Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

You really have to admire Chuanbao.

Sometimes I don't know if he's trying to influence policy or just wants to make money for himself.

Only Trump himself knew that he was going to implement a shock therapy on the healthcare industry, allowing his sons and sons to place massive orders in advance for essential chronic disease supplies that Americans desperately needed. By securing orders for the next six months, and then announcing the shock therapy, the Trump family, who controlled most of the production capacity, could reap billions of dollars in profits within that six-month window.

In business, Trump is certainly no good. As a legendary figure on Wall Street, he's the kind of person who can bankrupt even a casino. However, his ability to amass capital through political maneuvering is something he's honed long ago. He's the kind of person who's generally inept at business, but wields immense power through administrative connections.

In fact, Trump's father made his fortune through administrative connections, so this can be seen as a kind of family legacy. Just like his mother raised Trump to be a royal enthusiast with a deep affection for dictators and imperial power.

Now, everything fits together.

While it may seem that Trump wants to cut off the pharmaceutical conglomerate, he actually wants to make money from that sector to revitalize his family business.

Both Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei and Duchess Olympia proposed:

"If our calculations are correct, the Trump family will reap huge profits from this period of free and open markets."

Li Xinghe finally relaxed:

"Therefore, we can be certain that this shock therapy has failed."

There's no need to worry about the US surviving this shock.

A shock therapy approach that starts leaking from Trump's own head is bound to fail.

Although the pharmaceutical conglomerate can no longer access social security and health insurance, a new group of people, represented by the new Trump family, will certainly smoothly take over the medical industry import and export business left by the conglomerate.

The final outcome will either be that the pharmaceutical conglomerate loses some revenue and then merges with the Trump family, or more new elites will shift to importing and exporting pharmaceuticals and taking a cut.

Therefore, shock therapy is unlikely to succeed because everyone wants to make money here.

This seems to be the most helpless, painful, and perplexing problem for the rational right wing in the United States.

Trump is indeed a genius at stirring up right-wing issues and winning big in elections.

However, in governing the country, Trump consistently pulls off a series of disastrous and utterly incompetent actions, demonstrating lofty ideals but flawed execution in addressing numerous major problems. For instance, he instructed his son-in-law to stockpile vaccines during the pandemic, secretly issued his own stablecoin (Trumpcoin) to profit from the market while promoting it, and pursued tariffs instead of addressing fiscal issues. He clearly prioritized profit over governance.

This prompted the rational right wing in the United States to ask: "Why Trump?"

The meeting room was buzzing with activity as many people shared their opinions.

But in Li Xinghe's view, their opinions were too conservative.

Li Xinghe slammed his hand on the table, emphasizing his strategy:

"Since Trump wants to implement shock therapy, let's give him the opportunity. Shock therapy means stopping the old production and sales relationships and letting the market automatically regulate the economy. We should seize this opportunity to intervene, replacing the invisible hand of the market with our own. We should take this chance to destroy the American pharmaceutical research industry and transfer their medical technology to East Asia. We should be even bolder and directly send people to the United States to organize our own 'three-tiered agent' system: state agents, county agents, and township agents. We should make Americans serve our world trade system and let our capital replace American capital to dominate this market!"

Although the real Hayek is completely different from the Hayek on the internet, it doesn't stop Li Xinghe from using him as an example.

In the environment of a vacuum spherical chicken, shock therapy naturally has an opportunity.

The problem is that the world is not a vacuum. The United States itself began to shock itself, pushing the pharmaceutical market into its weakest state, and Li Xinghe couldn't help but want to take over this market.

East Asian countries all have their own pharmaceutical research industries and unique products. They used to be suppressed by the American pharmaceutical industry. Now that the United States has collapsed, it is time to launch a full-scale attack on the American mainland and overwhelm it.

Just as Poland, after its shock therapy, was flooded with European capital and subsequently became a downstream industry of European capital, shock therapy itself implies a helpless surrender, opening its doors to anyone who wants to come and go.

Therefore, although Li Xinghe cannot fully control the United States, he can cripple its high-end industries and then replace them.

This is precisely Hayek of the intangible market and Li Xinghe of the tangible hand.

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Of course, since both Japan and South Korea have entered a pharmaceutical downturn, and pharmaceutical production capacity needs time to increase rapidly, Li Xinghe could only send people to the United States to set up an agency system and conduct capital docking.

At that time, Europe, another traditionally strong region in medicine, had no time to spare for exporting its production capacity.

Everyone is busy solving the problem of 'Polish blitzkrieg against Germany'.

France, Italy, and Spain all demanded that Poland 'immediately withdraw from Germany'.

Poland, however, remained relentless:

"The EU must loosen monetary policy! There must be a series of economic rescue policies for Poland. Otherwise, we will not back down."

In short, Poland won't leave unless the EU provides funding.

In fact, after Poland occupied Berlin, Germany, it fell into a state of incomprehensible confusion.

