Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Because in the new Asian system built by the US and Japan, Japan's role is to be a forward outpost constantly provoking regional conflicts. If the US military leaves, Japan will have to find another "chastity belt" to wear, otherwise it will be the one that gets killed.

At this moment, General Jacqueline, who was experiencing Japanese life in Kyoto Prefecture, received the warning immediately and hurriedly called Li Xinghe:

"Quick, do you have any money left? Quickly give the soldiers a stipend, or something terrible will happen."

"I?"

Li Xinghe opened his phone to check the news, then shook his head:

"As for what kind of allowance, I'll send someone to persuade them to return to camp first. We'll wait for the Ministry of National Defense's response and the temporary funding."

As Li Xinghe said this, he sent an emergency funding request to Ayman and the Pentagon, asking them to quickly send everyone a sum of money.

As for the money in his own pocket, Li Xinghe would never touch it.

"I'm going out. Quickly call your family members outside back."

Li Xinghe hurriedly went out and contacted the various battalion commanders and subordinates of the coastal combat brigade:

"Stop resting, everyone. I'm back in Japan now. Get those American soldiers causing trouble outside back to the barracks and lock them up in the military police prison."

The camp leaders, whose English was terrible, were quite surprised.

Should we go and fight the American troops?

Li Xinghe said firmly:

"Yes, hit them hard, beat them with batons. Just don't shoot. Tell them you have orders from the Department of Defense, and that the Department of Defense will give you allowances."

To break free from the inner...

The illusion that the US military is superior to others is that they can beat someone to death with six blows per second.

The soldiers of the coastal combat brigade were immediately excited upon hearing this order.

The group rushed out of the camp and chased after the American soldiers, beating them mercilessly along the roadside.

The Japanese near Yokota Air Base have seen something new. In the past, it was always American soldiers who gang-raped Japanese women, but now it's American soldiers chasing and beating other American soldiers.

"I am a U.S. soldier!"

"We are also U.S. soldiers!"

The people below were hurling insults at each other.

Ukrainians, Chinese, and even North Koreans joined in under Li Xinghe's influence, using their broken English to mock the beaten American soldiers.

The American soldiers who were just looting were suddenly turned into crying babies being pulled down and gang-raped.

These ordinary soldiers are perhaps one of the most outwardly strong but inwardly weak groups in the US military. When it comes to a real fight, they not only lack the courage to fire a gun, but they are also no match for the enemy in a one-on-one skirmish. Of course, this is also because Yokota Air Base has nearly 4000 American soldiers on its roster, but it actually houses a coastal combat brigade of almost 10,000, as well as less than 2000 American soldiers, making it a 5-on-1 advantage.

In less than half a day, a video of US soldiers suppressing US troops, with soldiers from the Coastal Combat Brigade wielding batons and beating American soldiers until they screamed in pain, became a source of amusement worldwide.

……

"Your response strategy is correct."

The Ministry of National Defense issued an internal commendation to Li Xinghe shortly afterward, in the early hours of the morning Eastern Time.

It has to be loyal subjects of the empire like Li Xinghe who fight the American army with the most valor.

"Could you provide a stipend?"

"of course."

Li Xinghe has secured a $200 million grant.

However, he didn't distribute them to all American troops; instead, he gave them to several battalion commanders under his command, instructing them to distribute them to everyone. It was reasonable for those who won to receive rewards.

Then he went to see Koizumi.

Inside the Cabinet residence, Shinjiro Koizumi was moved to tears by Li Xinghe's arrival, who was dressed in a U.S. military uniform.

"As expected, we still need your swift action to calm the situation down."

Li Xinghe nodded, and then asked:

"I just returned to China and managed to bribe and control a South Korean military leader. What exactly happened back home?"

Koizumi sighed.

Takikawa Masami picked up the official document and read it aloud to Li Xinghe with great eagerness:

"This is a report from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry: Most of the companies that have gone bankrupt or suffered severe losses are closely linked to the US stock market, or have a significant amount of capital tied up in US stocks. While some small companies and factories may go bankrupt, society as a whole can still function. But the most vulnerable are undoubtedly the Japanese insurance industry, especially several pension funds..."

In short, Japan's insurance industry is quite complex, and to maintain its massive capital base, the Japanese government invests in pension funds—the world's largest—with extensive investments in US stocks and the US stock market. Meanwhile, US stocks continue to fluctuate wildly.

