I am a literary giant in Japan

Seiji Maehara first appeared on television in the spring of 1991.

He had just turned 29 at the time, and less than four years after graduation he was elected as a member of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly, making him the youngest prefectural-level member of parliament in the history of Japanese politics.

That year, he had a bright future. As soon as he entered politics, he was hailed as "Naoto Kan's successor" and became the hottest new star in the New Democratic Party.

Facing countless cameras and reporters at this time, Seiji Maehara couldn't remember how many times he had appeared in such an important occasion.

Because it happened so many times, he didn't remember it and didn't care anymore.

But this time, it will be unforgettable for him forever!
Accompanying Seiji Maehara at the press conference was Naoto Kan, the current leader of the New Democratic Party.

Even though almost no one from Naoto Kan's faction was involved in the affairs of the Charity Group, as the party chief and leader, he still has to be held accountable by countless voters and supporters.

If it were something else, Naoto Kan would probably be so angry that he would curse his mother.

Not long ago, he had a scandal with his female secretary, which almost ruined his political career. He managed to get through the crisis thanks to Mr. Kitagawa's various connections.

Since then, he has been very concerned about these things, fearing that he would be inexplicably implicated or exposed.

After all, if he is to take one step further, he will become the prime minister above millions of people. There are countless people who hope he will be elected, and there are also countless people who want him to be destroyed.

Even the once powerful Takeshita Noboru stepped down due to a bribery scandal, let alone this politician who came from a commoner background.

But this time, Naoto Kan has no psychological burden at all.

Long before the incident came to light, he had lined up with Nobutaka Machimura and others to support Mr. Kitagawa's trilogy "The Disabled but Determined" with all his strength.

The more the trilogy is exposed and revealed, the more these politicians will earn!
Even though he had to take the blame for his failure in the end, it was nothing compared to what he gained.

In stark contrast to the cheerful members of Naoto Kan's faction are members of Seiji Maehara's faction, as well as a group of bigwigs from the literary, political and business circles headed by Saburo Shiroyama.

Thanks to the efforts of Thai officials, the iceberg revealed by Kitagawa Hide was dug deeper and deeper, and the people with vested interests behind it were also dug out one after another.

It is obviously unrealistic to want all these people to die, but since the matter has become so serious, someone will inevitably have to take the blame.

There is no doubt that the ones who take the blame are naturally this group of closely related guys.

After this incident, even if Seiji Maehara could continue to be active in politics, he would be seriously damaged and would have no hope of becoming prime minister within 20 years.

Naoto Kan, who was standing next to the stage, looked at his watch and felt that it was about time, so he smiled and walked towards the gloomy-looking Seiji Maehara.

"Maehara-kun! I heard that the Nobel Prize winner for literature that you had invited with great effort flew back to Stockholm overnight?"

Naoto Kan patted Maehara Seiji's shoulder as if to kill him.

Upon hearing this, Seiji Maehara's bitter face became even more bitter.

If it were in the past, he would definitely confront Naoto Kan and make the other party lose face.

However, now, Seiji Maehara hunched his body and half-bowed before Naoto Kan, completely losing his former arrogance, as if his edges had been smoothed out in an instant.

"Yes, Your Excellency." Maehara Seiji forced these words out of his mouth. This was probably the first time in his life that he called Naoto Kan like this.

The honorifics and job titles made Naoto Kan stunned.

He took a good look at Maehara Seiji and felt more and more that this 36-year-old political rising star seemed to have completely lost hope, even the light in his eyes was gone.

"I am extremely sorry for the trouble I have caused you this time!" Maehara Seiji thought about it, and seemed to feel that his sincerity was not enough, so he bowed ninety degrees and uttered a loud apology.

The scene of him apologizing to Naoto Kan was captured by a reporter from the Yomiuri Shimbun, which made the reporter very excited!
Feeling the countless spotlights pouring towards him, the usually steady Naoto Kan couldn't help but reveal a smug smile, and could hardly contain his excitement.

However, this excitement was only half aroused before he suppressed it again.

Because Naoto Kan suddenly remembered that he had called Mr. Kitagawa not long ago and he had heard two short stories from ancient China that Mr. Kitagawa had told him.

The first short story is called "Sleeping on Firewood and Tasting Gall", which tells the story of a king of a fallen country named Gou Jian, who relied on flattery and pretending to have no intention of competing to make his biggest rival Fu Chai believe it, and then turned the tide and killed Fu Chai.

During this process, Gou Jian brought disgrace upon himself in various ways, even sending away his wife and daughter, and being willing to be the groom of his mortal enemy. He seemed to have completely lost his ambition, just like Seiji Maehara now.

However, in reality, Gou Jian secretly slept on firewood and tasted gall, always reminding himself not to forget the hatred, and one day he would take revenge on Fu Chai and destroy his entire family!

