Chapter 4 Miya-sama ni TS Tensei

Ch4 This is Sakurako, being a Princess is so hard

(RAW https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4960en/ )

[ Our Empire expects its subjects to make a contribution!

For those who made purchases equal 10 yen or more, they would be given a special color picture of Fujiyama-sama who is barred to go outside of the palace!

In addition, you could get a LOVELY figure of Fujimiya-sama which comes in different poses for every 10 yen purchases! 

Are you capable of collecting them all? Aim to complete the lovely Fujimiya-sama's figures!

Please consider purchasing individual government bonds in this opportunity!

The long-month period of autumn's individual government bond purchase intensifed with high praise! ]

　Leaking the prohibited articles to the street as a prize is unacceptable. (Prohibited articles = Sakurako's photos and action figures)

　What in the world is prohibition....

　Why did it become like this?

　Well, in order to dispel the stagnant atmosphere in the country it is better to have the Imperial Family to open up to the people, to be an Imperial Family the people can have familiarity with, however I am shedding tear like someone who was out of luck.

　Then, just like that, I was made to be not an image girl but an image young girl of individual government bonds. In addition, I've no idea who said it, but if one attached a purchase privilege, the government bonds could sell even more?

　The fellow who thought such unscrupulous things puts me in a difficult situation, because I am the poster image-young-girl too, the contents of the privilege purchase's photo cards was also using me as the model...

　If it's like this, it's desperation. Whether it's being a mascot or a clown, let's do it!

　Since the ancient times, the Imperial Family was like human sacrifices to unite the japanese people after all.

　At any rate, something like collecting 100 pieces of my photo cards by buying a total 1000 yen government bonds, or a handshake coupon business really put me in great shame.

　The value of 1 yen in this period of time should be around 5~6,000 yen in the 21st century, so if it's 1,000 yen in this era, then it would be the equal of five to six millions yen in the 21st century.

　Only well-to-do households with 5 million per capita can buy it, can't they.

　However, it's somewhat conscientious that the individual government bonds could be purchased by contributing 10 yen, which is equal to 50,000 ~ 60,000 yen in the 21st century.

　Moreover when the maturity date comes, it would be paid back in full!

　This individual government bond is limited to Japan. It means it's limited to Japanese citizens. It's miso that you can't sell to foreigners even if you try to resell it nearby.

　With this, it completes the Law of Cycles! (Enkan no Kotowari) 

　If receiving a pretty photo cards of Sakurako-chan as an extra worth the 50,000 yen they spent on government bonds, let's expect that there are a lot of subjects who thinks it was a cheap spending.

　They aren't ignorant people, but subjects.

　Eh?

　The inflation decreases the value? Like I know something like that. (ㆀ˘･з･˘)

　The global situation surrounding the Empire is getting worse currently. It's just before or on the verge of a state of emergency. I think it's at a dangerous level where the back already inside the coffin rather than just the legs.

　In other word, the subjects's money is the country's money. The nation has the potential to be a robber.

　The military which is a nation's violence device would say, 

"If you don't pass the budget, the country won't be able to defend itself!"

　Like this, they become addicted to robbing people's money.

　Because it's the height of militarism, it can't be helped that the soldiers become imperious.

　Well, it's a profitable era for military personnel and military civilians.

　Since the munitions industry is an industry in which reproduction is extremely effective, I think it'd be more effective to allocate resources to basic industrial power for more private demands.

　And yet, when it comes to military personnel or military civilians, it's like "I want battleships!", "I want tanks!", and "I just want more troops!" while ignoring the national power.

　In addition to that, the middle aged and elderly high-ranking officials took those seriously because it was indeed a sound argument, once the mouth open up it couldn't be shut. 

　It's like, It was no different with children throwing tantrums when they wanted toys, wasn't it.

　But then, it's not like I have heard and seen these requests directly, I only learned from the hearsay I have heard.

　Well, they could at least understand a little bit about military personnel.

　If you look around the world, it's the era of imperialism where it is an era of eat or be eaten.

　In Asia other than Japan, only the Kingdom of Thailand, which is sandwiched between Burma which is the colony of United Kingdom and Indochina which is the colony of France, remains independence rather that being the colony of the Great Powers.

　Even the Kingdom of Thailand seems to be barely allowed to become independent in the name of being a buffer zone between United Kingdom and France.
    It's unavoidable that the Japanese in this period of time felt fear by the pressure of the Western powers and became military bias.

　This is especially true for those who had experienced Russo-Japan War in their juvenile and youth period.

　Because that generation is currently the middle-aged and elderly's generation who hold influential voice, the military expansion might not be advocate loudly.

　Wait,

　Perhaps, the Genro-class (old-timers war veterans who has the right to advice the emperor) were the ones to experienced first hand the dreadfulness of Western great powers (America & Europe) .

　If that's the case, currently, the generations who take the lead to set things in motion are the generation from Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I. It might be a generation where there are a lot of people who are intoxicated by the illusion of being victorious nation in all of them.

　It's the peculiarities of this era where there are a lot of people throwing their weight, narrow-mindedness, and short-sightedness all around the place with no regards in the larger world. Well, even in the future the people who throws their weight around didn't changed much, you can even say that it's very Japanese-like.

　Somehow, it made me feel extremely bad...

　And then, the so called last frontier of imperialism in China's mainland was a strategic base, a bridgehead, of the island nation nearby which functions as hinterland for Japanese Empire.

　Well~, truly, Japan does make one wants to cry, geopolitically....

　Country such as United States thinks that Japan is in the way, that is.

　Even I would be somewhat swayed with the feeling that every white people are like enemies by spending my time living in this era.

　That's why, if United States were to reach out its hands to Japan, Japan would bite back and make them feel bitter experience. I understood that we need at least minimum armaments to make them think so. I don't think we should be neglecting our military preparations.

　However, first we have to increase our national power. I think it would be better to arms ourselves after the increased of our national strength.

　The military that grows beyond the limit is a problem, isn't it?

　How should I put it?

　Even though a few months have passed, somehow I already being worn-out by various things.....

　For a person that came from the future like me, this era is an era which is hard to live in. boohoohoo...


(TN: please also read the story I have been writing if you like isekai story. https://www.scribblehub.com/series/73722/carried-over-achievements/ . )