Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"This is a deliberate attack on the reputation of our government."

At this point in the White House, only Vance's followers remained, plotting how he could turn the tide. They all reminded Vance that all the current government-related scandals were part of a Democratic attack.

The US is now increasingly targeting its own government.

The financial, oil, media, pharmaceutical, and trade union sectors all submitted to the Democratic Party's leadership, creating an atmosphere that suggested the United States was on the verge of collapse. This even led to trillions of dollars in assets fleeing the United States and flowing into Japan to purchase yen assets to hedge against financial risks.

Looking at his subordinates, Vance felt a rare sense of satisfaction that his intelligence had been on point.

Vance was never a pure Maga.

How could a pure redneck possibly have a Chinese teacher and marry an Indian woman?

From beginning to end, he was nothing more than a sophisticated egoist who obeyed his behind-the-scenes financiers.

Therefore, he will not fight a battle that the Democrats are bound to lose on the battlefields they have predetermined.

He wants to be the emperor of technology.

He wants to win the support of all high-tech companies, form a new money faction, and win a battleground that the Democrats haven't found.

So he said in a somewhat casual tone:

"A long time ago, or rather, two years ago, do you know how I got elected?"

The subordinates all shook their heads.

Vance suddenly recalled his first meeting with Li Xinghe, when he appointed Li Xinghe as a colonel, and the history of their cooperation over the years.

Even so, when the US election battle became fierce to the point of being cut off at the end of 2028, and when Li Xinghe told Vance about the "Ryukyu for Empire" plan, Vance was so nervous that he couldn't sleep.

The loss of a horseshoe is the loss of an empire.

At the time, everyone thought that Ryukyu was the horseshoe.

Vance reminisces about the past:

"That year, the United States committed three divisions to the guerrilla war in Okinawa. After wasting thousands of lives, the U.S. military suffered a humiliating and complete defeat on the battlefield. We waved the American flag, asked the people to support the U.S. military, and criticized the Democratic Party for being close to Okinawa. And so we won."

In other words, the defeat in the Ryukyu Islands ignited patriotic fervor across the United States, leading to a rightward shift and votes for the Republican Party, which ultimately resulted in Vance's victory.

"Could it be..."

The subordinates suddenly gasped.

Will they use this tactic in the midterm elections too?

Vance exclaimed:

"The Mexican war has been going on for over a year, and the country's economy is getting worse and worse. This is unacceptable."

The war against Mexican drug cartels is no longer a war in which the US military unilaterally bombs Mexican drug cartels.

During the year-long bombing campaign, the Mexican drug cartel honed their combat skills, developed a competitive instinct, and began purchasing large quantities of military weapons from Li Xinghe. They have even started buying tanks and anti-aircraft missiles from Norinco.

The Mexican government has long criticized the United States for its madness and has been continuously deploying air defense forces along the border, even cooperating with drug cartel forces to counter US troops crossing the border.

At this point in the war, it's clear to anyone with eyes that the US military is doomed to lose.

Vance planned it this way:

"Mexico will cross the border in October and attack California, claiming that they want to reclaim their old territories, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California... At that time, we will organize a large-scale campaign to eliminate the invading Mexican army."

"This is: Project M!"

Not only that, Vance has another plan:

"The Democrats concocted the Abundance Plan, attempting to emulate China's industrial revitalization, but that's a mistake. They are clearly pro-China spies, and I will crush America's spy network!"

Vance did not say it explicitly.

But this is his Plan D.

The Abundance Project is a very interesting thing.

In 2025, the U.S. Democratic Party produced a series of think tank discussion papers on "promoting production" and "abundant nations," encouraging the promotion of production, reducing regulatory barriers, prioritizing the development of productivity, and breaking down excessive legal barriers.

Chinese people will definitely find this familiar; isn't this just the American version of "Chinese learning for practical application, Western learning as the foundation"?

That's exactly what it is.

At this moment, a huge problem was troubling Vance:

In any case, he still lacked productivity.

How could he convince the people that he had won if he didn't have enough goods to sell?

Vance's solution is:

“After the midterm elections, I will push for a $10 trillion mega-production plan. I will entrust the nation’s technology companies to expand across the United States and build a larger-scale autonomous production economy.”

This is tantamount to handing money over to his sugar daddies.

The subordinates remained silent.

Of course, no matter what we say, the final outcome will have to come down to armed conflict.

Whether it's Plan M or Plan D, Vance needs a reliable army.

This raises another question:

There is a lack of weapons.

After much thought, Li Xinghe is the only one who can help Vance now.

He only sells large quantities of NATO-standard weapons (and also sells Chinese-standard weapons to America's enemies).

This is another example of dark humor.

In order to deal with Li Xinghe, we need to place a weapons order with him.

The subordinates felt it would be difficult to succeed:

Do you think he will help you now?

"Probably?"

Vance thought it was possible.

The war on drug cartels in Mexico lasted for more than a year, costing more than $100 billion in the southwestern United States alone. The social unrest caused by the war caused losses far exceeded $100 billion. As a result, the war order profits of tens of trillions of yen stimulated the economic recovery of Japan and South Korea, and the business of producing various guns, ammunition, bombs and missiles for the United States was booming.

There's no reason for Li Xinghe to give up Vance's 'Emperor's Arms Order'.

