Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

Ever since February, I've been busy looking around.

Finally charcoal baking using dry wood, and also teaching those techniques to the two works.

Kasei Mori asked me to produce 30 simple crossbows, and 30 winding crossbows with simplified mechanism.

In addition to the 200 spouses who are remunerations from Nobunaga, a plan from Nobunaga may accompany them.

He also received an apology from Tanyu Chang-soo, who brought the plan, and accidentally returned the apology and fought an apology match.

Such, February, which should still be able to slow down, became as busy as an iron fire.

It should be noted that Shizuko, who had a conversation with Chang-soo Tanyu, had the impression against him that 'the Oda family minister is reputed to be a strong ac with both one- and two-habits, but when I talked to him, he was a solid Mitsujin for the price'.

The plan given by Nobunaga was to expand the munitions production base.

At the time, the people were basically sheltered by their military might instead of paying taxes on rice and soybeans to people, temples and shogun houses.

Nobunaga, like other people up until now, had taken refuge in them instead of making the Ozhang people pay their taxes.

But after leaving Shizuko to run the village for two years, he came up with an idea.

That is the idea of managing and operating everything from planting to harvesting in the Oda family, rather than letting the people produce crops at their disposal as before.

It became necessary to overhaul Shizuko's village as a litmus stone that accounted for its absolute necessity.

A defense facility was to be built in the village in order to create a production base that could not be compared to the previous one.

However, it was not Shizuko who designed the village's defense facilities, but Okabe, a palace carpenter at Ozhang Hotfield, who was also responsible for Rightmen.

Under the influence of this plan, it became a carriage to increase the size of the village.

There are only a hundred people and a few villages with a hundred and sixty half-armed people who are ordinary people but become soldiers if they become warriors. A professional guard unit was to garrison nearly three hundred more to escort him.

Naturally, they as well as their accompanying wives, grandparents, etc. follow them on the set.

When that happened, the land in the village up to now was not enough.

But Shizuko's concerns and other woven Nobunaga had skipped orders in Tanyu.

If there is no land, make it, is.

Having noticed that there were no other villages around him, Nobunaga thought ahead of time to occupy the place with his pawn before Shizuko's village developed and the population grew.

This reduces the room for intersections to enter, and it is also a formula that allows the entrance and exit to be sealed off before the intersections can escape even if they enter Shizuko's village.

Nobunaga was not willing to consolidate his production base in one place.

To spread the risk, the idea is to spread it over three or four villages based on Shizuko's village.

All villages will then be managed and operated as direct munitions production areas.

It was not for each village to pay taxes in that relationship, but after viewing all villages as one facility, the corresponding taxes were said.

The lowest lines put out by Nobunaga are 500 mounds of rice (30 km per mound for a total of about 15 tons), 800 pieces of soy (about 3 tons) and 8 pieces of brown sugar (about 30 km).

And when it comes to delivering the lowest line, it is not, and no matter how much it is produced, the condition that 50% are Nobunaga and the rest are villagers, including Shizuko, has not changed.

Other products also need to pay 50% depending on the thing. However, vegetables such as sweet potatoes and pumpkins and chicken eggs became tax-free.

In order to clear the minimum line presented by Nobunaga, Shizuko decided to review the original planned 300ha expansion plan for agricultural land.

She allocated 2 ha of arable land per population to be allocated, 1 ha to rice and the remaining 1 ha to soybeans. However, since soybeans are grown in companion plants, the area under cultivation for real soybeans will be 50a per person.

Sugar cane fields were set at 5 ha for each village, leaving vegetables, chicken eggs and grains to the extraction of each village.

This brings the maximum total area of rice and soybeans to 390 ha. Regardless, it is impossible to grow crops at 100% occupancy.

Considering the conscription caused by the war and the health of the population, it would have an occupancy rate of roughly 80%.

A further form of co-location of rice and soybean arable land, the main crops, in residential districts for each village, ensured that damage was minimized in the unlikely event of an outbreak of pests in the crop.

As a disadvantage, the production point will be dotted, and each will need a defense facility.

There is a risk that this size will allow us to operate in the current working population, but we are also certain that there will be more returns than we can compare for that matter.

First, with regard to rice yields, assuming that an average of 30 mounds of brown rice can be harvested, taking into account the total area of rice planted in all villages of 260 ha, homicides and pests per ha, etc., and the utilization rate is estimated at 80%, the total production will be a broken production of 6240 mounds.

Even if you give Nobunaga half 3120 mounds, the remaining 3120 mounds will remain on hand. If about 3000 mounds are distributed by about 300 villagers, ten mounds per family can be distributed, and fractions are well prepared as reserved rice.

"Uh, the minimum goal for this one is 500 mounds. But there's nothing hard to think about. Similar to last year, it will be easy to achieve. However, there are many other villages open, so this village will have a special goal of 10 mounds per person."

"Copy that, village chief. Well, how much easier do you feel than last year......?

