Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

There was no particular event at the end of New Year's Eve Sunday, just to continue growing for winter vegetables and vegetable seed oil.

Finally, the production of onions has also begun to be on track and can only be secured for a little bit as edible.

However, seedlings and arable land were still lacking and a full increase in production was not desirable.

Shizuko tried to enumerate what she herself managed to produce.

One or two types of vegetables: corn, chives, pumpkin, aubergines, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, leeks, lettuce, potatoes, pine nuts, golden carrots and turnips.

Rice, soybeans, shiitake, honey and sugar cane as munitions. Summer potatoes as an emergency meal. Furthermore, chicken meat and eggs in their own chicken farm. Oiled vegetable seeds and onions, which are the food most effective in restoring fatigue.

Silk yarn production on a small scale but by silkworm farming and mulberry tea leaves with mulberry leaves, and mulberry fruit.

Given the size to be created by villages with a population of only about a hundred people, it could be said at the time that there was an abundance outside the standard.

"No, on second thought, you had quite a variety."

Shizuko nods with an emotional face somewhere as she compiles a list of what she produces in her village.

Seeing the village as one common farm, it is rare to produce so many items in one base even in modern society, but she was simply pleased that the result of her efforts had been achieved.

"Is this good...? I think it's obviously unusual in my eyes."

The boy squeaks so as he digs out the baked potatoes he was burying in the ashes behind the furnace.

"Really, Tea Maru? As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to increase production a little bit. Especially if you want to increase the silk thread relationship."

A boy called Tea Maru, but of course this is a pseudonym and his original name is Odd Maru.

As Nobunaga, his father, put it, he approached Shizuko by hiding his position and identity, and now this is how he had a relationship to the point of being able to tap a light mouth.

Colour also plays a part in this, but she also doesn't know that the boy is Odd Maru, Nobunaga's son.

All Shizuko is informed about is the fact that he is Nobunaga's blood relative and the lie that he is Nobunaga's brother's son.

There was no reason to leave Nobunaga's relatives without a boulder, and Shizuko, surprised at first, was dealing with him.

But a few days later, she accepted the odd circle and now trusted him enough to give him home with zero vigilance.

"But well, this is all I can do for the better. That's all I can say... the innkeeper would be delighted. Well, I don't care."

Saying so and taking the story aside, he cut it out like this, looking somewhat serious.

"It's a tentative story... if Shizuko takes it under the sky, how the hell do you take it?

"What are you talking about on the stick? It's not too early to tell a child that."

"There is no such thing as a rough man who never dreams of the heavens. I have not yet served, but if I can get out on the battlefield, I will slash and defeat my enemies, and if I continue to fight even, I will get the heavens one day. That's what I thought until recently."

So separating words, the odd circle that corrected the residence looked closely at Shizuko before continuing.

"But whenever I hear from Shizuko about Sun Tzu's military laws, I think. I wondered if the heavens could just keep fighting. I'd like to know how you would take the heavens and earth to relieve that problem."

"Hmmm...... (I wonder if I could say something like a war history game tactic inspired by the Warring States era......)"

Put your arms together and Shizuko thinks.

I'm not that familiar with the military code, and I've never thought about taking the heavens, so it wasn't an immediate answer.

But seeing the enthusiasm of the strange circle, she wondered if there was anything she could advise.

It bothered me a little, but she was thinking back to the content of the historical simulation game she had played before.

"... ignore the damage and problems and tell the big mess, but I would first of all Kinai... I mean, I wonder if I'll hold Kyou. At the same time, we'll be running a stockbreeding operation against the local countryside with our hands, maybe?

"Why is it doubtful?" Whatever it is, I see. Do you want to hold Kyou first... and why? "

"We start with a place where we regain the authority of the Emperor who is in Kyo. Emperor Turomon, after the 103rd generation, who did take office decades ago, so desperately spilled 'I want to quit' because of the powerlessness of his being the Emperor, that the Emperor's authority should still be down to earth. By reviving its authority first, all the people in the country will know that the Emperor's authority is still undiminished."