In the end, Gou Jian succeeded, and the confident Fu Chai was killed!
The second short story is called "Turning White Overnight", which is also about King Fuchai of Wu and King Goujian of Yue.

After King Gou Jian of Yue surrendered, Wu Zixu, who assisted King Fu Chai in achieving his great cause, believed that the Kingdom of Yue should be destroyed in one fell swoop. However, King Fu Chai was slandered by Bo Pi and did not listen to the proposal of "allying with Qi to destroy Yue". Instead, he sent Wu Zixu as an envoy to Qi.

Wu Zixu said to his son, "I have advised the king many times, but the king did not accept my advice. I can see the end of Wu now. It will be of no benefit for you to perish with Wu!"

So Wu Zixu entrusted his son to Bao Mu of Qi and returned to Wu alone to report to Fuchai.

Bo Pi took the opportunity to slander Wu Zixu and falsely accused him of treason. The stubborn Fu Chai then ordered Wu Zixu to be executed.

Wu Zixu's hair turned white overnight, and he sighed to the sky, "Alas! The treacherous minister Bo Pi rebelled, and the king wanted to kill me instead.

I made your father the ruler of all the kingdoms.

When you were not yet crowned as the crown prince, several princes were vying for the title. The late king and I risked our lives to fight for it, and I almost failed to be crowned as the crown prince.

After you were established as the crown prince, you wanted to give me half of the country of Wu, but I didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes.

But now you have listened to the slander of treacherous villains and killed your elders."

In his anger, Wu Zixu left a will, asking his family to dig out his eyes and hang them on the east gate after his death so that he could watch the Yue army destroy the Wu state with his own eyes.

King Fuchai of Wu was extremely angry and on the fifth day of the fifth month he wrapped Wu Zixu's body in 趙義皮 and threw it into the Qiantang River.

Teacher Beichuan only told him these two short stories and didn't say anything else.

Naoto Kan himself speculated that Mr. Kitagawa was kindly reminding him not to become the second "King Fuchai of Wu."

In addition, the fact that Wu Zixu's hair turned white overnight can be seen as Kitagawa's worry that he would be as stubborn as King Fuchai, or it can be seen as Maehara Seiji's failure to listen to Shiroyama Saburo's advice, which eventually ruined a good situation.

Anyway, no matter what, even if the biggest political enemy in the party bows to him in public, Naoto Kan will never give him a chance to survive!

"Oh~ Mr. Qianyuan did this kind of small thing for the good of the party, it's okay." Naoto Kan looked at him with a smile.

His smile frightened Maehara Seiji, who still had a glimmer of hope, and he lowered his head even more.

in front of the TV.

Mengzi looked at the scene that she had just captured and couldn't help but laugh, "My dear, Minister Naoto Kan is so impressive! He is even more impressive than Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi!"

"Haha, don't say this kind of thing outside, or it will cause trouble for Minister Naoto Kan."

Kitagawa Hide smiled and patted Yumeko's head.

After marriage, Mengzi became more stable and gentle, but it seemed that she was infected by the little vicious woman, Jabami Rei, and her political awareness became lower and lower. She really knew nothing about these things. "Oh, I will pay attention." Mengzi stuck out her tongue, snuggled in his arms and smiled.

She actually wanted to give a hand to Naoto Kan, and then praise her capable husband from the side.

Traditional Yamato Nadeshiko are not good at revealing their true feelings in this regard.

It is said that some Yamato Nadeshikos wanted to praise their husbands for their excellent "pile-driving skills", but because they were too embarrassed to say it out loud, they had to put a basket of bananas at the head of their beds to imply that they loved to eat them and they enjoyed eating them.

The two talked and laughed for a while, and Seiji Maehara and others on TV also began to bow and apologize in a procedural manner, and made various confessions to the people.

These formulaic things are not interesting. What Kitagawa Hide wants to see is the final outcome of what Seiji Maehara and others do.

After the apology, Naoto Kan, the leader of the New Democratic Party, came out to express his most sincere apologies and then announced the party's punishment for Seiji Maehara:

Expulsion from the party and dismissal from office are pending!

Upon hearing the punishment, Seiji Maehara widened his eyes and looked at Naoto Kan in confusion and shock!
This is different from what was promised!
Seiji Maehara roared in his heart, but he could only pretend to be submissive on his face.

If he had known that this would be the maximum penalty, he would never have bowed to his mortal enemy, and he would never have given all his remaining resources and bargaining chips to Naoto Kan!
Although politicians always say that all is fair in war, if you still use tricks at this level, you will be despised.

Shiroyama Saburo and others on the side were also very surprised.

Even members of Naoto Kan's faction looked confused.

Obviously, this punishment result was a "sudden whim" of Naoto Kan.