"Um, we're a special ten mound, aren't we? Then he said it was normal... eh"

"It's about three mounds per citizen. Well, if you're in a new village, unlike this one, you need to go to war."

"It's easy to think about that."

Do you understand how relaxing it can be this year, there is no darkness in the villagers' expressions?

However, the fact that the village was developing at an unusual speed seemed to me to be under the invisible pressure of expectation from Nobunaga.

In any case, while taking care not to affect the people's field work, Tanyu Changxiu quickly mowed the village and built a gate so splendid that it could be seen as a castle gate at the entrance to the soldier's quarters and the village.

Moreover, on the 365th and 24-hour perimeter of the village, the breakthrough treatment that Nobunaga Oda's soldiers guard follows on the set.

In addition to the expansion of the fields and the defense facilities around the village, a house was built quite close to Shizuko's house, or almost in the neighbor's position.

The owner is Nobunaga Oda, or Nobunaga's villa. He even carefully built a passage that leads directly to the building that leads to the hot spring.

Shizuko, who was loaded with various penetrations but understood it was too late to say anything more, just dropped her shoulder small.

And the months without waiting are easy to go by, as the saying goes, February is quickly over, and early March begins to feel the breath of spring.

About half of the village's surrounding defense facilities are complete, and the other villages are almost complete. And when the big farmland was about 80% complete, a surprising amount of information was delivered to Shizuko.

That was the evening when Odd Maru came to Shizuko's house with a face that seemed in a better mood than usual.

"What!? Nishi Mino and Nishi Mino fell!?

"Here!! Loud!?

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

Shizuko, loudly pointed out to Odd Maru, hurries to hold her mouth with her own hands.

The odd circle I was looking around to see if there were any suspicious people, but the moment I found out I couldn't feel any signs like that, I exhaled a heavy sigh.

"Don't raise your voice suddenly. If they ask me, I'm in trouble."

"(I think it's a tough business to get through the ears and noses of the Vitmans...) Yeah, I'm sorry"

The Vitmans set up two types of territory as a territory: a prey hunting territory and a territory where their safety is guaranteed.

The hunting grounds are vast, such as mountains, mainly in the villages, but in turn the place where their safety is guaranteed is the house of Shizuko.

Therefore, even when a stranger entered the village, he immediately realized that the territory had been vandalized.

Odd circles did that at first, too, but apparently you either don't want to remember much, or you just forget about it.

Anyway, only inside Shizuko's house, there is little room for 'others' to enter.

"The only thing left to do is Mino in the center. But here's the trouble."

"That's right... I can see the other guy's behavior from Inaya Castle."

Shizuko depressed such a gavel, recalling the time she used to visit Gifu Castle.

It's a tough place to climb and descend, so much so that even a well-maintained modern era thinks of it as a steep gradient of rock.

But the air is clear, so you can see the Mino Plains from the top of the mountain.

This would soon have been discovered, such as Nobunaga's march, and by the time he arrived, the defensive system would have been well laid.

"... well. We'll still have to take the time to attack here."

"It's not like I'm going to fall for this. I wonder if I want salt."

Shizuko says that over a cup of tea.

Salt is a vital source of sodium and chlorine, essential elements in the way humans live.

It can be said that humans instinctively want salt that makes them think that salty dishes are bad.

It was also deeply involved in the history of mankind and was a precious product until the method of ion exchange membrane method was established.

Therefore, I still leave that residue in words such as "salaried" (salaried means paid to work to buy salt that was essential to my life), "send salt to enemies" and "put on hand salt".

However, excessive ingestion can cause hypertension and can also lead to the development of gastric cancer.

Strokes induced by hypertension have become one of the main causes of death among modern Japanese, especially since the Japanese feel like overdose of salt.

"Ho, salt."

"But well, you're not too greedy for boulders. I know how to make it, but salt should have been pretty well cemented in rights."

As Shizuko put it, salt had various rights from ancient times to modern times.

For example, an incident that actually occurred in the eighteenth century, the story of Asano masters' heir and built-in Otishi's revenge on Yoshihiranosuke, "Loyalist".

It is said to attract the loyalty of samurai, but in the first place, Asano Uchi and Yoshihiranosuke had a grudge.

It is said that there was a presence of salt in the distant cause.

Ako (now Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture), the territory of Asano Uchinosuke, and Yoshira (now Yoshira-cho, Aichi Prefecture), the territory of Yoshirakenosuke, were both known as famous places for salt.

It was a pattern that both houses had long objected to over their rights and methods. It is said that both Yoshiranosuke cursed Asano Uchinosuke in front of him and Asano Uchinosuke slashed Yoshiranosuke in the background for such a long time.

"But salt is essential in making preserved foods. Hmm. That said, if production goes up, distribution will increase, and then other rights groups won't shut up."

Modern times don't have to, warring state era rights groups are directly connected to the fact that being infringed on rights no longer has food support.

Therefore, it is imperative that disputes arise in order to protect rights.

The battle of Ishiyama, which rebelled against Nobunaga Oda for fear of losing his rights and mobilized the nation's all-time monologue for ten years, has been famous for its thorough protests as a struggle for rights.

