147: Chapter 147 Japanese Provocation

After returning from the Simple Life Festival, Chen Mo resumed his leisurely life, accompanying several women on trips everywhere every day.

This continued until the conclusion of the APEC Beijing Summit.

After the APEC Beijing Summit concluded, scenes from the event were repeatedly broadcast across major news outlets.

Leaders from various countries shook hands and smiled, taking commemorative photos, and the international community was full of praise.

It was as if the whole world was saying:

Relations between Dragon Country and Japan are about to ease; trade will deepen, cooperation will increase, and East Asia is entering a period of peaceful development.

The media hyped it up even more extravagantly, and experts analyzed it with great logic. Many people truly believed that Japan was going to turn over a new leaf and get along well with Dragon Country.

But no one expected that:

Japan had no intention of easing tensions at all. Instead, they delivered a series of rapid-fire provocations, causing trouble and striking directly at Dragon Country's untouchable nerves!

Chen Mo sat in his top-floor office at the Tianxing Group.

He had been processing the mining progress report for the gold mine in Africa. Looking at the documents Old Xu sent back regarding equipment transport, personnel arrangements, and mining area security layouts, he was in a very good mood.

Our Chen Mo was now a man with a mine in the family!

Just then, news pop-ups on his phone appeared one after another, the notification sound ringing incessantly.

Chen Mo casually picked up his phone and clicked on it, his expression instantly darkening.

The first news item was:

The Japanese Prime Minister publicly visited the Yasukuni Shrine and related sites, high-profilely paying respects to World War II war criminals, even declaring in public:

These war criminals, whose hands are stained with the blood of Asian people, are "Japan's heroes" and "contributors to the nation."

Truly shameless!

Chen Mo looked at the photo of the Yasukuni Shrine visit in the news.

A single thought crossed his mind:

A leopard can't change its spots. The wound hasn't even healed, yet they've forgotten the pain and have started biting people again.

This wasn't just a visit!

This was publicly trampling on the dignity of the tens of millions of Dragon Country's martyrs from the War of Resistance!

It was a public humiliation of all Dragon Country people, a desecration of the historical trauma of the entire nation!

This was reaching out and fiercely pulling the tiger's whiskers, touching Dragon Country's untouchable nerves!

Chen Mo continued to the second news item:

The situation at the DY Island has completely spiraled out of control and escalated.

The Japanese government unilaterally announced:

The implementation of so-called "nationalization management" over DY Island, exerting illegal control from legal, administrative, and maritime perspectives.

Following this, a large number of fully armed Japan Coast Guard vessels forcibly entered the DY Island waters, ignoring all warnings from the Chinese side, and began patrolling and provoking at will in the vicinity.

A group of Japanese politicians even jumped out, shouting crazily at the cameras with an extremely arrogant attitude:

"DY Island is Japan's inherent territory; there is no room for negotiation!"

"Japan will absolutely not retreat even half a step!"

A blatant violation of Dragon Country's territorial sovereignty!

Leaving no room and no bottom line!

Stepping directly onto Dragon Country's core sovereign red line, pushing their luck!

The third news item was:

Without stopping, the Japanese Prime Minister turned around and flew to the United States.

As soon as he got off the plane, he was seen arm-in-arm with high-level US officials, giving a public speech directly targeting Dragon Country:

"Japan must cooperate closely with the United States to jointly restrict Dragon Country's expansion in the Asia-Pacific!"

"To jointly maintain the so-called regional order!"

This clearly showed they wanted to take the initiative as a pawn for the West, leading a group of Western nations to gang up and encircle Dragon Country, to contain Dragon Country.

The fourth item was even more disgusting:

At the APEC Beijing Summit, Japan had just shaken hands with Dragon Country, talked about cooperation, and spoken of friendship.

Turning around, Japan was at an important international ASEAN meeting, distorting the truth and spreading rumors to smear Dragon Country:

"Dragon Country's development undermines regional stability!"

"Dragon Country threatens the security of neighboring countries!"

On one hand, they wore a smiling face and spoke of easing tensions, while on the other, they stabbed Dragon Country in the back.

Trampling on Dragon Country's historical pain, touching Dragon Country's sovereign red line, pulling in Western countries to back them up—smiling about easing tensions while continuing to provoke. Truly, a leopard can't change its spots.

They were clearly saying:

"I'm provoking you, I'm annoying you, what can you do about it?"

Their attitude was extremely arrogant.

Chen Mo placed his phone on the desk.

A cold sneer then curled his lips.

Even though Chen Mo had lived two lives and had long seen Japan's shameless face,

seeing this kind of behavior—pushing their luck, being ungrateful, being two-faced, and trampling on national dignity—

the fire in his heart was still impossible to suppress.

"Do you really think our kindness means we're easy to bully?"

"Do you really think Dragon Country's concessions mean we're afraid of you?"

Chen Mo then picked up his phone and dialed the number for Zhao Yuan, the head of Tianxing Finance.

The phone was answered after just one ring.

Zhao Yuan's voice came from the other end:

"President Chen! Your orders!"

Chen Mo said coldly:

"Immediately mobilize the liquid capital under Tianxing."

"First, go all out to dump the nikkei index. Regardless of cost, smash it down. I want to see the nikkei index crash across the board and trigger circuit breakers repeatedly!"

"Second, concentrate on shorting the Japanese Yen on a large scale. Directly attack the Yen's exchange rate and break their currency's credit!"

"Third, precisely target Japanese international capital flowing abroad. Harvest them one by one; don't let a single one escape!"

Zhao Yuan replied:

"President Chen, this is going to be a direct and full-scale war with the Japanese financial world!"

Chen Mo sneered and said:

"They dared to come to our door, pulling the tiger's whiskers and trampling on our bottom line. Why shouldn't we strike back?"

"At a time like this, we won't do anything else, only attack! What damn Japanese financial world? It's exactly the Japanese financial world I'm hitting!"

"Remember this: hit them where it hurts, hit them to death. Hit them until the pain reaches their bones, until they never dare to provoke Dragon Country again for the rest of their lives!"

"I want everyone in Japan to remember what the consequences are for provoking Dragon Country!"

Zhao Yuan trembled and responded loudly:

"Yes! President Chen! I will execute it immediately! I guarantee the mission will be completed!"

"Mhm."

Chen Mo then hung up the phone.

Following that, he dialed Li Yue's number—a joint call to the domestic channel alliance and the supply chain headquarters.

As soon as the call connected, Li Yue's voice came through:

"President Chen!"

Chen Mo said:

"Li Yue, order Tianxing to boycott all Japanese products across the board!"

"On Tianxing Mall, all Japanese cars, Japanese electronics, Japanese components, Japanese equipment, and Japanese daily chemicals—all goods, cooperation, orders, procurement, and sales related to Japan are to stop completely!"

"Remove them from the shelves immediately, terminate them immediately, and cut off all cooperation channels immediately!"

"Then, in the name of Tianxing Group, formally notify all domestic manufacturers, platforms, supermarkets, distributors, and chain stores that cooperate with us."

"All enterprises must boycott Japanese-related industries in sync. Anyone who dares to feign compliance while secretly giving Japanese goods the green light will be treated as an enemy of Tianxing and will be directly kicked out, never to be worked with again!"

Li Yue replied:

"Yes! President Chen! I'll arrange it right away!"

Chen Mo gave an "Mhm" and hung up the phone.