Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

everything is over.

As a result, the Marines took control of Tainan City.

At this time, Kaohsiung City, which had heard that Tainan had not been able to hold out for even a day, quickly became agitated.

The reconnaissance unit reported the following:

"They're moving...moving...The US troops in Dashu and Qishan districts of Kaohsiung look like they're about to flee. Reconnaissance planes show they seem to be heading south. They're pouring into Kaohsiung city."

The command immediately mobilized nearby naval forces.

"What about the Han Kuang Volunteer Army? Send them to storm Xiaoliuqiu Island, set up an anti-ship zone there, and prevent any cargo ships carrying people from leaving."

So, the Han Kuang Volunteer Army stationed on Lanyu Island in Taitung, along with a large group of tourists from the Unified Tour, boarded a civilian cruise ship, rounded the Seven Star Crags on Taiwan Island, and made a second attempt to storm Xiaoliuqiu Island near the estuary of Kaohsiung City.

Upon hearing that they were going to retake Xiaoliuqiu Island, the Han Kuang Volunteer Army hadn't even had time to rush to the front line, but various civilian cruise ships were already moving faster than them.

With a simple, up-close appreciation for the spectacle, and a sense of national pride that was hard to rekindle, everyone drove forward.

The garrison on Xiaoliuqiu Island was small, and when they saw dozens of civilian cruise ships flying the five-star red flag rushing towards them, the entire defense force was speechless.

Is this a human bomb attack?

Are they trying to stop them from firing?

But they...really didn't dare to fire.

The boat was clearly full of tourists; how could they open fire? Were they afraid that during the post-war trial, they wouldn't be dragged onto the boat and shot?

"Don't go! There are enemies there! There are anti-ship missiles on the shore!"

The Han Kuang Volunteer Army soldiers behind them had to keep shouting in broken Mandarin on the channel.

"Make way, you bastards! We're going to beach ourselves, what are you doing?"

The white soldier was furious and started swearing on the channel.

"Charge!"

Tourist ferries docked at the beach of Xiaoliuqiu Island. Large groups of tourists, waving the five-star red flag, jumped off the ship and rushed onto the beach of Xiaoliuqiu Island, leaving the residents on the shore and the missile defense force on the island dumbfounded.

Are they a bunch of lunatics?

Taiwanese people certainly wouldn't understand.

But for mainland tourists, this moment has been a long, long time coming.

This is the people's beachhead.

The Han Kuang Volunteer Army rushed up from behind, pushing their way to the front and shouting to the island's residents: "Xiaoliuqiu Island has been liberated! It's now under the jurisdiction of the Han Kuang Volunteer Army. Hurry up and prepare food, we'll pay for it! Tourists, stop pushing us, we're going to block the American troops in Kaohsiung Harbor!"

The island's residents were stunned for the second time.

You bunch of white people, what are you shouting about blocking the US military? Is this still the worldview we know?

Chaotic tourists were shouting and yelling on the island:

"They've surrounded them! They've surrounded them!"

"Not a single American devil is allowed to escape!"

Unfortunately, the Han Kuang Volunteer Army soldiers protecting them were the real American devils.

"Beat them all up, leave no one alive!"

"To usher in a new era!"

Everyone was shouting, running, and swimming happily on the shore, experiencing a sense of exhilaration as if they had seen through everything in the wind and rain.

……

When the battle for Tainan entered a siege, the ideological conflicts in Taipei became even more chaotic.

The Taipei City Committee organized pro-unification students into a unified propaganda team to promote the future and benefits of unification to the public.

But clearly, more ideological conflicts led to more clashes of ideas.

The older generation felt this was a great victory for people from other provinces:

"You outsiders and Hakkas, you've really got your revenge! You want to wipe us Minnan people out of here?"

In their minds, whether it's the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, it's always the outsiders bullying the locals.

The students are all numb, how come there are still old Dengs whose minds are stuck in the era before and after martial law?

"Uncle, what era are we living in? Why are you still talking about clan affiliation?"

Students who were originally affiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), or had an American mindset, supported LGBT, and had many connections with animal rights activists and gender transition groups, began to secretly coordinate:

"Reject ideological censorship! Why can't those who oppose socialism continue their studies? We must oppose it!"

The students had a unified answer to these questions:

"You can go to Hokkaido, Japan."

Many naive students who disagreed said:

"Then let's go to Japan!"