Koizumi also used an analogy in English:

"The rate at which financial and high-tech startups on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Austin are going bankrupt is faster than the rate at which American middle school girls are losing their lives."

With American industries in such a state, it's no wonder that Japanese funds' investments have all failed.

Having served as prime minister for only a few months, Shinjiro Koizumi looked several years older and was finding it difficult to maintain his position.

The changes of the times wait for no one. Koizumi was swept away by the tornado of the times and has nowhere to escape. Now he can't even get down.

Yes, he cannot step down.

The interesting thing is that now that Koizumi has been removed from his position, who would dare to take over his place?

The prime minister's position has become a hot potato.

Not long ago, they fought tooth and nail for this position, all vying for the most lucrative piece of the pie. Now, however, they're all avoiding it like the plague, wishing they could just walk away as quickly as possible.

Fumio Kishida was desperate to fight Koizumi and compete with Li Xinghe for the title of mastermind. Both of them were somewhat bloodthirsty and used various means to attack each other, but all their efforts were no match for a sudden economic crisis.

Now Kishida has backed down first; he went to the Philippines for a foreign affairs visit and went into hiding.

Koizumi's expression was very somber:

"This is... terrible..."

Takikawa Masami pulled Li Xinghe to sit down, had her daughter pour him tea, and whispered:

"The opposition coalition no longer dares to mention forcing the prime minister to resign. Instead, they are demanding that the prime minister explain and apologize for the martial law incident that occurred some time ago, and that the cabinet be reorganized after the resignation."

In a sense, if you spit on the food first, others won't want to snatch it.

However, neither the pressure from the Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition parties, nor the possibility of insurance company bankruptcy, are the biggest problems.

Koizumi also gave Li Xinghe a top-secret English document to read:

"The US is pressuring Japan to continue buying US Treasury bonds and increase its investment in the US... but we really don't have that much money left..."

Over the years, Japan has paid a price, not just heavy, but terrifying, in order to maintain its status. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into it, yet the United States continues to greedily demand more.

At this moment, Li Xinghe keenly sensed an opportunity to sow discord.

He asked Koizumi:

"Then why doesn't the yen decouple from the dollar?"

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4300 words (add an extra zero). I'm still brainstorming for the next part of the plot, and I'm a bit stuck.

Chapter 502: Freedom is surrendering to the Communists, and the training of a little bitch (4300 words)

At this point, Li Xinghe had become a devil.

"As long as we decouple, we can avoid the fate of continuous depreciation. As long as we raise yen interest rates, we can stabilize the yen exchange rate and force overseas yen funds to return to Japan to restart social investment. Isn't that a very simple logic?"

In the old Cabinet Office conference room, Koizumi's secretaries were terrified, but Li Xinghe was fearless and dared to speak and act.

This is a critical issue concerning the most fundamental economic and trade relationship between the US and Japan. Is it really possible to say this outright?

Anyway, the secretaries have already secretly run away.

Koizumi, on the other hand, was in a state of mental blankness and didn't quite understand what Li Xinghe was saying.

What is the relationship between the US dollar and the Japanese yen?

For the global economy, the US dollar, as the world's currency, plays a unique financial role. However, obtaining US dollars is costly, and the interest rates are terrifyingly high. So, is there a place where funds can be borrowed at low or even no interest and exchanged for US dollars?

That is the Japanese yen, which adopted extremely low interest rates after the bubble economy.

Borrowing money from Japan and then investing it in the United States, with a portion of the investment returns used to repay the debt, forms a stabilizing mechanism in the global financial market.

At this moment, Li Xinghe had already seen hope.

To create chaos and evil acts that damage US-Japan relations, cause trouble for the US, and create obstacles for Japan.

That is……

What if Li Xinghe tricks Koizumi into breaking this stabilizing string?

It's like cutting open the fallopian tubes of a dollar bill and, incidentally, locking the cervix.

With the global financial market in jeopardy, no matter how hard the Federal Reserve prints money, it won't attract foreign capital to buy it. Instead, it will only continue to create huge inflation domestically, all to no avail.

Although some studies have shown that the appreciation of the yen's interest rate hikes is not significantly related to the collapse of the US stock market and the dollar, historically, the two points in time when the yen appreciated after raising interest rates coincided precisely with the eve of two major economic crises in the United States: the dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis. Furthermore, the yen's interest rate hikes could transform the brief "Black Monday" in the US from a short-lived, small-scale stock market crash into a turning point for the global economy.

