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Chapter 864 Against the Samurai Privilege Movement

Chapter 864 Against the Samurai Privilege Movement (Three Shifts)
The shogunate and the Beiyang Fleet held three-day negotiations. The shogunate complained about financial difficulties, and finally decided to pay 5 taels of silver as compensation. At the insistence of the Beiyang Fleet, Sakai Tadakatsu, a reformist, formally dismissed the general of the Shogunate. No longer holds any position in the shogunate.

Sakai Tadakatsu was an important minister with a salary of 12 shi before the shogunate implemented the provincial system. He was not yet 50 years old and could continue to serve the shogunate for at least 20 years. In 20 years, he might be able to lead the shogunate to prosperity.

However, the leading figures in the reform of the shogunate were overthrown by the Kyushu Army with the help of Dayuer.After Sakai Tadakatsu explained some things to Abe Tadaaki, he stayed at home and did not step out of the house for the time being.

After Sakai Tadakatsu resigned, the Huaxia Association led by Tanaka Chengyi was deeply encouraged. They saw the weakening of the power of the shogunate reformers, and they began to carry out activities from the dark to the bright.

Tanaka Chengichi used the Kyushu Daily as the medium to publish an article strongly criticizing the samurai, demanding that all samurai must restrain their behavior, abolish the privileges of the samurai, and enhance the voice of the common people!
These articles were widely publicized in Edo Castle by the members of the Huaxia Association, which aroused the response of many citizens. If they had the opportunity, they would certainly want to cancel the privileges of the samurai!Moreover, in the past few years, the Kyushu Army has frequently slapped the shogunate in the face, making the samurai class almost lose face, and scandals such as Sakai Tadaki broke out, which made the samurai class fall from the temple. The citizens of Edo City have begun to learn Rebel against the shogunate!
In the past, when the Kyushu Army was away, the shogunate was still able to send samurai to suppress the civilians under its rule, but after some industries of the Kyushu Army took root in Edo Castle, the shogunate did not dare to use force easily.

"Samurai are moths. They are high above the ground, collecting land rent and commercial taxes, and enslaving our civilians. They have the supreme privilege and kill our civilians at will! All privileges of the samurai must be abolished, and benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith must be respected!" Tanaka Chengyi stood On the temporary wooden platform where two wooden boxes were stacked together, he promoted his ideas to the residents of Edo Castle gathered below.

"Let's take a look, these are the bad things the shogunate samurai have done in recent years!" Members of the Huaxia Society distributed leaflets below.

More and more residents of Edo Castle gathered. At first, there were dozens of people, and later it became hundreds of people, blocking the streets.

Some residents of Edo Castle were instigated by Tanaka Chengichi and others, and also expressed their dissatisfaction with the samurai of the shogunate.

"Boss, the bastard of the shogunate is here!" the Huaxia Society's person who was out on the street hurriedly reported back.

"Let's withdraw to the Tokyo Academy!" Tanaka Cheng saw that the situation was not good, and left with the members of the Huaxia Society.

When the shogunate samurai arrived at the scene, the members of the Huaxia Society had disappeared, leaving only leaflets all over the floor.

"Damn it, these members of the Huaxia Society actually want to incite the people in Edo City to revolt. They are really afraid that the world will not be chaotic!"

"That guy Tanaka Chengyi is getting more and more powerful, and more and more civilians have joined the Huaxia Society. This is not the way to go, this person must be eradicated!"

The samurai who rushed to the scene discussed in private, since the fall of Tadakatsu Sakai, they were all overwhelmed by the increasingly active Tanaka Seiichi.

The movement against the privileges of samurai started in Edo Castle, and it intensified. The number of peripheral members of the Huaxia Society climbed from a low of 1 to 5. These people not only covered the Edo Castle area, but also operated in other areas of Musashi Kingdom. There were also skirmishes with shoguns, in which a few people were injured.

Under the order of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogunate samurai began to restrain their travels, not daring to make extravagance, for fear of causing mutiny among the residents of Edo Castle.

"Tanaka Chengichi is really a talent. He actually organized the Huaxia Society. I heard that even the shogunate can't do anything to him."

In the Tokyo branch, which has resumed normal operations, employees talked about recent events in Edo Castle.

Following the Dayuer incident, Tanaka Chengyi took the opportunity to gather people's hearts, and the movement against samurai privileges became more and more popular, and it became another sensational event in Edo Castle.Edo Castle managed to stabilize for a year, but it turned into the eye of the storm again.

"Huaxia will do what Huaxia will do, and they will not hinder our work." Da Yuer didn't care much.

After Zheng Zhilong supported the Huaxia Society, apart from providing some support secretly, they were basically in a state of stocking. They didn't have much hope for them. They just wanted to add some bad things to the shogunate.Perhaps Zheng Zhilong and others did not expect that Tanaka Chengyi would be able to grow stronger as he fought, and develop the Huaxia Society into an organization with [-] peripheral members and hundreds of core members.But this did not affect Da Yuer's mood.

Even when Tadakatsu Sakai vigorously launched the shogunate reform plan a year ago, Da Yuer didn't have any special reaction.As a result, a year later, as a large number of factories were acquired by Chinese businessmen and Tadakatsu Sakai collapsed, his reform plan was declared bankrupt.

"I heard that Tanaka Chengyi was very lucky. Several core members of the Huaxia Society were assassinated by the shogunate a year ago, and he was the only one who survived by chance. Now everyone in the Huaxia Society thinks this is God's will, and they trust him even more It's gone," said an employee.

"Speaking of miracles, he just went to the latrine and happened to escape the assassination of the shogunate. How could our young lady come back to life? This is the real miracle. The doctor and doctor at the time said that even Hua Tuo was alive. It was saved, but Missy will recover in one day!" Another employee said.

Up to now, Dayuer's improvement is still a mystery, and even later generations cannot explain it.

"Miss, can you also get part of the 5 taels of silver that the shogunate compensated? After all, it is in your name to ask the shogunate." A gossip employee asked about the disposal of the 5 taels of silver.

"Yes, I took 1 taels of silver—" Da Yuer said.

"1 taels of silver!" The employees of the Tokyo branch were shocked. 1 taels of silver is nothing to a huge country, but to a person, it is simply an astronomical sum.

"However, I donated all of it to the education popularization project of the Academy of Sciences to establish a private school." Da Yuer said.

"All 1 taels have been donated!" The employees were even more surprised.

It is lucky to get 1 taels of silver, but it is courage to donate all the huge sum of 1 taels of silver.

"We handle so much silver taels every day, do you still think 1 taels of silver is a lot? The silver taels transported from Japan every year are dozens or hundreds of times that amount." Da Yuer said.

"But those are not our personal after all..." the employees complained.

"The submarine cable from Yokohama Port to Beijing will be built soon, and the railway to Edo Castle will also be completed. Soon, Edo Castle will have a new look." Da Yuer's focus is on other things place.

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