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In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun (幕府时代的将
In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun (幕府时代的将
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In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun (幕府时代的将军) to the humblest samurai (武士), found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords’ failure to adjust to rapidly expanding economy. But the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords’ control. Concentration of the samurai in castle towns had acted as a stimulus to trade. Commercial efficiency, in turn, had put temptations in the way of buyers. Since most samurai had been reduced to idleness by years of peace, encouraged to engage in scholarship and martial exercises or to perform administrative tasks that took little time, it is not surprising that their tastes and habits grew expensive. Overlords’ income , despite the increase in rice production among their tenant framers, failed to keep pace with their expenses. Although shortfalls in overlords’ income resulted almost as much from laxity among their tax collectors (the nearly inevitable outcome of hereditary office-holding) as form their higher standards of living, a misfortune like a fire or flood, bringing an increase in expenses or a drop in revenue, could put a domain in debt to the city rice-brokers who handled its finances. Once in debt, neither the individual samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover.
It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited, and since the income of Japan’s central government consisted in part of taxes collected by the shogun from his huge domain, the government too was constrained. Therefore, the Tokugawa shoguns began to look to other sources for revenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were mines already on the decline because the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhausted, although debasement of the coinage had compensated for the loss. Opening up new farmland was a possibility, but most of what was suitable had already been exploited and further reclamation was technically unfeasible. Direct taxation of the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. This left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.
Most of the country’s wealth, or so it seemed, was finding its way into the hands of city merchants. It appeared reasonable that they should contribute part of that revenue to ease the shogun’s burden of financing the state. A means of obtaining such revenue was soon found by levying forced loans, known as goyo-kin; although these high in yield. Unfortunately, they pushed up prices. Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa shoguns’ search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed stipends to make ends meet [br] The Tokugawa shoguns’ actions in the search for solvency were regrettable because______.
选项
A、they did not succeed in reducing government expenses
B、they were far lower in yield than had been anticipated
C、they raised the cost of living by pushing up prices
D、they acted as a deterrent to trade
答案
C
解析
本文在文章最后指出“they pushed up prices.Thus,regrettably,the Tokugawa shoguns’search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed stipends to make ends meet”,句子中的“Thus”引导表示结果的语句,可以看出,由于他们生活费用的提高,德川将军寻求清偿债务的方法的行为显得可悲。
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