Even President Navrodsky, who orchestrated the 'blitzkrieg against Germany,' didn't know what to do if the Germans refused to pay.

Having not fought a war for decades, Poland didn't even know how to take over the remaining German cities and businesses, nor did it understand how to recover the reparations. Polish soldiers maintained order on the streets, and even remembered to pay when they went to prostitutes.

It can be said that everyone exhibited a kind of infantile confusion when it came to war.

Fortunately, although things are in chaos here in Germany, there is one place that is particularly bright.

"We can't stay silent any longer! We must take Frankfurt!" Navrotsky's staff advised.

Frankfurt, home to the European Central Bank and the central banking system, is the economic heart of the entire European Union.

Moreover, Frankfurt was the seat of the German provisional government.

In any case, if Poland wants to obtain reparations to save its national finances, it must move south and occupy Frankfurt, forcing the European Central Bank to release funds and hand over the money.

So Poland moved southwest toward the Rhine River.

This move greatly shocked the whole of Europe.

The French government urgently convened a national assembly:

"We're doomed, we're doomed, we're doomed... If the Poles get the power to issue the euro, what will happen?"

In a sense, it was precisely because of its despicable status as a defeated nation in World War II that Germany was able to assume many EU responsibilities within the EU, and subsequently rapidly recover thanks to its developed industry and finance. Because everyone shared the responsibility of 'regulating a defeated nation,' no one could shirk their duty, and each believed they could restrain Germany, thus reaching a tacit understanding regarding Germany.

Now here's the problem: if Poland seizes control of the European Central Bank and forces them to print money like crazy, Poland could indeed receive 3 trillion euros in reparations. But this entire 3 trillion euro debt would be borne by the whole EU!

What's even more absurd is that Poland has its own currency. After receiving the euro, it was as if they were forcibly contributing 3 trillion euros to the EU-20, while not suffering any currency problems themselves. Instead, they could leisurely redeem their industrial shares and invest in new economic development.

At this point, the situation had reached a point where further discussion was pointless, and France immediately issued an emergency announcement:

"France has decided to send troops! It has dispatched a Franco-German mixed brigade as the vanguard to Frankfurt!"

Sending troops to Germany satisfied the common views of both the left and right wings, and also gained the strong support of the French people.

At France's invitation, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy all agreed to send troops together, determined not to let the European Central Bank's currency issuance department fall into Polish hands.

Although France had only tens of thousands of troops left, although the Dutch army was not much different from the German army, and although the Italians were not good at fighting on plains, they still had no choice but to fight.

Because Frankfurt is close to France and Italy, and has access to the Rhine and Main rivers, the European coalition forces arrived there ahead of time and began to confront the Polish army that subsequently moved south from the northeast, towards Göttingen and Kassel.

"fire!"

"Launch the drone!"

The European coalition forces and the Polish army were also unable to determine who fired the first shot.

In any case, right in the heart of Europe's financial system, the two sides were locked in a fierce battle on the banks of the Main River. France and Italy had to retain their right to issue the euro to prevent Poland from transferring its debts to the rest of the EU. Poland, on the other hand, had to seize Frankfurt and dump its debts on the rest of Europe.

The entire EU region, comprising 26 out of 27 member states, condemned Poland.

From Poland's perspective, this means that Poland has been encircled!

They decided to continue sending more troops to Germany, determined to stop the EU's resistance.

The flames of war were burning in the heart of Germany. Poland mobilized 20 troops to enter Germany, while France quickly dispatched Rafale fighter jets to bombard the areas along the front lines.

Taking advantage of this situation, feuds between native and immigrant residents in Germany, France, and the UK reached a new peak. British military and police were overwhelmed with the fighting among local gangs, and hundreds of bodies were dumped in the streets daily. Germany experienced a civil war-like situation, with communities engaging in mutual extermination in their struggle for resources.

No one had time to figure out how to save the world, how to loosen monetary policy, or how to regulate the economy. They just killed first. You think you can just be like Lin Yongkong, or even Lin Zaizai...?

Even the most optimistic supporters of the EU, seeing the current situation, can only wail in anguish:

"It's all over, everything's over!"

Chapter 1030 Li Xinghe the Big Eater, Li Xinghe the Sage of the Four Religions (3400 words)

The unrest in Europe has gradually become out of control.

So the EU has once again sent delegations to the US and the Asia-Pacific region to seek assistance.

Unfortunately, the EU delegation was turned away by Trump because it could not come up with a "second trillion" and could not satisfy Trump in the same way it had satisfied Vance.

This time, the person seeking help from Li Xinghe wasn't one of those oddballs like Ursula von der Leyen, Mark Rutte, or Katharine Kallas who seem 'out of their minds,' but neither was he a normal person either. It was Nathalie Loiseau, the former French Minister of State for Administration. One of her 'glorious achievements' was going to Taiwan to talk about 'democratic values' and 'common defense,' making her a supporter of France's return to East Asia policy.

So sometimes it's not just Li Xinghe who can't understand India, but also the people in the European Union.

You come to me begging, and you send a hardliner, a woman who's on a separatist Taiwan path.

Li Xinghe felt that he couldn't be lenient with such a shameless act of sending such an idiot to talk to them.

So, right at the start of the EU-Asia-Pacific bilateral meeting, Li Xinghe began making strange remarks:

"I suggest that Poland establish an East Germany and France establish a West Germany. Or we should just do it this way. Anyway, France and Italy don't seem to be able to defeat Poland. Continuing to fight will only cause more casualties."

The EU delegation was furious.

France and Italy weren't incapable of defeating Poland, but rather lacked sufficient ground infantry to halt the Polish mechanized advance. They were urgently mobilizing troops, but finding it difficult to fill their land positions quickly enough. Furthermore, if they were to engage in a fierce battle with Poland, crippling Germany and leaving the EU without its heart, it would be left to die.

Gao Tiao Wuyue kicked Li Xinghe and rolled her eyes at him.

Nathalie Loiseau emphasized to Li Xinghe:

"The EU has an absolute advantage over Poland!"

"Oh, so you were able to defeat Poland? Then why are you looking for me? I suggest you go back to Paris now to prepare for the Arc de Triomphe celebration."

Li Xinghe's exclamation infuriated the EU delegation, making them blush with anger.

But they couldn't say anything, because those words really hit their weak spot.

Li Xinghe then took the opportunity to speak sarcastically:

"Or Poland could merge with East Germany to form a Prussian-Polish joint republic, which would also resolve historical issues. France could merge with West Germany to form the Frankish Republic. Perhaps everyone would feel more at ease this way, after all, the 20th century was the century of Germany's dangerous origins."

Germany's current weak state was exactly what other European countries had hoped for. Now it's collapsed with just a kick; why don't you all divide the assets and go your separate ways?

Surprisingly, Li Xinghe's proposal even garnered support from some EU members.

Dismantle Germany, handing East Germany over to Poland as reparations. Given Poland's economic disparity—the east being poor and the west rich—East Germany and the former East German territories within Poland could form an economic center, potentially allowing Prussia to annex Poland and rewrite history, giving it a new lease on life.

The merger of West Germany and France, establishing a true Franco-German core community in Europe, would, in a sense, create a genuine political and economic core within the EU, potentially revitalizing economic development. This seems like a viable avenue.

After a fruitless discussion, the EU delegation returned home furious. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the initial statement.)

Gao Tiao asked Li Xinghe in May:

"Can they solve it?"

Li Xinghe mocks Europe:

"It's no wonder that these brainless idiots can't solve anything. Poland doesn't need land; they need money, they need funding, they need to solve their economic problems. Giving them East Germany will only make Poland more unstable, and the only result will be disintegration."

The real question is how to restructure the world financial order.

Now that Japan is unwilling to make any further concessions, who will take on the responsibility of exporting cheap funds?

However, this is not a problem for East Asian countries, because China, Japan and South Korea are all linked together, covering everything from finance to industry. Their financial order is more stable than before, and now European and American financial groups are coming to Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul to ask for help. They have the initiative.

Therefore, chaos is opportunity, and the longer you wait, the more you gain.

Currently, Li Xinghe only acts as a ruthless capitalist, sweeping away various companies in Europe.

Even in his dreams, Li Xinghe would talk in his sleep:

"I want Asmah...I want Novo Nordisk...I want L'Oréal and Louis Vuitton...I want AstraZeneca...I want Shell...I want SAP...I want Roche...I want Novartis...I want Linde..."

In summary, the basic daily routine for East Asian countries like China, Japan, and South Korea during this period has been to eat like gluttons every day.

"I'm eating and eating and eating..."

I eat standing up, sitting down, lying down, and even in my dreams. Whether it's capital or talent, businesses or technology, once it comes, it's a piece of meat in my big stomach.

Any company affected by the war, whether it's in semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, oil refining, or even those few French luxury goods companies, can be granted preferential residency status as long as they bring their capital, headquarters, and technology to the East.

China, Japan, and South Korea are all scouting out research talent from Germany, France, the UK, Italy, and other small European countries to bring back to their home countries for technological research.

To appease these people, Li Xinghe set up their research institute separately, calling it "Overseas European Research Institute," which had a style reminiscent of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties.

With an increase in scientific research personnel, Li Xinghe approved a large amount of research funding, which once again plunged Japan into a labor shortage, prompting them to quickly import another 20 workers.

Even India has the power to venture into remote parts of Europe and attract various European companies affected by the war. India obtained the production line for the Rafale aircraft engine technology from Safran in France and demanded that France send engineers to teach them until they mastered it, which would have been impossible in the past.

Of course, if Indian engineers can truly master the Rafale M-88-4E aero engine, Li Xinghe would rather believe that Japanese and North Korean missile technology can produce a hydrogen bomb within two years.