Chiyoda Company Post
Chiyoda Company Post | |||||||||||
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| 1803–1869 | |||||||||||
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Motto: 王の命令によって、私たちは成功する "By the command of the King, We shall succeed" | |||||||||||
| Status | Joint-stock colony established by the Lucis Nihhon-koku Company and regulated by the Lucis Parliament. | ||||||||||
| Capital | Akihabara, Tokyu (1847-1869) | ||||||||||
| Common languages | English Nihhonese | ||||||||||
| Government | Corporatocracy | ||||||||||
| Governor-General | |||||||||||
• 1803-20 | Benedict Harold (first) | ||||||||||
• 1865–69 | Alan Gott (last) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 23 June 1803 | |||||||||||
| 9 March 1869 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| 1860 | 25,754 km2 (9,944 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Currency | Nihhonese Yen | ||||||||||
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The Chiyoda Company Post refers to the physical trading hub of the Lucis Nihhon-koku Company. It was established in 1803, following the Lucio-Nihhonese Treaty, which affirmed the United Kingdom as Nihhon-koku's protector in the state of a foreign war.
When the first formal trade relations were established in 1609 by requests of Lucian settler James Adams, the Lucians were granted extensive trading rights and set up a Lucis East Indiae Company trading post at Hiromi. They traded Asian goods such as spices, textiles, porcelain, silk, and tea. When the Takaki Rebellion of 1637 happened, in which Christian Nihhonese started a rebellion against the Takagawa Shogunate, it was crushed with the help of the Lucians. As a result, all Christian nations who gave aid to the rebels were expelled, leaving the Lucians the only commercial trading partner from the West. Despite this, Lucian Protestant Missionaries were free to practice their religion and conduct missions as long as it didn't interfere in government affairs. In 1750, the Lucis East Indiae Company ceded territories to the newly formed Lucis Nihhon-koku Company. It carried the same functions as the latter. During the Sandoric Wars, Nihhon-koku was subjected to various raids by the Aurucolian Navy in an attempt to dislodge Lucian trade and routes to Nihhon-koku, and force the country to make Aurucolia as its sole trading partner. However, it failed during the naval battles at Takaki Bay and the Edo Gulf.
Eventually, the company post expanded to include Kyoto, Tanegashima, Kanagawa, and Osaka. The Company was a private company owned by stockholders and reporting to a board of directors in Insomnia. Originally formed as a monopoly on trade, it increasingly took on governmental powers with its own army and judiciary. It seldom turned a profit, as employees diverted funds into their own pockets. The Lucis government had little control, and there was increasing anger at the corruption and irresponsibility of Company officials or "nabobs" who made vast fortunes in a few years. The Nihhon-koku Act of 1851 gave the Lucis government effective control of the private company for the first time. The new policies were designed for an elite civil service career that minimized temptations for corruption. Increasingly Company officials lived in separate compounds according to Lucian standards. The Company's rule lasted until 1868, when, after the Nihhonese Rebellion of 1868, it was abolished. With the Government of Nihhon-koku Act, the Lucian government assumed the task of directly administering Nihhon-koku in the new Dominion of Nihhon-koku.