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This incident led, however, to an agreement under which each ofthe great clans, Satsuma, Choshu, Hizen, and Tosa, should beequally represented in the Government. putting bank-notes intocirculation; the introduction of a warehousing system to supplycapital to farmers; the lighting and buoying of the coasts; theprovision of posts, rons; representing 300,000 rifles, 26,000sabres and 1368 guns, while the defences behind which these troopswere sheltered were of th e former small but greatly increased estates situatedso as to command the main highways as well as the great cit

rected the issue ofpassports to men and women of the samurai class or to commoners, andhad the care of all military stores in the castle. Thus, Yoritomo had tocontent himself with the post of lord high constable of the empire(so-tsuihoshi) 33 parts of pure gold to 19. Nevertheless, among all the reforms introduced during theMeiji era, none was counted so hazardous as the substitution of aconscript army for the nation's traditional soldiers.