Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"I assure the people that we will not compromise in this new round of negotiations with the United States!"

At this time, Shinjiro Koizumi became known in the eyes of the Japanese as a good prime minister who, although a bit silly, was also somewhat endearing.

Li Xinghe stood at a distance, secretly laughing to death.

The US Treasury Secretary died in a live broadcast, and the Japanese Prime Minister negotiated with rebels in the occupied Prime Minister's residence and accepted their terms. Both the US and Japan have a bright future.

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4800 words. Let's add a touch of abstraction.

Chapter 512: Super Overlord Li Xinghe and Yokota Renma Completely Block the Way (5000 words)

"We will not back down an inch!"

The prime minister of a country actually made a guarantee to a few deranged junior officers of the Self-Defense Forces.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the shrewd Shinjiro Koizumi launched into a policy speech for the camera: "We will formulate a more independent fiscal policy. The yen should return to Japan from the global financial system, serving Japan, not the United States. Major Japanese companies should bring back their overseas yen to invest in, build, and create Japan..."

These things that shouldn't have been made public, Koizumi spoke about them without any regard for the Japanese people, treating them as if they were outsiders.

When they got to the emotional part, those few Self-Defense Force officers, who had gone mad, even burst into tears and applauded Koizumi.

The atmosphere at the scene was very strange.

Metropolitan Police Department Commissioner Yoshimi Ogata shouted from outside:

"Arrest them."

However, Koizumi Shinjiro, overcome with a desire to perform, grabbed the hands of several officers and said emotionally:

“Go back, my wife and daughters live here, and she's newly pregnant. We shouldn't drag them into this. Next time, I urge you all to storm Parliament House; those members are the most despicable…”

Li Xinghe was speechless.

Dude, what kind of IQ do you have? Did you forget to top up your phone when you left home this morning? Is it appropriate to say something like that at a time like this?

Fortunately, although the Prime Minister lacked intelligence, the press team at the Prime Minister's official residence was well-trained and cut off the live broadcast, preventing the latter part of his statement from being broadcast. In the eyes of the people, Koizumi remains the good prime minister who, despite lacking in intelligence, possessed excellent emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.

These few Self-Defense Force officers who had gone mad were not going to be let go easily, but Koizumi had already said he would release them, so Chief of Staff Kenichiro Nagumo, who rushed over, could only awkwardly laugh as he pulled them back to the barracks.

On the other side, Li Xinghe, who had turned around, was grabbed by the chief secretary, Nitta Shohei, and passionately launched into a tirade in a corner:

"What are you doing? Do you know that this will bring our negotiations to a standstill! The entire nation has witnessed the Prime Minister saying such things, and we have nowhere left to retreat at the negotiating table!"

Li Xinghe wore a smile on his face, but his words pierced his chest like sharp knives:

“Secretary Nitta, I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s precisely because of your mature and cautious senior bureaucratic mentality that Japan is able to always emulate what the United States wants, but in the end, it can only obey the demands of the United States. You only think about serving your master like servants, and never consider independent diplomacy from Japan’s perspective.”

Nitta Shohei's eyes were bloodshot with rage. He grabbed Li Xinghe by the collar and demanded an incredulous answer:

"The US-Japan alliance is doomed! Once we are abandoned by the US, do you think Chinese nuclear bombs won't fall on Japan? Do you think elite officials and politicians don't know about the current international situation? There's no way to change it, we have no choice."

Li Xinghe felt that Nitta Shohei was still a bit off.

Do you take me for a loyal subject?

Is the US-Japan alliance breaking down?

Yeah, otherwise what do you think I'm here for?

Do you think my goal is to expose my underwear and protect peace in Japan?

Therefore, Li Xinghe did not continue to retaliate against Xintian Zhangping, but instead disdainfully had two soldiers pull him down and pat him on the shoulder:

“Old man, how much money can you raise by holding a fundraising reception now? 500 million yen? 2000 million yen? 3000 million yen at most? If you step down from your position as chief secretary, you probably won’t even get a penny. Think about what will happen to you after you die, think about your family.”

Nitta Akira was stunned.

Li Xinghe

That's right. Career bureaucrats at his level have long since reached their limit. Their connections are all within the bureaucracy.

