Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Li Xinghe felt a chill run down his spine, and then Lu Yuchi and Hua Yingmei, who were standing next to him, also grabbed him, their faces filled with barely concealed jealousy.

"I want to have a child too."

Sigh, so much to do.

……

Another day.

Li Xinghe had just comforted the two troublesome little devils when he had to go to the Yokohama Shipyard in Tokyo Bay to attend the Nimitz's refit ceremony.

The restart of the Nimitz is also coming to an end after more than six months of maintenance under the guise of "open days".

For the past six months, no "disassembly" work has been done even once. Instead, the engineers coming and going on the ship acted as if Li Xinghe had seen a stunning beauty, wanting to examine every single detail and touching every part of it, inside and out.

The Americans asked why we still needed to maintain various parts of the ship.

The official Japanese response was that it was to "renovate it to welcome visitors on open days".

What was originally planned as a few days of open days gradually became weekly, and eventually became a regular event.

The constant picking up and dropping off of tourists delayed the dismantling work for more than half a year, so the repairs actually made it healthier inside and out.

Li Xinghe even went so far as to dismantle the entire bridge of the Nimitz in order to replace the phased array radar with a new, more advanced integrated bridge that incorporates various radars.

The only regrettable thing was that the Nimitz's steam catapults were completely broken, and due to the supplier's bankruptcy, the Americans had no ability to repair them. So this huge nuclear-powered warship had a ski-jump deck temporarily installed at the front to allow carrier-based aircraft to take off more quickly.

The ship's engineers heard Li Xinghe's order:

"The nuclear fuel chamber is ready to be activated."

The wind rustled, and the water rippled.

This old aircraft carrier, which the Americans had driven to the brink of collapse, is slowly being restarted, giving people a terrifying feeling of a world turned upside down and the world being shocked.

Emmanuel and Mulan Lin, two quintessential sophisticated New York career women, participated in the reopening ceremony as representatives of the United States.

But they were talking about something else entirely.

The ageless beauty, Ayman, holding her daughter Enya, said calmly:

"The failure of the Busan Four-Party Talks has actually caused a more severe shock in the United States than we imagined. Republican support has plummeted."

It wasn't ordinary people who discovered anything.

Rather, it was the American capitalist elites who were very disappointed with the outcome of the Busan talks.

Lin Mulan reminded Li Xinghe:

"Latest warning: After a year and a half of failure and confusion, the Democratic Party and its supporters have finally realized the weaknesses of the Vance administration. Now they are focusing all their political offensive on defending Taiwan. Their madness is a hundred times more exaggerated than I have described."

The Democrats have finally come to their senses.

Now they're using the Taiwan issue to blackmail Vance into defending the Taiwanese government. Of course, their real goal is to defeat the Republicans in the midterm elections.

What's really troubling Li Xinghe is:

"They still have an army?"

Looking across Asia, the U.S. military has almost no army units left that it can mobilize, leaving only some air force and navy units, which are still lurking in various corners.

Some of the information Maria brought from the Pentagon:

"South Korea and North Korea have decided to achieve border peace. The Eighth Army stationed in South Korea has been vacated. The Democratic Party's first operational plan urges the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to gradually deploy the Eighth Army stationed in South Korea, the 3rd Expeditionary Division (actually the G Brigade) on Jeju Island, and several reconstructed units of the First Army stationed in Hawaii (which only exist on the books) to Taiwan for Ukrainian-style operational preparations. According to current information, the Pentagon has already deployed as many as 2000 urban warfare instructors, beachhead defense instructors, and scorched earth warfare instructors to make Taiwan Ukrainian."

Li Xinghe suddenly realized. "Mei ne Lin Mei ne wo kong ni Lin zai zai mei ne..."

"Oh...I understand."

“As the opposition party, they are not responsible for the war anyway. But they are more willing to use this to test the hostility between me and Vance. Just like the ‘Ryukyu collapse issue’ in 2028, it is a means for the opposition party to attack the ruling party.”

What kind of thought process is this?

