Chapter 244: Tied to the War Chariot

That night, at Shi Tiancai's luxury mansion.

At this moment, Shi Tiancai was discussing matters with several of his confidants.

"This kid Li Yaohua, he has ability, but he is also a bit too naive."

One of Shi Tiancai's confidants, who was also a local timber merchant, sneered and said, "Wanting to rely on our Citizens Society to make a comeback? He is dreaming."

"That's not the way to put it. Keeping this kid around is truly a disaster; what if he gets targeted again..." another confidant continued.

"Then let the fellow Daoist die, not the poor Daoist."

Birds of a feather flock together; whatever kind of person Shi Tiancai was, his subordinates were naturally the same.

They felt not the slightest sympathy for the Li Family's plight, but rather a sense of schadenfreude.

Shi Tiancai interrupted their nonsense: "I don't know where this kid got these talents from; each one of them has quite good operational skills. After we drive that kid Li Yaohua over to Malaysia, you all keep an eye out and keep these talents for me."

"That goes without saying." One of the confidants immediately nodded and said, "At worst, it'll just cost a bit more money; in any case, this money was sent by that kid Li Yaohua."

Shi Tiancai nodded: "Regarding the foreign trade company that Li Yaohua has been running lately, you all see to it that the shares are divided cleanly; I don't want any disputes arising later."

"Hahaha, absolutely not a single hair will be left for him." The rest of them all revealed smiles.

Just as these people were discussing how to carve up the foreign trade company Li Yaohua had founded single-handedly, the lights in the villa suddenly went black.

"What's going on? A Hu, go take a look and see if the fuse blew again."

Shi Tiancai frowned and told his bodyguard to go out and check.

After all, Brunei is not like Hong Kong, where public facilities are so developed.

Things like the power system short-circuiting for no reason still happened frequently.

The burly bodyguard lit a candle and walked straight out of the room.

At this time, it was pitch black outside, and several bodyguards were using flashlights to inspect near the electrical box.

But just at this moment, several black shadows approached the bodyguards at high speed.

Before the other side could react at all, several people pulled out Daggers and slit their throats directly.

The people who took action were naturally the members of the Political Department led by Long Wu and the others.

After finishing off the few bodyguards, Long Wu and the others were just about to drag their corpses away.

But at this moment, Shi Tiancai's personal bodyguard also walked over.

This guy was able to serve as a personal bodyguard, so he was naturally no ordinary person; he smelled the scent of blood from far away.

Seeing several guys dressed in very strange attire, the opponent pulled out a Handgun and fired at Long Wu and the others.

Long Wu reacted quickly, pushing his subordinate aside, then throwing his Dagger like a flying knife at the head bodyguard.

Afterward, he lowered his body and actually charged straight toward the muzzle of the gun.

The head bodyguard was also a ruthless man; he actually blocked the flying knife with his arm and then continued to fire at Long Wu.

Unfortunately, no matter how capable the head bodyguard was, he was ultimately no match for a ruthless man like Long Wu who had been on the battlefield.

Seeing that he had stepped within seven paces of the head bodyguard, Long Wu suddenly paused his feet, flipped his entire body in mid-air, and pulled out the Revolver at his waist.

Not only did he avoid the opponent's gunfire, but he also incidentally blew the head bodyguard's brains out with one shot.

"Done, clear the remaining enemies, quickly."

Long Wu finished off the head bodyguard and no longer hid or covered up, moving directly to carry out the assault.

As for Shi Tiancai and the others upstairs, hearing the sound of gunfire, they immediately felt something was wrong and immediately sought cover to hide.

Less than five minutes after the gunfire started, the sounds downstairs gradually disappeared.

A moment later, the lights came back on.

Then everyone saw Li Yaohua walking in from outside.

Li Yaohua looked at Shi Tiancai and the others huddled together, unable to help but reveal a look of contempt: "Chairman Shi, didn't expect that I would come to participate in your spoils-sharing operation tonight, did you?"

Hearing Li Yaohua's words, Shi Tiancai immediately understood that their conversation had long been overheard by Li Yaohua.

