Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 61

Noble title and annuity are not linked!

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To give a more famous example, the lord of the Yonezawa domain, Uesugi Takayama, at that time, his knowledge was 150,000 stone, and as the domain lord, what was his annual expenditure budget?

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One thousand five hundred taels!

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Of course, this money is entirely under his personal control. Many places that seem to be his spending money are actually supported by the finances of Fan. For example, when he went to Edo, he explained that the expenses for accommodation and meals along the way were raised by the domain, and had nothing to do with his money.

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So don’t look at the name of a dignified emperor of Yuhou Kingdom, with only 1,500 taels of funds a year, in actual life, you will not feel any lack.

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There is another important point, labor!

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As we all know, in all dynasties, all feudal dynasties boasted that their land taxes were not high. What about twenty tax one, thirty tax one. But the two sons of the land tax are easy to deal with, but the government needs to ask for it for free, and the continuous labor demands of the day and night can take people’s lives.

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Legend has it that when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, in order to build a dragon boat and a royal boat, he summoned boatmen to serve. How long did it take? It grows to the point where the boatmen fester their skin and flesh with maggots because they have been underwater for too long.

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The other dynasties are not laughing at the second, and the financial system is so bad that it needs Zhejiang and even Fujian to deliver food to Xuanfu and Datong every year. The cost in the middle is more than ten times or twenty times, and the labors collected are countless, and there are so many people who died on the road.

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As a feudal lord, you can call your samurai warriors to and fro. After all, the two sides have a strong feudal personal attachment relationship. It can even be said that the feudal lord is the labor force of “free” and “white prostitution”.

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The samurai’s salary, that is, the expenditure of the feudal finances, must not be counted on the head of the feudal lord. It’s just that the feudal lord is rich in the whole vassal, and it is just that the feudal lord is making these salaries.

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So to sum up, taking into account the price of manpower and the basic needs of maintaining a decent life in Edo in the future, Chuemon has set an annuity replacement ratio of 10,000 shi for 300 taels.

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However, among all the princes’ knowledge and deeds of less than 50,000 shi, 10,000 shi is replaced by 600 taels. I am really worried about those princes who only have 10,000 or 20,000 stones, because they are used to spending money, and a little money is not enough. In the end, they are obviously Chinese, but they are shameful.

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It’s not a problem for him to be embarrassed, it’s a big deal if he loses the Chinese family!

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Biechuemon abolished the clan and set up the county vigorously, and did a beautiful thing. Turning around, it was rumored that the princes were poor and poor, and they made a living by pawning or selling their ancestral products.

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It seems that Zhongyouemon has made them all ruined, and they are very ruthless and unkind. This is not good for building the image of Chuemon as the little father of the Japanese people, and it is a hindrance.

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In addition to the unsettled pension, which is given in accordance with knowledge and conduct, one can also receive a large annual salary by serving as a member of the House of Lords. This is a “job salary”, which is a consistent policy of the shogunate.

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In the end, some princes can hold other positions besides serving as members of the House of Lords, so they can get another salary. In short, the shogunate will try to preserve the dignity of the princes, in exchange for them to accept the withdrawal of the domain as soon as possible, and hand over the city and household registration.

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The annuity issue has been resolved, and the rest is the issue of samurai placement.

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Regarding this point, it is also necessary to set a major tone first, that is, your princes simply throw the burden on the shogunate. As long as the samurai were registered before October 1863, all of them were retained, and none of them would be dismissed. What was the original salary, and how much it will be after.

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With such a big tone set, there will be no turmoil in the Four Conveniences. After all, if 600,000 people with knives jumped up, even if there was a new army training team in Chuemon, it would be difficult to quickly suppress them.

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In the ears of the princes, it was almost as if the shogunate had directly incorporated the retainers under its command. In the future, Zhongyouemon is really the backbone of the Wu family, and all the Wu families have become direct ministers of Zhongyouemon.

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600,000 direct ministers, unprecedented!

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After the keynote is finished, it’s the details. After the vassals were withdrawn, how they were governed in the past is still how they were governed. The former officials of the various vassals still served as officials, and local governance could not be paralyzed. If there is no samurai who has ascended to the city to serve the public, he will stand by in place, and the shogunate will send you the salary as usual, and support you first.

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Acting like this, the warriors who were originally in power at the upper levels of the feudal lords would not be in chaos. After all, it was exactly the same before as it is now. I am still in charge of the feudal government. The boss is still Tokugawa Zhongzheng, there is no big difference between horizontal and vertical.

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About this one, about 50,000 warriors can be housed. In the future, even if they turn around and become ordinary bureaucrats and ordinary civil servants, they will naturally take over.

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The rest is almost as expected by Shimadzu’s definition. At least 150,000 people were placed on railways across the country. Those with high incomes worked as conductors, while those with low incomes worked as coal shovelers and switchmen. The shogunate is only responsible for arranging you for one job, and it has never said that you will be able to get a newspaper and a cup of tea every day, all day long.

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Elementary schools and police stations all over the country also need to be built and expanded, and the original feudal schools and village schools of the various vassals can be used as school buildings.

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Thanks to the firm plan of Songping Qixuan, he established an education fund for the country and also made special funds every year. It is easy to hire 40,000 to 50,000 primary school teachers across the country.

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The police station can also place 50,000 people, even 70,000 or 80,000 people. Although they are all old people, in form, the shogunate’s forces have penetrated into the countryside to prepare for the future “land rent correction”. Moreover, it is impossible for Chuemon to be placed in the same place. At least you have to place it across the county. Even if you can still form a local network in the future, it will take at least a few more years.

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A few years later, the National Postal Service was set up. The shogunate then recruited tens of thousands of people to work as postmen, to supervise each other with you, and give the shogunate an extra eye.

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All in all, UU reading www.uukanshu. The com shogunate will definitely find a way to place the samurai, even if you don’t place you today, your salary will definitely not be missing from you.

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Moreover, it will take a few years to slowly resettle these hundreds of thousands. The rest are old and young, and they are not in a hurry to resettlement themselves. Some samurai is five years old, what do you want him to do? Some warriors are in their fifties, half of their old teeth have fallen out, and they have an eight-year-old daughter under their knees, waiting for their adoptive son, what kind of errands can they do?

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Before and after the shogunate, all the joints have been understood, so what nonsense are the princes talking about?

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Wing praise!

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It’s all over. If you don’t like it, then you’re blind and waiting to die, brother.

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So the “decree of withdrawing the feudal lords” was officially issued across the country, and all the princes agreed. The British “Times” immediately reported that the feudal system of the Kingdom of Japan for thousands of years was abolished at one time!

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