the Meiji Restoration explicitly went after the Samurais as a distinct class in an attempt to remove any festering cores of protential rebellion that can aim at pulling off a Boshin War-reprise on them. They were perfectly happy with former Samurai clans going into merchantilelism, running spawling zaibastus, as that either made them willing conspirators in their plan to demolish the samurai caste (or at least, to busy to care), or if they were lacking in accounting, so piss poor that they couldn't afford a rump in a rural whore house, much less establishing a group of likeminded disastisfied samurais to build a rebellion on.