"You... what do you want?" Shi Tiancai looked at Li Yaohua's armed subordinates behind him, and a bad feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

Li Yaohua immediately laughed: "Please do me a favor, Chairman Shi."

Seeing that there seemed to be room for negotiation, Shi Tiancai smiled and said, "If there is anything you need my help with, please just say it; after all, our two families were family friends before."

Li Yaohua chuckled, patted Shi Tiancai on the shoulder and said, "Rest assured, this is something you will definitely be able to do."

As he spoke, Li Yaohua found a chair and sat down: "You should also know that my entire family was brought down by the Sultan of Brunei, Richard. This Richard has never been very friendly to us Chinese."

"Today it is our Li Family, tomorrow it could very well be other Chinese. There are some things that must be changed."

"We Chinese are smart and hardworking; there is no reason to be slaughtered by these pig-like fools, so I plan to do something big."

Hearing Li Yaohua's words, Shi Tiancai was somewhat disdainful.

Everyone knew this, but those pig-like natives had the backing of the England Gweilo; relying on people like them, it was impossible to turn the tables.

However, his own life was still in Li Yaohua's hands, so Shi Tiancai intended to go along with him for now.

But Li Yaohua's next sentence left Shi Tiancai stunned.

Li Yaohua crossed his legs and continued: "I have been looking for an opportunity to stir up the mettle of the Chinese in Brunei. If our Li Family is not enough, why not add a heavyweight figure, for example... Chairman Shi of the Citizens Society; that should be just about the right heat, right?"

"You..." Shi Tiancai trembled all over, pointing at Li Yaohua and unable to speak for a long time.

Hearing the police sirens coming from afar, Li Yaohua laughed: "Tell me, these native Police of Brunei, after finishing off the Li Family, they set their sights on Chairman Shi's family fortune, not only seizing Chairman Shi's industries but also killing to silence the witnesses—how do you like this story?"

"No, no, spare me." Shi Tiancai was immediately terrified and hurriedly knelt down to Li Yaohua.

Li Yaohua said with some surprise: "Chairman Shi, what are you doing? Could it be that you are unwilling to make a little sacrifice for all of us Chinese?"

"I don't want to sacrifice, I don't want to sacrifice." Shi Tiancai cried with snot and tears, his fat body looking very ridiculous.

"Sigh, this is out of your hands. My Boss told me that when doing big things, sacrifices are necessary." Li Yaohua shook his head and waved his hand.

Long Wu glanced at Li Yaohua, who had turned his back, and then took a rope and walked toward Shi Tiancai.

Hong Kong, the president's office of Guojun Group.

He Guorong reported everything Li Yaohua had done in Brunei to Chen Jiajun.

Hearing of such methods from this kid, Chen Jiajun couldn't help but have his eyes opened: "Not bad, good methods."

This kid Li Yaohua did things that were truly to Chen Jiajun's taste.

Standing to the side, He Guorong also sighed and said: "This young man has done better than we imagined."

Chen Jiajun smiled and said: "Do not cut off the resources for Li Yaohua; I want him to become the most dazzling one among the Chinese in Brunei."

He Guorong nodded: "That is natural, but Boss, should we put some restrictive measures on this kid? Otherwise, I fear..."

"If you employ someone, do not suspect them; if you suspect them, do not employ them." Chen Jiajun waved his hand magnanimously: "Li Yaohua has only just started to show some promise, and if we put a collar on him now, no one would feel comfortable."

Seeing that Chen Jiajun did not care, He Guorong shrugged and said nothing.

After He Guorong left, he received a phone call from Lu Hantao.

On the other end of the line, Lu Hantao said that the England Gweilo could no longer hold out and intended to negotiate peace with them.

The Gweilo would no longer use any means to target the two industries under Chen Jiajun's name, Guojun Electronic Games and Tesla; the condition was to stop the large-scale protests and demonstrations, and they also demanded that they eliminate the negative media influence.

After all, the commotion caused by this matter was not small; it was said that everyone on Chen Ning Street knew about it.

This left the Government House with no face, so Lu Hantao could only seek peace in private.

The Gweilo were naturally those who remember the eating but forget the beating; as soon as the limelight passed, they would certainly stir up some trouble again.

