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Chapter 837 The Shogunate’s Huawu Movement (Fifth Watch)

When Chu Yun was busy with major projects such as building large ships and laying submarine cables, the shogunate was not idle. The shogunate's campaign to save the nation and strengthen itself had been going on vigorously for a year. The lower-level literati are called the "Huawu Movement".

The Edo University Hall was opened, and a large number of samurai and bannermen were forced by the shogunate to learn Chinese and new technologies. One year later, the Edo University Hall was overcrowded, with thousands of students.

At the same time, the reformers represented by Sakai Tadakatsu, Matsudaira Nobuzuna, Abe Tadaaki, and Aoyama Yuki began land reform on two-thirds of the land in Dongying.Among them, Tadakatsu Sakai, Yukunari Aoyama and others were deeply insulted after their mission to China last year, and they vowed to resolutely implement reforms, and they became the hardliners who most supported the reforms of the shogunate!
The land reform of the shogunate was personally checked by Tadakatsu Sakai, which involved two contents. One was to abolish more than 100 scattered vassals and countless samurai territories, establish a provincial system, and divide the territories controlled by the shogunate into 8 31 counties in the province!The feudal lords and samurai still own the land, but the farmers have the right to cultivate the land forever, and need to pay a certain harvest to the landowner, and the landowner needs to pay the land tax to the shogunate, and land sales are allowed!In this way, the relationship between the peasant and the samurai has changed from a personal dependence relationship to a purely economic relationship!Moreover, after the land was bought and sold, emerging big businessmen could buy land from bankrupt warriors and become new landowners, completely destroying the economic foundation of local feudal forces.

After the shogunate announced the land reform plan, several vassal lords in the northeast were deeply dissatisfied with this and raised troops to rebel against the shogunate, so the shogunate had to send troops to suppress it.

In addition to the land reform, Sakai Tadakatsu and the others were very obsessed with the industrial capabilities of the Kyushu Army, so they began to encourage samurai and businessmen to jointly open factories. Textile mills, paper mills, and smelters were all under construction!The samurai class has power, while the merchant class has money, and the two hit it off.Sakai Tadakatsu has been thinking about steam locomotives that represent steam civilization day and night, and even plans to build trains and railroad tracks.

A lot of factory construction requires a lot of money.In addition to enlisting Japanese businessmen to obtain financial support, Abe Tadaaki gradually understood the essence of Kyushu Bank’s operations by observing the operation of the Tokyo branch, so he encouraged Tokugawa Iemitsu to open the Edo Bank to fight against the Tokyo fashion.Abe Zhongqiu personally served as the president of Edo Bank, and began a fierce competition with the Tokyo branch run by Dayuer.

Together with Tadakatsu Sakai, Aoyama Xingcheng returned to his own territory, and soon sold his land to the local big businessmen, and came to settle in Edo Castle with his whole family, and personally presided over the publication of the Edo Newspaper. building.Soon the Edo News Agency was established, and the "Edo Daily" was published in Edo Castle half a year ago, competing with the "Kyushu Daily" for control of the public opinion in Edo Castle.Not only in Edo Castle, but also the Edo Newspaper quickly established branches in Nagoya, Kai and other places, which has the potential to sweep the entire Dongying.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who mainly controls the military power, trained the new army on a large scale, adopted the conscription system, and tried to imitate new muskets and artillery in the military industry!On the one hand, Matsudaira Nobuzuna suppressed several daimyos who rebelled against the shogunate because of land reform in the northeast this year, and on the other hand, he besieged Osaka Castle, which was controlled by the fallen coalition forces.Although fighting on two fronts, the situation is extremely favorable to the shogunate.Many people in the inland areas of the Kanto are full of faith in the shogunate, and coupled with the determination shown by the shogunate, the shogunate was able to obtain a source of troops.

Tadakatsu Sakai mainly carried out political and industrial changes, while Tadaaki Abe was responsible for economic changes, Yukunari Aoyama was responsible for cultural changes, and Nobutsuna Matsudaira carried out military changes. These people were full of fear of the Kyushu Army.After being forcibly opened by the Kyushu Army, and after visiting the base camp of the Kyushu Army, they became more and more frightened. As a last resort, they adopted the most radical method of reform, involving all aspects of the shogunate.

The changes under the support of Tokugawa Iemitsu were not satisfactory to everyone. Some feudal lords in the northeast rebelled, and the battle with the shogunate resulted in the death of more than 2000 soldiers of the shogunate.Some samurai who were unwilling to lose their privileges began to assassinate the reformists. Almost every day, corpses were found on the streets of Edo Castle the next day, so that the leader of the reformists, Tadakatsu Sakai, had to have dozens of He is protected by a heavily armed samurai, and it is said that he even hides a breastplate on his chest before going to bed to prevent a killer from stabbing him in the chest.

The increasingly prosperous urban appearance in Edo Castle is intertwined with the tense atmosphere of turmoil, which seems extremely strange.

The current situation in the whole of Japan is probably unimaginably complicated. The five forces of the shogunate, reformists, conservatives, northeast rebels, and southwest allied forces are competing.

Moreover, there is the resurgence of the Huaxia Society. The leader of the Huaxia Society, Tanaka Chengyi, who was once frightened by the shogunate killers and hid in the Yokohama Concession to seek shelter from the Beiyang Fleet, has returned again. Tanaka Chengyi, who has experienced several years of struggle, has become more calm and terrifying. Secretly sneaked back to Edo Castle, and re-selected a group of backbones of the Huaxia Society.

In addition to these six forces, there is also a transcendent existence - the Kyushu Army who has been silently watching the shogunate make changes.

What is unbelievable to the shogunate is that the Kyushu Army doesn't seem to want to interfere with their reforms. They still stand by as usual, making money with peace of mind, and transporting boatloads of gold and silver back to the mainland.Even in some factories opened by Japanese merchants, the Far East Trading Company has joined forces with a group of Chinese merchants to invest in them, especially mining, timber processing factories, farms and other resource-related factories.

The Kyushu newspaper also published the "Kyushu Daily" as usual, turning a blind eye to the competition from the "Edo Daily".

Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, turned a blind eye to Nobuzuna Matsudaira's training of the new army, as if he felt that the other party would not pose a threat to him
The Tokyo Academy has recruited a group of new students as usual, and it also doesn't care about the competition from the Edo University Academy.Edo University recruited mainly the privileged classes such as samurai.The Tokyo Academy is not just samurai, but more citizens and peasants, the children of civilians who make up the majority in Japan but have no right to speak.

"Miss, I heard that Edo Bank, which is in charge of Abe Tadaaki, has raised the deposit rate again." An employee of the Tokyo branch said to Da Yu'er, who was appointed as the vice president of the Tokyo branch.

"Really?" Da Yu'er, who was settling accounts, raised her head. She was more beautiful than when she returned to the capital a year ago.

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