Students who were familiar with the situation in Japan and were supportive of unification shook their heads at these people's choices:

"You're an idiot. You'll be subject to thought censorship in Japan too... and it's even stricter there..."

This is a true story.

Although Li Xinghe himself doesn't manage these matters, the Japanese government won't miss the opportunity to curry favor with him.

Since the leadership has already established a governing framework of "thoroughly rethinking fascism," and even the Yasukuni Shrine has been demolished, the customs and public security departments will naturally not allow those trashy people they previously turned a blind eye to to enter. Therefore, with the further opening up of Sino-Japanese immigration, many pro-Japanese elements suspected of having "mental problems" have been deported.

Of course, the management level of Japanese university campuses is about as bad as that of Chinese universities, and East Asian universities tend to follow the lead of white-listed rankings in much the same way. Various schools, in the name of freedom of thought, form large and small academic cliques to resist government interference. Ironically, universities themselves are not very proactive in this matter.

The department that expelled these students was the Cabinet's Public Security Section 9, which is essentially the Ministry of Public Security. They reviewed the students' records on various social media platforms and immediately labeled them as "extremists with pro-Japanese imperialist ideology" and "risk bombs." Therefore, they were explicitly expelled, and their online remarks were made public, since these remarks involved "glorifying the war of aggression," "being close to fascist ideology," and "suspected nationalist terrorists."

"In mainland China and Taiwan, the worst that can happen is your website account being banned. But if you go to Japan to criticize Li Xinghe, your account will actually be deleted..."

Too many people have had their accounts physically deleted.

Don't underestimate the power of a strongman capitalist government, you bastard.

Of course, it's not just censorship of fascism and old imperialist ideology; a whole bunch of miscellaneous international NGOs with a pro-American stance are also being added to the interference list. So if these people go there, they'll most likely be sent to labor camps.

In addition, the students are also looking for Americans:

"Are there any American expatriates? What about those with US green cards? The ship commissioned by the US has arrived. Hurry up and go to Keelung Port, we need to take you away."

Many Americans and green card holders have stepped forward.

They were indeed going to Keelung Port. Li Xinghe promised to hand these people over to the Vance government as the price of the deal.

Beyond population and students, the economy is the fundamental factor.

Pro-unification students give speeches on the streets:

"The current exchange rate between RMB and NTD is 1:6, which means a new graduate earning 35,000 RMB is equivalent to a mainland graduate earning 6,000 RMB, which is the standard in first- or second-tier cities."

Many people ask:

Why not exchange at a 1:1 ratio?

Everyone felt that since they were the company being acquired, why shouldn't they give shareholders some benefits?

The students were completely speechless and could only grit their teeth and continue speaking:

"Do you want Taiwan's economy to die completely? Haven't you seen what happened to East Germany? We wish the exchange rate could be even lower, down to 1 to 7, so that our Taiwanese products would be competitive, could be sold, and the economy could recover!"

Some wishful thinking posts on PPT forums keep saying things like "after unification, the currency will be exchanged one-to-one," which is a typical example of populist fantasy. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the initial statement.)

The most typical example is West Germany's annexation of East Germany. With only one-eighth of its actual purchasing power, West Germany forcibly exchanged East German assets at a 1:1 mark ratio. This caused production costs in East German factories and units to skyrocket eightfold. Given the already insufficient product capacity, all factories, units, and departments became utterly uncompetitive and obsolete. Consequently, within less than two years, the entire region went bankrupt due to inflation and soaring costs. East Germans either became cheap labor for West Germany or were reduced to impoverished rural communities, barely surviving on meager national welfare benefits.

This bankruptcy situation was not alleviated from the reunification of Germany to the emergence of Weidel's Alternative for Germany party in East Germany.

If China were to exchange the New Taiwan Dollar for the New Taiwan Dollar at a 1:1 ratio, the entire Taiwan province would experience a fourfold increase in production costs, skyrocketing electricity prices, wildly fluctuating housing prices, and the entire region's economy would go bankrupt within two or three years, eventually declining to the point of resembling the tragic state of East Germany.

Will another tall, lesbian woman who adopted two children step forward and start an East Asian version of the Alternative Choice Party?

Therefore, in order to maintain Taiwan's relative economic competitiveness and development space, when discussing currency exchange, students who understand economics actually pleaded for it to be lowered even further, to a level where the average wage is around 5000 RMB, so that the rotten parts can be filtered out and space for economic growth can truly be left.

