Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

Autumn passed, winter came, and the year dawned. And the season went around in early April, almost a year after Shizuko came to this era.

Still no prospect of returning to the original era. She didn't understand for herself what reason or method she timeslipped in the first place.

She brings in some modern technology, but so far she has never used it.

Convenient, but if it breaks without a substitute, there is no ex or child.

Utilize your smartphone to gain knowledge and charge it using a hand powered LED light with a solar charger.

Usually I used it to that extent, and some other tools were basically utilized after making substitutes.

Because if you don't, it will only end up burdening one Shizuko, and the villagers won't be able to do anything.

Shizuko recalls what happened while charging her smartphone with hand power generation.

Shizuko declared an increase in yield to Nobunaga around the fall. With that in mind, Nobunaga said something terrible.

That is an order to harvest twenty-five mounds of rice instead of sending fifty peasants.

And for what it wasn't enough, he even threatened to kill two people per mound.

The lack of hesitation led Shizuko to strongly recognize that it was still a warring age.

Understand that it is a stone level falling on the side of the road such as modern senses and ethics.

A little after winter, Nobunaga sent the promised fifty peasants to Shizuko's village.

Plus, my family followed me, so it was pretty big.

But they were not brought from one place, but from an area where the harvest would not waver, as was the village before Shizuko came.

I was forced to abandon the land I was accustomed to, and I was forced to move to the land, so it would be stressful or considerable.

But I couldn't afford to consider the circumstances.

The colonists were surprised to learn that the village chief was Shizuko, but the voice of rebellion and such did not rise.

Perhaps you understand that there is only one path they take, whether they rebel or show deference.

In other words, according to Shizuko, there is no other way to survive that yields more than the promised twenty-five mounds.

I got into full work after the year came up. That said, the first is the development of fields and fields.

In mid-January he finished developing 2 ha for crops, 1 ha for sugar cane, 1 ha for sugar potatoes and 8 ha for fields.

I was fortunate that Shizuko had prepared this in advance with the villagers.

In late February, it was necessary to get ready for the Miao Dynasty, but at the time it was common sense to sprinkle seeds appropriately.

So most villagers did not understand the need to nurture seedlings and spent a few days teaching them as a result.

Preparing seedlings more than a month before planting makes the soil in optimal condition, but the peasants still feel half-hearted.

In late March, salt water was selected for the species. Again, most of the settlers only had a frigid look on their face here.

Choosing a full-blown species in the first place may be an unlikely story in warring times in itself.

The task of making salt water with a specific gravity of 1.16 and removing floating seeds was plain.

But now that we have all the necessary seeds for immersion, we put the passed seeds in a wooden barrel filled with water from the river and settle them in a shaded area so that the water temperature does not rise as much as possible.

It was explained that it was intended to absorb enough water to allow it to germinate simultaneously, but the settlers still did not understand.

(Adjusting the cumulative temperature, you don't know.)

But this is not the end of it. Shizuko had yet another task.

First, the task is to harvest mucrozi fruit and make soap powder before autumn is over.

Of course, Shizuko is the only one who needs this for the moment, so she was mostly working alone after the harvest.

Next came the need to increase the number of chickens in order to do the chicken egg industry. At first, the chickens were mated and fertilized eggs were made to continue hatching.

However, since the chicken can only be dismantled, the leech died in the cold or remained small without growing large.

Moreover, we need to wait a month or so to separate male females, until then we need to prepare common bait.

Even in modern times, the technique of discriminating between the sexes of hiyoko is a national qualification and is treasured in the field of chicken farming. He was a static child who knew the usefulness of that qualification.

Of course, Shizuko is not such a state-qualified technician that he repeatedly increased the number of trials and errors while letting several hyokos die or intermittent.

All chickens close to dying or intermittent chickens and young chickens were mixed in compost.

I don't throw anything away.

Fortunately, in about six months I was able to increase the number of males by seven and females by as much as twenty and align the number for the moment.

The eggs are to be reared separately into a group that makes fertilized eggs and a group that makes fertilized eggs.

The group that made sperm eggs had two pairs of five females against one male, and the group that made sperm eggs had ten females.

The chicken bait was unified with a feed mixed with vegetable scum and fish bones, seashells and other powdered objects.

Because I've heard stories about laying eggs at a slower pace in two years for any type of chicken.

Then for two years, Shizuko thought it would be easier to keep the bait united.

Of course, when I was born in Hyoko, I was a soft bait.

The method of growing vegetables was also an odd one from the villagers, but this one gained only a little understanding.

But most of the process was undeniably questioned by the villagers as a mysterious task.

A plot of arable land with a size of 2 ha securely soaked up the compost was divided into sizes of 50 metres on one side.

Eight minutes of arable land was created, and an environment was completed in which spring vegetables and autumn vegetables were combined with rotation that cycled those agricultural lands year after year.

First, two arable lands were considered as a pair, shaking the serial numbers A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2, C-1, C-2, D-1 and D-2, respectively.

In the spring, they corned in A-1, set up a chicken farm in A-2 with nilla, pumpkin in B-1, aubergines in B-2, tomatoes in C-1, dicon in C-2, and chicken farms in D-1 and D-2.

Regardless, it's all modern cultivation methods known to Shizuko, not warring countries.

In the autumn it was harvested, and then the chicken farm was to continue unchanged, with spring onions on A-1, lettuce on A-2, potatoes on B-1, pine nuts on B-2, golden carrots on C-1, turnips on C-2 and D-1 and D-2 as autumn vegetables.

Split and turned the land further every year, so billboards were prepared to make them easier to understand.

By turning this sign every time spring comes and making it easier to understand what we are growing now, we can avoid the mistake of the cycle.

The sign was surprisingly well received by the villagers. He said, "It's easy to see what you're raising."

What was unplanned was a few of the settlers working on silkworm farming.

Quickly Shizuko created an environment for silkworm farming.

Silkworm farming places were set up just a little further away from the village because they could not be found in the village on boulders.

We needed mulberry leaves, but fortunately a little far away, but the mulberry trees were only a little native.

So Shizuko decided to replace all the trees near the silkworm farm with mulberry trees.

Kuwahata, I can't say right now, but fruit and wood are also available.

Fortunately, mulberries grow fast, so in a few years they will be able to recover the leaves, which are mulberry fruit and silkworm bait.

Just leave the nurturing to nature as well, all you have to do is plant seedlings every year.

Shizuko came up with something even more unexpected.

I looked at the excess wood when I was building my house and wondered if I could build a nesting box to collect honey.

There are no Seiyo bees, but Nihon bees have been in Japan since ancient times, so I decided to collect honey there.

Digging up and creating honey-focused nesting boxes from memory that Shizuko's grandfather's friend thought of.

It has a height of about 120 mm, and it is easy to collect harvests by overlapping them with four, and it is also easy to find queen bees.

But Shizuko doesn't understand the details, even if she knows what a beekeeper does in books and tours.

I don't have a queen bee on hand in the first place, so it was almost divine to ask if a bee would build a nest even if I installed it. I mean, when I put it down, it was the last time, and then I only left my luck to heaven.

The installation site was made where there were many naturally growing vegetable flowers. A total of five locations will be set up, and the rest will come regularly to check to see if a nihon bee lives in the nest box.

On the other hand, it has the disadvantage of unstable honey collection. Even so, Shizuko simply did it with the thought of it, so there was nothing else wrong with not being able to take a ton of honey.

Because it was such an idea, she was completely oblivious to what honey was treated like during the Warring States.

The sugar cane was replanted as a seedling last summer and everything that had been planted since spring was used as a seedling, laying down a further mass production system.

Although the villagers still leaned their necks because they did not know what was being planted.

(Sugar is a pretty precious seasoning in this day and age. Then the people of this village can avoid conscription by producing large quantities of sugar and dedicating it to the museum. Then, salt and other seasonings can be preferentially accommodated)

Summer potatoes were also able to plant large quantities of seedlings from the beginning this year. But after the sweet potatoes, it is also a story that has no body to rest the field.

So Shizuko decided to grow oil and vegetables from autumn. I thought it was two birds a stone because I could take vegetable seed oil from the oil and vegetables, and I could feed the nihon bees that go over the winter.

It was originally used as a vegetable, or leafy vegetable.

In ancient scriptures, it appears as Yoshimoto's stem stem (Akana), and in the Banba collection as Sano's stem (Kuzu).

It was not until the Edo period that vegetable oil began to be grown for oil collection purposes, mainly oil used as a kerosene raw material and close to life.

And don't forget, it was soybean production.

It is the raw material of miso, soy sauce, the raw material of oil, the living medicine, and the all-purpose being that is edible.

But soybean cultivation is said to be difficult anyway.

Especially famous for not engaging with other crops, in addition to the large quantities of nitrogen fertilizer.

There's no way you could get nitrogen fertilizer or anything like that in the Warring States, nothing more than making compost out of chicken manure.

I also had to think about pest control, and I had a headache everywhere.

So what Shizuko thinks about is a growing method called companion plants.

This is an agronomic, horticultural concept that we also call co-prosperity crops.

By growing them adjacent to each other, they will have a positive impact on each other's growth and prosper together.

For soybeans and corn, corn pests don't like the smell of soybeans, and soybean pests are eaten by corn pests by their natural enemies.

Exactly an excellent technique for pest control without pesticides.

Most are just empirically said, and few examples are scientifically elucidated even in modern times.

Shizuko decided to plant corn in 50a of 100a, with 50a remaining, incorporating this technology.

Finally, spicy onions, but this was the summer harvest type the year after autumn.

And it wasn't yet a mass production system, it was all used to get seeds.

We had to wait until next year to grow it as edible.

It is loved by ancient Egypt as a food that also works well against fatigue, such as chronic fatigue and muscle fatigue.

If you eat onions every day, that's how easy it is to get unbuttoned strength.

It also increases the absorption of vitamin B1, so it goes well with soybeans and chicken livers.

But that's it for Shizuko to take the head.

The cultivation of grains and other foods, the staple food of the people, was left to the discretion of the villagers.

If we don't talk, listen, approve, leave it to him, people don't grow up.

Therefore, Shizuko does not manage everything from one to ten.

Only when we are at the forefront are important infrastructure and agricultural improvements, such as rice cultivation, agricultural land improvement, zoning and water use, which is both a norm and a tax.

Shizuko thought it was a pretty fulfilling day, though it was a bad fight day with a lot to do.

Without the impossibility of Nobunaga showing up from time to time, though.

But without asking, Nobunaga also offered Shizuko a difficult problem.

"Um, I installed five, but you only built three nests."

Shizuko shrugs as she looks at the nest box.

The contents are stunningly empty and there is no sign that the queen bee is nesting.

Five or so of them were installed, initially nesting in four.

But one queen bee along the way didn't like the nest box, threw away the nest that was about to be made and flew away somewhere.

Nihon bees are nervous, so they don't even like some environmental changes and throw away their nests.

I guess the queen bee abandoned her nest after noticing a small change that humans wouldn't notice.

Shizuko decided to think so. Because I just regret worrying.

"I don't have a choice. Whoa, it's time for sundown. Let's go home."

Looking up at the sky, the sun was already setting.

The forest sets the sun faster, so if you don't hurry, it's dark and you can't see anything.

When the last nesting box was undone, Shizuko ran down the road to return to the village.

"I guess with Vitman I can go home even if it's dark... because I'm out looking for my daughter-in-law right now"

The wolf Vitman left the village to find his daughter-in-law when his estrus was near.

Honestly, it was subtle to come back, but still, Shizuko smiled and sent him off.

"Well, if you hadn't come back... you wouldn't have a choice"

It was originally a wild animal, so I can't help but go somewhere.

When I thought so, I heard a little gutter and a little noise coming from right in front of me.

I thought a small animal would come out reflexively, she jumped lightly to avoid it.

"Huh!?

But it wasn't a small or large animal that came out, it was a thick wooden stick.

Shizuko, who had already jumped, cannot change her posture.

Ankles are out of balance in the air around the stick of the tree.

After falling off his shoulder and rolling down the ground several times, he crashed into a tree trunk from his back.

"Kaha!

The static child, whose lung air was pushed out at once by the impact, was about to lose his mind due to lack of acid.

"Hehe, it's a woman"

"Women can sell high. That's the top ball, too."

"It's like you're telling me to attack someone here."

But the inferior voice heard before it forced Shizuko's consciousness to rise.

While holding her painful shoulders with her hands, she turns her face toward the one she speaks to.

There were five robbery-like men. What I had were spears, swords, sickles that were farm tools, etc.

(Footsteps escaped from battlefield...?

I thought so but not wearing protective equipment or anything, so I thought it would be the farmers involved in the war.

"Whoa, don't raise your voice."

Before Shizuko says anything, one of the burglars sticks a spear in his hand to Shizuko's throat.

If I make a loud noise, I'll stick it like this, I could understand you talking like that without having to put it into words.

"Hehe, it's been a shabby while. Do you want to sell them out after you've had enough fun?"

If you sheath the knife you had, one of the burglars approaches Shizuko laughing at Niyaniya.

And the moment a burglar with a curvy nose smelled reached out to take off Shizuko's clothes.

The man's figure disappeared, along with the sound of scratching the guts and bushes.