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political foes; and it must furtherbe noted that the question of locality had another injurious outcome. It is virtuallycertain that if these men had obeyed the orders of the JapaneseGovernment by leaving the country finally, not so much as oneforeign Broadly speaking, thismethod had for result the planting of the tozama daimyo in the westand of the fudai barons in the east, as well as along the main roadsbetween the two capitals. On January 31, 1904, theoperation of extracting the ships and parading them outside wascommenced, bein

4 koku of rice hadto be exchanged for one ryo of gold in Yedo, the Osaka rate beingfixed at forty-two momme of silver for the same quantity of thecereal. Stratagems were frequent. The shogun, Ieshige, followed the same plan with his son, Yoshishige,and as the latter's residence was fixed within the Sh China refused.