The outreach team talked about more affordable options:

"After unification, you will no longer have to bear the island's defense budget, which will save you more than NT$500 billion a year. If that's spread across everyone, each person will save NT$22,000 a year. Less debt, more profit."

Some people also cited articles from the pro-independence camp to ask:

"But the personal income tax rate needs to be increased. This article says that if the tax rate is set at RMB 6 (about NT$36) per year in mainland China, it means that many people will have to pay more taxes every year."

Of course, the propaganda team also has countermeasures:

"Based on the average person's annual income, it's only a few hundred yuan more in taxes. Plus, there are tax reduction and assistance policies, so just like before, you can basically avoid taxes if your income is below 500,000 New Taiwan Dollars. Auntie, you need to see the biggest advantage after unification: cars are cheaper! Cars that used to cost hundreds of thousands can now be bought for 100,000. Goods are also cheaper, many things are cheaper. Buy clothes on Temu and Shein. With various logistics chains, prices can also be reduced, and everyone's cost of living will be lower. Mainland tourists can come in, tourism businesses can come in, agricultural products can be sold, and people can all make money."

Motorcycles and cars have seen significant price reductions, reducing the defense budget and eliminating the threat of war and the ever-increasing trade barriers erected by the DPP government. More than 3000 types of goods have been deregulated, including agricultural products, cotton fibers, electrical appliances, automobiles, various precision surgical equipment, and telecommunications products, which will re-enter the Taiwanese market.

A heated exchange of words, a clash of ideas.

No matter how you look at it, unification will lead to a brighter future.

But there is another group of people who say:

"What if I don't want unification? The CCP can't just hang me, can it?"

The propaganda team reiterated their stance:

"Then you can go to Hokkaido, Japan. There are jobs available for building new houses there. You can leave within six months. You can even work as a construction worker now."

They're leaving too.

Many people would rather follow the corrupt Taiwanese government than stay.

The number of people wanting to take the ferry at Keelung Port is increasing in large numbers.

……

Upon learning of the situation, Li Xinghe lamented to his soldiers over the communication channel:

"The Nationalist government has repeatedly failed to live up to the expectations of the people and overseas Chinese, whether it was Chiang Kai-shek's usurpation of power, his disgraceful performance in the War of Resistance against Japan, or even the anti-Chinese riots in Southeast Asia... Yet, each time, people were willing to follow them, which is truly incomprehensible. Perhaps this is a kind of historical paradox."

Even bad songs can produce hit songs. The Kuomintang regime, which lasted for more than a hundred years, started with a masterpiece, died suddenly in the middle, and was brain dead throughout the later period, has indeed produced so many 'hit songs' (followers).

A soldier from Taipei, temporarily assigned to the unit, replied to Li Xinghe:

"The history you're talking about is too far back. Modern Taiwanese people don't remember such ancient history... They don't trust the government."

To put it more bluntly, they all still harbor illusions about the United States.

Whether it was the southward exodus in 1949 or the northward exodus in 2030, both reflect a hasty, blind faith in the United States. There's a belief that the American economy is strong, that America is powerful, and that even in its worst circumstances, it will never abandon its own people.

Li Xinghe was helpless in the face of this trend of thought.

After all, the United States did provide support to the Kuomintang government.

he asks:

"When will the fighting begin in Tainan? Kill. Kill until rivers of blood flow, and let those who still have illusions about America see what America is like now."

Hu Zhantian replied:

"They're hiding in downtown Kaohsiung right now. Are we going to storm in and wreak havoc?"

Li Xinghe gave the order:

"Go. No bloodshed, no revolution."

At this time, reinforcements from the 91st and 14th Brigades also arrived. Military support from Fujian crossed the sea and reached Tainan Port.

Robot dogs, drones, infantry fighting vehicles, amphibious assault vehicles, helicopters, fighter jets, and robots.

The soldiers were busy reorganizing, while the Taiwanese troops were explaining precautions to them. Some Taiwanese soldiers even had the idea of ​​joining the charge into Kaohsiung.

Banners featuring soldiers were hung on the streets of Tainan City:

"Only through the final battle, forged in blood and fire, can new steel be forged."

Chapter 810: The Brave Warriors March Nine Hundred Miles, Daring to Imprison the Barbarian King and Comfort Zhong Jun (6100 words)

Overcast.

Early in the morning of June 7.