Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

From the moment he organized the Tamagota Foundation, and even from the moment he invested in the Sally Group, it was already destined that Li Xinghe would become entangled with Japanese financial groups.

How can we maintain our close ties with financial groups and cooperate closely with major conglomerates?

Li Xinghe believes:

“We have so much money, we can just buy companies.”

They're really rich. They own a bank and have just extorted a hefty compensation payment. It's the perfect time for them to make a major acquisition.

Hua Yingmei, however, felt that Li Xinghe didn't need to rush things:

"What if they don't sell?"

Li Xinghe emphasized:

"But we still have 15,000 soldiers."

Taking advantage of the chaos of war, why not just send people to extort money?

Lu Yuchi and Hua Yingmei couldn't stand it anymore, and she earnestly emphasized to Li Xinghe:

"Don't you also have Yamato Keiko? No, her real name is Takeko, right?"

Yamato Ke'er, whose real name is Wu Ke'er, is the daughter of Wu Yingke, a senior executive of Mizuho Financial Group and a powerful member of the Hibiscus Foundation.

Once the relationship with Yamato Keir is further strengthened, and Mizuho Financial Group is brought in and infiltrated into the upper echelons of the Hibiscus Club, everything will naturally fall into place.

The only problem is that Yamato Keiko is only 1.4 meters tall, which is shorter than Takajo Satsuki.

Li Xinghe couldn't help but scratch his head.

Hua Yingmei poked Li Xinghe's cheek; he was almost unable to hold back.

I burst out laughing.

He is a super traitorous reactionary and a pedophile named Xinghe.

……

Meanwhile, Koizumi Shinjiro, who received the note, was caught in a deep dilemma.

He understood what Li Xinghe meant, but didn't know how to respond.

He wanted to return to the position of prime minister, but found it increasingly difficult.

So he called his father for advice.

Old Koizumi sighed deeply and asked Koizumi in return:

"After your father retires, will anyone come to visit me?"

Old Koizumi wasn't very satisfied with his son, but he was helpless. He didn't answer Koizumi directly, but instead told him the consequences and let him make his own choice.

Like a sudden enlightenment, Koizumi Shinjiro broke free from his shackles and achieved a profound awakening.

This is the predicament of the Koizumi family, because they are both politicians who advocate neoliberal reforms, thus offending a large number of vested interest groups in Japan.

However, Koizumi first went to China to curry favor, then to the United States, and finally launched a sweeping privatization and layoffs in Japan, which offended everyone. Koizumi, on the other hand, lacked intelligence and ability, and under Li Xinghe's influence, was forced to offend a group of organizations, led by the Agricultural Cooperatives.

But if he stops here, Koizumi's political career will come to an end. The Liberal Democratic Party will no longer support him, and the public will regard him as a monster. After he retires, he will be collectively ostracized like his father, and he will not even be able to get involved in the internal affairs of the Liberal Democratic Party.

No! I won't accept it.

Xiaoquan ran out of the room like a madman, then went back inside, then ran out again, repeating this three or four times. After his brain was working frantically, he finally came up with a more suitable reason.

He was going to visit his best friend Li Xinghe with his ex-wife Masami Takikawa, their daughter Christine, and their son (Li Xinghe's son).

This is a visit made in the name of family, so it is perfectly legitimate.

Therefore, when the family of four—the husband, wife, and their children—came to visit, Li Xinghe and Hua Yingmei received them as husband and wife.

The woman sat in the dining room, while the men talked at the guest table.

Koizumi Shinjiro worriedly said:

"Congress probably won't support me."

Nonsense, Koizumi's reputation is too bad.

Leaving aside his personal moral issues of infidelity and abandoning his wife and children, his relationship with the United States during his time in office was too ambiguous, and after taking office, he had to pay the United States 1.2 trillion yen in reparations. In addition, there were two sums of money he had previously given to the Americans, as well as the $70 billion in national debt extensions, bringing the total amount of reparations he has paid out to the United States to nearly 20 trillion yen.

Can Japan withstand this kind of turmoil?

Moreover, Koizumi had a fatal weakness that he could not avoid: he had fallen out with the Liberal Democratic Party's grassroots parent organization, the agricultural cooperatives, because of the price committee issue.

Li Xinghe kept encouraging Koizumi:

"Now that we've already decided to do the impossible, what are you afraid of regarding the Diet? Just dissolve them. Then stall for time, say that before we completely eradicate the remnants of the Osaka Restoration Party, we'll temporarily suspend the national elections until 2029, and slowly delay it."

Shinjiro Koizumi continued to worry:

What about the common people?

folk?

They barely reacted to Nobuyuki Baba leading his men to seize power. The crazy political turmoil of the past few years has already affected everyone's lives. Don't you think about that?

Li Xinghe then said directly:

"Public opinion is not the way to go. I'll send you back to the Cabinet Office in tanks and helicopters. How about becoming Japan's first president with unrestricted, truly powerful authority after the war?"

Koizumi wasn't very bright, but he generally knew that if he agreed to do bad things with Li Xinghe, he would become the second most evil and most criticized monster in postwar Japanese history (the first being the Showa era devils).

Democracy's nemesis, dictator, madman—countless blames will fall on his head.

Then, Li Xinghe started to bargain:

"But...you and I both have to take risks."

What do you mean by that?

Koizumi's emotional intelligence has always been high, and he knows this is the time to test the relationship between the two of them.

In this critical situation where he only had one chance to speak, and a wrong word could break the cooperation, Koizumi, after much deliberation, offered his highest possible price:

"My decision to marry my daughter to you is proof enough that our friendship is strong, deep, and indestructible." Huh?

Li Xinghe was stunned.

No, buddy?

Looking back at little Christine, who was much older than both Yamato and Satsuki, he didn't know what to say.

Li Xinghe really wanted to tell Xiaoquan, "You're a bit of a jerk, you're really a scoundrel."

Koizumi, however, felt that Li Xinghe was not suitable. "You were willing to date Lu Yuchi and Hua Yingmei, who are 8 years older than you, so why are you not willing to date someone who is 9 years younger than you?"

He emphasized, stressing:

"You're only 9 years apart..."

The author says:

Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4600 words. Adding Christine's story next.

Chapter 652: The Usurpation Begins, Rebellions Erupt One After Another (5400 words)

"He's an irresponsible person."

Upon hearing her ex-husband's words, Takikawa Masami was momentarily speechless. Of course, she was well aware of her own misconduct, so instead of calling him shameless, she said he lacked responsibility.

Chuanwu's room wasn't big, so Xiaoquan and Li Xinghe's conversation could actually be heard next door.

"That's already pretty good."

Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei, however, thought it was alright.

At least Koizumi knew what he was doing, that he was risking his family's lives and future to take a gamble, instead of hesitating and thinking about irrelevant things.

Many people have probably forgotten that Shinjiro Koizumi is actually quite old; he'll be 48 this year. By age alone, he could be Li Xinghe's grandfather.

But whether it's Li Xinghe, his mother, or various gossipy politicians, they all consider Li Xinghe and Koizumi to be contemporaries and playboys. This is naturally because Koizumi has always maintained a youthful and virtuous image, making him seem like he's still in his twenties or thirties.

The reason for this is not only to attract Koizumi's mothers across the country, but also to use young people as a get-out-of-jail-free card to maneuver among various forces and gain a foothold in welcoming and sending off guests.

This is how Koizumi's team cultivated his emotional intelligence. Since he wasn't very bright, they focused on making him more adept at interpersonal relationships and solidifying his strengths.

“I’m giving my daughter to you in marriage. Our relationship is stronger than that of brothers. If you have any doubts, or if it’s inconvenient for you to accept this in front of Miss Lu Yuchi, then we can find another way. You can adopt her, just like you adopted that gangster’s daughter.”

Koizumi reiterated this point.

This secret alliance, which cannot be made public, must have a token that everyone can believe in.

Now, little Christine has become a symbol of the alliance between the two sides.

Koizumi gave his daughter to Li Xinghe for adoption, making her a nominal adopted daughter but in reality a wife or concubine, thus tightly binding the relationship between the two sides.

"Okay, but I also have something I'd like to talk to you about."

Li Xinghe finally agreed and pulled out a political bargaining chip that even Koizumi hadn't expected.

Just as the four women in the room were whispering nonsense, the door opened, and a foxy woman appeared.

"Honey?"

Shang Qiujia peeked in through the doorway, smoothed out the hem of her skirt, and carefully slipped inside.

As the newly appointed Ryukyu Queen, she originally planned to fly to distant Ryukyu to attend a new meeting, but unfortunately, she was persuaded by Li Xinghe to board the ship together.

Li Xinghe stood up and said frankly to Xiaoquan:

“I have another idea, you should understand, but it may not be easy to implement right now. However, if we join forces, I will help you get to the presidency, and you will help me... get Qiujia’s child into that position. Our two families will share weal and woe and wield power together. You will be the Shogun, and I will be the Regent.”

That's very straightforward.

.

The so-called Konoe Kanpaku and the Shogun were the two pinnacles of the ancient Japanese government-shogunate dual system. Li Xinghe's deliberate mention of the Konoe family and the Kanpaku made his intention even clearer: he wanted to push his own child to the position of heir to the throne.

Although Shang Qiujia is not pregnant at the moment, Li Xinghe is eager to kick Yu Ren off the ship and hand him over to Baba Nobuyuki, which is laying the groundwork for this direction.

Koizumi was stunned.

This is also a decision that goes against the will of the ancestors, because Shang Qiujia is a woman. If her child's father is of Han Chinese descent but rises to the position of heir to the throne, it would absolutely shatter the entire nation of Japan. Countless old Japanese conservatives would be in a frenzy, screaming and despair, wishing they could jump into Tokyo Bay and commit suicide.

This move is a psychological attack, forcing Japanese conservatives to make a choice.

"That wouldn't be appropriate. If it really doesn't work out, I can help Princess Kako's child obtain the status of a prince..."

Koizumi still wanted to refuse.

Li Xinghe reminded Koizumi:

"Think it through. The reason Baba Nobuyuki used to rebel was 'restoration of imperial power'."

Koizumi broke out in a cold sweat and suddenly realized what was happening.

Although he wasn't very intelligent, at least his emotional intelligence had returned.

Japan's system, in the final analysis, is a peculiar Frankenstein's monster of an imperial system. Therefore, once political corruption occurs, the restoration of power becomes a typical drama of retrogressive reformists staging a fierce battle.

Many populist political parties that emerged in Japan after the turn of the millennium are essentially reviving old ideas, such as the Japan Restoration Party and the Shinsengumi. They simply want to use these names to carry out their activities.

Li Xinghe, on the other hand, gave Koizumi an opportunity to tear apart the consensus of the Japanese people, so that they could no longer use this excuse, namely, to push a child who was not of pure blood to inherit the imperial family and shatter the sanctity of the so-called 'unbroken line'.

Such a wicked scheme left even Hua Yingmei, the neighbor, in awe of her husband's abilities.

That's utterly shameless.

This is a test of obedience for the entire nation.

This is also a despicable act of poisoning and backstabbing against the Japanese people's consensus.

Although it was just two playboys rambling on and on about making plans, Li Xinghe was actually eager to dismantle Japan's outdated and corrupt system. He was talking about a conspiracy that was already underway.

"Row."

Koizumi eventually admitted that he was shameless and despicable, and that he just wanted to become prime minister again.

Therefore, he could quickly sell his daughter, and of course, he could also quickly agree to Li Xinghe's even more outrageous royal blood transfusion.

Li Xinghe immediately began to arrange the battle:

"Then let's get started now. I've gathered all the subordinates I can mobilize. Go back now and invite Shigeru Ishiba and the others together. Find some excuse to discuss this, at least delaying them for a few hours so I can organize the army to launch an attack."

Koizumi didn't quite get used to it until Li Xinghe reminded him repeatedly, at which point he hesitantly walked out the door.