Shortly after the meeting, the shogunate issued an order: All areas facing battle must be cleared, and absolutely no bricks, tiles, or grains of supplies should be left to the enemy to avoid endangering the enemy.
As soon as the order was issued, the people of Japan's three islands immediately felt what it means to be in dire straits on a hellish level.
If you say that you can't leave bricks and mortar to the enemy, the people at the bottom can barely accept it.
After all, most of the people live in simple shacks, and there are not many bricks and tiles to save. Even if the driving warriors burned down their shacks, they would just waste a few more days to build one.
But not even a grain of food was left for them, which simply drove them to a dead end.
But many famous people don't care about you. After all, this is an order issued by the shogunate. It is a rare opportunity to reap the benefits. If there is any blame, let the shogunate take the blame. They just want to reap the benefits.
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You must know that the annual "participation transfer" rule leaves these famous people with little money. Nowadays, it is rare to be able to fill up one's own small treasury with the order of the shogunate, why not?
Moreover, even if the daimyo wanted to refuse to implement it, the samurai and soldiers under him did not want to let go of such a good opportunity to make money.
A daimyo with a little bit of brains, considering the future development of the territory, might be able to force his subordinates to stop being too shady towards the people in the territory. But most of the big names just broke the pot and took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
In fact, a "Yikui" riot occurred, and the army happened to suppress it.
Of course, the shogunate was not stupid, and immediately threw the blame to Yichao. The accusation was that the Han invaded Japan, which led to the shogunate having to take this step to resist. Once Japan repelled the Han invasion, it immediately returned to its original state, and the country was free of food for half a year.
It has to be said that war is indeed the fastest way to pass on internal conflicts.
As a result, the hatred of the Japanese people was quickly transferred to the Yijun, and the shogunate also used this to recruit a large number of free soldiers.
After all, they have looted all the food. Now as long as they give some food to the people to hang on to, they are not afraid of running out of soldiers.
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"Dongdongdong..."
Satsuma Domain of Japan
Shikamaru Island, fifty miles outside Tsurumaru Castle.
Tsurumaru Castle is the core city of Satsuma Domain. If Satsuma Domain was compared to a country, then this city would be the capital.
Since the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Kansai Army of the Shimadzu family has been a major concern for the shogunate. Therefore, the shogunate also carried out a series of operations on the Satsuma Domain, which also caused the Satsuma Domain to have a very severe financial deficit and was almost on the verge of bankruptcy.
Later, the Satsuma clan raided Ryukyu, plundered all Ryukyu's assets, and controlled Ryukyu for overseas trade. This allowed the Satsuma clan's property to be barely stable.
Of course, it is only barely stable.
Tokugawa Ieyasu racked his brains to come up with the "Appointment of Visitors", which is not so easy to break.
Not to mention the living expenses of the wives and children of the various daimyo who stayed in Edo. When the daimyo went to Edo once a year to report on their duties, the expenses incurred by all the people along the way were huge. What's more, after you, a daimyo, arrive in Edo, you will have to pay some tribute to the shogun! Seniors in the shogunate and officials at all levels also had to exchange favors, which were not a small expense.
As a result, the little money left over from the annual settlements in the territories of the various daimyo had to be spent on this "Pilgrimage" road, and even when necessary, they had to borrow some from the wealthy merchants of Edo.
Satsuma Domain, as the furthest outside daimyo territory from the shogunate, is nearly 1,400 kilometers away. During the annual "payment of pilgrimage", almost half of the time is spent on the road.
Later, as the relationship between the Satsuma clan and the shogunate heated up. The shogunate also felt that it had exploited the Satsuma Domain too harshly, and felt sorry for it, so it changed the one-year system of the "Honoring Ceremony" to a two-year system. This also gave the Satsuma clan, which was extremely poor at the beginning, a little breathing space.
Of course, Satsuma was still poor.
But its military strength has never been weak.
If the people in some daimyo territories could not stand the exploitation, they would riot in Ichiku. However, no matter how heavy the taxes were in the Satsuma Domain, such an incident never happened.
One is because of the system of the Satsuma Domain, and the other is that there is strong military strength to suppress it.
According to the "History of Shimazu", during the Yuanwa period, Shimazu Tadahashi and Kagoyama Kudaka inspected the military together. Kagoshima had:
"Three hundred knights, 3,500 foot soldiers, 8,250 soldiers, 1,500 rangers, 5,000 husbands, 5,000 sailors, a total of 23,1 One hundred people. Three hundred and eighty flags, eight thousand and fifty iron cannons, two thousand and fifty bows, and two thousand five hundred spears, totaling twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty.
The order records the entire country's scholars, land and military equipment. The land and wealth combined are 325,547 stones, five buckets, one liter, seven and five spoons. The total number of people is 12,220, and the armor is 800. Ninety-two, stomach one hundred and twenty-five, bow 8,770, flute 3,513, iron cannon 7,296, pills 39,631, salt and nitrate Two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven kilograms, thirty meshes, twenty-nine bullets, four hundred and eighty meshes, four thousand eight hundred four spears, and two hundred and sixty-one long swords. "
According to the above records, the Shimazu family deployed 23,100 troops in Kagoshima for this military parade. In addition, there are 12,220 troops that have not yet been dispatched in the outer castles. There are more than 35,000 people in total. one
This shows the military strength of Satsuma Domain.
In order to weaken the military strength of each feudal territory, the shogunate issued the "One Country, One Castle Order", which stipulated that each daimyo could only retain one castle. Some daimyo whose territories spanned several sub-kingdoms could retain several more castles, but There is also a maximum of one in each branch.
However, the "One Country, One City Order" has not been fully and thoroughly implemented.
At least that's the case with the Shimazu family.
If the "One Country, One City Order" were strictly followed, the Shimazu family could only keep three cities at most, one in Satsuma, one in Osumi, and one in the Hyuga prefectures. But in fact, the Shimazu family had a total of 114 castles, and this number remained until the Meiji Restoration.
The effect of the "One Country, One City Order" on the Shimazu family was only to stop building new cities.
The "One Country, One City Order" issued by the Tokugawa shogunate was actually a system that matched the "separation of soldiers and peasants". One of its purposes was to leave the samurai with nowhere to go and to gather around the daimyo's castle. A "Wujiamachi" was formed under the city to facilitate management and control.
But the Shimazu family still went their own way and ignored the "One Country, One City Order" at all.
The Tokugawa shogunate also sent inspection envoys to the Shimazu family to investigate the situation and questioned the Shimazu family's elders about why they did not implement the "One Country, One City Order".
When questioned by the shogunate's inspection envoy, the Shimazu family's answer was that because the Shimazu family once unified Kyushu and had many samurai in the family, it was difficult for them all to gather in Kagoshima. Each outer city was built on the mountain, mainly to protect the mountain. It is used by thieves and has no other intention.
Because the successive heads of the Shimazu family had a good relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate did not delve into this issue. The Shimazu family just tried to prevaricate and let it go. Later, everyone got used to it and no one cared about it anymore. 2
Note 12: Excerpted from 360 personal library.
