Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

In the meeting room, neither Ayako Aso nor Eimi Shikami were present, but Queen Charlotte, Duchess Olympia, and Makabe Kokubun and the new generation of women, who were in charge of the flow of funds in Li Xinghe's team, were sitting there, forming an economic negotiation meeting.

In the Cabinet corridor, a large group of business people lined up to enter the meeting room.

Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Itochu Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, and Sumitomo Corporation—five major Japanese import and export conglomerates—all received orders to come and pay their respects to Li Xinghe.

As they walked onto the corridor, they saw several girls playing together in the courtyard.

"Watch the game!"

Niizawa Tao swings her baseball bat, chasing the ball around. Azuma Ai holds her daughter, basking in the sun with maternal love.

As Yamato Keir followed behind Tai Feng, someone suddenly tugged at her skirt.

"Hey, don't pull my skirt!" Yamato Keir said, tugging at the hem of her skirt in annoyance.

"Sorry, I thought you were my little sister." Kai picked up Yamato and Keira and gave her a mischievous look.

A female special forces member from the cabinet came over and knocked on the glass to remind them:

"Gentlemen, please be quiet."

Then the girls stuck out their tongues and stood up straight, watching a group of white-haired old men bow to them before entering the cabinet meeting room.

“What we’re discussing today is the dollar. Over the past few months, I’ve been pushing for dollar-for-materials deals, buying large quantities of gold, silver, copper ore, and many rare earth elements.”

Li Xinghe was banging on the table in the conference room.

With so many US dollars on hand, where should I spend them?

It seems like the world accepts US dollars for everything, but in reality, dollars are often useless. Even after World War II, Europe was already quite averse to these worthless dollars in the 60s.

Li Xinghe's plan was to gradually exchange the US dollars he had for various precious metal raw materials.

But thinking about these business matters, Li Xinghe was about to curse, and he started yelling at the white-haired old men:

“It’s almost time for Vance to take the stage for the last time. Damn it, spend all the dollars you have. Whether it’s investing in mining in Australia five years from now, investing in dairy farms in New Zealand, or even building railways in Africa, as long as it’s not losing money in India, all I want to see now is you throw all the dollars you have out of your hands! Even if you buy copper ore, iron ore, and coal and bury them in Tokyo Bay, I won’t interfere.”

Li Xinghe quoted common Chinese internet jokes (a similar joke about coal mines buried in the Bohai Bay, also found in Vietnam), mocking the shortcomings of the five major corporations in their aggressive purchasing practices, and how they spent their dollars.

Soon, the US dollar will enter a major economic cycle of volatility. Even if the dollar only depreciates by 20%, the resulting ripples in the international market will be far more than 50%. The intensive spending on heavy metals and raw materials in recent months is precisely to stabilize the country's future economy.

Li Xinghe was dissatisfied because, with the US dollars in his hands about to depreciate significantly, why did the five major commercial companies still have hundreds of billions of US dollars in deposits?

The old men still didn't believe it, and some were even brainwashed by Vance's false advertising, arguing back and forth:

"But what if international trade settlements..."

"Clearance my ass. When the time comes, we'll borrow dollars; they're everywhere in the world! Get rid of that piece of garbage green paper you have first."

Li Xinghe slammed his fist on the table in anger and introduced the people around him:

"This is the Queen of Olympia and New Zealand, and this is the Governor-General of Olympia, who is in charge of the development plans for Australia and New Zealand. Now gather up the money you can spend immediately and quickly convert it into projects."

At this moment, Queen Charlotte, sitting to Li Xinghe's right, hurriedly straightened her thin chest. Her slightly bewildered eyes were still fixed on her husband's face, but her body was gradually adapting to being a queen. Duchess Olympia beside her smiled slightly.

As Governor-General of Australia and New Zealand, this is exactly the moment she has been waiting for.

With global raw material prices soaring due to the depreciation of the US dollar, and prices for gold, silver, copper, and even various rare earth and industrial raw materials, as well as steel, coal, and natural gas—almost everything—rising due to changes in the dollar, Australia, a fertile land that has remained largely undeveloped, suddenly appears so beautiful and delightful.

Australia is rich in gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal, and has vast reserves of untapped natural gas along its coast. It can truly be described as a country sitting on a mountain of mines.

If Li Xinghe were to throw all the US dollars he had into the land of Australia and invest them in countless mines, natural gas wells, oil wells, and transportation routes, and then import cheap industrial products from China, Japan, and South Korea, build a network, and attract more infrastructure companies, Australians could enjoy a high standard of living even while lying on the ground sunbathing.

Unfortunately, white Australians are still migrating out en masse. They probably think that America is a city on a hill, and that Li Xinghe, with his Asian face, looks cunning and annoying, so they must go from heaven to hell.

Then let them burn in hell.

Suddenly, Makabe Kokubun, who controlled Li Xinghe's private bank and resource company and had already spent hundreds of billions of dollars, hurriedly handed his phone to Li Xinghe:

"Vance was assassinated. While trying on his Emperor's New Clothes, he was stabbed with a tailor's knife by an assassin disguised as a tailor! It is said that the assassin stabbed Vance, leaving him naked and limping down the street. The assassin shouted 'There is no king in America' and was shot dead by the Secret Service."

The news was on television: the naked, pre-emperor Vance, with his bare body and blood all over his buttocks, was running down the streets of Washington, while several Secret Service agents stormed into a tailor shop and killed the assassin.

The video looks hilarious, and you can hear the 'No king' declaration very clearly.

A fanatical social democratic assassin.

This is one of the few truly genuine left-wing fighters in the United States.

Obama's internal sabotage did indeed cause a nationwide paralysis of the Democratic Party.

But the radical leftists within the Democratic Party exist across the country in a decentralized manner. Now, the radical Democrats aren't engaging in congressional debates with Vance anymore; they know they can't outmaneuver Vance and his financial backers in that regard.

So let's just assassinate him.

Physical elimination is still more convenient.

The era of great assassinations has begun.

Chapter 873: Coexisting with Assassins, Ascending to the Red Prince (4600 words)

Washington.

The Secret Service director, the Attorney General, the CIA CEO, and others stood before Vance, their expressions stiff.

At this moment, His Majesty Vance lay naked on the hospital bed, his obese body exposed, as doctors performed treatment and sutures on his buttocks.

He was not wearing anything because he needed to have surgery.

Furthermore, because he was undergoing intestinal and buttock suturing surgery, if he had been under general anesthesia, Vance wouldn't have known what would happen during the hours he was unconscious, so he could only receive simple local anesthesia. Therefore, the excruciating pain of having his flesh stitched together caused him to suffer so much that his facial expressions almost contorted.

Therefore, the security leaders standing at the front could only barely keep their faces straight, preventing smiles from slipping out of their hearts.

"Why is this happening? Why is this so!"

Vance, grimacing, continued to berate the Secret Service for inadequate security as doctors operated on his intestines.

"In fact, during our initial investigation, we discovered that this tailor shop was originally run by Mexicans with a clean background. But yesterday, for the sake of making last-minute arrangements, we found a few Italian actors from Baltimore. We just didn't expect that a socialist would be mixed in among them..." Secret Service Director Sean defended himself.

Simply put, when the Secret Service conducted their initial investigation, the tailor shop was clean. However, the actor the Crowd Committee temporarily hired to portray Vance as a white, native-made American was problematic. This cannot be blamed on the Secret Service.

"So you mean white people are more dangerous than people of color?"

Vance countered with a question.

"Correct."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

People of color, especially undocumented immigrants, are mostly honest people who come here to work diligently (though some are also diligently involved in drug trafficking and smuggling). White people and second-generation immigrants, on the other hand, are increasingly insane and deranged—this is already a consensus within the police department.

Chief Mora, with a face as hard as steel, could suppress her laughter even at the sight of Vance's large buttocks. She reminded him:

"Assassins are always necessary. That's the case in the United States now. I suggest learning to coexist with assassins."

This isn't some troll's opinion, but a sincere suggestion, because there are just too many assassins to kill in America right now.

In fact, American ideology has now become a hellish prison of demons and monsters. Gordon Chang, who seems insane in 2020 and repeats the "China collapse theory" every day, is now seen in the United States as a "calm mentor on China issues," cycling between the identities of "he must be a spy sent by the Chinese" and "he knows China very well."

When everyone is insane, assassins will naturally spring up everywhere.

Vance's attempt to forcibly become emperor in a republic naturally drew a backlash from the masses.

"Ouch~"

Vance screamed in agony.

The doctor has just stitched up Vance's intestines and is inserting a colostomy bag into him.

Because the wound couldn't heal quickly, Vance had to carry this colostomy bag with him to his coronation ceremony, bringing his poop with him.

"Damn it! Why did it have to be now!"

Vance was extremely dissatisfied with this, but one can't simply change bodies.

Leaving Vance's medical operating room, many bureaucrats were helpless and didn't even want to consider how to solve the problem.

Chief Mora commented on this:

"Unless we can clearly explain what the United States is and what the United States is, this question will remain unanswered. But in reality, we don't need it to answer that question."

What is the actual state of America?

On the streets, countless liberals and mages who can't even read 500 English words formed a massive populist battle—a battle between bourgeois lackeys and the urban hooligans and proletarians.

In both parties, traditional establishment figures in the Democratic and Republican parties have been largely marginalized, while the far-left and far-right populist slogans have become increasingly louder. In recent years, establishment figures have almost always fallen in elections, while populists who release short videos and incite others have almost always come to power, leading to the growing strength of populist fanatics.

In government, there is an extremely mobile bureaucracy. Despite the massive size of the American bureaucracy, its members move very quickly within Washington, D.C. Many resign after a few years, flee to New York to start consulting firms, and then join forces with others to hollow out the U.S. government. Most senior American bureaucrats leave politics in quick succession, then collaborate with all sorts of people to undermine the government.

On the internet, countless online trolls, more fanatical than fascists, lacking even the most basic moral and rational foundations, and even common sense, are waging war everywhere under the leadership of opinion leaders. Their understanding of the world is purely based on various fantasies, yet they believe they have grasped the truth and blindly follow online opinion leaders in chanting slogans.

Within smaller organizations, there are anti-capitalist assassins like Mangioni, whose "effective altruism" has broken down and then turned on the company, assassinating representatives of big capitalist corporations everywhere; there are also extreme anti-war anarchists who speak nonsense and kill people indiscriminately; and there are even extreme right-wing religious groups like the "First Apostle" organization, who carry pistols and kill Democrats everywhere in order to welcome their "First Apostle" to the world.

In summary, the United States is now mired in a classic problem, amidst severe wealth inequality and class conflict, mixed with differing founding narratives, ethnic disparities, and the collapse of social consensus.

What is the United States? What was the purpose of the United States?

As a nation lacking historical tradition, with its traditional founding narrative dragged into the mire by slavery and the notion of human rights equality, and with new immigrants lacking a sense of American identity, almost every political party and faction with different political stances has its own narrative position on this matter.

Even different factions within the same party, or different groups within the same faction, can fight tooth and nail over "What is America, and what is America for?"

Whether it's professional agents forced to re-enter society from the CIA, FBI, or Homeland Security, Latin American gangsters infiltrating from the southwestern Mexican coast, or spies from certain countries as rumored, they all seem less prominent in the chaotic social climate of the United States.

Even the most wicked people have their own order.

