Yes, Prime Minister of Japan
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Misato's mood swings during her pregnancy were quite healthy, but her belly was already showing, so preparations for the third season of "The Story of a Female Civil Servant" were temporarily slowed down and will not resume until May.
After chatting for a few more minutes, when the topic turned to their eldest daughter, Mei, who was already 10 months old, Misato urged Li Xinghe to hurry back to Tokyo before her first birthday, and Li Xinghe readily agreed.
As soon as Li Xinghe put down his phone, the pretty girl who had been carefully attending to him immediately came over with a plate, asking him to put his phone on it. Beside her were several other young people selected from K-pop trainees, who took turns following Li Xinghe around the clock, eating and drinking with him, acting as his personal assistants, and even wanting to clean up his messes, ensuring that Li Xinghe didn't have to do anything himself.
"Go away, I have important business to attend to."
With that, Lee Sung-ha ordered someone to bring out the South Korean president's bulletproof car, preparing to go to the Blue House for a meeting.
Li Xinghe's temporary residence at the Presidential Palace in Longshan, occupying the garden that Yin Xiyue had painstakingly renovated, seems to have become an accepted fact.
After Cho Gu-hwan went to the Blue House to reopen the presidential palace, Lee Sung-ha remained in Yongsan, and was jokingly referred to by South Koreans as having two presidents in one country, saying that Cho Gu-hwan was the official president, but Lee Sung-ha was the retired emperor.
As the commander of the South Korean intelligence agency, Lee Sung-ha's intelligence headquarters was also located at the Yongsan Presidential Palace. Su Yu-min's special operations division was located in Yongsan District, so it was also moved there and merged with Lee Sung-ha. A group of loyal elites selected from the First and Third Air Transport Divisions were assigned to be responsible for security near the Yongsan Presidential Palace and were known as the '101st Special Operations Battalion'.
The 707th Special Operations Brigade was transferred to Yeouido National Assembly Station, the First Air Transport Team was still at Gimpo Airport, but the Third Air Transport Team was transferred to Seocho-dong in Seongnam, making it convenient for Li Xinghe to deploy them at any time.
Under Li Xinghe's intense antics, Japanese and Koreans found a common enemy and began criticizing him online together:
Why has Japan become like this? And why has South Korea become like this too?
"Because the United States wants Japan and South Korea to become its own East Asian fortresses, to become China's next Ukraine, and the next Ukraine after that. Li Xinghe was able to succeed because the United States needs a Northeast Asian dictator to help them delay China."
Smart people have already noticed that Li Xinghe's every act of trouble is backed by the US military, the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress.
Those who leave a little bit of skin on top say that Li Xinghe is like a bouncing bomb inserted into a Japanese or Korean beauty.
Those who are more vulgar will bluntly say that Li Xinghe is like the American penis that was inserted into Japanese and Korean girls.
When Lee Sung-ha arrived at the Blue House, he was the subject of a lot of online criticism.
The Cyber Command asked Li Xinghe whether he wanted to implement a censorship campaign. Li Xinghe replied that people could criticize him freely, but the Japanese had been criticizing him for over a year and what effect it had had.
Hong Zhuangyuan, who was originally in charge of training Li Xinghe, has now become the Minister of Foreign Affairs after joining Li Xinghe's side.
He first showed Li Xinghe the day's work summary:
"Australia should join our US-Japan-Korea+ group."
Australia responded very loyally to President Vance’s ‘US-Japan-Korea+’ initiative, believing itself to be the most deserving of being the first of the ‘+’ signs.
Before 2021, the United States would occasionally try to form a quadrilateral alliance with Japan, India and Australia. However, with the continued economic downturn and India’s hesitant attitude, the United States gradually gave up on winning over India. Some people even said that the Indo-Pacific theater should be changed back to the Pacific theater because India is simply unreliable.
On the contrary, Australia, a peculiar country, has been active on the front lines of anti-China sentiment.
"Let them add more, write application forms, and allocate some space for the Japanese and South Korean troops to station."
Li Xinghe pointed.
"What about India? Should we still invest in India?"
The finance minister came to ask.
Because Zhao Juhuan didn't understand.
Li Xinghe personally guided Zhao Juhuan, offering him advice on diplomacy:
"We should ignore countries like India. When it comes to begging, can India compare to Egypt? India got industry and airplanes from the Soviet Union, and tanks and food from the United States. India has to admit defeat in front of Egypt. But begging is a last resort. It doesn't strive for self-improvement and dares to insult a great nation. It deserves a beating."
India, with its duplicitous nature—wanting to cooperate with the Soviet Union while also wanting to shake hands with the United States, wanting to reconcile with China while also wanting to dominate South Asia—is a petty and opportunistic country that has been unable to break out of South Asia since its founding. We no longer need it.
Not to mention China and the United States, even Japan doesn't want to waste any more time arguing with India; there's no point in doing so.
With the deepening of anti-globalization, India has fallen into a downward cycle of low income, low industry, high pollution, and high unemployment. The larger the population, the greater the pollution; the greater the pollution, the more restricted the industry becomes; the more restricted the industry becomes, the less internationally competitive it becomes; after the failure to compete, industrial upgrading collapses, followed by even larger-scale unemployment and the accumulation of an ineffective population like drifters.
