Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Therefore, the market feedback was quite clear.

After discovering they couldn't find what they wanted at Vance's coronation ceremony, various American powers began a series of elaborate, albeit unplanned, schemes to swindle him. The US dollar, US stocks, and US bonds immediately lined up for a package sale.

In those few minutes, Vance didn't have time to answer questions from the economics community because he was preoccupied with another question.

The Deputy Secretary of State rushed over to report:

"American Samoa submitted a request to the United Nations for independence from its colonies."

Vance was taken aback:

"What!?"

American Samoa is indeed a terrible colony that the United States wants to get rid of, but if I don't want to get rid of it, you can't just leave on your own.

Considering the ethnicity of the defecting intelligence director, Vance concluded: "May didn't think May Kong Ni Lin Zai Zai Mei..."

"It's Tulsi! It must be Tulsi! She's deliberately trying to embarrass me and wants to become her head of state."

Then, he questioned the square-headed old lady who was following him:

"Mora! Why couldn't I have known about this beforehand?"

Ever since Chief Mora gained direct contact with Vance, the CIA Chief Operating Officer has shown Vance a lot of harmless fake classified information to win his trust.

The old lady replied:

"It's very simple, because Li Xinghe has access to the CIA and the US military in Northeast Asia."

Vance keenly noticed the problem again:

"That's it! As expected, Li Xinghe was also involved. What is his goal? To annex the South Pacific?"

"I think he's probably trying to get political compensation from you. After he helped you with so many things, you haven't given him any special recognition." Everyone urged Vance to resolve his conflict with Li Xinghe as soon as possible and stop causing trouble for the country's grand strategy.

According to the original plan, Vance was supposed to grant Li Xinghe a status certification in the Western Pacific, acting as the isolationist emperor of the United States, to provoke conflict between Li Xinghe and China, and to create a trend of renewed Sino-Japanese war.

Is this part of the agreed-upon plan?

But Vance changed his mind.

Previously, he needed Li Xinghe's help and had to sign the arms contract with Li Xinghe despite his anger.

Things are different now. Now he is the great Emperor Vance, the founder of the First American Empire, and the ruler of all Americans.

Vance's firm response:

"I will not acknowledge him, nor can I acknowledge him. Once I establish Free City and their military production lines are built, we will no longer depend on them. After the dollar depreciates, industry will return. With industry returning, the US military can continue its southward march to Mexico. By occupying Mexico, America will be great again!"

The ministers were stunned.

No?

Do you really believe what you said?

"Forehead……"

Chief Mora had nothing more to say. This was understandable, however, as Vance was a man who oscillated between arrogance and inferiority. When he proudly donned the imperial crown, he naturally couldn't accurately assess his own position.

Perhaps Vance and his backers really believe that they only need to wield the overflowing dollars to recruit more production lines for artillery shells, bullets, heavy weapons, large battle tanks, and ships. They think that in a city without national legal oversight and completely privatized by the right-wing tech elites, a huge group of technological intellectual resources can be formed, and it will become a so-called high-tech metropolis.

But it seems that whatever you say comes true.

Before one piece of bad news could be resolved, another arrived:

"Li Xinghe announced that due to the sharp drop in the US dollar, he would suspend arms trade between the two sides and would no longer accept US dollar payments when the currency value was unstable, but would accept in-kind payments in the form of human blood protein, agricultural products, and meat within a limited range."

Although the United States no longer produces many industrial goods, the bizarre trade of exporting human serum protein is something only a country with actually low human rights standards, yet capable of brainwashing its people into believing they have high human rights, would undertake to do such a dirty job. Without buying American human serum protein, there is indeed no suitable alternative market in the short term.

According to the American left, China and Japan have now become 'accomplices' in physically exploiting the United States.

Even worse news was yet to come.

The news of Li Xinghe's call to sever ties with the US dollar—and arms deals had barely begun when the US experienced a Black Monday-like sense of euphoria.

The White House intelligence team watched as major television networks suddenly switched their live broadcasts to economic forecast mode, with several presenters dressed in mourning attire reading prepared scripts:

"Currency market crashes! — CBS reports."

The dollar exchange rate plummeted, and countless investors holding dollar assets began a stampede to flee the US market. Although the Treasury and the Federal Reserve were still trying to find solutions, they could no longer support the dollars that had nowhere to go.