However, the current situation in the United States is that after more than a decade of fanatical clashes between the extreme left and the extreme right, no one in the society can come up with a theory of order that can convince both sides, let alone complete the construction of national identity.

The demons would rather their enemies die today and they themselves die tomorrow than bother to think about how to rebuild American society.

Even if they wanted to, in their collective brains with only 500 words, there were basically no constructive ideas to refer to, and they could only repeat nonsense like "destroy China" along with the TV.

Those intelligent people who are capable of understanding the situation and proposing solutions without being killed as 'Chinese spies' have already been submerged in the vast ocean of collective unconsciousness and are unable to extricate themselves.

Of all these people, if even one could clearly explain what historical stage the United States was in at that time, know the current economic situation in China, understand the economic transformation of Japan under Li Xinghe's control, and have even a little understanding of the economic situation in East Asia, then he could already be called a 'great prophet,' 'supreme teacher,' or 'great ruler.'

This is why Li Xinghe has now extended his reach to Oceania and Southeast Asia, yet the United States' reaction to him remains virtually nonexistent.

Because the general impression of him and Japan in the United States remains stuck in the past decade or so, based on anime, erotic art, and Mario games. Similarly, their understanding of China is often spiraling in error amidst their frenzy. Furthermore, very few people can offer constructive thoughts or conclusions on how to maintain America's global hegemonic order, or how to consolidate and punish Li Xinghe, and even fewer have put these into practice.

If you dare to utter a single phrase like "pragmatic reconciliation with China," extreme anti-communist and anti-China assassins will immediately come to your door. If you change your tune and say "America must eliminate China," the fanatical far-left will consider you a warmonger, and the fervent anti-war magnum opus will also think you're a warmonger, and they'll all come to kill you. If you change your tune again and say "America must reform," then the far-right evangelicals, the assassins of the First Apostle, will also come with the gospel of God. You actually think that God-blessed America needs to change? Are you not devout to God?

Therefore, the best approach is for smart people to remain silent and focus on making sure they're well-informed first.

From this perspective, although Vance's dual-carrier strike group attempted to eliminate Li Xinghe but suffered a humiliating defeat, for the United States as a whole, the fact that they were able to take action, propose methods, and put them into practice already demonstrates their exceptional talent and extraordinary ability.

Just as a few people outside were discussing the chaos in American society, Vance's scream suddenly rang out from the medical room:

"It's bleeding! It's bleeding again!"

Because the veterinarian's stitches were poorly done, they couldn't be stitched properly and had to be taken apart and stitched again, causing Vance to suffer twice.

Outside the hospital, protesters were still shouting loudly:

"No king! No emperor!"

"It's very important for us to be without Vance!"

Looking down at the agitated and unruly crowd below, Chief Mora took a sip of tea and scoffed at Vance's anticipated victory.

How will Vance answer the questions, "What is America, and why is America?"

As long as it cannot be explained, any regime will ultimately amount to nothing.

However, at this point, no one could offer a suitable, reasonable, and realistic answer that would satisfy the entire population.

……

Tokyo.

Higashikawa Yukami, with a cigarette dangling from her lips, stood with Tsukishima Minami and Musashi Yama.

"I received the application."

Soon, Hibari Ryuzaki arrived in her car and handed over an investigation order that she had personally signed.

Several men stood blocking the outside of an underground bar, exchanged glances, checked their watches, and nodded, letting the officers rush in.

"beat!"

When the police stormed in, they found, just as the secret report had described, a group of anti-Li elements spouting nonsensical nonsense about "restoring the orthodox Japanese order" and "expelling foreign demons." They had also already purchased firearms and ammunition, preparing to target Li Xinghe's family.

Without a word, the police officers' batons came flying: "Mei, where are you? Lin Kong, where are you? Lin Zai Zai, where are you?..."

"Damn it! You bunch of idiots! You're eating the Taiko's rice and still whining here!"

"This is the treatment you deserve, you piece of trash who contribute absolutely nothing to society!"