Concentration of the samurai in castle-towns had acted as a stimulus to trade.
武士在城堡城镇的集中刺激了贸易的发展。
Once in debt, neither the individual samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover.
一旦负债,无论是武士本人还是幕府将军本人都很难恢复元气。
It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited.