Amago no Miko

Yonglu 2 (1559) November Hirose Village, Izumo Nongyi-gun

In front of a five-year-old boy is a dried persimmon on a plate.

"... then, oneechan will go out for a little while, but if you didn't eat that persimmon when oneechan came home, I'll give you another one."

Yeah!

I'll see you later.

This ball is coming from Tsukiyama Toda Castle across the Iizumi River to Hirose Village on the opposite bank.Toyota's castle town is essentially this Hirose village.I think it's a little inconvenient because it's across the river.However, since there is little flat land on the Tsukishan Toda Castle side, there is no choice.

"Ohii-sama, can you put a dried persimmon in front of that child without eating it?

"Well, most kids will eat it unbearably."

"Then why are you doing it?

It's an experiment.

Yes, what I'm doing right now is a marshmallow experiment.You're training your child's self-control or you're choosing a child with self-control.What a marshmallow. This experiment is quite valuable.

Data from this marshmallow experiment show that children who can control themselves without eating marshmallows are extremely likely to grow into good adults in the future.

The basics of the country are people.You're a bureaucrat, aren't you?The better the bureaucracy, the stronger the foundation of the state will be.The marshmallows for this are also dried persimmon experiments.This serves as the first stage of screening for the choice of national merit.

"Experiment?"

"Yes, a child who doesn't eat persimmons until I get back is more likely to be a good adult."

"You're looking at your child's patience."

"Because a child who can endure it has a strong sense of self-control."

Well, I remember when I was a kid in my previous life, I couldn't stand the food I liked.

I remember eating my favorite side dishes first, leaving something I didn't like at the end, pinching my nose with tears and forcing peppers into my mouth.

Peppers and carrots are spicy foods in children's tastes.Well, before I knew it, I could eat it delicious.

But! Celery, you can't!That's not what humans eat!

"Can you control your mind...."

"Excellent people are the backbone of the country, so many of them have never been better."

"Did the incompetent worker destroy the country?

"Exactly. So I asked the priests of the shrines and the monks in the temple to experiment with this dried persimmon."

Zeke or Maltke said that there was nothing more harmful than an incompetent worker.By hiring a shrine and a temple to work, it also works positively for the control of Neko's territory, and it's a one-stone two-bird operation.

"Well, if you're a good farmer or a town kid, you're going to be hired."

"Yeah, that's why I made a thousand-second hourglass."

Thousand second hourglass. It's 16 minutes and 40 seconds.It was like 15 minutes in a real marshmallow experiment, but I tried to make it a thousand seconds with a good number.In this era, I think it's also a problem that you don't have the habit of counting time in quarters of an hour, that is, less than 30 minutes.

If a priest or a kid counts thousands individually, the clock will appear because it looks like there will be more than a hundred seconds of error.

Thousand second hourglass craftsmanship, but the margin of error is only within 3 seconds.Well, it was made to fit into an error of about three seconds, so perhaps it's only natural.

It's subtle if it's actually a thousand seconds, but the error of multiple hourglasses is less than three seconds.But don't you think it's good enough for manual workmanship accuracy in this era?

"It can only be measured when it's decided, but it seems convenient."

"If you change the amount of sand, it can be useful for a variety of applications."

Yes, for example, it can be used when boiling noodles.The first difficulty is that the optimal solution boiling time must be measured verbally and then adjusted, because once the optimal solution time is known, the hourglass can be utilized.

Before that, there was no decent noodles!Tohoho....

"I don't know how else to use it."

Other than boiling noodles, the use is....

Ugah!

Yeah, even if Haru doesn't have to worry, I can't think of a way to use it.Well, let's think about it.

More than that,

"Do you want persimmons too, Haru?It's sweet and delicious. "

That being said, I handed Kasuga persimmons.It's not a tomato. I also gave the boy some persimmon.

"Ah, I'll take it.Ah, it's delicious!

"If you eat persimmon, the bell will ring. Hirose Village."

"It's snowing for the first time in Toyota's castle."

It's like a deja vu, but not a deja vu?Is this the first time this pattern has happened?

No, it's not.

Spring sister, it's just a handful.

"Never mind. Never mind."

"I mean, it really came down when I thought it was cold."

It's almost winter time.

"That's right. This winter, I want you to give me a break for the rattlesnake like the beginning of this year."

I want to be round with Nukunuku in winter with snails.The instrumentality of civilization is great.Long live the knowledge of previous generations!Well, it's fun to make snowmen and play with them.

"Ah, the sand of the hourglass has stopped."

Well, let's go back.

/(adv-to, adv-to) (on-mim) grunting/grunting/grunting/

"It just happens."

"Oh dear...."

Heh, I've eaten it.

Hey, hey!Hmm, but perhaps it was impossible to order a normal five-year-old child not to eat the persimmon in front of him.I'm actually only 4 years old.I think it was the result that 2/3 was eaten unbearably in the future.

Couldn't you beat the temptation of persimmon sweetness in this age, when sweetness is still overwhelmingly low?Even a dried persimmon is a good meal for this child.I love dried persimmons, and I'm not sure I can endure them even if I were this kid.

Well, if I succeeded in 1/4, I think it would be better if I stayed at 1/5.

"If you ate it, you can't give me another persimmon."

Er!

"If you can't eat persimmon until oneechan gets back, you promised to give me another one, right?

"Yes, but...."

"I'm afraid you ate one more persimmon, so I'm not going to promise you one more."

Phew

Yeah, this kid's a loser.However, it seems like there is a big deal to decide everything with this one-time test, so it would be better to test it for three years, five, six and seven, like primary, secondary and tertiary passing.

Not necessarily if you don't have any excavated gems among the tertiary pass at the age of seven.

That's why we teach our passing children talent.Talent teaching methods may initially be a continuum of trials and mistakes, but expect know-how to accumulate and refine over time.

Because educating people is the only way to make people who they are.Well, I'm not even looking for a modern moral, but there are too many beasts in human skin these days.

Does it feel like I should be able to improve as much as possible?Correcting people after a self-grown youth is an effective way to discipline them when they are young, because they break bones.

It is said to be mainly valid as my token.

Education is brainwashing!Brainwash education is recommended for the times!