Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

As for the problem of "not being able to buy Chinese urea" and causing problems in the supply of agricultural fertilizers, South Korean and Japanese officials dared not say a word, for fear of puncturing the illusion of their own "democratic paradise on earth" in the minds of the people.

Li Xinghe spread his hands and pointed directly to the core of the problem:

"Who dares to write a newspaper to criticize the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Agricultural Cooperatives of South Korea for their nonsense? They have implemented a policy of reducing production to protect farmers, which has reduced the rice production in South Korea, but no one has come forward to take responsibility? There is nothing we can do about this."

The deeper core problem is the "disorderly governance" and "profit-sharing" of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Agricultural Cooperatives and the Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Agricultural Cooperatives, but few people dare to expose it.

For example, one of the current problems with high grain prices in South Korea is the nerve move of reducing production in 2023 to maintain grain prices. Reducing grain production does not mean that the selling price will increase in proportion, nor does it mean that the reduction ratio can meet expectations. On the contrary, it is an amplifier. A 1% reduction in production may cause a 10% price increase. When farmers see that other agricultural products are subsidized, they may all reduce production and change crops, and the final reduction ratio is too high.

This impact, coupled with global inflation, has resulted in food prices quadrupling compared to 2019 after several years.

And South Korea also refuses to release its stockpile of grain reserves, so the price is still rising!

This feeling is very similar to Japan's bubble economy. It burst the bubble when it needed stability, but tightened money supply in the face of the crisis, stopped providing social subsidies, and stubbornly endured the economic crisis, almost killing itself.

Zhao Liesuk stuck out her tongue. Although she wanted to refute based on her simple patriotic enthusiasm, she had nothing to say after thinking carefully:

"It can't be helped, it's the media."

A characteristic of media studies is to hide the real culprit by manipulating the descriptive subject or the described object.

Both Japanese and Korean media are very disciplined and rarely attack the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Cooperatives for their rubbish policies, poor scientific research and industrial transformation, and rigid agricultural cooperatives and distribution systems. They simply change the subject to describe it as "natural disasters, temporary panic, and foreigners eating too much." When these public and private departments appear in the news, they always seem to be working hard but not very capable. However, when you open the comment section, readers have already scolded them.

Li Xinghe suddenly had an idea and captured a key point.

For South Korea and Japan, countries where rice prices are among the highest in the world, rice is a core social issue.

This is a means to instigate changes in public opinion and trigger color revolutions.

The initial reason for the Arab Spring was nothing more than the police arresting street vendors, and the low probability event of the street vendors setting themselves on fire.

From the price of rice to social concerns, it is natural to guide public opinion in Japan and South Korea, which is a greater cornerstone of the color revolution.

So, Li Xinghe held Zhao Liesuk's hand tightly and put forward a bold idea:

"Let's set up an NGO? I will fund it, and this NGO will hire professors and social activists from South Korea and Japan to advocate that Japan and South Korea relax their rice industry restrictions and import more foreign rice. We cannot harm the lives of hundreds of millions of people for the benefit of a handful of agricultural cooperative bosses."

Li Xinghe is certainly not trying to seek welfare for the 1.7 million people in Japan and South Korea.

Because farmers in Japan and South Korea are already scarce, and farmers are coerced by agricultural cooperatives and become tools for agricultural cooperative masters to make money. On the contrary, most people are suffering from extremely high rice prices. This is the social foundation, and it is very strong.

As long as the offensive of public opinion slowly undermines Japan and South Korea's rice self-sufficiency, it will represent the collapse of a traditional system.

Once the change in social thought is reversed, it will be an overwhelming wave of public opinion.

First, they demanded a limited quota for rice imports, using some of the imported rice to dilute the rice price. When the rice price dropped, they encouraged further imports until the rice was liberalized on a large scale.

Since self-sufficiency in rice can be relaxed, can it also be relaxed for foreign civil servants?

Can the pro-American policy be changed? Is the US military still necessary?

Can Japan or South Korea continue to maintain a peaceful and prosperous life as long as they surrender to China?

Whether these issues are realized or not is not important.

But it is important to let the people and governments of Japan and South Korea confront each other.

Therefore, although the main offensive focus is on the issue of imported rice, the ultimate goal is to create a color revolution in society.

This is a tried and tested tactic of the CIA. After Li Xinghe learned a little, he began to practice the magic skill in reverse.

Zhao Liesu has always been amazed at her lover's unique thinking, and today Li Xinghe's magical thinking opened her eyes again.

As a simple and good girl, Zhao Liesuk really wanted to work for the welfare of the people. At least let everyone eat cheaper rice.

