Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The female flight attendants bowed in greeting.

"Great Lord Samah".

As for Li Daiyao next to her, the female flight attendants were at a loss, but the supervisor wisely took her leave:

"Idiot, it's Queen Sa. This is... Princess Li Sa."

"Lady Princess" is an honorific title that can only be used by the daughters or sisters of the Shogun.

As the two royal women descended the terminal, the flight attendants along the roadside bowed in respect.

"Maharaja, Lord Ji..."

A unique, large-scale mural is painted on the exterior wall of the airport terminal.

The background of the painting is composed of three colors: black, gold, and deep red. The main subject is an abstract castle tower filled with countless corpses. On it, a black figure wearing a golden, radiant helmet seems to control this land and the Japanese samurai who are constantly fighting, as if he were a god.

As if afraid that people hadn't yet understood the meaning of the painting, the following was written in traditional Chinese characters:

"The First Rank Official, Regent, Shogun, Grand Master of the Musashi Myōsen-in, Tōkai Shūryū, and Minister of State Fujiwara: Chiyo Seikawa."

Clearly, this is a satirical painting that mocks Li Xinghe for usurping power, instigating Japanese samurai to kill each other, and behaving in a manner similar to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The artist's identity is unknown, but the fact that they would place a satirical cartoon here suggests that it is created by some unnamed elite right-wing individuals.

In Japanese history, the title of "Seishi" (正一位) is often used in posthumous honors. Calling Li Xinghe "Seishi" implies that he had usurped power to its zenith. "Shogun and Kanpaku" (博府大将军与关白) refers to Li Xinghe's simultaneous control of the Joint Command, the Coordination and Cooperation Command, and the Cabinet Secretariat, ironically suggesting his absolute power.

Fujiwara is Li Xinghe's surname, and the combination of "Jian" and "Chiyo" refers to his two clan names. The inclusion of "Grand Minister of State" in between is a further satirical reference to Li Xinghe's controlling power, following the usual format of honorific titles. This format is common in East Asia; for example, it's used in titles like "Governor-General Li Hongzhang" and "Marshal Zhang Zuolin," which are honorifics. However, in this context, it serves as a layered irony, highlighting the overwhelming power of Li Xinghe.

In this format, the most normal one is actually the middle one, the name of the deceased. Musashi Myōsen-in refers to the main temple of the family, Myōsen-ji. Tōkai Shūryū Daikoji is a Buddhist name given to Li Xinghe by his father. Li Xinghe himself is unaware of it. It is usually found on memorial tablets after a person has died.

Upon seeing this painting, Li Daiyao offered a cold and critical critique:

"There are a lot of troublemakers."

As she said this, her eyes were fixed on her daughter beside her.

"The main issue is... the people have some minor complaints. As long as Xinghe-kun's sincerity is recognized by the people, they will definitely be grateful to him."

Aiko skillfully smoothed things over.

Finding that Shang Jing'ai's emotions were stable, Li Daiyao gave up on further probing.

The two of them took a car together to Nagata-cho.

However, the Japanese are often cryptic and unpredictable, which is hard for Chinese people to understand.

Many Chinese people took photos with the huge floor-to-ceiling painting below, praising it as they did so: "Look how obedient the Japanese are. After Li Xinghe came to power, they even painted his portrait at the airport to praise him."

Not only Chinese people, but also many European and American media outlets came and saw it and thought: "Wow, he is drawn so handsomely, the Japanese must really like Li Xinghe."

It had the effect of reverse publicity.

……

Just as the two ladies returned to Tokyo, the cabinet working meeting for the second half of the year was underway.

Lee Seong-ha sat upright in the Prime Minister's seat, while next to him, in the Cabinet Affairs Minister's seat, sat Ayako Aso, who was preparing to become Prime Minister.

On the left and right sides sat dozens of cabinet ministers, vice ministers of various departments, and political secretaries.

Li Xinghe gave a very serious reprimand to the numerous bureaucrats:

"This year is Japan's Year of Innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises. My request to everyone is simple: don't issue any useless regulations! Put all environmental protection and inspections on hold. Apart from paying more attention to food poisoning and illegal wastewater discharge, don't cause more trouble for small and medium-sized enterprises. Give business owners more opportunities to survive."

"what!"

Officials from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and other departments stood up.

This year has indeed been a year of innovation for small and micro enterprises. Not only have Chinese immigrants brought a large number of small restaurants serving authentic Chinese and Burmese/Thai cuisine, but the economic downturn that began last year has gradually been offset by the influx of new people, leading to a rebound in society. Economic investment and industrial development are beginning to recover.

Local businesses are particularly active, benefiting from the new opportunities brought by the influx of new immigrants.

Of course, the most heinous reason is that Li Xinghe wiped out the entire Liberal Democratic Party.

