In September 1786, Tokugawa Ieya, the 10th shogun of the Edo shogunate in Japan, was seriously ill. The elder Nakata Numa helped him get a doctor, but the medicine stone was ineffective, and the family treated the disease and died.
At this time, Tokugawa Ieji, who was only 49 years old, suddenly fell ill and died suddenly, and many people rumored that it was Tanuma who killed the shogun.
Although he had no motive at all—it was Tokugawa Ieharu who reused him and ushered in the Tanuma era for nearly two decades—rumors spread and Tanuma was forced to resign.
Suddenly, the people of Pingtou and the officials who had been belittled rejoiced.
It turned out that Tanuma was from a humble background, so he was also willing to promote poor people who had similar experiences to himself, which led to the suppression of hereditary high-ranking samurai;
In the process of promotion, it is natural that money will be exchanged, so he is considered a dirty person.
He also adopted mercantilism and developed the economy, and some incompetent samurai fell into poverty, while merchants spent their days drinking and driving the extravagance of society; ordinary people, the hatred of the rich was great.
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So after he stepped down, people thought life would be better.
He was taken by Matsudaira Nobubu, a 30-year-old lord of the Shirakawa Domain.
This man was born with a golden spoon and was full of the arrogance of a high-ranking samurai.
He initiated a liberal reform, driving peasants who had moved to the cities as a result of commercial development back to the countryside in order to secure a labor force for growing grain;
A write-off of the debts of the upper samurai;
It also reduced various fiscal expenditures and recommended poor relief agencies.
We know that the only thing that can be compressed is the expenses of the parasitic class, such as The Harem Daio of General Tokugawa.
There were thousands of women in Ōori, who were dressed in fine clothes and used up one-third of the shogunate's budget.
Under the financial tightening, their lives have been affected first.
As the saying goes, from thrift to luxury, from luxury into thrift, originally lipstick is used french brand, now with domestic production, there will definitely be a gap, very unhappy ah.
It is said that after offending so many women, things will not be easy to handle, and no matter how you have to seize the key minority, let her lead a group of women to live a hard life.
However, this Matsudaira fixed the letter, but sent the harem Imperial Year, and the matter was offended by Ohsaki.
Tanuma's ability to hold power for twenty years is inseparable from the relationship with The Great O'o Woman. To a certain extent, he co-ruled the world with the Imperial Nianji of The Great Ao, and the Imperial Nianji could have a say in some affairs of the foreign court.
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But Matsudaira Dingxin did not see it that way, he was very conceited that the hand of the Daio woman was too long.
Especially that Osaki, although she sat on her knees when she was a child, she now said:
For a long time, the shogunate governor and The Imperial Household had been in charge of affairs together, and from now on, we would discuss the affairs of the harem.
We know that the Japanese speak very euphemistically, and if they don't speak well, they are twisted and turned. But Matsudaira immediately understood that her main meaning was not to invite me to take charge of the harem together, but to tell me that she was going to exert her influence on the outer court.
This made him very unhappy. My Tokugawa family affairs, it is your turn to get a woman to manage?
He said angrily, "It's rude for you to talk like this." I don't want to meddle in the affairs of Da'ao, and you don't want to meddle in external affairs, and you don't want to think too highly of yourself.
When did Osaki get this angry?
According to the Ogunomi of the Great Oku, she said angrily that I had been entrusted with the position of Imperial Attendant by the head of the main temple (that is, Tanuma Yoshiji), so I had the idea of sharing affairs with foreign court officials. Now that you can't communicate like this, you might as well let me resign.
Matsudaira was about to say this, and quickly approved her resignation, and said that if it was convenient, he would directly move out of Daio. Then, all the female officials of the Osaki faction were dismissed, further reducing the budget of the Great Olympics, and stipulating that women in the harem were not allowed to interfere in politics.
It seems that his war against the women has been won.
However, if he only intimidated Osaki, many women would be happy, and they would like to see the jokes of those usually domineering people. But his reforms were aimed at the handmaidens who washed their feet from the general's wife, the Imperial Household, to all the women.
This determined that he would not get the support of the women who had the opportunity to blow the pillow wind to the general, but would be left with endless troubles.
The reform of leniency lasted only five years before failing.
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In addition to its policy of heavy agriculture, which tied the peasants to the land and suppressed orchidology (advanced science and medicine transmitted by the Dutch), it was against the historical trend of the time and offended the Women of Theaus, which was also an important reason.
Anyway, the children on the street were singing a song with a sentence —
The water of the White River is difficult to raise fish
Tanuma is muddy and nostalgic
It's still quite a battle.
The Japanese seem to have forgotten how they celebrated Tanuma's resignation.
It has to be said that this is a tragedy that reformers are facing.