"Then... you should hang it up with the hotel. Well... if you're scared of rights groups, it's a business of the Oda family."

"Isn't that like saying, 'Lend me your territory'?

"That may be true, but Shizuko was entrusted with the Oda family's munitions production site, right? Speaking of mass-producing salt, do you think the Hall would be happy to lend you its territory?

"Um, I don't know. Well, if you get a chance. I'm still getting a little impatient, and I was wondering if it would be a bad idea to demand anything more."

Shizuko returns the raw reply in an odd circle because she is unwilling to embark on the production of salt so seriously.

She now had unprecedented problems because she was in a position to sum up the five villages.

Because it is bothering your mind, the priority is so low that I think it will be good next time for the mass production of salt.

(Let's... contact network)

She couldn't come up with a clear answer to the problem.

Four villages were formed, mainly in the village of Shizuko, like satellites orbiting around it.

Each village is independent, but agricultural technology was to be based on the village of Shizuko.

Then there were problems that had never been faced in one village before.

The greatest is the means of communicating the will. This is called a liaison network.

A close exchange of information is essential if rice and soybean cultivation is to be carried out in tandem.

The soldiers also needed to work together, so they were able to borrow some early horses from them.

But then there's another problem. It's the speed with which you can get in touch.

Soldiers have a soldier jam, so basically the transmission of information takes place, although there is some time lag if it is communicated there.

But when communicating information from Shizuko's village to other villages, it must be assured and accurately communicated.

Otherwise, the technology will pass on as misunderstandings and, worst of all, the harvest will fall exceptionally.

It's not where I pay my taxes when that happens. Starvation will strike five villages at once.

There was also a proposal as to whether people should be sent to provide technical guidance, but now their village farming will be neglected.

In the first place, we have to increase production at the expense of some fields just for technical guidance and so on.

We must ensure that the five villages share technology at the same time.

"Hmm."

Think arm in arm but no clear answer comes to mind. But the time limit is close. And there's already started to be a small problem caused by poor transmission.

Sometimes the information that should have been passed on to the neighbouring village was not passed on at all next to it. That was due to the fact that the villagers who were asked to convey it forgot.

I should have contacted each village chief to meet on a designated day to have a discussion one day, but only half of them actually got together.

If I asked why I didn't come, it was caused by the fact that the day of the gathering was incorrectly passed on to me for a few days.

There's more. However, most of them are due to lack of communication or misunderstanding of communication.

Recovery is now possible, but if preparation for seedlings or under nursery seedlings is completed, poor transmission can be an irrevocable problem.

"Phone calls, e-mails... I wish I had"

Shizuko zeroes her stupidity like nothing else.

"Uh, no. No. If this happens, it's a change of mind… let's start by thinking about why we needed a phone call."

Shizuko first thought about why the phone was born, trying to figure out if there was any hint.

The phone is, in short, a means of communicating audio through a telephone line to a distant opponent so that they can talk to each other.

They communicate their thoughts directly to remote areas, and they also transmit and receive them at the same time.

And young and old people can use the service in the same way without being aware of technical problems.

The impact of the phone call on society is immense. By the late Showa period, it had become essential as a way of contacting companies and shops.

(Communicate your thoughts directly to the person. I can't do this first, there's no electricity. Speaking of which, how was the phone identifying the person...? Oh, phone number...... number?

At that time, Shizuko felt something caught on to her. She rethinks from scratch again.

Tell me why the phone was born. What does the phone look like in the first place?

(Nah, you get caught, right? Phone...... Phone...... Cell Phone...... Landline...... Tools for communicating information. And discern the person...... ugh!?

I flashed, just saying she slapped the floor with both hands.

Vitman, who was surprised by the sound and slept nearby, looked around, not saying anything.

"Yes, there was this way! Cai Cha! Caiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!

"... you don't have to be so loud, you hear it right. So, what can I do for you, Shizuko?"

The colour, which only dashed from the hallway, replies to Shizuko, who does not wake up excited.

Usually this calms me down, but this time the proposal seemed to come to mind and it didn't work at all.

"Prepare the ink and paper! I'll write a brush for you! Can I have that, please?

"... ok. Okay, please calm down."

"No, no, I'm still calm about this!?

(............... where?

Did it also get silly to penetrate, Colour went to pick up the ink and paper with his smiley face.

When I came back to them, there was Shizuko, who also pretended to be Vitman in an effort to calm herself down.

I didn't know why that would calm me down.

But Shizuko looks like she's having fun, Vitman's a snooze, and the other wolves were circling around Shizuko saying, 'Me and me,' so Colour decided to leave them alone.

While rubbing the solid ink over the clay, Colour asks without looking at the static child.

"Shizuko at the place. The pavilion said," What are you going to write? "

"It's impossible to remember hundreds of people on a boulder with your head, hey. I'm going to change the way I manage my village."

"In what way?

To that question, Shizuko said this with a grin that just said she had been waiting.

"Build a family registry!