Most of India's population doesn't even qualify for factory work.
Now, Lee Sung-ha spends his days teaching Cho Gu-hwan how to handle national affairs, and incidentally rides in the South Korean president's car around Seoul to check whether the Chinese character signs for "Seoul" are properly installed.
"The press conference is about to begin..."
Li Xinghe and Zhao Juhuan attended a press conference and talked with reporters about peace in Northeast Asia. They were quite busy during the day.
The reporter had many questions.
First, the Northeast Asia Peace Summit was held in Tokyo, then a coup was orchestrated in South Korea, helping the US shatter South Korea's unification ambitions. Although many participants in the Panmunjom peace talks died within days, at least the spirit of the meeting was preserved. Peace seemed imminent on the Korean Peninsula, and Northeast Asia was about to enter a peaceful era under a strongman.
And then, right at this critical juncture, whoosh! The US-Japan-South Korea+ organization was born.
Citizens of China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea couldn't help but ask, they couldn't help but ask, they even had to incontinence to ask:
Haki Lee, whose side are you really on?
That's why the reporter asked that question.
"Haki... cough cough, Special Envoy Li, whose side are you on?"
Li Xinghe's answer to this has always been consistent:
"Whether it's the US-Japan-South Korea Plus or the East Asia Peace Summit, our goal remains unchanged: there will be no war in Northeast Asia, war must not happen, and we will achieve lasting peace. As long as I am here, any attempt to provoke war will be strictly stopped."
The Japanese reporter watched the South Korean reporter with glee, finally seeing the next victim.
Li Xinghe dismantled tariff barriers within Japan, launched a heavy-handed attack on agricultural cooperatives, severely suppressed the far-right wing of the Imperial Kingdom ideologically, and even got the Imperial Princess pregnant.
This has infuriated a large number of right-wing elements in Japan. Yet, he can also brazenly come up with an aircraft carrier plan, claiming as a person of Chinese descent to "ask China to design an aircraft carrier for Japan," and he can also wield a large cleaver to frantically cut the US's tribute payments, much like the iron-fisted head of state that the Japanese right wing desires.
The Japanese left's attitude towards Li Xinghe is more complex. On the one hand, he constantly opposes war, gives the communist movement many green lights, and his iron fist keeps pounding on the right wing. Moreover, he is the behind-the-scenes financier of many left-wing organizations. On the other hand, he is developing aircraft carriers and militarizing Japan, leading Japan toward becoming a colonial government, leaving many left-wing political commentators in a dilemma.
If Japan is like this, then South Korea will soon follow suit, with both the left and right wings being hammered by Lee Sung-ha's iron fist.
Now, all of East Asia has a common enemy: Li Xinghe.
He thus became the man burdened with the greatest hatred in all of East Asia.
There are also many people in China who dislike Li Xinghe. Some have pointed out that Li Xinghe is forcibly turning Chinese characters into the official script of Japan and South Korea, and that he will probably normalize various clothing, languages and rituals in the future, which is stealing Chinese culture.
Some people think that Li Xinghe is too good at creating drama and is not a good person.
During the press conference, Li Xinghe even joked with Chinese reporters:
"Since everyone hates me so much, should I go back to China and talk to them face-to-face?"
When the news broke, Chinese netizens were terrified.
The comment section was immediately flooded with messages:
"Please, if you love China, don't go back."
"Patriotism knows no boundaries, as long as you have the heart."
"Whatever you do, don't go back to China. A jinx like you is fine in Tokyo or Seoul, just don't get on a plane back home!"
"Having already wreaked havoc on Japan and South Korea, you still want to go back home? Haji Lee, you bastard!"
This is a very magical kind of mysterious rule theory that transcends superstition and backwardness. What if this bastard causes a lot of trouble when he returns to China?
When Li Xinghe announced that he was going to Beijing to talk about peace in Northeast Asia, Beijingers were unlucky enough to experience another spring sandstorm.
Perhaps because he was still shaken, Li Xinghe's joking application was not approved, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held another scathing critique of him. From criticizing his character to his alleged favoritism in promoting his crony, Zhao Guhuan, the spokesperson and Japanese and South Korean reporters had a good blast, and everyone seemed to sympathize with each other.
……
After the press conference, everyone sat down to discuss the matter, and Hong Zhuangyuan was still worried:
"Our economy is in such a terrible state... even the US arms orders aren't enough to keep us afloat."
"Indeed, the economic recession is very severe. South Korea can no longer hold on and may become the last place to go from being a developed country to a developing country..."
Many ministers are worried.
This is also a kind of karmic retribution.
In an effort to catch up with developed countries, South Korea aggressively injected liquidity into its economy, pushing it to grow too fast. As a result, its economic data soared. Now, with the globalization economy faltering, its shortcomings are being exposed, and it's time to pay the price.
Similarly, if China wants to quickly become a developed country, it only needs to appreciate the RMB and inflate its statistics. It is difficult to raise per capita GDP from $5000 to $1, but it is not difficult to take a shortcut from $1 to $2 or $3.
