Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Li Xinghe gave the instructions:

"Go back to Sapporo and stabilize the social situation. There won't be any major fighting."

Kazutomo Idogawa reluctantly returned home.

Kokubun Makabe listened in the entire time, while Li Xinghe chirped crickets nearby:

"You're such a wicked person! Wherever you go, chaos ensues. You're so wicked."

Li Xinghe then retorted with the same words Makabe had used the day before:

"What are you talking about? I'm just setting things right, upholding historical fairness and justice, and helping the Ainu indigenous people vent their anger. I have a clear conscience; it was the Taiwanese militia that fired the shots."

Kokubun Makabe was immediately put in a difficult position.

She used that phrase to brush off Li Xinghe's questions about Yamato Ke'er. Now she's getting her just desserts.

Kokubun Tsukiya looked at her sister who had been humiliated and secretly smiled while covering her mouth.

Higashikawa Yukami stared intently at the Hokkaido map hanging on the whiteboard. To the west was the Japanese community centered around Sapporo, and to the east was the Taiwanese immigrant area centered around Kushiro. In between lay the Infinite Mountains.

Let's fight! Let's fight!

Chapter 831: The Minnan People Cut Their Scalps, Xinghe Teaches You How to Be Independent (5100 words)

After departing from Aomori, the Yashima battleship flotilla did not head to the Taiwanese immigrant area in Kushiro, but instead docked at Tomakomai Port, the most important port in Hokkaido.

Although everyone said that the politics and public sentiment in Hokkaido were complex and chaotic when they came, in reality, due to the continued decline and the mentality of being on the periphery, people flocked to Tomakomai Port to see the magnificent battleships.

Local media film here every day, so they can naturally capture footage of the Hokkaido governor leading his negotiation team onto the battleship.

Li Xinghe met with Hokkaido Governor Suzuki Naomichi on the battleship.

This handsome and energetic young politician created a Suzuki craze with his youthful appearance, leading a large number of young voters to cast their ballots for the Liberal Democratic Party. He may appear progressive on the surface, but he is actually quite conservative.

The meeting was not open to the public, but Suzuki Naomichi still held up a letter, bowed, and handed it to Li Xinghe:

"Your Excellency, please stop the immigration to Hokkaido. This has severely hurt the feelings of the residents who have lived in Hokkaido for generations. They cannot accept the sudden influx of war refugees into their homeland..."

Li Xinghe looked at the letter and fell into deep thought.

Their emotions have a certain legitimate value.

Fortunately, Hokkaido is sparsely populated, with large areas of uninhabited land and abandoned land that can be used to accommodate new residents, and its long coastline can be used to build ports for foreign trade.

If Syria were to accept refugees like Türkiye and Germany, with millions of people flooding in, social conflicts would immediately and rapidly escalate.

But when it comes to the emotions of the indigenous people, Li Xinghe can't hold back.

If you were to give other reasons here, Li Xinghe might genuinely lack historical evidence to refute them. However, if we're talking about the feelings of the Hokkaido residents, then this history becomes quite interesting. Hokkaido only began establishing treasuries in 1868, and its prefecture was only formally established in 1882. In 1903, the Ainu people were put on display at the Tokyo Zoo. From then until now, it's only been 148 years, just six generations.

The Ainu people aren't all dead yet.

Li Xinghe refused to accept the protest letter and instead asked him:

"Governor Suzuki, do you know how many Ainu people are left in Hokkaido? Less than 25,000. You said that my relocation of these refugees brought here due to the Taiwan Strait situation and nuclear crisis has severely hurt the feelings of the Ainu people. I would like to ask if it is possible to invite representatives of the Ainu people over. I would like to know if the immigrants I invite have already hurt the feelings of the indigenous people after only a few months, then how much have the feelings of the Yamato people, who have lived in Hokkaido for 148 years, been hurt?"

The atrocities committed against the Ainu people back then—the massacres, confinement, and cultural genocide—are all too egregious to mention.

The official figure released by Japan is 2.5 Ainu people. However, according to some unofficial surveys, the number of Ainu descendants of mixed race, those hiding their identities, or even those whose identities are unknown, is around 20.

Li Xinghe's words completely excluded the Yamato people from the list of Hokkaido's indigenous peoples. The only indigenous people here are the Ainu people, who have been oppressed, humiliated, and even treated like wild monkeys.

Naomichi Suzuki was stunned on the spot.

His entourage was also surprised that Li Xinghe would so boldly and directly expel the indigenous people of the He tribe from their citizenship.

You're using all my words.

"The indigenous people feel the same way, which makes them unhappy too..."

Such heated words were, in essence, Li Xinghe's way of reminding Suzuki Naomichi that he had noticed the remnants of the Liberal Democratic Party behind him secretly organizing organizations and websites in Hokkaido, such as the "Hokkaido Independence Association" and "Hokkaido Ethnic Studies," attempting to replicate the Taiwanese pro-independence scheme of the Hoklo and Hokkien peoples who used the name of Taiwanese aboriginals to secretly pursue independence.

