When Chu Yun was busy building major projects such as large ships and laying undersea cables, the shogunate was not idle either. The shogunate's national rescue movement had been going on for a year. Because of his extensive learning of Chinese technologies and systems, it was called the "Huawu Movement" by the lower-level literati in Japan.

The Edo University Hall was opened, and there were a large number of samurai. The flag-block was forced to go in and learn Chinese and new technologies by the shogunate. A year later, the Edo University Hall was overcrowded and there were thousands of students.

At the same time, the reformists represented by Tadashi Sakai, Nobutsu Matsuhira, Tadashi Abe, and Yuki Aoyama began land reform on two-thirds of Japan's land. Among them, Tadashi Sakai, Yuki Aoyama and others were deeply insulted after they went on a mission to China last year and vowed to resolutely promote the change. They became the hardliners who most support the reform of the shogunate!

The land reform of the shogunate was personally inspected by Tadashi Sakai himself. It involved two contents. One was to abolish more than 100 vassals and countless samurai territories, establish a provincial system, and divide the territory controlled by the shogunate into 8 provinces and 31 counties! The vassal lords and samurai still own land, but farmers have the right to permanently cultivate the land and need to pay a certain harvest to the land owner. The land owner needs to pay land tax to the shogunate and allow land sale! In this way, the relationship between farmers and samurai has changed from personal dependence to a pure economic relationship! Moreover, after the land sale, emerging big merchants can buy land from bankrupt samurai to become new landlords, and completely destroy the economic foundation of local feudal forces.

After the shogunate announced the plan for land reform, several vassal lords in the northeast were deeply dissatisfied with this and raised an army to resist the shogunate, forcing the shogunate to send troops to suppress it.

In addition to land reform, Tadashi Sakai and others were obsessed with the industrial capabilities of the Kyushu Army, so they began to encourage samurai and merchants to jointly open factories, textile factories, paper mills, and smelting plants! The samurai class has power, while the merchant class has money, and the two sides hit it off. Tadashi Sakai thought about the steam locomotives representing the steam civilization day and night, and was even planning a plan to build trains and rails.

A large number of factories require a lot of money. In addition to winning over Japanese merchants to obtain financial support, Tadao Abe gradually understood the essence of Kyushu Bank's operation by observing the operation of the Tokyo branch, so he encouraged Tokugawa Iemitsu to open the Edo Bank, which was confronting Tokyo Fengshang. Tadao Abe personally served as the president of the Edo Bank and began fierce competition with the Tokyo branch running at Otaku.

Yukien Aoyama, who was on a mission to China with Tadao Sakai, returned to his territory and soon sold his land to the local merchants. He and his family came to Edo Castle to settle down and personally presided over the construction of the Edo News Agency. Soon, the Edo News Agency was established. The Edo News Agency was published and published in Edo Castle half a year ago, and competed with the Kyushu Daily for control of Edo Castle public opinion. Not only in Edo Castle, but also the Edo News Agency quickly established branches in Nagoya, Kokai and other places, which was very likely to sweep the entire Japan.

Matsuhira Nobutsu, who mainly holds military power, trains new troops on a large scale, adopts a conscription system, and tries to imitate new muskets and artillery in the military industry! Matsuhira Nobutsu suppresses several daimyos in the northeastern region that rebels against the shogunate due to land reform, and on the other hand, he besieged Osaka Castle, which was controlled by the Shogunate coalition. Although the two fronts were fighting, the situation was extremely beneficial to the shogunate. Many people in inland Kanto were full of faith in the shogunate, and the determination expressed by the shogunate allowed the shogunate to obtain military resources.

Tadashi Sakai mainly carried out political and industrial changes, while Tadaki Abe was responsible for economic changes, Yukizuna Aoyama was responsible for cultural changes, and Nobuzu Matsuhira carried out military changes. These people were all full of fear of the Kyushu Army. They were forcibly opened the country by the Kyushu Army, and then went back to the base camp of the Kyushu Army. They became more and more afraid. They had to adopt a near-the-sharp transformation, involving all aspects of the shogunate.

Not everyone was satisfied with the reforms carried out with the support of Tokugawa Iemitsu. Some vassal lords in the northeast raised an army to resist, and the battle with the shogunate caused more than 2,000 soldiers to die in battle. Some samurai who were unwilling to lose their privileges began to assassinate the reformists. Almost every day, bodies were found on the streets of Edo Castle the next day, so that when the leader of the reformists, Tadao Sakai, had to protect dozens of fully armed samurai when he traveled. It is said that he even hid a heart-protecting glass on his chest before going to bed to prevent a killer from stabbing him in the chest.

The increasingly prosperous city face in Edo Castle is intertwined with the tense atmosphere of wind and panic, making it look extremely strange.

The situation in Japan now is probably unimaginably complicated. Five forces in the shogunate generals, reformists, conservatives, northeast rebels, and southwest reversed pagoda coalition are competing.

Moreover, there is also the Huaxia Society, which is revived again. She was once scared by the shogunate killer. The leader of the Huaxia Society, who was hiding in the Yokohama Concession to seek protection from the Beiyang Fleet, made a comeback again. After several years of struggle, Naiichi Tanaka became more calm and terrifying. She secretly sneaked back to Edo Castle and reselected a group of backbones of the Huaxia Society.

In addition to these six forces, there is a transcendent existence - the Kyushu Army who has been silently watching the shogunate undergoing changes.

What is incredible to the shogunate is that the Kyushu army does not seem to want to interfere with their changes, and they still stand by and watch as usual, make money with peace of mind, and transport ships of gold and silver back to the mainland. Even some factories opened by Japanese merchants, Far East Trading Company has joined forces with a group of Chinese merchants to invest in them, especially mining, wood processing plants, breeding farms and other resources-related factories.

The Kyushu Newspaper also published the Kyushu Daily as usual, turning a blind eye to the competition in the Edo Daily.

Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, turned a blind eye to Matsupi Nobuka training a new army, as if he felt that the other party would not pose a threat to him.

Tokyo Academy recruited a group of new students like usual, and did not care about the competition at Edo University. Edo University Academy recruited mainly privileged classes such as samurai. Tokyo Academy is not just samurai, but more of the children of ordinary people who account for the majority in Japan but have no right to speak.

"Miss, I heard that Edo Bank under the jurisdiction of Tadao Abe has raised its deposit interest rate again." An employee of a Tokyo branch said to Oyu'er, who has taken office as deputy president of the Tokyo branch.
Chapter completed!