Chapter Fifty-Nine: Striving for Governance (Part II)
In fact, it is not surprising that Oguri was annoyed, in the shogunate's "trial decree" after the Great Appraisal of Wind Storytelling, in addition to "building coastal defense and reforming the military system" and "attaching importance to wind theory, knowing oneself and knowing oneself and knowing oneself", there were many measures that harmed Mr. Egawa Tanan's interests.
If the first two decrees are to marginalize Egawa and Oguri, then the latter ones are the first few to begin to strip away the rights that originally belonged to Mr. Tanan.
Why did several parties join forces to oppress Mr. Tan'an?
One of them is because Mr. Tan'an is recognized as the leader of Lanxue, and he is hated - Wu Wu is the second, and Wen is not the first. Lan scholars often argue with Confucian scholars, and there is no good way to fight, so naturally all kinds of hats are flying all over the sky, especially Lan scholars say that Confucian scholars are "useless scholars", which really pouts the lungs of Confucian scholars.
The shogunate official school Shohei Spring only taught Zhu Zi Confucianism, and most of the shogunate ministers had practiced from Shohei Spring or its branch school, so in the debate between the government and the opposition, Confucian scholars have always had the upper hand in Lan Studies.
But the flowers are not good for a hundred days, in recent years, Ranxue Dachang, the shogunate who was deeply influenced by Confucianism, could not suppress the banner of Ranxue Egawa Taro Saemon in the shogunate.
Originally, after Jiangchuan also classified agriculture into Confucianism, Confucian scholars retreated one after another - agriculture has always been regarded as a miscellaneous art of Confucianism, and it is still debatable whether it belongs to Confucianism, but Fusang at this time took agriculture as the country's foundation, and since Lanxue can come up with golden fertilizer winter fermentation, fairy water (soil fertilizer), rice and fish farming, wheelbarrows, windmills, fruit tree grafting and better silkworm breeding and livestock breeding methods, then Confucian scholars can only watch dryly and dare not speak out.
Moreover, in recent years, the dispute between Lan Yi and Han Yi has become more and more intense, and Han Yi has been losing ground in this regard.
How did the academic controversy between medicine and Confucianism come together? Because there is no separation between study and medicine, Chinese medicine is often Confucian scholars, and Lan medicine is even more excessive, all of them are Lan scholars.
At that time, smallpox, measles, and chickenpox were called the "three diseases of life" and were considered incurable. But this orchid can be tossed, and it can actually cure smallpox.
Chinese medicine also has a treatment for smallpox, but the risks are high.
In 1796, Jenner, an Englishman, invented the cowpox inoculation method inspired by the human pox inoculation method. In 1842, Dr. Negli of Sardinia improved the safety of vaccines and discovered a way to produce them on a large scale. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Ryō Nakamura Ryo-an, Eiken Narabayashi and others in Fuso, the pox hall is now widely spread, although it cannot be said that it is everywhere, but it is also popular, and the most famous ones are the pox hall of Mr. Genpo Ito in Edo and Mr. Koan Ogata in Osaka.
On November 7, Kaei 2 (December 21, 1849), Ogata Koan opened a "pox removal hall" in Kotemachi, and around the same time, Mr. Genpo began to inoculate people on a large scale in Edo's own medical center.
Folk rumors say that planting cowpox will cause children to become monsters and even grow horns, but the determination of parents to love their children is not something that rumors can stop.
It can't be fake, although there is still a certain risk in cowpox surgery at this time, but the townspeople are still eager to do it.
Moreover, in recent years, Lan Yi has also had new methods for measles and chickenpox of the "three diseases of life", ventilation, disinfection, isolation and cooling, and external application, and the effect is quite good. Disinfection is just that, go to the outside evil, but the ventilation and the Chinese medicine to prevent the "wind evil" conflict, but the effect of ventilation is really good, so the Chinese medicine lost a lot.
Treating diseases and saving people, good doctors are generally respected in which era, there are two gold-lettered signboards of Mr. Hong'an and Mr. Xuanpu, and the image of Lanxue has greatly improved in the eyes of the world - it was originally a misunderstanding caused by ignorance, and the misunderstanding was naturally eliminated after in-depth understanding.
The people are like this, and Confucian scholars will admit it, after all, it is difficult to understand the mystery of the way of the sage, but what is going on with the ministers and the princes?
Jiang Chuan also made cement, honeycomb coal, and large iron smelting in Jiushan, all of which were things that benefited the country and the shogunate, and even if he pinched his nose, he had to say that it was good.
If it's just Jiang Chuan alone, after all, Jiang Chuan's head iron is a well-known thing, and if the nine cows can't be pulled back, normal people won't want to argue with Jiang Chuan about the merits of Lanxue, but Lanxue has now spread to all Fusang, and it doesn't work anymore.
Looking at the abundant production of Nirayama every year, all parts of the Kanto region naturally follow the same example - quarrels are quarrels, this is a lot of food, abundant products, from the acting officials to the common people have benefited, and they can't stop it, and who is willing to stop it, when it comes to their own money bags, even the shogunate elders have recognized it, and it is too late to promote who dares to do more!
Saga doesn't say it, next to Nagasaki is too close to Lanxue is prevalent, a few years ago he made a fortune by making glass, and now he has successfully started to make money by making iron, and the head of the Nabeshima family is a famous abacus daimyo, and he may not be able to think about the long-term, and he is engaged in Lanxue in order to make a fortune, and in the future, the retainers will naturally have to suffer.
What happened to Satsuma and Tosa?
Ah, the new head of Satsuma's family is Shimazu Saibin, a famous orchid daimyo who grew up with his great-grandfather Shigehao, so it's not surprising that Kagoshima has a great interest in the orchid industry.
Saga and Satsuma are like this, but what is going on with your thick-eyed Tosayamauchi family and Uwajima Date family?
In the first year of Kaei (1848), after Toyonobu Yamauchi succeeded to the head of the family, he quietly created a good industry.
It is said that Toyoshin has a subordinate named Yoshida officer Wei Yuanji, who is very powerful, and he is a farmer and a businessman:
He supported and strengthened the original Tosa sake industry, and now Kochi and Kobe Beach Gogo are known as the two major sake countries of Fuso, and Tosa Crane now has a pot of gold, and this money is earning the sea.
At the same time, Tosana, a place with mountains and seas, does not even have a few flat lands, but now it is famous for its excellent rice varieties, and every year the money from the sale of the improved varieties is used to buy ordinary rice.
Have you ever heard of a muffled fortune? If you have money, you have to keep a low profile, and you are not afraid that the shogunate will come to the door and ask for it.
But this Yoshida Kanbei just made a lot of publicity, lest others not know that Tosa's fine wine was good and the good breeds were profitable, and he often asked merchants to sell new products, saying that Tosa had recently cultivated new breeds of cattle, and they ate a lot and dried a lot, and those who didn't want to breed were not good farmers.
Listen to it, what kind of "hybridization" is made of rice and cultivated cattle, and it is not a serious way to listen to the name. And in order to promote the cultivation of high-quality cattle, Yoshida also claims that it can be "artificial insemination", buying a breeding cow can be passed on to multiple cows, and the cow can be helped when it is tired - how can people help, it sounds absurd and moral!
The Uwajima Date house on the edge of Tosa is not worry-free.
Date Sojo's face was as long as a horse, and he didn't look like a serious family master.
Sure enough, this year, it is rumored that the pearls of Yuhe Island are also artificially cultivated, and it is said to be the most favored in the family, the side of the Lan doctor, who is close to the second palace - for a little profit, he actually forced the mother to produce pearls, which hurts Tianhe, no, it hurts Tianhe, wait and see, there will be retribution in the future!
Kanto, Kyushu, and Shikoku are no longer a paradise, but other places are doing the same, such as the Choshu Mori family in Sanyo Province, the Kaga Maeda family in Hokuriku Province, the Sendai Matsudaira family (Date) in Higashiyama Province, and the Minami Morioka family.
In this situation of the great flood of orchid studies, Confucian scholars could no longer sit still, and Confucian scholars led by the Lin family, the head of the hereditary university of Changping Spring, also participated in the transaction behind this evaluation of wind storytelling.
Respecting teachers is not just talking, not only do the public have to listen to the lectures of Confucianism, but the shogun has a special Confucian scholar as an advisor by his side.
In the Edo period of the human system, the shogunate and the princes actually paid equal attention to two systems: the shogunate headed by the elder or the elder of the family, the feudal system and the close system headed by the head of the family, because the shogunate and the feudal government eventually had to obtain the permission of the shogun or the head of the family, so the proximity of the head of the family obtained a great deal of political power - at best, it was to help the head of the family fill in the gaps and check the omissions, to see if there was anything inconsiderate among the elders or the elders of the family; The irony is that "there is not enough success and more failure".
The shogun was surrounded by the Imperial Servants, the Imperial Servants, the Hiraki Princes, the Confucian Scholars, and the Okuja Confucians, who were equivalent to the private secretaries and advisors of the public authorities—the first three of which were served by the Daimyo or Daishimoto, the Confucianists were monopolized by the first faculty of the University of Forestry, and the Okuja Confucians were entirely held by the famous Confucian scholars.
In addition to the pro-feudal and genealogical daimyo headed by the imperial servant, Lao Zhong and Qi Zhao, the big body banner headed by the big eye Fu and the two commissioners, the military shogunate headed by the big fantou, and the Confucian scholars headed by the head of the "Confucian" Lin University, otherwise where could the "trial decree" be passed so quickly - if it weren't for the long-term collusion, through a ghost, these people would have been arguing a long time ago, and there would have been no result in a year or two of fighting.
If you can't beat your opponents, join them, wrong, it's not this sentence, it's "for my use" - the abacus of the Confucian scholar hit the Lan scholar
on the foundation.
Confucian scholars were in charge of the official school Changping Spring, and only taught Zhu Zi Confucianism, but the Lan scholars were not without an official body, which was the "Fan Shu and the Imperial Bureau", which was an institution under the Shogunate's astronomical side.
In 1811, Takahashi Sakuzaemon Keiho applied for the establishment of an organization for the collection, translation, and collation of orchid books as an astronomical party member of the Kamishogunate, and the Imperial Bureau of Shoshu and Reconciliation was formally established.
As a result, in 1828, Siebold ** broke out, and the shogunate found a large number of contraband in the bag of the Rankoku Merchant Hall doctor Siebald, including the Fuso map provided by Takahashi Keiho to Siebald, so Takahashi was imprisoned, and he died in prison soon after.
After Siebald**, Taro Saemon Egawa, who was the acting official of Nirayama, took over the banner of Takahashi and became the leader of the new generation of Rangaku.
In 1839, the "Barbarian Society's Prison" broke out, and the Barbarian Society's Prison was also known as the "Rebellion of the Western-style Party", Jiang Chuan was knocked to the ground on charges of "unknown people" and "negligence", and was deprived of his other positions except for the hereditary acting official of Jiushan.
However, the sacred place of the Lan scholars, the "Shogunate Reconciliation Imperial Bureau", was unharmed, and although it was also censored many times, after all, the shogunate still relied on it to work, so it was spared.
There are the Fan Book and the Imperial Bureau, and there are Mr. Tan'an's Rope Martial Arts Hall, Pingjing Nobu's "Rixi Hall", Mr. Xuanpu's "Xiang Xian Hall", and Sakuma Xiangshan's "Xiang Mountain Academy", etc., these Lan Xue places are very eye-catching in the eyes of the top people of Lin University, but the private school is not easy to ban - these Lan scholars are quite famous, there are many students, and there are people behind them, but I can't help you with the Fan Shu and the Imperial Bureau?
Taking advantage of this opportunity to reform the feudal government, Confucian scholars made the Fanshu Reconciliation Imperial Bureau "for my use": the Fanshu Reconciliation Imperial Bureau was renamed the "Western-style Institute", and in addition to the original duties, they also planned to give lectures to the shogunate and his children, with Okubo Tadashi as the head of the university, and the head of the university as the head of the Hayashi University.
The excuse is, of course, the third article of the "trial decree", which is to "rectify the program and discipline and reshape morality".
This is to say that the shogunate is now in trouble, not because there were mistakes in the previous decrees, but because there was a problem with the people who carried out the decrees, and now the atmosphere is corrupt, and some of the shogunates are mediocre and incompetent, and even learn some fallacies and heresies, and go back to the roots, and ask the samurai of the shogunate to pay attention to it and strengthen their own self-cultivation.
For example, the Tenpo Reform, presided over by Chief Elder Nakano Tadakuni, demanded that "customs be corrected" and "ancient customs should be observed," and that samurai should "strictly observe the virtues of the people and practice martial arts diligently."
According to the head of Lin University, there are still some things that can be learned from Lan Xue, this time the Fan Shu and the Imperial Bureau was renamed the "Institute of Foreign Studies", in addition to the original duties, it is also planned to give lectures to the shoguns and their children, which is a good thing, but it is also necessary to keep the pass from mixing in some strange things.
So who's going to check it? Naturally, I am a "moral man" – that is, myself.
Under the banner of "for your good", the head of Lin University concurrently served as the head of the Institute of Western Studies, and also transferred some professors and lectures from Changping Huang to the Institute of Western Studies.
Who in the whole of Edo doesn't know that Egawa is the most proficient in orchid studies among the shogunates, so who is the head of this university? As a result, it was the head of Lin University, and the Lin family had studied Zhuzi Confucianism for generations, which was incompatible with Lanxue, so it was really difficult for him to give up his face this time.
Originally, Mr. Tan'an was a coastal defense hanger, although the Fan Book and the Imperial Bureau was a subordinate institution of the astronomical side, but after all, he studied Lanxue books, so he had a great influence on the Fan Book Company, often stuffed people into it, and often transferred some people from it to support his work, such as repairing the platform to conduct surveys and the like, but this time there was no play, and the Institute of Foreign Studies was pulled out separately and returned to the head of Lin University.
This hand is very beautiful, in the past, Jiang Chuan relied on the Fan Book Bureau to cultivate his wings, but this time he was mastered by the head of Lin University, and then the students of the Institute of Foreign Studies will definitely recognize the head of Lin University.
But Egawa Taro Saemon has been diligent and diligent in recent years, not only with hard work but also with merit, why do the old middle school members sit and watch Egawa take care of it and don't speak?
It's still an old saying, "wealth moves people's hearts" - it's okay else, the interests of the Nirayama Iron Smelting House are too great, and there is no one in the shogunate from top to bottom who is not red-eyed, and the public is angry, so no one dares to speak out for Egawa this time.