The New Year of the third year of Ansei (1856) was simply perfunctory. After all, the princes were put back into the feudal clan, and only in June of this year did they need to return to Edo.

So naturally, there are only 20 or 30 people left for the princes who visited the Tokugawa family in the New Year. At that point, the Tokugawa family breathed a sigh of relief, and there was no need to sit tightly for three hours.

But this was a good opportunity. Chuemon thought of something that he had always wanted to do before, but he never had a good chance to do it.

Abolish Dao!

To put it bluntly, it means to send out all the women in Dao. If the Tokugawa family can use them, it will be fine. Now the Tokugawa family doesn't use them at all, so what is it doing in Ooku? The annual expenditure of hundreds of thousands or even millions is a heavy burden on the shogunate, and Chuemon is not the only one who is not pleasing to the eye.

After I talked about this with Naobei Ii and Matsudaira, these two people are the kind of thing that should be done, but they feel that it doesn't seem to work.

Both of them are staunch defenders of the feudal order, and Oo's existence is to show the power of the Tokugawa family as a general of the shogunate. A man with the supremacy of power needs all kinds of things to foil. Thousands of harem beauties are obviously one of these countless foils.

Our general's intelligence is very normal, but his mind is slow. Who knows what he thinks in his heart?

He feels that these beauties, although I don't need them, but they are placed next to me as a vase, which is pleasing to the eye when I look at them. If he refuses to abolish a part of Daoao, then other people must not make irresponsible remarks about it.

After all, as the prince of a country, a Donna woman, enriching the court and giving birth to heirs for the country is one of the important tasks for maintaining the feudal state. As long as a normal feudal ruler, he must have a full harem to avoid extinction.

As a minister, you can persuade him to save the palace, withdraw music and less clothes, it’s all right. But if you persuade him not to Donna's little wife, then you are the curse of Chi Guoguo, you hope he can not have more children and be blessed.

It's really not a courtesy to talk about the monarch's harem!

Although Ii Naobei borrowed foreign debts and became addicted to (shielded), but he is also a native of the province. Buying foreign guns and cannons, recruiting new troops, spending money like water, he didn't blink his eyes. However, he was still very unwilling to provide for the harem and build temples and pavilions.

Therefore, it is very necessary to abolish the useless Daao. It can save hundreds of thousands of expenses for the shogunate every year. What's not good about it. Besides, the Tokugawa family didn't even look at the vase. He had a good relationship with Mrs. Odaisuo Atsushi. Even if I stayed overnight, I only stayed with Mrs. Atsushi.

You go talk, I go talk?

After the first two generations of generals, Tokugawa Kaqi and Tokugawa Kayuki passed away, the female family members they had been lucky enough to have moved out of Da'ao and lived in the bhikkhuni residence under the city. There is no way for these people to be abolished. They are the women of the de facto General Jian. They become a nun for nuns and pray for the generals, and the relative costs are much less.

After the fire broke out in the castle, it has been transferred to the Maeda family’s house in Komaba, under the care of the 21st female Yukihime of Tokugawa Kasei.

There are about one thousand and hundreds of female family members in Ooku. Except for more than ten who were killed in the earthquake and fire, the rest are mainly placed in Shimazu’s Shimoya Shiki in Takanawa, under the care of Mrs. Atsuhime.

Didn’t Shimadzu go back to Satsuma with a large group of his retainers, and there are only a few female family members left in Beijing, as well as a few samurai. In addition, Shimadzu’s upper house, which is also the general’s residence, caught fire, and the samurai had to cooperate with Eiffel in planning the construction of the daimyo house on the central sub-ring of Edo Castle, so they were not there.

Anyway, it was Shimadzu Tadashi's house, full of Ooku women, from the highest Odaisho to the lowest Yuhanxia, ​​all there.

It is said that the number of Ooku at this time has been greatly reduced. The first Tokugawa Ieki and Tokugawa Ieki are very energetic monarchs. Oo, who was reduced during the Tokugawa Yoshizong era, expanded rapidly when the two of them ruled the world. To more than 3,000 people.

That is to say, the death of those two people caused a large number of people to leave the palace and lose their hair, which reduced the number of Daao to hundreds of people. But even so, such a number of people is unaffordable for the shogunate.

The elders looked at each other, and finally Ii Naobi patted Chuemon on the shoulder, and told him with pride.

You should go!

When Ii Naobi said this, Matsudaira Chisun also got up and walked to the side of Chuemon. "Your Uncle Akashi is very optimistic about you!"

Don't tell me, why let me go alone? Everyone is going to go together. At least give us some help. Chuemon took Matsudaira Massuno’s hand, then gritted his teeth with a little bit: "Aki...Ishi...Uncle...Father..."

"If you do this again, your uncle and I are going to be angry!"

Throwing off Chuemon's hand, Matsudaira Qixuan ran away. Tadashi Mizuno smiled, I'm going to handle the demolition, you guys are busy. Kuse Hiroshi said that he would contact the French minister and accompany the dispatched personnel to set up a French palace in the ruins of Nishimaru.

In the end, only Wakisaka Yasutaka was left, and the old middleman who had been operating at the Chuemon Gate had disappeared. When did the teleporting magical skill be practiced? It's so powerful.

"Quickly go back, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, I'm here waiting for your news." Ii Naobi lowered his head and resumed his intense office appearance.

"It's not righteous, it's not righteous, carelessly making friends, carelessly making friends..." Chuyouemon sighed up to the sky, and had to go to see the Tokugawa family alone.

Hearing that Chuemon came to see him, the Tokugawa Clan didn't think much about it, but directly agreed. At the gate, Tongtoo also stood for three minutes, and Chuemon entered to see it.

Tokugawa Isaiah seems to be in good spirits today. Although it is still a big winter, he is still interested in instructing the waitresses to fry doughnuts. As a food that can prevent beriberi, this thing has now become one of the standard snacks of Edo households.

At the beginning, Ogata Hongan strongly promoted a donut full of sugar and red bean paste every day to keep beriberi away from you!

General Jian stood two meters away, watching the color of the doughnuts in the frying pan, and instructed the maid to turn around quickly. That happy look, full of smile, really from the inside out, from the heart.

"You just came here. This freshly made one is the most crispy and delicious." Tokugawa's family motioned Tadaoemon to sit by himself, and he had to sprinkle icing sugar on the doughnuts.