Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Because while he was being assassinated, Vance sent his own special envoy just before the US debt was due.

Aiman ​​called Li Xinghe and told him:

“While you were injured in the assassination attempt, Vance sent his good friend, Rubio, to negotiate with you.”

Calling them good friends might not be quite right, but calling them good allies makes perfect sense.

Behind Rubio is the Florida clique, the Freedom Caucus of the Republican Party, a legacy of George W. Bush's group, and DeSantis is also part of their group.

Therefore, Trump is actually very different from these Maga politicians. This group of Freedom Party members left over from George W. Bush has often caused trouble for Trump's administration in the US Congress.

Natasha and Valeria escorted Li Xinghe to Yokota Base.

At Yokota Air Base, the site of the long-standing U.S. rule and control over Japan, Li Xinghe, along with General Jacqueline and others, greeted Rubio, who was then serving as Secretary of State.

Rubio got off the plane and deliberately pretended to be affectionate:

"Hey, Big G, everyone says you're injured, but you look okay."

However, talks at this level are political exchanges. Any frivolous behavior would be a disrespect for Li Xinghe's personal authority.

Therefore, Ayako Aso, the loyal henchman of the Taiko and a candidate for the next prime minister, stepped forward to fiercely criticize Rubio:

“Speak with respect. The person in front of you right now is no ordinary person.”

She also emphasized:

"He is the crown prince of Japan, the Minister of the Cabinet, the father of the Emperor's heir, and the divine prince! He is also the leader of Japan's science and technology industry, the creator of Japan's military reforms, and the pioneer of a new Japanese nation. As the highest-ranking man in Japan, he represents the Prime Minister of Japan."

Although he spoke with conviction, listing Li Xinghe's identities one by one, to be honest, he didn't seem threatening to the Americans; instead, he seemed rather eccentric and endearing.

Rubio couldn't help but smile slightly:

"Which...which Japan are you talking about? I've never heard of it."

Ayako Aso still needs to practice.

"Alright, let's not make it seem like we're being too harsh on our guests. Please, Mr. Rubio, stay in the dormitory for the time being."

Li Xinghe arranged for Rubio to stay in a regular room in the Air Force dormitory, an arrangement that made Rubio's face darken.

This is Li Xinghe's true contempt.

The subsequent negotiations were very lukewarm. Rubio demanded that Li Xinghe buy at least $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds, which essentially meant that Li Xinghe should bear the interest portion of the $10 trillion in US Treasury bonds.

Li Xinghe couldn't help but frown:

"One trillion? You're kidding me. Even if you included the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier, I couldn't possibly come up with that much money."

Rubio seemed to have obtained a lot of inside information, and proudly told him:

"Be careful that the US doesn't release your secret files in the Pentagon and CIA."

"Reveal my identity?"

Li Xinghe laughed:

"Go out and ask around, which Japanese person doesn't know I'm a spy sent by the United States?"

Li Xinghe is already openly working as a spy, practically becoming Japan's Qin Hui (a notorious traitor), and now you're telling me to be careful the US doesn't reveal my identity? That's completely unnecessary. It just makes the Japanese think the Americans are crazy.

He's the person you sent, and now you're solemnly accusing him of some mistake. Are you trying to make America criticize itself?

That's quite normal, though, because everyone knows that the US is most likely to oppose the US.

Even the feud between Li Xinghe and Wan Si is generally considered to be an infighting among loyalists of the Maga faction, rather than a defection by spies.

Even something as simple as establishing ties with North Korea was initiated by Trump.

Faced with the negotiations spiraling out of control, Rubio left behind a single statement:

"You decide for yourself. The Pentagon has chosen to stand on our side."

After saying that, he left the meeting room and said he would talk to them later.

Rubio's threats reveal a shift in the Pentagon's attitude.

Li Xinghe paced back and forth in the room, deep in thought, seriously considering the political gains and losses.

The Pentagon's change in attitude, frankly speaking, stems from the fact that, as a professional department with a degree of national integrity, it doesn't want to see Li Xinghe and Vance continue their feud. The $10 trillion in US debt must be freed up; not only does Vance need it, but the entire United States needs this debt transfer to support the national economy.

