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Subject: {ASSM} The Shangri-La Islands Ch 11 (By: The Search4)
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This is a work of fiction and is to be read that way. It is somewhat science
based and also religion based. So you should learn some of both areas when
reading it. Is there sex? Yes some but if your looking for hard core look
else where. This as all novels is meant for entertainment. There will be
just one chapter each week as much research is going into this as I write.


Chapter 11

The two teams were off the deck before sun up. The choppers were locked on
to delivering them to chosen locations. It was not going to be easy not to
be heard, but they hoped people would have no idea what it was?

Each team was placed just where they had chosen and the choppers went to the
camp to wait. Joji was building his houch and would wait for his first
prisoner to come in. He had brought some things that would cause fear and
shock. His coffee machine and the electric lights here would be something
most had never seen. But he had a couple special things he was going to play
with. He had a field phone so he could talk with the ship and one for the
camp commander who was under his orders now. His colonel's eagles made that
true anyway, but Dink had insisted on it.

It was late that day when his houch was done and he was moved in. His was
large with a divider between his work area and his sleeping room. He had a
small refrigerator and a hot plate for warming things up. There was also a
microwave for his popcorn he dearly loved. He was well set up and
comfortable.

So he stared talking with a few of the prisoners he had talked with before.
That hit pay dirt at once as he found out there was a mountain city. One
none but those invited could go to. The troops were the most fierce and the
narrow road up the mountain was well guarded. The man drew a poor map of
where this was as he had just been to the base of the road. He did not go up
to the city. The officer they protected did that with a few of the men from
that city.

Once this was sent to David he knew it filled a need. "Joji I knew you would
start turning up things we needed to know. I think I know just where this
road is. We did a lot of surveillance pictures for future needs. This old
camping area was well used and it caught my eye. So tomorrow we will start
looking for the road up to the city."

"I sent that to you and Dink hopping someone would have seen it. The mans
drawing was very limited on landmarks. But you and Dink look at all kinds of
pictures I have never seen."

"Sometimes we at the top forget where our ideas come from. I will send you
copies of this area tomorrow. I have five others that I just don't know why
people camp there. I will send them also. You might get some leads on them?"

"I will try, but don't expect miracles. You will get the best data we have
at that moment." Joji just never promised anything he could not supply.

"That is all I can ask Joji. Thanks for the gift today. I will keep you up
to date with all we develop from this." David now was off to find this city.


Joji was pleased with his day and knew he had started the search for that
elusive point of leadership. It was for sure not done in any valley or even
on a mountain where it could be seen. So there had to be a mountain valley
where it was tucked into a hiding place? But he would look closely at the
photos he got and see what he could pick up.

The teams out in the field were watching the very few patrols riding out of
the towns. They did notice that each night a rider would start for the same
point. At least they did for three straight nights. So two men moved their
look out point and saw where a satchel was handed off to another rider. They
went on from there.

Once Joji had this data he saw they had a pony express to move data quickly
from the bottom to the top. It was just a gut feeling, but David bet he was
right and sent up a plane with FLIR abilities to follow the horses and
riders. Joji's instincts were really good and he trusted them. But he also
saw riders going to the other camping spots and up hills and mountains there
also.

David brought his maps and photos and sat with Joji.

Joji looked at each and then did it once more and sat back shaking his head.
"They have several small cities of power. So to me it says counsel and not
one person ruling. There could be many reasons for that. Like the new ruler
is to young to rule yet or the old one is dieing?"

I made sense to David. "That is one way to see this. Is there others?"

"Not really as they will follow Japan's old history. There is not one man
there who does not want the complete power. But a wrong move could mean he
would loose it for good and may be his current power as well. They only take
risks on what they see as sure things is my bet."

That fit the image David had as well. "OK we see this the same way. Now what
do we do?"

"For now it would be nice to have lookout teams at each location, with good
optics to watch. They need to send you feeds also, so you can get patterns
of how they come and go. We need to take out a few of their forts and see
how they react or if they do at all? Whatever you and Dink do it must be
dramatic and seen by many. Word must get back from many different people."
Joji had a distinct feeling that there were people who reported back and
were listened to more than the military.

"I can make that happen and without being seen once I know exactly where the
cities are." David had ideas where they were, but no real proof.

