Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"This is a strategic plan called 'Iron Fist of Punishment.' It's designed to provide punitive education to vicious monsters like Li Xinghe, making him realize the horrors of the great United States."

In fact, if you erase the insignia on the documents submitted by the three intelligence agencies under the Pentagon and carefully examine the traces underneath with a scanner, you will find that these documents appear to have come from two departments:

"The FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security."

The underlying reason is that the situation at the Mexican border remains unresolved, and the drug cartels are growing stronger with each battle. To avoid being held accountable by Vance, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security deliberately fabricated a document and leaked it to their Pentagon counterparts, diverting Vance's attention away from the US-Mexico border.

It's just a matter of shifting the blame westward.

However, Vance didn't even look at it.

Holding the document, Vance was extremely excited, as if he had caught Li Xinghe red-handed.

He clenched his fist and cheered fiercely:

"This kid is no ordinary anti-American; we must strike hard!"

This little brat needs to be taught a lesson!

Chapter 750: Vance's Fantasy Time, Anti-Immigrant Mayhem (5700 words)

What are you going to do?

Vance opened the 'Punishment Iron Fist' project plan.

But the first line at the top reads, "Build new formal US military bases in the Philippines," meaning to reopen Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, deploy a large number of US troops there, and attempt to make the Philippines the final bulwark of the United States in the Far East.

Yes, the Pentagon didn't really want to deal with Li Xinghe. Their real purpose was to urge the White House to open a second strategic base in the Philippines as soon as possible, in case of future troubles.

Currently, the United States does not have a formal military presence in the Philippines, but it gained access to nine Philippine military bases through the 2014 Enhanced Defense Agreement. Therefore, it is necessary to send a fleet, an air force unit, and a Marine Corps regiment as soon as possible.

This would deter Li Xinghe, who was causing trouble in Japan.

Let's restart.

I beg you.

The problem is, the current president is Vance.

Vance grew up in a poor white family. His father abandoned him when he was young, and he had three different fathers throughout his life. His family background fostered a complex mix of hypocrisy, caution, pretense, and inferiority complex in him. He was good at disguising himself and also very vengeful.

So Vance said firmly to his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

"No, I want to punish him first."

General John Kane was seething with anger, but he could only try to appease the president on the surface.

"Your Excellency, the most urgent task at present is to quickly establish a US military base in the Philippines and ensure that the Philippines signs the US-Philippines Security Treaty. We cannot put our limited military forces on Li Xinghe, nor can we allow his cannons to be constantly pointed at our Seventh Fleet. If the Seventh Fleet can be relocated to Subic Bay, and if the Fifth Air Force can restart Clara Air Base, Li Xinghe will not dare to bare his teeth at the White House."

He's absolutely right.

But Vance seemed to have an obsession with revenge: Mei has time, I have time, but Lin is not here...

"No, I will punish him."

The general earnestly pleaded:

"But Your Excellency! We must protect America's hegemony in the Far East."

However, Vance's idea was only persuaded in less than 3 minutes.

Whenever Vance recalls Li Xinghe's vulgar phrase "fuck your mother," his brain goes out of control.

He firmly gave the order:

"No, after thinking it over, I've decided to punish Li Xinghe first."

"???"

General John Daniel Kane simply couldn't understand it.

The top brass of the US military was practically furious with Vance. Li Xinghe was merely a stepping stone used by the US military to persuade the White House. They were using Li Xinghe, a card that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had leaked to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISPI), in order to convince Vance to quickly change the location of US troops stationed there, thus achieving an orderly withdrawal of US troops.

But Vance's goal was to take revenge on Li Xinghe, who had helped him but refused to take on $1 trillion in US debt.

Since the failed standoff in the South China Sea in 2016, the US military has been working on various plans for an orderly withdrawal. The withdrawal from the first island chain was going well until a man named Li Xinghe tripped up the situation, resulting in the annihilation of the Third Expeditionary Force. Now the US military must withdraw more quickly, retreating south from Japan and South Korea to Taiwan and the Philippines, and east to Guam and the Mariana Islands.

Everyone is not blind.

The Pentagon had long anticipated that the situation across the Taiwan Strait would likely end within the next two years. No one wanted to be drawn into a deadly vortex, so they wanted to evacuate now. Going to the Philippines offered some hope.

But for some reason, Vance looked like he had been violated by Li Xinghe, which made people wonder if his three biological children were actually born to Li Xinghe.

