Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

The devaluation of the Vietnamese dong is even more alarming than that of the US dollar. While the official exchange rate is 1 RMB to 1 VND, the black market rate has actually depreciated to 1 RMB to 2 VND after Li Xinghe's shuttle bombing campaign, the dismantling of southern Vietnam, and the global influx of the US dollar. The unofficial exchange rate is closer to the true value, and the central government's actions in Hanoi are failing to keep pace with the sharp economic downturn.

Therefore, in recent months, the number of people traveling from North Vietnam to South Vietnam has been increasing.

Northern Vietnam's industries were mostly downstream industries dependent on Guangdong and Guangxi, with a large amount of re-export. Under the terrifying onslaught of the US dollar tide, Northern Vietnam's economy collapsed, even to the point where it needed Guangdong and Guangxi to send cadre teams to provide targeted support.

South Vietnam has many light industries and processing plants. Although it also exports and re-exports, it has the foundation of 800 million tons of rice exports and receives economic subsidies from Ly Xing Ha, so the economic situation of its people is much better. As for the general public, the Vietnamese dong is becoming increasingly worthless, leading to a wider use of the Chinese yuan and Japanese yen. South Vietnam also welcomes these foreign currencies and even supports its citizens using them to pay taxes.

The Self-Defense Force officers took out yen to pay and strolled around the port.

Occasionally, you can find many newly established Vietnamese matchmaking studios, replicating the online matchmaking livestreaming model of northern China. The matchmakers gesture to the young people from China:

"Bride price? 3 RMB can get you a bride price. She'll be a college student, educated."

"Don't go! 25,000! 25,000! He must be a college graduate who knows English."

"23,000! 22,000!"

The matchmakers used their fingers very skillfully, in a way that any Chinese person could easily understand.

Meanwhile, many investors from China and Japan, accompanied by local officials, inspected local businesses and considered the possibility of relocating some of their unprofitable downstream operations there. Of course, this relocation couldn't be done for free; the local government had to provide electricity and guarantee economic returns.

Harvesting, harvesting everywhere.

Whether it's harvesting population or harvesting the economy.

It's simply a matter of whether it's respectable or not. Whether it's something you can cut or not.

Vance's brain-dead and brutal plan to exploit Canada was seen as incredibly stupid by everyone; it was probably the most idiotic plan in the world, a direct reversion to 20th-century practices.

We rested for 3 days in Cam Ranh Bay.

Seven Self-Defense Force officers were arrested by the local military police for attempting to solicit prostitutes ashore. The scandal was resolved privately by fining them two months' salary.

When the Shinano Strike Group, which Tashiro called the 'Second Air Fleet,' sailed south into the South Pacific, it also passed by the Riau Islands of Indonesia, where Indonesian coast guard vessels were spotted.

They soon arrived at Changi Port in Singapore.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere at the base was somewhat delicate at that moment.

The bodies of two Vietnamese fishermen, shot dead, are laid out under the flagpole at Changi Harbour.

The port authority officer told the Maritime Self-Defense Force officers:

"This area is surrounded by islands belonging to Malaysia and Indonesia. Especially the Riau Islands province right in front of us, which almost surrounds Singapore on three sides, cutting off our connection with Southeast Asia. What's even more hateful is that Indonesia deliberately shoots at fishermen and fishing boats passing through these islands and drives away and kills people from other countries. Even now, they frequently create provocative incidents."

In other words, two Vietnamese fishermen from Southeast Asia were shot and killed by Indonesian coast guard. This was a daily occurrence between Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia at the end of the last century. Indonesia once killed more than 2000 fishermen from other countries in a single year.

This was extremely provocative, especially now that the coalition forces had already landed.

Tashiro Misao immediately started cursing, but quickly realized her mistake and hurriedly corrected herself:

"Baka! Countries like these should be wiped out... cough cough, peacefully eliminated."

Yes, it should be 'peacefully' eliminated!

At the same time, several coalition transport ships sneaked close to the coast and entered the coasts of Malaysia and Indonesia on both sides of the Strait of Malacca.

Tashiro asked:

Should we launch a shuttle bombing campaign against Indonesia?

Zhang Xiaoqian's evaluation of him:

"You don't know anything."

Tashiro pointed to his nose, puzzled.

"What do I know? What do you mean, 'what'?"

In fact, these various weapons and equipment ordered from China have mainly ended up in the hands of separatist resistance forces in Indonesia and Malaysia. They are intended to let these two countries, which are keen on provoking trouble in the South China Sea, experience what it means to witness waves of national struggle.

According to the coalition's definition, these areas are all called ethnic local armed groups. They were forced to stand up and resist in pursuit of freedom and fairness.

Back in the strategic command center at Changi Air Base, Zhang Xiaoqian asked seriously:

"Have the gene testing companies been established? Have we contacted all the professors of ethnology at universities, grassroots social media, and newspaper editors? Have we started chanting slogans to incite struggle? Be prepared, 2031 will be the year we surge forward and change the world!"

This happens to be one of the strengths of Japanese companies.

They are particularly adept at bribing professors and editors abroad to promote their products. This time, they are using this tactic in Malaysia and Indonesia, where internet access is weak, to unleash a campaign that spreads across countless mobile phones.

