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ve ever since been assiduouslyengaged in works of reform, looking forward to the consummation ofthe desired end. Butnot yet for the provinces. Fiefs might not be sold, but a peasant might dispose of hisholding. y onsets should shake, still less pull down, the imposing edificeof power raised by the Taira during twenty years of unprecedentedsuccess.

nd western parts of Chugoku,but they resolutely rejected the notion of sacrificing the life ofShimizu on the altar of any compact. nsferred to another province, or thathis successor should suffer a considerable reduction of revenue. When every allowance is made for the incompetence of the Tairacommander, Munemori, and for the crippling necessity of securing the The issue of the new coins took placein the year 1710, and at the same time the daimyo were strictlyforbidden to issue paper currency, which veto also was imposed at thesuggestion of Arai Hakuseki.