Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Li Xinghe made the decision:

"Raise the general immigration quota to a maximum of 200 million and continue to bring in large numbers. Continue at this level for at least 5 years to fill the population gap. However, note that the scope of women can be expanded slightly, allowing some to spill over into the marriage market."

Do we need to cite more?

Doesn't having more of these things cause more social conflicts?

Everyone in the cabinet had to ask:

"Those people..."

After thinking for a moment, Li Xinghe said:

"Deploy cabinet special forces to escort a few staff members in to recruit workers. But don't use the pretext of suppression; just call it... taking them for 'technical training'."

"Technical training?"

“That’s right. Technical training. You see, we need to resume large-scale infrastructure projects, build Sino-Japanese joint venture automobile factories, renovate properties and water and electricity pipelines, and there’s a shortage of people everywhere. I’ll introduce them to jobs, let them build new communities and new factories, isn’t that great?”

Taiko-sama always has a strange way of thinking.

soon.

Across from the rally site, armored vehicles belonging to the Cabinet Special Forces appeared.

Almost everyone felt the pressure. Many protesters had witnessed the scale of the previous two years and knew what the appearance of armored vehicles meant.

Subsequently, several working groups moved to the edge of the venue, where they set up tables and raised flags.

The banners read various recruitment notices, such as "Toyota-BYD Joint Venture Factory Construction Recruitment Fair," "Subaru-SAIC," "Honda-GAC," "Saitama Prefecture Waterway Repairman Recruitment Fair," "Automotive Repair Recruitment," and "Sendai Agricultural Reclamation Station Recruitment."

Taiko has given you job opportunities.

Are you going?

Tens of thousands of people faced a choice between ideology and reality.

Someone lowered their head and handed in their resume.

Some people continued to make trouble, arguing that these jobs were not respectable enough and that they wanted more.

Division, emotions, clashes.

Does Japan need immigrants, or do immigrants need Japan?

Does Li Xinghe need Japan, or does Japan need Li Xinghe?

Undoubtedly, Japan needs immigrants, and Japan needs Li Xinghe.

When hundreds of thousands of people in the Tokyo metropolitan area gathered to protest against the impact of Chinese immigrants on the nation’s lower-middle-income population, the wealthy middle-class residents of Minato Ward seemed to live in a completely different world.

The middle class in Minato and Chuo wards were very dissatisfied with the group blocking the Tsukiji factory, feeling that they were interfering with the already slow construction of the new neighborhood.

So they started a march too.

This time it's a battle between ordinary people, with the middle class and the marginalized low-income in the port area shoving each other. It's unclear who stabbed first.

"Someone's been assaulted! Someone's been murdered!"

People mingled together, fighting, twisting, and pulling. In their brawl, the rich and the poor shattered glasses and flew off their shoes. The middle class in the port area shouted, "Li Taiko's rule is unparalleled!" while the poor, oppressed by the new immigrants, yelled, "Defend Japan!" Their joys and sorrows were completely different.

Cabinet special forces intervened, arresting more than 600 people and ending the anti-immigrant protest.

But were they incited?

Is there someone in the White House secretly creating opposition against Li Xinghe?

The Ministry of Public Security intervened in the investigation and submitted a report to Li Xinghe:

"There are no signs of foreign interference, and everything seems normal."

Li Xinghe, however, was not entirely convinced. After thinking for a moment, he said:

"Let's change our investigative approach and find out if they have a large number of followers in underground Christian churches, or organizations like the Ikko-shu or Nichiren-shu!"

Upon investigation, the evidence was indeed numerous.

Numerous underground cult organizations, including branches of Christianity and Buddhism, were discreetly present among those arrested.

Urban cults have inevitably come into the public eye.

Japan experienced a period of rapid urban development after the war.

That period, characterized by predominantly left-wing policies that prevented excessive government intervention in civil society groups, became a breeding ground for cults to take advantage of the situation.

At this time, urban life was filled with confusion, lacking love and family, and without support. People who were lost in this boundless sea of ​​suffering turned to tens of thousands of religious organizations such as Aum Shinrikyo and Unification Church for warmth.

Li Xinghe stood up and looked at the report:

"That's why Abe died."

Back then, Shinzo Abe was assassinated by Tetsuya Yamagami because of his close ties with the Unification Church.

The reason is actually a bit funny.

