Junin Ryogae (FOTS)

Junin Ryogae (FOTS)
File:Junin Ryogae FOTS.png
Chain	Business Type
Requires	Buildings: Financial District Arts: Gold Standard
Enables	-
Spawned Defence Forces	-
Basic Building Statistics	Cost: 13500 +2250 to wealth generated by trade in this province +2 to happiness in this province Enables recruitment of Rank 1 geisha +8 per turn to town growth from trade within this province -2 to happiness from modernisation
Clan Effects	+4 to modernisation (clan development)
See main article; FotS Buildings

Description

Money eases all problems.

The Junin Ryogae improves commerce for the owning faction by managing the availability of money in the economy. The building improves happiness in a province, and also improves the quality of geishas recruited there. After all, bankers must have their small pleasures.

Compared to medieval merchants, all modern industries and businesses make extensive use of banking services. In the rapidly modernising Japan of the Meiji period, the city of Osaka became a centre for banking, with much of the work of a central bank being done by the "Junin Ryogae", the Ten Exchange Houses. Although these were not modern bankers, they did lend money to other banks, the governments of individual domains, and manage the markets of gold-back cash and silver-backed bank-issue money. In effect, they controlled the exchange and interest rates for Japan.