Joji just pointed to places he knew would lead to valleys.

"How do you know they are there?"

"Each of those spots lead to a valley back into the mountain. The trail
going on up become less used and the one from there going down is more used.
Come on lets use our eyes and smarts."

David laughed now as he finely had Joji's dander up. "How do you know those
spots lead to valleys?"

"I did enough photos for Colorado to know what they look like. Each one has
a stream dropping water on the other side of the trail. Now how did that get
under the trail?"

That David had not picked up. "OK you saw that and I missed it."

"Nope you just did not look for the water to be running down the rock wall.
It is not a waterfall it is just water running on rock."

"Why do it that way?"

"It handles the waste from the valley. Could you imagine what that place
would smell like without removing the waste? That road is not big enough for
a cart." Joji was now laughing at David's facial expression.

"You mean it is an open sewer?"

"Well a little better as it is mostly water and not waste. That would keep
the smells down and limit that outside the valley. But the people down
stream would not be getting good water. So I bet they feed rice patties with
those streams."

Now David was really shocked. "How did you know of the rice patties?"

"They would need rice for food and it could be easily carried back up to
them on horses. Dried vegetable or pickled ones would also be needed. I am
sure they have fishponds to grow their own fish and produce mushrooms for
food in the mountain caves. It would just take some nuts brought up to be
sure they ate well."

"How would they live up there?" This interested David.

"My guess right now is in a palace cut into the mountain. That may have been
how the school for the children of Japan's leaders came to be? My brother
and I have discussed that many times."

One more piece that fit nicely. "I think your right. Now I need to get back
and take the next steps."

The day had worked for Joji and he was happy with the results. It was far
better so far than he had expected. This was he felt going to be a real
disaster. Not knowing what you were walking into was a real problem. Having
no idea of your enemy and how they fought made it very iffy. They did not
know even what weapons they used and how well they did that?

This had been a learning experience for him and one he did well with. He was
writing the part of Dink's book on intelligence and how this group of people
thought. It was more barbaric than the current mind set in Japan, but others
parts were very much the same. His input here would in many ways be used to
deal with Japan later. The hardball attitude they had, fit many of Japan's
business peoples ways of handling others today.

He had just finished when a chopper landed. A man was brought in still
unconscious and cuffed. "Lay him on that run over there." Joji pointed it
out to the men.

The officer came over and handed Joji a leather bag loaded with all kinds of
communications. "He was a post rider and must have had some important papers
as he had six men riding with him. The post is handled by officers trusted
at very high levels."

"I thought I was to get two at a time?"

"Of the other riders there were no more of any rank to bring." The officer
was now concerned.

"To be effective with this man, I must have someone I can get pieces to
crack his story. A sergeant or the leader of the protecting force would have
given me some information. So if the information is not in this pouch, we
are going to have to use drugs and often they are not successful."

"No one explained why you needed the second person." That Joji knew was true
as he went over this with the first watching teams to watch the many forts.
But David sent these people out and failed to explain the needs.

"Once your back at your base you need to get the word out to the other team
as well. Now I need him placed in that cage over there." He pointed out a
wooden cage bound with iron clamps. There was no way for anyone to escape it
without tools to remove the bolts. It was just three feet high, six feet
long and three feet wide. So he could lay and sleep, but not stand up. The
cage was not made for comfort and it had a steel floor that was cold.

The men left and he started to read the dispatches. He decided to cover the
cage and let the man wake is darkness and not know where he was. It would
help possible soften him up some.

He had dinner and read for a good three hours. Two of the letters had been
very interesting. It seems two of the group now ruling were planning to
assume power very soon. Our presents was enough distraction to make them
think they could accomplish it. The major error was assuming that we would
never fight here.

On considering how to handle the prisoner he decided to go to bed and just
let him stay hungry, cold and thirsty for now. Tomorrow would be soon enough
to start the questioning.

Guards were called the next morning as the room smelled like an outhouse.
"Get him out of here to clean up and make him clean his own cage. I will not
see him until your one with him." Joji went to the camp commanders houch for
breakfast.

"Your invitation was very much needed. Whatever they feed their people
provides for a bad result. A sewage plant would smell better."