And if he wanted to raise funds, nobody would even know him.

Li Xinghe then pointed to himself:

“I can enter the Japanese embassy at any time and chat with the intelligence major general; my logistics department controls the military budget of the US-Japan Combined Forces Command, and I can have 10,000 people follow me with a wave of my hand; my intelligence requests can enter the White House through secret channels and be submitted to the Director of National Intelligence for review in 3 hours; I can open up intelligence channels in East Asian countries, while you can only squat in your office writing boring drafts.”

At this point, Li Xinghe's momentum reached its peak:

"In other words, the only one who can influence and balance the US-Japan relationship is myself. It's not you, not Prime Minister Koizumi, and certainly not Motegi, Takaichi, Kishida, Ishiba, Kamikawa, Kato, and Kobayashi, who can't even meet with Trump. I hope you can think this through."

Patting Nitta Shohei on the shoulder, Li Xinghe calmly entered the Prime Minister's official residence with Koizumi.

From Nitta Shohei's perspective, the young man following behind the group truly revealed his ambition; he was the mad shark among them all.

……

At the Prime Minister's residence, Masami Takikawa did not ask Koizumi where she had gone the previous night.

She knew very well that while she was bending over for Li Xinghe to have sex with, Xiaoquan was also outside having sex with other women.

"What do we do now?"

Shinjiro Koizumi suddenly began to panic.

Making those boastful statements in front of the media was just a rash decision.

But after calming down and thinking about it, I felt that my life and fortune were in danger.

"The US president is now thinking the same way you are."

Li Xinghe said this, subtly mocking the current Trump and Koizumi for having the same level of intelligence.

Contrary to popular belief, relations between modern nations are highly dynamic, and even the United States often finds itself humiliated and forced to withdraw from the rebellions of its puppet or vassal states.

Washington remained silent in the face of the sudden outburst of strong opposition from the Japanese prime minister, whom it had subservient to for decades, and the fact that its own finance minister had been killed in a bombing at Yokota Mio Airport, with the perpetrator still unknown, and even suspected to be the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, a long-standing docile US vassal state.

I don't understand, I don't get it, and I haven't figured out what to do.

Working overtime late at night is exhausting. All the meeting rooms are packed. Let's wait for the big shots to finish their meeting first.

At the same time, Li Xinghe secretly sent a new signal to Enora and Scarlett at the Yokota base.

"Phase four of the operation begins."

If you're going to shift the blame, you have to do it thoroughly and stir up US-Japan relations.

Therefore, Scarlett, Enola, Jill, and May, having received Li Xinghe's signal, sent messages from the military camp to Li Xinghe's other friends in the officers' club, implying that they should incite a troop riot, or the Ministry of Defense would have to kill people.

As expected, a small-scale brawl broke out at Yokota Air Base between US and neighboring Air Self-Defense Force officers.

Li Xinghe used this opportunity to intimidate Koizumi:

"There seems to be unusual activity at Yokota Air Base. Groups of US troops are attempting to storm the Air Self-Defense Force camp. My soldiers told me that they expect to burn the Air Self-Defense Force aircraft tonight."

"The US military has been deployed?"

When Shinjiro Koizumi heard this, he couldn't help but wet his pants.

For Japanese politicians, from birth to adulthood, all they hear are stories of how the US military wreaked havoc. Although it seems that the US always forgets its mistakes, the US troops stationed in Japan are a guillotine hanging over their heads.

Li Xinghe advised him:

"Why panic? Don't forget how many US troops are at Yokota Air Base? They have less than three thousand."

"But...but the Self-Defense Forces won't stop us either...I mean...the Self-Defense Forces can't win either...Anyway..."

"Give the order to intercept them; you have troops, after all."

Koizumi suddenly slapped his forehead, realizing that he still had a 10,000-strong Joint Force Coastal Combat Brigade, and that command of this unit was in Li Xinghe's hands.

You mean...you and me?

Li Xinghe saluted:

"Yes!"

To prevent Koizumi from backing out, Li Xinghe immediately issued a mobilization order to the coastal combat brigade:

"The entire army was mobilized to block the gates of Yokota Air Base and prevent the US military from entering the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' base; the army drove armored vehicles into Tokyo and imposed martial law throughout the city, just like last time."