The person who was absorbing a large number of Taiwanese immigrants and controlling the old sea routes to Taiwan was Li Xinghe.

If Lee Sung-ha withdraws the Eighth Army from the US forces stationed in South Korea and throws it into Taiwan to be ground into meat, he will be seen as a 'frontline stronghold against communism and China,' a trustworthy Asian loyal dog. Conversely, if Lee Sung-ha does not, he will be an East Asian chameleon, completely using the Taiwan issue to pursue his own political interests.

But this kind of loyalty means nothing to the Democratic Party.

Li Xinghe threw the Eighth Army into the meat grinder, and the Democratic Party applauded; Li Xinghe refused to interfere in Taiwan, and the Democratic Party was happy to continue to sow discord between Li Xinghe and Vance.

In other words, the Democratic Party is a complete spoiler in the Taiwan Strait crisis. All they have to do is mess things up.

Even if Lee Sung-ha were to retreat completely, abandoning Taiwan and retreating to Japan and South Korea, the Democratic Party would be happy to provoke a war between North and South Korea, or advocate a war between China and Japan, to incite a larger-scale war and disgust Vance's major failure in governance.

In a sense, the Democratic Party is even hoping for a failed Taiwan Strait crisis to launch a full-scale attack on Vance in the midterm elections. Just like Li Xinghe once offered Vance the "Okinawa Collapse Plan," sacrificing three US divisions fighting in Okinawa in exchange for a heavy blow to the Democratic Party and winning the 2028 presidential election.

The Democratic Party is also willing to sacrifice Taiwan.

Now, as the midterm elections in 2030 are in full swing, the Democratic Party, having learned from its failure on the Okinawa issue, has turned around and is imitating the Republican Party of that time, constantly hyping up the Taiwan issue, criticizing Vance for being too weak, and encouraging the deployment of more troops to Taiwan.

If Taiwan truly becomes like Ukraine, the Democratic Party, as the advocate, can be considered to have won; but if it results in the loss of troops and the annihilation of large numbers of American soldiers in Taiwan, then it is a sign of Vance and the incompetence of the Republican Party.

The results of this year's US midterm elections will be announced in November.

Li Xinghe calculated that there were still six months left before the Democratic Party would act like a mad dog, provoking, creating, and promoting a cross-strait crisis, turning it into a mess for the Vance administration.

The members of Maleki's squad, on the contrary, were worried about the weakening of their own headquarters:

"If we really want to include the Eighth Army Group... well, it's a unit under our command after all..."

Li Xinghe replied:

"No problem. Anyway, we can't control them. I've wanted to get rid of the Eighth Army for a long time. If the Democrats can force Congress to pass such a military decision, I'd be happy to send them all to hell."

Like the US military in Japan, the US forces stationed in South Korea are no longer functional.

The 8th Army stationed in South Korea has been reduced to only one infantry division, one heavy combat brigade, one firepower brigade, one combat aviation brigade, and one air defense artillery brigade. After deducting the auxiliary units and other units such as support brigades, the combat force is essentially reduced to only one division and one brigade.

Even so, due to insufficient combat power, they eventually borrowed a heavy armored brigade from South Korea as a supplement to their military strength.

Li Xinghe's thinking needs to go further afield:

“The Asia-Pacific Command lost three division-level units under our control and has not yet been able to rebuild them. We can certainly assist Asia-Pacific Commander Paparo in completing a special ‘balance’ operation.”

Since we're going to break even anyway, let's break even a little more.

Don't forget, Li Xinghe used the Federal Reserve's $3000 billion debt relief tool to absorb Taiwanese businesses and immigrants. Li Xinghe never intended to repay this money, but it just so happens to be the portion of the funds that needed to be used to balance accounts.

At this time, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was fully operational, with its newly installed generators boosting power and emitting light as they exchanged signals with various Allied ships arriving from Yokosuka and the harbor.

With the massive, refurbished Nimitz reactivating its nuclear reactor, it was time for it to be given a new name.

Aiman ​​reminded Li Xinghe:

"The US has given some hints that we shouldn't use aircraft carrier names from World War II."