Compared to modern times, the warring and Edo-era martial arts societies were so important and deified that something called blood muscle.

Just enough to have a strong warlord with a legitimate lineage.

There is also the fact that the Tokugawa family, the earthquake behind the mountains of the Three Rivers, purposefully named their ancestors as drawing the blood of Emperor Kiyowa, that is to say, Mr. Yuen, that only General Tsukiwa could have had the surname of Yuen.

Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who achieved the unification of the heavens, was also descended from the Heijia family. Because of that name, the famous warlord's lineage diagram was mostly bullshit.

But it was always the Emperor who was at the rightful center of the lineage.

"Later, if you are officially appointed General Tsukuba by the Reigning Emperor, most people will stop thinking about turning their teeth at that point. You can justify your dominion with the authority and status vested in you by the Emperor. If you turn your back, you will point your sword at the Emperor, and all directions will be enemies. If you do it badly, you'll even be betrayed by the belly you trust."

"But is it worth it to the Emperor or the Emperor? I'm sorry to say... it's no longer the same as the fallen Muromachi Shogun."

"Muromachi Shogun is only about 200 years old. In contrast, the Emperor's family has lived for more than a thousand years. If Tea Maru is looking to Nanban, not just the book of this day, then he must have a long history of royalty and royalty."

Weird circles at the words were first gnawed at, then put on the back of his head with the bumps looking bad.

"... since when have I noticed"

"Somehow on the way, though. Tea Maru, you've been making this kind of thing light chatter without taking it seriously."

"Yep, you accidentally got too much heat, you failed. I was planning on telling my father this story and putting it in my hands, but what if I give up? Ha-ha-ha."

A strange circle where Shizuko saw through the plan, but he was laughing happily, not particularly concerned.

"But earlier stories are interesting. The plan to take the heavens, it might not be a bad idea to think about it. It's good to talk about Wu Jing Qi, but sometimes it's good to talk about these dreams, right?

"(I'm not interested... well, it's like a game and it'll change my mood) Cai, bring me a 'map' -"

Little by little the 'map' is brought to the room by the hand of colour.

Even when I say 'map', it just says Japanese shapes on the big mess, not exactly writing mountain and river placements.

Still more accurately written than what other people hold in their possession, though.

"Japan's shape has been explained before, hasn't it? This is where we are today, this is Kyo... and this is where the museum is attacking Mi-no."

Leave the appropriately cut tree fragments on the map instead of the mark.

Speaking of luxury, I wanted a bigger piece of paper, but I decided to think of it as your handwriting even if I could just get it.

"Shizuko said this earlier. Quickly take control of Kichinai and go on a hunting operation that is otherwise a handful. I understand attacking Kinai. Kyou, if you put Sakami in your hand, that's all you need to get close to heaven. But I'm not sure what a breeding operation is."

"... In the first place, how well do you know about warfare?

Shizuko asked so, but of course she doesn't know much about wartime warfare either.

But even if she doesn't have the experience of being on the battlefield, she has the knowledge she gained from the books that describe it.

"War is a place to raise martial arts, isn't it? I know as much as I do."

"Oh, yeah. I know you don't."

The samurai accounted for about 10% to 20% of the troops on the battlefield, while the remaining 80% to 90% were minors and civilians (miscellaneous soldiers).

And no one in the army participated in the battle, including husbands, surnames, professionals and other non-combatants such as luggage carriers and civil engineering.

Furthermore, merchants doing business with military opponents were accompanied.

In other words, even if the history books say 50,000 troops and so on, the actual number of soldiers fighting is about 50%.

There are circumstances like this where the army is devastated when there are about 1,000 casualties.

"The only people who want to raise martial arts are the samurai. Most of the rest of the foot soldiers are for nothing else."

"... what's that?

"You get money to live, that's all."

Only the samurai want to take the enemy general's neck, drop castles, etc. and raise martial arts.

Then what the rest of the Miscellaneous soldiers want is to earn money to live.

Therefore in the battlefield the miscellaneous soldiers had burned, plundered, ravaged, and worked many other things to make their share of the catches their own.

There are merchants who use it as a business, and there is a distribution market, and in some cases a city for human trafficking could be set up after the war.

Mixed looting was also carried out in some battlefields by rashes, burglars and bandits who had trouble eating.

The great warrior kingdoms also acquiesced in the ramblings or as rewards for soldiers after attacking enemy castles.

Rather, it is one stone and two birds because the act of pillage enriches the realm, so much so that there was a great name for the warring nations to recommend.

Not so much at the time the post-match womanhood was common sense and was not seen as an evil thing.

……

Weird circles looked somewhat shocked to see if he had some gorgeous dreams on the battlefield.

Shizuko hastily follows when she sees it.

"As it were, well, it's rare to be that miserable, you know. And anyway, take it backwards."

"Backwards...?

"Yeah. The reason the Miscellaneous soldiers are headed to the battlefield of their lives is because they think it's necessary for them to live. So when you don't have to do that anymore in the first place...?

A strange circle, with a little thought and understanding, opens his eyes and mouths the words.

"Will you stop trying to get to the battlefield in the first place?

"That's the thing. Miscellaneous soldiers are forcibly requisitioned, depending on the size of the village, but if you hadn't had trouble eating, you wouldn't send your family to a battlefield where they could lose their workers, either, would you?

"I see. Sure, from the standpoint of the miscellaneous soldiers... Hmm? Could this have been Sun Tzu's military method: 'Win Without Fight'!?

Not to mention that we finally got to the point, Odd Maru pounded his hands.

"Feed the miscellaneous soldiers and make them reluctant to conscript. That way, even if people want to fight, they won't gather the miscellaneous soldiers, and they'll be in trouble. Shizuko's story is that most of the army is accounted for by miscellaneous soldiers, so the opponent's power will fall exceptionally. No matter how strong a samurai may be, it would be reckless to stand up to ten thousand soldiers alone."

"What's more, it's very difficult for them to cut off food supplies to the countryside. So, where will their anger go if we say that the cause of their inability to supply lies with the people who rule the land?

"Don't take shape as a country anymore. If we negotiate to go down to our military gates, we can take the country without losing our soldiers."

"(Well, it's not that easy to get there in real life) The distant places are around here in terms of maps... the distant places over Kichinai are basically low in farming skills and are constantly starving. So everyone tries to wage war and secure their own food support. or war to try to reduce people"

Shizuko places small stones in Shikoku, Kyushu, Tohoku region, etc.

"Besides, this neighborhood is pretty far away from here, isn't it? It costs a great deal before we fight. It's cheaper to create a distribution market than that and take away the very reason to fight from them. After you control the land, you can still control the economy."

"Ho ho, the boulder is Shizuko. Your focus is completely different from mine or your father's. And you're so convincing that you hate it. Well, if there's a problem, my father has eclampsia, so I don't know if he understands this kind of long story..."

Shizuko stared frivolously at the strange circle whining about such a thing. But soon he remembered that he was Nobunaga's blood relative.

Perhaps he's good at talking here, and even telling his parents and caregivers like he thought.

(Well, it's what kids say, so I don't think anyone's dealing with them much.)

Shizuko thought that the bullshit of the children in question and the surroundings would be cleaned up.

So he tells Tea Maru the "IF story of history," which he thought about a long time ago: "This is what I would do at this time".

Nor are the seven books of Wu Jing, such as Sun Tzu's Military Law, her own interpretation, just so that she can easily summarize and listen to the interpretations of the books she used to read.

Shizuko didn't feel comfortable teaching because she recognized that that was the story that all of them would end between herself and Tea Maru.

Without even knowing that recognition is a big mistake.

