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After a period of sailing, August finally crossed more than half of the Blue Star and arrived in Japan. During this nearly half a month, the entire country's folk customs were simple and prosperous.

As peaceful as the Balkans, the whole of Japan exudes an aura of wilderness survival.

Occasionally there were armed fights, and the old forces of the shogunate still wanted to make a comeback.

The original supporters of Emperor Takamei are still there, and the Tokugawa family is not too noisy, but it seems that there is a big conspiracy.

In short, with the collapse of the shogunate, within this half month, all Japanese people theoretically enjoyed the rights protected by the constitution, but in reality it was very subtle.

The military government headed by Moltke does not use those officials who were once the shogunate, but do you think Moltke and others can govern the country? Yes, but not much. Anyway, if there is a riot or something somewhere, run over and suppress it immediately.

As for the market, Moltke said that this is not necessary and banned the silver dollar transaction. So does Japan have euros now? No, let alone euros, they couldn’t afford much even in Dutch currency.

Anyway, the army cannot collect taxes here, and they still have to suppress riots. Occasionally, there will be some anti-revolutionary movements that torture the army's blood pressure.

When August first came to Japan, he encountered such a situation. You can definitely say that Japan is a dead man now.

Moltke and Ron personally went to the port to receive August. August could be said to be their only savior.

Also accompanying him were many of the Prussian administrators who had followed August in governing the country.

The office space that Moltke found for August was the Imperial Palace in Chiyo City, Tokyo. This is the palace of the emperor, but the current emperor is Wagoniya, a female emperor without any real power, which must be different in all aspects. Not very popular.

Especially those in the former shogunate, they didn't like the Japanese Imperial Palace, which destroyed their tradition. They turned to support Emperor Xiaomei, hoping to restore the emperor's rule. They also secretly developed rebel forces, especially those right-wing radicals, who became even more rampant. .

August didn't hate the Imperial Palace, on the contrary, she was very interested in it, because to be honest, this place was much better than the shabby office building where August usually worked.

August: When will my Empire State Building be built?

Moltke: "Your Highness August, after we captured Japan, the entire country has been unable to operate. What should we do now?"

August: "First we have to issue new currency, stabilize the economic structure first, and then deal with the opposition. In short, let's print money first."

With the addition of Japan to the Eurozone, the currency issuance should also increase. Before August came, he printed an additional [-] billion euros in new banknotes and shipped them along with the cargo ship.

In order to collect all the silver into the treasury, Auguste set an exchange rate of one tael of silver for five euros. This exchange rate can be said to be outrageous.

In fact, the people above only roughly compared the prices of gold and silver when making estimates, and then converted them into euros, which was quite rigorous.

If there is any remaining money, let it go to the Prussian State Bank in Japan and lend money to Japanese people.

But just like Prussia, August still had to find a way to get ordinary people in Japan to accept the euro. Otherwise, if they still held on to their money, there would be no way to continue their work.

For this reason, August came up with a way, which was to let the Prussian soldiers trade with the Japanese in euros, and the price given had to be lower than the price of normal silver dollars.

Just cheating, although the Japanese people have little knowledge, they are not stupid. Assuming that ten pounds of rice is worth one tael of silver, then the Prussian army will buy it from them for four euros. What if they are not willing to sell it at this price? It's very simple. Go back to the old business and use the Agricultural Adjustment Act that Prussia once used to set maximum and minimum prices for agricultural products.

In this case, many people will definitely exchange their money for euros in order to buy low-priced food.

Of course, this thing is actually just to deceive Japanese people who have no knowledge. Why the price of agricultural products has become lower? Because the landlords were taken away by the Prussian army, and the farmland was distributed to farmers. The output of food would have increased, but August just Adjusted it a bit.

The general meaning is that you can buy low-priced goods tomorrow, but I sell them to you one day in advance at tomorrow's price. Do you have to be grateful? It was us who allowed you to buy cheap goods, and he has to thank us.

And because of the collapse of the shogunate, many of the former samurai groups went up to the mountains and became bandits. They lost their allegiance and became lonely ghosts. These guys were also a serious problem for the Prussian government.

They will rob civilians of their food. In addition, there are many mountains in Japan, and there are a lot of grass bandits who dominate the mountains. It is the job of the capitalists to deal with these unemployed people.

They are a monopoly group cultivated by August. August gave them [-]% of Japan's cake, leaving the remaining [-]% ​​to the Japanese to rob and internalize. roll.

In order to make these monopoly giants also work hard, August also gave them a performance score. If they can't make profits, stop doing it and give the cake to others.

Those Prussian grandpas can't feel safe in Japan. All their property is in August's National Bank, so they naturally don't dare to mess around.

In short, if the capitalists have money and water, they will naturally be happy to work. Of course, dealing with the bandits on the mountain is also a very important matter. August does not intend to eliminate them all. Instead, he first persuades them to surrender, and then attacks. The bandits who surrender will be captured. Go for ideological reform.

Those who were unwilling to surrender had no choice but to be killed. Therefore, many bandit groups also began to band together for warmth and colluded with the remnants of the shogunate.

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A week after arriving in Japan, August finally arranged all the major things, and the efficiency was already very high.

In order to assimilate Japanese people, Auguste also reformed education. She planned elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools in more than [-] towns throughout Japan, and made German and Japanese compulsory courses in Japan. Japanese primary school students must learn German from an early age.

These schools will definitely not be built so quickly, so it would be good to temporarily build a few private schools as a cushion.

Most Japanese officials in this era were hereditary, and after the fall of the shogunate, the country's power was empty, so let's learn about the selection of officials and the iron rice bowl.

In Japan, Auguste was bolder than in Prussia, without any resistance, because her army helped her smash all obstacles, and she could try the most radical reform programs in this land as she pleased.

People in Japan were stunned by the speed of change. Silver dollars were slowly replaced by banknotes and euros, and German signboards began to appear on the doors of Japanese stores.

The capitalists worked really hard. In Japan, they could hire these Japanese people at a cheaper price. Although there was something they didn't understand. Even the labor security law promulgated by Prussia also included Japanese people.

The people in this colony are generally relatively low-level beings, and they are generally the type to be exploited casually and given food to eat.

However, August still demanded the establishment of maximum working hours and minimum wages, prohibiting working for more than ten consecutive hours a day, prohibiting the employment of child labor, and other policies that were not seen in other colonial powers.

Although the capitalists are puzzled, they have been trained long ago and cannot resist. August has been engraved into the DNA.

In order to make most Japanese people recognize Prussia's dominance, August let the Prussian troops walk in formation on the street to show their excellent military discipline.

In order to win over people's hearts, Auguste returned to her old profession of giving speeches. One month after coming to Japan, she set up a podium in Tokyo and asked the newspaper to print more newspapers.

Japan is relatively traditional and does not have a newspaper office. Information transmission relies entirely on local samurai. Prussians established a newspaper office here, and the price is very cheap. Japanese people occasionally buy some to read.

The above is filled with a lot of remarks praising August. The Kyoto Daily News published in Kyoto called August the liberator of Japan.

It revealed all the bad things about the old shogunate, such as the samurai, the emperor, and the imperial family, deliberately reported the darkness of the shogunate era, and called the merger of Prussia and Japan a victory for the people.

Newspapers extensively publicized August's achievements, most of which were fabricated. Some even claimed that August was the incarnation of Amaterasu and that she was the Japanese orthodoxy.

The Japanese people were deceived and stunned. Of course, the Japanese people were tortured by German. In the Japanese office, officials also had to speak Japanese, which was even more torture.

What surprised Moltke was that August actually knew Japanese and seemed to be very proficient in it. In his impression, August had no contact with Japan at all. When he was a child, Moltke had known August. He didn't know that August knew Japanese.

Could it be that he is really the reincarnation of a certain god?

It shouldn't be possible, right? Even if it is the reincarnation of a god, it cannot be Amaterasu. It must be the goddess Germania, or the reincarnation of Nasus. How can it be the god of this eastern barbarian?

August's first speech in Japan was watched by nearly [-] people, which was even more exaggerated than in Berlin.

But this is normal. The population of unified Japan is larger than that of Prussia.

August's performance was perfect. Her dress was elegant and her manners were also very elegant. In the eyes of many Japanese people, they found that this girl seemed to be pretty good.

Rather than being ruled by an emperor who smokes, drinks, and plays shogi, why don’t I surrender to a beautiful girl with elegant manners?

August said in his speech in Tokyo, "Prussia has never wanted to use violence to make Japan surrender. Prussia hopes to coexist friendly with Japan. The people of Japan and the people of Prussia are both great people. We live in the same country." Under the Constitution, in Prussia and the Kingdom of Japan, all people have the right to live and the pursuit of happiness, and no one has these inalienable rights."

These words caused a lot of discussion, and of course they reached the ears of the old shogunate, which meant a different meaning.

August's words denied the tradition that the emperor was above all else and destroyed Japan's ancient tradition. The status of warriors and officials was greatly challenged.

The radical faction headed by Konoe Tadahiro stated that they could not agree to this kind of thing. While the emperor's majesty was still there, they should now call on the power of the people to mobilize the whole country to fight Prussia.

To collapse the relationship between Prussia and Japan, a figure crucial to Prussia must be assassinated.