Chapter 122 The Problem of Bullshit
Day 10 of the road survival game!
Filled with indignation, Feng Xingshou vented his frustrations about the things he disapproved of before realizing that he was criticizing the country's policies in front of Officer Sang.
Feeling awkward like she'd been talking behind someone's back to their face, she quickly changed her tone, swallowing back all her complaints and saying that it was just some bloggers' speculation and shouldn't be taken seriously, practically contradicting herself completely.
If it were anything else, seeing her trying so hard to refute what she had said, Hagiwara would have been amused by her. But now, not only did he hear bad news about his country, but he also heard that his country had done something so absurd and ridiculous to harm its own people.
The fact that there were also these greedy and evil deeds of exploiting the disaster to seize people's land made him unable to resist asking, with a glimmer of hope, "Feng-chan! When was that contaminated soil from Fukushima laid in other radiation-free areas?"
If the plan was laid after the Silver Bullet incident, perhaps it was simply because most of the capable and competent officials had died, and the surviving people who did not have political experience or scientific knowledge were put in power, which led to such an absurd decision.
Matsuda and Morofushi both looked at Kazesei-no-Kami, waiting for an answer. It seemed that they also wanted to find a reason to whitewash the Japanese government, or perhaps they held a typical Japanese philosophy that where there is light, there is darkness. Maybe the silver bullet made Japan less light and more darkness, which caused this bad result.
Feng Xingshou was completely unaware of the subtle expectation in his question. After thinking for a moment, he honestly replied, "I remember that nuclear radiation was detected in agricultural products in the first half of 2019. At that time, the side effects of the silver bullet had not yet been discovered."
The "nuclear radiation contaminated soil treatment plan," as investigated by officials and journalists, was implemented in October 2016. Whether it was materials for public facilities or soil covering of farmland, the areas involved were all remote regions of Japan.
"Sigh!" Upon hearing the answer, Hagiwara completely lost faith in the people in his country's government, and even he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, given his personality.
In the four years that Matsuda had worked longer than Hagiwara, he had experienced, heard about, and seen many disappointing things. At first, he would have strong emotional reactions, but after a while, he became numb because he had gotten used to it.
Even if I hear more negative news from the Japanese government, it won't affect me too much. But this time, the futures I hear about are extremely tragic and bizarre, and their greed is disgusting.
This caused him, who had become accustomed to it, to feel the disappointment he had felt as a child when the Japanese authorities falsely accused his father and forcibly arrested him.
He couldn't help but scoff: "Hmph! Every time they think those terrible policies have reached their limit, they always make even worse decisions, causing such disastrous consequences in the future without any remorse. These bureaucratic capitalist families are beyond saving..."
"Why did all these absurd and bizarre decisions happen in 2016?" As expected of a public security elite, Morofushi Hiromitsu was in a terrible mood, probably because he had seen too many Japanese parliamentarians, government officials, capitalists and other people colluding with the organization.
His ability to directly obey the organization's orders allowed him to quickly calm down and suppress his negative emotions towards the authorities, even when he heard about these terrible and disgusting policies.
I still rationally realized that this policy on polluting soil, like the Silver Bullet, originated in 2016, so I subconsciously asked Fuusei about it. Only after asking did I realize that it was inappropriate, given that this was a major decision made by the Japanese government.
Even if Fusang is Gin's sister, if she really has been living an ordinary life as Hagiwara and the others say, then she shouldn't know the reasons behind the major decisions made by the Japanese government. I shouldn't have asked her that question.
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However, Feng Xingshou actually knew about this. After all, since she was old enough to understand, this was the first time she had ever witnessed a world-renowned head of state being shot in public. Well, it was a major event that could be recorded in history.
Naturally, people would pay attention to related news reports during that period. Domestic officials and self-media bloggers also recorded many short videos analyzing why he was assassinated, regardless of whether what those self-media bloggers said was true or false.
At least aside from their speculations, the information about the former prime minister's resume was basically true, so when Morofushi asked her this question, she answered directly: "Because 2016 was the first year that the former prime minister who was shot was elected prime minister of Japan and officially took over Japanese government affairs."
Uh! I remember hearing from those self-media outlets that Japan's prime ministerial election and the handover of power between the previous prime minister are completed between September and November each year, so strictly speaking, it's considered the second year of the other party's administration!
The bloggers said that when he was elected, Japan was in an economic downturn, and its scientific research had gone astray, whether it was various electronics-related technologies, aerospace technologies such as rocket launches, or manufacturing industries such as automobiles... etc.
This was all because the direction of scientific and technological research could not keep up with the world's mainstream. At that time, the major powers in the world were using intelligent technology and new energy technology to upgrade their existing technologies.
For example, 2G and 3G mobile phones were upgraded to 4G and 5G smartphones, and the automotive industry innovated to produce various ultra-low-priced, affordable new energy vehicles, which are quiet cars that consume electricity. After 2020, they were gradually upgraded to intelligent new energy vehicles.
Besides these, high-tech technologies such as high-speed rail with a maximum speed of over 400 kilometers per hour, driverless buses, and public transport boats are emerging like an explosive growth, with new technologies appearing almost every year.
In short, compared to these rapidly evolving technologies, Japan's automotive industry and other sectors are resting on their laurels. Satellite launch failures have made Chinese news more than once or twice. In addition, there have been reports of medicines and health products containing toxic ingredients, leading to serious illness and death among users.
I see news reports about Japanese scientists successfully developing artificial Wagyu beef using raw materials more expensive than real Wagyu beef, and about bizarre technologies like controlling cow farts.
Inventions that seem useless to human civilization and of no benefit to society, yet Japan shows no breakthroughs in high-tech fields, have led to a situation where Japan could have relied on exporting various high-tech luxury products.
For example, the export of high-priced goods such as cars, computers, and televisions earned a lot of foreign exchange, which changed the stable state of Japan's economy under the blackmail of the United States. The export volume of these high-priced export goods decreased, and only seafood exports remained the same as before.
This led to Japan's economy deteriorating, so after that former prime minister came to power, he mainly promoted various policies to raise money and boost Japan's economy. This analysis is based on information collected by bloggers after his murder.
I discovered that his money-making policies were basically a scheme to use official power to formulate policies that I found rather insidious, treating ordinary Japanese people as less than human, and extracting hidden taxes from powerless people.
He also relaxed controls on gray areas. According to bloggers, the sale of Japanese women by PR shops, as I mentioned earlier, did not actually begin after the side effects of the silver bullet appeared, but rather after he took office as prime minister and relaxed controls on those industries.
Early signs gradually emerged. At that time, those PR shops were not so serious about selling people abroad and squeezing every drop of blood out of them for profit. Instead, they used methods such as PUA to lure female customers into making high-priced purchases that they could not afford.
They would proactively cover the high and luxurious living expenses of male escorts, or go into debt to help their "favorite" male escorts improve their performance. Then, the female customers would resort to any means to make money to pay off these debts and to appease the male escorts.
In Japan, where prostitution is generally considered legal and goes unpunished unless reported by the public, and women in other industries earn very low wages, the ways women make money are quite predictable. However, PR firms that generate huge profits can create substantial tax revenue for the Japanese government.
The so-called contaminated soil reuse plan is just one of the local economic growth plans launched by the lower-level officials to show their support for the prime minister's policies. There are also many other strange policies that seem impossible for a normal person to come up with.
Externally, Japan's strategy was to cultivate good relations with the United States and cooperate with them in various ways, hoping to profit from the enormous gains made from the "silver bullet" (referring to the high cost of foreign investment) and thus alleviate its own economic problems. Under these economic policies, Japan's economic situation appeared to be much better than it had been 16 years ago.
"No wonder that former Self-Defense Force member chose to target him instead of the then-current Prime Minister." After hearing Kazesei Mori's detailed answer, Morofushi Kagemitsu felt even more strongly that these future events were not fabricated out of thin air or full of lies.
These policies and their causes and consequences could not have been explained in such detail and without any loopholes unless Feng Sang had personally experienced them or heard them from others. Combining her words with the preceding ones, the cause and effect become clear at a glance.
"Studying on artificial Wagyu beef suggests that researchers want to allow people who can't afford Wagyu to taste its flavor." Hagiwara was utterly speechless: "So what's the point of Japanese scientists studying cow farts?"
"Ahem... Domestic news reports say he did it for environmental reasons, saying that cow farts contain something... anyway, they say that cow farts have a high content of a chemical component that is harmful to the environment, and that Japan is a major cattle-producing country."
He researched technology to stop cows from farting in order to protect Japan's environment from being damaged by the chemicals in cow farts. "Mentioning this, Feng Xingshou, despite knowing he had just discussed those serious and tragic futures..."
Laughing now would be extremely impolite, yet she still couldn't help but want to laugh. However, she didn't want to upset the three officers because of her rudeness, so she could only grit her teeth and try to suppress her laughter. She held it in so hard that her chubby face became somewhat distorted...
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