The base commander had to laugh. "We have a much better smelling camp now
also. They use some fermented rice, herbs and fish oil to flavor food. A
group was caught trying to make it and we staked them outside for two days.
They were told the next group found doing that would be executed."

"What happens if someone tries it again?"

"They will be executed in front of all prisoners. We must keep our word and
then they will follow our demands. If we fail to mean what we say they will
try to escape, kill guards and create all kinds of problems. If we keep our
word they will follow out rules. Right now they fear us and our wolves. We
have magic they cannot understand and it scares them."

"I have picked up on the magic thing and am using it to my advantage. From
what I understand ever the warlords fear people with magic." Joji liked that
people at the top had fears.

The food was very good and he enjoyed an American breakfast here. "It is
sometimes hard to know which side of me is real? My brother is minister of
education for Japan. He was born in America and educated there as I was. But
we both had a very Japanese mother who was from the royal family. So talk
about confused we both are."

Now the camp commander was really impressed. "I am an unwanted samurai who
just never fit into either world. In Japan I was an outsider and that was
true in America also. But I think the Islands are going to be different for
me?"

"You do know the Emperor follows John's directions? He is just not smart in
the ways of the world. But the young people coming up will be world wise.
That my brother and John are seeing to." Joji made sure he knew things were
changing.

"I am very happy with where I am now. My wife and three children are on a
farm and it is beautiful. We are growing fruit and making jellies, jams, as
well as selling the fruit. It will be a very good living and we will own the
land in a few years. But having over two hundred acres of land is nice. Even
if we just use less than half now there is room to grow."

The land deal most had accepted was a good one for both sides. It did tie
the people to the Islands and provided a good income for them. For most it
made them in their minds rich and they would never leave it. For John it
made for a happy group of people and ones who would fight to keep what they
had. The mix now was close to thirty percent Japanese American, ten percent
Islanders, five percent black, five percent Hispanic and fifty percent white
Americans. The trick was they all saw themselves as Islanders.

"Well I need to get back and I want a prisoner houch built for those brought
in. I will not wake up to that again." Joji walked out and headed to his
houch.

The man was tied to a post in front of his houch. He had been caned and the
red welts were visible to all. "What happened here?"

"Sorry sir he started fighting as soon as we opened the cage. It took three
of us to get him out here and tied to the post. Then he did his best to kick
us. So we decided some pain might slow him down."

Joji was sure the man felt he was superior to anyone here as a fighter. "Let
him go and I will hurt him so bad he will not wish to fight any more."

Once cut loose the man started at Joji as he was called a pig. It enraged
the man and he went after him. It was a big mistake as he was now on the
ground and his ribs were bruised. So Joji keep calling him names and the man
came up and after him once more. There was little that did not get hit and
was not turning blue. The man had to be hurting badly and yet would not
stop.

The camp medic had been watching and knew the man would keep going until he
died. "Sir just take out his knee and let him feel that pain. We can rebuild
it later, but he will never stop until he can go no more."

The people were watching this and knew that this man could really fight. But
when he went down screaming, people knew that these men were nothing to push
to hard or far. They would hurt you so bad you would never be a man again.

Joji started questioning the man and got no answers at first. As he stepped
on the knee the man was screaming. He started to answer with a lie and his
knee was stepped on once more. Truth came out and fast.

The man talked for a good two hours and Joji got much of what he needed. A
reminder here and there was enough to keep the conversation going. Finally
the man had said all he could.

"Take him to the surgery and I'll have a doctor sent in to handle his knee.
Be sure to give him a shot to knock him out as he is liable to try to kill
you."

Joji wrote up his interrogation and the findings from the letters. Then tied
them together in a way that made sense as to what was happening. This was
sent to Dink and David. He hoped it made sense to them as it did to him.

David was first to call. "I saw the fight and that man was a hard case. But
you're a damn sight better than I am at fighting that way. Now why did you
have to go that route?"

"Simple, as he was bent on proving we were nothing as fighters or men. He
tried to kill four guards here who came to clean his cage out. For me to
question him I had to beat him fighting. Once he knew I was so good he had
no chance he tried to get me to kill him. So I broke his knee and used a
little pressure to get my answers."

"How do you know they are true?"

"Partly by the letters I got from his bag. But I told him if I found out he
had not told the truth to me, every man in the prison camp would fuck him.
That for him would be worse than death. A male whore is about the lowest
life form in their world."

