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When it comes to this industry, Chuemon has a bigger vision for the future. In addition to the well-known reasons, there is a more important reason for the construction of the railway.

Place the samurai!

At present, there are about 600,000 samurai in the shogunate and the feudal vassals. Together with their servants and family members, the total population is between 2 million and 3 million.

In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of roamers, so-called samurai who have no master's service. There are Miao characters, but not compiled. This part of the people played a relatively limited role in the downturned wars in history, and most of them are in fact no doubt civilians. The main force of the downfall war was still the lower-middle-rank samurai among the 600,000 warriors with an organization.

So if the shogunate manages to resolve and settle these 600,000 people, other **** names, weak emperors, and useless public officials can all be kicked aside completely.

But the fact is that these 600,000 people cannot be resettled!

It's not that it's still the same as it is now, so that most of the low-level samurai's poor homes can't open the pot, and they can't even eat rice cakes during the New Year. Everyone grows vegetables at home and eats two meals a day. It is necessary to effectively increase their income and improve their treatment, so that they can lose their minds of confronting the shogunate.

As long as they are fed and clothed, the vast majority of lower-level samurai will not be able to give birth to all kinds of thoughts against the shogunate. For a very small number of purely ambitious elements, that would be a great solution, just direct humanitarian destruction. There will not be a few people who will give up their lives for others while they are still able to live their lives.

People are like this.

Standing on the dry shore, doing the silent majority.

Therefore, if you want to continue the shogunate, the most important thing is always to appease these 600,000 samurai, so that most of them can't afford to resist.

It is absolutely not enough that the feudal vassals give these samurai a salary of ten stones and twenty stones a year, and the shogunate can only make them live a little more relaxed if they offer a higher price. Only large-scale business operations can generate more wealth and make the shogunate's finances gradually looser, and the bits and pieces that fall from the fingers of the upper level can be shared with them more.

There are several aspects of Chuemon's vision, which can actually be regarded as picking up people's teeth, but history has proven that this method is still effective.

First of all, and the biggest place to go, the establishment of Japan Railway Corporation. It took 15 years (it took more than 22 years in history) to build a railway system that runs through Japan. Relying on the profitability of the railway at this time, the treatment of samurai who was charged into the railway company was greatly increased.

The number of samurai it can accommodate is no less than 150,000!

The salary is doubled on average, and if you don’t believe it, samurai will make trouble. As for what railway employees are on duty, their positions are hereditary, there may be corruption, problems in operation and management, etc., all problems are not a problem. Because in this year, all of the above problems, the whole world is like this, and the business is still vigorous and colorful.

The taxes that fell into the British Empire’s treasury were only a quarter of the taxes he actually collected. The horror of its corruption situation has reached a heinous level. Still the world's number one, still ruined the whole world. Whether you accept it or not, this is reality.

What is clean and efficient has nothing to do with the current world.

Including all governments, all companies, all enterprises, and even all the military, they do not cross the border!

French civil servants even competed with each other's nails for a certain period of time. Those who have well maintained small nails, stay longer, and have no blemishes, are better. After this trend, hobbies such as hunting and drinking parties appeared one after another. After the great development of international transportation, traveling abroad has become a project for everyone to compare.

This situation continued until the middle and late twentieth century. In the British drama "Yes, the Prime Minister", Arnold, who was about to retire, asked for an important position as the chairman of the British Caribbean Association, so that he could go to the Caribbean every winter. moon.

As long as the railway company can operate normally, it will be over. Settlement of samurai and profit are equally important prerequisites for business. As long as the samurai entering work does not make trouble, then Chuemon will succeed.

Secondly, the establishment of Nippon Yusen Communication Co., Ltd.

Covering shipping, postal, telegraph, and a small part of credit business, this enterprise can also solve the job and salary needs of 150,000 samurai. As we said before, until the 21st century, Japan Post still had 20,000 people who were hereditary. The grandfathers and grandchildren worked for more than 100 years.

Facts have proved that even if it is hereditary, Japan Post can operate well with its size and various advantages. It is no problem to stuff him with 150,000 hereditary warriors.

These two companies alone can solve all the employment problems of 300,000 lower-level samurai. With 300,000 people left, there are naturally other methods that have been used long ago in history.

Compulsory elementary education is implemented throughout the country and 4,000 primary schools are established. Then 50,000 literate samurai can be converted into primary school teachers, and the employment problem of 50,000 can be solved.

Finally, it is also a method that can afford people. The Ezo Development Corps will be established, and the original salary will be doubled, and the Ezo will be enriched. Strengthen the development of a series of industries such as agriculture, animal husbandry, mining, and forestry in the Ezo region, and even allow them to directly donate the land they cultivated.

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Anyway, the central idea is to solve the problem of more than 500,000 middle and lower-level samurai who are already very dissatisfied with their current lives and urgently need to improve their lives.

In addition, the remaining tens of thousands of superior samurai with relatively good lives, it doesn't matter if they can solve it. Few senior warriors participated in the downfall movement, at most they were the Gongwu Combination School.

When the system of the shogunate changes in the future, these tens of thousands are actually senior warriors of the shogunate and the rulers of the feudal clan, and it is only natural that they will be transformed into civil servants on the spot.

They are the safest and least trouble-free group of people, so you can rest assured!

If this big problem of 600,000 can be solved, the shogunate can safely become a British-supported comprador regime, survive the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century, and linger until the beginning of the twentieth century.

At that time, new ideas and new thoughts continued to emerge, and Chungemon was kicking his legs, and there was nothing to manage. If we protect the shogunate for ten or twenty years, do we still expect to protect him two million in a hundred years, or even ten thousand years?