So she asked weakly:

"So...what are you going to do?"

Li Xinghe didn't even have to think for himself, he just copied the CIA's strategy:

"First, we registered an NGO. Then we started to set up our own website and wrote invitation letters to professors to write articles in support of us. In the second stage, we started to post videos on the website and mobilize the society. In the third stage, we started to encourage the election of legislators who adopted our ideas and guided supporters to vote..."

Zhao Liesuk picked up her wallet with a headache and took out her bank card and credit card to check.

"What are you looking at?"

"I counted my bank account and realized that I probably can't raise enough money to start an NGO and hire professors to write articles..."

The kind girl is still thinking about doing everything she can to help Li Xinghe.

Li Xinghe felt warmed.

He held Zhao Liesuk's hand, stuffed her bank cards back into her wallet one by one, and then stuffed a stored-value card worth $5 into it. He then stared at the good girl with wide eyes and sincerely said:

"I have money, and the Americans are willing to give angel investment. The CIA has always only asked me for my achievements. As for what happens, they don't care. You can also report it to the South Korean National Intelligence Service as your own achievement. For your future, I am willing to spend any amount of money."

What a cliché speech, a classic cliché.

But it works.

Zhao Liesuk couldn't help but feel her heart beating fast and touched his handsome face.

"Ah."

Just today in Nagatacho, Li Xinghe and Zhao Lieshu simply copied the documents on a roadside copier and registered a new non-governmental research organization in Tokyo using Zhao Lieshu's identity:

Northeast Asia Rice Prices and Social Well-being Research Center.

The author says:

Author's words: Thank you for your support. Actually, this chapter was added temporarily. Moon Jae-in was formally charged by the Procuratorate and the rice price was the latest news, so I added some thoughts on guiding public opinion and wrote this chapter.

Chapter 274 You Are So Bad

Is there any relationship between rice prices and social happiness?

It sounds like there are, but not much.

However, the purpose of this research center is to tell everyone that the price of rice represents the average price of all food, so the price of rice is strongly related to social happiness. In order to ensure the happiness of everyone in society, the price of rice should be lowered.

Therefore, the government should provide low rice prices for the people, and the people have the freedom to pursue low rice prices. For this reason, even if the import quota of rice is appropriately liberalized, the insignificant rice self-sufficiency caused to the society is not worth mentioning compared to the happiness provided to the general public. Moreover, in the modern free and equal international society, with the purchasing power of the yen, you only need to pay a small price to buy rice to feed all the citizens. If the people cannot eat rice because of a few agricultural cooperative interest groups, how can they be happy?

The lower the price of rice, the happier the society.

This is the 'Law of Rice Prices and Social Happiness' proposed by this research center.

——Li Zhao.

After writing the above, Li Xinghe turned around and asked Zhao Lieshu:

"How is my writing? This is the purpose of our NGO's activities."

"Of course."

Zhao Liesuk smiled, but in fact she didn't even look carefully.

However, Li Xinghe's reasoning is not unreasonable. According to the daily propaganda of the Japanese media, Japan is already a member of the developed society in Europe and America, enjoying the security protection of the US military stationed there, so it is natural that Japan can give up some rice for self-sufficiency in exchange for low rice prices. China next door may not really fight Japan for decades, but the people have to eat every day. If the price of rice in Japan can be reduced to half of the original price, the food price of the whole society will drop significantly, and the happiness level will increase sharply.

Therefore, as long as we ignore the increasingly approaching China, this logic is actually very smooth.

Even if someone objects, Li Xinghe can still offer the most resolute political hammer: "Do you not trust the US military, are you China-phobic, are you anti-American?"

Although the media exaggerates it every day, fear of China and anti-Americanism are Japan's political red lines.

And it’s not that there is no one who supports this idea. The poor general public, Japanese importers and exporters, and Japanese rice traders in Southeast Asia all have strong demands to remove agricultural restrictions.

This small research institute currently has only one office and two registered bosses.

But Zhao Liesuk is still very happy. At least she has a career that she wants to do and can do it with the person she likes.

When Jin Shenshu found the two people with a gloomy face, Zhao Liesuk was riding on Li Xinghe's thighs. The two of them hugged each other face to face, enjoying the sea breeze, whispering to each other from time to time, and rubbing their temples together.

Seeing this scene, Jin Shenshu's face became even darker.

His breathing became rapid, his heart ached, and he almost passed out.

Fortunately, he had already recognized the cruel reality. He turned his face away, walked over and sat on the back of the public bench, and asked:

"What should I do now? The minister you introduced to me stepped down before we had a chance to work closely together. According to gossip, you personally forced him out. What should I do now? The National Intelligence Service just sent me an intelligence consultation letter, but I no longer have a public security contact."

