Nationalism and Pan-Asianism in Sources of Japanese Tradition by ???

A very confusing paragraph by Tokutomi Souho:


"Peace was the servant of wealth; wealth progressed, indeed, made extraordinary progress. This wealth, however, was all outside the compass of the feudal warrior class. Peace not only contributed to the "production of wealth," it brought the "joys of wealth". And not these alone, but also the "worship of wealth." Therefore, the social structure, which was centered on the feudal samurai, could not but tend to focus on the attainment of wealth....Conditions of society being like this, even without the irruption of the problems of foreign affairs, revolution could not have been avoided."

in Shourai no Nihon; Kousaka, ed., and Abosch, trans., Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era, p. 204

Okay, so what I get from the first two lines is that wealth was becoming very important in that time, but because a warrior was a warrior, it was beyond his reach? This is pretty much a common fact...so no probs there, if I haven't made a mistake in interpretation.

Then there's the whole peace thing, which can be kind of common sense, sort of like if you're rich and fed you're generally peaceful and happy man. Therefore, because the social structure was all about the samurai, who couldn't happily concentrate on wealth (only the merchants can do that) so ....why does that mean a focus on the attainment of wealth? Am I missing something implied here? Okay, let's assume that the focus on the attainment of wealth is just common sense and has nothing to do with the samurai class - although I might be able to twist it a bit and say maybe he meant it had to do with the WHOLE class structure and not just the warrior class - so yeah, okay, in a way people concentrated more and more on wealth - and then why suddenly conditions of society being like this, revolution could not have been avoided?

what, because of the poor getting poorer kinda thing, like peasants starving and everything? and needing to pay taxes although they were dirt poor to samurais who weren't doing a thing, and blablablabla? Because everyone started to think about money and obviously if you weren't a merchant you were on the losing side? Okay, then maybe I guess the guy's point is that if people are starving and money is important because money can feed you, then even without Perry's black ships starving people would have ...revolted? rebelled? anyway.