Of course, such legislation proved disastrous. Manchuria is larger than France andthe United Kingdom put together. the campaign orexecuted or exiled after it, the punitory measures adopted byYoritomo were not by any means wholesale. FINANCEOne of the chief difficulties with which the Meiji statesmen had tocontend was finance.
On the one hand, he levied heavyimposts to procure funds; on the other, he sent to China ships--hencecalled Tenryuji-bune--to obtain furniture and fittings. THE PEOPLEWith the decentralization of the administrative power there was acorresponding growth of the vassal class. Probably both factors wereoperative; for Japan's knowledge of Jenghiz and his resources reachedher chiefly through religious chan *Shin-in signifies the original recluse; Chu-in, the middlerecluse; and Shin-in the new recluse.
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