Moreover, the more than one trillion US dollars in US debt that serves as interest must be borne by foreigners; otherwise, US inflation will explode further.

In fact, by the end of 2029, the amount of US debt that needs to be replaced will be as high as $23 trillion. When these funds are replaced, the interest rate will be almost over 5%. Once the huge amount of high-interest loans are replaced, the extra interest is what people generally perceive as 'government quantitative easing'.

Ideally, this water should flow abroad.

Such as Japan.

"What are you going to do now? It seems the US is going to play with Japan the same way it played with Ukraine."

Valeria brought water to Li Xinghe.

Li Xinghe, unusually, took a cigarette from Valeria's pocket and held it in his hand.

He pondered for a long time.

"It's time to take the risk and move forward. If we don't seize this opportunity to do something, we might not get another strategic window of opportunity like this until next year's midterm elections. That will be in 2030, and if a war across the Taiwan Strait is decided to break out by then, our policy maneuvering space will be limited."

Like the Aoyama Command, Yokota Air Base is a center that focuses on information control, aviation guidance, and electronic intelligence gathering.

If the Aoyama Command is a small eye targeting Tokyo, then the entire Yokota Air Base is a true eye that the United States has planted on Tokyo's head to scan East Asia, controlling the collection and organization of a great deal of intelligence data.

Natasha asked in surprise:

What are you going to do?

Li Xinghe replied:

"Control Yokota Base."

Valeria looked at Li Xinghe's hand in surprise:

"How are you going to control this...?"

"Pull it out."

Li Xinghe gripped the unlit cigarette butt tightly in his palm until the paper tore and the tobacco scattered.

"I have to pull it out!"

Tear down this shabby base and show Rubio who the real king of Japan is.

……

Negotiations are deadlocked.

Under the cover of night, Li Xinghe was mobilizing his troops.

The 7th Asahikawa Division, Japan's only mechanized division, with fewer than 300 armored vehicles and fewer than 200 tanks, received Li Xinghe's mobilization order and headed south by civilian railway in one day.

In the past, when Self-Defense Force tanks were deployed, they had to remove their turrets according to regulations in order to pass through the bridges and passages of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Sometimes, people would even mock them, saying, "They're not even afraid of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. This is no ordinary Self-Defense Force."

Today, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces can finally be unafraid of sanctions from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

Their troops entered Yasukuni Island in Tokyo.

The neighboring 1st Combined Mechanized Division, an armored unit expanded from a hypothetical enemy division, wasn't much stronger than the 7th Division. Its main force consisted of 60 VT4 main battle tanks purchased with Japanese funds, with a slightly less powerful batch of WMZ551 wheeled armored vehicles. In terms of total numbers, it was even less than its neighbor, making them roughly equal forces.

As one of Japan's most troublemakers, Li Xinghe naturally had ways to motivate the Self-Defense Forces to charge into battle.

Before the soldiers, the curtain was drawn back, revealing bags piled high with glossy, round rice.

Li Xinghe asked:

"Do you see all this rice?"

The Self-Defense Force officers replied:

"I saw it."

Li Xinghe flicked his coaching pointer:

"The voice isn't loud enough, and there's no energy in it."

The Self-Defense Force officers then answered loudly:

"I saw it!"

Li Xinghe wanted to deliver rice to them.

If rice is being sent to the Self-Defense Forces, what will the 1st Combined Armored Division send?

Does this still require mobilization?

When Li Xinghe told Hu Zhantian that they were going to storm the U.S. base at Yokota Shogunate in Japan, the military camp erupted into a frenzy. Large groups of soldiers petitioned frantically, hoping to ride in the armored vehicles heading to Yokota. One soldier representative petitioned, "We can buy seats. If that's not possible, we can hang on to the outside of the tanks."

Some people even pooled their money to secretly rent minivans, just so they could sneak in with the rest of the group when attacking Yokota Base.

A new military flag was raised in front of the pile of rice.

A huge military flag was personally presented by Li Xinghe to Hu Zhantian, commander of the First Combined Armored Division, and Takeda Hirotoshi, commander of the Seventh Division, to represent Li Xinghe's attitude at this time.

The flag only had four large characters:

"My martial prowess is renowned."

The choice of these four characters is quite unique. It comes from the "Tai Shi" chapter of the Book of Documents, which is the oath made by King Wu of Zhou when he stationed his troops in the Hebei region.

The sentence preceding this statement begins with "Heaven sees as my people see, Heaven hears as my people hear," which rebukes King Zhou of Shang. Then it continues with "If the people have committed any wrongdoing, the blame lies with me alone," and finally ends with "Now I will go."

For the Japanese, the conflict between Li Xinghe and the United States is strikingly similar to the conflict between King Zhou of Shang and King Wu of Zhou. As a vassal state of King Zhou of Shang, Japan had to endure the torment and abuse of an outrageous monarch like Trump. As a vassal of the United States, Li Xinghe's attack on Yokota Air Base in Tokyo with his new army is much like King Wu of Zhou's conquest of King Zhou of Shang.

The following sentence is: "Invading their territory, we took their cruelty. My attack on Zhang brought glory to Tang."

For the Chinese soldiers hidden here, their long journey across the ocean to a foreign land was not merely about dismantling the Yasukuni Shrine, but also about erasing the colonial traces left by the Americans and overthrowing Japan's "Yokata Shogunate." Therefore, it was an invasion of their territory. But more importantly, it was about extinguishing the "eye of American imperialism" in East Asia—a true act of "glory for Tang."

Ordinary Self-Defense Force officers are generally not very educated, and they may not even understand the meaning of this sentence, while officers who have participated in advanced studies at the National Defense Academy generally understand it.

However, their conclusion was also very simple:

Li Xinghe saw himself as King Wu of Zhou.

King Wu of Zhou's mission was to conquer and subjugate the Shang dynasty.

Only then did Li Xinghe walk onto the high platform where his blood had been spilled and tell the soldiers:

"The oppression from the United States has reached a point of madness. They have put forward extremely harsh conditions for me, demanding that I use the hard-earned money of the people to buy $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds. I refuse, and I would like to ask you the same question: do you agree?"

"No!"

A chorus of rejection echoed across the Yasukuni Shrine.

I wonder what the suppressed ghosts below the stage will think.

There are now only two thousand American soldiers left in Yokota's camp, including a few hundred officers. A large portion of them are still ordinary logistics personnel.

Aside from skilled pilots and logistics maintenance personnel, most of them are just ordinary people with no combat capabilities, such as military band members, postal workers, military doctors, military dentists, accountants, cashiers, and cleaners, who don't even handle firearms.

Li Xinghe's hand stroked the rice piled high on the platform at the scene:

"Every soldier who successfully apprehends the target, every soldier who protects the main assets, can take home free rice from our tax-free rice warehouse! Capture an officer, and I'll allow you to take home ten bags of rice (60 kg each). Capture a high-ranking officer, and I'll allow you to take home a truckload of rice. Whoever can subdue Lieutenant General Stephen Jost, I'll give you a warehouse full of rice! Enough for you to eat and spend for the rest of your life!"

Based on the price of rice in Japan, Li Xinghe offered an extremely high reward to the soldiers.

In an instant, the atmosphere inside the Yasukuni Shrine grew increasingly tense. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the initial statement.)

Our military flag, symbolizing strength and valor, was planted atop the tank.

Finally, Li Xinghe delivered his order to the two division commanders, to all the officers, and to all the soldiers:

"Take it down! Take down Yokota's base and overthrow the Yokota Shogunate!"

Chapter 729: The weather is clear, and Mount Fuji stands tall! (5100 words)

4 a.m.

The office of Maleki's squad was still brightly lit.

"Are we really going to fight..."

Takajo Mayu sat cross-legged on her desk, unaware that her cotton-sock-covered feet were stepping on Shindai's notebook. Meanwhile, Shindai, Eina, was not there. She was currently in her office in Nagatacho, working through the night to organize and profit from the Philippine stock market, busy making money for the entire department.

"That's Yokota Base, if we fight like that..."

May and Jill hugged each other, both somewhat at a loss. After all, they were both native-born American country girls, and the psychological pressure of breaking with the United States at this moment was enormous.