Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

In the eyes of the media and the public, Ayako Aso's appointment is simply a matter of taking over from Taro Aso after his retirement, and there's not much to say about it.

It's about the intergenerational succession of powerful families.

What they didn't know was that this young lady also liked to play the role of a loyal female dog in real life.

Her office wasn't even in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, but directly in the Public Security Section 9 building, where she set up the Port Special District Development Office and the headquarters of the State-owned Assets Management Company. The people she used were naturally from Li Xinghe's faction.

So Ayako Aso simply went to Li Xinghe's side and became a gentle and virtuous little woman, just waiting to make a profit.

While pressing down on Ayako Aso's head, Li Xinghe spoke on the phone with Tulsi Gabad:

"So fast?"

Both Republicans and Democrats are mobilizing troops around the world. The Democrats are strong because the area surrounding Washington, and even Washington D.C. itself, is a blue zone with a large National Guard presence. The Republicans, on the other hand, are strong because they are the ruling party, allowing them to more easily mobilize covert military forces.

Tursi urged:

"It's already October, with only one month left until the election. Trump still shows no sign of leaving the White House. Instead, he says he'll deploy the remaining two divisions of the First Army in the Pacific to the Okinawa battlefield to fight the Chinese guerrillas to the bitter end. This is truly..."

In the past two weeks, although Li Xinghe was not in Okinawa, the Okinawa Liberated Area has been basically established and stabilized. Although the economy is still not good, Okinawa itself is relatively poor. After gaining access to trade channels to Fujian and Zhejiang, the Independent Army has gradually become rich by using these channels for smuggling.

Because they were selling duty-free rice with Li Xinghe, CIA agents, the independence army, and others unanimously chose to resell Chinese agricultural products and seasonings. They sold well, and the whole of Japan needed them. Even the US military, which was surrounded by them, was willing to spend real money and bullets to buy them.

In other words, it was only at this time that the Okinawans gradually evolved into the Neo-Ryukyu people. They entered the economic sphere of China, and their wages decreased significantly. Fortunately, prices and the supply of goods improved significantly, so they were still able to make ends meet despite the fluctuations.

As long as life is manageable, people don't care about any particular ideology or doctrine; they just follow the crowd.

The situation in Europe and America, on the other hand, is much more intense.

Anti-Trump Democrats and many social progressives, amidst Trump's resignation and the attempts of Vance and Donald Trump Jr. to succeed him, have joined the ranks of criticizing the Republican Party. They have edited together clips of Okinawa's history and broadcast them, recounting the tragic history of Okinawa's massacres, brainwashing, forced language changes, and immigrant blood transfusions, defining it as:

"This is the Gaza of East Asia! The Ryukyuans are on the verge of extinction; this is their last cry. If we don't offer our support, who will be next?"

They called the United States’ attempts to bully Ryukyu “Israel-like genocide” and used it as a pretext for extreme internal mobilization.

Tulsi said:

"In any case, bring your men and prepare to land in Washington."

Li Xinghe still wanted to shirk responsibility:

"I need a transport plane."

But the pro-Republican factions at the Pentagon are ready, so Tulsi said:

"It's alright. The U.S. military has decided to deploy two brigades of the 11th Airborne Division stationed in Alaska to the Okinawa battlefield. After their transport planes land, they will take your people away on their return trip, landing in Washington state, and then transferring to Washington, D.C."

The 11th Airborne Division was once a historically distinguished army, but it was actually revived in 2022. It was expanded from the 25th Division's forces stationed in Alaska, which are currently in trouble in Okinawa. It is an airborne division with only two brigades.

The only armored unit in the entire brigade was the Stryker tank.

Deploying such a force into the fierce urban warfare of Okinawa would not yield the same results as the Stryker Brigade of similar caliber in Iraq.

What Li Xinghe found even more unsettling was that he was leading an elite battalion recruited by Huangshui Defense Company back to the United States, and this time they would be carrying disguised North Korean-made armored vehicles, whose firepower was even stronger than the Stryker tanks from next door. He wondered how the soldiers who landed there would feel when they discovered that the soldiers returning home were not only better equipped, but also had more advanced armored vehicles, and were better fed and clothed than them.

Even more absurdly, the employees of Yellowwater Company weren't necessarily happy either; they were going back to participate in the All-American PUBG tournament. The 11th Airborne Division was just going to fight civilian guerrillas.

Li Xinghe found it difficult to describe his feelings, so he could only say:

"I will prepare. God bless them."

The author says:

Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 3800 words. Actually, I didn't sleep well last night either, playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and sneaking around everywhere. I'll try to write 10,000 words today, but I'll get some rest early.

Chapter 605: Heading to Hell Together (3900 words)

10 month 1 day.

The Japanese Diet convened an emergency meeting to vote on the National Assets Management Act, which Shigeru Ishiba was required to pass for Li Xinghe.

