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Many instances might be cited from the pagesof official records and from the columns of local newspapers, butthey need not be detailed here. No sooner did this come to the cognizance ofNobukatsu than he caused these three retainers to be assassinated,and applied to Ieyasu for assistance, Ieyasu consented. Extensiveschemes of harbour improvement, roads, and riparian works wereplanned and put into operation. There is no reason to doubt the truth of these records, naive as aresome of the descriptions.

The result was the practicalextermination of the latter, including three thousand men underKatsuiye's adopted son, Gonroku. Their first response toKorea's appeal was to mobilize a force of five thousand men in theLiaotung peninsula, which The only resource was an issue of papermoney. But the impossibility of achieving such aprogramme soon came to be recognized and reconciliation wassubstituted.