[X] "A copied rifle will never be enough. We must take their craft, their wisdom, and their knowledge then we must master it with our own merits in order for our people to forge the future. Whether that future is expelling the foreigners, bending them to Nippon's will, or forming bonds of brotherhood can only be determined by your wisdom."
-[X] "In the end our Home's victory can not be in numbers but in the quality of our crafts and our people."
[X] The barbarians are more numerous, with more rifles. Their own smiths will improve. The only way to truly defeat the barbarians is with weapons so much better than foreign rifles, that their greater numbers will not matter. It will not be decided by how skillfully one can swing a blade, but by how quickly and how accurately the guns can fire.
[X] Nothing is simple. Just one gun will not do. Right now they are on the path to progress. Maybe somewhere out there they are working their forges in a direction. We can look back at the waring clan period and see clans trying to one up each other constantly. There might be the same competition happening out there in far off lands. We will need to look outwards with our our eyes. Learn how far these barbarians will go and how they act. Then we gain power. We consolidate, then we lead.