Shinzo Abe endorsed the Unification Church, a cult, for the sake of his votes and to boost the birth rate. This is because the Unification Church advocates for church-arranged marriages, mass marriages, and the prohibition of divorce, which, in a sense, replaces traditional Confucianism and could encourage more women to have children.

The women who are expected to have many children in Shinzo Abe's fantasy are often, in reality, like Tetsuya Yamagami's mother, who donate their entire fortune to the church.

Thus, the child born to the woman on whom Abe pinned his hopes, Tetsuya Yamagami, brought an end to Abe's illusions.

"Let Shintoism go..."

Someone made a suggestion.

Li Xinghe shook his head decisively:

"Shintoism is utterly useless in this respect."

Shintoism, such as the Yasukuni Shrine, is just a publicity stunt; in reality, it's not respectable at all.

The real trouble comes from the various chaotic branches of Christianity and Buddhism that sprout up in the corners of the city.

Immigration, natives, cults, chaos, birth rate, potential crisis—when Li Xinghe fully took the lead, everything overwhelmed his daily life like a vast ocean.

Affairs are numerous and complex, and stars have fallen.

The constant stream of problems seems to be a test.

Just as Li Xinghe was filled with worries and anxieties, the Chief of General Affairs of the Coordination and Cooperation Command, Tawara Chikihime, and the Nagumo sisters hurriedly arrived at the Cabinet with a report:

"The USS Kennedy and USS Washington are about to form a dual-carrier strike group and arrive in Asia. Our military's Huang series satellites are closely monitoring the movements of this strike group."

Chapter 751: Showa-era military training embodies spirit; a formidable fortress stands guard over Tokyo! (5600 words)

"Ah! It hurts!"

The military batons struck like the wind, each blow landing on the unruly civilians in their training uniforms, making them weep bitterly.

On the construction site of an artificial island in Yokohama, thousands of unfortunate people are undergoing mandatory military training.

These were ordinary people who had been arrested and forcibly assigned jobs after the Tsukiji Uprising. Li Xinghe was willing to provide work for these neglected ordinary people, but it was clearly not as comfortable as they had imagined.

All of these newly recruited workers will first undergo military training in dozens of factories and bases near Tokyo, and then be assigned to positions after the training is completed.

For several days, the unfortunate men were almost tortured to death. For the first time in their lives, they were locked in a dormitory and subjected to inhumane obedience and skills training, including morning and evening drills.

"No spirit!"

Shout louder!

If you didn't know better, you'd think you'd been dragged into a military camp from the Showa era.

The combination of corporal punishment and military training seemed incredibly extreme in Japan at that time, but considering that Li Xinghe was the one who orchestrated it, it made perfect sense.

Dinner was even worse because I had to go to class.

Yes, they need to learn basic physics and chemistry theories, as well as basic mechanical processing, to prevent them from being completely ignorant.

Many people couldn't help but complain:

"This is technical training? Are they preparing to send us to the battlefield?"

In charge of this military training was First Class Lieutenant Colonel Tetsuya Ito, an operations officer dispatched from headquarters. He banged on the table:

"Otherwise what? Do you think letting you into the factory is as simple as putting a dog in its kennel?"

"This is a complete overhaul of you urban thugs!"

Given the current level of organization within the Japanese government, no one else could manage to cramm hundreds of thousands of people into factory bases and prevent them from causing chaos, as Li Xinghe has done. This is proof that many Self-Defense Force officers are increasingly convinced of his abilities.

The next day, a group of elderly technicians from the Showa era were invited over.

They spoke on stage:

"Your task is to learn how to operate the machines in a basic way from your mentors within 30 days, and then start working on the production line. Some of you will become shipyard workers, some will work on the automobile production line, some will learn auto repair, and some will go to military enterprises. But you must remember that the fact that you are able to participate in military training, have a technical job, and obtain a technical certificate is all thanks to His Excellency Taiko! Remember this day and night without ever forgetting it!"

As a result, the masters assigned to these Japanese were a group of young Vietnamese craftsmen.

"Vietnamese?"

The apprentices started making a fuss and were then given a beating.

On stage, the 83-year-old Showa-era master craftsman, still not retired, issued commands to the new apprentices with the unique spirit of the Showa people:

"You must show me the spirit of kneeling down to study and touching your forehead to the ground, and bet your heart and soul on studying with your life on the line!"

