Amago no Miko

Yonglu 3 years (1560) August Chii Miya Village, Izumojinmen County

Hmm, this is cotton.

Ohii-sama, you're fluffy.

"You're so fluffy, you call me a walrus."

"Really?

"Maybe..."

It is a ball that has been taking a walk through Tsukishan Toda Castle and carrying its legs to Kanmon County for a long time.So I'm just visiting the cotton harvest.

I thought cotton would grow after a few years, but what a surprise!The time between sowing and harvesting was only about three and a half months!

As for cotton, I imagined that cotton could be made from mulberry-like trees, but cotton was completely different from what I imagined.The cotton 'tree' wasn't a tree.

Well, I cotton is wood.Mulberry trees. The mulberry was silk for a moment, but I mistook it for something like cotton mulberry, right?It was a mistake to think short-circuited.

After careful consideration, the mulberry is a silk feed, and silk can not be harvested from the mulberry.Because silk is a silkworm that the silk spits out.

It was obvious to everyone to think about it a little, but once you get caught up in your own thoughts, it's not easy to escape the procedure.Is this the guy who tied himself up in a rope?

Well, cotton and mulberry cultivation was very rare in Izumo, so let me make an excuse that I didn't know anything about it.This concludes the self-defense.

Apparently, I have a temper to think of everything short-circuited.I don't seem to like thinking about things like taking a step back and creating a reservoir.That's why I often regret saying what I thought without thinking.

I'm sure it's straightforward.To me, I'm good at derailing my thoughts in the direction of the day after tomorrow... no!

Besides,

We decided to cultivate a lot of cotton around Chii Shrine and Koji, which are poorly fed water and unsuitable for rice making.I may have chosen this area because I had already grown a little cotton outside Chii Shrine.

Incidentally, among the displaced people from Kinai, there were two families of farmers who were conveniently growing cotton.In times of famine, the stomach does not swell with cotton, and even if the cotton farmer becomes a displaced person, it can't be helped.

They were carrying cotton seeds, which were a small part of their fortune.I also bought cotton seeds in Kinai, but I was able to secure only a small quantity, so it was wonderful that they carried cotton seeds, which are also rice seeds.It's not a waste, is it?

Thanks to such a coincidence, I was fortunate enough to become a technical instructor in cotton cultivation.

"Profit, how much of this cotton can be harvested?

"Hee, if you do it again, I'll give you about 120 to 130 pounds."

"You don't have to be polite."

"Heh, heh, thank you.My princess. "

Toshigaku-san was growing cotton in Wazumi, but I was one of the Ojisan who dragged him from before the famine to Izumo to become a technical instructor for cotton.

If the displaced people told me they were growing cotton when they were interviewed about their profession, this would have to be a scout!Yes, thanks for coming to Izumo.When I said I would hire you for 30 cents, Profitable was surprised.

But it's 120 pounds in reverse.I don't know if the yield is high or low for an amateur, but that's not the only problem.

"Is that 120 pounds in Tang Eye?Or 120 pounds in Yamato's eyes?

Yamato Eye.

Yes, even in a sip, there are one kilogram of Tang Eye at 160 kg and one kilogram of Yamato Eye at 200 kg.Because there is a 1.25-fold difference between Tang and Yamato, the difference is huge. Since 1 kg is 3.75 g, 1 kg is 600 g in Tang.The first kilogram of Yamato will be 750g.

In other words, the ability to harvest 120 kg of cotton in one turn means 90 kg in the other.

In addition, I don't use it very much, but there was also a 250-pound mountain.It's complicated and cumbersome, so one day weighing and measuring is a problem that I want to unify.

I would like to adopt the metric law that I was used to in my previous life, but in the first place, the metric law itself is not yet in the West.That was certainly supposed to have originated in France in the 18th or 19th century.

Even though we know that 3 feet 3 inches 3 minutes 3 centimeters is unlimited close to 1 meter, it is only slightly different.I don't know how to calculate the basic metric reference value.I can't order the foundation.

Even if I were to say three feet, three inches, three minutes, three centimeters, one meter, I think it would be very difficult to change the consciousness of people who are familiar with the scale.Do you take advantage of the temperament of Japanese people who come from the sea and shelve them for later generations?

I missed the conversation.

"It's been about two months since you picked cotton, right?

"Hee, if the weather is good, I'll pick it for about two and a half months, but the time I sowed the orange over there was also an acorn, so if I expected the harvest amount, I'd be happy."

Toshita-san sowed it before the cotton blows.

Well, since the time to bring Mr. Toshigata to Izumo was more than a month late from the time of seeding cotton, I couldn't help but notice that Mr. Toshigata sowed more cotton.Cotton is picked between late July and late September, with peaks in August.

I'm picking cotton from a field that used to grow fine cotton in Chii Shrine.

"Ohii-sama, how much does it take to make something out of this cotton?

"Hmm, I'll try to figure it out.Profit, how much of a kilo can you use as cotton?

"30% or 40%."

Hmm, let's take a minute and leave it at 35%. 750 x 0.35 = 262.5g.Clothes should weigh twice as much as summer and winter clothes, but one kimono is basically the opposite.The first opposite in this case is the length of the cloth.It's not the size of the land.

So, the width of the cloth is 9 inches and 5 minutes, and the length is 2 lengths and 8 feet.Length is 10 feet.Also, to be more complicated, the ruler is not 30.3 cm, but a whale ruler that is 1.25 times the ruler.In other words, one foot of the whale measure is less than 38 cm.

38 x 0.95 = 36.1cm. 38 x 28 = 1064cm.It is roughly 36 cm horizontal, and the length is 10 m and 60 cm, which is the opposite of the cloth.So, the core weight is already troublesome, so it's an argument, but I'll assume that one dress is about 1 kg.The calculation is easy.It depends on the clothes.

It is said that it is counterproductive to make one garment, but naturally, 10% or 20% of the cutouts come out.Then you can see that a little change comes in four times the size of 262.5g, right?In other words, the amount of cotton used was equivalent to 4 kg at the time of picking one garment!

One rebound of cotton is about 1 kg.Tama-chan, it's amazing!

"The princess writes on the ground barbaric numbers and pussy."

"Oh, Profit, I know the barbaric numbers."

"No, I just saw it in Sakai.I can't read or write. "

"It'll be useful if you get used to it."

Hmm, I know that the savage numbers and the Arabic numbers become the world standard, so I want to spread the Arabic numbers one day.If you get used to it from a young age, it will spread naturally as the child grows up.

Yeah, education is important after all.That's right, I have to answer my spring sister.

"I wonder if the cotton my sister is holding is about 4 kg?

Hmm, you need four pounds.

"You said you could only use 30% or 40% of your profits.Because there's a seed part. "

"That's right.Seeds don't become yarns. "

In this era, cotton, which is still in low circulation, is a luxury product.That's much cheaper than silk, but cotton is more luxurious than blueberries.Because 400 sentences are not lower for cotton.

If you tailor it to clothes and buy it from a merchant, it jumps four or five times, and you can get between 1,600 and 2,000 sentences of luxury clothing.It is 200,000 yen in modern value.It's a little cheap, but it's a bespoke suit....

Well, it's still cheaper than the kimono my spring sister and I are wearing!I'm not a kimono, Scarlet Witch costume is the default, but the material is silk.

But now that the ordinary people of this era have arrived, I understand the sparrow situation very well.There are 400 sentences and 500 sentences for blue sardines and hemp clothes.Then I can't buy any clothes....

So, looking at the process, cotton farmers spinning yarn weaving into antimatter tailoring selling by merchants.This is what happens when you buy a yarn for 400 sentences and 200 sentences for the antimatter.When spinning yarn, the purchase value of cotton is 100 sentences. 100 sentences is the share of the farmer who grows the cotton.

Since the amount of cotton harvested in a cotton field is 120 kg, one cotton field is 4 kg of cotton, so 120 kg is 30 kg of cotton, and 100 sentences × 30 sentences is 3000 sentences.The income of the cotton field is three pieces of copper coin.It's rough, but it fits roughly like this.

Is it worth four or five times as much rice per unit area in cotton?Well, my stomach doesn't swell with cotton.Plus, I'll catch 60% of them!

But cotton farmers are going to be much richer than the people who make rice.I still have 12 pieces of cotton left.

In fact, even if it is impossible to spin all the cotton into yarn, spinning the yarn can be done by our own family and cotton farmers, and then we can make wheat or winter vegetables in the side business, so the actual income will probably be nearly double.

Hmm, just because cotton is lucrative, it is difficult for people who make rice to turn to cotton cultivation.Because we have to eat to live.

If you poured it into cotton growing and ran out of rice or fell in the end, that's why you can't even see it.

Let's make cotton cultivation a license.