Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

Her mother's constant chattering made Taiho Niizawa feel uncomfortable, and she blurted out:

"You're not my mother."

For a moment, both of them were stunned.

Xin Ze Taifeng realized that she had said the wrong thing and hurried upstairs.

Even though both parties knew about the mother-son relationship, Ping Yingmei still couldn't say it out loud like it was a nightmare. She was Niizawa Taiho's mother.

So she lay on the sofa in a daze for a long time before returning to her room crying.

Taifeng Niizawa, who was nervously watching from upstairs, saw her mother's tears and couldn't bear it so she lay in the bedroom and cried.

If Ping Yingmei doesn't acknowledge her, she will never have a peaceful home.

"What should I do..."

The gap between mother and daughter is unfathomable. Even if they sit down to talk, the deep gulf that has existed for so many years cannot be filled even if all the money in Tokyo Bay is poured into it.

Helpless and with nothing to do, Xin Ze Taifeng hugged her feet and saw through the window that the light in Li Xinghe's room in the next building was on.

......

The next day.

Li Xinghe got up and went to the cinema. In a small pioneer cinema in Shinjuku, the latest art film directed by Mami Satoshi, "Twenty Years of Atonement for Mother and Son", was about to begin its promotion.

The supporters of the Dongquan Society also used the money donated by Li Xinghe to buy votes from Liberal Democratic Party members.

I don’t know if it was because the Liberal Democratic Party was afraid of failure, but it suddenly announced the election rules for this time.

This time, the party election adopted a one-day plan. If the first round failed, the second round would continue immediately. There would be no time for the two candidates to struggle.

At the same time, in the second round of voting rights, the three votes of the 47 local prefectures were reduced to one vote, which means that 3 LDP members + 1 local representatives' votes will constitute the entire voting pool.

The most important thing is that, considering that the first round is for three strong candidates to choose two positions, the Liberal Democratic Party stipulates that if there is a tie between the two candidates for the second place, the winner will be selected by drawing lots.

Very Greek democracy.

The author says:

Author's words: Thank you for your support. Keep speeding up and finish this round of elections. Tomorrow is the first round of the Liberal Democratic Party elections. I will finish the elections before them, so I won't have to worry about whether I wrote it right or wrong. (The manuscript has been temporarily modified because the Liberal Democratic Party suddenly announced a new rule today. If three people advance and two people have the same number of votes for the second place, the second place will be decided by drawing lots. It is indeed very democratic)

Chapter 323 Purple Ribbon Black Jungle

"Where have you been?"

The gentle voice that only a mother could give made Li Xinghe quicken his pace:

"I will arrive soon."

He was walking outside the door of Waseda Shochiku, a pioneering independent cinema in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Such a big city is home to all kinds of strange people.

In Tokyo, an international metropolis, there are 2D military otakus who stay at home and rely on their parents to criticize China for bullying Japan online, PLA enthusiasts who goose-step at comic conventions and collect beautiful photos of their neighbors every day, and some indescribable people who hang out in Kabukicho every day. Only a small number of these people will appear in social news and guide public opinion changes. The vast majority of people don't care about today's prime minister election at all, let alone politics.

The separation between online public opinion and real life has not increased due to the penetration of the Internet, but has become increasingly distant. The vast ocean of information flow has not broken down the barriers to interpersonal communication, but has instead created more spiritual islands.

This is also one aspect of the Internet's end-of-law world.

When Li Xinghe arrived at the scene, the promotional event had not yet begun. Jian Meili, wearing a gauze hat and a mask, trotted over and took his hand to walk inside: "It's a bit late. You are a new actor. You have to arrive earlier than the screenwriter and the guests to put on makeup."

Having said that, it was clear that even crew members like Sato Tsuyoshi and Haru were not there.

So we are still saving time for parent-child interaction while saying one thing and thinking another.

The relationship between mother and son has been very good recently. Li Xinghe is even willing to call her mother occasionally, which makes Jian Misato feel that life is indeed happy.

After Li Xinghe was transformed into a young star in the film industry through makeup, Tsuyoshi Sato and Haru arrived one after another. For the premiere of today's art film, Haru put a lot of effort into it. Not only did she have her own agency to promote it, she also dressed up beautifully.

The famous left-wing New Wave director, Masao Adachi, was also invited to the event.

This person was the spokesperson of the Red Army Movement, an extreme left veteran who carried out terrorist attacks, and was arrested in 1997. After Tetsuya Yamagami launched a Taiko Ikki campaign against Shinzo Abe in 2022, Masao Adachi was the first to stand up and released Tetsuya Yamagami's personal biographical film "Revolution +1" during Abe's state funeral.

A few chairs, a group of audiences, and the premiere began.

Jian Meili did not hide her mother and son identity with Li Xinghe. It would be better to say that she did it for this reason, so she held her son's arm and introduced him to everyone: "This is my son Qianqiu Yinhe. This is his first charity performance. I am really sorry that I told you all only today."

There was internal publicity beforehand, and many left-wing audiences knew that Qianqiu Yinhe was a prosecutor, and they applauded Li Xinghe.

Then, Sato Tsuyoshi expressed his desire to shoot enthusiastically, and started a conversation with Adachi Masao as old Red Army veterans, recalling the glorious days of the past.

After some discussion, Haru even left a special Easter egg:

"We also have a TV drama planned, which may be the first in Japan to try a big innovation. I hope it will touch the audience."

In short, for those who work in art films, don’t talk about making money, talk more about ideals, because talking about money hurts feelings.

As an independent film, this rare red film only had four screening halls on its first day, and the cumulative audience on the first day was only about 1000 people.

But Sato Tsuyoshi was very confident: "Okay, I am confident that I can reach 10 viewers."

Although it was only a small screening room with 40 seats per room, it was replayed five times in a row because of the large number of audiences who had made reservations, and many people even stood to watch. The exit survey after the movie also showed that the movie received almost full marks, and only some people who came for the eroticism felt that it was not erotic enough.

"What do you think?" Misato Ma asked her son.

Li Xinghe made an observation that he found difficult to make:

"I think they come here mainly to see the novelty."

"Don't say it." Misato Jian pinched him a little.

Obviously, more than half of the people who came to watch the movie were fans of Haru's club, a small number were crazy fans of Mami, and the rest were mainly Chinese and Korean students studying in Japan, progressive Japanese college students, and some old men and women. Although some people were moved to tears, most people were just there for the color and Haru.

Of course, there are definitely good reviews.

The overall quality of the film is excellent, and it is already at the award-winning level among art films. It is still a little far from commercial films, but in recent years, Japanese commercial films have been getting worse and worse, so it is not that bad. Therefore, movie lovers and Haru fans did create some noise on the Internet.

Then they discussed the plan to continue their cooperation. If the film recovered its cost, it would be invested in the next TV series. Ma Misato and Haru continued to cooperate.

After returning, Masao Adachi published his own film review and gave his verdict: "The stagnant art film industry may see ripples as a result, and we will see the rise of a new century wave."

......

Attend a left-wing film opening in the morning and watch a right-wing party election in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Li Xinghe and his small group gathered at the Shishukai election office in Nagatacho.

"In order to buy tickets, they are really blatant." Li Xinghe sighed.

Tsukishima Nansa sent him many internal notices, including one about helping Mr. Koizumi suppress public opinion.

As for buying tickets, you can't really send someone to buy them, as that would be too easy to be exposed.

In actual operations, they relied on support groups such as the Tosenkai and some related companies, and in the name of "spontaneous support for Shinjiro Koizumi" and "comfort money" and the like, they went to various companies and factories to bribe registered members of the Liberal Democratic Party.

With waves of people running around, they can buy thousands of tickets in a day, which means one and a half tickets for party members.

But doing this alone is actually too slow.

Therefore, the people in Koizumi's office took a risk and adopted the second method, which was to fabricate votes. Because the LDP's ballots are actually very easy to forge. As long as you pay an annual party membership fee of 4000 yen, you can vote. You don't even need Japanese nationality. Foreign residents with permanent residency can vote at will. Japan does not have a very strict ID card system, so it is possible to forge identities or even ask people with real identities to vote randomly.

What's even more outrageous is that the Liberal Democratic Party is also very reckless in printing and distributing party membership tickets, often distributing them indiscriminately, resulting in an overflow of ballots.

Therefore, they followed the model of issuing party member ballots to the entire company if there was a real LDP registered member in the company, and ran around with money in many small and medium-sized companies outside Tokyo. The Koizumi family and Suga Yoshihide have their roots in Kanagawa Prefecture, and the Abe faction supporting Koizumi is also mainly distributed in Kanto, so they mainly buy votes in the Kanto region.

This method was not invented by them. It was exposed as early as the election of Fumio Kishida. However, because Fumio Kishida had dealt with Taro Aso and others at that time, there was no follow-up.

It is interesting that when Fumio Kishida competed with Taro Kono for the position of prime minister, it was Fumio Kishida who won the election by getting Taro Aso to serve as vice president and deputy prime minister. In this election, Shinjiro Koizumi wants to repeat the operation of that year and continue to please the Aso faction to ensure victory.

Although the Aso faction has never been able to produce a prime minister, it has always won in parliamentary competitions, which can be said to be a big benefit from eating small bites of meat.

Higashikawa Yukimi turns on the TV:

"The counting of votes for the first round of intra-party elections has begun."

This time they still chose the live broadcast of Fuji News Channel.

Today, Miyabi Aimi is hosting the daytime news.

She introduced:

"As usual, the first LDP presidential election this year is still in the form of MP votes + party member votes. However, due to the reduction in the number of LDP MPs, there are only 300 seats left in the House of Representatives and the Senate, so the votes are 300 MP votes + 300 proportional party member votes. However, the second round of elections is different from the election of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi five months ago. There is only one local representative vote instead of three, and the vote pool is 300 + 47 votes."

This round of vote counting was more chaotic than the battle between the extreme right-wing witch Takaichi Sanae and the mental sadist Toyota Mayu five months ago. That time, two "dragons and phoenixes" in a negative sense competed on the same stage, while this time, there were eleven candidates and a group of demons dancing in chaos on the makeshift team.

Kunibu Tsukiya brought bad news:

"The situation is not good. Aso Taro still supports Sanae Takaichi and plays Koizumi a fool."

The current situation has become one in which the Aso faction and the Abe diehards support Sanae Takaichi, Shigeru Ishiba attracts a large group of small factions, and Shinjiro Koizumi relies on the remnants of the Abe faction, with the power of his father, Mori Yoshiro, and Suga Yoshihide, the three prime ministers.

Therefore, Lu Yuchi Hua Yingmei analyzed for everyone:

"If Koizumi is eliminated in the first round and Ishiba competes with Takaichi Sanae, Suga Yoshihide's attitude will be very important. The Seikawa Policy Research Institute and the Nikai faction may vote for Ishiba."

"If Takaichi is eliminated in the first round, it will be a sure win for Koizumi."

"If Ishiba Shigeru can handle the Kono faction in the second round of the table, then Ishiba will be the top."

Li Xinghe nodded, the key candidates were still Taro Aso and Yoshihide Suga. The decision on who would go on was based on whether Takaichi or Koizumi would go on, because Ishiba Shigeru was not popular.

The voting process during the live broadcast was very quick. In less than half an hour, 600 votes were cast.

This time, there is no room for the legislators to play around. They should honestly tick the boxes for the 11 candidates and are not allowed to write names like Chairman Next Door, Kim Jong-un, Guangxia Rehabilitation, etc.

Miyaji Aimi unveiled the film for the TV audience:

"Results of the first round of voting. Shigeru Ishiba 32%, Sanae Takaichi 24%, Shinjiro Koizumi 24%, Takayuki Kobayashi 5%..."

Everyone in the office straightened up.

"what?"

Two people with the same ticket?

The lottery rules that were just changed yesterday are being used today?

Such a coincidence?

Now, it’s time to draw lots.

Should it be said that it was unexpected or not, but Sanae Takaichi lost the lottery with a serious face and took out the second lottery ticket from the box.

So, Shinjiro Koizumi ran around the LDP headquarters with great joy, celebrating his successful entry into the second round in his first election.

Everyone complained:

"This is obviously a setup."

"It's still the old Prime Minister Koizumi who is capable."

Li Xinghe was also amazed.

As expected of an old prime minister, he makes things look easy and solved the threat posed by Sanae Takaichi with just one rule.

Sanae Takaichi was eliminated, and Shigeru Ishiba had little hope. He only had 347 votes in the second round, and at least half of the 300 councillors disliked him. The support of 47 local party members could not save the situation.

In the second round of voting, Shinjiro Koizumi won.

The LDP Policy Research Council Chairman Watanabe announced to the crowd:

"The next president of the Liberal Democratic Party will be Shinjiro Koizumi!"

The reason why he is not mentioned as the Prime Minister of Japan is that the Liberal Democratic Party's national vote rate is only 50%, and it still needs the support of the Osaka Restoration Party and the Komeito Party when voting in the parliament.

Li Xinghe

"No matter how many months Shinjiro Koizumi can last, he can finally do something serious."

"Well, come on."

Dongchuan Xuemi kissed Li Xinghe on the cheek, and the meaning was very clear: you should take Taiho Niizawa with you and shut down the pedophile club of Aritsu Yamagata.

However, Shikamichi Hua Yingmei also followed suit and gave her a kiss.

Kunifen Yueya was indignant, so she also gave him a kiss.

Seeing that everyone was kissing each other, Kunibu Makabe came up to join in the fun.

As a result, the atmosphere in the office became a little awkward.

Just then Li Xinghe's cell phone rang. He quickly opened it and found that it was a congratulatory picture sent by Takigawa Masami.

Li Xinghe hurriedly said: