Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

Shizuko had her head troubled about a certain natural phenomenon that would happen a few days later.

In modern times, we're talking about levels that we observe with parents and children, but unfortunately, in the Warring States era, they're classified as sneaky.

It is Shizuko's problem that the villagers do not feel anxious about it.

(Can you tell by the explanation that the earth, the moon, the sun...?)

Easy to explain with your mouth. But the villagers don't have the basics to understand it.

Therefore, there was anxiety that the key anxiety could not be resolved after listening to half of the conversation.

But on the other hand, that celestial show happens between 22: 45 and 2: 18 JST.

No matter what you think, you hardly ever see warring humans. Because when the sun sets, all you have to do is sleep.

(But I don't even wake up with some kind of applause to see, do I?

Eventually I thought about it and decided to explain it like a fairy tale when someone noticed it.

Mixing the facts like that, but teaching it like it's for kids, relieves anxiety.

Concluding, Shizuko runs a pen on the sandboard she uses instead of a notebook in an attempt to think quickly about the story.

(I wonder if it feels like Tendo Sasa is hiding behind the moon)

With a margin for Shizuko thinking about such a merhentic story, Cai was cleaning the room where Shizuko kept her luggage.

Even when I say cleaning, it doesn't look that dirty because Shizuko is dizzy.

At best, it ends to the point of cleaning.

No matter how much talent you say you look into, you basically have to look after yourself.

I look like I have a hard time finding out as I work as a housekeeper, but this one was actually more convenient.

You can clean the house and check her personal belongings all you want.

Furthermore, Shizuko has no suspicion that Cai is doing that, and she is left to clean.

There are three Shizuko rooms, one in the luggage storage area, one in the work place and the last in the private room.

What made her house bigger than the ordinary people was a reward from Nobunaga for the crops she devoted to her first and second years.

A fence was erected, albeit simplistic, which was a normal barn, almost a place to make dried goods, but a garden was created, a hut for the Vitmans was created, and a house was given with enough rooms to count with both hands.

Then I will inevitably need your help, so colors were dispatched on it.

But the conversation didn't go any further.

First, somewhere in the room where Shizuko uses them, there were always two or three wolves.

So no matter what you do with the room cleaning, the wolves come to the room in response to the sound.

It was the color of the mood being watched, but in fact the wolves were watching her.

But it's not the idea that Colour imagines, it's simply the idea that comes from the sequence "What's the Underground doing in the boss's room?"

There were two strange things that Colour found in that.

One is a slightly larger crate tied with sturdy rope.

And the other is a medium-sized crossbow used by Shizuko in the hunt.

The crate is placed in a room commonly used by Shizuko and is unlikely to open easily, either as it is opened or with the power of color.

Because the rope is wrapped around it quite stiff, there is nothing but slashing the rope to really open it.

But if I do that, Shizuko will know that Colour is doing research with Koso.

Colour thought there was nothing but a careful peek at the opportunity to check the contents.

Crossbows, by contrast, were extremely easy.

It was not as tightly controlled as a crate and loaded with other hunting tools.

Shizuko didn't say anything when I said cleaning and carrying it.

However, because it is a 'weapon', I only received a warning that it is dangerous if I do not pay attention to handling it.

Although it is the word 'weapon' that causes colour to attract a strong interest in crossbows.

(Structure I've never seen...... Shizuko said bow, but I've never seen a bow like this)

There are three kinds of crossbows managed by Shizuko.

The first is a crossbow with a simple structure, the second is the largest and hardest crossbow of the three types, and the last third is a so-called compound type crossbow with a pulley.

The second crossbow was the one I used to enlarge from the first one and hunt deer, but I really needed special equipment to pull strings.

When Shizuko checked her sister's books to see what was going on, the compound type with the pulley caught her eye.

But it was the pulleys that required even higher technology than dedicated equipment.

It began at the place where the special processing equipment was made together with the gold.

As a result of repeated failures, machining equipment was finally successfully created to create a pulley, but the time to complete it depends on the river flow in order to utilize the power of the water wheel.

It takes about three months to build one pulley when things are in good shape, and nearly five months if the river flows poorly.

I could make about 20 pieces at once in parallel, but it still took a huge amount of time for one part.

I make and store a number of spare parts in that relationship.

