Amago no Miko

April 1561 Tojima Village, Takada-gun, Aki

"Hmm, you're connecting the Tojima and Mishiba rivers by canal?

"Yes, fortunately, the height difference between here and the Misashi River is almost unchanged, so I think it's the place to bring it to build the canal."

How are you, sir?

Suddenly, Takashi and I are looking at the site of the canal construction together.In this era, there are no trucks or railways, so the means of transportation for logistics are limited.With its limited means of transport, it is the ship that can carry large quantities of supplies at once.

Well, a bottleneck can only be used in the ocean or on a large river, but after that, the ship has the performance to pay for the change.

Why are you doing this....

Yamashiro, Yoshida-gun, Aki, April 1561

"Dear stepfather, why don't you build a canal?

"Canal? A canal of artificial rivers made by human hands, like the Seto of Ondo, which Kiyomori says he dug?

"Yes, the canal."

Well, excavating the canal is not a land that faces the sea like the Seto of Sondo.I mean, is the Seto of Otodo really an artifact?However, the legend that Heisei Heisei opened up feels more romantic, doesn't it?

"And where is the princess going to build the canal?

"This is near Tojima and Sakamura villages in the nose and eyes of Yoshida County."

Towards Hara?... no way!?

"Yes, don't you think it would be convenient to connect the river with the Misashi River by canal?Tarasa, give me a map of Aki. "

That's Cheeto Jijii.I just said that I would build a canal in the opposite direction, and it will be pinned immediately, so which river will flow to where?Where is it connected?It is proof that you know and understand properly.

The Edo River is poured into the Sea of Japan, while the Mishiba River merges with the Ota River near the downstream slope and pours into the Seto Inland Sea.In fact, the land between the tributaries of the Enogawa River and the Misashi River is Tojima and Sakaka Villages, commonly known as Origen.

The distance between the Tojima and Misashi rivers, which are tributaries of the Enogawa River, is slightly less than half a mile.This is the watershed separating the Sea of Japan and Setouchi.To be precise, it's a little different from a watershed.

Incidentally, I'm Haru's sister, who is always working with me without leaving me, but this time I'm leaving a message at Izumo.You're in trouble, aren't you?In time, within three days of the first night?

Keisei seeds with pinpoints, too!

"Princess Yu, was it okay on this map?

Yeah, thanks.

"Umu, the map the princess has is as elaborate as ever.Isn't Aki completely naked...? "

Aye, that's what Al said.

"It's so easy to draw a map if you just remember the tricks."

"The trick is hard.But is it possible to go straight out of the river into Setouchi by boat? "

Well, it's true that the painter's taste is questioned.The people I prepared and the people in the potter's crowd who are highly artistic and spatially aware are turned over to the cartographic team.Unfortunately, the walking witches' sisters were not good at cartography.

It was proven that women's brain miso is not good at looking at maps or making them.I am excluded because I was a man in my previous life.I was the one who taught the potters the tricks.

"Even if you take a boat out of the highway's Ponoura and Onsen Tsu to Hakata, the seas north of winter will be rough and dangerous."

"Samaura" refers to the loading and departure of Mt. Sama Silver in the road village of Ishimi Sama-gun, rather than Samaura, after General Ashigawa Yoshiaki, who wrote to you, was chased by Nobunaga and put him there when he fled to Maori.

"Hmm, there have been times when precious Sama silver turned into seaweed.However, it wasn't me who made the loss, it wasn't the shrine. "

"If you can use the Mishiba and Ota rivers directly from the Egawa River, Sama's silver can be transported safer than ever."

Even if you can only use a canoe as early as small, you can carry five or six times as much luggage as a horse, so even if the cost of building the canal is huge, in the long run, it should be both economical and cost-effective.

Unlike horses, the canoe doesn't cost you any food.Besides, I think it would be enough if there were 10,000 pieces of construction cost, so I don't think it would cost much.Recently, I don't feel like I have a feeling of being paralyzed by money.

If it is a common Sengoku Daimyo, I think that 10,000 pieces is a large category of money, so is this the harm that I have a thrown gavel, which is my cast coin made of silver and copper mountain produced in Sama?

"Hmm... I'm sure the princess is right, but that's not all she's after, right?

"I think Aki will be richer if we build ports and towns near the mouth of the Ota River."

"Near the mouth of the Ota River... I have plans to build a new castle on Mt. Hijiyama, but did the princess know about it?

It was not Hiroshima Castle built by Tarosa and Motomichi Hoida, but Hijiyama's plan to build the castle was in Jijii for the first time in history.Well, it's kind of inconvenient here in Yamashiro, Yoshida County, and even if the Maori spread out from the territory was thinking of relocating their home base,

Maybe it's nothing strange.But if we don't build a castle in Hiroshima Castle, I don't think we'll be able to create a place name called Hiroshima... Well, since we've changed history so far, maybe it's even more trivial.

Is it also likely that Fukuoka will not be born?Fukuoka should have received the place name from Fukuoka in Beimei, where the Kuroda family came from.

In the worst case scenario, I would say that I am a witch's god, and then I would have lined up eight hundred lies, and made up the place name of Hiroshima and forced it to be named!I think it's convenient to have a witch's title, which makes you tickle when you're like this.

"No way, I really don't know that much.But if Sakai and Hakata are halfway there, and Sama's silver is brought in there, nature and merchants will gather and prosper. "

"As usual, princesses and witches think nonsense."

"Leadership is meaningless without politicians."

"Well, that's certainly true."

I don't want this to happen to merchants like the Tokugawa Shogunate and Daimyo during the Edo period.I'm the one holding the buttocks, not the merchants.A liberal market economy? What is that?

"If my father-in-law transports silver around Setouchi to Hakata and Sakai, the navy he uses will be transported to the navy of Ohashikawa, the most trusted, right?

Of course not.

"If the Ohashikawa Navy gets a new job of carrying silver and can't get enough of it, let the people of Urabe carry less important loads, wouldn't it be one stone and two birds?"

"I see... why did the princess and witch think so much?"

No, not so much, Al!

No, it's actually a coincidence!First of all, there are canals, and you can build canals, carry silver, use the Ohashikawa Navy, and assign jobs to the Urabe Navy.It was a flower, I don't know.

"So, let's say that the Tojima and Mishiba rivers are connected by a canal."

"It's not a matter of cost."

"Yes, because the cost of the replacement work on the Fiji River that I carried out was about 40,000 pieces in two miles, if I fit in this case, it would be about 10,000 pieces because it is half a mile and one or two towns.Even if you quote a lot, it won't cost 15,000 pieces. "

"Is it more or less?Well, if it's at most 15,000 pieces, I can feel it less than I thought. "

Apparently, CheetZizi is the same as me and feels paralyzed by money.

"I only paid my husband 15 sentences a day."

"As for the 15 sentences, the princess didn't suit her cute face, but she was stingy as well....."

Thank you for being such a jerk.

Fifteen sentences is enough for cheap Izumo farmers!

"But it's not an appointment, it's a daily allowance at least."

"Appointment accumulates popular dissatisfaction."

Don't say less!

"That's not what the princess says."

"My father-in-law is also getting Sama's silver steadily, so why don't you take this opportunity to pay for it?

"Isn't that supposed to be an extension?

It's the same reaction as Grandpa Taha when he was working on the Fiji River.In the feudal system, the people are like their own property to the lord, so no matter how much of the super cheat's Māori originality, the idea of excellence cannot be discarded.Appointment is also part of the tax.

But if it's not an extension, what should I call it?

"In that case, is it civil engineering?

Well, I wish I hadn't used my name as an extension or a general application.

"I also feel like playing with words.So, if your father-in-law is going to build the canal, shall I send someone from Neko?

Canal construction is a chance to develop civil engineering technology, so it's only natural to send my men in.Moreover, since money is held by Jijii, there is no way that he won't take advantage of the opportunity that he has gained experience in water treatment construction as much as there is free of charge.

It sells thanks to Maori and accumulates technology for free, so it's really a one-stone two-bird nice plan!

"The artisan who changed the Fiji River?

Of course.

Amateur husbands are enough farmers in Māori territory.What I want is an additional experience for the craftsmen.

"That would be very helpful to me, but Takamoto is in charge of internal affairs, so please tell me more about Takamoto."

Takashi has been looking for his minister in the case of Tsukuba, and he is not here.I'm sure he's having a meeting somewhere.

"I see. I'll send a sergeant from here, so we'll talk about packing later."

"So, what does the princess intend to do with her experience of building the Oriental Canal?

Wow, do you still want to hear that?It wasn't sweet, was it?Hmm, it's not bad to hear anything sticky, and it's okay to be honest.

"Yes... in the future, I want to connect the Yura and Kakogawa rivers, the Wakasa and Omi seas, the Omi sea and Ise Bay."

"What a magnificent plan.It's not something I can think of. "

Then, if Maori can cut through the Hida and Tsukigo river basins in Toyogo, it may be good to pass through the canal from the Tsukigo to Hakata.In the history textbooks of the future, I may have been praised as the mother of public works!

Uhah, my dreams are spreading!

Utilities are the backbone of national development.Kanes was right!

"Princess Yu, would you like one from somewhere?

"Taroza-kun, what is it?Say it. "

Now that I'm in a good mood, I'll answer most of the questions in a haunted mood.

"Tamba, Sonmi, Wakasa, Omi and Ise are not Neko territories either.

"Taro was right to the left.As it is, it ends with the mochi painted in the picture. "

"Nah!?

Yu, if you only want to talk about your dreams, don't you?

Tarotaka Jijii doesn't understand the heart of a maiden either....