That David could understand and agree with. "OK then we have the groups
split on who will become their leader. The child that should one day take
over will most likely be killed. But it means fighting between the members
of the counsel. So it is political confusion right now."

"Even if their Emperor were alive there would be political confusion. It is
the Japanese way of life. God forbid that things flowed and worked smoothly.
Each group will be working for its own ends. They all expect to reach their
goals. But often none reach them, as something changed or came up to make
them useless. So they just move to the next fight."

Now David for the first time understood, why he was always confused by the
Japanese and its government. It was confusion in itself. There was no way
they understood it. Oh may be they understood some small part, but never the
whole as no one did. "I finally see the problem with their government. There
is no way to win anything there."

"Oh so true David. But no one sees it in the country, as they are focused on
their goals. Anything else is unimportant to them. So you have ten thousand
wars going at the same time. How can anyone follow them all?"

"Your saying that is the same way here?"

"Yes and even worse as you have many groups that hates each other. So may be
here you have one or two hundred Japan's? All will have the same failing and
follow similar methods. I would love to send China or Russia here and let
them try to work this place out. They would be at war for tens of thousands
of years. We will win no battles here to speak of. So I am not sure what
John expects of us? There will be no friends here now or later. We will be
hated by all in this place."

Now David saw Joji was most likely right. It for sure was not what John had
expected it to be. There were great risks and no rewards at all. This had
been a mistake and one he did not know how to handle now?

It was not going to be an easy fight Joji knew. So he planned to limit the
involvement of the troops and sent a copy to Dink. The bases were to be
bombed using both conventional and incendiary bombs. The hope was that they
could make those places living hells. It would slow down the idea of wanting
to fight these new invaders. This would be especially true if they could
close the openings into the valleys.

It did not take Dink long to get back to him. "I see what your suggesting,
but I don't understand why? We need to fight sometime so why not now?"

"If you want to lose a few thousand men we could fight now. Those valleys
are closed fighting areas where they have all the advantages. The leaders
never leave those places and are protected by good fighters of proven
abilities. I saw one of them give four of our men all they wanted today. Now
he could not whip me, but he was a good fighter. We have around two hundred
Japan's here and each one hates the others and any outsider. So just plan on
losing a lot of men here for zero gains."

"I have never heard you talk this way before." Dink was completely shocked
right now.

"I learned a lot today and I know we should not be here. What we hoped to
stop is only going to get worse the more we do. If we make this a pay back
for past actions we just may get by with it. But we would have to leave very
soon not to draw a lot of anger and attacks."

She knew Joji never said anything not well considered and thought out. "Have
you talked with David about this?"

"I told him pretty much the same thing. He is just as confused as I am on
what we are doing here? It is not anything like what John expected I don't
believe and he would see why this is going to cost us dearly. Us is all the
Islands people."

She now needed to talk with David and make some sense of this for her. Could
John have not seen what the problem was here? If so what could be done now?

She never made the call as David called her. "Hi Dink I am sure you and Joji
have talked by now. I am looking at his plan for attacking the mountain
forts and like it. I think it is the only attack we are going to make right
now. There is just no reason to stay here and build further animosity. This
is something that will take far more planning than we have given to it up to
now."

"I am no more comfortable with this than Joji is. But I just follow the
orders I am given."

"Remember that is what every prisoner at a war crimes trial has said. Here
we must do it right and by the book. John expected many things that none has
proven out. So we need new directions and he must give those to both of us.
We are going to have to kill tens of thousands of people here just to slow
down Island attacks. But they can't be stopped for good. With 200 feudal
Japan's we would have a mess trying to ever get two working together. If you
conquer them they will fight from an underground you won't find. Any group,
country or people no matter the technology just can't win it. If they saw
you or me it would be far worse than Joji. As our white skins mean we don't
fit their racial profiles of even being human let alone intelligent."

She saw David was determined to pull off Joji's plan and then get out of
Dodge. "How will you spread the knowledge that this was a pay back for past
sins?"

"I have the printing being done now. It is a proclamation stating why this
disaster has befallen the people here. It will be given the prisoners when
released and dropped over cities and forts not yet damaged. We will return
the girl I have to her family and drop the food off for her. Once that is
done the window should be open for us to return home. Then we have a month
to make some decisions before either disbanding this group or coming back
with a different plan."