Various departments had been organizing for months, and the office responsible for the struggle against genetic nationalism and religious conflict had long been in the works. However, it was only amidst the global impact of the dollar and the rapid economic downturn that its effects began to emerge.

For religiously expansionist countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, the key is to exploit their religious and ethnic conflicts to launch a powerful attack.

First, promote genetic testing companies, offering free tests and reports with guaranteed authenticity, claiming they can help people find their ancestry. If the genetic testing does reveal differences, then target these individuals' phone accounts with specific videos to amplify this huge divide. Coupled with the dire risks of an economic crisis, this will highlight the impoverished centralism of the Malaysian and Indonesian central governments.

If they are indeed of Malay and Indonesian descent, then mobilize professors and the media to categorize them as a secondary ethnic group, separating them from the mainstream.

In any case, the governments of these two countries have consistently focused their economic investments primarily on their own territories, leaving peripheral areas largely undeveloped. As a result, a strong central-local conflict has always existed.

Zhang Xiaoqian's subordinates replied:

"We've made contact. The Christian civic groups in Sarawak and Sabah, on Borneo, are willing to accept our support and oppose the exclusion of Malays. At the same time, they have also promised to protect the rights and interests of existing companies, provided that we improve resource allocation and give them more quotas."

Once nationalism is raised, religious struggles will begin.

In particular, the conflict between Christians and Muslims.

Both Malaysia and Indonesia have chosen to solidify their nation-building through Islam and a single ethnic identity. However, this has led to very serious conflicts between religions, ethnicities, and regions.

For example, the eastern half of Borneo, namely Sarawak and Sabah, is a traditionally indigenous, Chinese, and Christian region. However, it has been invaded by the Malay Muslims brought in from all over Malaysia, who have encroached on their traditional lives, even causing a significant reversal in the religious and population ratios in some areas. This region accounts for more than 86% of Malaysia's natural gas and oil production, but receives less than 5%, resulting in extreme economic hardship and inequality.

Similarly, Chinese and various ethnic minorities in Indonesia, as well as Christian Guineans on the eastern island of Guinea, have all suffered similar, or even more excessive and horrific, oppression.

It can only be said that China is still too bound by the moral constraints of a socialist country. Otherwise, if this kind of wild dog-like country were in the Americas, it would have been crushed by the United States long ago under the Monroe Doctrine.

Consider how Panama gained independence, how the Monroe Doctrine came into being, and the consequences of the 134 US military interventions in Latin America.

Unlike China, the coalition forces are not bound by such moral constraints.

They came south to beat the dogs.

Indonesia and Malaysia pose a threat to Singapore, the islands of Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Indonesia, in particular, is involved in the killing of fishermen, the Natuna Islands dispute, and conflicts in Australian waters. Without dealing with them, how can we sleep soundly under their roof?

We should support both extreme Christian groups and extreme Islamic groups.

“We have also made contact with the extremist separatist groups in Aceh.”

Zhang Xiaoqian stood up, his eyes flashing with murderous intent:

"We want to launch a counter-offensive against them from the east and west, and a simultaneous uprising from the north and south. When the indigenous Christians in Guinea on the far east side revolt, and the Indonesian army advances eastward, the radical Muslims in Aceh on the far west side will also revolt. When the Indonesian army advances westward, we will encourage the indigenous people and Chinese people on the various small islands of Indonesia to rise up in rebellion."

When Malaysia tried to compete with us for control of Singapore, we cut off the ocean, instigating an uprising among Christians and Chinese in Borneo to expel the millions of Malay Muslim immigrants who had forcibly intruded into our territory. When Malaysia wanted to deploy troops, or borrow troops from Indonesia, to suppress the Borneo territory, we encouraged the Chinese in Malaya to accept our leadership, thus separating the Malay and Chinese areas.

After the Indonesian army was sent out, we cut off the sea, trapped their army on several islands, and ruthlessly cut this country of ten thousand islands, a country of a thousand ethnic groups, and a country of a thousand languages ​​into a thousand pieces!

The sea is in our hands, the South Seas are ours!

This statement is tantamount to announcing the coalition's own Asian Monroe Doctrine. Perhaps it could also be called Southeast Asian Doctrine.

When Tashiro Misao was in Tokyo, he was still receiving propaganda that Southeast Asia was part of China's economy. He trembled as he asked a question:

"Wouldn't that plunge this archipelago into war and delay His Majesty's regional economic integration policy...?"

His Majesty?

It was just a slip of the tongue, and no one cared.

Zhang Xiaoqian gave a serious response to this:

"Even if we support regional integration, it must be based on a new international order under our strength. Regimes like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, obsessed with external expansion, constantly provoking trouble, and deliberately killing fishermen, must be defeated, hurt, and killed with the harshest blows. Their corpses must be cut into pieces, their heads hung up, so that the wild dogs can see the price!"

Only by personally visiting Southeast Asia can one truly grasp the madness and unsettling atmosphere of these island Islamic countries. (The last two characters appear to be random and unrelated to the preceding text.)

And the resources here are also very abundant.

