Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"Political Training Course for Staff Officers of the United Front Work Department".

A group of staff officers, brigadier generals, and colonels who had been dismissed and recalled from the Southern Command sat squatting in the classroom, looking like wilted eggplants, afraid to raise their heads, lest they be scolded by Li Xinghe.

When Li Xinghe entered, they quickly stopped whispering and stood up.

At this moment, Li Xinghe walked up to the lectern and said, seemingly casually:

“Some of you like risky raids and think you are modern-day military geniuses. You have come up with some very outrageous and bizarre plans. Although the results were very good, it has to be said that the plan design is a replica of the modern-day Shen Zhongde.”

This brings us to Lin Youzi's Tamsui River estuary assault plan, a tactic completely reminiscent of the modern-day Yamato-class battleship Shigetoku's beaching fortifications. It achieved victory in an extremely bizarre yet astonishing manner. This even forced many countries with their capitals located at river mouths, such as Jakarta in Indonesia, to consider increasing the number of defensive fortifications along the riverbanks, developing armor-piercing missiles, or building dikes to prevent these "iron-clad turtles" from infiltrating and wreaking havoc on their capitals.

Whether or not to research armor-piercing missile warheads has become a headache for most countries in the world. Not researching them means they can't target these massive, heavy-duty aircraft carriers, but researching them wastes a lot of limited funds and still can't counter their carriers and missiles.

To say that Ms. Lin Youzi, this female military doctor, is a modern-day saint is truly too hurtful to her.

Thankfully, Ms. Lin Youzi isn't here. (Your Lin, I think she's busy...)

Li Xinghe then continued his criticism:

“There are some of you who draw lines on a map and think it will work, and you insist on pushing the army and driving in. You might succeed once or twice, but can you keep succeeding? I hope you will wake up and think clearly about our strategic interests and the international situation.”

This is a rant about Hu Zhantian, the former commander of the 1st Armored Division. After he went to the Southern Command to become the Chief of the General Staff, he was very fond of devising ingenious plans.

However, Hu Zhantian was probably not entirely convinced.

After all, since the southward strategy began the year before last and continued this year, from Southeast Asia to Australia, from Indonesia to India, the coalition forces have finally defeated all the powerful enemies who opposed them on this golden waterway. Whether the surprise attack or the blitzkrieg may seem just to outsiders, a new regional order has finally been established in their hands.

Moreover, Li Xinghe clearly supports doing so.

The relocation of the UN branch to Lanfang Republic was a stroke of genius, like the finishing touch on a masterpiece, instantly revitalizing the entire southward expansion strategy. Once the UN branch is successfully established, ASEAN will be nothing but a pile of garbage, while China, united with the Asia-Pacific region, will be the true power holders across the two oceans.

Li Xinghe knew that Hu Zhantian was definitely not satisfied, so he called out a third person's name:

"There's another person, ah, I don't need to name him, you all know him. Now this old guy is jumping around in India, even going to the United Nations to ask for the title of Director of the Women's Protection Division, wanting to become a friend of more than 8 million Indian women and children."

When He Yang was mentioned, everyone in the room burst into laughter.

Everyone was truly amazed. He Yang had run a thousand kilometers and actually bypassed the three loosely constructed defensive lines set up by India in the south. One division had bypassed six divisions on a million square kilometers of land. This could be called a legendary victory on the scale of a blitzkrieg.

But no one expected that He Yang would actually become a friend of women, studying how to subtly control India in the 21st century and exploring how to make inventions and creations in terms of thought and culture within the new order led by China.

A special forces soldier started thinking about politics.

However, in everyone's opinion, the main reason was that He Yang and the Southern Command's super assault plan was too risky, so he went out to hide for a few months before coming back to be scolded.

After hurling a few curses, Li Xinghe said again:

"I hope you will undergo political study here, not only to correct military discipline, but also to retrain yourselves in unity and obedience to decisions. Now I will first announce a temporary strategic adjustment."

"The next commander of the Southern Command is Park Yoo-shin."