Shigeru Ishiba still has his own sense of national pride and aspirations, so unlike Koizumi, who was obsessed with liberalization and would cut down anything that didn't work, he was quite supportive of Li Xinghe's state-owned management plan. He believed that companies like Nissan, which were heavily indebted but still had the ability to generate revenue, did indeed need to be brought under state control and brought back into government.

The bill stipulates that the Office of State Assets, headed by the Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, is primarily responsible for managing which companies can survive with government funding.

In the Diet, Shigeru Ishiba mobilized members of the Liberal Democratic Party and his own faction to debate with the opposition, using the slogan of "protecting jobs, protecting voters, and protecting the economy" to forcefully push the bill through.

In terms of parliamentary maneuvering, Shigeru Ishiba is far superior to Koizumi. Koizumi's price control committee was carried out discreetly through executive orders, and he's still wrestling within the parliament, fueling the ongoing conflict between Lee Sung-ha and the agricultural cooperatives. Ishiba, however, knows how to fight in the Diet.

Anyway, with Li Xinghe's financial investment and the public's enthusiasm for economic recovery, the bill was temporarily passed.

Of course, most importantly, the person in charge of this bill is Ayako Aso.

So even though Taro Aso had been imprisoned by Li Xinghe, he still flew from Fukuoka to Tokyo to secretly pull strings for his daughter. The influence of political maneuvering was far more effective than simply making a proposal.

The former lawmakers from the Aso faction had to give face to old Aso, and the other old friends from the opposition parties also had to give Taro Aso a break.

Therefore, Ayako Aso was granted an important position as soon as she took office as a minister.

"Japan's National Assets Management Law has been passed, and Vice Minister Ayako Aso will oversee the management of these assets."

This bill stipulates the establishment of a Japanese state-owned asset management company to provide guidance and support to large enterprises that have received substantial financial support from the Bank of Japan, and to inject new funds to maintain their operations.

Of course, Li Xinghe was completely hesitant to act until he saw a clear opportunity, so his main strategy was to spend money to buy Nissan's North American sales channels and sell his water washing trucks there.

After the congressional meeting ended, various...

Articles praising Shigeru Ishiba have appeared online.

Meanwhile, Li Xinghe and others gathered at the girls' club on the weekend.

There were only six people at this gathering: Hana Emi, Aso Ayako, Mizukage Tenpei, Maria, and Tamae, who are bureaucrats and members of parliament in Tokyo.

Hua Yingmei took off her coat, touched her chest, and sighed:

"I signed the death warrant for the first day, killing 100 people in one go is really..."

"You'll get used to it." Shui Jingtianping was very relaxed and had been enjoying herself these past few days.

After all, it was his first time killing someone, and it was a large-scale killing at that.

Li Xinghe comforted her:

"Don't worry, keep going. You can sign one every day, double the number on holidays, and the media will shut up soon. And I guarantee that if they don't sing your praises, I, you, and my mothers will make sure these media outlets see the shady skills of the fake ice queen, Xian Zi, and her shameless colleagues."

The media are spineless because they really need the money. So if the Minister of Justice were truly determined to kill one person a day, they'd only dare to criticize in writing. Once they find the public applauds it, they won't even bother reporting on it anymore; the more they write about China, Britain, and the US, the more popular they become. After that, they'll just be getting paid to write eulogistic articles.

Everyone sat on either side of the kitchen, cooking and chatting.

Asou Ayako was troubled by the immense pressure from her father and Li Xinghe. She asked, completely clueless:

"what should I do?"

Li Xinghe comforted her:

"Are Japanese companies really short of money? No, these guys are incredibly rich. The total retained earnings (internal profit reserves) of Japanese companies amount to a staggering 520 trillion yen, equivalent to Japan's annual GDP. If such a massive amount of capital could be unearthed, it could even provide a shock therapy to a segment of Japan. But they prefer to keep all that money in their accounts rather than use it. Don't worry, just get Nissan's car wash business up and running, and other companies will follow suit."

Due to prolonged deflation in Japan, Japanese companies had nowhere to spend their profits. Furthermore, under the pressure of Abe's three arrows, Japan was forced to experience inflation, resulting in a large influx of funds into the market. As a result, large Japanese companies generally have huge amounts of retained earnings.

Take Toyota, for example. Backed by the Chinese supply chain, it dominates the North American auto market. It can save 24 trillion yen in internal profits every year, which is one-fifth of the annual government fiscal expenditure of Japan and Russia. It would rank among the top 20 in the global government expenditure list.

Shinzo Abe didn't force the companies to come up with this money, but Li Xinghe believed that once he had tanks and bullets in hand, it would be much easier to get them to ask for it. Ayako Aso's small department was just the beginning; expanding Li Xinghe's guidance over the companies was what he intended to do next.

After cooking, everyone gathered around the table to eat together.

Are there any new topics now?

Hanabatake Ouji Tamae is holding Mari Aya, a stunningly beautiful woman who inherited the Ma family's voluptuous genes. Holding a little idol known for her natural innocence and cuteness, the scene is indeed visually striking.

"We've been feeling rather weak lately."

At this moment, Shui Jingtianping tossed them a newspaper:

"Take a look at this report."

