Chapter 22: The Battle (3)
Lin Haiyang: "Japan now has a total population of less than 30 million, plus tens of thousands of navies in training, and it is not enough to pull out a million troops in wartime." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info mainly because of the fear that the samurai unemployment would cause social unrest, so the former famous samurai clansmen in the army have been accepted, and these people still have a few brushes for cold weapon fighting, at least they can maintain local security. Of course, the new army units and navy cannot count on them.
With the development of rural mechanization in the future, more labor force will leave the countryside and become workers of the Shogunate United Company and the military and police of the Shogunate......"
Lin Haiyang is, of course, the master of reporting good news and not bad news, but in fact, in the past three years, it is the merchant class that has been hurt the most in Japan, especially the wealthy businessmen. Ordinary shops went out of business, and the shopkeepers to bookkeepers and street runners were all hired by the Shogunate United Trading Company, which is now the largest state-owned enterprise on the main island of Japan, and almost every town in Japan now has a general store of the Shogunate United Trading Company.
The Japanese wealthy businessmen's style is to hand over the enterprise to their subordinates to deal with, whether it is to be vassals and elegant, or to enjoy life, in short, there is no survival skills, and after the bankruptcy of the wealthy businessmen, such social garbage has such and such connections with the previous Japanese social high-level, so they simply throw it into the city of Kannai - originally the pleasures here are only available to their descendants hundreds of years later.
These general stores are all over Japan, from the seven things that open the door to life, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, to various daily necessities, farm tools, some special medicines for simple diseases (e.g., Fushou ointment, which is really a special medicine for relieving more than 100 kinds of ailments in this era, provided that you take it in small quantities instead of looking for a smoking gun), and a small number of light industrial products that have begun to be produced in Japan, such as mirrors, glass, table clocks, cigarettes, clothing, dried fish, pencils, paper, and even self-study textbooks.
The general store not only sells goods, but also sells grain at affordable prices, as well as local specialties - washi paper, paper umbrellas, dried goods from the sea and seamount, and furs. In addition, he also works part-time in the countryside of the government, issuing letters of recommendation and dry food to local ronins who want to find jobs. Disaster relief is organized in the area of disaster (Japan is an area prone to typhoon and earthquake disasters, and anyone who has played Oda Nobunaga should understand).
As a small country, as long as Japan has abundant money and food and a large army, it can be managed by a planned economic system. In particular, the advantage of the Japanese is that they are highly obedient -- the life creed of the vast majority of Japanese people is that the subordinates and superiors only need to say "hey", and then work honestly and do their duty, waiting for the day when they will be promoted by their lords.
Otherwise, Japanese society would not have fallen into a continuous economic regression for decades, and no two people jumped out and shouted: "Emperor, Prime Minister, would you rather have a kind?" ”
Later generations of experts and scholars who studied the personality of the Japanese people unanimously agreed that if it were not for the great power of Japan's chaebols and warlords, this would simply be a high-quality testing ground for the planned economic system.
What Lin Haiyang and Song Haiping want to do now is to transform Japan into a country where everyone is included in the shogunate's planned economic system - of course, there are also three, six, nine and so on in terms of distribution, after all, absolute equality is also unfair.
In general, in this system, one's income is distorted, and even the weakest peasants can eat all-you-can-eat white rice every day—something that Japan's rulers of thousands of years have failed to do.
The original superstructure of Japanese society was swept into Kanna Castle, and in the future, retired officials of the shogunate could also consider sending all of them to retire.
This was almost unimaginable in feudal China, but Japan did it easily. The Japanese emperor himself has no real power for thousands of years, and as a puppet, the shogunate can knead it however it wants. The same is true of the minister-to-minister class around the emperor, and as for the shogun himself, except for the first shogun, the rest are also puppets of the shogunate bureaucracy.
As for the bureaucracy of the shogunate, the cake in their hands has not disappeared, and in some ways it has become much bigger. The peasants were well fed, the samurai were also fed, and the position of the shogunate bureaucrats under the ass was more secure - there were two foreign emperors on the head, which were only known to the middle and high ranks in the shogunate, and the emperor did not touch specific things, and in the end, it still had to be communicated and carried out by these officials, large and small.
After the trial, the British and French forces finally chose to land the ship-based army near the mouth of the Daqing River, and prepared to bypass the heavily defended Jinwei Gate and directly take the capital of the Qing State, and seize Xianfeng alive to determine the victory or defeat in the first battle.
It took two or three days to complete the loading, unloading, and transportation of supplies for more than 20,000 fighters, and for such a long time, Xianfeng, who was in the capital, was neither blind nor deaf, and naturally got the news.
Emperor Xianfeng asked his subordinates to order more than 200,000 soldiers in the military camps inside and outside the capital, and after setting up the array outside the Desheng Gate, Xianfeng wore a golden helmet and gold armor (gilded) and rode a Japanese tribute to the Yanma and began to speak: "My old and young masters of the Eight Banners, in the past three years, more than 1,000 days, there are more than 300 days for me Xianfeng and everyone to practice martial arts in the camp, eat and sleep together. I know everyone's suffering, a piece of money and grain is only 100 taels of silver a year, which can't feed a large family of people.
Now, I will tell you the bad news, that is, the British, French, and Yangyi, who want to rob our banner people and the wealth of our banner people, have arrived, and tens of thousands of horses and horses with foreign guns and cannons have landed in Bohai Bay. When they defeat us and sit in the Forbidden City, do you think that the foreigners will still give us a hundred taels of silver a year?
No, it won't. At that time, we will be the same as the Zhu-surnamed Xungui of the previous dynasty, and we will be killed by the guys who sat in the Forbidden City. So that their rule can be stable.
Now, let me tell you the old and young masters another piece of good news, the scholar of the Hubu Shangshu Weng has prepared 10 million taels of silver for us. They are all very generous Toyo silver dollars. Now I will issue a reward, and the first three hundred taels of silver for a foreign soldier will be counted as one rank, and the first level will be awarded for the first five hundred taels of silver for the head of a foreign officer.
Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, I have been rewarded for my merits, and I will be rewarded for my merits. There has long been a precedent for the opposite sex to be crowned kings, so don't let Weng Qing's family not be able to reward them for their hard work. ”
"Kill", "kill", "kill" After Xianfeng's instruction, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners began to shout.
Hearing 10 million taels of silver, the eyes of more than 200,000 low-level soldiers of the Eight Banners were red, and a person had three hundred taels of one head plus a string, this kind of good thing I have never had since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. As for the foreign officer's five hundred taels of silver, wouldn't that mean that killing dozens of more foreign officers and soldiers would be able to make the marquis a Baylor, and it was not without a chance for the more fortunate officers to be crowned kings.