But this data is fake; people's living standards, however, are real.
"Since everyone's income has decreased, why not just let prices decrease even faster than income?"
Li Xinghe's tactics, though varied, always revolve around the same principle: complete integration into the Chinese supply chain.
Forget about agricultural protection laws and import tax laws; just issue a separate executive order to open up imports and bring prices down first.
The ministers were puzzled.
Li Xinghe explained:
"Lift the ban on South Korean agricultural imports from China. Eliminate the 500% tariff on rice, all the outrageous monopolies and subsidies given to the Korean Agricultural Cooperatives, and establish the Korea Price Equilibrium Commission, authorizing them to import all kinds of agricultural products from Shandong, Northeast China, and North Korea. Eggs, vegetables, pork—there are cheap goods everywhere!"
It's a very simple and crude strategy, but it's very effective.
This is Li Xinghe's economic strategy.
Since incomes are declining and wages are plummeting, we should connect with China's industrial chain and introduce domestically produced agricultural products at comparable prices to alleviate the difficulties faced by people in the current economic downturn.
"But if this happens, our local agricultural cooperatives..."
The ministers panicked.
Those familiar with South Korea know that although the country is very anti-Japanese, it is actually almost identical to Japan in terms of government, conglomerates, capital, and businesses.
Take, for example, the absurdly deformed monster that is the Korean Agricultural Cooperative. After replicating the form of the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative one-to-one, it did not cooperate with more research institutes to conduct new agricultural research like the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative. Instead, after hyping up a few products such as Korean beef, it lay down and started to enjoy the monopoly profits.
Like Japan, South Korean farmers have also experienced a significant decline, with only a little over one million remaining, and it is estimated that they will be less than one million in another ten years.
Li Xinghe naturally commented sharply:
"Ignore them. Over a million people don't even have enough votes to fill the Chinese population in Seoul. Just grant voting rights to foreigners in Seoul and take down the farmers' association, isn't that easy?"
After all this turmoil, agricultural prices in Japan and South Korea eventually align with domestic prices, forcing them to import essential goods from Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. Their economic income will further decline, while prices will gradually decrease to match domestic levels, leading to a significant drop in national GDP. Ironically, people's living standards will improve, ultimately resulting in everyone falling into a trap.
This is also a two-way exchange of economic cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea.
Under the forceful pressure of Li Xinghe and Zhao Juhuan, the ministers reluctantly agreed.
The news caused another stir in South Korea. Under the influence of anti-China propaganda in traditional Japanese and South Korean media, South Koreans share a common PTSD regarding the opening of import restrictions.
So, South Koreans began preparing to take to the streets to protest, as is their custom.
What is Li Xinghe's strategy for dealing with this?
He called Su Yumin directly to his office:
"If Il-kong loses, he'll be punished with a beating! I'm the South Korean military intelligence commander, so I'll have the intelligence department start arresting people."
"And what about the morale of the troops?"
Commander Su Yumin responded first, then cautiously asked a question.
After all, the South Korean military also has some self-respect, and opening up imports like this is indeed affecting morale.
Li Xinghe scoffed:
"After lifting the monopoly and import ban imposed by the Korean Agricultural Cooperatives, we will prioritize supplying pork from Henan and vegetables from Shandong to our South Korean military brothers at low prices. They won't have to eat junk food at those officers' run-down canteens anymore. I'll hire professional chefs from New Oriental to cook for everyone in the barracks, ensuring that everyone has lean meat and good vegetables at every meal. Is that enough?"
The South Korean military's meal allowance is 4300 won per person, a price that hasn't changed much to this day. However, that's only about ten yuan in Chinese currency, enough for a large bowl of noodles in a Chinese restaurant. Instead of providing extra meals, the South Korean military continues to operate its own canteens, run by officers' families, stocked with junk food, effectively draining the soldiers' already meager pay.
Lee Sung-ha dared to make such a bold promise to the South Korean military because a black market already existed in South Korea, serving as a community for Chinese people.
The Seoul metropolitan area has a population of 2700 million, of which more than one million are Chinese (including ethnic Koreans). It is no secret that supplies from Shandong and Liaoning circulate within the small Chinese community.
Find a few Shandong chefs to cook a big meal at the air force base, with a budget of 4300 won, based on domestic prices.
Li Xinghe actually did just that.
A few hours later, after finishing a proper meal, Special Forces 101 and 707 eagerly volunteered for the mission:
"The brothers' batons are already impatient!"
We're all eager and ready to obey orders from the Presidential Palace in Longshan!
Despite all the talk about national spirit, having a full meal is still the most important thing.
Especially since I can have a full meal every day from now on.
Therefore, several special operations units assembled.
When he puts aside his work, Li Xinghe will also browse social media.
As the U.S. Special Envoy for Korean Affairs, Lee Sung-ha also frequently appeared online, randomly refreshing the comments section.
A netizen said on Weibo:
"Li Xinghe is nothing but a servant of five provinces."
Li Xinghe replied below him:
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