Li Xinghe thought about it and realized that this would indeed affect the nails he had buried.

他 说:

"Ah, don't worry about this. Once the Japanese election is over, the new cabinet minister will appoint a new public security minister. I will then help you renew this relationship."

But Jin Shenshu was still afraid of losing, and he couldn't help asking:

“How can I trust you?”

This question made Zhao Liesuk unhappy. She lowered her head into Li Xinghe's neck and kissed his collarbone.

Jin Shenshu almost fell over again.

Li Xinghe gave evidence for himself:

"I have a bad relationship with Tsuchiya Akitane. I drove him away, but now I can call him and ask him to do anything I want. Because I helped him clear all the troubles. Do you think I would cheat you?"

Although Jin Shenshu was skeptical, he still believed what Li Xinghe said because Tsuchiya Xiaoyin did not give him a counterattack plan to harm Li Xinghe.

Just as he arrived, Li Xinghe got down to business:

"Look, I'm going to give you a phone number. This is Yoshihisa Harada, the chief prosecutor of the National Police Agency. He has been trying to make trouble for me recently, and your mission is to tell him that I have major financial irregularities. I made a lot of dirty money with the help of an uncle and a father-in-law. As a secret informant for the public security department, you have a lot of evidence of my illegal activities, and you want to report it to Yoshihisa Harada. Let him take action against me and my department."

Of course, the above are all true stories.

However, Jin Shenshu would never be able to hand over the evidence of Li Xinghe's illegal and irregular behavior to Harada Yoshihisa.

Kim Shin-suk was happy to accept such a job, which allowed him to repeatedly approach senior Japanese government officials and obtain intelligence inadvertently.

"How should I gain his trust?"

Li Xinghe took out a notebook and wrote something, then threw it to Jin Shenshu across the chair and instructed:

"Give him this report, saying that a large amount of virtual currency has flowed in and out of my personal account. When he believes this false report, tell him that you have to go back to organize the remaining intelligence and ask Yoshihisa Harada to arrest me quickly, otherwise I will immediately hunt you down for personal revenge. To ensure safety, you will not hand over a large amount of evidence unless he orders me to be arrested."

At this point in the conspiracy plan, it actually doesn’t matter whether the nine departments of the public security department are disbanded.

On the contrary, the Ninth Public Security Department must receive an order to disband, otherwise the plan will become a castle in the air.

When Yoshihisa Harada really gives the order to dismiss Li Xinghe, Jin Shenshu will disappear.

He understood very well and said:

"So he will never get this non-existent evidence."

"Yes."

Li Xinghe took out a stored-value card and handed it to him, saying, "Buy a Mercedes-Benz. As a diplomat, dignity is very important. You want outsiders to respect you when they see your car logo."

South Korea has a deep worship of German luxury cars. Especially as they are at the bottom of the European and American systems, Koreans have a particularly deep worship of them.

Facing his ex-fiancée and holding the stored-value card given by Li Xinghe, Jin Shenshu was extremely depressed. Between happiness and pain, the reversal of heaven and hell, he wanted to say something, but after thinking carefully about his condition, he turned around and left silently.

Behind his back, Zhao Liesuk and Li Xinghe were kissing each other.

Zhao Lieshu pinched Li Xinghe's nose and said naively:

"You are so bad."

......

In the afternoon, Li Xinghe sent Zhao Liesuk back to the embassy before leisurely returning to the office.

The Ninth Department of Public Security seemed a bit flustered, with a big "on vacation" sign on the door.

Everyone in the office was a little emotional, and Fuji Rie was still comforting the angry Master Tamako.

Li Xinghe knocked on the door in a sarcastic tone:

"Who is it that cares so much about us? And gives us a holiday?"

"Don't be angry, tell me what to do." Fuji Rie pouted and Li Xinghe coaxed her.

No one knew who reported it, but the news of Li Xinghe's return soon led to the appearance of the general counselor Gu Zhixing.

This handsome middle-aged bureaucrat called Li Xinghe to the corridor:

"Your entire ninth department of the Public Security Department has been ordered to take a leave of absence at noon today, pending further investigation. I hope you can explain the problem as soon as possible, and I will help you arrange a transfer to a local police station."

According to Japanese tradition, when a department like theirs is asked to be laid off, they will take a month's vacation in advance. During this month's vacation, they will hand over their work and docking relationships to the new team and adapt. When they return a month later, they can switch to unpopular positions.

As for Li Xinghe, he just received his dismissal documents and left smoothly.

"No, there is no problem in our department." Li Xinghe refused with a smile.