Since talking about this industry, Chuanyuemon has a bigger vision for the future. In addition to the well-known reasons, there is another more important reason for building railways.

Place the samurai!

There are now sects in Japan, that is, there are about 600,000 samurai in the shogunate and vassals. In addition, their slaves are small, and the total population is about 2 million to 3 million.

There are also hundreds of thousands of ronins, that is, the so-called samurai who did not serve the master. They have the word Miao, but they have no organization. This group of people played a relatively limited role in the anti-theft war in history, and most of them are undoubtedly as civilians. The main force of the anti-theft war is still the middle and lower-level samurai among the 600,000 organized samurai.

So if the shogunate can try to solve and resettle these 600,000 people, other bullshit names, weak emperors and useless ministers can all be kicked aside.

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

It is not that it is still the same as now, which makes the vast majority of the poor samurai unable to make a living at home, and they can't even afford rice cakes during the Chinese New Year. Everyone grows vegetables at home, and it's a day. It is necessary to effectively increase their income and improve their treatment so that they can lose their desire to confront the shogunate.

As long as you have enough food and clothing, most of the lower-level samurai will not have the intention of resisting the shogunate. A very small number of pure ambitions will be solved so that they can be directly destroyed by humanity. There will not be many people who sacrifice their lives for others when they can still live their lives.

This is what people call this.

Standing on the dry shore, doing the silent majority.

Therefore, if you want to continue the shogunate, the most important thing is to appease the 600,000 samurai and make most of them unable to resist in their lives.

It is absolutely not enough to give these samurai salaries of ten stones and twenty stones a year. The shogunate can only make them live more relaxed by offering higher prices. Only by doing a large business can they generate more wealth and gradually loosen the finances of the shogunate, and the fragments that fall from the upper fingers can be shared with them more.

There are several places in Tadaoemon's idea, which can actually be regarded as a pick-up person, but history has proven that this method is still effective.

First of all, it is also the largest place to establish Japan Railway Corporation. It took fifteen years (more than twenty-two years in history) to build a railway system that runs through Japan. With the profitability of the railway at this time, the treatment of samurai injected into the railway company has been greatly improved.

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

The salary doubles on average, and if you don’t believe that there will be warriors who will cause trouble. As for railway employees who are in charge of the shift and their positions are hereditary, there may be corruption, rigid management, etc., etc., all problems are not a problem. Because in this day and age, all the above problems are like this, and they are still operating with great success.

The taxes that fell into the British Empire's treasury were only one-quarter of the taxes he actually collected. The terrifying corruption situation had reached an outrageous level. They were still the world's number one, and they still had to waste the whole world. Whether you accept it or not, this is reality.

What integrity and efficiency have nothing to do with the current world.

Including all governments, all companies, all enterprises, and even all military forces, there is no boundary!

French civil servants even competed with each other for a period of time. Whoever had good care of their little nails and stayed longer and had no flaws would be better. After this trend, hobbies such as hunting and drinking parties appeared one after another. After the great development of international transportation, traveling abroad became a competition project for everyone.

This situation continued until the middle and late 20th century. In the British drama "Yes, Prime Minister", Arnold, who was preparing to retire, asked for an important position as the president of the British Caribbean Association, which facilitated him to go to the Caribbean for a month every winter.

As long as the railway company can operate normally, it will be done. Resetting samurai and making profits are equally important business prerequisites. As long as the samurai who goes in to work does not make a fuss, Tadaemun will succeed.

Secondly, it was founded Japan Shibu Communications Co., Ltd.

Covering shipping, postal, telegraph and a small number of credit businesses, this company can also solve the job and salary needs of 150,000 samurai. As we have said before, until the 21st century, 20,000 people in Japan Post were hereditary, and their grandchildren worked for more than a hundred years.

Facts have proved that even if it was hereditary, Japan Post operated well with its size and various advantages. It would be fine to stuff him 150,000 hereditary samurai into it.

These two companies alone can solve all the employment problems of 300,000 lower-level warriors. There are 300,000 people left, so there are naturally other solutions, which have been used in history.

Compulsory primary education is implemented nationwide and 4,000 primary schools are established. Then 50,000 samurai who read and read can be adapted into primary school teachers, which can solve the employment problem of 50,000 people.

Finally, it is also a way that is quite affordable. Establish the Hokkien Trail Corps, give them a double salary and enjoy the original salary, and enrich the trip to the Hokkien area. Strengthen the development of some industries such as agriculture, animal husbandry, mining, forestry and other industries in the Hokkien area, and even allow them to be given directly to them as long as the land they reclaimed.

As long as you have the ability, I will give it all!

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

In addition, the remaining tens of thousands of superior samurai who live in a good life do not matter if they are solved. They have no worries about food and clothing and have always been staunch supporters of the shogunate. Fewer high-level samurai participated in the anti-samurai movement, at most they were just the Gongwu gang faction.

When the shogunate system changes in the future, these tens of thousands are actually superior samurai of the shogunate and vassal ruling personnel, and it is natural to convert it into civil servants on the spot.

They are the most secure and least trouble-free group of people, so they can rest assured!

If the big problem of 600,000 yuan was solved, the shogunate could be a comprador regime supported by Britain, survive the turbulent second half of the 19th century, and survive until the beginning of the 20th century.
Chapter completed!