For example, a significant portion of the oil and natural gas resources available to the Borneo region of Malaysia were stolen from the South China Sea, which is part of China.

For example, Indonesia's Borneo territory, where the famous Balikpapan oil and gas field must be firmly controlled.

Regarding the future division, occupation, support of the indigenous people, and establishment of a single-ethnic island nation in this archipelago, the coalition forces have put forward no fewer than 20 proposals. Some advocate stationing troops only along key routes, some advocate dividing parts into provinces, and some advocate implementing a single-ethnic island nation across the board and signing military cooperation agreements.

The Javanese people, who make up the majority of Indonesia, should stay obediently on the small island of Java. The Malays in Malaysia should be confined to half of the Malay Peninsula. The coalition's plan for their future is simply to provide them with a large number of maids, similar to Filipino domestic helpers.

Therefore, dividing Indonesia and Malaysia into an archipelago and restricting the spread of their predominantly Muslim population was the most benevolent decision made by Zhang Xiaoqian and others based on the historical context and current situation.

If we go back to the last century, that would be a restricted decision that can't be written down.

Watching everyone write their plans to change the world by 2031, Captain Tashiro of the Iranian Navy sighed and asked:

"What about Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia?"

Someone told him:

"Nanyang is our Nanyang. Whether it is on land or at sea."

The Southern Command is truly very diligent.

Tashiro Misao, Iran, sighed.

Our Emperor is currently at home having a baby.

……

Li Xinghe, who was described by Self-Defense Force officers as someone who "mainly had children at home," certainly didn't spend his days surrounded by women.

On December 28, 2030, Lee Sung-ha convened the last cabinet meeting of the year.

The cabinet ministers were all eager to return home, and the meeting summary was very simple.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said:

"Canada is doomed. Now Australians have suddenly become more docile, and the calls for integrating into the East Asian economic sphere have suddenly become louder. Of course, the wealthy white class in the cities are still selling off their assets and fleeing, probably thinking that by integrating into the United States sooner, they can avoid being treated like a colony by Canada."

This is like someone who won't turn back until they hit a wall, and even after hitting a wall, they only turn back halfway.

Ministry of Finance spokesperson:

“We will distribute the digital stablecoin of the Central Bank Digital Bridge of the East Asia Free Trade Area as an electronic ledger currency, which will be uniformly operated by commercial banks in various countries and then automatically settled by the central bank system. This non-dollar settlement method is still being expanded.”

Each department has similar summaries.

The newly established departments under Li Xinghe had already submitted their summary reports ahead of schedule.

After all, it's really inconvenient for a department like the Immigration Agency to make statements like "the Chinese population already accounts for 10% of Japan's population" in public.

"Okay, this is the last meeting of the year. As you all know, I am of Chinese descent, so I won't be giving you mirror cakes for Chinese New Year. Instead, I'll give you some dumplings."

Li Xinghe prepared a large batch of handmade dumplings for the cabinet ministers. They naturally wanted to take the dumplings Li Xinghe sent back to eat during the Lunar New Year. This custom would then be passed down, with civil servants and major companies adopting it, and eventually spreading to the general public.

This can also be considered part of changing customs and traditions.

The cabinet ministers bowed in gratitude and left. They would soon discover that the dumpling bag also contained various travel cards and leisure arrangements gifted by Li Xinghe.

"The New Year is almost here. I really hope this year will be a peaceful one."

Li Xinghe smiled and sighed, then in the empty office, he signed his agreement on Zhang Xiaoqian's "Great Guide to Southeast Asia".

Chapter 890: Xinghe's New Year is Difficult, Vance is Stabbed in the Testicle (5300 words)

The third to last day of 2031.

Li Xinghe leisurely strolled around the Imperial Palace with his children.

My wife is holding our daughter, Niizawa Tao is holding Queen Charlotte's hand, and Kai is jumping around behind them.

"The New Year is almost here. Is there anything you want? Or should I go to the school to show off and support Taifeng?" Li Xinghe rubbed Taifeng's face, finding her even cuter the more he touched her.

Shinsawa Tao deliberately contradicts:

"Oh dear, there are so many teachers at school who hate you."

Li Xinghe also retorted with a smile:

"Ugh, the people hate me so much. But they can't help it. They still have to shout 'Long live the Emperor' when they see me."

At this point, the political group Li Xinghe replaced was not the Liberal Democratic Party or the Emperor, nor the Japanese Communist Party or the Japanese left wing, but the high and mighty U.S. military stationed in Japan, which held absolute power. This was not a king or an emperor; this was a de facto ruler sent by the suzerain state.

So even though Li Xinghe's approval rating is still stuck at 30%, people still have to bow to him when they see him, no matter how much they dislike him.

After wandering around outside for a while, Charlotte suddenly felt nauseous and hurriedly took him back to his room to rest.

At this time, Ayako Aso, Hanae Shikamichi, and Sumire Shikamichi had all returned home. Maria Miyake and Tamae Hanabatake were discussing Tokyo's governance policies, while Tenpei Mizukami and Shinko Ue were figuring out how to legally deal with Li Xinghe's pile of illegal funds.

After a while, the door opened.