"US stocks crash! — ABC News report."

The three major U.S. stock indexes all experienced a series of sharp drops. The Nasdaq hit its daily limit down in three minutes, and then hit its limit down again one minute later, before closing for the day. Those holding U.S. stock assets were trapped and unable to escape, with off-market trading characterized by a stampede-like sell-off.

"US debt collapses! — NBC reports."

Finally, those who bought short-term US Treasury bonds—namely, domestic pension funds, funds, and trusts—are now frantically selling off their holdings and fleeing the country. US Treasury bonds have instantly transformed from high-profit bonds into controversial commodities resembling dangerous debt on the international trading market.

Rather than saying that the US dollar, US bonds, and US stocks were forced to collapse, it's more accurate to say that Vance was just a trigger, an excuse for Americans to voluntarily abandon this economic system that was gradually becoming a burden on them.

He's in power now; the battle lines have been drawn.

American capitalists are happily giving up the dollars, stocks, and bonds they created.

Meanwhile, the Americans, who had been completely robbed, stared blankly at the wildly spinning bills—gas prices, car prices, housing prices, and credit card interest rates.

what happened?

How did my investment account get emptied?

Why is my credit card balance increasing exponentially?

How did my pension account suddenly become negative?

The harvesting of the entire United States has begun. The dark hand of American capital, through Vance's ascension to the throne, has dealt a heavy blow to the heads of Americans.

As he watched major television stations simultaneously begin to rebel against him, spreading rumors of the collapse of the American economic system, Vance's chubby face instantly turned bright red, then his emotions began to spiral out of control, gradually turning white, and then black, revealing an uncontrollable state.

"Damn it!"

The happiest day of Vance's life quickly crumbled in less than a day, leaving him with a dark face, muffled lips, and tear-streaked eyeliner.

He could no longer care about his newlywed child bride, and he could no longer maintain the honor guard organized by the two thousand American soldiers outside. He could only hurriedly flee back to his old lair.

White House.

After returning to the White House by helicopter, he stayed indoors, even abandoning the scheduled audience at the Southern Pyramid and the opportunity to receive support from chiefs of various Native American reservations in front of the Jefferson Memorial.

Chief of Staff Grady rushed over upon hearing the news and summarized Vance and his gang of lunatics' imperial plan—a plan to resolve the midterm election defeat—in a single sentence:

"You've done it! You've unleashed a dragon!"

The reason why the world can still maintain a general peace is that the United States provides an economic framework that can barely sustain it, China provides sufficiently cheap industrial goods, and all countries face a cost difference where trade costs are lower than war costs, and war costs are lower than governance costs. Only in this way can basic peace be maintained.

Now, the economic framework provided by the United States is something the United States itself is unable to maintain, and it has been shattered by Vance's own imperial ambitions.

This means that the hierarchical differences in trade costs, war costs, and governance costs need to be recalculated. Once this order is reversed, history will revert to the great power rivalry of the 20th century.

People may finally realize at this moment:

Trump can't save America, Vance can't save America, and neither can Maga.

Chapter 877: Washington, Open Your Eyes! Li Xinghe Repeatedly Rebels (4600 words)

11 month 2 day.

For the first time in American history, the country halted its nationwide elections, and Washington Hill, once a symbol of freedom and democracy, was truly transformed into a stripped-down American empire.

If this has changed the world in any way, it means that intellectuals, politicians, journalists, and various pro-American elements around the world who follow the American path have finally been forced to break down.

Their American Dream, the city on the hilltop, has collapsed so suddenly.

If it were Trump who declared himself emperor, it would be fine, but it was the utterly unpopular Vance who made it. All people saw was a monkey in a crown, a fat pig with blood spurting from its rear end, flying low in a spacecraft, letting everyone see his blood-stained trousers. In the final official photo of the emperor, even the trousers were photoshopped to be pure white.

Pro-Americans in various countries all appear on social media as if they've lost their parents and ancestors, wailing and lamenting their fate.

"Washington, open your eyes! I imagine that if Washington's spirit were to see the White House in person at the Washington Monument, he would shed tears."

"Jefferson, come back! The Mayan temple blocking the entrance must have disrupted America's feng shui!"

