Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Everyone saw how this money would be used.

Shui Jing Tianping arrived shortly afterward, and she stated definitively:

"That's right, we're going to take that 100 trillion."

With these 100 trillion yen in assets, Li Xinghe finally figured out his agricultural management plan. He proposed agricultural liberalization, supporting farmers in market competition, reducing various distributors, importing large quantities of goods, and using Sally Group's logistics and TikTok live streaming to develop online agriculture, thereby gaining public support.

When you're short of money, you're frugal; when you have money, you don't know how to spend it?

In short, if the Agricultural Cooperatives fall, Xinghe will feast.

……

Haneda Airport.

Kanda Masato, who was preparing to flee, was taken off the plane by flight attendants. Several cabinet special agents, along with Kokubun Tsukiyomi, came to arrest him.

"Kanda Masato, you're under arrest."

"Then... my family..."

He wanted to say goodbye to his family, but to his surprise, Kokubun Tsukiyaki sneered: "Family? Your family is already waiting for you in jail."

Kanda Masato was so disheartened that he fainted on the spot.

After being taken to the dungeon of the Aoyama Command, he quickly confessed everything, implicating the Vice Minister of Finance, Hiroshi Shinkawa, the Vice Minister of the Environment, Akira Watanabe, and others.

The coup d'état on April 1st, the day of cherry blossom viewing, was indeed just the beginning.

Following the leads of Yoshiki Usuki and Masato Kanda, a massive manhunt began.

Masato Kanda of the Asian Development Bank was arrested on suspicion of international financial corruption.

Next, Shoichi Tsuji, an economics professor at Shinshu University, was arrested for alleged corruption related to agricultural cooperatives during his tenure as the head of the Hokuriku Finance Bureau.

Then, several bureaucrats in key positions within the Ministry of Finance were subjected to surprise inspections by the Eastern District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department because of Yoshiki Usuki's confession.

Unlike in the past, this time when the Special Investigation Department was mobilized, the Cabinet Special Operations Department was mobilized simultaneously, taking away all their immediate family members. If one person was investigated, the whole family was arrested. This kind of collective arrest caused a series of shocks among the Tokyo bureaucracy.

And everyone knows that the direct cause of this incident was that the farmers' association colluded with bureaucrats to cause trouble for Li Xinghe.

Li Xinghe was already sharpening his knife, ready to strike at the farmers' association.

However, the farmers' association then knelt down in protest.

The fake ice queen, Xianzi, came to find Li Xinghe and jokingly said:

"The agricultural cooperative is willing to pay 13.5 billion yen in bail for them."

Li Xinghe thought for a moment and smiled, then said:

"alright."

He released those people.

But at this point, agricultural cooperation was indeed in a state of panic.

The agricultural cooperative's top officials went to the remnants of the Liberal Democratic Party, and after some discussion, they decided to abandon the bureaucratic group.

So they forced these people who had been released on bail to die.

The night was dark and desolate, and a few more disheartened people appeared on the Tokyo Tower.

On the Tokyo Tower drop tower, several men stood with tears in their eyes, forced by pressure from all sides to stand high up in the Tokyo Tower, looking down at the steel jungle of Tokyo.

They were sacrificed.

Yoshiki Usuki, thinking that his wife might still be being played with by Ayako Aso, was overcome with grief:

"Think of your family. Don't let others look down on you, and don't make things difficult for your family. Jump."

The wind was biting cold, and no one dared to move forward.

Under immense mental pressure, Tsuji Shoichi, who had left government service to become an economics professor, suffered a mental breakdown and began to regress.

"What does this have to do with me? Isn't it all Hiroshi Shinkawa who's stirring things up and causing trouble for Li Xinghe? Why shouldn't I jump? I'm going to report Hiroshi Shinkawa, I'm going to report the Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Environment Hiroshi Kayamizu, and I'm going to report Teruhisa Kurita of the Financial Services Agency. If it weren't for these three people causing trouble, would things be like this now?"

He was still rambling incoherently:

"I'm going to report the farmers' association. They're the ones who drove us to jump off the building. They're the ones who..."

"They're the ones who go looking for trouble with Liberal Democratic Party members..."

Another person shouted:

"Jump! Li Xinghe already knows who's behind this. He just wants us dead..."

It's unclear who pushed Tsujisho City down.

Tsujisho City was forced to be the first to land from the sky. As he flew hundreds of meters in the air, looking at the astonished and amused Tokyo citizens, he was overcome with grief and tears streamed down his face.

"Ah~~"

With a thud, a lump of rotten flesh fell to the ground, making it impossible to tell who he was.

Then, Yoshiki Usuki took out his phone and found that Ayako Aso had sent him several more videos of her playing with his wife. Feeling even more desperate, he took a step and jumped, falling from the sky.

*Splat*, another one.

As police cordoned off Tokyo Tower, the area below was already packed with onlookers. However, what was very strange was that even though there was a fire station nearby, firefighters did not arrive in time to provide assistance. Instead, the police seemed to be slacking off, merely clearing out the area for people to jump to prevent them from hitting and killing ordinary citizens.

So the suicide attempts continued.

The reporters waiting downstairs watched as one man after another fell from the sky. In fact, the list of men who were to jump had already been released long before the reporters arrived.

Suddenly, a large number of high-ranking officials from finance, agriculture, forestry, and environmental affairs jumped down from the suddenly closed Tokyo Tower. First, it was Tsuji Shoichi, an economics professor at Shinshu University; then it was Usuki Yoshiki, the customs chief who had already pleaded guilty and was awaiting sentencing; then it was Kanda Masato, the president of the Asian Development Bank; and then a dozen or so mid- to high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry jumped down, smashing the scene into a red and yellow watermelon stand.

Why hasn't the fire department arrived yet?

The police officer in charge of the scene suddenly feigned surprise:

"Oh dear, it turns out I couldn't get through on the phone."

If you can't get through, you can't get through. Are you going to kill him or something?

He simply 'forgot'.

……

The night of the Tokyo Tower suicides, in which more than a dozen mid- to high-ranking officials jumped to their deaths, exposed a stark reality.

The top officials of the agricultural cooperatives and the Liberal Democratic Party will not protect bureaucrats.

Once bureaucrats become landmines, they will not hesitate to discard and throw them away.

Therefore, the tripartite cooperation between LDP members, bureaucrats, and agricultural cooperatives instantly cracked, and everyone went their separate ways when disaster struck.

This was an open conspiracy by Li Xinghe.

Is that all?

Is this all done?

Everyone was screaming in their hearts.

The agricultural cooperatives, in particular, felt they had already given Li Xinghe a lot of face, and kept backing down. The bail of 13.5 billion yen, the suicides of several core bureaucrats, and their willingness to hand over the list of various intermediaries in Tokyo—wasn't that enough to satisfy Li Taige?

The bureaucrats, realizing that the agricultural cooperatives would not protect them, were now in a panic.

Some pleaded for mercy, some committed suicide, and others rushed to the cabinet to report their colleagues and superiors, or to pay a pledge of integrity, wishing they could change their surnames to Li.

However, while they felt it was time to end it, Li Xinghe felt it was time for a mass killing.

At a press conference regarding corruption within agricultural cooperatives and bureaucratic corruption, Li Xinghe issued a death warrant without hesitation:

"Given that the existence of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives has degenerated into a means for financial capitalists to exploit the Japanese people, I will completely dissolve the agricultural cooperatives and transfer the Norinchukin Bank to the Cabinet Secretariat."

The dismantling of agricultural cooperatives was already on the agenda at the beginning of this century.

After the Democratic Party of Japan came to power, it tried to dismantle all agricultural cooperatives. However, after a head-on confrontation, the agricultural cooperatives did not die; instead, the Democratic Party of Japan was the one that died.

The reporters at the scene were in an uproar.

No one expected that Li Xinghe would be so ruthless, wanting to wipe out the behemoth that is the Farmers' Association in one fell swoop.

