Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"Interstellar River, if you don't fire, you're not human!"

"I want to see tanks crush them!"

In other words, even ordinary Japanese passersby would know that the person driving a tractor and confronting Li Xinghe in the countryside was not a farmer, but an old landlord.

Therefore, once the order codenamed 'Lawnmower' was issued, the Cabinet Special Forces quickly surrounded the Ja Agricultural Cooperative headquarters in Otemachi.

The courtyard was crowded with old men who were resisting Li Xinghe.

"Oppose Li Xinghe!"

Meanwhile, the special forces outside were still using battering rams to smash the door.

Xiao Chu Zhang told them to get out of the way.

"Forget battering rams, let's get tanks!"

Boom!

The T-72 tank fired its gun, and the Ukrainian mech crew on board shouted in broken Chinese, "Charge! Charge! Charge!"

The Japanese Self-Defense Force officer, riding a Kawasaki miniature motorcycle, rushed in, brandishing his rifle and shouting in Japanese, "Lie down! Surrender!"

Next, the assault troops from North Korea

They brandished military batons, beating the old men and women until they were covered in blood, dragging them out of the room and stuffing them into the prison van.

Chinese soldiers standing beside the vehicle raised their batons and berated the reporters taking photos in broken Japanese.

"What are you looking at? We're beating the landlord. Are you the landlord?"

The reporter immediately fled.

The whole country was filled with a scene of struggle.

In densely populated areas, such as the border between Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, the tank units of the Coastal Operations Brigade directly crushed through the human walls, turning Old Deng, who couldn't escape in time, into a bursting meatball. Patches of meatballs burst and flowed across the ground, forming blood-red rivers that spread through the ditches and into the Sumida River.

Locally, Japanese reconnaissance teams, driving Type 16 wheeled assault vehicles, served as a reliable assault and reconnaissance force in various units. They easily breached the gates of farmers' cooperatives, allowing motorized infantry to rush in and carry out a whirlwind of violent suppression against ordinary landlords.

In a single day, chaos erupted, and blood stained the entire nation.

Li Xinghe actually drove a T-72 tank, a Type 10 tank, and a Type 16 wheeled assault vehicle, openly running over the old men of the farmers' association on the street. Photos of the old men, unable to get up when they fled, turning into little dumplings with bursting juice, were prominently displayed on the front pages of foreign media.

But so what?

Americans dared not say anything.

Koreans say Lee Sung-ha did a good thing.

Even American mages envy Li Xinghe's ability to unleash his fury without restraint, and hope that Vance can do the same in China.

Asuka Nagumo reads a briefing aloud to Li Xinghe:

"Taiko, you've begun riot control operations against the agricultural cooperatives in all 46 prefectures. So far, 677 rebels have been killed, 4112 captured, and 26 demonstrators dispersed. The collection of agricultural cooperative assets is proceeding smoothly..."

Li Xinghe's nickname "Taiko" quickly spread.

Major media outlets have compared him to Cao Cao and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

He is known as the "Number One Taiko in the World".

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Author's Note: Thank you all for your support. 5500 words. It's gotten too long again. Should I make it shorter?

Chapter 709: The Grand Plan for Introducing Population into the Galaxy (4600 words)

For the first time, the vast land of Kanto showed traces of chariots crisscrossing the landscape.

However, whether it was a 16-wheeled assault vehicle, a Nissan Hummer, or a Toyota minivan, the Self-Defense Force soldiers they carried were all there to suppress local landlords and tyrants.

In Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, two Toyota vans surrounded the main building of the Kanto branch, a four-story building.

The leading soldier used a battering ram to smash the door, but the old men inside were still putting up a stubborn resistance. The old men and women upstairs threw all kinds of garbage down, eggshells, wooden sticks and stools, making them dizzy and unable to break through the small building guarded by the peasant association landlords.

A dozen or so soldiers retreated in defeat, becoming the laughing stock of the nearby spectators.

Their superiors called and verbally abused them.

"We couldn't even take down the building guarded by old men and women!"

A group of soldiers squatted together, lamenting:

“In the past, we were insulted by the public even when we paid for disaster relief ourselves. Now we are suppressing troublemakers at public expense, and they are still cursing us. Haven’t we been putting in all this effort for nothing?”

Some people think:

"We cannot fire on ordinary civilians."

Some people also think:

"I've had enough of eating cold food and sleeping in broken beds. Maybe Jian Xinghe is doing the right thing? I heard that he promoted the reform of the South Korean military's diet, and the food and accommodation conditions of the South Korean military have improved a lot. Some people don't even want to leave the military anymore. Moreover, the South Korean military is promoting the reform of the contract soldier system, and the salary and benefits are comparable to those of civil servants."