Li Xinghe began to explain to Xiaoquan what economic theory was.

Why is the Japanese yen considered a concubine of the US dollar?

Why does raising yen interest rates bring yen back to overseas markets?

Just then, an old man, looking disheveled, burst into the house:

"No, no, no, we absolutely cannot make such a decision on our own. If we do, think about Japan's global industrial layout, think about the overseas profits of various conglomerates..."

This person

It was none other than Chief Secretary Shohei Nitta.

He was terrified and almost ran himself to death on the road.

If the yen decouples from the dollar, it would mean the Japanese government would embark on a process of deglobalization, abandoning the profits gained over the past four decades by following the US dollar's global expansion, and relinquishing access to global financial and securities markets. Tokyo's status as an Asian financial center would be shaken, the profits of Japanese companies' 40 years of overseas expansion would plummet, and Japan would begin to sever its ties with global finance.

This is a blow that Japanese financial capital can hardly withstand.

Furthermore, the relationship forged by the long-term interaction between Japanese financial and industrial conglomerates and the United States over the past 40 years is not something that can be easily torn apart.

So, Koizumi was tricked back by Nitta Shohei.

However, Li Xinghe coldly snorted:

"It's as if Japan won't pay a huge price if the connection isn't severed. Has Japan's financial industry made any money in recent years? The rate of capital outflow has accelerated, hasn't it? Those zaibatsu companies are all rushing to the United States. Haven't they realized this yet? How can Japan be revitalized without cutting off the lifeline that the US dollar is sucking out of the yen?"

This is the real problem.

As the yen follows the dollar's overseas expansion, and Japan acts as a link in the supply chain, the cost to it is actually quite high. This is because the yen primarily bears the interest payments on the dollar, essentially meaning Japan is paying tribute to the United States.

In the past, Japan paid tribute to the emperor, while secretly pocketing a portion of the profits, which was considered an acceptable price for its long-term global expansion.

But now, Trump is eager to relocate Japan's financial and high-tech industries to the United States, and when he wants to take all of Japan's assets and put them on the table, this model has almost become a blood-sucking pump of exploitation, constantly attracting the Japanese financial industry to move its assets to the United States.

In the office, the two men faced off.

Unable to win an argument with Li Xinghe, Nitta Shohei could only turn to Koizumi and say:

"Once you make this decision, believe me, tonight, the phones of Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, ​​Sumitomo Mitsui, and Postal Bank will be ringing off the hook at the Prime Minister's Office and the phones of relevant members of parliament! The Liberal Democratic Party's election will explode."

However, the old man dared not criticize Li Xinghe, but Li Xinghe went all out and interrupted:

"Then let me ask you, have these Japanese financial giants, such as the Government of Japan Investment Fund, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui, Nippon Life Insurance, and Yasuda Insurance, made money in the United States? Who is constantly asking the government for money and bailouts? Are they actually making money, or are they just moving their assets to the United States? I have only one stance: either these financial conglomerates send their overseas money back to Japan, or the government stops giving them bailouts and focuses the money on helping small businesses and real industries."

Unconsciously, Li Xinghe shaped a magical perception of Koizumi.

Now that the government has reached the point where it has no choice but to inject money to save people, this is the perfect time to take advantage of the financial conglomerates in Japan that have been severely hit by the stock market crash.

Whether you want to lead the decoupling of the US dollar and the Japanese yen or not, you can still manipulate financial conglomerates.

This is a political maneuver.

Nitta Shohei became even more anxious and found a new reason for himself:

"Japan's total government debt is a staggering 1500 trillion yen. Even if the entire country of Japan were sold off, it would only be able to pay off one-third of it. In other words, if the yen were to decouple from US interest rate hikes, we would be finished before the US even had a chance to do anything."

Li Xinghe had long since stopped believing this claim.

He criticized Nitta Shohei very fiercely:

"The US government debt is six or even seven times that of Japan. Has the US gone bankrupt? The US borrows every year. Japan has been borrowing for 40 years. Has Japan gone bankrupt? All those claims to prevent the yen from raising interest rates and to decouple from the US are nothing more than an attempt to hastily preserve the US-Japan financial relationship, which is like a prostitute's sexual relationship with her."