North America 1849, from Gold Rush to Warlord

Chapter 95 Get Your Perverted Hands Off! (5000 words, please subscribe)

Victoria cried in Azu's arms for a long time, her tears soaking Azu's clothes.

After a long time, Victoria, having completely released her emotions, finally stopped crying and raised her pretty face, tears streaming down her face.

"Boss, thank you for helping me kill Daniel Cameron and completing my revenge!"

Ah Zu said calmly, "This was something we agreed on a long time ago. I'm always a man of my word!"

"Hmm... I think you can take your hand off my butt now!"

So, Azu let go of his hand: "Sorry, I think this method might help you distract yourself."

Victoria winked her big, emerald-green eyes playfully: "How does my butt feel?"

"Big, round, and firm—there's no better feel than this!" Azu answered honestly.

Victoria buried her head in Azu's chest again: "If you want, you can stay a little longer. I won't give you such a good chance again in the future."

Ah Zu didn't stand on ceremony and put his hand back on it!
"Did you get any information about the Cameron family's whereabouts from our Major Daniel?" Azu asked, savoring the wonderful feeling.

"No! He was a tough nut to crack. I tortured him for so long, but he didn't utter a single word until his death."

Azu thought for a moment and said, "I think the most likely outcome for the remaining Camerons is that they went to Arkansas!"

"Both David Cameron and Daniel Cameron served long periods in Arkansas. They must have built up considerable wealth and influence there...!"

Victoria shook her head in Azu's arms: "It doesn't matter anymore!"

"What, you don't want to continue your revenge? You once said you wanted to wipe out the entire Cameron family."

“After killing Daniel Cameron, I felt that my hatred had been vented,” Victoria replied softly. “Besides, even if we find the rest of the Camerons, they’re just a bunch of women and children.”

"I don't know if I could bring myself to do it to them!"

"Alright!" Azu said with relief, "It's a good thing that you can let go of hatred. From now on, nothing should be able to bother or bind you!"

Victoria's voice was exceptionally gentle: "Hate no longer troubles or binds me, but it will!"

“Me…?” Azu was very surprised.

"Yes, you will bother and bind me! You will stop me from being that free and unfettered lone wolf wandering the wilderness!"

Ah Zu said, "Uh... actually, you can choose to leave. Although I'm reluctant to let you go, I won't stop you."

"Too late... *sobs*"

Before she could finish speaking, Victoria gave her a passionate French kiss.

The strong smell of blood in the seawater attracted countless sharks.

Around the dozen or so armed merchant ships, shark fins were churning everywhere!
As the sun rose high in the sky, the sea calmed completely, and the last trace of evidence of the existence of the Northern California Rangers was wiped away by the surging waves.

It was as if Major Daniel Cameron and his Ranger battalion had never existed.
-
In the afternoon, in the magnificent and spacious study of the Rosewood Hotel in San Francisco.

Those present in the study included interim Governor Burnett, State Senate President Brosnan, the Speaker of the House, and several influential senior members of Congress.

These people are all distinguished guests who have been invited.

"Squeak...!"

The side door of the study quietly opened, and a figure in a wheelchair, pushed by Monica in a fiery red cheongsam, appeared before the distinguished guests.

Upon seeing the figure in the wheelchair, all the distinguished guests widened their eyes instantly and burst into an incredulous exclamation.

"Li...you're not dead!"

Azu was pushed by Monica to the center of the study, where the distinguished guests surrounded him.

Azu smiled and said, "Yes! Although I was shot a few times, I'm lucky I didn't die! I've disappointed some people!"

Ah Zu's eyes swept across everyone's faces, and his smile deepened.

"Although I'm not dead, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand up for a while." Azu sighed softly. "The doctor said that the assassins injured my spine, which has affected my mobility."

"It's hard to say whether he'll be able to stand up again in the future."

Speaker Brosnan stepped forward first, took Azu's hand, and expressed his regret: "It's such a pity! Lee, my friend, seeing you injured makes me feel worse than if I were injured myself!"

“Speaker, I appreciate your kindness!” Azu replied with a smile.

The other state legislators also expressed their regrets one by one.

Actually, aside from that whole day of commotion, Ah Zu was very nice to all of them!

Ah Zu arranged a very spacious and comfortable luxury residence for them, provided them with beautiful and considerate maids, and offered them the best cigars and wines...!
Therefore, most legislators and state officials are no longer so averse to this excessively young and excessively wealthy Chinese man. On the contrary, the more they look at him, the more pleasing he becomes.

Finally, it was the turn of interim governor Burnett, who also walked up to Azu's wheelchair and stared down at Azu.

"Li, first of all, I am very sorry to see you being attacked and injured!"

"Secondly, I want to say that I have nothing to do with any of this!"

"Although we don't get along well, I would never resort to such despicable and dirty tactics!"