Li Xinghe clapped his hands and laughed:

“Really? If so, I’ll designate an even larger settlement area for the indigenous people and build them a modern city. Call over the indigenous representatives.”

Indigenous representatives?

There's a hammer.

If we really brought them over, they'd probably defect to Li Xinghe on the spot.

Naomichi Suzuki and others could only resort to typical Japanese cultural practices and continue to plead:

"But……"

Li Xinghe, however, refused reluctantly:

"Do you know how much I've invested in Hokkaido this time? A whopping 60 trillion yen! How much is Hokkaido's annual economic output? 19 trillion yen. In other words, I've poured three times the island's economic output into this one-off investment, a debt that would take the people of Hokkaido 30 years of tightening their belts to pay off. And you only talk about refusing immigration after all this money has been poured in? That's ridiculous. 3000 billion US dollars—unless Hokkaido repays this debt, I will not allow immigration to be withdrawn."

The Suzuki administration team was sweating profusely.

The reason they couldn't stand up for themselves was because the money was invested too generously. Building airports, railways, and new cities meant an influx of people and economic boom. Various civil engineering factories flourished, and the beer and aquaculture industries also benefited.

The Hokkaido government only started opposing immigration after it had already reaped the benefits of funding and immigration.

"Your Excellency...we simply cannot accept this situation...please excuse us."

"roll."

Li Xinghe ordered the special forces to send them away.

This is only the first round of confrontation.

The governor of Hokkaido is the locally elected head of government, and Li Xinghe cannot remove him for the time being. He would have to break through the restrictions of the Local Autonomy Law to get rid of him.

Therefore, a certain level of skill is also required.

But Li Xinghe was not worried. He mocked the women around him:

"Does this old guy really think that a 49-year-old guy who gets cosmetic injections, spends a fortune on facial maintenance, and makes himself look like a vibrant young man in his twenties can actually be patient enough to push anything forward?"

Are you kidding me? After suffering such a huge loss in Taiwan, do you really think we would ignore the current problems in Hokkaido and give the Liberal Democratic Party another chance to revive?

After disembarking, Naomichi Suzuki made a phone call to his family:

"Send the Bear Hunting Association to the mountains to hunt!"

The emphasis on "hunting" implies the creation of ethnic conflict.

Li Xinghe had already guessed it, so he contacted Xu Baofeng first:

"Let the militia deal with those bear hunting associations."

……

The Bear Hunting Association militia set off from Obihiro City in Tokachi Hirano, in southeastern Hokkaido, and headed north in an attempt to cross the mountains and raid the immigrant area.

Meanwhile, reconnaissance drones flying overhead quickly spotted the convoy and dispatched Taiwanese militia to intercept it.

The two sides meet in Rikubetsu Town, located between Daisetsuzan and Akansan. It is situated at the junction of two national parks, surrounded by mountains. To the south lies the Tokachi Plain, to the north the Kitami Basin, and to the east, beyond the mountains, lies the Kushiro Wetlands and the Nekushi Plateau.

Kitami Basin, Kushiro Wetlands, and Nekushi Plateau have all been developed into urban areas under the Taiwan Immigration Plan. The area is also home to the Coastal Combat Brigade, TSMC's production lines, and the global headquarters of companies such as ASUS.

The bear hunters were riding in a small K-car, and they complained as they drove along:

"The island's ring railway has been restored, and they say they're also going to improve the roads and even expand the fleet of buses. Public transportation is much better than before."

"That's because more money is given to the immigrant areas and less to us."

"Damn it, I heard that an airport is going to be built in the northeast corner of Hokkaido. It's said that the Americans are funding it. They're building international airports in Kushiro and Nemuro, where Taiwanese people live. It's outrageous. We only have one airport in Chitose."

Dozens of cars moved along the road.

Then they encountered the local militia.

This could be a rather hilarious mini-war.

On the highway between the two mountains, Taiwanese militia members drove several Suzuki trucks with welded steel plates and sandbags piled on them, blocking the road ahead as a defensive position.

Then they knelt behind the position and aimed their M14s at the enemy.

The Hokkaido Bear Hunting Association across the street was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly dragged their hunting rifles out of the car.

They only had the Howa Golden Bear rifles produced by Howa Arms Industry.

This is a hunting sport rifle modeled after the American M1 carbine, using .308mm rounds, not the 7.62mm NATO rounds that the Americans forced Europeans to use; those are older, and each magazine only holds 5 rounds.

The reason it's a magazine instead of the 30-round magazine of the M1 carbine is that Howa Arms Industry hasn't been producing the Golden Bear rifle recently, and the Bear Hunting Militia can only buy some 5-round magazine bolt-action hunting rifles from their stock.

If they can't produce it, then naturally you can't buy it even if you want to.

If it weren't for the scope on it, the militia units equipped with this bolt-action rifle that fired 5 bullets might not have been as effective as the British army during the Boer War.