"Lincoln, why won't you open your eyes?"

"Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, when will you return?"

Regardless of the fact that the Chinese Exclusion Act and discrimination against Chinese people happened to be passed down between Roosevelt and his nephew, the pro-Americans cried day and night, and while they were spewing nonsense online, they still couldn't wake up the previous presidents of the United States and slap Vance in the face.

Instead, it was Vance who slapped them first.

The American Empire's online public opinion control department quickly discovered this group of useless people who were using Chinese to rant on social media platforms around the world, and immediately launched a large-scale crackdown and ban on the relevant Chinese accounts.

So those "beautiful" individuals who were still calling for freedom of speech, fraternity, and equality found their accounts immediately blocked by their beloved United States.

Of course, besides the bunch of people who backfired and criticized, there were also extreme American fans who would spew nonsense online:

"I support Vance becoming emperor, I support Li Xinghe becoming emperor, I support Putin becoming emperor. I support General Kim becoming emperor. I support Erdogan becoming emperor."

Anyway, Vance becoming emperor is absolutely fantastic, and your inability to follow suit means you can't understand Vance's profound and far-sighted thinking. This is the inherent inferiority of yellow races, and so on. This group is mainly composed of American evangelical Chinese believers with upgraded brains; their brains are directly connected to Vance's ass, so naturally they can only utter such illogical statements.

Online arguments are nothing, but the economy is really about to change.

Tokyo.

Li Xinghe's office was filled with his crying daughter, and he was in a flurry of activity.

Li Xinghe, Nan Haonu, Natasha, and Valeria took turns coaxing their daughter to sleep, and it was only with great difficulty that they finally managed to get her to fall asleep.

Also present were Li Daiyao, Li Juyan, and Zhao Lieshu, who had not yet had children. As Li Xinghe's sisters and girlfriends, they were at a loss when faced with the scene of the child crying incessantly.

Just as Natasha was breastfeeding her daughter, the dollar had depreciated by 11%, but in the blink of an eye, it had reached 15%.

"The rate of devaluation is really fast..."

Li Xinghe stroked Natasha's belly, watching the dollar exchange rate chart plummet downwards.

"Haha, stop fooling around."

Natasha handed another small steamed bun to Li Xinghe.

Li Xinghe suckled Natasha's breast milk and then sent a notification to the bank:

"Immediately suspend the inflow of US dollars into the Tokyo stock market, classify the US dollar as a currency with excessive exchange rate volatility, and begin comprehensive supervision of US dollar inflows and outflows."

What do we do now?

Valeria pinched the little chubby belly with a worried expression. She had retired from the front lines and now stayed home every day taking care of her child, trying to find a way to freeze the excess breast milk.

Li Xinghe then announced:

“You should immediately look for the countries behind you: China, South Korea, Russia, North Korea, Ukraine… Let Ukraine have a say too. Quickly invite Olympia and Charlotte over as well, and let’s sign the East Asia-Northeast Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area Agreement as soon as possible. Build a multilateral currency bridge and exclude the US dollar from involvement.”

Natasha pouted as she breastfed her baby while making a phone call to Moscow.

Soon, Olympia and Queen Charlotte arrived, and they were somewhat surprised by the chaotic scene:

"I'm sorry, there have been assassination attempts targeting my family recently, so all the children have been moved to the Imperial Palace." Nan Haonu shrugged helplessly, explaining as she texted the general.

"oh oh."

Queen Charlotte looked at little Natasha and suddenly felt that she had found a kindred spirit.

After hearing the explanation, Olympia hurriedly sent a notification to Australia and New Zealand.

Then, no one could sleep.

Valeria suddenly tugged at Li Xinghe's sleeve:

Do you have any more?

"What do you mean?"

"So it exists?"

"what?"

"I can't sleep anyway, now I have to wait for replies from other countries..."

Li Xinghe frowned, sensing that something was wrong.

But the door was locked, and there was no way to escape. On this sleepless night, since everyone was going to wait for news anyway, why not have some fun and entertainment at night?

So, Valeria pulled Li Xinghe into the small room.

"Ah, Pyongyang replied." Nam Ho-ngo went inside.

After a while, Valeria came out, and Natasha suddenly said, "Moscow has replied."