Because the USS Nimitz was a nuclear-powered ship that Japan temporarily repurposed from the United States, Li Xinghe abandoned his plan to name it after a World War II aircraft carrier, at the suggestion of the US. Many veterans' organizations in the US were also monitoring the ship's maintenance and reconstruction. If Li Xinghe were to name the aircraft carrier, which was named by Admiral Nimitz who commanded the US Pacific theater, after a Japanese carrier sunk by Nimitz's carrier strike group, it would likely spark another international war of words.

Although the American veterans were nothing special, Li Xinghe still felt that it was a bit of a waste to name an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after a Japanese warship from World War II.

Let's just use our own name.

Li Xinghe had the workers unveil the curtain, revealing three huge Chinese characters on the side of the ship:

"Rest assured, we will give this restarted and refurbished super nuclear-powered aircraft carrier a new name. We will name her: Tamamo-no-Mae."

The moment this name was announced, the Japanese people watching outside had very strange expressions.

Tamamo-no-Mae is a nine-tailed fox spirit, also known as Daji in Chinese folklore.

Meanwhile, in Japan at that time, Tamamo-no-Mae, as a special code name, referred to the beautiful, ruthless, and shameless Li Xinghe in front of everyone. In other words, Li Xinghe named a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after himself.

The reason for using the name of the ancient fox spirit Tamamo-no-Mae was naturally to consolidate Li Xinghe's political position.

In Japanese folklore and online sharing, Li Xinghe is portrayed as the quintessential reincarnation of Tamamo-no-Mae, a malevolent figure bringing chaos to the world. This has been the prevailing belief for years, and now it's even stronger.

Legend has it that after the golden-masked nine-tailed fox Tamamo-no-Mae was defeated, she turned into the Sesshoseki (Killing Stone).

Li Xinghe killed many people.

If the Nimitz had sunk in Tokyo Bay, it would have formed the "killing stones," which are the nuclear fuel rods in the nuclear fuel compartments.

Just yesterday, Li Xinghe and Ayako Aso gave birth to twins who are considered to be children of nuclear energy, thus connecting them to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to regard nuclear-powered aircraft carriers as a type of Tamamo-no-Mae.

Many coalition generals are asking:

"Can such far-fetched explanations really reassure the public?"

But Japanese officials were quite confident:

"Don't worry, the people believe because they want to believe. And it's only temporary; they just need to get through the Taiwan Strait crisis. When they no longer need to believe, then we don't need to pay attention to it."

Li Xinghe was using the name of this aircraft carrier to answer the core question posed by the Japanese.

The public needs an explanation: why is someone like Li Xinghe able to infiltrate the core of politics and wield such influence?

Unable to comprehend the ever-changing international political landscape and lacking any understanding of materialism, yet still needing to maintain their unique information cocoon, the Japanese people naturally chose to believe in demons and ghosts.

In 2022, the Sesshōseki, which supposedly sealed Tamamo-no-Mae in Japan, broke inexplicably, leading to widespread rumors that the Russia-Ukraine war was a result of Tamamo-no-Mae escaping her seal and wreaking havoc on the human world. However, this was not the case. In reality, Tamamo-no-Mae flew across the sea and possessed Li Xinghe, a man embodying all five poisons.

There is now a general consensus among the public that the real Li Xinghe is dead, and the current Li Xinghe is a nine-tailed fox demon of unpredictable gender and exceptional intelligence.

Otherwise, this cannot explain the huge difference between Li Xinghe's past criminal records and his current actions.

This theory is so popular that a large number of folklorists have come out to demonstrate the timeline on the five major private television stations and even on NHK's official programs.

The simplest and most direct evidence, and quite miraculously, is a photo of Hana-mei and Sumire Kaneshiro from their wedding in Vancouver. This photo, somehow leaked (by Hana-mei herself), has been circulated among the public.

To the public and folklorists, this photograph is extremely eerie. Not only do two deer, Yuchi Huayingmei and a man, appear in the photo, subtly alluding to the unpredictable nature of the nine-tailed fox, but Li Xinghe also appears by chance on the roadside in the background.

