Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The British Empire currently has over 1600 noble families, most of whom live happy and affluent lives, their wealth doubling in the past 20 years. Aside from a few families that have fallen into ruin due to poor succession, gambling, domestic violence, or fraud, most British nobles own country land or numerous urban properties, enjoying a comfortable life collecting rent. Others have ventured into finance, real estate, and motorsports, amassing considerable fortunes. Even those involved in politics still occupy a significant portion of prestigious and respected positions in society, such as members of parliament, committee members, and honorary principals.

Although these people are theoretically separated from politics, they are still involved for various reasons. They seem to be gradually declining, yet they are still incredibly wealthy.

Fortunately, true political officials, such as former Prime Minister Sunak, a highly intelligent Indian-origin elite, are still able to clean up the mess for the British Empire.

Sunak has dedicated himself to Britain, and his presence here for these negotiations reflects his anxiety about the fate of the pound sterling, which is pegged to the dollar.

After getting into the luxurious car, Li Xinghe said directly:

"If Britain wants to acquire significant RMB settlement and transaction capabilities, or even establish a British coin in London fully pegged to the RMB, the price it will have to pay is considerable. This is no longer the Cameron era. And I cannot make decisions for China."

During Cameron's era, Britain and China were incredibly close. In his early career, he was even labeled a "traitor" and accused of being a communist spy. At that time, London had already begun handling RMB settlement transactions.

Unfortunately, Cameron's leadership faltered, and he was ousted by a disgruntled US through the Brexit referendum. Only then did the British realize that Cameron had actually been a very good prime minister. Meanwhile, the majority of prime ministers were incompetent, like Trudeau.

Duchess Olympia astutely pointed out:

"Excuse my bluntness, but aside from foolish Americans who can't see your relationship with China, I think countries with a deep diplomatic history and capabilities can probably guess that you have a special relationship with China."

Li Xinghe frowned slightly. In the eyes of Princess Olympia and Princess Charlotte, this gesture, which resembled that of a lady, actually highlighted a captivating beauty on his handsome face.

He humorously responded to Olympia's reminder:

"Just like people still don't understand why Israel is always able to get aid from the United States, and even trick the United States into sending military aircraft and ships to participate, and it is still the same now."

Actually, this statement contains another layer of praise or criticism.

Israel can restrain the United States, but the United States can command Britain. The British themselves don't understand why British troops always follow the US military to the Middle East, which in turn undermines the Middle East diplomatic system that Britain has maintained for decades.

This is because Britain lacks independent diplomatic and military capabilities. As a puppet state, no matter how intelligent its foreign ministry is, it must follow the lead of the US, like a sabbey, to bomb Iran, Iraq, and Gaza. The post-colonial Middle East order maintained by British diplomats through their maneuvering skills can be shattered by a single war launched by the US.

Few could understand Li Xinghe's strange talk. Sunak pretended not to notice that Princess Charlotte, a 15-year-old girl, was already focused on observing what Japanese women were wearing. Baroness Olympia, on the other hand, was caught between breaking down and staying calm, her expression neither tense nor relaxed.

This round of linguistic exchanges has essentially tacitly agreed on the arrangements for the next few years.

Princess Charlotte remained in Tokyo, while Lady Olympia Churchill served as the Governor-General's representative for Australia and New Zealand, responsible for assisting Li Xinghe in controlling these two Commonwealth countries.

Therefore, Li Xinghe generously said:

“We will split into two groups. Sunak and Iwaya Takeshi, do not go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but go to the South Korean Embassy. Use my account to secretly contact the Chinese representative, Lao Wang, to conduct negotiations on trade and currency exchange.”

Sunak finally got the contact information he desperately needed and hurriedly left with Iwaya Takeshi.

Princess Charlotte asked with some dissatisfaction:

What about us?

Li Xinghe pointed to the tall, petite princess and her busty female teacher, Baroness: "We are preparing to consider restoring order between Australia and New Zealand. We will complete the economic and political integration of Australia and the CCP/TPP. Therefore, we will first reside in the Japanese Imperial Palace."

