Rebirth: I Became Mr.President's Beloved-Chapter 1152: Do I Have to Accept Just Because You Want to Give?

Chapter 1152: Chapter 1152: Do I Have to Accept Just Because You Want to Give?

These words, were quite enough to be considered defiance.

Li Hao stared at the young girl on the other end of the cellphone, his expression losing some of its friendliness, "Since you know this is something that can only be done with privilege, then you should understand even more that trying to capture Isa requires more than just money to make those desperados risk their lives for the Li Family."

To deal with villains, besides using evil to control evil, the best method is absolute suppression.

"Since Hong Tai took office, he has imposed drug bans, but the effects have been minimal." Li Hao’s voice was full of the weariness of age: "Most of the Golden Triangle region is under the control of local warlord forces. Even if they outwardly submit to the official governments of the Siamese, Burmese, and Laos, they actually have a high degree of autonomy. Once a conflict arises, their armed forces are enough to counter the regular armies."

This is also the reason Isa chooses to hide in Nanwa State.

The local area of Nanwa has the largest Burmese territorial forces.

These drug traffickers can establish themselves in the Golden Triangle mainly because they’ve created vast interest groups, from high-ranking military officials to farmers growing opium, no one is exempt from their corruption. This involves enormous economic profits, and the Three Kingdoms find it extremely difficult to completely destroy such interest groups.

Apart from this, there is another extremely important reason.

——The Siamese, Burmese, and Laos have been embroiled in war for years, leaving them with no time to tackle drug lords.

A stable country is the biggest prerequisite for effective drug busts.

The current Siamese regime clearly does not possess such conditions.

"The plan to arrest Isa is slated for a month later; I have not let Supa report this to Man City."

Man City is the royal capital of Siam.

As to why it wasn’t reported, Tang Li thought of an operation twenty years ago.

Back then, the team Li Chengyu belonged to was ambushed and wiped out halfway through, probably due to some collusion between internal officials and Isa.

Li Hao’s subsequent words confirmed this: "I have some connections in the Fifth Regiment stationed at Chiang Mai Prefecture’s Fifth Army, and this operation has drawn on their personnel. Should the operation fail, the Li Family will also take care of their families back home."

After a long while, Tang Li finally spoke up—

"Even though you say so, my stance remains that one should not exploit others for the Li Family’s own gain through privilege."

"Is President Song also considered others in your eyes?" Li Hao looked at her: "Or are you saying you don’t regard yourself as a member of the Li Family?"

Clearly a choice between two options, yet the answer was already obvious.

Tang Li did not dodge the question: "If being part of the Li Family means having to calculate against your spouse, then I’d rather my grandfather was only Tang Shen."

Facing Li Hao, she didn’t back down either: "My compassion is not enough to blind me or make irrational promises. I respect the warriors who took part in the mission as you mentioned, but have always been clear about what should and shouldn’t be done."

"Isa can be arrested by the S nation but it shouldn’t be initiated by me."

A family has its own rules, let alone a country.

"Song Baiyan is my husband, but also a public official." Tang Li continued: "He needs to be responsible for every citizen of this country. If he chooses to interfere in another country’s matter for me or the Li Family, he would be betraying those voters who supported him during the election, and losing the bigger picture that a leader should possess."

These remarks also tightened Li Hao’s lips.

As a younger member of the Li Family, Tang Li is undoubtedly naturally rebellious.

However, he didn’t blame her for it, and as he looked at Tang Li again, he became increasingly calm: "Even if it means your grandpa spends his whole life in wrongful imprisonment?"

Tang Li simply said, "If my grandpa knew under the ground, he might not necessarily agree with your approach."

"Alright."

Li Hao nodded his head, and said ’Alright’ again: "Your grandpa spoiled your mother back then, and now it seems that your mother’s actions aren’t much different."

Li Hao blamed Tang Yin for not teaching her well, venting his ire on a deceased person.

Tang Li’s tone turned cooler: "Considering you’re a patient, I didn’t dare to speak too plainly. Since you’ve mentioned my mother, I also want to ask you, after you persuade Song Baiyan to step in to get Burma to extradite Isa, what’s your next plan?"

Without waiting for Li Hao to explain, she continued: "You yourself don’t even trust the Siamese officials. Once Isa is extradited here, can you ensure that Isa won’t bribe the high-ups there to save himself? Or are you planning to deal with him in private?"

"If you plan to handle it privately, my grandpa still won’t be vindicated; if not—"

Tang Li gazed at Li Hao on the sickbed, and spoke again: "When you were stripped of your position and detained back then, it was apparent to those with insight that it was due to your political disagreement with that monarch, the ever-increasing conflict, and the incident of the task force being killed was just a pretext for him to target you; now you send Isa to him, wouldn’t that be a blatant slap in the face? Do you think he would be willing to admit his mistakes from twenty years ago?"

To cover up such mistakes, it’s unlikely they would strictly handle Isa.

So handing Isa to the Siamese authorities equates to handing him to an uncertain factor.

If Isa has ’old acquaintances’ among the Siamese high-ups, it could even result in a ’switch’ during the extradition process.

Such switch incidents are very common among the drug lord community.

"The reasons I’ve understood in my twenty years of life, do you truly not know them?"

Fully aware that she might anger Li Hao, Tang Li still didn’t stop: "Perhaps you do understand, you’re just trying again to use Song Baiyan to pressure the monarch living in Chitralada Palace to make concessions."

Li Hao’s face turned paler.

Li Ruan noticed the anomaly on the heart monitor, stepped forward immediately, but was stopped by Li Hao raising his hand.

Despite Tang Li revealing his plan, Li Hao did not become angry. A smile even appeared: "You are indeed very smart. Pick a time and come back to Chiang Mai Prefecture. I want to meet you in person. Now you’re the closest family I have, the only tether in this world I can’t let go. When you return, the Li Family should be handed over to you."

Tang Li was not fooled: "Even if you hand over the Li Family to me, it won’t change any outcome."

"Moreover, just because you want to give, do I have to accept?"

Li Hao entrusting her with the entire Li Family was merely to bring Song Baiyan ’on board’.

A Li Family head barely twenty years old is no different from a child with a treasure in the eyes of hungry wolves; if she wishes to firmly establish this position, external assistance would be indispensable.

In those struggles, the Li Family could very well decline because of this.

However, for the sake of revenge for what happened back then, Li Hao has prepared to risk the entire Li Family.

"If being my husband means having countless enemies, even becoming the amulet of the Li Family, I would choose to end this marriage."

Having said this, Tang Li hung up the call.

No one wants Tang Shen to be vindicated more than she does.

If it were through this means, she’d rather never set foot in Chiang Mai Prefecture.

Tang Li had just locked her cellphone when the door was pushed open, and a small figure ran inside.

"Already hung up?" Song Jingtian tugged at her hands.

Tang Li looked at his behavior and guessed that he had eavesdropped outside the door again. Her relationship with the Li Family wasn’t something Tang Li intended to hide, so she straightforwardly said: "No point in continuing the conversation, besides, everything about the Li Family doesn’t interest me."

Song Jingtian felt a bit forlorn and also some unfulfilled expectations towards Tang Li.

He had understood everything clearly earlier.

That Li Family sought to recognize kin, seemingly quite wealthy too.

Why didn’t she ask his opinion before hanging up?

Maybe he might be interested?

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The recent days’ bad weather made the muscles uncomfortable, feeling better will resume double updates, please forgive!

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