Li Xinghe's face remained expressionless, but he joked:

"Please allow me to quote a line from the anime: 'Go, all my treasures are there.' Corrupt agricultural cooperatives have hindered the foundation of free agricultural development, production guidance has persecuted farmers and continuously reduced production, the unified purchase and sale system has destroyed agricultural trade, and the foolish Central Treasury of Agriculture and Forestry has controlled agricultural finance. They have devoured everything in this country's agriculture. Now, I am here to open a new voyage for everyone."

Who is the true mentor of neoliberalism?

Li Xinghe.

Although it went completely against the political order, it implemented neoliberal theories in economics.

From then on, Japanese agriculture no longer had agricultural cooperatives to centralize purchases and sales, no single distributors, and not even production guidance from agricultural cooperatives. Everyone could develop farms, grow and sell whatever they wanted, expand production if the economic benefits were good, and change varieties if they wanted, finding new ways out in the real market competition.

"Farmers will go bankrupt!"

A reporter shouted from below.

Li Xinghe, however, retorted:

"It is true that many farmers will go bankrupt and many farmers will quit production, but if I don't reform, will they not quit? How many more years can silver-haired farmers with an average age of 70 work? If we don't take advantage of the present to introduce market competition and let more young people participate in the development of new agriculture, the Japanese will not even have rice to eat in the future."

The remaining fewer than 180 million Japanese farmers now have an average age of over 70. This is a fact that is readily apparent.

And it is an undeniable fact that their economic income has completely collapsed after the pandemic.

Just as Tokyo's taxi drivers were almost all dead, so the ride-hailing market was opened up, if reforms aren't implemented now, Japan's agriculture will be doomed.

The Japanese remained silent at this point.

Although Li Xinghe has already defied the Emperor system, although Li Xinghe acts recklessly every day, although Li Xinghe drives armored vehicles and sends people to chop people with broadswords, although Li Xinghe has brought in a large number of Chinese immigrants.

However, it seems that only Li Xinghe is doing the work.

Therefore, the Japanese had no choice but to accept it.

Meanwhile, military movements are very frequent at the Cabinet Special Forces' bases, with various tanks, armored vehicles, and even missile units being deployed one after another.

Xiao Chu, Zhang Da, He Yang, Xu Baofeng, and others are all organizing teams:

"Prepare to deploy tanks and bombard the central headquarters of the Farmers' Cooperative."

"Prepare to suppress the riots in the capital and eliminate all forms of resistance from the farmers' cooperatives."

"Prepare for financial takeover and freeze all of the agricultural cooperative's funds."

"Prepare for a secret arrest; arrest every single one of the top officials of the agricultural cooperative!"

At this point, the farmers' association was facing a life-or-death crisis.

Major newspapers and social media platforms have published critical articles targeting Li Xinghe, as everyone knows he intends to seize 100 trillion yen.

"A 100 trillion yen robber!"

"The most heinous and ruthless bandit in history!"

"If I don't die today, I'll be a thief of the nation!"

A confrontation is brewing, and the winds of change are gathering over Tokyo.

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. Here's 4600 words. I'm so sorry, I slept for 11 hours straight and woke up to find I'd overslept.

Chapter 708: The Number One Taiko in the World (5500 words)

The winds of change are blowing.

Early cherry blossoms are like knives, each one falling upon the world.

In April in Tokyo, Japan, amid the political turmoil that has been ongoing since last year, various social strata are gradually adjusting their positions.

The financial and military-industrial classes flocked to Li Xinghe amidst the turmoil.

As Japan's first unicorn stock, Sally Group's market capitalization is approaching that of the largest in Japan, and its business has spread throughout the country.

Where there are those who surrender, there are also those who rebel.

The Japanese National Agricultural Cooperative Organization chose to oppose Li Xinghe. They received support from some international NGOs and prepared to take to the streets in tractors to assert their authority.

"Operation to Occupy Tokyo"

With flags waving, the final dance of the Japanese agricultural cooperatives begins.