Plan M, Plan D, the mass production plan, the Emperor's arms order—Vance's grand ambitions led him to believe that he would become the Emperor of America.

"A $5 trillion arms deal, 5 defense personnel loyal to the president and the White House, 5000 million Magas loyal to Vance, a... tech emperor reigning over America!"

……

Tokyo.

Li Xinghe, who had just returned to Tokyo and was immediately thrown into a massive amount of paperwork, received a private phone call from Vance's wife, Usa.

"Hey G, I have something I'd like to talk to you about."

After chatting for a while, Li Xinghe realized that Wusha was even more radical than he had thought.

“I want to go to Tokyo myself to mediate the conflict between you. There’s no dispute between brothers that can’t be resolved. Vance has a $5 trillion arms deal he wants to discuss with you…”

Vance's wife is going to visit Tokyo in person?

"can."

With the $5 trillion arms deal at stake, Li Xinghe was happy to accept Usain Vance's state visit.

"woman?"

In the same office, Gao Tiaowuyue pricked up her ears, and Katayama Mizuo-sensei couldn't help but want to criticize Li Xinghe for being promiscuous again.

"Um... I'm not interested in that black woman. I'm interested in five trillion dollars."

Li Xinghe immediately denied it.

Usha Vance's family is from Andhra Pradesh in South India, and they have a typical Dravidian appearance. At her age, Li Xinghe really has no interest.

Soon, Shika Michika and Ayako Aso arrived at Li Xinghe's office for a small meeting. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the initial statement.)

Hua Yingmei was fully aware of Vance's actions:

"Is he trying to deliberately fabricate a scenario of American defeat, then use it as an opportunity to declare war on Mexico, become a wartime president, and ultimately a dictator?"

Ayako Aso lacks political acumen; she observes things by modeling them after Hitler.

"Isn't this fascist behavior?"

That's right, it was indeed very fascist.

But in reality, it is a common situation of seizing power through bad rules in white regimes.

Li Xinghe snapped his fingers:

“If he’s doing something like fascism, then we should do something like fascism too.”

Fascists first need weapons.

But both the United States and Japan lack it.

When it came to weapons, Li Xinghe slammed his fist on the table in fury:

"Fenghe Arms Industry, that scoundrel..."

Because he remembered that he had asked Fenghe Arms Industry to design a new rifle, which took nearly two years, and in the end, they delivered a pile of shit to Li Xinghe.

A pile of crap containing their own crazy ideas, combining the features of the Scar and HK416 rifles, but only inheriting their flaws.

Li Xinghe dialed the phone of Tsukamoto Takahiro, the president of Fenghe Arms Industry Company, and launched into a tirade of abuse:

"Either imitate the Scar or imitate the HK416. If you can imitate either one well, I will approve the project for production. But you can't imitate it, and you're messing around with low-level innovations. Is what you're doing really innovative? Are you trying to ruin the lives of soldiers? You even want to add garbage accessories like bipods and bayonets, and you insist on using a hybrid gas system that you can't even copy properly? If you can't build a new gun, I'll shut down your factory! I'll transfer the US military orders to Hanwha in South Korea instead of you."

Which fascist-like country couldn't even produce a rifle properly?

It's Japan.

Which fascist country couldn't even build tanks properly?

Still Japan.

Li Xinghe was speechless. He felt that instead of continuing to let Howa Arms Industry design their complicated, easily broken, and expensive ordinary guns, it would be better to have Norinco import Cq-d rifles (a copy of the HK416) as much as possible. The retail price of one rifle was only 26 yen, which was 1 yen cheaper than the wholesale price of Howa Arms Industry's Type 20 rifle.

The insults traveled from Tokyo to Aichi Prefecture, the automotive capital of Japan, terrifying the Howa Arsenal.

"The Taiko said that what we need is a new rifle that is simple, lightweight, reliable, and easy to mass-produce. The design based on the Type 20 rifle has been rejected..."

"It's all your fault for trying to maintain profit margins and costs; now we're practically facing bullets to our heads!"

The veteran designer hurriedly said:

"Take out the original design of the Type 20, that Scar-like plan. That's the simplest and most reliable policy modification. Get it into production now."

What about the licensing fee?

"To hell with the licensing fees, I'm going to lose my life."

“This is not a copy of dictatorship, we are an imitation of democracy.”

After the whip was lashed, Howa Arms finally learned its lesson. They dug out their early original designs, reduced the number of unnecessary parts, and finalized the product.

This new rifle, a pure copy of the Scar rifle, is the new 'Type 30 Precision Rifle'.

Later, it was officially finalized and changed to "one style".

This "one" does not refer to a year; those who know, know. It refers to Li Xinghe's term of office.

However, in reality, the lethality of rifles in modern warfare has dropped to about 15%, so it is sufficient to have the ability to defend oneself, engage in urban warfare in emergencies, and carry a grenade launcher.

For Li Xinghe and Hua Yingmei's small team, greater national performance is still needed.

However, the performance was somewhat lacking.

Ayako Aso read the document:

"The average meat consumption per capita has only increased by 1 kilogram compared to last year."

"That's all?"

Li Xinghe vigorously opened up imports, buying a huge amount of beef from Australia, Argentina, and even the United States.

But it really only gained 1 kilogram.