Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 62

Taking advantage of the huge open space of Honmaru and Ninomaru, the main city of Edo, the Imperial Palace built, under the sunshine of spring, exudes her beauty everywhere.

As an Edo Imperial Palace built after the Palace of Versailles in France (the actual situation can refer to the Akasaka Palace, a French palace of about 15,000 square meters), it took more than three years and cost almost one million, which greatly exceeded the budget given by Chuemon. But after all, it will be the residence of the king of Japan in the future, so the Makuaku has repeatedly added budgets, which has allowed him to complete the project smoothly.

Today, the Edo Imperial Palace will serve as the venue for the enthronement ceremony of His Majesty Tokugawa Chusho.

The shogunate and the lords of the world, who have been gorgeously turned into Chinese, are now standing at the foot of the steps, and the ministers of various countries are wearing their attire, and they come together to participate in the ceremony.

There were also several unexpected characters at the venue, such as Kujo Shangzhong, who respectfully appeared in the team as a marquis.

As the chief accountant of the sacrificial office, Kujo Shangzhong and Kujo Kouji suddenly felt some kind of incredible power. In July, the shogunate handed over 100,000 taels to the official sacrificial office, and in December it handed over another 100,000 tael to the official sacrificial office.

However, in fact, the original imperial court did not have any increased expenses, and all the old properties were retained. The cash given by the shogunate also allowed the sacrificial officials to save the trouble of selling rice, and they could spend money directly.

The father and son realized that Guan Bai, the former imperial court’s member, had to compete for positions among several families. Now, the accountant who actually holds the power of the worship bureau is already a hereditary position in their Kujo family.

Furthermore, 200,000 taels of gold are in their hands, and they are allocated and controlled by them. That incredible, yet wonderful feeling haunts them.

The Kujo father and son, who were still quite critical of the shogunate, sometimes felt that their left ministers had nothing to do, and it was not bad to do accounting.

Unexpectedly, in January this year, after the shogunate withdrew from the feudal lords, the “Chinese Order” was promulgated. In addition to the feudal lords and Dashenqi, who were transformed into Chinese, Kujo Nakatada in Kyoto was also awarded the title of Marquis, enjoying an annuity of 3,000 taels of gold, and was invited to participate in the enthronement ceremony of His Majesty Tokugawa Chusho.

Good guy, he enjoys 3,000 taels of the family’s knowledge and deeds, and 5,000 taels of accountant head salary. Now add the 3,000 taels of the Marquis’s pension, and the annual income of 11,000 taels is really a high-ranking person. Master.

Jiujiu Shangzhong also specially reported to the worship official Tongren, after all, this is one of his bosses. Tongren was still in a state of panic because he saw the scene where Mijo Sanjo, Komori Nishiyuanji, and Kusada Iwakura were pulled out of the hall and beheaded, and he didn’t dare to express any objection.

As for other ministers, or subordinate officials, in order not to be harassed when they took money, they unknowingly began to show their affection for Kujo Shangzhong.

At the beginning, the kind of flattery may just be that everyone greets you frequently and nods to you more. Gradually it became that you took the lead in everything, and everyone asked your opinion. This situation evolves very quickly and often does not take very long.

That’s the beauty of power, three months can change a lot of things.

So Kujo Shangzhong Shi Shiran appeared in the venue as a marquis. The left and right Chinese don’t think there is anything too wrong. After all, the Jiutiao family is out of the customs. The general people’s thinking has not changed, and they feel that the Guanbai family is juxtaposed with themselves.

Even more than a dozen dukes were secretly delighted. In the future, I will be one level higher than the Guan Bai family, tsk tsk tsk…

But if Kujo Shangzhong is still acceptable, there are three barons who appear at the scene, which is very surprising. It even made some Chinese feel dissatisfied.

These three barons are called Nara Shigeru, Honchi Zen and Sumitomo Yoshi!

After the first batch of Chinese conferred seals, the shogunate also had a second batch of small-scale special grants to Chinese. Including Kujo Shangzhong is also the second batch of special grants, and is not given the title by the original prophet.

The list of the second batch includes these three shogunate shareholders who closely followed in the footsteps of the shogunate. In order to ensure the peace of the matter, Zhongyouemon also gave the three people a salary of 5,000 stone in advance, and they were all granted the title of baron on the second day after they became the banner of the great body.

From that day on, they will also become hereditary members of the House of Lords of the Kingdom of Japan, on an equal footing with the lords and lords who were originally high above.

By the way, as soon as these three big chaebols jumped up, naturally a big businessman who was a former shareholder of the shogunate fell into the world, and everyone is familiar with it.

The Mitsui family!

Because in the investigation of Matsudaira Keiyong and Jingzun Zunren, they found evidence that the Mitsui family provided large sums of money to Zunzong, and in fact colluded. So the shogunate ruled that the Mitsui family ransacked the house, confiscated all the property, and sent all the men and women to Kata.

Mitsui fell, and the three families of Nara, Honchi and Sumitomo were full. The shogunate only took the floating money, and then used it to hold the enthronement ceremony of Chuemon, and used it to reward the shogunate troops. He even gave Fushimi 50,000 taels of gold for his victory. Of course, the money didn’t touch the hands of Maori’s relatives at all, and it was all given to the three thousand Changzhou children by Yoshida Shoin.

The three thousand Changzhou soldiers returned to Changzhou to support the withdrawal of the feudal lords with 50,000 taels of joy. Yoshida Songyin also assured them that they would strive for the establishment of the fourth Changzhou division. In the future, everyone would be able to serve as soldiers and serve the country. If you don’t want to carry a gun, you can become an official. After the vassal is withdrawn, the officials of Changzhou County are chosen at will.

The future official of Edo, when I become the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, I will come back to say hello to everyone.

The rest of Mitsui’s property was sold to three big friends of the shogunate. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com They have undertaken all of Mitsui’s brewing, planting, gold and silver exchange, annual tribute underwriting, shipbuilding and other businesses, and they have gained another wave.

In short, the basic foundations of the three major chaebols have been established. The shogunate’s “feeding” for more than ten years has made them more and more strong, and they have their own hematopoietic ability. Industrial growth and investment.

The three of them became barons, and there was controversy, but Zhongemon ordered to be sealed, and no one dared to jump out and say no.

The acquiescence of other Chinese people has opened a very good door for the development of the country in the future. As long as you have the ability to get rich in business, you can also be promoted from a businessman of the lowest level to a Chinese. The development of society has only just begun, and the upward channel has been greatly opened, and there is a chance if you fight.

Not to mention that you must develop into a chaebol, right? As long as you become bigger and stronger in a certain industry, you can also emerge and be promoted to the Chinese.

Chuemon’s enthronement ceremony was grandly held with the future bright and bright.

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