Although I've always looked down on the Taiwanese military's combat capabilities, it would be quite simple for a Taiwanese soldier who has undergone at least four months or a year of military training, has trucks, steel plates, and old M14 rifles that are as old as my grandfather's. He could easily crush a group of civilian old men who were pretending to hunt black bears to disturb the peace, but were actually forming a militia.

"Shoot!"

The commander shouted at the top of his lungs.

The bursts of M14 fire rose and fell in waves, like a symphony started by a novice.

Little Kcar was no match for the M14 bullets, and more than a dozen members of the Bear Hunting Association fell before they could even retaliate.

So the people behind simply drove back, while the people in front stubbornly resisted.

At this time, the ancestors of the Hoklo people, who were killing aborigines in Taiwan, suddenly had their ancestral genes for scalping awaken.

Although the Japanese people in Hokkaido are not the uncivilized Ainu, and although the era of scalping is long gone, the fundamental human need for living space will not disappear.

Rather than pretending to coexist peacefully, cutting off someone's scalp is more in line with the underlying genes of the Minnan people.

"kill!"

They killed more than ten people and captured more than a hundred prisoners in one go, and the Taiwanese militia returned in great victory.

The militia suffered a crushing defeat and fled back to Obihiro City.

Xu Baofeng reported the results to his superiors.

Meanwhile, Li Xinghe had already begun to consider how to govern Hokkaido.

Higashikawa Yukimi reminded him:

"You'd better not rely on the police in Hokkaido. In fact, the only difference between the police and the yakuza in Hokkaido is a hat."

Due to a poor economy, a dispersed population, and a lack of surveillance, despite Japan having world-renowned manga detectives and excellent police officers featured in various TV dramas, the actual capabilities of Japanese police in reality are only so-so, and are considered quite average even among developed countries.

Even someone of average ability, upon seeing the police in Hokkaido, could proudly call them pioneers of integrity.

In other places, prefectural or county police can try to cover up scandals. However, the number of scandals involving the Hokkaido police is so large that they could be published annually, so no matter how many are hidden, a lot will inevitably leak out.

Hokkaido is infamous for a series of scumbag activities, including bullying girls to death, stealing stolen goods and money, associating with gangs, involving underage girls, burglarizing country villas, buying and selling police guns, and blurring the lines between gangsters and police.

Therefore, if you need to resolve a problem with the police outside of Hokkaido's urban areas, it may sometimes be better to contact the local yakuza directly.

After the Bear Hunting Association suffered a crushing defeat in the battle on the mountain trails, Suzuki Naomichi and the Hokkaido Democratic Party, who had returned to Sapporo, urgently began further mobilization of civilians.

They abandoned their past right-wing conservatism and suddenly switched to the left, beginning to promote national liberation:

"Without a doubt, the Ainu people are the original inhabitants of Hokkaido. As later arrivals, we, the Wa people, should learn from and emulate the original inhabitants."

If the Japanese people of Hokkaido all wore the old-fashioned woven robes of the Ainu people, spoke fluent Japanese, and called themselves Ainu, they would have a high chance of obtaining regional assistance from the United States, the United Nations, and even China.

Ultimately, the core logic of the whole affair is that a large group of people opposed to Li Xinghe gathered in Hokkaido, attempting to subtly sow discord. Meanwhile, China, Europe, and the United States have all expressed dissatisfaction with Japan's oppression of the Ainu people, and they believe that the US, China, and Russia would support this trend of development disguised as justice and national self-determination.

This can be seen as taking advantage of Li Xinghe's method of provoking the crisis in Ryukyu State, and attempting to disgust Li Xinghe in return.

Therefore, Naomichi Suzuki said:

“We have decided to follow the example of Ryukyu State, identify and establish a database of the Ainu people, and consider evolving the provincial government into a more open, equal, and free model of ethnic autonomous prefecture.”

"The Hokkaido government will provide a one-time compensation of at least 50 yen to all those who are willing to acknowledge their Ainu identity, those who are hiding among the people and dare not reveal their identity. For Hokkaido residents who cannot confirm their ethnic identity, the government is willing to provide free genetic testing certificates to help confirm their ethnic affiliation."

This introduces an unpredictable variable.

Because pure-blooded Ainu people are very rare, the only ones who can be utilized are the mixed-race Ainu people who are already living in other parts of Hokkaido.

Because of the brutal repression and cultural genocide perpetrated by the Japanese government, most of these people are unaware of their ethnic identity, or if they are, they choose not to disclose it. The Japanese government has very few statistics on these people, with only some unofficial estimates suggesting they comprise roughly one-twentieth of Hokkaido's population. (The remaining text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

However, if it's purely genetic testing, a situation arises where people in Hokkaido with Jomon genes might be classified as Ainu, since Japanese people themselves possess this gene.

Therefore, there may eventually be a list of 50 to 100 million Ainu people. In this way, the Japanese could claim the ethnic identity of the Ainu and then create division and independence.

This is a very standard approach from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan.