The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Okamoto Hikawa and his entourage passed through the entry gate and presented their passports to complete the customs procedures.

Then they went to claim their luggage.

The luggage was placed on an automatic conveyor belt and slowly transported to the passengers. After collecting the luggage, they passed through the baggage inspection and walked out of the green channel.

Okamoto Hikawa has already contacted the Japanese Consulate in China.

The consulate agreed to send a car to pick them up.

Okamoto Hikawa looked at the huge airport terminal, and he still felt a little indignant.

He wondered why the advanced and developed Foot Basin suddenly fell behind?

Why did we have many leading industries a few years ago, but now they are all in decline?

We were so careful and vigilant when conducting economic exchanges with China, but we still gave them the opportunity to catch up?
Okamoto Hikawa did not have to wait too long as the consulate sent a staff member to pick them up.

The other party drove over in a Fengtian Alpha.

For a while this car was hyped up to be amazing.

However, he has long since stepped down from the altar.

The person who drove to pick up Okamoto Hikawa was called Akita Ichiro.

This is a man in his forties with a sad face.

He looked unhappy, as if he had just suffered a setback in his life.

Ichiro Akita put Okamoto Hikawa's luggage in the trunk and invited the two of them into the car.

The car started driving towards the city.

This journey was a bit boring.

Because Ichiro Akita didn't speak actively and was a little dull.

Okamoto Hikawa sighed and asked, "Akita-kun, are our funds already so stretched?"

"Logically, you should send a driver over, right? Why did you drive here in person to pick me up?"

Ichiro Akita is the military attaché of the consulate.

He is also a formal diplomat, and his rank is not low.

Akita Ichiro smiled bitterly and said, "Okamoto-kun, we are really poor now."

"We have reduced the number of external staff in the embassy as much as possible because we cannot afford to pay their salaries."

“The funding we get from above is getting less and less.”

“It’s made it almost impossible for us to carry out our normal activities.”

Okamoto Hikawa murmured, "This is wrong!"

"You are the face of the foot basin!"

"You can't lose all your face, right?"

Ichiro Akita said, “I think so too.”

“But strange things still happened.”

"Okamoto-kun, to be honest, my salary alone is not enough to support my family now."

"My wife has to do odd jobs to supplement the family income."

"Then, I heard my son tell me that she was actually selling herself out..."

“This is truly a great shame!”

Ichiro Akita almost cried out.

Okamoto Hikawa was shocked.

He didn't expect that Ichiro Akita, who belonged to the elite class, would have such a tragic fate.

It's incredible.

"Akita-kun, I'm really sorry for bringing up your sad story."

Okamoto Hikawa didn't know what to say.

He actually didn't care about Ichiro Akita.

He just felt a little sad.

Thinking back to when we just surrendered and the foot basin was in ruins, it was actually quite tragic.

Okamoto Hikawa had just been born at that time.

According to what he heard from the older generation later, in order to develop, the people of Jiaoben sent a lot of women to Southeast Asia.

Although we were a bit poor at that time, the overall atmosphere in Jiaoben was still upbeat.

Everyone feels that life is getting better day by day.

By the time Okamoto Hikawa reached his youth, the foot basin had already fully risen.

Those were really beautiful days.

But now?

Now the foot basin is sliding down from its peak.

The climb uphill was very slow back then.

But when going downhill, it’s like a wild ride!

Go straight to the bottom of the valley.

Perhaps in a few years, the foot basin will return to its past days of poverty.

This is also reflected in every foot basin person.

Tragedy happens every moment.

Akita Ichiro sighed, smiled bitterly and said, "Okamoto-kun, I should be the one to say sorry."

"I was supposed to make you happy, but I didn't expect it to make you so depressed."

Okamoto Hikawa waved his hand and said, "Akita-kun, now is the eve of our nirvana!"

"I want you to know this: as long as we can get through this period, we can definitely rise again!"

Ichiro Akita is obviously much more pessimistic.

"Okamoto-kun, I don't think that's realistic."

"You have to understand one thing: we are an export-oriented country!"

“Our domestic market is very small.”

"If we want to develop, we must vigorously develop exports!"

"If we don't have strong exports, our economy will collapse."

"But now, our advantageous industries, from automobiles to electromechanical products to chips, have all lost their advantages."

"You should know that we have been in deficit for a long time!"

"We can't sell our products, and we have to import raw materials and other consumer goods at high prices."

"So, if we can't regain our industrial advantage, then we shouldn't even think about reversing our current disadvantage."

Akita Ichiro talked incessantly.

He analyzed some of the current situations in the foot basin.

Obviously, he saw no hope.

Okamoto Hikawa sighed.

He knew that Ichiro Akita was right.

Judging from the current situation, China has suffered the greatest blow.

China's entire industrial chain is experiencing breakthroughs.

Her home appliances, her chips, her cars, her electromechanical products, her aerospace, she now has almost no disadvantages!

Six or seven years ago, when Huaxing Automobile in China just started production and sales, Jiaoben Automobile did not even take it seriously.

But now?

Now Huaxing has become the world's number one automobile giant.

The cars it produces have become best-sellers all over the world, with sales reaching more than 20 million cars per year!

It not only produces mid- and low-end cars, but more importantly, it also produces and sells high-end cars.

It is a car brand that is far superior to other brands in both the mid-range, low-end and high-end.

Who can you go to for justice?

The global sales volume of Toyota Motor, which is based in Beijing, once reached more than 10 million vehicles per year, firmly ranking first in the world.

But what about now? Fengtian’s annual sales volume is only over one million vehicles.

In the past three or four years, Fengtian’s car sales have dropped by more than 9 times, becoming just over one-ninth of the original amount.

The situation of other small-scale car brands is even more miserable.

For example, Bentian Automobile’s sales volume is only over 200,000 vehicles now.

The collapse of the Footbasin Automobile Company brought about the collapse of the industry!

Originally, Jiaoben made his fortune from cars and supported a huge industrial chain.

There are more than 10 million people working in the automotive industry! This is definitely the top industry!
But what happens after the automobile industry collapses?

Unemployment rate skyrocketed...

The high-income class is shrinking.

The downgrade of domestic consumption capacity has led to a major decline in the entire foot basin economy.

This is a complete disaster.

Even the automobile industry collapsed.

The other industries that the foot basin already had would naturally be made worse.

It's really miserable...

Okamoto Hikawa is now full of resentment.

However, the object of his resentment was Jusa!

why?
Because, if it had not been for Yusa's suppression, how could Jiaoben have lost several advantageous industries and been completely defeated?
Okamoto Hikawa thought, if we can't get rid of the shackles that Jusa has put around our necks, then we will never be able to counterattack again!
We have to get Jusa out of here!

If this cannot be done, the foot basin will most likely be ruined!
If we succeed in getting rid of Yusa, then maybe we can provide a package for the pandas, they eat the meat and we drink the soup.

In this way, our national strength can be restored to a considerable extent.

Once we have accumulated to a certain level, we can quietly continue to upgrade and restore our glory bit by bit.

Okamoto Hikawa had such a wishful thinking.

He had received clear instructions from the higher-ups: He must flatter and please the pandas, even if it meant being their dog.

You must paralyze the panda and make her feel completely at ease with the foot basin.

Okamoto Hikawa was still thinking about something when the car had already entered the city.

Okamoto Hikawa discovered that this city planning is really amazing, right?
There is green space everywhere.

There are parks everywhere.

All the buildings are beautiful.

Okamoto Hikawa didn't even see a single wire.

So neat.

“Their city is really beautiful.”

"It has even surpassed Dongjing."

Okamoto Hikawa murmured.

Ichiro Akita said with emotion: "I have been to many cities in China."

“Each one is beautiful.”

“They really don’t look like a developing country at all!”

“Not only are their cities beautiful, but prices are also very low.”

"While our people were starving, everyone had adequate food and nutrition."

"Okamoto-kun, to be honest, our prices are too high."

“Even my family can’t get enough to eat.”

"The prices in our country are at least three times higher than those in China!"

"While we are still forcing ourselves to join the ranks of developed countries, our people have suffered a huge blow."

Okamoto Hikawa was surprised: "Really? You said that the prices in our country are three times higher than theirs?"

Ichiro Akita said: "At least 3 times!"

"You can feel it for yourself later."

"I can say that every person who comes here is deeply shocked."

As they were talking, the car arrived at the Jiaoben Consulate.

It's very quiet here.

There was hardly anyone in the yard.

But overall it is relatively clean.

Okamoto Hikawa first talked with Suzuki Masami, the Japanese ambassador to China, about the basic situation.

Suzuki Masami told Okamoto Rikawa that now in China, Chinese foot basin goods are equivalent to low-end goods, and can only be sold by low prices.

“Even the price of Fengtian cars is very low, but even so, not many people buy them.”

"You don't know how advanced Chinese cars are! Their electric cars can already achieve intelligent driving..."

"Our cars are so outdated, they are like antiques from hundreds of years ago!"

“Who knows what our company is doing?”

"Why aren't they in a hurry? Don't they know how far behind they are?"

Suzuki Masahiro complained.

Okamoto Hikawa sighed and said, "Mr. Suzuki, do you think we have fallen behind in all aspects?"

"Don't we have any lead?"

Suzuki Masanobu frowned and thought hard. After a long while, he said, "There is one thing we did quite well."

Okamoto Hikawa was overjoyed: "Where?"

Suzuki Masami said: "We have fostered a group of cultural people who are still promoting our advancement and protecting our interests. There are also some people who, although they are already living very well, still regard our country as the most ideal country."

“We are doing pretty well on this.”

Okamoto Hikawa was a little disappointed after hearing this: "These people are useless. They are just marginalized people in China, right?"

"Mr. Suzuki, I'm here to discuss cooperation in aerospace."

"How do you think I should negotiate with Zhang Zhipeng when I meet him?"

Suzuki Masahiro blurted out: "Fawn on him like a dog and make him happy!"

"Let him relax his vigilance against us and make him think we are harmless."

"In fact, developing the aerospace industry is of no use to us."

"But if we can only get closer to them and approach them in this way, then we must do our best."

"We should have changed our thinking long ago."

"We have absolutely no reason to be proud!"

"Besides, only by getting close to them can we break free from Jusa's bondage!"

"The whole foot basin has been bitter for too long."

Okamoto Hikawa nodded and said, "Thank you for your advice. I know what to do."

"Alas! After so many years of twists and turns, we are back to the old situation!"

"Now, what frustrates me is that we haven't settled our accounts with them yet."

"I don't know how to resolve it."

Suzuki Masana was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If you want to gain final forgiveness, you have no choice but to take action and abuse yourself!"

"Take advantage of yourself until the other person recognizes you."

Okamoto Hikawa's eyes widened: "That's impossible, right?"

“No one can accept this.”

Suzuki Masami shrugged and said, "In order to make our future a little better, my advice is: accept it even if it is unacceptable."

"If we cannot endure the humiliation that ordinary people cannot endure, then we would have been destroyed long ago."

Okamoto Hikawa nodded and said solemnly, "I think so too."

……

That night, Suzuki Masahiro hosted a welcoming party for Okamoto Hikawa.

They found a relatively affordable restaurant in the capital.

When ordering, Okamoto Hikawa was shocked.

He didn't expect that the restaurant prices here were so affordable.

It's probably less than one-third of the price of a normal restaurant.

Now, Foot Basin is still nominally a developed country.

Their nominal salary is still about twice that of China.

But, to be honest, if calculated based on prices, the income of the people in Jiaoben is actually lagging behind that of China.

Moreover, the lag is not just a little bit.

In China, if you earn 3 yuan a month, you can eat out frequently. In an ordinary restaurant, a meal costs only to yuan per person.

But in Jiaoben, a normal restaurant costs at least 20 or yen per person or even more. The income of Jiaoben people has dropped sharply. A few years ago, the average monthly salary of an average person was about yen, and it is still yen now.

But the exchange rate of the foot basin yuan has dropped a lot, and the currency value is only one-third of the original value or even less. In other words, a few years ago, 20 foot basin yuan was about 1.2 RMB. Now it is only 4 or even less.

This is the main reason why people with feet basins live such a miserable life.

After finishing his meal, Okamoto Hikawa sighed and said, "We have really failed completely."

"I have a feeling that the value of our currency will continue to decline rapidly."

"Ordinary people will have a harder time living in the future..."

……

The next day, Okamoto Hikawa finally made an appointment to meet Zhang Zhipeng.

He was very excited because he was worried that he would not be able to meet Zhang Zhipeng. (End of this chapter)