After the four major conglomerates, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, and several large corporate entities with vested interests were all ousted in one fell swoop, many closed interest areas that these scoundrels had been holding onto suddenly unleashed tremendous social vitality.

This is what people often jokingly refer to as, "Let's embrace some capitalism; feudalism is too backward."

Li Xinghe certainly didn't know much about governing a country, but he had personally witnessed China's industrial progress, so he followed suit and gave instructions to the cabinet ministers:

"First and foremost are the three popular industries: ride-hailing, food delivery, and online shopping express delivery. These industries employ a large number of people, so we should focus on introducing more electric vehicles and electric four-wheelers to boost their development." (Mei is thinking...)

Japan is already densely populated and has limited land, and people like to ride bicycles, so they should be encouraged to ride electric scooters more often.

"what!"

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry quickly stood up.

Li Xinghe then discussed agriculture and immigration:

"Secondly, with the collapse of agricultural cooperatives and the breakdown of their profit chains, a large number of small import and export companies have begun to be established in various cities after the introduction of tariff exemption policies. These companies, after meeting legal requirements, are now operating import and export activities. Several large national enterprises associated with agricultural cooperatives have been converted into directly affiliated legal entities of the Cabinet, creating space for private agricultural companies. Now, there are many newly registered agricultural farms everywhere; we should pay attention to providing them with preferential policies..."

"what!"

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry continued to stand up.

Li Xinghe began to think again:

"Then there's the Sino-Japanese joint venture automotive industrial park, which has been discussed many times. Is there any progress on this?"

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry responded:

"Toyota and BYD have decided to establish a joint venture production park on an artificial island in Yokohama. Within the park, Toyota will be allowed to experiment with importing more Chinese-made parts."

People didn't feel happy; they only felt sad.

From this point on, Japan's automotive industry, like the Li Xinghe imperial family, will be subjugated by China's automotive industry. They will flood in with auto parts, turning the Japanese automotive industry into their vassal state, just as they did with Japan's white goods industry.

Li Xinghe's introduction of joint venture vehicles is a way of teaching the Japanese a lesson and incidentally decimating their car market. In the future, the roads will be filled with cheap electric cars bearing Toyota and BYD logos, while purely domestically produced cars will gradually disappear.

In the future, Japan will realize that it is only fit to provide industrial support for China.

In the entire automotive industry chain, and in many other high-end industries, Japan has to obediently play the role of a junior partner.

"Very good, the rest will be handled by Prime Minister Aso."

Li Xinghe switched places with Asou Ayako, giving Asou Ayako more opportunities to practice.

Shika Yuchi, sitting in the Minister of Justice's seat, calmly signed documents.

Those who know them understand that these documents are death warrants.

Because Li Xinghe arrested hundreds of thousands of people across the country in one fell swoop, many of whom were members of parliament involved in serious issues such as corruption, threats, and copper smelting. Meanwhile, Japanese prisons are struggling to detain prisoners.

Lu Yuchi Huayingmei's solution was to kill everyone she could.

Swift trial, swift judgment, swift execution.

After the cabinet meeting in the second half of the year, Kazumi Shiraichi and Ayako Aso stayed behind to accompany Li Xinghe and many military industrial enterprises to a meeting.

Japan's defense budget has exceeded 10 trillion yen, and large-scale purchases from the United States have been largely cancelled, which frees up approximately 6 trillion yen in military financial space for Li Xinghe.

Given that Vance's retaliation is imminent, likely in the second half of this year or early next year, the construction of the coalition forces will be of paramount importance.

This could involve your own life.

Li Xinghe discussed:

"The Fifth Air Fleet is leaving Yokota and relocating to Jeju Island. I've communicated with the Jeju authorities in South Korea about this, and although they are very resistant, they are willing to accept the Fifth Air Fleet provided the airport can be used for both military and civilian purposes. In the future, Japan will only retain one Seventh Fleet at Yokosuka Port. We have ample financial space. From military motorcycles to armored vehicles, from reconnaissance drones to large aircraft carriers, and even various self-propelled artillery, rapid deployment support tanks, and battlefield support drones and robot dogs, I hope you can give me a note for the most efficient work. I can guarantee that procurement will increase significantly within five years."

The military industrial enterprises were immediately overjoyed.

Japan's military industry has historically been inefficient and expensive due to insufficient procurement, resulting in overcapacity and a continued pursuit of domestic production. Now that Li Xinghe dares to promise, they dare to hire more workers and increase production (by buying more Chinese-made products).

Thinking of this, Li Xinghe pointed to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force:

"We need a carrier-based twin-engine medium fighter jet that can take off and land on future aircraft carriers via ski-jump or catapult, and that does not rely excessively on US-controlled avionics systems, to demonstrate our coastal defense capabilities. The JASDF, IHI, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries should work together to thoroughly study this 'nominal fifth-generation fighter'."