However, now was not the time for a scorched-earth policy, so Chen Jiajun let Lu Hantao and the others agree to negotiate with the government.

But the conditions would naturally have to be changed; after all, they were the winners this time.

Brunei, the office of the Citizens Society.

The members of the Citizens Society were called over by phone early in the morning.

But before they could even enter the door, they saw a sea of white mourning clothes before them.

This gave the members of the Citizens Society quite a fright.

After going inside, they discovered that several coffins were placed in the main hall, along with a few black-and-white funeral portraits.

And the one in the very center was their Citizens Society's Chairman Shi.

Sitting in the lower seat, draped in mourning clothes, was that clever young man, Li Yaohua.

"Yaohua, this... what is going on here?" Several Elders of the Citizens Society asked in trembling voices when they saw this scene.

Li Yaohua said with a sorrowful face: "Last night, I prepared to hand over the work in my hands to Chairman Shi, but I didn't expect that when I arrived at Chairman Shi's home, I..."

Seeing Shi Tiancai's funeral portrait and remains, everyone's expressions were extremely ugly.

Especially the few Elders of the Citizens Society, whose eyes had already turned red.

They said to Li Yaohua: "What exactly happened last night? Who was so bold as to dare to kill the Chairman of our Citizens Society?"

Li Yaohua said with grief: "Last night, I rushed to Chairman Shi's home and found the villa pitch black; it seemed the power had been cut off by someone. It wasn't until I reached the villa that I discovered Chairman Shi and several seniors had been shot to death inside."

"However, when the other party was leaving, I saw police cars lurking nearby, so I felt the matter was not simple. Thus, I risked my life to bring a few brothers along and snatched back the remains of Chairman Shi and the seniors."

"Police." Everyone was shocked to hear this.

Thinking back to the encounter at Li Yaohua's home, this made the expressions of everyone present become even gloomier.

Originally, regarding the Li Family's affair, they had already gone to seek an explanation from Sultan Richard.

Unfortunately, the other party didn't even have the intention to see the Citizens Society, and just sent a subordinate to brush the matter off.

Now, even Shi Tiancai had met with the other party's murderous hand; it seemed the Li Family's affair was not as simple as others had imagined.

However, some people were still uneasy: "Yaohua, you can't just say things like that; can you be sure it was the police?"

Li Yaohua said with a wronged expression: "Uncles, it wasn't just me, Li Yaohua, who saw this; more than one or two people saw it."

Li Yaohua had handled this matter very cleverly.

He was the one who killed them, and he had specifically timed it to let the indigenous police come and take the blame.

Hearing Li Yaohua's words, everyone believed him by thirty percent, and they were all filled with righteous indignation.

At the very least, a feeling of "the rabbit dies and the fox grieves" had arisen.

Before it was the Li Family, now it was Shi Tiancai, so who would be next?

No one wanted such a thing to fall upon their own heads.

Seeing that the atmosphere had been sufficiently built up, Li Yaohua stood up directly: "Uncles, you all know about my Li Family's affair from before."

"They just want to snatch away the family business we struggled for generations to build."

"My father refused, so they threw our whole family into prison, deliberately letting us suffer from hunger and cold. My father is so old, yet they forced me to hand over all the Li Family's assets while he was running a high fever."

"In the end, even after I handed over all the assets, they didn't let our family go, and today it was Chairman Shi's turn."

"Everyone, I think we should give up our illusions. These damned indigenous people have never stood on the same side as us, especially after having the England Gweilo as their backing."

"Do you all still want this kind of tragedy to continue appearing in our Chinese circle?"

Facing Li Yaohua's sorrowful roar, everyone fell silent.

This kind of thing was indeed something they needed to consider; if things continued like this, they would truly become fat pigs in someone else's hands, to be slaughtered whenever they pleased.

Subsequently, an Elder of the Citizens Society said to Li Yaohua: "Yaohua, what do you want to do?"

Li Yaohua scanned the crowd and said loudly: "First, we must arm ourselves; at the very least, we need to protect our property and the safety of our lives. I propose that our Citizens Society unite all the Chinese in Brunei and form a Patrol Team of our own Chinese people, specifically to protect our safety."

Regarding this proposal from Li Yaohua, the people of the Citizens Society had no objections.

Fortunately, Brunei was not large, and even the armed forces in Richard's hands were not many.

It would only take spending a little money to hire about a hundred people, which would be completely sufficient.

As the initiator of this proposal, Li Yaohua naturally entered the core team of the Citizens Society and began to discuss things with the few Elders.

This conversation lasted for a whole day.

By the time Li Yaohua dragged his exhausted body back home, it was already late at night.

But upon returning home, Li Yaohua discovered that an uninvited guest had appeared in his house.

It was none other than He Guorong, who had not been seen for a long time.

"Long time no see, Mr. He," Li Yaohua greeted him.

He Guorong put down the book in his hand: "I find it strange; this is clearly a very good opportunity that would allow us to intervene, so why aren't you bringing it up now?"

Li Yaohua had a plan ready: "Although this is indeed a very good opportunity, I feel that the timing for this matter is not yet ripe."

"Oh?" He Guorong said with some surprise: "Tell me about it?"

Li Yaohua only pondered for a moment before answering: "Mr. Chen doesn't just want Richard's life; what he needs is the entire Brunei, or rather, a Brunei led by the Chinese. Therefore, this matter absolutely cannot be laid out on the table so early."

"The people in the Citizens Society are not fools; if we appear too proactive, they will definitely detect some clues."

"What I have envisioned is to force these people into a dead end; when there is nowhere left to turn, that will be the best time for Mr. Chen to enter the fray."

Regarding Li Yaohua's explanation, He Guorong was noncommittal, only looking at him and continuing to ask: "Then what do you intend to do?"

Li Yaohua sneered and said: "First, tie them to the chariot so they don't have the chance to be half-hearted."

He Guorong was silent for a moment and said: "Kid, you have grown very fast. I previously suggested to Mr. Chen that an ambitious kid like you must be put in shackles."

Li Yaohua did not speak, but looked He Guorong straight in the eye.

He Guorong revealed a smile: "Unfortunately, Mr. Chen told me that he likes ambitious young people. If one has to be put in shackles as soon as they achieve a little success, no one would be willing to work for him with complete devotion. Moreover, Mr. Chen is certain that you will absolutely not betray him."

Li Yaohua said earnestly: "Please thank Mr. Chen for his trust on my behalf."

He Guorong nodded and said: "Since Mr. Chen trusts you, then naturally I will trust you too."

However... once you have any other thoughts, don't blame me for turning hostile and not recognizing you."

"Rest assured," Li Yaohua nodded and said.

Soon, under Li Yaohua's push, the members of the Brunei Citizens Society spontaneously began to organize their own armed forces.

However, there was no unified name, and it was just these merchants pooling money to buy some weapons and bringing out some of their own men; they didn't even qualify as a militia.

But even so, it was already enough to attract attention.

Especially the local indigenous police, who treated this matter as if they were facing a great enemy.

Consequently, someone immediately reported this news to the Sultan of Brunei, Richard.

Hearing this news, Richard also appeared very strange: "Why have these Chinese suddenly united?"

The police chief was a bit afraid to answer, but seeing that everyone around him kept their mouths tightly shut, he could only grit his teeth and say: "I think it has to do with the incident where the president of the Citizens Society, Shi Tiancai, had his family wiped out last time. Your Excellency, I think it is better not to push these Chinese too hard, otherwise it will be very easy to cause trouble."

The chief was acting out of kindness, reminding his Sultan not to be too rash.

Richard was immediately enraged; although he coveted the assets of those Chinese, he also knew the problem of biting off more than one can chew.

They had not yet fully swallowed the assets of the Li Family, so how could he let other complications arise?

Therefore, Richard directly shouted angrily: "Who told you that I did this?"

"Ah?" The chief was stunned on the spot.

Who else in Brunei would dare to pull off such a stunt besides their Sultan?

"A bunch of trash, has the murderer who wiped out Shi Tiancai's family been found?" Richard said with an impatient look.

"This... not yet," the chief said awkwardly.

He had originally come to claim credit, but now he had turned into a fool.

"Then why aren't you going to investigate!"

Upon hearing this, the chief scrambled away directly from the conference room.

(End of this chapter)