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Chapter 1076 Manipulating People's Hearts
"Next, you will go up to win the hearts of the people on behalf of our new government." Shen Youlong looked at Dayu'er. Among the delegation, she was the only one who was proficient in the local dialect, and her words could be trusted by the people of Edo City.She herself is a somewhat famous figure in Edo Castle.

"After the establishment of the new government, farmers who originally had to pay [-]% of their grain to the daimyo only need to pay [-]%, and some places with barren land only need to pay [-]% to [-]% of the tax. The government will make decisions according to the situation in the disaster year. Appropriate tax relief. All the land will be owned by the government and contracted to each household according to the number of households. This kind of farming is not compulsory. If the contracted land is abandoned, the government will take it back and subcontract it to other farmers "Da Yuer did not rise to the level of reason and qi like Lin Luoshan did, but only said some very practical things.

After Da Yu'er confirmed the land tax reduction, the common people below suddenly boiled.They don't understand Datong society and Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, but they know how much tax they have to pay.The original [-]% tax has become [-]% tax, or even [-]% or [-]% tax, which is good news for farming civilization.

"The new government will issue silver and copper coins, and the workmanship is more refined than the gold, silver, and copper coins issued by the shogunate. We pursue the principle of re-merchant, and merchants can freely come and go to sell non-prohibited items, and open up routes to the West. The West gets cheaper raw materials."

"For residents of cities such as Edo, Osaka, and Nagasaki, we will stabilize rice prices and commodity prices, bring more high-quality and cheap commodities from the mainland, and enrich the supply of vegetables and meat here."

Da Yuer successively announced new policies that are beneficial to businessmen and townspeople, making these two emerging groups shift from a wait-and-see attitude to a support attitude.What she was talking about were closely related changes in the lives of these two groups, and the already noisy crowd was even more privately arguing.

"Farmers, businessmen, and townspeople have all benefited from it, and our samurai group has declined." Although the Western Kingdom daimyos are on the side of the Kyushu Army, they themselves are representatives of the samurai group. Seeing the disintegration of their group, how much feel upset.

It feels like you're denying yourself.

"Some people gain, and some people lose. Our group of daimyos can still hold high positions in the new government, and the sacrifices are only the middle and lower class warriors. They are reduced to civilians. Without salary, they can only be farmers or walk around the streets. Be a peddler."

"The once noble warriors have been reduced to civilians. If they had no salary, they would definitely rise up against the new government. I think the war is far from over. It will take at least ten years to convince the warriors who have lost power during this change."

"Are we going to suppress the warriors who originally supported us for the sake of our status in the new government?"

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, Tadyoshi Yamauchi, Muneshige Tachibana and other Western lords listened to Da Yuer's announcement of the new policy below, and one of the things they thought about was how to appease the thousands of warriors in Dongying Kingdom.The samurai in the middle and lower classes once supported these daimyos, but the Shimadzu family, Yamauchi family, Mori family and other daimyos abandoned them because they still had power in the new government, and they would definitely retaliate.

The civil wars in Dongying Kingdom were fought back and forth, the civilians were the ones who couldn't eat enough, and the lower-level warriors were the ones who fought and killed but still had nothing. However, none of the daimyos above suffered serious losses due to the change of power.As long as the daimyo are not in the wrong camp, they can still occupy high positions.With the stability of the world, the upper class samurai transformed into bureaucrats, while the middle and lower class samurai lost their privilege to serve as soldiers because of the upcoming conscription system, and they were destined to be abandoned.

"The public voting will begin now. Every citizen present can come here to receive a ballot. There are only two options on it. There are only two options on it. Those who support the establishment of a new government to replace the shogunate please draw a circle on the left, and those who still support the rule of the shogunate are on the right Draw a circle, otherwise it will be considered invalid." Da Yuer said, holding a ballot in his hand.

Da Yuer's language is so simple that even an illiterate person can understand it, and the tax can be reduced by drawing a circle on the left.

Edo Castle had more than 10 residents, and some samurai and samurai family members were prohibited from voting, which means that almost all the people who voted were townspeople, farmers, and businessmen.

This event, which caused a sensation throughout Japan, spread quickly, and the cavalry rushed to spread to the northeast, central China, Hokkaido and other places.These places are still controlled by daimyos, bannermen, samurai, and foreign daimyos who are friendly to the shogunate. They heard that Edo Castle will hold a referendum to determine the ownership of Japan, and many daimyos are holding a wait-and-see attitude.

As soon as the shogunate general Tokugawa Iemitsu had surrendered at Tennoji, he was escorted to the capital, and they had to stand in line again.Secondly, if the result of the referendum in Edo Castle is not in their interests, it will not be too late for them to rebel.

"I originally wanted to draw a circle on the right, but the tax reduction and exemption is too tempting. The land where I live is barren and the water conservancy is inconvenient. It is estimated that after the establishment of the new government, only [-]% of the harvest will be paid. Compared with the previous [-]% of the harvest has been reduced by a full [-]%. The surplus grain is either kept for a rainy day, or sold for some copper coins, and life can be improved."

Many farmers wearing coarse cloth lined up in groups to collect tickets. The group that benefited the most from the new government's policies was the farmers.In order to allow farmers to come and vote, members of the Huaxia Society went to villages near Edo Castle to gather farmers to vote.

Because Tanaka Chengichi promised Chu Yun two years ago when he asked Chu Yun for help in Japan that if Chu Yun agreed with his plan for the province of Japan, then he would personally manipulate the voting results so that the plan for the province of Japan could be implemented smoothly.

The time has come for Tanaka Chengichi to fulfill his promise.

"As long as you draw a circle on the left side of this piece of paper, and then hand it over to the teller, then this year's harvest will be no more than [-]%!"

In some areas of Edo Castle, members of the Huaxia Society gathered a group of peasants and taught them how to vote.At this time, the farmers in Dongying were almost illiterate, and their knowledge of the world was limited to the villages around Edo Castle, so they were easily instigated by members of the Huaxia Society.They only know that by drawing a circle on the left side of the ballot paper this year and the harvest that will be handed in in the future can be much reduced.

"President, our peripheral members have also mixed into the voting crowd. There are many believers in Huaxia Society. It is estimated that the votes of our Huaxia Society members alone can contribute more than [-] votes." People from Huaxia Society reported to Tanaka Chengyi .

The Huaxia Society not only manipulated other people's votes to control the results, but also went to the battle itself and asked members to come and vote.

(End of this chapter)