At the central Chinese city of Han-k'ou (Hankow), at the confluence of the Han Shui and Yangtze rivers, the government's Special Tax Bureau collects $20 million in annual opium transit fees.
The head of the government's Opium Suppression Bureau is an active member of the Green Gang who remains loyal to his benefactor, Tu Yueh-shen.
The League's attempt at global regulation and the Nationalist regime's local suppression effectively, if unintentionally, combines to expand illicit narcotics traffic in China, which has in two decades become the world's primary heroin manufacturer.