There's no need to doubt the capabilities of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, because they simply aren't capable.

The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) is notorious for its large number of soldiers, a den of iniquity and a garbage dump; anyone with a modicum of skill wouldn't go there to work. Even Yamakami Tetsuya was a former Maritime Self-Defense Force officer.

This place is full of first-term soldiers with less than a high school education, meaning they'll be discharged after two or three years. Most of these soldiers come in simply because they have no food, and they'll likely become a social menace after they leave.

Among the Self-Defense Forces' divisions, reconnaissance teams equipped with 16-wheeled assault vehicles are considered relatively well-equipped, while armored squadrons also possess some armored vehicles. However, even these elite units might be no match for the rough, unpredictable punches of ordinary farmers.

At that moment, a passing US Guardian armored vehicle arrived at the scene.

Several men with buzz cuts jumped out of the car and chased them away.

"Make way, we'll take over."

The ground self-defense force soldiers were driven aside and watched as the Guardian armored vehicle pointed at the building and opened its machine gun.

"They're from the First Joint Division?"

"Didn't they say it wasn't fully assembled yet?"

"I heard that many of them were guerrilla lunatics recruited from Okinawa, people who dared to fight the American army."

Amidst laughter and conversation, the machine guns began firing.

The machine gun fired, and the roaring bullets pounded into the front door of the small building, blasting apart stacks of bookshelves and chairs, giving the old men and women inside quite a fright. The crew-cut men drove their car through the door, got out, and used military sticks to teach the old landlord a lesson, making him learn to respect the ruler of the country.

Li Xinghe ordered the reclamation of abandoned land and the dissolution of agricultural cooperatives for the sake of the well-being of all citizens.

How can we allow reform to stagnate just because the landlords have suffered losses and can no longer leech off the farmers' associations?

Before long, the Kanto branch was breached.

A large group of elderly men were apprehended at the scene, including the head of the Guandong region.

Aside from the bloody crackdown near Tokyo, the agricultural cooperatives' crackdowns in most other areas were rather mediocre.

The soldiers drove into the courtyard, and the old man from the local farmers' association trembled with fear. Those who dared to resist stayed at the gate, while those who didn't fled home.

Following the fall of the Kanto branch, local branches such as the Hiroshima, Sendai, and Nagoya branches were also successively breached by the local Self-Defense Forces, who dispersed the blindly following farmers who were marching around, overturned their tractors, and left the old men sitting on the ground crying incessantly.

It's like two noobs pecking at each other.

Some might ask, is it really fun to play in a region like Japan where there are so many weak players?

Li Xinghe's answer was, "It's great."

Only in the "stomping noobs" zone can you play your most enjoyable matches. Take, for example, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' pile of junk armored units. If this were in South Korea, Lee Sung-ha would absolutely not dare to send South Korean troops to fight the local cult. They're all conscripts, and it would be ridiculous if they got driven away by the local cult's veterans.

But in Japan, you can drive a Hummer and run over old men like crazy; those old men's small tractors are just junk that you can easily knock over.

Meanwhile, an arrest is underway in Tokyo.

At the main gate of the Imperial Palace, in Otemachi 3-chome, the Ja Building is surrounded by tanks, and there are Cabinet Special Forces soldiers everywhere.

"Arrest Saburo Terashita, Speaker of the Ja National Congress!"

"Masanobu Sakamoto, acting chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, is to be arrested!"

"National Federation of Forest Associations Nakazaki Kazuhisa, arrested!"

In addition to these elderly men, the heads of the management committees of agricultural cooperative credit unions in Kanagawa, Aichi, and Iwate prefectures have also been arrested one after another. Financial cooperation advisors such as Mariko Bando have already surrendered to the government and have been submitting the operating documents of the Japan Agriculture and Forestry Central Bank.

As Mikasa and Chiyo sat in the car, they watched as the breached Otemachi 3-chome 1 building was taken away for interrogation, with hundreds of leaders from the Ja Agricultural Cooperative being arrested one by one by the military and police.

Chiyo Hina looked at the soon-to-be-closed Ja building and sighed deeply.

"A 100 trillion yen thief... Our son has truly become public enemy number one."

Mikasa was much more relaxed.

"We'll be in power eventually, so what's there to be afraid of?"