Interim Governor Burnett was eager to distance himself from all of this; in San Francisco, if he were to be held hostage by this young Chinese man, he feared he might not see the sun rise tomorrow.

“Of course! The governor has absolutely no reason to do that!” Azu smiled and shook hands with Burnett.

The interim governor of Burnett, who had been on tenterhooks, finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

After all the distinguished guests had taken their seats, Azu slowly said, "The reason I invited you gentlemen here today is not to investigate who did all this."

"Gentlemen, you are all of noble character. I believe you would not resort to such despicable means to deal with me or anyone else."

"I simply want to tell you, esteemed gentlemen, an ancient Chinese story...!"

"Tell a story...?" The distinguished guests looked at each other, puzzled as to what this young Chinese man was up to!

Ah Zu spoke slowly and deliberately: "In our China, there was an ancient empire called 'Han'!"

"At the end of the Han Empire, around 200 AD, well, that is, on the eve of the division of your Western Roman Empire."

"The young emperor of the empire was controlled by eunuchs, and the power of the empire was also controlled by eunuchs. In order to eliminate the eunuchs' power, a general surnamed He ordered a general surnamed Dong, who was guarding the frontier, and his army to be recalled to the imperial capital to help him eliminate the eunuchs!"

"However, no one knew that General Dong was actually an extremely cruel man!"

"After General Dong led his army into the imperial capital, he not only killed many ministers, generals, and civilians, but also killed the original young emperor and his mother, and installed the emperor's younger brother as the new emperor!"

"Finally, despite the opposition of all the empire's lords, General Dong simply burned down the imperial capital!"

"The entire empire collapsed so suddenly in General Dong's hands!"

"And General Dong himself was eventually assassinated by his godson. For over a thousand years, both General He and General Dong have been condemned by everyone as sinners throughout history!"

Azu's gaze suddenly turned cold and sharp as it swept across the faces of the distinguished guests: "And among all of you here, there are those who wish to be the sinner!"

When Ah Zu stared at them, everyone felt a chill run down their spines and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads!
Azu reached out and took a letter from Monica's hand.

Azu held up the letter in his hand and waved it in the air: "This letter is from one of the gentlemen here, written to Major Daniel Cameron!"

"I believe all of you gentlemen here are very clear about what Major Daniel has done to our San Francisco!"

"The tragedy that happened in San Francisco more than two months ago seems like it was just yesterday!"

"That night, over a thousand people from San Francisco's upper class were murdered! Millions of dollars in wealth were looted, and their whereabouts remain unknown to this day!"

"And the mastermind behind all this is definitely related to Major Daniel." "Such a brutal and ruthless guy, and yet someone actually wants him to lead the army back to San Francisco, using Major Daniel to deal with me and the entire Huamei Industrial Company!"

Azu's voice turned cold: "What difference is there between what some gentlemen are doing and General He summoning General Dong to the capital back then?"

"Are you trying to destroy San Francisco, destroy all of California by doing this?!"

Azu continued waving the envelope: "Right now, this letter is right here!"

"I'm wondering if we should open this letter in front of everyone and see which esteemed gentleman wrote it to Major Daniel?"

Ah Zu's eyes swept across everyone's faces: "Gentlemen, what do you say, should we open this letter or not?"

Everyone's foreheads were covered in sweat, and no one dared to speak!

For a long time, no one dared to utter a sound!

Ah Zu continued, "No one's saying anything? Then... I'll just open it?"

As he spoke, Ah Zu made a gesture as if to open the letter!
"Um, Li... wait a moment!"

Speaker Brosnan finally had to step forward and stop Azu, saying, "Mr. Lee, I think that even if one of us did write this letter, he was just confused for a moment!"

“If this letter is opened in public, it will ruin everything for this man! He will become the public enemy of all of San Francisco, and even all of California!”

Speaker Brosnan wiped the cold sweat pouring down his forehead with a clean white handkerchief: "Fortunately, even if someone wrote this letter, it didn't cause any serious consequences. I think... maybe we shouldn't open it?"

"Slap slap slap!" Azu slapped his thigh and said coldly, "Speaker, I was assassinated and left half of my body paralyzed. Isn't that a very serious consequence?"

"This...this...!" Speaker Brosnan's forehead was covered in even more sweat!

Brosnan finally gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Li, let's be frank. How can you keep this letter from being published?"

Azu continued to slap his thigh angrily: "Speaker, what do you think can buy back my leg?"

"This, this...!" Speaker Brosnan felt he had never been in such agony!
“I want a militia!” Azu suddenly said.

"What……?"

“I want one of the three permanent militia regiments in the state!” Azu said firmly.

"Impossible...I object!" Sure enough, the interim governor of Burnett was the first to jump out.

The proposal to establish three permanent militia regiments was originally put forward by him.

With these three militia groups under his control, he can sit securely in his position as governor and stand tall with dignity!
"Then I'll open the letter...!" Ah Zu pretended to open the letter again!
"No...no...!"

