Matsukata+Masayosh

===** M A T S U K A T A M A S A Y O S H I ** ===

=our new financial minister who will change Japan=

===**About Matsukata Masayoshi....** ===

**Early life**

 * ==**Born in a samurai family in Kagoshima, Satsuma province** ==
 * ==**In 1866, he went to Nagasaki in order to study western science, mathematics and surveying.** ==
 * ==**After the fall of Tokugawa era, Matsukata Masayoshi helped to maintain orders in Nagasaki.** ==
 * ==**In 1868, Matsukata was appointed governor of Hita Prefecture** ==
 * ==**In 1870, his great ability as a governor was recognized by the emperor of Japan, and was summoned to Tokyo to be the Prime Minister of Japan.** ==

**Primary Financial Accomplishment**

 * ==== **Established the Land Tax:** ====
 * ==== **Taxpayers shall pay their taxes with money instead of rice.** ====
 * ==== **Taxes are now calculated based on the price of estates, not the amount of the agricultural product produced in the estates.** ====
 * ==== **Tax rates are fixed at 3% of the value of estates and an estate holder is now mandatory for paying those taxes.** ====

=**NEW SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE : NEW FINANCIAL ARRANGE ** = ===Are you tired of giving a part of each year’s rice crop to the government? Would you like to be recognized as owners of the land you farm? Are you worried about the amount of tax that you have to pay every year? === ===Then Masayoshi offers you a new financial program. You won’t have to give up your rice anymore. You will be recognized as owners of your land, as long as you pay the required amount of tax with our new monetary system, YEN. You will only have to pay taxes with this currency money now. ===

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===AND... Daimyos, you will be able to buy factories and bonds from the government and strengthen your family’s position in society. More, we know that you had to sell your lands to the government, but the government will provide bonds in return. Our new monetary system, new banking system, and the new tax system will greatly strengthen our nation! Matsuka Masayoshi, the new prime minister of Meiji Restortion, will totally change boost our economy up with the new financial arrangement. ===

These profits that the government gains from the new taxation system and selling factories and bonds will be used for developing Japan's infrastructure. Japan will be modernized! We will be able to catch up with the Westerners! Now is the time for change.

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