Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

The bandits were horrible at the disappearance of their companions in front of them.

One of the bandits, who was looking around regardless, sees the cause of his companion's disappearance.

"Hii!"

"What's up...... hey, what! This monster!

In response to the scream of the man, the bandits turn their gaze towards you simultaneously.

And just like the first man to react, he was swallowed by terror.

Even as he looked at the pain, Shizuko turned to the direction the burglar was looking at.

There was a wolf with a head torso length of nearly 140 cm, large enough to be said to be a giant body.

And near the wolf, the bandit who was in front of Shizuko was down.

She twisted her neck in a direction that did not open and bled severely.

He bit the man's neck from the side, and snapped his neck easily with his bite muscle strength.

Since the wolf has a bite muscle strength of 180 kilograms, it will be able to gently chew off human bones and other things of this age that are undernourished.

Seeing a wolf who was nothing but such a monster, Shizuko had no wonder and fear.

She knows the name of the wolf.

"... Vitman?

I intuited that was the wolf that was at my place.

There was no certainty, but she still couldn't help but think so.

And to answer that, the wolf barked once.

The bandits who heard it dropped the weapon in their hands to the ground.

At the time, humans were no more than 150 cm tall.

Even a relatively nutritious warlord can be a hundred and sixty centimeters long.

If a wolf comes out close to eighty centimeters tall to his shoulder there, that's all I get.

The neighborhood is closed to darkness without vision. It's hard to beat a wolf at night.

To the bandits in panic, the wolf barks loudly.

Then from another direction, another wolf appeared with the sound of scratching the bush.

One turn smaller than the first wolf but still amazing enough size.

A prominent feature was that the wolf had a bumpy scar on his forehead.

"Hi, hey!

With the second coming out, the retreating bandits fled to scatter the spider child.

The wolf didn't go after him. It just seemed like something worthless to chase, such as the runaway bandits.

Which is the winner, that's all I could easily tell.

"Welcome home, Vitman"

Vitman barked small as he replied to Shizuko's voice, who shrugged so.

Naturally, there was a fuss when Vitman and his wife's wolf entered the village.

If two wolves of incredible size come into the village, it's panic from a stranger.

Don't be surprised. It is an impossible order.

But only the settlers were surprised, and the villagers who had been there since the beginning thought only to the extent that "the village chief did something again".

Thanks to being trained by Shizuko for a year, they didn't move into things as insensitively as they did.

It was nightfall, but I couldn't ignore the settler's anxiety on the boulder, and I needed to explain Vitman.

After an hour of explanations, the settlers finally convinced me, but my anxiety was not completely dispelled either.

(Will you be patient for a while?)

It is a hopeful observation close to paranoia, such as that everyone accepts everything in one go.

There's no other way than for time to work it out. That's how she understood it, and I didn't think she had a choice.

But in Shizuko's ignorance, the settlers had revalued her.

Until now, she only looked like an unreliable girl, but seeing as she was able to follow two wolves, she said, 'Actually, is she a big shot?' I began to think.

Which is beheading if it fails, so the settlers who wanted to entrust her with one last chance became motivated, unlike before.

When those settlers changed their minds a little bit.

Since all seed seeds were ready to be seeded after sprouting (germination), the seeding work, which is the next step, was carried out.

This uses the land I was preparing in late February. Arrange the seeds evenly there.

I plan to plant the seedlings I grew here in my original fields later.

After all, the settlers looked strange, but unlike before, they honestly followed Shizuko's orders.

I can have a little time until the seedlings grow.

In order not to waste time in the meantime, we worked to prepare the fields for planting.

Roughing up work to plow shallow first. After roughing up, add water and do it rough. After the rough change, put it down for a few days before planting the finish.

By the end of those processes, seedlings had grown to a sufficient size.

The next step is to use rice bran and seedlings to plant the most important plantings.

This is where it stands, and whether planting is done carefully or not greatly depends on the yield.

Because the seedlings lost their hands safely, the harvest was about the extent of a sparrow's tears, and so on. There are no former children.

Naturally, no one in the villagers knows about the method that is a stone in modern times in planting seedlings.

Here, Shizuko uses the method of planting rice seedlings with vertical and horizontal muscles together, known as Jung-jong planting.

At the time, it was planted in a way called "clutter planting" without this method of planting, so the harvest was always poor and sometimes it did not grow at all when it was terrible.

However, the harvest increases dramatically simply by turning cluttered planting into full-bodied planting.

The reason for this is that the sun is abundant, the air is easier to get through, and the benefits are easy to remove weeds and pests.

It should be noted that it was technically implemented in the late Meiji 30s, so it can be said that it was about 200 years ahead of its time.

However, the effect has been immense, and since then, Jungjong planting has become so common sense that it can also be considered the basis of rice cultivation.

But not just the pros, but naturally the cons also exist.

First of all, seedling planting machines do not exist during the Warring States. However, it is necessary to align vertically and horizontally precisely in order to carry out positive strip planting.

The solution given by Shizuko to this problem is to use a tool called "Frame Around" to predetermine the planting points.

Read it like a letter, roll around the "frame" and you can plant a seedling point in the fields.

But if you turn the "frame around" directly in the fields, the water gets dirty by the mud, and even if you make a corner point, you need to look for it.

To eliminate that problem, she prepared a long rope that could stretch from the edge of the field to the edge.

The point of planting is then determined by "framing", and straw is linked to the place where the rope overlaps.

This way, if you mark straw, you don't have to look in the water to know where to plant it.

But even after planting the seedlings, that's not the end of it. We need to spray the rice nuka.

There are three reasons for spraying rice nukes.

The first is to suppress germination roots of weeds by organic acids produced during the decomposition and fermentation process.

The second is that microbes grow.

The third is that microbes can grow to provide nutrients to rice. These three.

After the planting is finished, only the spraying of radiated organic and the weeding work will be carried out.

Radioactive organic is a fermented fertilizer made from a mixture of earth, rice nuka, deer guts, chicken guts, bone powder, rotten meat, rotten vegetables, chicken feather shafts and effective microorganisms.

This makes it easier for microbes in the earth to work. This fertilizer is ideal as a natural laxative fertilizer for rice and rice source fertilizers.

However, it will be sprayed to see how the rice is sprayed in a timely manner, so it will depend on how many times you use it and how many times you spray it.

But fertilizer is only done sporadically on the basis of experience, and it can still be said to be better.

The next thing you need to work on is weeding. Besides, the results are hard to see for being forced to work harshly.

So Shizuko decided to roll between rice and rice, a rotary field grass collector, and use a tool to root and pull out the weeds growing in the fields.

Naturally, it is a tool that does not exist in the warring age, so Shizuko discussed it with the village technicians to create it.

The prototype of the rotary field grasshopper was built in Meiji and became widely used around the beginning of Daejong.

With a working capacity of about 20 ar a day, it is an excellent way to carry out medium tillage weeding while ragging between the rice stocks.

Medium cultivation is the shallow cultivation of topsoil in the middle of development in order to improve crop growth.

This causes the soil to stir and loosen up, so oxygen is fed into the roots to encourage breathing and rooting.

It also promotes fertilizer absorption. In addition, harmful gases (hydrogen sulphide, methane gas, etc.) found in the soil can be removed and weeds prevented.

If I say so, after the planting, this medium till harvest will be the main task.

And rice cultivation is one of the tough tasks.

Shizuko did not compromise because it was a necessary tool to increase efficiency, and created something that would increase efficiency.

Medium tillage weeding is done a week to ten days after planting, the first time the seedlings are alive.

Medium tillage weeding shall then be carried out twice every ten days. The numbers are small, but one task is harsh for that matter.

About one day in June when I left only such medium-cultivated weeding behind.

A female wolf (Shizuko name Bharti) brought in by Vitman gave birth to five children.

It's the first day a new life was born in the village.

"Pretty."

Seeing the wolf children with open eyes, Shizuko smiled with a dusty smile.

I stroked it on a boulder or watched it still up close, though Balti would get angry, so I kept my distance quite a bit.

It's only a week or two after I can move around, but my face still looses naturally to a wolf child looking around with a chirp.

"Pretty."

A week later I was looking forward to Shizuko. But there were beings who didn't think it was funny.

It's Vitman. He's been with Shizuko for almost a year and he's received love all by himself, so naturally, it's not funny how much love goes to a child.

I folded my body over, licked my mouth and lovingly appealed. But it didn't seem to come true to turn it entirely on me alone.

I'm usually a Vitman who raises the voice of the beast, but all this time I was raising my voice like a puppy.

"Yes, yes, Vitman is cute too."

To answer Vitman's favorite appeal, Shizuko said so as she stroked her head in excess.

That's the only Vitman to shake his tail, but Kunshin is a big size.

If you wield a tail that's dozens of centimeters long, that's all it takes to transform it into a light murder weapon.

"Wow! I know how happy you are, so let's calm down!

It's the end of getting rid of everything around you.

And then Vitman, scolded by Shizuko, raised his sad voice, and Balti, who heard it, raised his laugh.

June is over and the season is July.

Initially confused by the rotary field grass machine, the villagers also finished the work in about a day with what they were accustomed to in the second half.

In July, the weeding process is almost over. The rest of the work will mostly be pest control.

Somehow the fields are lined with rice that grows beautifully. So much so that none of the villagers leaked, "I've never seen so many Inahos lined up".

I could predict a future where I would be able to reap a lot of sawdust.

There are other things to do besides pest control.

First, groove for drainage at intervals of two to three meters: groove cutting.

This also makes it easier to manage water until harvest, so it is impossible to get out of hand.

Since it is said that the number of partitions will be the highest in thirty-five days after planting, work must also be carried out to dry soil called medium drying, earthen drying and.

Drain water once from the fields using ditches for drainage.

The reason for carrying out soil drying is to reduce excessive fractionation, ineffective fractionation, to supply oxygen in the soil and to fertilise the carcases of micro-organisms.

It also solidifies the soil to prevent rice from falling, causing ground cracks to create a favourable environment, stopping fermentation due to rot and preventing methane gas from occurring.

More ground cracking stimulates the roots of rice, causing the roots to switch from surface type to medium type.

Such an effect can be expected.

(Reduce nitrogen and inevitably prevent turtles)

When it comes to rice pests, turtles rise to the forefront, but turtles are less likely to occur unless pesticides are used.

That's because nitrogen-absorbing rice is said to be a treat for turtles.

But there is no way to get pesticides or anything like that in the Warring States, except, naturally, pesticide free and organic cultivation.

In that relationship, the natural enemies of the sea turtles live in the fields.

(Maybe I don't have to do pest control unexpectedly?

Even if an organism that becomes a pest for rice dwells, the natural enemies that feed on it dwell in the same way.

Of course, it goes without saying that weed removal is above all pest control.

In the fields, of course, the grass was thoroughly mowed.

The weeds removed are then used as material for the leafy soil.

I could do a beautiful cycle in the fields and use everything for nothing.

And one day in August, when weeding dominated until the harvest, Nobunaga, who had never moved before, finally moved.

In August of Yonglu Nine Years (1566), Nobunaga broke into Mino across the Kiso River.

When I received that report, only the letter 'defeat' existed on Shizuko's head.

(You did defeat in the flood and let Hideyoshi build a base in Minotaur, a stronghold located on the border between Mino and Ozhang, right? That's where Ryuxing Saito became the front-line base for Inayama Inoguchi's total attack)

Shizuko thought back about it, but there's no point in bothering her head with what she already knows about the results.

So I conclude, I gently wipe my head off and kick them out.

When I change my mind, I look at the spreading rice in front of me and nod contentedly.

"Yeah, yeah, you've grown up feeling good. I'm guessing this is the yield we were supposed to get."

To be honest, I was a little anxious to work on a land called 8ha for about a few dozen people, but I managed to cling to one step in front of the harvest.

But she wasn't relieved to see all this rice.

(As for the Hall, I'm going to say it's hard to tear down around next year...)

By this time next year, Nobunaga Oda puts Mino under control. If that happens, we will get a million stone production areas combined with Ozhang and Mino.

Ordering Shizuko to increase production was more imperative than expected.

(For this reason, I can't wait to complete the manpower planter that Kanezuku is asking me to do. If that's done, we can plant 10 ears in just three hours.)

Note that she doesn't know that the gold is holding her head when she looks at the blueprints of the manpower planter written by Shizuko (the graffiti level of the name).

Manpower planters, rotary field grass collectors, and pedal grain shedding machines. All of this is a tool to mitigate what is said to be harsh work in farming.

Without this tool, farming takes time out of step.

Besides, even women, children and the elderly can work, so they can farm in a race that doesn't go to battlefield.

That reduces the burden of work.

Then it is possible to divide the fields and fields according to the family.

"Well, I guess I'll get about 60 ha of land next year."

The land of vegetables and sweet potatoes was adequate in its current size.

The harvested spring vegetables were, of course, well received by the peasants for their dedicated Nobunaga.

But rice is still used on the battlefield.

After obtaining Mino, Nobunaga would come to order a further increase in production, as more wars were waged.

With or without large quantities of rice, the food situation of the soldiers becomes different.

"The chicken egg industry is going well... but I have a feeling the Kaisers are going to attack"

Kaiser, a wolf child born between Vitman and Balti.

Since it has already been two months, I am aware of the social nature and have weaned myself.

It's time to get away from Shizuko's house, which is a nest hole.

We were already able to rank among them, and we named them Kaiser, Kanich, Ardelheit, Ritter and Lutz according to their ranking.

It means as it is the rank of emperor, king, noble, knight and warrior. Children are also cheap names for German because their parents were German.

"Well, that's when. If we don't let him hunt in moderation, he'll fade."

Close to being raised, but naturally the wolf is likely to go hunting if his family can.

I don't mind attacking a wild deer at that time, but it's not something that happens when chickens are attacked for the chicken egg industry.

"I've had to tell you since I was a kid."

Still, some of them would be sacrificed, static son who thought so exhaled a heavy sigh imagining the future.