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Chapter 1038 Relief for Refugees
"Line up one by one, there is still a lot of relief food, don't worry."

The snow-covered Edo City fell into an unprecedented food crisis, and people receiving relief food formed a long queue.

The so-called relief food is the rice shop opened by the Chinese merchants to cook gruel, and then add a little wild vegetable leaves to it, so that it can barely meet the needs of the refugees in Edo city.

The stalemate war and cold winter caused famine to spread in Japan. In order to maintain the stability of the front line, a large amount of food and grass were transported to the front line, and the food in the rear city was in short supply. The most populous Edo Castle suffered the most serious food crisis since the establishment of the Edo Shogunate.Except for the samurai in the middle and upper classes, the civilians and refugees at the bottom were starved of food.The rice shops in Edo City had almost no food for sale, and only the rice shops opened by Huaxia merchants still had a limited supply of food every day.

"Originally [-]% of the limited amount of grain sold every day was requisitioned by the Eastern Company as relief grain and boiled into porridge for disaster relief. Our profit has not decreased because of the rising grain price." The Huaxia businessman who has obtained the grain sales license is scooping Distributing gruel to the poor in Edo Castle.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord..." The Edo City refugee who was holding a wooden bowl kept saying thanks.

"The merchants in China are really good people. When we were short of food, they not only sold food to us, but also cooked porridge with wild vegetables and distributed it to the poor who couldn't afford food."

"It's not just the rice shop that distributes porridge with wild vegetables. The institutions of the Kyushu Army, such as the Tokyo School, the Tokyo Branch, and the Kyushu Newspaper Office, are all cooking porridge. Probably hundreds more bodies."

"The Huaxia Association also distributes relief food. They are also good people."

"It's all the fault of the shogunate. They let the war drag on until now, leaving us without food. All my savings were used to buy food because of the rise in food prices a while ago. Now I have no money, and I can't afford even a little food. They can only rely on relief food to survive."

The poor people in Edo City squatted in the corner with gruel, chattering.

Near the Tokyo Academy, Huang Zongxi was leading his students to cook porridge and distribute it to the poor. There were more than a dozen stalls of the Huaxia Society next to them.

"Poor refugees, everything is due to the inaction of the shogunate. They launched a war of [-] scales, which prevented a large number of farmers from farming and consumed a lot of precious food. The existence of the shogunate will reduce the well-being of our residents!" Tanaka While distributing food, Cheng Yi also promoted his ideas for the refugees in Edo Castle.

"The shogunate is incompetent. As early as a few months ago, the shogunate said that it had a chance to win. As a result, most of the winter has passed, and the war is far away. It is estimated that it will be delayed until the beginning of spring. How can we survive?" The refugees are also complaining about the shogunate dissatisfied.

"Don't worry, as long as our Huaxia Association has a little money, we will use this money to buy food from overseas and distribute it to you. Our Huaxia Association is on the side of the common people. But to my regret, a lot of money and food They are all gathered in the hands of warriors, and the members of our Huaxia Society are all civilians, so the funds are not much, and the food that can be distributed every day is also limited." Tanaka Chengyi sighed.

"Oh, isn't that right? The samurai masters are high above us. They don't care about our lives. If we dare to offend their guard of honor, we will even be beaten to death." The refugees who received the porridge condemned the behavior of the shogunate.

The unfavorableness of the shogunate war made people who were short of food gradually dissatisfied with the shogunate, and their resentment gradually accumulated.

"Originally, the Oda family should rule the world. Unfortunately, Oda Nobunaga was killed in the Honnoji Incident. Later, it should be the Toyotomi family. It was only the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi that allowed the Tokugawa family to take over the world. It can be seen that the world is not necessarily moral. The world of the Chuan family is not that God allows a certain family to own the world, but it is the world of the people in the world."

"The goal of our Huaxia Society is to lead the people of Dongying to establish a Datong society, to abolish the privileges of warriors, so that commoners can sit on an equal footing with daimyo and warriors! Under the great harmony of the world, everyone is equal. Everyone needs to work, and no one can get something for nothing. There is an inexhaustible amount of grain among the people, and even the granaries are moldy due to the accumulation of too much grain..."

Tanaka has always described his ideal Datong world to the refugees.

"Mr. Tanaka, does the world you are talking about really exist? Aren't we civilians born to be ruled by samurai?"

"Is it really possible for everyone to be equal?"

When the refugees heard Tanaka Chengichi's extremely advanced ideas, it seemed like a fantasy.They have been ruled by the samurai class for a long time, and they pay attention to their origin. They were not surprised when Tanaka Chengichi told them that he wanted to build a Datong society.

"There was a famous saying in China a long time ago, do princes and generals have kindness? Isn't Toyotomi Hideyoshi also a commoner? The existence of the samurai system was established by them to exploit our commoners. This system is no longer applicable. We We should take the initiative to ask the shogunate to abolish the samurai system, abolish all the privileges of the samurai, and learn from the Chinese system of examination and appointment of officials!" Tanaka Chengyi talked about his ideas eloquently.

While drinking porridge, the refugees who had nowhere to go in the cold winter stopped by Tanaka Chengyi to describe a more ideal country, and a group of them couldn't help but be attracted by Tanaka Chengichi's statement.

"Tanaka Chengyi really does what he says, and he really wants to build a Datong society." Huang Zongxi was giving gruel at the booth of the Tokyo Academy. Seeing Tanaka Chengyi preaching to the refugees, he couldn't help admiring this man.

After several years of fighting openly and secretly with the shogunate, Tanaka Chengyi gradually grew from a poor student in a Tokyo school to a leader who led the Huaxia Society to build a Datong society in Japan, which made Huang Zongxi feel a little incredible.

"Everyone has their own circumstances, and the times make heroes, and maybe he can overthrow the shogunate." Another Chinese lecturer at the Tokyo Academy also witnessed Tanaka's growth.

Tanaka Chengichi is now the president of the Huaxia Society with more than [-] believers, and he has a huge power of public opinion in Edo Castle. Even the shogunate dare not arrest him at will.

"There is news from the people of Edo City that our army plans to intervene in the civil war in their Dongying country. I don't know if it is true. If it is true, our Tokyo Academy may also carry out school system reform. The domestic academy of sciences has already It was split into the Capital University Hall, Nanjing University Hall, Liaonan University Hall and more than a dozen other functional colleges, and it is estimated that our Tokyo Academy will be reorganized into the Tokyo University Hall soon." The lecturer of the Tokyo Academy said to the dean Huang Zongxi.

"Tokyo University Hall..." Huang Zongxi thought that there would be a long way to go to popularize Chinese language education in the four islands of Dongying in the future.

(End of this chapter)