Nobunaga was reading "Sun Tzu's Military Law," which Odd Maru heard from Shizuko.

The original "Military Law" is nearly 100 editions and is difficult to understand, but Cao Cao, Wei's Wu Emperor, organized and edited it into 13 editions, and included annotations and interpretations of "Wei Wu Zhuo Sun Zi," or "Sun Zi's Military Law" today (Konko Chi).

An additional example from this is "Sun Tzu's Military Law", which is inside Shizuko's head.

(I'm not talking about surprises. I didn't know such a good book of military law existed...)

The "Sun Tzu's Military Law", which describes what the nature of the struggle is, was such a shock that it led to renewing Nobunaga's thoughts on the battle.

(I'm sure Shizuko said this to Odd Maru. Don't pepper the 'Book of War'. Put it all together in yourself, that if you can't practice it, it's treasure rotting,)

Even if it's "Sun Tzu's Military Law," it doesn't make sense just to read it.

Odd Maru has reported that he received caution about the content. I see, I thought Nobunaga, who read the book of military law.

Nobunaga turns the report. This is what was noted there.

"War is a matter of national importance. Avoid winless matches and deal with them carefully. And if you want to fight, don't fight, win, and take your enemies as your allies."

To sum it up briefly: 'War is the life and death of the people, the survival of which hangs, so think of it as a matter of national importance. Avoid battles you know you will lose. If you are going to wage war, don't fight and win, and worry that the best thing to do is to keep your enemies on your side. "

Other reports were written, "Soldier stations are the lifeline", "Intermediaries are the most important people in battle", and "Information comes first in battle".

(These are great indeed. But it's still the most fearful report you've ever heard of me.)

Whichever one is taken, it will likely be a material that can handle the Oda family treasure, but especially fearful was the report that wrote the example of the intermediate.

The example title is Shingen Takeda. According to this, Shingen attaches great importance to gathering information and uses a covert organization known as the "Three Kinds" and "Vegan Break".

The people of the organization dress as monks, merchants and other various human beings and gather information in various countries.

They also gather girls who have taken unaccompanied children or bought them from people-sellers, plant the art of intersections, and ostensibly make them "walking witches" to deploy throughout the country for intelligence purposes.

The content collected varies, ranging from the internal circumstances of the country to the trends of the ministers, the military holdings, the abilities and hobbies of the castle owners, to the construction of castles and fortifications.

Shingen analyzed the information collected and used it to adjust the game in favor of his country, and it was also stated that he had created a permanent victory army.

The moment Shingen Takeda found out that this was Karakuri, nicknamed the "Foot Long Boy," Nobunaga was struck by the shock of rocking heaven and earth.

But that's not where Takeda ends up.

Another bundle of paper contained the contents of a military book, The Koyang Army Book, describing Takeda's strategy and tactics.

These were recorded when Odd Maru invited Shizuko to his mansion.

And at the dining table, she drank alcohol as recommended by Odd Round.

She suddenly told about Takeda when she got drunk and was in a good mood.

Takeda's information-gathering, and the Koyang Army Gazette are two of them.

Later, it goes without saying that Nobunaga issued a 'prohibition on drinking' to Shizuko.

Nobunaga compared what Shizuko had said at the booze table with the information he was getting.

Nobunaga understood that although there were some uncertainties, the report was based on unlimited facts.

(... It's a mystery how that little girl knows things she doesn't even know near Takeda. But if this information is true... no, let's not think about it now)

But with that understanding, he did not do anything against Takeda.

He decided that the intimate relationship should be maintained by offering gifts to Takeda and the Uesugi family, with the utmost care as always.

(Regardless of whether the report is true or not, we should not look beyond what we can only do now (...). It is good later to ascertain the veracity of this report and make use of it)

Nobunaga chuckled tiny as she looked at the last piece of paper.

Here's what it said there.

"Takeda Tokuyoshien Shingen. I have an incurable disease, which lasts about six to seven years'