/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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First thing I'd do is get myself some proper posture coaching. Emperors have to do that whole "still as a statue except for directed action" thing, after all. I also reread the entire Confucian classics (as well as Shang Yang and Hanfeizi) to see if I'm missing any vital info on how a ruler should act. I also acquire personal power by learning how magic and by directing Confucian-style rituals of reverence unto myself, which according to Gensokyo logic should make my danmaku stronger.
Next I promulgate my jurisdiction as the protector of all villagers, and that anyone who violates my protection should come to me to receive my judgement. Reimu and Sanae are to be tasked with helping the offending youkai reach me if they are too ignorant to understand my magnanimous and fair judgement or too weak to access it (or in other words, arresting youkai). I also promulgate procedures regarding my judgement: the right to call in representation, the right to question witnesses against oneself, that my protection only extends so far as my subjects are acting within reason, in good faith, without violating the personal and property rights of youkai or human, etc. etc.. Not trial by jury though, I'm the emperor and I am more impartial than any jury can be. My judgement shall be lenient in general, with penance to the victim or their relatives as the mainstay of my regime, rather than imprisonment or execution.
Once I have a reputation for fair judgement, I expand my jurisdiction to resolving any dispute the youkai have among themselves. I rig up a system where my judgement can be invoked through a ritual that can be performed anywhere, and then I shall be informed and can begin arrangements for a judgement. My goal is both to gain more power and to steadily erode the influence of the strongest youkai. Additionally, I have the opportunity to get Yukari in my debt, which will be important for later.
Once power and justice are sorted out, I need to develop my realm's economy. A tax on the unimproved value of land will provide me with the budget to get things done and give some impetus to enterprise. Gensokyo is agrarian, so my priority is farmers. With the "divine right to command anyone there as you have their complete loyalty", I should be able to direct the construction of an irrigation system or expand the currently existing one at minimum expense, by having the people dig wells or canals. At the first bumper harvest I establish an ever normal granary, which trades grain at the same prices always (selling for slightly higher than the price would reach during a typical year, buying for slightly lower). Once my finances are past the establishment of that project, I begin to loan money at a low interest rate to those who wish to invest in their lands by planting trees or mulberry bushes, buying animals, changing their crops, etc. The goal here is to diversify the land's production so we export more to the youkai world, have better diets, and can produce more clothing. This necessarily increases the land and labor constraints on the village's production of staple grains like rice and millet, which is a problem. For land, I will have all the traditional claims on the land surrounding the village catalogued, and in any situations where those claims overlap I will aim to resolve the dispute in favor of the most well-attested. This will enable villagers to buy land from youkai who were probably doing nothing with most of it anyway and allow us plenty of room for keeping animals and such. To alleviate the labor constraint, I'll get Yukari to gap us in some modern gm cultivars of rice, which should grow better, require less de-pesting attention, and be self-replicable in our own hands. I will sell these seeds to farmers with low-interest loans. I will also encourage the kappa to come down to the village and take requests for labor saving machinery from the village: the products of this policy should be idiosyncratic but it will help free up labor and also develop Gensokyo's industries on the side.
There. With that, I should be secure in power in the village, be well-integrated into the youkai world, and have noticeably improved the lives of the people. I have two ideas for projects after that (beginning power generation and opening up immigration from the outside world) but those are both very risky because they would anger or worry youkai. I would go for one and maybe start the other twenty or so years later when things have quieted down.