There are, of course, several other improvements in detail, such as gunbeds for restraining hand brakes, triggers made of precious metal, auxiliary tool cocking strings for pulling strings, and deer leather shoulder belts for carrying on their backs.

I can't measure as much formal power as I can, but Shizuko calculated that the sightings ranged from roughly 150 to 185 pounds.

It doesn't matter what power is to her, because the goal is finally whether she can easily defeat a deer or not.

Naturally, the third generation of crossbows could easily pull strings and pull the trigger in a stable position, so the hunt was in progress.

The cocking string is also an aid and I don't usually need it, so I'll just take most of it.

Seeing such an over-technology-laden crossbow, Colour thought it necessary to report to Nobunaga intuitively.

It is her role to report the existence of such a mysterious thing, but the crossbow was too heterogeneous for boulders.

Shizuko doesn't report this crossbow because she understands it can only be used to the extent of hunting because all specs are lower than those of a volcano gun.

In fact, no matter how many arrows you shoot more often, or how fast and penetrating you are for the first time, the arrows are shorter than the Wah bow than being a crossbow, so the distance from 50 to 70 meters that you can make sure of is quite short.

History proves that if you want soldiers to have crossbows, it's more effective to have them with a fire rope gun.

But hatred and colour do not know such historical context.

(... the question is how to get this to the woods, right)

I look at the compound type crossbow and think about color.

The number is not that high, so if you lose it, you will surely notice Shizuko.

At that time, the color of cleaning and caring around me is the first to be suspected.

I wondered what the problem was, but the problem was unexpectedly cleared up.

"Huh? You want me to lend you a crossbow? Fine."

I decided to ask softly for the colour, but the answer was unexpected.

It's so easy to say, I got the answer I wanted, but the color looked so bright.

"There are no safety devices or anything like that, so be careful handling them. Well, before this, I taught you how to handle it, so I think it's okay."

To put it that way, Shizuko turned to her desk and resumed her own work.

Without interrupting the work and damaging the mood, Cai lowered his head and left the room behind.

Then a little bit, Cai summoned Kasei Mori's use and handed him a letter.

The contents were briefly written like this.

"Shizuko, from Nanban, possesses weapons."

On October 27th, Cai delivered the crossbow to Kasei Mori with his feet and went with him to Nobunaga.

Originally, Cai was in a position that Nobunaga could not even look at, but Kasei Mori explained the substitute this time, and decided to ask him to join the explanation for the color he had seen closest to him.

When he finished his glance greeting, Kasei Mori immediately showed a crossbow to Nobunaga.

"... this is the bow... then?

Nobunaga asks, whispering his eyebrows.

Crossbows such as crossbows also existed in Japan, but as samurai were born and disputes between smaller players increased, crossbows that were difficult to handle and needed to be managed gradually disappeared.

The exact location is unknown, but in the Muromachi era, craftsmen who knew how to manufacture crossbows are said to have disappeared.

Instead, light armor and bows that are easy to manage will dominate.

Even when times went down and a large group of soldiers, mainly infantry soldiers, reappeared, the long bow had developed into a long-range one using composite materials, so the crossbow could never be seen.

Nobunaga takes the crossbow.

And carefully check the structure of the crossbow, as if dealing with broken goods.

After about five minutes of careful observation, he put a crossbow over the basin and said this towards Kasei Mori.

"This can't be used on the battlefield"

Ignoring the reaction between the two, Nobunaga speaks as if he were going to tell himself.

"The structure is too complex and strange. If it's damaged, it'll take a long time to repair it. I don't know the exact manufacturing method, but I'm pretty sure I've done something with my hands. And the fact that Shizuko is using it to hunt beasts means that it's only as powerful as that."

"... then"

Nobunaga nods at Kasei Mori's inquiry.

"Shizuko knew everything and didn't dare report it to me. It's pointless to report something you can't use on the battlefield."

But Nobunaga, who shrugged, continues his words whispering the fan in his hand.

"Now we know that Shizuko is also familiar with Nanban weapons. This is a big harvest."

"But can it be used in my country?

Sparkling rope guns have developed greatly in Japan, but not all of them.

Crossbows and crossbows were also brought in from the West again, but were refused and not popularized by power as half-way weapons to a volcanic gun, inferior to a bow in fast-fire.

Likewise, weapons exist that are difficult to use on Japanese soil even if they can be used in the West.

"If you can't use it, you can improve it so that it can be used. Unless it's a strange structure as complex as this bow."

I can capture Nanban technology sooner than I expected.

Nobunaga, who thought so, was laughing unconsciously.

November was a relatively mild air, but I've been a little busy since just after December.

Soybeans and sugar cane entered the harvest season.

The area under cultivation was about 1ha for sugar cane and 50a for soybeans, but an improved harvest could be expected.

Especially since soybeans are low in nitrogen fertilizer, they could not be expected to be harvested, but contrary to expectations, they were abundant.

(If we gather nitrogen fertilizer, it's grandpa special cultivation, and we can harvest 10a 400kg...... well I wonder if next year or again)

Shizuko has forgotten, but soybeans are very valuable as feed for military horses and can even be described as military supplies.

But in her head, it was about the ingredients of soy sauce and miso, so it was not worth the soy.

"Um, miso and soy sauce need salt... we don't get a ton of them at the moment"

In modern times, salt is also sold in convenience stores, but in the Warring States era, ion exchange membrane salting methods can not be done, and salt is made using salt fields.

But the amount of salt that could be produced with a lot of labor was so small that it could be described as a sparrow tear.

(I wonder if I will modify the streamlined salt field slightly to produce large quantities of salt. Pretty bad at the point where we're short of salt anyway.)

The more salt that is also the basis of condiments and the ingredients needed to make other condiments, the better.

Salt that's not organic, so it doesn't grow mold, and it doesn't have the nutrients for bacteria to grow.

Therefore, there is no difficulty in preserving or managing large quantities of production. To be clear, you should put it in a pot or barrel and store it in a storage bin.

(I would have trouble storing the rice if it was produced in bulk as well... I guess I should make a wooden silo this way. Later, there may be a facility where the harvested rice is degraded and skinned.)

Shizuko imagined a facility that did not require so much mechanical equipment, but was capable of flow work like a belt conveyor.

Fortunately, the power can be covered by a water wheel, so it doesn't take much effort to build a lane.

"I hope so... Soybeans first"

Immediately after harvesting soybeans, it is necessary to dry heavenly sun. In order to do this, it is necessary to reshape it first.

Next, secure the location. There are small gardens that are narrow and heavenly and sun-dried.

No matter how hard I looked at it, Shizuko decided to build a long dry field in front of the house and dry the soybeans there.

The street becomes a little inconvenient because it is near the entrance, but it is a week to two so I decided to put up with it until then.

When the drying for grain removal is complete, the next step must be full grain removal.

Lay a larger cloth on the ground and tap the pocketed soybean branches into a deep barrel.

That's about all I can take, but I can't help it. Things come out. It also accumulates pockets, branches of cusp, etc.

If that's all, it's still better, but inside, larvae come out of the bug pod.

It's a waste of time if you're dealing with each and every one of them, so when they accumulate to some extent, transfer them to a wide, shallow barrel.

From there it was man-made sea tactics. Sorting separates soybeans from others.

At this time, soybeans will also be sorted between beautiful soybeans and soybeans that are not available as insects or edibles.

But if I did it alone, it would take time, so I decided to do it separately from the secondary sorting that would do the primary sorting of soybeans and cusps and the separation of soybeans.

As a result, the beautiful soybeans, which took another day to separate, reached about 480 km.

From that, we separated what we would use to seed next year, and the soybeans that could eventually be used as edible came to 400 kilos.

Then, the cubes and insects that come out shall be compost materials and fertilizers for next year.

"Hmm, you got a good harvest. I just want to reap this ten times next year."

"I also feel I need ten times as much labor..."

Says Shizuko, who looked at a barrel containing soybeans that had been sorted out and had a slightly pulling colour and a full smile.

It's a mountain of treasure if anyone sees it, but Shizuko only saw it as a mere pile of soybeans.

"Now use this to make miso and soy sauce -"

"(Soy sauce...?) Please sort it out and pay half to the hotel later. And what the hell is that suki haunt...?

"I know. I have to deal with the sugar cane next time. Shall we just make some brown sugar?"

With that said, Shizuko took up the last major harvest, the treatment of sugar cane.