in those days , the new government was caught in serious financial difficulties not only because a great amount of gold flowed outside the country due to the different exchange ratios between gold and silver at home and abroad , but also because the expenses for boshin civil war and the encouragement of new industry was required . また当時、国内外の金銀比価の差により、大量の金が国外へ流出していた上、さらに戊辰戦争による戦費や、殖産興業のために新政府は深刻な財政不足に陥っていた。
every domain had faced serious financial difficulties since the middle of edo period , and barely survived by borrowing money from leading merchants in osaka etc , so-called " daimyo-gashi " (lending money to daimyo ), or collecting goyokin (money temporarily charged on farmers and merchants ) from the people of the domain . 既に江戸時代中期頃から各藩ともに深刻な財政難を抱えており、大坂などの有力商人からいわゆる「大名貸」を受けたり領民から御用金を徴収するなどして辛うじて凌いでいた。