The report criticizes the issue of lead-lined water pipes.

"Lead water pipes? In Japan?"

Even Li Xinghe was astonished when he saw it:

"Yes, in Japan today, there are still 203 million households that continue to use lead water pipes. The reason is simply that water supply companies are unwilling to cover the cost of pipe renovations for individual households. Has no one raised this issue? Has no one noticed that lead water pipes can lead to decreased intelligence and abnormal behavior in children? It's not that they haven't noticed, they just don't want to admit it, thinking that as long as they cover their crotch, it's like nothing will leak out."

People often ridicule the United States for its problems such as selling blood for money and lead-pipes causing intellectual disability on average, but many of these problems also exist in Japan, South Korea, and even Taiwan.

The lead pipe problem, in particular, affects 203 million households, which is roughly equivalent to five or six million people in Japan, or 4% of the total population. This is about 30-40% of the lead pipe problem in the United States. However, while the US lead pipe problem received widespread media attention globally, Japan's serious lead pipe issue was suppressed for decades, only recently appearing in the news with minimal coverage. The public showed little reaction, and most likely didn't even know their home pipes were lead.

After finishing his meal, Li Xinghe made a quick getaway:

"You guys are busy, I still have business to do with Section Nine of the Public Security Bureau."

Everyone complained:

"Why are you running? It's not like it'll eat you."

Li Xinghe's attitude was indeed sincere:

"Before I leave, I want to complete a comprehensive security setup in Tokyo. I want to make sure that each of you has female officers from Section 9 protecting you 24/7. I don't want to go on a business trip to Washington and come home to find that my wives are suddenly missing parts."

"Screw you."

Hua Yingmei stood up and hugged Li Xinghe, giving him a farewell kiss. Everyone followed suit, kissing Li Xinghe's lips until they were swollen.

After the deep kiss, Li Xinghe received a gift of happiness:

"Be careful, and remember we're waiting for you at home."

……

That same night, Section Nine of the Public Security Bureau held a secret meeting.

Li Xinghe embraced Higashikawa Yukimi and Ryuzaki Hibari, sincerely telling them that he would be going to Washington for a while, so the security of his family in Tokyo would depend on them. Chiyonobu Kohei and Akiba Takeo would also lend a hand.

Higashikawa Yukimi was very reluctant to part with him, and hugged Li Xinghe, repeatedly giving him instructions:

"Don't lose your life, Mom and I are waiting for you at home."

Saying goodbye to Yukimi is like saying goodbye to Aotori, Minami, and the others.

Li Xinghe went to Qingshan Village on the way. Gao Tiao Wuyue, a homebody and bunker warrior, was actually very safe. She lived right across from the Qingshan Command Headquarters and could run away as soon as she saw something was wrong.

"It has to be safe."

Gao Tiao Wuyue tried to hug Li Xinghe, but unfortunately, she wasn't tall enough and could only reach Li Xinghe's waist.

July and September also came out to say goodbye to Li Xinghe.

Lee Sung-ha intended to go to Cho Yeol-sook's house next, but Cho Yeol-sook, Lee Joo-yeon, and Lee Dae-yo had already packed their bags, preparing to take this opportunity to stay in Seoul for a while, so they didn't meet. According to Lee Joo-yeon, Cho Yeol-sook was afraid that if she saw Lee Sung-ha, she would lose control of her emotions and want to go with him.

Then, Li Xinghe returned home and made various arrangements, especially instructing Ai Azuma and Taiho Niizawa to carry handguns and be on guard at all times. Because the matter was confidential, Li Xinghe didn't actually tell his three mothers, but instead asked Rie Fujiwara to relay the message later.

In the newly purchased north-facing house, Valeria was packing her luggage and said to Li Xinghe:

"I can't go because I don't have the proper identification. Let Natasha go with you."

Li Xinghe patted Natasha's head:

"She also doesn't have a visa."

Little Natasha was still watching some mindless Chinese romance drama. But her eyes kept glancing this way.

Valeria paused for a moment, then suddenly gritted her teeth and said:

Is it difficult to change a visa at the Foreign Affairs Bureau?

"what?"

Natasha suddenly tensed up.

Valeria slapped Natasha's bottom hard, and Natasha, embarrassed by being caught a spy, didn't instinctively run away. Clearly, in just a few months, Valeria had seen through Natasha's Russian identity.

Li Xinghe was initially startled, fearing that Valeria would strangle Natasha, thus reigniting tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Fortunately, Valeria didn't do anything to Natasha.

The look in her eyes when she looked at Li Xinghe was very complicated, a mixture of infatuation, intoxication, and an impulse to disregard everything.

The two women, one older and one younger, sat together. She said to Li Xinghe:

"We're counting on you."

And so, the decision was made that Natasha would stay with the team and act flexibly.

Early the next morning.

The Maleki Squad gathered at the Green Mountain Command Headquarters. In order to complete their mission, Li Xinghe and Aiman ​​would travel to Washington as a married couple.