After Zhang Xiaoqian went south, Park Yoo-shin remained at Yokota Air Base to maintain the operations of the Northern Command. This time, Li Xinghe arranged for Park Yoo-shin and Zhang Xiaoqian to take turns. Zhang Xiaoqian returned to the mainland to oversee military operations against the United States, while Park Yoo-shin maintained the current structure of the Southern Command, especially the plan to build the Lanfang Republic into a world capital, which was extremely important.

"He Yang, let him go to India as a friend of women and children for now. In a few months, have him come back to report to the military."

Li Xinghe, holding the child in his arms, pointed to the front of the staff officers:

"As for Hu Zhantian... since you enjoy racing on the plains so much, I'll give you a new job. Go to Ukraine."

"Go to Ukraine? Why?"

Xiao Hu was shocked. This was a distant appointment he had never expected, one that was practically sending him flying to the Arctic Ocean.

Li Xinghe tapped the table and commented jokingly:

"You like attacking, huh? I'm sending you to Ukraine to repair the iron turtle shell."

The reason is not complicated. With the help of BlackRock Asset Management and the tacit approval of Russia, Li Xinghe acquired ownership of a large tract of black soil farmland in Ukraine. Some of this land was cemeteries for Ukrainian soldiers who died in the Russo-Ukrainian War, but BlackRock Asset Management sent tractors to bulldoze it.

With the land it holds and the Second Coastal Brigade already deployed to Odessa, the Li Xinghe Group has now become the largest holder of black soil and mineral resources in Ukraine.

Therefore, Li Xinghe is sending Hu Zhantian over now mainly to take over the fruits of his victory.

As for Russia, that's even more the reason for needing to repair its shell in Ukraine.

Born in 1952, Putin is 79 years old this year.

His successor still seems to be locked in a power struggle. Putin's next term ends in 2036, by which time he will be 84 years old, making it unlikely he can last another six years. This means the next five years will be the most likely period of turmoil in Russia. Even if Putin tries to transform United Russia into a parliamentary party and change his bloc into a party similar to Merkel's CDU, success is unlikely.

Russia is a country that needs strongmen.

Therefore, Hu Zhantian went to Ukraine primarily to repair the "turtle shell" (a metaphor for the Russian military's defensive structure), preventing the Tsarist Russian commando units within the Russian army from creating provocative incidents and thus achieving the effect of a Showa-era staff officer going it alone. This was also something Putin hinted he wanted him to do.

Of course, if the EU continues to try to trip up Li Xinghe, then Li Xinghe will have an army capable of intimidating the EU.

For example, another mission Hu Zhantian had in Ukraine was to intimidate the EU into lifting its numerous ridiculous sanctions against Lee Sung-ha for "suppressing South Korean democratic struggles," including the sanctions on ASML lithography machines, which the EU frequently uses. Therefore, he not only needs to build a defensive line on the eastern front but also establish military outposts on the western front, increasing the pressure on Poland and Germany.

Holding his task sheet, Comrade Xiao Hu from Changde, Hunan, looked bewildered.

"what!?"

The complexity of Hu Zhantian's expression at that moment was something that even the best acting masters probably couldn't replicate.

Chapter 936: Sending Pain to Europe, A Major Investigation into Mothers (3700 words)

Hu Zhantian was kicked away like that.

I boarded a plane bound for Ukraine.

"My fucking...my wife..."

Xiao Hu was very unhappy. He had wanted to be intimate with his wife, but her Jiangxi stir-fry shop had just closed down and she was preparing to open a shop in Singapore. Now the couple was going to Ukraine.

However, Xiao Hu's wife didn't seem to care. In her view, going to Singapore and going to Ukraine were pretty much the same. As long as she could do business there, it was fine.

As the plane flew over the vast Central Asia and the Volga River basin, it looked down upon a desolate and dilapidated black town, with roadside trees destroyed by artillery shells and never to be repaired, broken irrigation ditches, and collapsed houses. Hu Zhantian even inexplicably felt the homesickness of a Northeasterner looking towards his hometown in autumn.

"The sky is desolate, and the earth is desolate."

After getting off the plane in Kyiv, Hu Zhantian quickly adjusted his mindset. It's just an overseas adventure, after all.

Li Xinghe's Ukrainian investment group basically inherited the local team, and a Ukrainian manager named Alex came to greet Hu Zhantian.

He took Hu Zhantian and his wife for a stroll on the street.