President Vance may not be good at handling things, but he is good at handling people.

He threatened General John:

"General, you're retiring this year, aren't you?"

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will not be reappointed, and today in 2029 will be the day General John Kane bids farewell to the military. He is actually only 60 years old, and for a politician, he could still serve as a senior executive in various companies for at least another 15 years.

So Vance is essentially asking, "You don't want to be hunted down and ostracized like Mark Milley, who is suspected of collusion, after you retire, do you?"

General John Kane gradually fell silent.

He agreed to make the first step of the 'Iron Fist Punishment' plan, from restarting the Philippine base, to punishing Li Xinghe.

Very little news was circulating within White House circles.

Within the cabinet, Tulsi Gabbard, whose position is rather unique, has already sensed danger.

She hurriedly called Kay Trump, who was in Tokyo:

"Kai, wake up!"

Kai now spends all her time playing with Li Xinghe's daughters, and even wants to apply to Ochanomizu University, deciding to spend a few years in Tokyo studying. Perhaps because her life in the Jian family is so happy, she is also showing symptoms of mental regression.

“Go find Big G and tell him that the wind comes from the sea.”

Kai still looked completely bewildered.

The first traitor, the second source of intelligence, has appeared.

……

Tokyo.

The voices opposing Li Xinghe converged into an ocean, and once again coalesced into a cohesive force.

The protesters were a relatively homogeneous group, consisting of Japanese citizens who had graduated from high school or even dropped out.

This group of people appears to be very contradictory.

They have low levels of education and weak abilities. They are overtaken by their peers in the intense academic pursuits. Their jobs are mediocre, as dispatched workers, working nine-to-five and barely making ends meet.

Some quick-thinking individuals followed Li Xinghe's lead and flocked to emerging industries, raising the banner of supporting Li Taige.

"Li's economic boom" is a term they coined while chatting online.

They believe that although prices are falling and the economy is slowing down, Li Xinghe's policy plans have provided opportunities for growth within limited space. This is a unique economic boom in a special era.

The other group consists of people with steel-filled heads, who sit idly on the streets and look down on those who work. These are naturally Li Xinghe's staunch opponents.

They watched as Li Xinghe opened up immigration and collected unclaimed assets for redistribution, but none of it reached them.

They certainly have reason to be angry and resistant to immigrants.

After all, they can't admit that they've been rendered useless by ambitious people and immigrants in the competition, so they can only feel that immigrants have taken away their jobs and lives, and that they have been robbed of the wonderful life that they should have had: graduating from a prestigious university, working for a big company, earning a monthly salary of 50, and buying a house in Hong Kong.

So on September 17th, Tokyo time, people who had secretly organized themselves gathered at the Tsukiji Market construction site, a few kilometers east of the Imperial Palace in Shibuya, Tokyo. This area was once Asia's largest seafood market, but it has now been razed to make way for a new luxury urban area.

This time, the protesters raised banners that read "Oppose immigration, protect Japan".

Ayako Aso, Li Xinghe, and the entire cabinet were all sitting in the Cabinet Office, remotely monitoring their actions via television.

A middle-aged man, around 40 years old, gave a speech in a venue with tens of thousands of people:

“The vast majority of people are in the group with a monthly income of less than 30 yen. We are poor, we are in distress. We are forced to eat foreign rice because we can’t afford domestic rice.”

In the Cabinet residence, Lin Fangzheng, who had been summoned back to his official position, cautiously and reservedly spoke to Li Xinghe:

"There are only 800 million people in Japan with an annual income of over 500 million yen, which is about 4% of the country's population. They are mainly concentrated in the bustling residential areas of cities such as Tokyo's Minato Ward, Osaka, and Nagoya."

In the square, protesters gathered and waved flags.

The middle-aged man then spoke out loudly and plaintively about everyone's difficulties:

“We don’t have jobs, and you’re the same, right? Japan has 1.24 million people, 3700 million elderly people need to be supported, but less than half of the population has jobs. Even so, there are still many new immigrants who can’t even speak Japanese fluently.”

The atmosphere in the cabinet was somewhat tense.

Ayako Aso read to Li Xinghe:

“按照日本国税厅的数据，今年常态就业（无新移民）的人口只有4900万。其中月薪30万日元以下的人口超过2800万，30万-50万日元的人口占1100万，50万-60万日元的人口占500万。60万日元以上的人口为500万人。实际上年收入能达到1000万日元的，仅有240万人左右。”

In Japan, those earning a monthly salary of 600,000 yen make up 4% of the population. At the current exchange rate of 27 JPY to 1 RMB, this is roughly equivalent to a monthly income of over 20,000 RMB. If we further convert this using the 1:2 purchasing power ratio of the yen to the RMB, it's roughly equivalent to 5% of the population in China earning over 10,000 RMB per month.

