They again consulted thefeudatories and again received an almost unanimously unfavourableanswer. The withdrawal of the invading forces followed, not withoutsome serious difficulties, and thus the six years' campaignterminated wit x provinces of the Go-Kinai, Sanin, Sanyo, Nankai,and Saikai a tax of five sho of rice per tan (two bushels per acre). To be strong enough to resist one or the other wasthe only way to avoid ruinous exactions.
The import of such an injunction was notlost on the people, and general disarming of the agricultural and theartisan classes marked the success of Hideyoshi's policy. COMMODORE PERRYIn the year 1853, Commodore Perry of the United States Navy appearedin Uraga Bay with a squadron of four warships and 560 men. Doubtless, this sortie, which ended so disastrously for theRussians, was prompted in part by anticipation of ENGRAVING: II NAOSUKETHE SECRET EDICTThe compromise mentioned above as having been effected between Yedoand Kyoto had the effect
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