This is too outrageous and too ridiculous!

But the words have been spoken, and hundreds of millions of people across the country have heard them, so it is impossible to change them.

Seiji Maehara felt like he was falling into an icy cave, but his trial was not over yet.

After Naoto Kan left, Miyamoto Juju came to power.

As the representative of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, the entire audience fell silent as soon as he opened his mouth.

". In view of these proven crimes, we will formally arrest Maehara Seiji, Shiroyama Saburo and other leaders behind the charity group this afternoon.

This time, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have joined forces to uncover many other political and business figures, and their penalties will be announced on our official website one by one."

Another bombshell!
"Not only will I be expelled from the party, but I will also be arrested and imprisoned?" Maehara Seiji was stunned, "This is impossible! Are they crazy?

If I go in, what credibility will the New Democratic Party have?"

No one paid any attention to Seiji Maehara who was muttering to himself.

Miyamoto Juju spoke briefly and to the point, and after he stepped down, the ministers of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labor, and the Ministry of Justice took the stage one after another to announce the punishment results.

After a group of top political leaders finished speaking, Keisuke Obuchi arrived late.

As the Prime Minister of the nation, he bowed three times to express his apology.

Of course, people don't want to see this at all, they just want to have fun.

However, Keizo Obuchi did not mention any punishment for Seiji Maehara. He only talked about how the Thai authorities dealt with the interest groups related to the Charity Group and that they would cooperate with the Japanese authorities in the future.

After saying this, he changed the subject and talked about "Children in the Dark" which is about to start filming in Thailand.

The Prime Minister personally promoted the film in front of the public, which saved Kitagawa Hide a lot of publicity and promotion costs.

The people were so excited after hearing this that they wanted to go to Thailand to support Mr. Kitagawa's Thai version of the trilogy "The Disabled but Determined".

It was also at this moment that Kitagawa Hide's reputation among the people reached a new peak.

Some people used to say that he was too young and not qualified to be a "national teacher."

But this time, Keizo Obuchi personally called him "national teacher" and said that in the second half of the year, the Ministry of Finance intends to print Kitagawa's bust on the 2000 yen banknote to be released soon!

In the original history, only two Japanese writers were printed on the Japanese yen.

One is Higuchi Ichiyo, whom Mayumi Aso studied, and the other is Natsume Soseki, the original author of "I Am a Cat".

In this parallel universe, both of them no longer exist, so there has never been a bust of a writer on the Japanese yen!

Kitagawa Hidetsuka will be the first person in history!
As soon as this incident happened, it caused a sensation throughout Japan, and people watching TV immediately became curious about the 2000 yen banknote that was about to be issued.

"Oh my god! Honey! Did you hear that? The Prime Minister said he wants to print you on the Japanese yen!"

Mengzi was so happy that she almost fainted.

In her eyes, this is more worthy of pride than Kitagawa Hide winning the Nobel Prize in Literature!

This is an unprecedented "first time"!
There is no mobile payment at present, and the functions of mobile phones are very limited.

Banknotes and coins are something that all Japanese cannot avoid.

In other words, from now on, when people pay for things or use money, they will see a bust of her husband!

At this moment, Mengzi felt that it was worth it if she died now.

She cheered for a while, then looked up and found Beichuan Xiu smiling bitterly. She couldn't help but ask in confusion: "What's wrong? Honey, are you unhappy?"

"I guess I'm happy."

Kitagawa Hideya couldn't explain his complicated feelings at the moment.

Because the 2000 yen banknote was printed and issued with the strong support of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on the occasion of the G2000 Summit held in Okinawa in .

It was all the rage in the early days of its issuance, but it gradually withdrew from circulation because vending machines could not recognize the new currency, it could not be placed in cash registers, it was often confused with the 5000 yen note, and Japan had never issued a "2" unit of currency, making it difficult for the Japanese people to accept it.

Later, only the Okinawa region used this banknote regularly.

The original 2000 yen banknote has "Shureimon" printed on the front to commemorate the G summit held in Japan, and "The Tale of Genji Picture Scroll and Murasaki Shikibu" printed on the back.

Keisuke Obuchi had not informed him about this matter. He probably wanted to reveal it in front of the TV so that he could also get a surprise.

But this paper currency, which was not circulated much later, was really
Another thing is that Kitagawa Hide's soul is a Chinese. When I think about his bust being printed on Japanese banknotes, I always have an inexplicable NTR feeling.

It's just very strange anyway.
Of course, this event can be called a "milestone" both in his life and career, and is indeed worth commemorating and celebrating.

Mengzi tilted her head and looked at him, a little confused.

She wanted to ask more, but the congratulatory calls that followed instantly overwhelmed her and Kitagawa Hide! (End of this chapter)