Amago no Miko

Episode 161: On Daikon Island

Yonglu 7 (1564) February Izumo Nakai Daikon Island

"Ooh! This is undoubtedly a Korean carrot!

How are you, sir?

I came to Daikon Island, floating in the Mediterranean, with Grandpa Tahoe today.

So, what I checked while looking at the carrots I had in my hand was the carrots.

Even carrots are completely different from the orange carrots that horses and rabbits like.

Korean ginseng has a shape that is completely unchanged from the root of the tree.

Nevertheless, I'm impressed that you're willing to eat such a tree boy.

If you think so, the wisdom of the old people is amazing.Because I ate a variety of wild grass and told future generations about its efficacy.

Well, maybe there was so much famine, and we couldn't survive if we didn't eat the weeds.

Speaking of which, the Edo period of historical reality was also a time of continuous famine.

Even today, if you look at more than 60 states in Japan, it can be said to be a time of chronic food shortages.

That's why the battle is going on to rob the land of food.

Even so, I think that the grudge of food is quite right.

Well, for now, my Neko family has nothing to do with famine.

However, in anticipation of the famine that will almost certainly occur in the future, let's study the types of wild grass that can be eaten by the Neko family in the near future, and how to cook a delicious meal, and put it together in the materials and keep it for future generations.

I think that's what politicians do and do.

"I was afraid it would really succeed."

"It was worth multiplying by the moon for nearly four years."

It was the princess's eyes.

Hmm. What a knowledge cheat I am!

Long live the inch!

Yes, I wanted to sow the seeds of Korean carrots, which I acquired four years ago in close trade with North Korea, and grow them in Izumo.

Even in this era, Korean ginseng is known as a nourishing medicine, and it is a drug that is traded at a fairly high price.

It is too much to say that it is worth the same weight of gold, but it is the ginseng that is worth more than the same weight of silver.

Therefore, if we succeeded in cultivating this luxury product in Neko territory, it would be one of the financial resources to moisturize the Neko family.

Yeah, right there.

Speaking of which, the Abacus hasn't spread yet.It seems that I have already sent it to Japan, but I haven't seen it before, so it's not common yet, is it?

In the future, the abacus made around Izumo Yokota was famous, but I forgot about it....

When I calculate, I was calculating by subtraction, so let me make an excuse for not being able to turn my head to the calculation board.

But that doesn't mean I don't know how to use the algorithm.

I have a faint memory of what I did, such as a yen ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Yeah, let me make an abacus and make it one of Izumo's specialties.

Was the tree used for the pearl a vine tree?I also felt that chess pieces were a luxury item.

The comb that I had my spring sister brush my hair also had a comb of tsuge.

Speaking of combs, they are more luxurious.

Speaking of which, Zhang... fufufu.

Yeah, well, what is it?Let's just say the step is higher.

Well, it's a shrub, a garden tree, right?

I don't think I can use anything other than the trunk....

Perhaps because there are few parts of Tsuge that can be used, they have become extra luxury products.

The story has strayed from Korean carrots.

So, to put it bluntly, I just came up with the idea that Daikon Island was the future region of the ginseng, but I don't have to say flowers.

However, I think the cultivation of ginseng seeds began after the mid-Edo period, so I advanced the needle of history by about 150 years.

Incidentally, the species of ginseng is the Japanese name of a plant called Korean ginseng or Korean carrot.

Was it Yoshio Tokugawa?Because General Kukaku gave seeds to various famous people to encourage cultivation, they became called "seed carrots".

The Tokugawa shogunate didn't have a monopoly on important technology in the Shogun.

I mean, don't you think the Edo Shogunate wasn't such a bad regime?

Well, that's right.If it had been a bad governance mechanism, wouldn't there have been a stable regime for 250 years?

In the Edo period, famine was frequent every few decades, but there was no return to the warring world, so it must have been a regime that could score above the point.

It's very different from the Ashigaru family.

However, it seems that the Edo shogunate was not a very praiseworthy policy either.

How did the first generation of Ieyasu become a clandestine country around the time of Ieyasu, even though it was active in international trade?

After all, was the Christian a problem?

However, Ieyasu didn't have to think that it would have been better to tell him by will if he didn't close the country.

However, on this world line, it seems unlimited that Tokugawa Ieyasu will open a shogunate in Edo.

"Taha is an old man, so I think you can live a long life if you drink this root once every two days."

"I think it will be all right until ancient times, but after that, only God will know."

"Grandpa Tahoe's Koshi isn't in a couple of years."

Next year.

This means that Grandpa Taha is 68 years old this year.Even at full age, you are 66 or 67 years old.

In this era, you mean a fine old man.

"Besides, even Asakura Zomizu, who is respected by Grandpa Tahu, lived nearly eighty years ago.

Speaking of which, thank you very much.I will do my best not to lose to my servant, Captain Sadaemon. "

"I will not allow you to die until the Master Kishifumi has taken his clothes back."

"But I learned that."

If you can, I want you to stay alive until Grandpa Tahou's grandson is born, but is that a bit harsh?

I'm asking you.

"Even so, I thought of Daikon Island as a princess."

Well... It's an expensive crop that can be cherished as medicine, so if it's stolen, you won't even see it. "

"Don't mess with the left."

Besides, it takes at least three years to grow up.It takes five to six years to make a good crop, but if they steal it, I'm sure I'll go crazy.

Perhaps the Matsue clan in Historical History also came up with the idea of cultivating seed carrots on Daikon Island in order to prevent theft.

"Whoever stole this will be condemned to death.Yeah, let's do that. "

"Isn't death a little too harsh for any reason?

"So, what do you mean, just cut it off from your right wrist?

"If you fail, it will be difficult to cultivate the fields."

Mmm, was that so?It seemed more painful to live with a disability than to die.

But I also think it's kind of nice to just give you a tattoo on your forehead.

Master Taha's probably getting sweeter too.

"The older you get, the more round you get."

"Okay. Let's use forced labor to dig holes until we die in a silver or copper mountain."

"I feel a little harsh until I die, but I think it's generally a reasonable sentence."

Well, you're pathetic, so if you're a first-time offender, I'll let you out in about three years.

If you don't leave room for discretion, there may be people who abandon themselves and can do eight grave villages.

I mean, because I'm poor and I can't buy medicine, I don't have to steal carrots.

Is this my responsibility as a politician?

However, for those who are blind to desire and steal, let's give them a heavy punishment.

I think social morality is important.

But these times are morally low.

We must make the world a peaceful place as soon as possible, enrich education and strive to improve morality.

"Well, that's my name.It doesn't taste like Korean ginseng, so I thought I'd name it Yunzhou ginseng, but what do you think?

"Yunzhou ginseng, I think it's a good name."

"Also, I think it would be interesting to soak this carrot in the disinfectant that the old man over there is making a medicinal liquor."

The disinfectant is almost flavorless alcohol, so if you put in Yunzhou carrots and other medicinal herbs, you can finish the medicinal liquor.

I don't know what the effects are. But perhaps it will be nourishing.

"Is it medicinal liquor?

"It's a nourishing liquor, so why don't we call it a longevity liquor?

"I also know it as a good name."

There are also words such as "head of medicine" for alcohol.

Well, personally, I don't think it's being used as an excuse for a guard.

It's not Daikon Island, it's an island where carrots are grown, so I don't even feel like carrots coming to the island.

Should I rename Hitoshima?