The Joint Operations Command and the General Staff Headquarters both raised their heads:

"Defense against China?"

"Beware of your mother suddenly hitting you on the head with a stick."

Li Xinghe glared at them, speechless at the Japanese people's long-standing anti-China mentality.

Do we really have to wait until the US gets a fascist president who flies a plane across the Pacific and drops a few more little boys before these idiots start to realize their mistakes?

Ihi President's Report:

“日本有F15、F16的全生产线，也有F35的组装生产线。我们Ihi（石川岛播磨重工）可以自主生产F100系列发动机，同时我们还自主设计生产了F7-10涡扇……”

Li Xinghe stopped him, saying:

"Don't mention that garbage F7 anymore. What I need now is a mature, fast, cheap solution that can also impress people."

It's widely known that Japan's aviation industry appears impressive, but in reality, it's incredibly underwhelming. Harima Heavy Industries, Japan's only aero-engine manufacturer, even after obtaining a license from Pratt & Whitney to produce the F100 series engines, can't even manufacture all the components in-house and still needs to import key parts. Their self-developed F7 aero-engine is considered one of the worst products in the world.

This fake fifth-generation fighter jet project was a collaboration between IHI, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, and other companies. It was based on the F-16, equipped with twin engines, and touted as a fifth-generation fighter jet.

Foreign Ministry officials returned to Li Xinghe with new orders, instructing them to exaggerate the aircraft carrier and fifth-generation fighter jet programs to intimidate the Americans.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was stunned:

"You mean, we're trying to intimidate the Americans?"

Li Xinghe's face darkened:

"What are all those 700 billion yen in funding allocated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs every year used for? Is it not enough for you to brag to Europe and America about your aircraft carriers and fighter jets?"

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which spends its days on ideological propaganda, allocates nearly 700 billion yen annually to cognitive warfare alone. Now you're telling me that fighter jets and aircraft carriers are just empty shells, which is why you can't promote yourselves to the US? Are you kidding me? You were so good at deceiving the Americans during and after World War II, and now suddenly you're not?

A Japanese person who can't fool the Americans can no longer be considered a good Japanese person; they should be classified as a non-citizen!

Vice Foreign Minister Kenjiro Funakoshi hurriedly stood up and begged for mercy:

"But the bulk of the expenditure on cognitive warfare is reshaping Japan's post-war image..."

To put it bluntly, it's about whitewashing World War II.

Unfortunately, the more the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spends to whitewash World War II, the more it angers ordinary citizens in China and South Korea, because they only hire pro-Japanese scum to write trashy articles that disregard their own mothers, and are proud of it.

"You bunch of idiots are gloating over cutting funding for ideological warfare against China, aren't you? You're just finding a bunch of useless people to make more Chinese and Koreans hate Japan, right? Morons! Use that money to fight the US!"

Li Xinghe emphasized:

"To shape Japan's image towards China and South Korea, all it takes is one sentence: I've already crushed the Yasukuni Shrine with a tank. Just push this sentence out there, and they'll love me to death."

Yes, the Japanese right wing will hate you to death too.

But seeing the bits of flesh stuck to the tank tracks of the Taiko, the foreign ministry bureaucrats quickly shut their mouths.

The Shinano's publicity plan was very simple: the second largest electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier in Asia.

As for whether it can be equipped with electric catapults, that is definitely not possible.

It will most likely end up being just a ski-jump hull.

Japan's "next-generation fighter jet" plan, which is essentially an upgraded version of the F-16, is naturally being touted as something fantastical.

To put it simply:

"Mind, activate!"

The Shinshin fighter jet, one of the biggest lies of the century created by Japan, was touted as incredibly powerful, but in reality, it was so rubbish that it never even made it onto the production line.

Chapter 737: Japan and South Korea Join Forces, Taiko Deflowers Sumire (4500 words)

8 month 1 day.

Hiroki Unami, the newly appointed Vice Minister of Finance, proudly stated during an interview at the press club:

"The greatest strength of our current government is that there are no endless cronies, and everyone is doing their best in their duties. Since Yoshiki Usuki and a group of corrupt officials jumped off the Tokyo Tower, and Hiroshi Shinkawa and a group of his contemporaries requested to be dealt with, the capable, good, and virtuous people who were suppressed in the Ministry of Finance have been promoted to the greatest extent possible."

Those with connections are all in jail. To save their lives, they've practically written down how many prostitutes they've patronized.

Indeed, as he said, after Hiroshi Shinkawa and his group left, the Ministry of Finance's work efficiency increased dramatically.

But that's because no one is causing trouble for Li Xinghe anymore. Everyone is now working diligently and efficiently.

But behind the scenes, the officials were going crazy.

Each administrative deputy was questioning their subordinates:

"Why haven't we found a connection with someone who has direct access to the Cabinet Office yet?"