| Merchants and artisans are rich and samurai and farmers are poor, which causes all the people to despise the ground, so this negative effect will be overcome when artisans and merchants are always short of rice and respect samurai and farmers, then the price will be naturally leveled off.' |
「工商豊かにして、士農困む是れ上下地を易る根原なり、此弊を改むるときは工商常に米穀に困み、士農を仰でその業を励むに至れば、物価は自然に平準なるべし」 |