Moreover, after examination, this photo showed no signs of being altered; it was a complete photograph.

Based on the filming timeline, it was exactly 2022. At that time, Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei was only 23 years old and had no idea who Li Xinghe was. Li Xinghe had just turned 15 and had already been admitted to the intensive care unit of a Vancouver hospital due to drug overdose.

Folklorists believe that:

"What we should recognize is that the beautiful appearance of Shika Michi in this photo is not that of the real Minister of Justice. Rather, it is a manifestation of a predestined marriage, Tamamo-no-Mae's destined lover in this life. Li Xinghe, who appears in the background of the photo, is in the state of being possessed by Tamamo-no-Mae, looking bewildered and strange. Minister Shika Michi in front of the camera has both male and female forms, which perfectly confirms the Taiko's predestined marriage and the fox demon's power of transformation. This is the simultaneous manifestation of the human form, the demon form, and the Dharma form, a trinity!"

Believe it or not, this kind of nonsensical nonsense became a hit on major TV stations and became a popular topic of discussion.

In addition, there were some diagnostic reports that leaked from the Royal Hospital.

In the past, Li Xinghe was utterly corrupt; now, he is perfectly healthy, and his physical examination reveals him to be as pure as a saint.

Li Xinghe used to be covered in scars, but now he is as clean as new (the fake scars have disappeared).

These conflicting pieces of evidence were not interpreted as Li Xinghe having been replaced. Instead, they were interpreted as 'Tamamo-no-Mae has been reborn and returned to rule Japan in order to take revenge on the Japanese ruling class that sealed her away. So she transformed into Li Xinghe, got Shang Qiujia pregnant, and used her own child to replace the imperial and prime ministerial family's heirs, which is a kind of retribution from a previous life.'

In increasingly bizarre folk tales in Japan, various pieces of evidence corroborate each other, making the rumors of reincarnated fox spirits and karmic retribution more and more believable.

Absolutely reasonable!

Some might ask, would anyone really believe such bizarre folk tales and allusions?

Don't ask, young people believe it all the time.

And they're even more enthusiastic than the elderly, after all, this is the noble world of anime (sound of excitement)!

It's one thing for ordinary people to believe this, but young Japanese people are even more fanatical about it.

On Japanese image and text websites like Pixiv, Li Xinghe's fan art has consistently topped the charts, and he even secured the largest number of fan art booths at the C113 anime convention. The content mainly consists of 'Tamamo-no-Mae x Li Xinghe,' 'Li Xinghe fox demon x American soldier girl,' and 'Li Xinghe fox demon x Chinese girl,' and even some content with unusual tastes that is not suitable for display.

Add to that Li Xinghe's willingness to gamble with Ayako Aso's health on the lingering effects of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and the name of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before them—a series of coincidences pieced together that make it impossible not to believe.

In other words, Li Xinghe pieced together an answer by combining Buddhist concepts of 'past lives and present lives, karma and retribution' with Japanese Shintoism and the legend of the nine-tailed fox from China.

Li Xinghe is the Nine-Tailed Fox.

His rule over Japan was an inevitable consequence of his past life.

In this fusion of 'human = ship = nuclear power = myth,' a subconscious belief naturally arises among the people: do not resist Li Taige; this is a predetermined outcome under the Buddhist worldview of reincarnation.

This manipulation of public opinion was orchestrated behind the scenes by Hua Yingmei and a group of public figures.

The effect is fantastic.

The spread of heretical Buddhism among the people is something that China, Britain, and the United States can use to intimidate their citizens.

After much thought, I realize that we should indeed trust the wisdom of our ancestors.

Looking at the flashing lights on the Tamamo-no-Mae account, Koichi asked:

"Two thousand US military instructors and officers have already entered Taiwan. With the Democratic Party's complete shift, Vance is in a precarious position, and a large number of US troops are expected to be deployed to the island. Can we call this... an expansion from a small Taiwan Strait crisis to a major Taiwan Strait crisis?"

Li Xinghe pondered for a moment and said: