Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

For a moment, tension ran around, but it quickly fogged.

As the intruder threw the sidelines far away and quickly disarmed, he showed his sincere willingness.

The soldiers who were surrounding them when they saw it pull out a little bit of shoulder strength.

But I reconsidered that I couldn't be alarmed, and stuck it in the intruder while I was alert.

He showed no willingness to resist and honestly tied his hands behind his back.

Spears that remain standing and knives that fall to the ground are recovered and collected to Tanyu.

"Oh, can you show me that spear for a second?

Shizuko, who was really more concerned about the spear, speaks that way to the soldier with the spear.

When the soldier asked Dan Yu with his gaze, Dan Yu nodded just to do as he said. The soldier grabbed the middle of the spear, returned the tip of his ear and offered her a spear from the side of the stone.

When he receives the spear, Shizuko looks closely at the tip of his ear. So I finally understood.

The feeling that I've seen this spear somewhere is not just my fault.

"Carved are Sanskrit and Sanskrit swords. This is the work of the Migawa Wenju faction, Masahiro Fujiwara. I think maybe the dragonfly is cut and it's a name..."

Moment after moment, an intruder who had grown up before turned his neck toward Shizuko with tremendous momentum.

"Hey, why the name!?

I look at him as he opens his eyes and reveals his amazement, and Dan Yu opens his mouth from the side.

"Lord Shizuko. Are you familiar with the nature of this person?

"Hmm, when it comes to spears using dragonfly cuts... perhaps the people of Mitsugawa, the Honda Heihachiro of the Tokugawa family minister"

Even though he was a little less confident, Shizuko answered Tanyu's question that way.

Mitsugawa, later ruled by Tokugawa Jiayang, the first general of Edo Shogun. And Nobunaga has established an alliance with Jiayang and Qingzhou in five years.

Even a few thieves could not have been so easily cut off if they had become Tokugawa family ministers than there was the Chingzhou Alliance.

"It doesn't matter how a person is punished. I hope you will not blame my lord."

Loyal victory when he learned that he had entered a hidden place in Oda territory without due process, but he didn't look particularly panicked, let alone disturbed.

I just don't want my husband, the Tokugawa family, to develop into a liability issue. Because of this, I said that I would gladly give it to you about my neck.

When I heard that, Shizuko thought that this was Honda's loyalty just before he died, no, he tried to be loyal to Jiayang even though he was still dead.

What he did was too big to be acquitted, even though it was an allied matter. Territorial violations, of course, witnessed information that would have hit a secret if it had been the time of the artificial cultivation of shiitake mushrooms.

It's not that loyalty understands the matter exactly, but you must have felt that you had committed an irrevocable malfunction from the air in the field. I kept my big body small and quiet.

"(What shall we do…)"

Shizuko whispers to Tanyu as she walks next door.

I'm not even willing to make the story bigger. As for her, she wanted to clean it up peacefully if she could.

"(Hmm, I don't care what you do... I just have to ask for your judgment)"

Nor did Tanyu want to turn the story up and make it a diplomatic issue between nations.

In the end, what decisions Nobunaga makes will determine the treatment of Honda loyalty.

Therefore, in order to ask Nobunaga about the treatment of loyalty, Tanyu puts out an early horse. In the meantime, Zhongsheng decided to place him under house arrest in one of the soldiers' garrison rooms.

"I see what you mean."

Explaining that he would restrain himself for a while, Zhongsheng merely uttered that word.

I couldn't really tell if it was audacious or reopening, Dan Yu, but I thought it would be quick to talk about it if it would make me adult anyway.

And that's when he tried to transfer his loyalty to the cell, and the groaning, beastly roaring, unnameable noise rang.

The person who rattled his belly worm was shivering into small pieces with his gaze down. When I looked closely, I could see that it was stained bright red to my ears and embarrassed.

Seeing it, Shizuko and Tanyu broke their faces when they looked at each other. It was impossible to stay nervous when my stomach rattled so loudly.

"... Oh yes, Master Tanyu! I've been thinking about a new grip. Could you let me know what you think?"

"Ugh, Mm. Oh, well. Then why don't we take it?"

Shizuko, who took the whole plan not to embarrass her loyal victory, even said she had just come up with it, meeting her hands with Pong.

I got on to talking about Shizuko, although Tanyu felt slightly less comfortable.

After seeing each other with a slightly pulled face, they all turn to the loyal winner.

"Ho, how is Hondo with you?

"Right. There's still quite a bit of time in the evening, and it's a pleasure to fill one belly here."

"Uhm...... no wonder. Actually, I ran out of food in the mountains and haven't spoken anything but water for a whole day. I appreciate your generosity."

Loyal Seung rides the story of the two of us when he corrects his residence.

It was quite forceful, but the thoughts of the three of them coincided, and we were supposed to hold a hands-on meeting on this occasion.

(Phew... I can't help it but I can handle it)

At ease in his heart, Shizuko takes her grip out of the shoulder bag.

There were just three conveniently. Give Tanyu and Zhongsheng one big handful wrapped in sashimi leaves at a time.

"I'm supposed to prepare chopsticks, but one thing is gripping rice, grab it with your hands and eat it."

"Is it like food in battle? Which..."

When the three men lumped down to the back end of the furnace at a dizzy pace, Tanyu unwrapped the leaves of the sandalwood. What was inside was grilled rice made with brown and grain rice sweet potatoes, and then a few slices of pickled rice.

"Lord Shizuko, what the hell is this?

Tanyu asks, pointing to a pickle that looks like a pickle and is slightly different.

He was the one who put something in his mouth that he didn't quite understand in the boulder, but the loyal winner was different.

"… delicious. I thought I was tired of eating grilled rice, etc., but the yellow one has a moderate sweetness that makes it taste tiresome. Something like this pickle is great. I miss it somewhere, it reminds me of my hometown. What a stain on my heart."

He grabbed a grip of rice and took a bite, followed by a long soak in a slice.

Nor could Tanyu, a boulder, hide his surprise at the alarmless manner in which he mouthed this offered food. You noticed his gaze like that, after swallowing what was in his mouth, Loyalty said:

"Is there something on some face?

"No, I thought they wouldn't suspect the poison."

"I don't think you're the kind of sisters who poison someone, and if you're going to kill them, how many chances are there?

"Oh, yes..."

With a manly smile on his face, Tadashi eats a grip.

Totally poisoned, Tanyu mouthed a grip of rice and a lot of pickling in a way that followed him.

Thereafter, the loyalty was taken into custody in the form of a sentry post in an empty room, not a cell, and transferred to another location the next day.

Thirty soldiers of escort and surveillance officers were to accompany Dan Yu in such an arrangement surrounding the loyalty victory.

But Zhongsheng didn't seem particularly hasty, and he was riding a horse with a wrap that seemed to be a lot soaked in it.

As to why he had such a thing, I asked him if he could divide some of his favorite flavor captivating loyalties into Shizuko just before leaving. She acknowledges this in two replies and continues to the present day because it is smoked on top of it, which is not particularly secret, and is a food with little to worry about hurting.

I gave him a cloth wrap with a good amount in it, and Tadashi holds Shizuko's hand with both hands to say thank you.

It should be noted that the fact that Loyal Victory deposits his hands with others has the meaning of his' I trust you '.

However, it is difficult to understand, most loyalty wins are high tension, so it is not communicated to the target.

"... cherry blossom tree"

A cherry tree stuck in the eyes of a loyal winner who looked beside him.

And when he saw the cherry tree, which was scattered for the most part, the words that were in his heart came to mind.

Loyalty said it honestly.

"Spring breeze scatters cherry blossoms and blooms are flowers of my heart."

"What?"

"Oh, no, it's nothing"

The loyal winner, who notices that Dan Yu next door looks surprised, coughs with a slight blush.

He himself did not quite understand why such words had been uttered.

We'll be there in a minute or so.

"I see what you mean."

I don't particularly care. Tanyu changes the subject.

Fortunately for this, Loyalty squeezes his expression. But soon I sighed small.

"So I will wait for a response from the hall. I don't know what kind of judgment a boulder will make..."

"(... if I could, I wouldn't want to be pursued any further) I see. If I could, I'd appreciate it if you took care not to blame your lord."

Nevertheless, and whining the words in his mouth, Zhongsheng continued to whine in his heart.

(quotes escaped by horses, lost in that place, etc. Nothing but shame)

In early April, Shizuko, who entrusted Genichi with the task of managing the fields, had come to the fields where she planted soybeans last year.

With a tool to dig the well, she takes out the soil from each of the places where she was planting soybeans and corn.

Arrange the removed soil like a formation.

"... here we go. I forgot about this problem."

At first glance, I see no great difference in the dirt lined up in front of her.

But if you look closely, only part of the soil was terribly dry. That is soil collected from the soil, approximately 1.5 metres from the ground.

Even though the surface is soil containing impeccable moisture, moisture is depleted in the soil at a certain depth.

Strange phenomenon from around, but Shizuko knows this cause.

"I forgot that corn grown with soybeans as a companion plant sucks up a lot of moisture in the soil..."

The cause is corn grown side by side for soybeans.

Since corn is a crop with a moisture content of about three quarters relative to the weight of the fruit, it requires more agricultural water than other cereals.

Compared over the same area, corn requires three times as much agricultural water as wheat.

Inevitably, the moisture contained in the soil will also be absorbed more than in other crops.

Around the surface, water can be fed to maintain a constant moisture content, but corn roots are said to grow by as much as 230 cm.

This is nearly twice as long as soybeans and wheat, and nearly three times longer than potatoes and inee.

There are also problems of a more frequent nature.

The period when corn grows most overlaps with the hot period when the field's moisture evaporation is intense.

Consequently, moisture from rainy rains and summer evenings, which would otherwise be heavy throughout the year, would be absorbed before reaching the groundwater layer, which would gradually fall into a negative chain.

"Hmmm... Digging back is heavy labor too"

The soil water shortage caused by the incorrect calculation of agricultural water and low rainfall is fortunately negligible due to the small size of the field.

However, if corn spreads as soybean production continues to expand, one day river water will not be enough and groundwater will be used.

Then ground subsidence occurs due to rapidly sucked up groundwater.

Ultimately, it will deplete groundwater, worsen soil moisture shortages and dry soils, causing desertification through so-called droughts.

In modern times the United States is famous when it comes to corn, but his country went on for 200 years just to sprinkle water on the surface.

The water source is, of course, groundwater.

There are several groundwater sources in the United States, some on a scale of four trillion tons (Biwako water, equivalent to one hundred and fifty cups) of water stored in some places.

Huge water reserves, but what happens if you keep sucking it up from there indefinitely to moisten vast areas of agricultural land.

As a result, groundwater has become depleted. In the Midwest of the United States, we are about to run out of huge groundwater sources that are as large as Japan's area.

A study has been conducted to the effect that 5000 years is necessary to undo these.

All you have to do to avoid the lack of moisture in the soil caused by corn and the massive use of groundwater is to rest the land, but then you will also stop producing soybeans.

If soybeans become as high as Shizuko expected, Nobunaga will surely seek to maintain their production.

But if we continue, we will destroy the tailings of the rich land. If you do poorly, within a few decades, Ozhang will be barren land.

"Dealing with pests... there are ways, but now rice cultivation is going to be neglected"

Since soybeans are not highly yield-enhancing due to chemical fertilizers, high production is dependent on the action of the root bacteria symbiotic to local forces and roots.

For this reason, the technical problem when organically growing soybeans is the high prevalence of pests or the flourishing of weeds.

Soybeans are greatly reduced, especially when pests spread. Corn to clear this issue, but now the depletion of groundwater by corn has become a problem.

The main pests of soybeans are turtles and butterfly moths. Both live in shade, such as on the shores where weeds thrive.

And from early summer to early autumn, it mainly harms maturing soybean pods and fruits.

In other words, to prevent pests, it is necessary to prune or bake the weeds around the nursery area without leaving them before soybeans are made.

By doing so, it is possible to reduce the number of individuals in the overwinter worm. It is therefore necessary to prune the roots.

"... yeah, you are. Let's change our ways this year."

Another problem, the weeds, is relatively simple. Soybeans are effective in weed control, mainly medium-cultivated and cultivated soy.

Before growing soybeans, thorough measures to suppress weed germination are quite different from just medium farming and growing soy.

We decided not to rely on flashy technologies to combat the depletion of groundwater by corn, but to introduce more basic, and then more robust, technologies.

The content is extremely simple. Install bamboo fillets in the cornfield.

No matter, it's not just a toy, it's got a little hole in it by the way.

And when you pour water out of it, a small amount of water leaks out of the small holes that have been drilled, making the surface always lightly wet.

By doing so, water usage can be cut by 70% and rooting nutrition can be turned to growth.

But it's still best for weed control. Doing this and not doing it creates a difference between cloud mud in the harvest.

"I mean... it's baked -!

With such an unintelligible thing to say, Shizuko looks back in momentum.

……

Without even knowing that there are colors in the eyes and nose.