"What type of different plan would work?"

"We would have to take land to build a city and take land for our people to
grow crops. It would have to be set up to keep others out and still provide
a trading center. The ships could trade with anyone who could reach a coast.
Of course our land and city would have the technology we have. The harbor
would limit who could come in and how far they could come. So there are
ideas we need to consider and see what would work best? For sure what we are
doing and can do is not going to stop the problem John was worried about."

Looking at this from David's direction it made it easy for her to agree. "It
is the right way and the right thing to do. I understand Joji's desire to
cause misdirection with the attacks. That just may buy us some time for
decisions to be made."

"Joji might be the man we want to send back to rule our colony here? He is
smart, knows this world's people and is related to the Emperor of Japan. The
question is would he agree to come back?"

"I highly doubt if that would interest him in the least. The person here
would need to be a warlord and that just does not fit his personality. They
would have to be aggressive and willing to do what was needed to control a
good size area of land and people. Can you see Joji doing that?"

It was not a picture Joji fit well he saw. "Then he will need to help find
the right person to do that."

"That he can do. But I think Joji would be happy farming and writing poetry.
He is a very gentle man and not one to be aggressive unless pushed. If it is
something to study he is well suited for it. The man is a great advisor and
one I have depended on." That was how she saw the man.

"What will you do when we get back?"

"May be back to the scouts? I just don't know except I would like a long
vacation period before making that decision. For me this place has been my
own personal hell. It just gets under your skin and becomes a sore."

"How about running the defense force bases on the Islands? I have the
defense force that will report to me now. With the general gone Carlton and
I will have to split up his load. That is going to leave us short people who
can lead. The natives like you and Joji works with them well also."

"That I would consider David and will think about it. It is where I really
became the person I am now. Much of the planning I did and setting up the
patrols for the native scouts. So we will see what John wants to do and then
make decisions. I am committed to this project until he says it does not
exist."

"Sounds reasonable to me Dink. I can live with that way of looking at this.
We all owe John our allegiance and need to follow his directions. So you get
no argument from me at all."

They left things that way and moved on to what needed to be done. She sent a
chopper for Joji and waited for him to get here.

"Yes boss lady what can I do for you?"

"David is going forward with you plan. We will be pulling out of here that
day as well. We must deliver the girl and food to her people. Then we are
going back to discuss this with John. It is nothing like he envisioned it
and it must be changed how this is handled. He needs to send in a warlord
and set up a community with their own farmlands. It can trade with other
groups and build some better understanding of all the people. So basic
medicine can be taught and drugs sold to those who have ties to our people.
If food is needed they could sell it to those who needed it. But with
tractors and fuel we could be far more efficient."

"You have been doing some thinking also."

"Well David and I both have. But you will need to set up the type of area
for us to assume and who should be the leader."

"The who is easy Dink, Hideki is the ideal candidate for that. He would be
an Emperor in a few years time. My brother is smart, driven and ruthless
when he has to be. If you look close he also had an ego the size of the
universe. He needs a group of twenty advisers and a personal guard force of
1,000 men just to keep him safe. Then a good army of may be 20,000 men well
equipped. This group of fighting men needs to have their own wives and
families with them. Slowly he could train people coming to him after
educating them. The men going need to be fairly young to be able to develop
an army of millions over time."

This vision she could see and Hideki was a brilliant idea. He did have the
mental powers and hunger for more power. "I have one big question Joji. Can
your brother be trusted?"

"I had already asked myself that. I think with the right agreements he can
be. Now if it was our mother then no would be my answer. She did teach my
brother to love power and to pursue it. How we set up the weapons production
and ammunition production facility would determine how he did in that world.
We for sure don't want to be his arms supplier. He needs to be close to able
to rely on just his own production facilities. So he would need to find the
ores he needs as well as the chemicals. We could lose the gate at anytime,
so he needs to not depend on it. He will need a few scientist, machinist and
engineers. So David needs to do some photos as we move to find the right
place for a community. It must be close to minerals as well. "

"You detail this idea you have and then present it to John. He is the one
who must make the decision here. Our job is to give him options and let him
decide what fits his wants."




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John
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
 - Leon Trotsky
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