Previously, as an iron-fisted prosecutor, he always

We were worried that our child might get into trouble because of close association with Americans. Now we don't have to worry anymore.

He's already become the Taiko of Japan, who can bring him down now?

Misato climbed up from the back seat and pinched Mikasa's belly:

"Is it because you can use this as an excuse to hide away for months?"

Mikasa and her sisters started playing around:

"Don't touch it if it's not his biological father."

"Is the child's biological father your own son?"

The three sisters were playfully bickering with their own agendas, but after getting off the car, Mikasa was still the iron-fisted head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, while Chiyo Hinaki was the most influential female prosecutor in the East District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department.

The two mothers joined forces to interrogate the Ja agricultural cooperative members, aiming to eliminate the Ja agricultural cooperative, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and the agricultural and forestry ethnic group members in one fell swoop.

This day can be said to be the day when Li Xinghe fully took control of power.

The old Tokyoites were enjoying a rare moment of carefree living, with a group of elderly men dancing and playing music in the street:

"The people of Tokyo have finally taken over the country! They've taken over the country! How despicable! How despicable! Yet another prime minister that everyone hates has appeared."

The main point is to satirize Li Xinghe's poor character and his ruthless killing. The number of people who have died at his hands exceeds the total number of all postwar prime ministers combined.

At the same time, I also want to satirize the fact that politicians from Tokyo have been generally incompetent in recent years. The last prime minister from Tokyo was Fumio Kishida, who was universally disliked in Japan; people would rather Li Xinghe had him executed. The one before that was even more ridiculous, Yukio Hatoyama, nicknamed "traitor to China," who is still working for China's Belt and Road Initiative. Even the Japanese dislike him, calling him a loyal dog of the Chinese.

It just so happens that this guy, Jian Xinghe, is a complete lackey of the US imperialists and a pro-China traitor, and the Japanese really hate him.

I hate that he doesn't follow the rules.

However, it cannot be said that the old man was wrong. After all, Li Xinghe is indeed from Tokyo. According to his maternal lineage, his ancestral home is the Osaka Shinto priest family. After migrating to Tokyo, he established businesses in Saitama Prefecture, following a similar path to the Kishida family, the Hatoyama family, and others.

……

At the Cabinet Residence.

Sitting in the Prime Minister's seat, Lee Sung-ha addressed the cabinet officials below:

“The traditional small-scale family farming has been proven unworkable. With less than half an acre of arable land per person, what can be produced? We should take back all the abandoned, reduced-yield, and shrunken land and sublet it to various farms or agricultural companies willing to develop it.”

The landlords in the farmers' associations are too old to fight anymore; they're a bunch of old bones half-buried in the ground. Farmers across the country are generally approaching 70; the old men and women are almost all dead, they can't even wield a cane anymore. Why would Li Xinghe be afraid of them causing trouble?

Officials did not support Li Xinghe's reforms.

Li Xinghe casually started cursing:

"How did Japan's food self-sufficiency rate decline from 68% to 36%? Isn't it because you guys colluded with agricultural cooperatives, prioritizing profit over the lives of the people!"

Outsiders may not understand how bizarre these Japanese policies are.

Through collusion between agricultural cooperatives and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, they used the pretext of maintaining farmers' income to continuously reduce farmers' production through government subsidies, causing rice cultivation area to drop from over 2000 million hectares to 140 million hectares. At the same time, only 60% of these fields were cultivated each year, with the rest being subsidized to encourage farmers to cultivate other crops.

As a result, Japan's rice production shrank from a peak of 1445 million tons to less than 650 million tons, remaining on the edge of a very dangerous self-sufficiency line.

Simply put, they are adopting a suicidal approach, increasing their own production costs and forcing farmers into poverty in order to maintain their so-called income.

“But Your Excellency, Japanese rice must be protected no matter what,” pleaded Watanabe Ken, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

Li Xinghe used data to criticize him:

"Currently, the cost of 60 kilograms of rice exceeds 1.5 yen. If we can reduce this production cost to below 9500 yen, the rice can be exported to earn foreign exchange. Relaxing rice restrictions and promoting land leasing will actually improve people's lives. That's all."

If production scale and cultivated land are expanded to restore rice production to 1400 million tons per year, it is not impossible to reduce production costs. This is because the majority of production profits are swallowed up by agricultural cooperatives.

You might also ask, if the cost is only 1.5 yen, how can you dare to sell it for 6 yen, and yet the farmers still can't make any money?

This is the greed of agricultural cooperatives and middlemen in hoarding goods and controlling distribution channels.