Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

Nobunaga moved his castle to Gifu Castle. However, due to the renovation of Gifu Castle, this meeting with Shizuko was held at Komayama Castle.

Nobunaga has always been in a good mood.

The rice mound brought in as a tax greatly exceeded the expected number, making it impossible to enter the collection, which once again required the construction of an additional collection, but Nobunaga was nevertheless in a good mood.

There's a reason for that.

"I hear you brought something to prove the goodness of cotton."

That's because Shizuko put up a report saying, "We'll take what we can experience the goodness of cotton".

Nobunaga couldn't contain his curiosity about what the hell would come out and how he would experience it.

"Yes. Or one more thing, I took the materials that seemed to be available in the building materials. Since cotton takes time, let me introduce you to building materials first"

When I'm done saying it, Shizuko slaps Pong gently in the hand.

The bamboo was opened quietly, from which the talent and the celebration carried the basin for two.

"Ooh..."

Someone in the minister who sees it raises an exclamation.

Eventually, when the basin is placed in front of Nobunaga's eyes, Kyung-kyu and Jitsuo bow back behind Shizuko in a token of grace.

"It is a building material, concrete (concrete) used in Nanban"

"... Hmm, smooth surface. I'd say brilliant skill, but just one would make sense"

"Dear Hall, Short air is damage. Sure, there's one concrete, but there's a secret to this."

Nobunaga, said so, puts his hand on his chin and looks at the concrete block.

This is a signal from Nobunaga that he thinks a lot. He enjoyed looking at the unknown and finding answers to the question.

(The smoothness of the surface is great. It's like cutting with a famous knife. The hardness... ho ho, it's inside. thickness might even prevent a firerope gun)

Nobunaga carefully quantified the concrete blocks by touching the surface peppered, trying to lift the concrete blocks, or tapping lightly to check the stiffness.

"Phew, is that a secret with Konkuri? Vague, but I see, Shizuko. This is not made naturally. Make a stone out of people's hands!

"You're right, Master Hall. I'm sorry for your wisdom."

That said, Shizuko lays flat. But Nobunaga said this with a lavish laugh.

"Good, I enjoy thinking about what you make. Now, Shizuko, what are the ingredients that make this? I can't believe you're using valuables."

"The raw material is called cement. It is a mixture of limestone and clay and plaster and trace amounts of iron, gravel, sand, water and air. Mix them with a certain mixing ratio, process them according to the procedure, and dry them for about 30 days and you can do it. There are many different types of concrete, which vary in nature depending on the material, but are all highly durable."

"What the hell! You're telling me that's all you can make!?

Nobunaga raised his dismay unexpectedly. Every material is inexpensively available and you don't have to struggle to buy it.

That's why everyone hasn't noticed, even though it's not weird for someone to notice.

"Yes, the method is compiled here"

"... you're a boulder. I didn't know you'd be ready for that."

Upon receipt of the document containing the concrete process, Nobunaga drops his gaze on it.

After a thorough reading of what you are writing, give them to throw to the lowest surname holding them aside.

"Pass to Okabe. He could use this."

The lowest surname, who received the thrown documents in haste, accidentally glanced at his face, but withdrew in haste because he was stared at by Nobunaga.

"Next, we're going to dedicate something to help you understand the beauty of cotton."

Celebrating the concrete block that was in front of Nobunaga lowers the talent.

But soon he carried another thing by the two of us, and slowly put it before Nobunaga.

Similar to the time of the concrete block, the two refrained behind Shizuko after putting it down.

"Ho."

It looked like a thick cloth. But it didn't look like a cloth just overlaid.

It was something that looked like that, like it was packing something soft inside.

"This is the substitute prepared today for you to enjoy the goodness of cotton… the name is called a futon"

Futon is one of the most widely used bedding in Japan.

It helps to keep your temperature warm while you sleep and keep your weight focused on one point to keep your body from hurting.

However, it was only after the Meiji era that the duvets and duvets became available. Until then, the common people and warlords slept in the clothes they wore during the day, or "rather" or "sleeping".

That was because cotton and other "cotton" were luxury items only available in trade from Ming.

"Dear Hall, I beg your pardon. I was wondering if you could get dressed at night to experience the beauty of the futon."

"Ho... You're telling me to expose myself to night clothes here. Funny."

For the angry tone, Nobunaga, the face enjoying it, once exited from the sight.

After a while he came back dressed in night clothes.

"Go ahead."

Shinako grinned and rolled over the duvet as Shizuko urged her hand to fall asleep on the duvet.

Shizuko lifted the duvet once after confirming that Nobunaga had placed his head on the pillow, which was also packed with cotton.

To show Nobunaga and the ministers that there are no tricks. When that's over, Shizuko slowly puts a duvet over Nobunaga's leg.

At the end of the application to the shoulder, Shizuko takes about three steps back.

Nobunaga is wrapped in the comfort of sleeping on hard floors and missteps. He closed his eyes unconsciously to the cozy warmth of twitching and spreading.

But soon he got up with the momentum to throw off the duvet.

The ministers float to their surprise as their faces sweat amazingly and breathe from their shoulders.

Ignoring them like that, Nobunaga said this with one hand covering his face.

"Shizuko, this is too comfortable and vice versa dangerous. I couldn't help but surrender myself to the futon."

Nothing, Nobunaga was falling asleep by the magic of the futon.

It's a cool autumnal temperature today, so Nobunaga couldn't help but feel drowsy.

Then Nobunaga changed from night clothes to dresses and came back again between the glances.

He puts his hand on his chin and looks at the futon again.

"Hmmm... I did enjoy the good cotton"

But I immediately laughed and said so.

Shizuko then received a gold packet of rewards from Nobunaga after finishing reporting on the expected production of soybeans and brown sugar.

It was a reward for selling silk thread to fly. I don't know Shizuko, but Oda-Zhang's silk thread with the Oda stamp is a product that is now the subject of discussion in Kyo and Sakaki.

Although the finest silk yarns made by leading craftsmen were no match, the silk yarns with the Oda stamp had an unparalleled character.

It is a homogenisation of quality. Many processes need to be carried out to make silk threads, and the quality can be uneven beyond the need for human hands in most processes.

Speaking of silk yarn in a ten-step evaluation, the normal silk yarn is a mixture of silk yarn equivalent to nine or ten and silk yarn equivalent to one or two.

However, the silk thread of the Oda mark is uniform, so only five or six silk threads exist.

So the merchant buys and fishes and sells them high.

Shizuko, the person of the day, had trouble using it even when she received cash.

A good amount of money was given to her, but she is the one who produces what she consumes, not the one who consumes it.

I also thought about buying farm tools, etc., but they are not luxurious enough to renew farm tools in all villages.

"That's why I give you the bonus"

Considering it useless to have gold that could not be consumed, Shizuko left the necessary amount on hand as an emergency fund and distributed the rest to Celebrations, Talents, Colors, and Lengths.

Nagako did not serve Shizuko, she was slightly less than the other three because she was merely a trainee. Still, it's quite a forehead.

"Ho, that's generous. Quiet."

"Your consideration and joy are the ultimate."

It was a celebration of gratitude with a light nori and a gifted gift of gratitude in a tough atmosphere.

"Well, what is that? Thank you."

"I don't know what it is, but if you get a gold seal, why don't you use it?"

And it was the color of a supremely natural penetration.

However, it is still Shizuko, who still has a lot of assets for the people, but has little hands on them. It was visible that even with more money, it would be money to die.

"Ha. I did use it quite a bit when I was bricking, but I still haven't used half of it. Then it's obvious that I can't consume it alone."

"Well... if Shizuko is good..."

"You're more concerned about soy and sugar cane harvesting than that. There are signs of abundance of soybeans this year, so I think I can take a lot more than last year. I think we should prepare a lot of buckets now."

I care more about field crops than money. Rather than abnegation, Cai thought he was the owner of a greed different from the public.

"Okay. I'll arrange a bucket, just in case."

To Shizuko, who is looking forward to harvesting soybeans, Colour said so with his head down.

Then months passed peacefully without anything, and when it was early December, the soybean harvest finally began.

In addition to the need for a wide area to do heavenly sun-drying, we thought it would be more efficient to work intensively in one place rather than working in pieces, pulling through the roots and gathering everything in Shizuko's village.

Dry the roots down to stand on a bamboo T-shaped drying table. When all the village soybeans were gathered in boulders, the number was a rolling word.

At the end of the heavenly sun drying, the grain is degraded, separating the shell, the insect-eaten soybeans and the bugs that were inside, respectively, from the beautiful soybeans.

Purely because of the need for a lot of manpower, a large number of humans gathered for grain removal on this day.

At the end of the grain removal and separation work, the barrels shall be side-by-side to calculate the yields of each village.

The cultivated areas of Ma, Miso, Honey, Mushroom and Motomachi will be 20 ha, 20 ha, 20 ha and 50 ha respectively.

It yielded 18, 19.5, 16, 17.2 and 52 tonnes, respectively, for a total of 122.7 tonnes.

The sugar cane was all in common with 5ha, but instead it took a way to fill the gap to the limit and increase the number of cultivars.

This is because it is cheaper to increase the number that can be cultivated at once than to grow a single sugar cane to a large extent.

Therefore, sugar cane, normally about 140 cm apart, was grown between 80 cm and 100 cm.

As a result, it was possible to harvest a little more than normal cultivation.

A slight difference if there is about one field, but if we increase the field from now on, the difference will eventually be visible.

Seeking the most effective interval is Shizuko, which has become a challenge in the future.

Sometimes the key sugar cane harvest was the first, and every village had an average harvest of between 60 and 70 tons per ha.

And about 40% from the total weight of the sugar cane becomes sugar. In fact, it dropped slightly, to about 30% of the sampling volume of about 400 tonnes.

That said, it is a broken harvest.

Nobunaga got roughly 60 tons of soybeans and 200 tons of brown sugar just sitting around.

From there, I buy soybeans and brown sugar at even lower prices from the people of Shizuko. This is an indeterminate amount because the people only buy what they want money for, but unlike others, they traded in kilometers.

It's also hard to carry that much, but harder is the storage area.

But there was a case of rice, and Shizuko had asked Nobunaga's castle in Ozhang and Mino to build a wooden silo.

Although it took a long time to transport it, it never bothered my mind about the storage area.

The taxes on rice, soybeans and sugar were over.

After that, Shizuko thought she could enjoy her vacation until the next spring, but that's not how the Inquirer wholesaled it.

"I heard you got something to be."

After about a week of delivering soybeans and brown sugar to Nobunaga, Suddenly Princess Noriko visited Shizuko's village.

For Shizuko, it's just water in her sleeping ear. I couldn't hide my surprise in the boulder.

"Ha, yes... I built a stone kiln...?

Moreover, she did not visit alone, but accompanied you separately from her co-owners.

"Is it Shizuko, whom the Lord said the princess was?

"The years seem close to the concubines."

There are two women who have been with the princess, and the year feels like they are both around twenty, and we can see the friendliness from the atmosphere.

Shizuko predicted that Shizuko's proximity to Nobunaga or the main chamber of the chief minister would be the reason why he was acting with the princess.

"Oh, you've never seen the Lord before. This is the main room of His Highness Kishita, and this is the main room of His Highness Maeda. Oh, isn't that Maeda Hall at Shizuko's?

"Yes... thank you"

Shizuko understands as he bows his head deeply. That you two seemed very close.

I'm convinced of it. In any case, in the days of Antu, the houses were close to each other and to their age, and they were closer to each other than the wives of other warlords.

I was surprised that the two of them and the princess were related to each other, but Shizuko decided to think that there must have been some kind of historical connection between the master and the subordination.

"Oh, is this the stone kiln"

When he leads the three of them to a place where the stone kiln is located, the princess raises her voice like a child.

I did not touch the stone kiln in use on the boulder. In case you try to touch it, you have to do everything in your power to stop it.

"Do, Shizuko. What delicious things can this do?

"Uh, yes...... well, there's a lot going on. Now I make steamed chicken..."

Chicken, Ozama reacts to the word. It was common sense during the Warring States that chickens, cows, horses and other meats should be contraindicated.

Apart from the people, samurai and samurai daughters are often educated in temples from childhood.

There are still many warlords who detract from chickens in that relationship.

"Dear Dark Princess, chickens are a beast meat to be contraindicated. Why would you..."

"Ho, ho, what the hell. Does that make any difference to the wild birds and chickens you've been eating, huh?

To the first bitterness, the princess disagrees with laughter. But against the light-hearted atmosphere, the words had a strong core.

"Besides, the boys who serve the Buddha will eat alcohol and women without keeping the Buddha's teachings. But isn't it reasonable for the concubines to put up with it?"

"Oh, that's..."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. In short, because we lose our share, the lowlifes don't just say don't eat. You don't have to listen to those idiots bullshit."

Shizuko was honestly impressed that it was Nobunaga Shizukuishi's proper room. She wondered if Princess Nobunaga could have become a regular room because she had a way of perceiving things and an ethic unlike warring humans.

"Well, Shizuko. Morning, make it and entertain my concubine's tongue."

After that, it goes without saying that I greatly liked the chicken dish that you and I were able to cook, and ate up to the minute of Shizuko.