As for the media reports and government statistics showing that Japan's employment rate is quite good and Japanese university students are doing very well, why are the general public still so dissatisfied?

This is the power of statistical magic. Employment rates and salary increases only count graduates from prestigious universities, so of course they look good. Average graduate salaries only count full-time employees of large companies, naturally making them appear exceptionally high. Media coverage only reports on news from the Tokyo area, ignoring the fact that in major cities on the Kanto Plain, the average person can find far fewer jobs than those in large companies.

This media approach, like the rumored "one hundred million middle class," is a uniquely ambiguous expression used by the media.

Li Xinghe pondered over the icon:

"Not much different from before?"

But in the square, an angry explosion came from the middle-aged man's microphone:

"Young people receive less, while the elderly receive more! Why do they receive so much in retirement pensions, while we struggle to even rent a place? Why can new immigrants get old houses acquired by the government at low prices, while we have to pay high rents?"

It's still a matter of seniority. The elderly who benefited from the economic boom made a fortune, but young people under 30 earned less and spent more compared to the older generation.

The protesters' anger stemmed not only from wages, but also from their livelihoods.

"Whether it's marriage, family, or a house, those beautiful things are things we can only try to reach by working hard."

Inside the cabinet, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare officials were still saying:

"Ahem... According to the general standards for women choosing a partner nowadays, an annual income of over 400 million yen is considered a safe threshold. Less than half of employed men can meet this income requirement. If we look at Tokyo alone, only 20% of men in their 20s and 30s are at the marriageable age. So most people can only save enough money to get married after they turn 30..."

This majority likely refers to 65%, while 35% will remain unmarried for life.

With ongoing urbanization, the high standards and diverse needs of urban women in choosing a partner, which are mismatched with the average standards of men, have a significant impact. There is no truth to the claim that Japanese women's marriage requirements have declined; in reality, these high demands have always existed.

Therefore, the people in the square became angry along with the speaker:

"If you only look at the employment data published by the Japanese media, Japan is still booming, doing very well. But Japan is not as good as it seems at all! It's hell here!"

Watching the shouts of the protesters in the square, Li Xinghe calmed himself and asked:

"Approximately how many people are in this group who are dissatisfied?"

Lin Fang was scratching her head as she answered:

"There are probably 700 million people nationwide? In Tokyo alone, there are at least 200 million. But to be honest, there's nothing we can do about it."

“You are incompetent, not powerful.”

Li Xinghe rolled his eyes at them.

In truth, this matter is both Li Xinghe's fault and his fault.

He provided these people with comfortable prices so they could finally eat their fill and live a normal life, without having to work odd jobs every day.

But Li Xinghe failed to provide them with higher-paying jobs. Instead, the new immigrants took over.

In the past, due to the insecurity of illegal labor and the exorbitant cost of living in Japan, even Vietnamese illegal workers who came to Japan to work couldn't bear the high prices and exploitation and secretly returned to Vietnam.

With the liberalization of imports and the surge in trade, the stock prices and operational capabilities of Japan's five major foreign trade companies have been rising steadily. Their efforts to establish supply chains in rural areas, expand supermarkets, and attract new immigrants have created a synergy that has revitalized many urban outskirts.

The decline in food prices, coupled with the government's policy of forcibly reclaiming village land and redistributing housing, has made many jobs that Japanese people previously looked down upon, such as landfill operators, ride-hailing drivers, forklift operators, road workers, and auto mechanics, suddenly seem appealing.

The influx of new immigrants has led to jobs that require physical labor. A ride-hailing driver might earn 40 yen, while an ordinary person who works odd jobs only earns around 10 yen a month.

Income inequality fuels greater conflict.

Li Xinghe pondered and asked the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:

How many new immigrants have we brought in this year?

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare didn't offer many answers:

"This year, there are actually only 8 international immigrants, 36 Chinese immigrants, and about 30 Taiwanese immigrants applying for designated jobs. Our job creation target is to limit the number of people to 100 million within a year. This can cover the loss of more than 70 deaths."

"In other words, nearly 800 million elderly people will die within ten years?"