Not only Speaker Brosnan, but also the Speaker of the House and a host of members of Congress, were all calling for an end to it.

“Li, I think we can have a serious talk about the militia!” Brosnan said.

“Speaker…you…!” Burnett was utterly bewildered: “Why are you so afraid of him? Afraid he’ll open this damned letter?”

“Oh…!” Burnett suddenly realized something: “This letter is from you…!”

Speaker Brosnan's already pale hair seemed to have turned even whiter: "Lee, could you please ask the interim governor to leave first?"

A smile crept onto Azu's lips: "I have a feeling that it would be good for Governor Liu to be in this room as a witness?"

“But with him here, we can’t have an open and honest discussion about anything!” Speaker Brosnan said urgently.

“You, you…!” Burnett suddenly felt betrayed by everyone and excluded from the core of power.

This feeling is absolutely awful!

I am absolutely furious!
"I'm leaving...!" The proud and arrogant interim governor of Burnett could not tolerate such humiliation and slammed the door shut as he left.

After Burnett left, Speaker Brosnan finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Azu stared at him and said slowly, "I think everyone here has participated in writing this letter, right?"

Azu laid his cards on the table: "You think it's me, and the entire Huamei Industrial Corporation, that's affecting your control over all of California! So, after discussing it, you wrote this letter to Major Daniel!"

"Have Major Daniel lead his Ranger battalion back to fight our way out, and use him to wipe me out and Huamei Industrial Company!"

"You promised to hand over Huamei Industrial Company to Major Daniel as compensation. Then, you can rest easy and control all power in California!"

“You underestimated me, and you also underestimated Major Daniel.”

"Major Daniel, he can't take me down at all!"

"Even if he can kill me and seize the entire Huamei Industrial Company, the Major Daniel you've supported will definitely become an even more greedy and brutal General Dong!"

"Gentlemen, if you cannot meet any of Major Daniel's demands, he will not hesitate to eliminate you all!"

"Major Daniel dared to wipe out almost the entire upper class of San Francisco in one night. Don't you gentlemen dare to kill them all?"

When Ah Zu said that, everyone present felt a cold sweat break out all over their bodies and was filled with lingering fear!
"Major Daniel won't sit down like I am and have a calm and peaceful talk with you!"

Ah Zu said earnestly, "Gentlemen, you have really made a terrible move! Not only have you cost me my legs, but you have also put yourselves in the most dangerous situation."

"Fortunately, I've taken care of all the trouble for you!"

"What...?" Brosnan and the other council members stared at Azu in disbelief: "Mr. Lee, did you already kill him...!"

“Let’s talk about the militia!” Azu changed the subject: “I lost both my legs, but I’ve solved your problem. I think the requirements for a militia are already very low, right?”

"Li, do you really only want one militia regiment?" At this moment, Brosnan felt that the conditions proposed by the other party were far too low, not excessive at all!
"Yes! I only need one militia regiment!"

Brosnan quickly agreed: "Okay! We agree!"

The Speaker continued, "However, you will be responsible for everything related to the recruitment, training, weaponry, and pay of this militia!"

After thinking for a moment, Azu agreed: "Okay!"

"Then it's settled!"

Brosnan reached out and shook hands firmly with Azu.

“Then this letter…!” Speaker Brosnan was still staring at the letter in Azu’s hand.

"What letter?"

Ah Zu smiled slightly and gently tossed the empty envelope in his hand into the fireplace beside him.

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief as they watched the envelope being completely consumed by the flames!
-
More than ten days later, in New Mexico, on the southern border with Mexico, at the U.S. Army's White Sands base.

After the Mexican-American War, Brigadier General George Phillips was stationed here, responsible for leading the Army forces in the southwestern states of the United States and for guarding Mexico.

Brigadier General George Phillips commanded several infantry regiments and several independent cavalry battalions.

The Northern California Rangers Battalion was under his command!
"What?" Brigadier General George Phillips slammed his fist on the table and roared, "What do you mean by 'missing'?"

The lieutenant colonel staff officer in charge of intelligence said tremblingly, "Brigadier General, we just received intelligence that Major Daniel Cameron and his Northern California Ranger Battalion have suddenly disappeared from their base and their whereabouts are unknown!"

"What do you mean by completely disappearing? What do you mean by 'f***ing nowhere to be found'?"

Brigadier General George Phillips roared angrily, "That was a full-strength Ranger battalion, three hundred living men! How could they have vanished completely? How could they have disappeared without a trace?"

The lieutenant colonel staff officer was used to the hot-tempered Brigadier General George Phillips, but he still felt overwhelmed by his superior's roar.

"Brigadier General, we have only just received the news, and the situation is still unclear. We...!"

"Go and investigate!" Brigadier General George Phillips roared. "You go yourself, and I demand to see them alive or dead! An elite American cavalry unit couldn't just vanish without a trace!"

(End of this chapter)