Requires
- Buildings:
Enables
- Buildings:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 3600
- Increases the spread of influence (+2 influence)
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 ishin shishi
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 shinsengumi
- +1 to repression in this province
- +1 to happiness in this province
Clan Effects
- +1 to the current number of ishin shishi that may be fielded
Description
When law governs, only the guilty go in fear.
A magistrate has wide powers of investigation and punishment, his authority being drawn from the provincial lord and, ultimately, from the Shogun. It is a foolish man indeed who crosses a magistrate, and a foolishly brave one who does so deliberately. He is, then, a tool of legal repression in human form. He also knows his province and can spot men of talent, making it easier to recruit agents. After the lawlessness of the Sengoku Jidai, the strongest reasons for ordinary people to support the Tokugawa Shogunate were law and order. With peace came the chance to build settled lives, safe from pillage, rapine and murder. Shogunate officials were quick to capitalise on this history during the struggle of the Meiji Restoration, although direct criticism of the Emperor was, of course, completely beyond the pale. The motive of his servants, lawless as they were and without respect for tradition, could be called into question with impugnity.