box. "We have a number of customers who have very specific needs. Further down the storeroom he made his way over to a number of wooden crates.

He lifted the lid off and rummaged around in a pile of straw. "Should these....winds of heaven..." he thought back to what Melqior had called them, "....not be to your tastes we also have materials to get people there quicker. He removed a rifle from the box." Satisfied his guest had chance to gauge what the weapon was he returned it to the box. "We as a family are keen to extend our links. We are suppliers of a range of merchandise and if we currently don't have it I can assure you we can in short order. Perhaps then you could tell us you wish thse Vinitsians to reach heaven?"

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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2022, 11:10:57 PM »
Tao watched as a pair of men walked past carrying a crate. He motioned for them to stop and opened the lid. Inside was a collection of traditional Lijiang sweet treats covered in a powdered sugar. Tao lifted one out, "This pastry alone has a street value of around $1,000" he informed the man. "It will be vaccum sealed, to keep in the freshness of course, and then can be sent anywhere in the world. Mix one crate of these in with say ten crates of the real deal and it should get through customs. Now this is a method we would use for nations with perhaps a less advanced customs process." He replaced the treat and waved at the man to carry on. "A single box of these could bring in around $1million in street value, you then cut it and you have $2million and your end customers would never know the difference. For such a box we would charge you maybe $350,000. You could make a tidy profit. We have other methods though. We get drugs into Ui Cenneslaig via small drones, naturally less risky and less chance of being discovered. Some Cenneg gentleman arrive at their side of the border, fly a drone over, we attach the drugs and the men retrieve their drone. Now a more unique way we've been using is for cocaine. Currently in the richer nations selling for around $60 a gram. We find a young Lijiangian girl, we give her breast implants and she comes into the nation of your choice. There the implants are removed and replaced with real ones, she returns to Lijiang. You can get around 1,000 grams into a pair of implants, that means a cool $60,000 if you sold it pure but that's insanity, by the time you've cut it you can get make $180,000 easily, we'd sell you this for around $50,000. We could do a girl a week probably without it being suspicious, you'd be $1.5million better off with just one girl a month coming. So you see we have the methods, you just need to tell us what you want and where you want it."

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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2022, 10:08:33 PM »
Tao laughed at Melqior's question, "Shall we just say some ladies can supply more grams than others." he chuckled, "We find on average 500grams a side works best, so we can move 1kg per girl.  Now I do have a slightly interesting idea as naturally if your looking for more than that we may need more, what shall we call, volunteers." The problem was at the moment the method was being used with one girl a month heading somewhere across Mundus, if this was to become a more regular and more lucrative thing then more girls would be needed , what I propose is a little joint venture that could also serve a purpose of money laundering. We set up a cosmetic surgery clinic here in Lijiang, we bring the girls in and do the surgery, we naturally state that they have paid in cash and can inflate the cash register with some of our....erm....business proceeds. At the end of the day we can then deposit them securely in a bank for investments and the like and to anyone watching the money is legitimate. Meanwhile we can use the facility to both prepare our ladies and make some legit cash on the side. We can also boost the Lijiang economy" He laughed heartily, " we could make Lijiang a plastic surgery tourist hot spot. This would also help us gain more ladies willing to do this, you would though likely need to find a place to make the girl right at the other end. Doing it this way we could potentially do tens of ladies a week."

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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2022, 08:18:32 PM »
Tao had been using the technique he'd explained for a while but only in occasional attempts, all of which had been successful. "In terms of doing it without the patient knowing then there is not much chance without raising suspicion. Anyone wishing this surgery normally would investigate the process before hand and would know it wouldn't require the number of procedures and wouldn't  be attending a clinic in another nation. I think it best we use poor girls from various nations. As for a test run we can have some cocaine in Vinitsia in four days time. We can find a girl today, operate tomorrow and then arrange the flights. We can get her through security in Lijiang easily, what we could do with knowing is procedures for the arrivals area of your nations airports. For example are we likely to deal with drug dogs, will they be using swabs to analyse for drugs. Because of the covert nature of the methods we're using it should not be a huge issue so long as we brief the girl on some standard responses. So for example if her clothing is swabbed there is a chance residue of the drug could appear on her clothing, the solution there is simple, we tell the girl to say she recently visited a disco here and that could explain the residue as she could have come into contact with the drugs not have them in her possession. Once we have this kind of intelligence then we can make things happen."

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Re: The Lijiangian connection (Lijiang & Vinitsìa)
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2022, 08:04:01 PM »
Tao was confident that this would all work without a problem. " In terms of payments we may soon have a way of arranging that in a more discreet way. In the mean time what I would suggest is that we place a courier of sort on board a Lijiang vessel docking in Vinitsia. A straight forward cash hand over can be worked out and then when the package arrives in Lijiang we can handle the accounting side. At your end all you would need is some creative accounting and a small cash business. I could perhaps make a suggestion with some contacts I may know of elsewhere." As things turned to the local real estate situation Tao had to thing, "For the right price I think I could find something, however be aware Lijiang does not have the infastructure of a large tourist friendly nation and most hotels are used only for internal travel. That is slowly changing but tends to be towards the capital. As for prostitution we have licenced brothels in Fengtai surely that would be a better investment if thats an industry you are considering." As for the offer made towards himself he simply ignored it. He may be involved in crime but there were still some morals to be had especially when it came to family.