A significant number of technically skilled factories in Japan went bankrupt simply because they couldn't find willing successors. In desperation, to keep the technology and factories afloat, Chinese immigrants came first, followed by many Vietnamese workers, to inherit the skills of these master craftsmen. Even now, there are artisans from Bangladesh and India going to Japan to continue these highly practical and intellectually demanding skilled production practices.

This situation is somewhat similar to that in the United States.

Those who constantly talk about the "glory of America in the past" but are ignorant and incompetent in school, unable even to master basic Chinese and mathematics, are not even qualified to work as skilled workers in factories after graduation. They think that waving a flag at a crossroads will automatically produce goods on shelves, and that waving their little hands to vote will elect Shinzo Abe, who will make Japan great again.

Technical training is just the beginning.

Then the director of Toyota's Suzhou Development Center was invited, and he gave a heartfelt speech:

"Listen up, you students who are about to go to car factories! The reason why Japan's automobile export industry can still survive and continue to be the world's most net-profit automaker is because of the efficient support of the Chinese supply chain and Toyota's decades of strategic planning. In recent years, we have repeatedly failed in the global market, and now we are at a critical juncture!"

Around 2024, the most profitable car companies in the international market will still be the traditional Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, and Volkswagen, while smaller players like BYD will only rank after ten.

However, by 2029, although Chinese automakers still ranked low on the net profit list, more than a dozen automotive groups, including BYD, Chery, Geely, and SAIC, climbed up like a swarm of insects, tearing many international automakers off the list and demonstrating the slaughtering power of an insect swarm, which made Japanese companies tremble.

This explains why, at Li Xinghe's command, Japanese companies rushed to form joint ventures with Chinese companies, establishing factories in Japan and design centers in China. If they couldn't expand access to the Chinese supply chain, they wouldn't even be able to withstand the onslaught of these insect swarms, let alone continue their counterfeiting and cost-cutting practices.

Now it has truly come to a life-or-death moment for Japanese automakers, so they immediately chose to bow down and cooperate.

Later, there were rumors that Taiko would bring in more female immigrants, and that as long as everyone had a job, they could get married and start a family.

A combination of verbal and physical persuasion barely boosted the apprentices' confidence in entering the factory.

After the mobilization training concluded, Colonel Tetsuya Ito jokingly remarked:

"Be loyal to the great Emperor! A hundred years from now, your soul will surely return to the foot of Kudanzaka."

Kudanzaka is the original name for Yasukuni Shrine. It was all crushed into ashes by Li Xinghe's tanks and is now the Yasukuni Tank Ground.

However, Shintoism tends to compromise.

Since all the war criminals from World War II have been reduced to ashes, they claim that the spirits beneath Yasukuni Shrine will still protect the tanks here, granting them unparalleled combat power, and call on people to offer sacrifices to the batch of VT-4 tanks parked here. (The remaining text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the initial statement.)

As the head of general affairs, Tawara Chikihime was in charge of the mobilization and military training of hundreds of thousands of people. During her meal, she asked her mentor, Hayashi Yuko:

"Isn't this actually a reserve military camp?"

Lin Youzi asked her in return:

"What else? Japan currently has a labor shortage of 600 million. We must organize these idle people who are neither qualified for high-level jobs nor willing to take low-level ones. At the same time, it is also for the day that comes."

The labor shortage of 600 million people mostly consists of low-paying jobs, which can only be filled through immigration or the government's coercive organizational efforts. Before that, training these people in military discipline and building their organizational skills to be ready to fill the gaps in wartime is also a necessary step.

Princess Tawara was amazed:

"That day..."

On that day, the American flags flying all over Japan will be lowered and replaced with another red flag.

With the joint establishment of the Joint Command and the Co-operation Command, the Ministry of Defense and the Self-Defense Forces have essentially realized that Li Xinghe intends to implement a dual-arms strategy in Japan. The Self-Defense Forces are relatively ineffective, even lacking mechanization capabilities, and are only used for the defense of the mainland islands. The Joint Forces, on the other hand, have ample mechanized units specifically for mobile defense and coastal defense.

At that time, the Japanese had no idea that such a day would come.

The news reported that Li Xinghe's approval rating suddenly increased by ten points.

"She's itchy when nobody cares, but behaves when someone's cracking the whip," Tawara Senjohime complained.

"That's just how the Japanese are. They only feel comfortable in a homogeneous society where no one is free. Then they raise their hands and shout 'Bakazai!'" Lin Youzi curled her lip in disdain.