"Everyone line up, there are still a lot of relief food, don't be anxious."

Edo Castle, covered in snow, was caught in an unprecedented food crisis, and people who received relief food lined up in a long queue.

The so-called relief grain is a rice shop opened by Chinese merchants to make porridge and then add a little wild vegetable leaves to it to barely meet the needs of refugees in Edo Castle.

The stalemate war and cold winter allowed famine to spread in Japan. In order to maintain the stability of the front line, a large amount of food was transported to the front line, and the food in the rear city was tight. Edo Castle, the most concentrated population, suffered the worst food crisis since the establishment of the Edo Shogunate. Except for the middle and upper samurai, the civilians and refugees at the bottom were not fully fed. There was almost no food for sale in the rice shops in Edo Castle, and only the rice shops opened by Chinese merchants still provided limited food every day.

"Thirty percent of the grain sold in limited quantities every day was requisitioned by Oriental Company as a relief grain, boiled into porridge for disaster relief. Our profits have not decreased because of the rising prices of grain. "Chinese businessmen who obtained the grain sales license were scooping up porridge and distributing it to the poor in Edo Castle.

"Thank you, thank you..." The Edo Castle refugee holding a wooden bowl kept thanking him.

"Their Chinese businessmen are really good people. When we lack food, we not only sell food to us, but also cook wild vegetable porridge to poor people who can't afford food."

"It's not just the rice shop that distributes wild vegetable porridge, Tokyo School, Tokyo Branch, Kyushu Newspaper and other Kyushu Army organizations are cooking porridge, and sometimes they distribute steamed buns, big cakes, and peanuts. If they weren't for them, there might be hundreds of corpses on the streets of Edo Castle."

"The Huaxia Association also distributes relief food, and they are also good people."

"It's all the fault of the shogunate. They delayed the war until now, leaving us without food. All my savings were used to buy food because the food prices rose a while ago. Now I'm penniless and can't afford even a little food. I can only rely on relief food to maintain my life."

The poor people in Edo Castle squatted in the corner with porridge, talking in their mouths.

Near Tokyo School, Huang Zongxi was taking his students to cook porridge and distributed it to the poor, and there were more than a dozen stalls from the Huaxia Society next to it.

"Poor refugees, everything is inaction by the shogunate. They launched a war of 100,000, which prevented a large number of farmers from farming and consumed a lot of precious food. The existence of the shogunate will reduce the welfare of our residents!" Tanaka Zeichi promoted his thoughts for the refugees in Edo Castle when he distributed food.

"The shogunate is incompetent. A few months ago, the shogunate said that it was sure to win, but half a winter passed and the war was far away. It is estimated that it would be delayed until the beginning of spring. How can we survive?" The refugees were also complaining about their dissatisfaction with the shogunate.

"Don't worry, as long as our Huaxia Association has some funds, we will use this amount of funds to purchase grain from overseas and distribute it to you. Our Huaxia Association is on the side of the civilians. But what I regret is that a large amount of money and grain are gathered in the hands of warriors. The members of our Huaxia Association are all civilians, so there is not much money, and the food that can be distributed every day is limited." Tanaka Chengichi sighed.

"Oh, that's not the case. The samurai masters are arrogant and will not care about our lives or death. If we dare to offend their ceremonial war, we will even be beaten to death by sticks." The refugees who received the porridge condemned the shogunate's actions.

The unfavorable Shogunate War caused people who were short of food to gradually become dissatisfied with the Shogunate and their resentment gradually accumulate.

"Originally, the Oda family should have ruled the world, but unfortunately, Oda Nobunaga was killed in the Honnoji Incident, and later it should have been the Toyotomi family. It was only Toyotomi Hideyoshi who died of illness that allowed the Tokugawa family to gain the world. It can be seen that the world is not necessarily the Tokugawa family's world, nor is it that God allows a certain family to own the world, but the world of the world."

"The goal of our Huaxia Association is to lead our people in Japan to establish a society of Datong, abolish the privileges of samurai, and allow civilians to be on par with Daming and samurai! Under the great harmony of the world, everyone is equal, everyone needs labor, and no one can get it without work. The people have endless food to eat, and even moldy in the granary because of too much food accumulation..."

Tanaka Sei has always described his ideal world of great harmony among refugees.

"Mr. Tanaka, does the world you are talking about really exist? Aren't we civilians born to be ruled by samurai?"

“Is it really possible for everyone to be equal?”

The refugees heard Tanaka Seiyi's extremely advanced concept as if they were a fantasy. They had been ruled by the samurai class for a long time and focused on their background. As a result, Tanaka Seiyi told them that they would build a Datong society, so that they would not be surprised.

"There was a famous saying in China a long time ago, "Does the king, prince, general, and minister? Isn't Toyotomi Hideyoshi also a commoner? The existence of the samurai system was established to exploit us civilians. This system is no longer applicable. We should take the initiative to demand that the shogunate abolish the samurai system, abolish all privileges of samurai, and learn from the Chinese system of taking officials and using officials!" Tanaka Sei talked endlessly about his ideas.

Refugees who had nowhere to go in the winter stopped while drinking porridge, and described a more ideal country. One of them could not help but be attracted by Tanaka Chengichi's statement.

"Tanaka Chengichi is really the one who says it, and he really wants to build a Datong society." Huang Zongxi gave alms at the stall of the Tokyo Academy. When he saw Tanaka Cheng preaching for refugees, he couldn't help but admire this person.

After several years of open and secret struggle with the shogunate, Tanaka Seiichi gradually grew from a poor student from the Tokyo Academy to a leader who led the Chinese Association to build a Japanese Datong society, which made Huang Zongxi feel a little incredible.

"Everyone has his own experience, and the times create heroes. Maybe he can overthrow the shogunate." Another Chinese lecturer at the Tokyo Academy also witnessed Tanaka Naiichi's growth.

Tanaka Naiichi is now the president of the Huaxia Society with more than 100,000 believers. He has huge public opinion skills in Edo Castle, and even the shogunate dares not arrest him at will.

"There is news from the people of Edo Castle that our army intends to intervene in the civil war in their Japan country. I don't know if it is true. If it is true, our Tokyo Academy might also carry out school reform. The domestic Academy of Sciences has been split into the Kinth National Congress, Nanjing University Church, Liaonan University Church and more than a dozen other functional universities. It is estimated that our Tokyo Academy will soon be reorganized into the Tokyo University Church." The lecturer of the Tokyo Academy said to the dean Huang Zongxi.

"Tokyo University..." Huang Zongxi felt a long way to go when he thought about the comprehensive popularization of Chinese language education on the four islands of Japan in the future.
Chapter completed!