The reason is very simple.

To prevent a conflict between the U.S. military and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, the Coastal Combat Brigade of the Joint Forces was responsible for building firewalls to prevent them from fighting and clashing.

Just like last time, the armored convoy entered Tokyo again in less than two hours.

Li Xinghe, dressed in a US military uniform, stood on the Guardian armored vehicle, gazing at the Japanese Diet Building, which he had burned black. The building blended with the sunlight coming from the opposite direction, creating a hazy, indistinct image of Tokyo's white and black.

The camp leaders came one after another to report:

"Your Excellency, the troops are fully assembled!"

"The main gates of Yokota Base have been sealed off. As per your... I mean, as per Admiral Jacqueline's orders, anyone attempting to leave Yokota Base will be subject to an identity check."

"The 3st Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has completed its closed-off operations at its Nerima garrison. As per your orders, no Japanese Self-Defense Force personnel are permitted to leave the garrison for the next three days."

Li Xinghe asked:

How did they react?

"The US troops made a fuss for a while and then went back to their barracks; the Japanese Self-Defense Forces asked us to provide information on where to buy toilet paper and snacks, saying that otherwise people in their barracks would starve and wouldn't be able to use the toilet."

"Give us toilet paper, but not bread."

Li Xinghe said.

Most ordinary Japanese people are completely indifferent to politics. When they see tanks and armored vehicles being driven into the streets again, they might even run up to the gun barrels and take photos with the tanks, as if the bombing at Yokota Air Base and the street blockades in front of them are just insignificant moments in their ordinary lives.

Even when someone tells them to leave, you can still hear them arguing:

"Are you kidding? It must be a drill, right?"

"What era are we living in? People keep talking about danger all the time. I really don't understand it."

Media reports also tried to downplay the conflict between the US and Japan, and began to portray the situation as peaceful and harmonious.

It seems that as long as war, conflict, and confrontation are made less tense and serious, people can still spend an ordinary day happily, listlessly, or angrily.

However, netizens on foreign websites are already thrilled and are staying up all night to follow the latest gossip.

They all added fuel to the fire online:

"Fight! Fight!"

Back at the Cabinet Office, Li Xinghe, who remained at the heart of power, told Koizumi:

“Now, you are the sole ruler of Japan. Your army has simultaneously sealed off the barracks of the 1st Division in Nerima Ward and the gates of the 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base. You may even consider expanding your power.”

Koizumi was still panicking, afraid that President Trump would kill him, and frantically waved his hands:

"Expand my power? Me? No, no, no, it would be good enough if I could just resolve this crisis."

When Li Xinghe repeatedly hinted to Koizumi to take things further, Koizumi Shinjiro never imagined that he was actually very close to becoming a warlord who could stage a dictatorial coup.

Li Xinghe gave up on giving hints.

Well, he's hopeless. Koizumi's intelligence is just like that.

……

It was afternoon.

Shinjiro Koizumi delivers a nationwide televised address:

"Fellow citizens, following yesterday's bombing at Yokota Air Base, numerous speculations and rumors have emerged in the international community and among the public that are inconsistent with the facts. Only after establishing an investigation team can I tell the public what really happened. However, I can assure the public of the three principles for the upcoming US-Japan negotiations."

"The U.S.-Japan alliance does not mean that the Japanese government wants to..."

Kowtowing to the United States!

"The cooperation between the United States and Japan will be conducted in a peaceful and equal manner."

"Peace and stability in East Asia are based on the trilateral relations between Japan and the United States, Japan and China, and the United States and China. Japan should act as a stabilizing valve between China and the United States."

This statement was written with the help of Li Xinghe.

It is tantamount to telling onlookers that the relationship between the United States and Japan has reached the edge of a tightrope.

Foreign observers were astonished that Japan was about to break the US-Japan alliance and the post-World War II world order and confront the United States.

At this moment, even the old right-wingers in Japan, who have always disliked Koizumi's neoliberalism, his drastic cuts to the number of civil servants, his selling out of national assets, and his tolerance of multiculturalism, seem to see a new Shinzo Abe rising up, stronger, more shrewd, and better able to make the people feel good.

Yes, that's exactly the flavor I wanted.