In Kyiv, a city with a population of less than 300 million, Chinese signs are everywhere, and Chinese men with their Ukrainian girlfriends are a common sight.

Manager Alex introduced Hu Zhantian to:

“The locals don’t like Chinese people. They drive up the cost of marriage in the country, and they are good at making money that ordinary people can’t even imagine. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese people operating in Ukraine now. They run almost all logistics, small shops and small pawn shops, and a large part of them have close ties with gangs.”

Hu Zhantian and his wife exchanged a helpless glance.

It's hard to hold back.

The Chinese opening supermarkets and shopping malls all over the world seems to have become a kind of national spirit. However, operating pawnshops, assets linked to organized crime, clearly indicates that the Chinese in Ukraine have become entangled with numerous post-war veteran gangs.

Leaving Kyiv, head south towards Odessa.

After walking for half an hour, I saw a few figures moving about in the dilapidated and deserted town.

Upon seeing several luxury cars approaching, the group secretly crawled out of the town and fled. One carried a Soviet-era exercise bar, another carried several rolls of electrical wire, and yet another clung to two manhole covers. The trio took off running and disappeared into the jungle in no time.

Manager Alex shouted through the car window, clenching his fist and yelling:

"Hey! Sukabul, you bunch of wire thieves!"

After repositioning the car into its parking space, the manager explained to Hu Zhantian:

"The government is broke. Everyone is trying to survive. Although there are still more than 20 million people in the country, it's mainly because European countries are expelling our refugees back. Nobody wants to stay in the country. The problem is that the government is heavily indebted, can't pay the pensions for fallen soldiers, and most of the companies are controlled by foreign capital. There are also problems with gangs and so on... Sigh."

The dilapidated town, repeatedly visited by thieves who stole steel, electrical wires, brass, and manhole covers, along with the sight of wandering the roadside in only two pieces of cloth, and various disabled veterans, are all painted on the frame of the black earth.

"Riddled with holes" is not just an adjective; it perfectly describes the current state of Ukrainian society.

The manager took Hu Zhantian to Odessa.

Odessa, once a Russian shipbuilding port, now consists only of a dilapidated shipbuilding sector and a distorted boom in overseas transport ships.

Manager Alex said:

"Our group's main business is currently exporting wheat to Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and other places. We now have an economic scale of producing one million tons of wheat annually. In addition, we do a lot of related business. After all, the Ukrainian government can't control us."

The Ukrainian government's current national fiscal revenue, at the old exchange rate, is only a few billion US dollars, amounting to only two or three hundred billion US dollars a year.

The main problem is that the government is no longer able to organize production and social development, leaving only a massive debt of hundreds of billions of dollars burdening the Ukrainian people.

Of course, this is only on the surface.

In reality, given the Ukrainian government's crippled capabilities, multinational corporations rely on veteran gangs to protect their assets. The 2nd Coastal Combat Brigade, organized by the Ukrainian Investment Group, was formed from a group of post-war veterans.

"Our actual business is smuggling, isn't it?"

"of course."

As the saying goes, "A horse won't get fat without night grass," and besides buying and selling wheat every year, the Ukrainian investment group also smuggled various goods into Ukraine.

Hu Zhantian let out a murderous laugh:

"I want Europeans to experience the same pain I have."

Xiao Hu is in great pain.

So he decided that instead of tormenting himself, he would take revenge on others and transfer his suffering onto Europeans.

Xiao Hu's business acumen is average, but he has a shrewd and resourceful wife who helps him develop a comprehensive business network to expand his sales channels.

As a result, those in various EU departments who joined the US in sanctioning Li Xinghe quickly saw the threat coming from Ukraine.

"Large quantities of Ukrainian veterans' gangs, extremist books, guns, weapons, cheap industrial goods, and cross-border express parcels from Temu (Pinduoduo)... are constantly crossing the border of western Ukraine and entering the entire European Union..."

In Ukrainian parlance, it's like a bunch of shrewd, ruthless businessmen, commercial monsters, have come in.

……

Tokyo, Fuji Television.

"father!"

Reiji Tsutsumi's two well-behaved and adorable daughters, Ichika and Miki, rubbed against Li Xinghe's legs and called out cutely.

Today, Li Xinghe took some time after returning to Tokyo to visit his family's television station and check on things.

Of course, the main purpose was for Ms. Tsutsumi Reimi, who was wearing a pure white long dress with flesh-colored stockings covering her round figure, to show off in front of her lover.

Having already secured a position as a TV producer, Tsutsumi Reimi, with her captivating eyes, smiled as she explained their work assignments for the year to Li Xinghe: "You Lin, you're not free, Mei is free, Lin is free, is Zai Zai free..."

"This year's Taiga drama, based on current social needs, has a theme: 'The Six Hundred Years of Uiro.'"

This year's Taiga drama has made a very rare choice, selecting a protagonist that is acceptable to both Chinese and Japanese audiences.

The Uiro family of Odawara City.

Although the theme is family reproduction and business development, the core is actually the memory of Chinese families in Japan.

The ancestor of this family was Chen Yanyou of the Chen family of Taizhou, Zhejiang. He served as an assistant minister in the Ministry of Rites during the Yuan Dynasty. After his relative Chen Youliang was defeated and killed in the Battle of Poyang Lake, Chen Yanyou, fearing that his entire family would be exterminated by Zhu Yuanzhang, fled to Japan and settled there. In Kyoto, he began selling a medicine called "Tou Ding Xiang" (透顶香), which he used as an assistant minister to treat headaches and strokes. It was also known as "Assistant Minister's Medicine" and quickly gained fame.

The Taiko Risshiden mentions his descendant, Uno Sadaharu, who, at the invitation of the Odawara Hojo family, went to Odawara to work as a merchant serving the Tokugawa shogunate. With the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Odawara Gairo family became the shogunate's physicians and sold incense throughout the country.

For six hundred years, the Uiro family has formed two forces in Kyoto and Odawara that are both outside and within politics.

As Chinese doctors primarily selling medicine, they were involved in politics, but not involved in it. The Japanese elite didn't treat them as outsiders, yet they conveniently maintained their Chinese identities, thus enjoying the benefits of both sides. They had influence with the Chinese, with the Kyoto court, and with the Edo shogunate. They sold medicine and cultivated relationships at the same time.

Centuries later, in such a remarkable turn of events, the Uiro family even maintained political status as a member of the Chinese nobility after the Meiji Restoration, and were able to claim descent from China without facing rejection from the government or the public. To this day, they continue to operate in Odawara City, having renovated their main store into a large castle tower.

As she spoke, Tsutsumi Reimi softly sang a short verse for Li Xinghe, smiling charmingly as she said:

"We invited several long-time Kabuki family heirs to teach the actors how to sing 'Uirōmi' (a type of Kabuki opera). The storyline is mainly set during the Edo period, and there will definitely be some exciting moments in the content."

Because of the monopoly held by itinerant doctors over hundreds of years, this headache medicine was initially touted as a cure-all, earning it the nickname "panacea." The practice even evolved into a profession called "Italian medicine seller," small-time merchants who hawked their remedies along the streets, claiming they could cure everything. This art of hawking, with its exaggerated claims of efficacy, became a staple of Japanese theater, similar to the recitation of dishes in Chinese crosstalk or the rhyming verses in storytelling—the more eloquent and polished the recitation, the better.

After hearing Tsutsumi Reiji's explanation, Li Xinghe felt slightly relieved.

As long as this Taiga drama can attract public attention and achieve a small surge in viewership, it can continue down this path and pry open a crack in Japan's peculiar and xenophobic market.

This TV series is a typical example of politically driven content, aiming to make the Japanese people peacefully accept the change of identity.

Beyond just "The Story of a Female Prime Minister" and "600 Years of Uiro," more politically themed programs will be released to change the minds of every Japanese person.

As they chatted, Li Xinghe accompanied Di Liji back home, where he enjoyed the gentle and virtuous service of this noblewoman.

As she served him, Tsutsumi Reimi's jade-like feet, encased in flesh-colored stockings, somehow ended up stepping on Li Xinghe's instep.

So they climbed upwards step by step.

When she came to her senses, her stockings were torn and scattered on the bed, while her darling was deep inside her. The tingling and pleasurable sensation surged through her, making her feel as if she were floating in the distance, bubbling with bliss.