Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 65

Taking advantage of this wave of prestige, Chuemon immediately discussed with Shimadzu Definition about the disposal of the debts of the feudal lords and the issuance of banknotes.

Separated, rejoined, and said this.

The issue of the debts of the vassals is a commonplace, and you are very clear about it. With the exception of a few feudal feudal lands that were successfully reformed, most feudal feudal lands in the Edo period had serious problems with feudal debts.

In the past, the most serious one was the Kagoshima domain. The debt of the domain was as high as five million, which was already at a level that was definitely not enough. Now the most serious is the Hiroshima domain. After the debts of the domain have been sorted out, the principal amount is as high as 3,742,290 (historical facts).

This is also one of the main reasons why Asano Jusanna was pushed by Chuemon a little, and he immediately lay down and took the initiative to file for the withdrawal of the clan. With the strength of the Hiroshima clan alone, it is impossible to pay off the debt of more than three million.

Taking advantage of being forced to the door by the shogunate, he simply closed his eyes and put it to rot. Not only was he able to unload the burden of feeding more than 20,000 vassals, but he could also repay all the vassal debts to the shogunate. He won the title of Grand Duke himself, and also enjoyed the honorary name because of his echo of the withdrawal of the vassal. With an annuity of more than 10,000 taels a year, my life suddenly became more relaxed.

As for power or something, don’t think about it, it will never have anything to do with him Asano Toshinaga.

Of course, there are also some feudal fiefs with relatively abundant finances. For example, the Saga Domain with Nagasaki Coal Mine, the Kagoshima Domain with Hishikari Gold Mountains, the Tokushima Domain with indigo specialties, and the Tosa Kochi Domain with vigorous development of the whaling and shipping industries, etc.

But in general, they basically can only achieve a break-even, or a slight surplus. There are almost no vassal states that accumulate wealthy people in Japan. If they really did accumulate wealthy wealth, he would have already started to enrich the vassal states and strengthen the army, thinking about overthrowing the shogunate himself.

For example, Changzhou Fan, Murata Qingfeng finished reforming, and he had two dollars in his hand, so he wondered if he would take advantage of the decline of the shogunate to get his vote to avenge the war against the former customs.

This kind of domain with industry, the shogunate’s disposal is relatively mild. Before the formal implementation of the vassal withdrawal order, these large-scale profitable industries, such as minerals, were basically allowed to be packaged and sold to the shogunate’s shareholders.

Operational industries, such as planting, whaling, and shipping, are allowed to be directly subordinated to the name of the old feudal lord, and continue to be managed by the feudal lord and his affiliates without deprivation.

Even Chuemon is encouraging Chinese people to combine with capital. We do things at a stage by stage. At this time, the collusion between government and business is conducive to business development, so allow him to collude with government and business. The future does not meet the requirements of the development of the times, and we will talk about it in the future. You are about to achieve scientific socialism in the 1860s, isn’t that a fool’s dream?

Why don’t you study Bozi? He was completely average, and everyone died together on average.

All in all, the reception of the vassals was okay, and there were no major setbacks. In the end, the total amount of debts owed by more than 200 feudal vassals in the country is about 15 million.

This pot, Chuemon’s side definitely needs to carry it on his back, but he doesn’t dare to turn his face and deny it, and just get rid of it all. Now is the time to win the hearts and minds of the “people” class, and many of these “people” are creditors who hold feudal debts. …

how?

You killed Chuemon, let’s see how many pounds of meat you can make, and sell it on the street to return it? Of course not!

It should still be done on the issuance of banknotes. This should be done a year and a half ago, but the change in the current situation made the Shogunate at that time have no energy to promote this matter.

Originally, it was said that the three big bosses’ business houses were issued directly. The feathers issued by them were guaranteed by the reputation of hundreds of years. The common people all over Japan are willing to accept that businessmen are sometimes better than the feudal regime of the Tokugawa shogunate in terms of reputation.

But that was the old calendar, and now the British printing press and ink have been sent to Yokohama, after printing. Not to mention, the things of the British who have printed banknotes for more than 100 years are not bad.

So in the end, the shogunate decided to use all the machines imported from Britain, as well as ink and paper, for printing. At the same time, we also sent people to study these three element