Todofuken

Todofuken

Description

"When people are ruled wisely they seldom realise it, or are grateful, until wisdom is gone."

A daimyo who wishes to hold his lands must be prepared for war with one hand and maintain peace with his other. Laws and administrators keep the people in order and, if such laws are fair and just, then they will also be content with their rulers. A wise daimyo establishes a hierarchy of commissioners, councillors, tax collectors, secret police and magistrates. Each answers to his superior for his conduct, leaving the daimyo and his advisors to consider strategy and policy.

Before the Sengoku Jidai, Japanese laws were chiefly concerned with governing the behaviour of the imperial court. The peasantry were largely ignored, and left to suffer or thrive under the landowners, who enforced their own laws and punishments as they wished. As the daimyo took power, new laws were created to cement the status of the warrior class. The Muromachi clan were rather cunning in their new laws, and introduced the idea of group responsibility: an entire community could and would be punished for the wrongdoing of one person. Families, neighbours and acquaintances would all suffer. This had the benefit of setting everyone to watch each other, suppressing many rebellions by the lower orders.

Requires

• Arts: Way of Chi

Enables

• Buildings:
  • Rice Exchange
  • Post Roads & Stations
• Arts:
  • Tax Reform
  • Equal Fields
  • Secret Police

Effects

• -5% Upkeep costs for all armies & navies.