……

Arriving at the east side of the Imperial Palace, in a quiet villa, this was the accommodation arranged for them.

Li Xinghe's family is also preparing to move to the vicinity of the Imperial Palace to prevent any unforeseen events.

After you sit down, a British maid will naturally tidy up the room.

Duchess Olympia couldn't wait to offer Li Xinghe some advice:

"Both Britain and the United States hope to resolve the issue of order as quickly as possible in private and assist Australia and New Zealand in restoring democratic order as soon as possible."

After causing such a huge commotion, someone has to clean up the mess.

The so-called democratic order is simply casting votes.

As long as the Western world sees that Australia and New Zealand have resumed voting, it will appear as if democratic order has been restored.

Then let's consider this matter closed.

Li Xinghe smiled slightly and said nonchalantly:

"If they want to see democracy, then let them see democracy. If they want to see LGBT, we can also hang rainbow flags in parliament. We can just go through the motions for a few more months, and by the end of the year, they won't care about these trivial matters anymore."

For Europe and America, what they most desire is to see non-European and American countries adopt their own political systems, in order to satisfy a kind of mentality similar to 'the Celestial Empire's moral education reforming the barbarians'.

However, it is precisely this system of adopting others' systems that contains huge contradictions.

Because it is subjective and idealistic, it is not objectively applicable to the country's own existence. Any country that follows its own development path and improves itself according to local conditions will inevitably clash with the system of Western countries.

Those who can directly adopt the political systems of other countries, as the West expects, and simply put together a bunch of elected representatives in parliament to pretend to be Western-style democratic elections, inevitably have a powerful figure behind them, or a major warlord or dictator. That so-called elected parliament is completely unimportant to the country's true survival; it's just a facade.

This explains why, whenever Western countries try to cultivate a "democratic star" from outside the West, they often end up creating a rotten, authoritarian, and insane state. What they need is only authoritarian warlordism to satisfy their demands.

This is vividly demonstrated in humanoid figures such as Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee of South Korea, the Northern Warlord Alliance of Afghanistan, the Ngo brothers of South Vietnam, and the Thirteen-Member Committee of Iraq.

However, there are also counterexamples. For instance, Rwanda in Africa, and Khomeini during the revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran, actually used this flawed mentality of Europe and America to their advantage, thus completing the transformation and consolidation of their own countries.

Australia is rather unusual; they have mandatory voting, meaning every adult voter must cast their ballot at a polling station. Therefore, they need to find a group of oddballs and various humanoid creatures to distribute the votes.

Ultimately, the goal is to preserve the two caretaker governments arranged by Li Xinghe.

After discussing the entire process, Li Xinghe took his leave.

"Then please get some rest."

Duchess Olympia bid farewell very politely.

"It seems that the rulers of Japan were not so cruel after all."

Turning back, the little princess reminded her tutor:

"His head is practically falling into your chest, of course he's being gentle."

Women with large breasts are good at negotiating.

……

The news of the arrival of the British royal family gradually spread the following day.

As the news gradually unfolded, the British Royal Family announced that Princess Charlotte would serve as the Princess of Australia and New Zealand, while her governess, Dame Olympia Churchill, would serve as the Governor-General of Australia and New Zealand, overseeing the elections in both countries as the head of the Royal Family.

In an instant, people burst into singing and dancing in celebration. Even the coalition forces still stationed in Australia and New Zealand seemed less ferocious.

Even Li Xinghe finds it difficult to comment on this:

"The princess and the governor-general went up and gave a rapid-fire presentation, and the IQs of the Australians and New Zealanders instantly dropped to zero. They couldn't care less about their previous hatred towards Japan. Tsk tsk tsk. This is the low IQ and inherent inferiority of the residents of a monarchical country."

The ageless beauty, Ayman, replied with a smile:

"There's nothing we can do about it, Australians and New Zealanders are rather simple-minded and very obedient."

It's hard to imagine that, facing Great Britain, which betrayed them and essentially sold out Australia and England, a mere appearance by the female governor and the flat-chested little queen would be enough to erase the public's memory of the 'betrayal' and make them cheer and accept Li Xinghe's new rule.

But that's the reality.

Li Xinghe and Ayman are at the Qingshan Command Headquarters, where Maria and Lin Mulan are also present. They are discussing policy towards the United States.

Duchess Olympia, on the other hand, followed behind Li Xinghe to discuss the Australian election. She had been mainly following Li Xinghe these past few days.

A crucial intelligence report was placed in Li Xinghe's hands.

Li Xinghe laughed after reading it:

"America seems to be only now catching up. Lobbying firms affiliated with Boeing and Lockheed Martin have called to say that opposition to us is growing. Some Democratic lawmakers have proposed listing you as an enemy of democracy, like Vladimir Putin, a target of a great dictator."

Baroness Olympia, somewhat surprised by Li Xinghe's undisguised information about cooperation, asked:

"Is the arms company's lobbying firm tipping you off?" Mei, let me think... Lin, are you free yet...?

Li Xinghe shook the tissue:

"Because all kinds of artillery shells, cannons, gun barrels, and various military supplies from Japan, South Korea, and China to the United States are first delivered to these local bullies, and then passed on to the Pentagon. They eat my profits, so they have to help me monitor the situation in Washington, right?"

These military-industrial complex companies order products from Huangshui Defense Company, controlled by Li Xinghe. Huangshui Defense then subcontracts the orders to other military companies such as Norinco, Hanwha, Hanjin, Mitsubishi, IHI, and Fenghe, achieving a highly modernized and rapid production and supply system. As a result, the US military's operations in recent months have become more efficient, as if it were experiencing a resurgence, and it has even been able to support Israel in bombing Houthi rebels.

If Mexico hadn't also been giving Li Xinghe the same orders, and hadn't been paying him in US dollars, and if Li Xinghe hadn't been more diplomatically supportive of Mexico, the US military might have actually been able to overpower the Mexican warlords and the Mexican government forces.

We're all in this together, so of course we need to keep each other informed.

Li Xinghe pondered and asked:

"Speaking of which, what's Vance's mindset?"

Maria's expression was strained, while Lin Mulan wore a teasing smile:

"We now have complete confidence in our content-based operations."

Li Xinghe clenched his fist and shared their intelligence operations with Ms. Olympia:

“We partnered with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GM, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, and found many media outlets and social media accounts that Vance liked to follow, bombarding him with nonsense like ‘he will definitely become the tech emperor’ and ‘becoming emperor will save the country’ 24 hours a day. Now he really believes it.”

The simplest method is information cocoon brainwashing.

Why could the military-industrial complex and Li Xinghe join forces to deceive Vance and openly create an information cocoon for a country's president?

The answer is quite simple: the Americans are nearing the breaking point of such a frenzied administration. Domestically, Vance has been issuing a barrage of directives and enacting various laws restricting imports, exports, and even production. Internationally, he's bombing Mexico, supporting Israel, and facing a potential second Russia-Ukraine war. The US military is scattered across the globe, yet military spending continues to rise.

So everyone conspired to fool Vance, making him believe that if he took just one more step, he would definitely win.

Thus, Vance took one step after another, gradually moving towards a more extreme path of becoming a tech emperor.

This world is truly bizarre.

Yoon Seok-yeol brazenly launched a martial law coup because he watched too much far-right political populist commentary on YouTube, which greatly influenced his intelligence and judgment, particularly the idiotic South Korean right-wingers featured there. Similarly, Trump relies on the news for information daily, resulting in a large group of political opportunists around him who feed him fabricated fake news and launch a series of absurd campaigns.

Stepping out from the fringes of London's small world and witnessing the political turmoil in Tokyo, Lady Olympia Churchill uttered a speechless sigh:

"My God, is this how the world works?"

Chapter 851: Manipulating People's Hearts - Li Xinghe and the Queen of Australia and New Zealand (6500 words)

"Dairy cow".

Olympia was basically immune to such comments; she believed they were just jealous people who couldn't have what she had, spouting sour remarks about her own perfect figure. (The rest of the text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

However, after meeting the beautiful and shrewd Emmanuel, the capable and astute Maria, and the New York elite Lin Mulan at the Green Mountain Command, she sensed some danger.

These American women don't seem easy to deal with.

More importantly, they have a very close relationship.

Aiman ​​gave birth to a daughter for Li Xinghe. It is said that there is also a lesbian couple who both had children with Li Xinghe and are currently on vacation in Hangzhou.

Looking down from upstairs, she saw Li Xinghe and three others squatting on the lower rooftop of the Qingshan Command Headquarters, munching on spicy snacks while pondering their next move.

Lin Mulan pointed to the imperial palace in the distance:

"That little princess in here is a good brick, move her around a lot. You see, as soon as she arrived in Tokyo, the Australians and New Zealanders immediately changed. These people still have that instinct to obey the royal family deep down. Humph, despicable."

Li Xinghe didn't say anything, but Maria next to him laughed and started teasing her best friend:

"Hey, you New Yorker, what right do you have to call others despicable? You New Yorkers love to follow the British royal family's dirty laundry, you follow the Queen of England more than Washington, everyone knows that."

Actually, it's not just New Yorkers; gossip about the British royal family is a favorite source of online gossip and entertainment for people all over the United States.

For Americans, who have historically lacked a deep cultural foundation, following the intricacies of the British royal family's affairs is one of the few pleasures in their lives that allows them to intertwine historical weight, cultural essence, and personal entertainment. Especially for fashionable residents of major cities, they can lose sleep over royal gossip, yet a visit to the Washington Monument is something they'd never do in their lifetime. This complex interplay of urban life, history, and personal experience is a unique characteristic of modern urban life.

"What do Washingtonians like?" the two asked Eman.

“Washington? There are locals in Washington?” Ayman suddenly made a lame joke.

As a man-made capital, Washington, D.C. has a highly mobile population. If one were to categorize anyone as a true local, perhaps the Black residents who have lived in Washington's impoverished neighborhoods for generations would be considered part-locals.

After the jokes about revealing each other's secrets were told, the atmosphere became even more lively.

Li Xinghe was also considering the United States' moves:

"There's only about a month and a half left before the dollar collapses. The Federal Reserve seems helpless, and the Fed chairman appears ready to wash his hands of it and just drag things out until November?"

Lin Mulan took out her phone:

"The new generation of women, Huina, has been doing charity work again. Quickly bring her back and have her go to Kokubun Makabe. First, use all the financial tools at your disposal to short the dollar. American capitalists are eating themselves, so why can't we eat more?"

Although the dollar has plummeted, it does not mean that international financial capital that uses the dollar as a weapon will suffer losses.

They had long ago transferred their assets into Japanese yen, US dollars, and euros, waiting for the dollar to plummet, triggering an economic crisis and dragging the entire world into economic collapse. They were waiting for the opportunity to reap the rewards and sweep across the globe with their vast capital.

Ayman then analyzed the statement:

"This is precisely why we need to win over Britain and keep the Duchess and the little queen under our control."

Despite Britain's shameless nature, if it could transform its City of London into a window for its RMB economy to extract resources from Europe at a crucial moment, it would be quite valuable. Clearly, Britain is waiting for this opportunity to turn the tide and doesn't want to repeat the mistake of the dollar's devaluation in 2027.

"Once the economic crisis is over and the dollar-dominated world system collapses, it will be a brand new dawn. Then we can try to expand to more distant places. For example, we could give Singaporeans a slap on the wrist, making them realize they are in Asia. Or we could intervene in Myanmar, and so on..."

Maria teased Li Xinghe again: