Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

(10) Next, I will teach squid (squid), how to simmer fish, etc. when that is over.

Smaller fish don't make sense if they're shimmy, but it's easier to keep medium to large fish shimmy without hurting yourself and easy to manage.

"Let's open and dry the bamboo. Remove guts, open and soak to some extent in sea water before drying overnight from evening to the next day"

"hey, hey"

Shizuko teaches the fishermen to make dries while demonstrating.

A short distance from her was the celebration and talent of Shizuko's horse crowd, and Nagako.

"Oh man, my princess is an expert. I'm just wondering what kind of teacher you've learned."

"You're a consultant to the Oda family, Shizuko. But so much knowledge as a young man, how did he acquire it? Something bothers me a little."

They were watching Shizuko's work while paying attention to their surroundings.

She's not a professional fisherman, she's not a professional cook, and it was hard to say she was hands-on in making dried foods.

"I'll also dry the shrimp, but please don't throw away the shell. Dry them together, too. Keep yourself intact, but the shell will be powdered later over the stone molars"

"Heh."

Shizuko moves in turn to give instructions among those who are working with some consolidation.

Whoever sees it seems busy has nothing to do with celebration or talent. At best, it's just a mountain of Sekiyama to follow behind.

Being behind them would only get in the way of the work, so they decided to pay attention to Shizuko in a position where they could see the whole thing.

"Please also wash and dry the fish guts - I use those for fish fertilizers...... oh, I have to build a compost production plant. The crops in the field are radishes and green onions, and then..."

"Hmm, you're going to be talking about the princess for a while now"

The story of Shizuko, heard from far rolls, was not nearly over yet.

Hey, hey.

That said, he flickered his hands and went somewhere.

About four and a half minutes later, he returned with a refreshing face. But when he quit, he had a spear he wasn't wearing.

"You were late."

"Oh, it was crowded. If you want to go too, I suggest you go early."

Answer the words of Changkao in a light atmosphere.

But the talent on the other side shrugged bossly as he made a difficult face.

"Three."

"Nha, it's you and me"

To put it that way, Celebration turns its face to the longable.

"Katsuzo, tell the princess it's time to go back."

"Because I... okay, I'm going! Stop that monstrous laugh!?

I'm a dissatisfied chief, but I panic and distance myself when I see Kyung-chong get involved laughing at Niyaniya.

Katsuzo knows that when Celebration enters into these kinds of actions, he thinks about things that are usually not easy.

Because I went through it with it.

"Not at all..."

Even though he complains, he goes to Shizuko.

When he arrived at Shizuko's place, Keiji opened his mouth.

"That's what you're doing. Daikanya, the princess's grip is blind, and she must have been looking for something to lose her temper."

"There are people like that everywhere."

"The guy who remembers well above is the jealousy of this hand that any guy gets once. I've finished the mess."

"You need to be careful for a while. Or should we deliberately turn the story up and put it in the ears of the hall?"

"Well, in that case, I'm pretty sure Oda's lord would be too proud to let the wrong person go and destroy your house."

Must be, so whimpered the talent nodded small.

In mid-March, the people sorted by Nobunaga began moving to the village he designated.

In modern language, we're moving. One thing is different, you don't live in a land that you decide for yourself.

Instead houses, clothing and a little food are provided. You will also be paid quite a bit of cash as a payment, so you will not be in a difficult state to eat right away.

Furthermore, their relatives had been arranged to meet at the move. Shizuko wondered if it was a sinful destruction that was forcing them to stop trying to bring their children and relatives in this past year.

(But I didn't know fifty people would be pulled out of our village... in the end, just back in the first year, Tohoho)

From Shizuko's village, 50 additional people and the entire family were pulled out in the second year.

Tax revenues are also greatly reduced as the number of villages decreases at once, but I guess this reduction is also within the calculation for Nobunaga.

The story of 500 soldiers took time besides thoughts.

It was caused by Shizuko's request to create a sandbox area in order to build a soldier garrison together.

A lane of sand 200 meters long that can run about five people. And a large sandbox 100 meters on one side.

It took time to load the sand used for the facility and the completion schedule was expected to slip in after mid-April.

Determined that there was no need to rush the completion of the facility, Shizuko did not consider the planned extension to be a problem. It is natural that sand is heavy and takes time if it is of good quality.

Later in March, a formal agreement is finally concluded between Ozhang and the Three Rivers countries.

Plans for large-scale cotton cultivation in both countries have begun.

That first discussion was to take place at Qingzhou Castle. Shizuko took the lead on Ozhang's side, and Tadashi took the lead on Migawa's side.

"Thank you very much for coming from far away today."

Shizuko bows her head deeply to the loyalty she is facing. But Shizuko looks up, curious that there has been no response from the loyal side.

Loyalty seemed more bewildered, rather than confused. I thought something strange was going on, and Shizuko hit me with talent.

"(Dear Shizuko, Perhaps the Mitsugawa side is the first such seating. I can't make any intentions, if I can, can you please open it to everyone?)"

Together, they sat apart from the western-style round-table leg-cut object, drawing the car seat and chopping the tail and the three rivers.

"(Ah, ah... sorry) Cohon... I made this arrangement today to express our thoughts"

Cough one up and Shizuko looks at the face of loyalty and speaks.

It made me feel like I was being peeked deep into his heart by his serious eyes, but Shizuko continues her words without turning a blind eye.

"My lord Uesuke Oda and my lord Heihachiro Honta's lord Shimomikawa Shouji Tokugawa, fifth place, have formed an alliance. An alliance is a reciprocal position… so you don't have to think about which one is going to sit on top."

"… indeed, an alliance is reciprocal. But now Lord Shizuko has more skills? Thinking about it, there's nothing wrong with you sitting in your seat."

"Well, let's get rid of that difference first"

The loyal winners frowning at Shizuko's words are the people of Mitsugawa country, but that was the same with the people on Ogi's side.

Instead, everyone but Shizuko was unable to draw on the intent of her statement. Without omitting the confusion of the place, Shizuko sends a signal to the lowest names holding back in the next room.

When the oxen are quietly opened, the small surnames with the basin in their hands enter the room from there. When the maidens placed the basin in front of each of Migawa and Ozhang, they quietly went out of the room, as they did when they came in.

Loyalty drops his gaze on the basin. There was a thick bunch of paper placed there.

"Please, read it for your hand"

Shizuko says so and encourages you to read the bundle of paper. Loyalty begins to read the paper bundle to his hand while leaving some confusion.

"This is..."

"This one describes everything we know. Regardless, it's about cotton."

The paper bundle was a material about cotton.

It is also the most cotton familiar booklet of this warring age, which contains as much information as Shizuko can know and as far as it is impossible to know in the warring age.

But there was a problem. Too much detail to understand the contents of the Migawa side, of course, but no one on the Ogi side.

Zhongsheng had his eyes rounded, and Yangzheng and Positive Weight had nothing else to say. All the other human beings in the Three Rivers country had their paperwork in their hands.

Nor did the Ozhang faction have any idea what Shizuko was thinking.

If it hadn't been for Nobunaga's "Let Shizuko Like It" order, we would all have forced her out and asked her for her sincerity.

(Uh... a little silly... did I go into too much detail? Um, I just wrote down the contents of the book as it is... it failed. I was simply going to unify my knowledge...)

Shizuko smiles dry after receiving various emotional gazes from both factions and understanding that the operation failed.

"... Lord Shizuko, may I ask you one thing?

Shizuko remarked as she thought about how to recover it from now on, a person wearing a headscarf on the side of Migawa.

"Excuse me. This is how I wear a headscarf, thinking that one has a body and should not be infected (depressed) by you. Please forgive me."

"I don't mind. So, what kind of questions would you like to ask?"

"Even the unlearned awkward can tell. This paper contains very detailed information. I apologize for my disrespect, but I have doubts about the way you expose your hands first. You can provide us with such information at no cost."

The Warring States era is not as informative a society as it is in modern times. Craftsmen were always wary that their secret technology would leak outside.

That's normal and common sense. No one gives free information to their allies like Shizuko.

The Sangawa faction thought that they were going to mix false information to hide the key part, but the content was too intense for that.

"... how many years do you think it's been since a firecracker was passed on to this Japanese book?

"Ha, no...... sorry. I don't know the awkward."

"August 25, Astronomy 12 (September 23, 1543) … about twenty-four years ago now."

Moments, the Three Rivers faction goes out of its way.

As one of the weapons in war when it comes to firearms, it builds a solid position.

They could not hide their surprise that it had been only twenty-four years since the firecracker had been transmitted.

"The reason it spread to Japan in just twenty-four years, which, in my opinion, was because, within a short period of time, artillery manufacturing technology was diffused by multiple human hands. However, unlike iron cannons, cotton is a military-resistant item. So it's going to take some time to spread throughout Japan."

"... So you thought about co-cultivating with your allies, the Three Rivers. But that leaves one question."

"Question? What is it?"

The man in the headscarf said this after one breath, looking at Shizuko.

"I don't know what your advantages are. As far as this material is concerned, it seems that cotton made from cotton can be built on a par with silk and hemp. Then the first thing you need to do is produce in your own country. I doubt flying there and all of a sudden co-growing with our country."

"… for several reasons. One is to reduce the number of deaths of children, and one is because it takes a lot of land to grow."

"If you don't mind, I'd like to give you some details."

"The first thing we need is vast tracts of land to grow, as it is said. We use it for clothing, naturally."

……

"The next step is to lower the number of child deaths, but garments made of cotton have the advantage of staying cool in summer and warm in winter. When people die outside of battle, starvation, plague, and cold are the main causes that can be raised. Among them, the closest 'cold' can protect your body by producing large quantities of garments made from cotton."

Ancient East and West, the death of a man due to the cold was happening naturally. Many infants and toddlers, especially those with weak resistance, died each year due to the plague and cold.

There are also painful stories of thirty children who were in refugee camps because of the Great Cold Wave, all of whom died within that day.

Civilians are not the only ones dying in the cold. Two hundred soldiers died in cold training before the Japanese-dew war, and more than two thousand have died frozen during the Japanese-dew war.

So "cold" is a definite threat among the natural phenomena that I feel close to.

"One last measure… people no longer have the material disability of clothing and shelter, so that they can afford to turn their minds to courtesy at first. Keep it steady and people won't wake up for a second."

"Why did you think that?"

"Because I don't want to lose it. You start to think of the house, what you wear, what you eat… as a fool until you throw them away. You would think that discussing it with you in a more convenient way would be much more constructive. Well, not if you hunt down more people than you need to."

If a kind of hierarchical class system and order can be achieved even in a poor working environment, people will be surprisingly submissive and embrace a poor environment as well.

Especially once the Japanese get a stable environment, there is a nature from which they do not try to change inside.

"Giving food and shelter to the people is the surest way. It's also the hardest way."

"(... not a bad idea) I see... your prospect is to create an environment where cotton can be produced in large quantities. I understand very well. Thank you."

In Shizuko's words the man with the headscarf uttered a word that contained.

In the end, Shizuko gave out the information at once instead of at the tip, so the Migawa side became more alert, and the meeting ended without much progress.

It was nevertheless agreed that cultivation work would continue, and people would be dispatched from both factions and settlements would be created.

Shizuko, who thought that moving poorly would make the extra situation worse, did not see any apparent movement since then, and proceeded with the work solemnly.

Because the first impression was a problem, the Sangawa faction was wary of Shizuko. Among other things, the loyalty did not change, and Shizuko was happy to get a grip or a lot of pickles from me.

Yang Gong and Positive Weight, while frightened, marveled at the thick nerves in a bad way.

Cotton is co-grown in such a state of brain weather but mostly tingling.

Then a little later in late March, Shizuko was taking what was out of the cabin.

It had a very strong smell. I cover my nose and mouth with a thick cloth, but still enough to feel a strange odor.

(Ugh, let's get this over with. Now I know if I've done this for three years, so I need to get in the mood)

After some gathering of the ingredients from the odorous mountains, Shizuko takes a few days to extract what it contains.

Around noon on the day the extraction ends, Kasei Mori visits her.

"I received a report that the example one was completed. Hate and the museum didn't have time, and instead I was supposed to be present."

"I'm sure it's going to be fine... how many minutes. This was all my first attempt"

"Ha, ha, well, when you fail... make sure your hall fist bones are ready"

Kasei Mori laughs with a good grin at Shizuko's words. Shizuko, on the other hand, didn't mind.

Wait for the preparation to be completed while holding the area around the stomach with your hands.

(Ugh... I'm the first to formulate 'nitrous stone' on a boulder... I hope you succeed)

Mount Nite Stone, which she grew dearly over three years of months. It is a mere garbage pile with a strange odor beside it, but if you follow certain procedures, you can collect 'nitrous stones'.

It would originally take four to five years, but the collection itself is possible from the third year. However, in theory, there is a prerequisite.

And what you can do with the nitrous stone is "black gunpowder." If nitrous stones can be prepared in front of themselves, the Oda army will prevail over the armies of other countries.

There were circumstances around it, and Nobunaga himself had originally planned to come to confirm it, but there were errands on the Omi side that made it impossible.

Therefore, Kesei Mori, also known as his right arm, was to be visited.

After a short while, the formulation of black gunpowder was completed, and about five foot lights with a fire rope gun lined up in front of Kasei Mori.

After they bow their heads deeply, they line up handily to see if it was predetermined. The firing of a fire rope gun takes nearly thirty seconds, usually nearly a minute, even for a skilled person.

And a minute later, one foothold in good shooting position pulls the trigger. Moment after moment, a lead ball burst out of a fire-rine gun and flew.

It was evidence of a successful nitrous formulation of static seeds. As if to prove that it is not bad, the fire-rine guns erupt one after the other.

In total, 20 rounds were fired, but not one shot was fired off without underdevelopment.

Success.

Seeing Kasei Mori nodding satisfactorily, Shizuko exhaled heavily when she finally said that her shoulder load had come down.

In early April, Shizuko puts his energy into work in the fields. No, I was more dedicated to work in the fields than I was last year.

Shizuko, who has received many jobs so far, came here and suddenly became a single citizen job for a reason.

Shizuko donated the nitrous stones she had produced over the years a while ago. The amount is really 200 kilometers, so it's worth a surprise.

The amount of gunpowder used to shoot with a firearm ranges from three to five grams. Despite the modest amount of gunpowder, the cost per shot is 600 yen at modern prices.

Black gunpowder is made of a mixture of nitrous stone (oxidizing agent) and sulphur/charcoal (flammable material). In addition to relying on imports from Nanban because the nitrous stones in it cannot be collected in Japan, the cost of transportation, etc. is increased and expensive.

It is of great significance that we have been able to cover our own nitrous stones, which are arguably the essence of gunpowder production. It will reduce the cost of procuring nitrous stones and the risk of external dependence on critical munitions, and it is expected to improve proficiency through the use of luxurious ammunition and field training.

She also succeeded in increasing the production of salt. The procedure that requires skilled craftsmen is highly regarded, as it is expected to be several times more efficient than the previous method (Inhama-style salt production).

Traditional inlet salt fields look easy, are very laborious, require manpower and skilled skills.

It takes skilled skill to pump up sea water and spread it evenly over salt fields so that there is the phrase "three years of tide, ten years of tide".

In contrast, the downstream salt field is a way of replacing the heavy labor that people were responsible for with solar heat and wind. The task of harvesting dark brine (kanji) is simply to let even the sea water flow down and dry by solar heat and wind.

With properly designed equipment, it was possible to pick it up throughout the year. The artisans were freed from heavy labor, without the need to even the sea water or carry heavy sand.

As if to prove an efficient way of producing salt, Shizuko donated large quantities of salt together with vitreous stone.

Successful production of vast quantities of artificial vitreous stones. The ability to produce salt in about a month's cycle. The quantity can also overwhelm traditional salt fields.

The achievements of Shizuko, who dedicated important munitions, salt and nitrous stone, and further built an environment in which it could be produced on a regular basis from now on, are significant.

It is also natural for Nobunaga to say in an upbeat manner, 'Giving anything the reward it wants'. In response, Shizuko said:

"With the vast land... then give me time to work for the people"

Needless to say, the consciousness of all the subordinates, including Nobunaga, has been vacated on this offer. When I say I'll reward you for anything you want, just give me time to do my job.

Money, honor, everything was gone, and everyone couldn't understand Shizuko's sincerity about it coming out first.

Nobunaga, thinking about listening, asks Shizuko for his sincerity in a voice that is many times sweeter than usual.

According to that, there was apparently a build-up of frustration in the workload here these days.

The means of freeing the frustration is "working in the field with no heart". This was the solution that Shizuko had found in her life so far.

However, at present, it is a state in which people are entrusted with another task than ordinary people's work. While this accumulates extra frustration.

That's why I wanted an environment dedicated to the work of the people in order to be refreshed here.

Nobunaga, who heard everything, said this with a bad-looking face of a bat.

"... sorry"

And the story goes back to the beginning.

Now she had been removed from a job she had no problems with, apart from rushing work, and enjoyed her full civilian work.

She's muddy and sweaty, but that face looks so full she's never seen it before.

"You're glowing."

"You're glowing."

"You're glowing."

Three people: Celebration, Talent, and Changke, who look at such a static child in a faraway winding.

"I think it's too bright."

"Lord Shizuko has a different sensibility than we do."

"I guess it's my fault that I just felt like I needed some free time."

And based on all kinds of thoughts, Hideyoshi, Hanbei Takenaka and Kosei Mori take a look at Shizuko from afar.

But she immerses them in the work without giving them a glimpse.

Shizuko had cultivated his own extensive farmland within a few days. Then we do the soil making, seed planting and other tasks one after the other.

Two species of rice brought in from modern times also began to grow, but with few seeds, both combined in quantities of only about 4 ha.

As far as the contents of the attached certificates and notes are concerned, one of the varieties is limited to the central region, such as Taizhang, but is resistant to mochi disease, and is expected to grow as much pesticide while the harvest is organic.

Since the other one uses difficult kanji and has no rubi shake, Shizuko could not be read, but is very resistant to disease, and seems to be a variety that can be grown without problems in cold and hot regions.

The harvest is also excellent at about 70% of the Koshihikari at the time of abundance, but the flavour is also inferior to the brand of secondary products.

In short, let's grow it in case it sucks, such as when other varieties were out of production.

But Shizuko was more pleased with Inari, who did not know his name than Horami.

Though the flavour is comparable to that of Koshihikari, the cultivated areas are limited and mass production is difficult.

However, varieties that can be grown in any region can come from Hokkaido to Kagoshima to the north.

Rice cultivation in the cold comes with difficulties in the first place.

Examples include the creation of Champagne rice, which came from China, and the possibility of rice cultivation even in areas with low precipitation.

The variety is a long-grain rice variety originating in what is now the southern Champa region of Vietnam. Resistant to insect damage and sunshine, but weak in extinction for cold.

Even in the traditional China, food culture is considered "northern noodle southern rice (Paimennan fans)," and noodle foods processed with wheat are dominated in the colder north and rice in the warmer south.

Even Japanese rice has few cold-resistant rice. Although rice cultivation was also taking place in the cold northeastern region, the Pacific side has been plagued by lethargy and continues to suffer enormous damage from cold damage.

Since the time of Edo, when peace broke out, rice cultivation has also been carried out on the Hokkaido Transit Peninsula, but its scale is insignificant.

It was not until after the Meiji era that large-scale rice cultivation was possible in Hokkaido. Because many technological developments took place to develop rice that can be cultivated in cold weather.

I'm sorry about the people who developed rice that is cold resistant, but if you don't have to lose it by mass-producing it, Shizuko doesn't want to be stigmatized by the usurpers.

"... hmm? The bamboo cylinder that Shizuko is lowering to his waist, isn't it a bit odd shaped?

Hanbei Takenaka, who was looking at Shizuko on a faraway roll, tilts her neck when she sees a bamboo barrel hanging on her waist.

I can tell from the exterior that I put water and other liquids in it, but it was oddly shaped for that.

"Oh, that's the 'water bottle' that Shizuchi made the woodworkers make. Look, I got it, too, but this is how you say it."

After showing the same thing that Celebration was lowering to his waist to the question of Hanbei Takenaka, he turned the top part of the bamboo water bottle with his hand.

No way, I just made a phone mag out of bamboo that I call modern times. Of course, since there is no vacuum insulation function as in modern products, cold and thermal insulation is extremely poor.

It is much easier to use hippocampus, but this bamboo water bottle is large enough to check the liquid inside before drinking.

Hygiene and maintenance are much more expensive here. The disadvantage is that it takes time to process, and it takes longer to create a single finished product than a regular bamboo water bottle, and the materials need to be carefully selected.

Specifically, we need the four to five years with the highest intensity in bamboo wood age, and the September to November harvest with the lowest moisture content.

Of course, it can be created in two or three years, or in anything that has been harvested outside of autumn. The reason for this selection is simply to give them strength that can withstand prolonged and rough use.

Shizuko's bamboo water bottle is made of three years old bamboo in the final release version for practical testing, but it was not particularly damaged even when it was hanging during the week when people worked.

Although it has not been verified what happens in intense environments such as warfare.

"I don't have a problem with this, but this is going to have advantages. The best thing about it is that you can see what's in it... and you can put something else in it, unlike the carpet."

Hanbei Takenaka, concerned, receives a bamboo water bottle from Celebration and quantifies what structure.

I thought it was possible to add water in a short time due to the large caliber, and to add grilled rice in addition to liquid.

On the other hand, mass production was difficult due to the laborious processing of the joints.

"It's hard to process the part that hits the lid."

"Sounds like. That's why they're trying to make tools called 'lathes'. I'm putting in quite a few people, so I guess it's pretty big and complicated stuff. I'm trying to make other mysterious things like" height gauges "and" weight gauges ". Though the" wooden barrel distiller "is complete and I'm trying to make something out of it."

"Hmm... sounds like some kind of big tease tool. But height and weight... it's the first sound I've ever heard."

"Jing Chi said, 'Technology and tools will all be known to other countries. But whether this (...) is imitated or not, it takes time for it to work because it's retarded'. Sure... Was it the National Nutrition Improvement Plan?

It was around 1975 (1950) that the problem of the nation's nutritional status was resolved, until then the people were constantly malnourished.

Tuberculosis and fatigue are the two most common diseases in particular.

Aside from tuberculosis, it is said that the reason for the epidemic was that they ate only white rice, which did not contain vitamin B1, and did not take enough side meals.

For the record, during the Edo period, in Edo, the white rice staple food culture, soba noodles became more popular than udon. This is because I knew as a rule of thumb that if I ate soba, I could use it to prevent or treat my foot.

Scientifically speaking, foot chi is a disease developed by vitamin B1 deficiency, because eating soba, which contains a lot of vitamin B1, eliminates vitamin B1 deficiency.

Vitamin deficiency develops a terrible disease.

Night blindness if vitamin A.

Foot qi, Wernicke encephalopathy and hyperpyruvataemia if vitamin B1. Stomatitis or seborrheic dermatitis if B2. Anemia, tongue inflammation if B6. Peripheral neuritis if B12, subacute joint spinal cord degeneration.

Septicaemia if vitamin C. Osteoporosis if vitamin D. If vitamin E is not good for walking, there is no mention of it.

Anyone who suffers from vitamin deficiency is terrified of this group of diseases.

"The National Nutrition Improvement Plan"? You still don't know what you're thinking. "

"Right, Your Highness. All she's looking for is something we don't understand."

Saying so, Kasei Mori and Hideyoshi, but he had a small grin on his mouth.

(Large quantities of munitions such as rice and soybeans were produced. Not long ago I produced nitrous stones in front of me, the raw material for black gunpowder. The territory of the Oda family continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate)

Hanbei Takenaka, who turned to Shizuko, murmured like this in his heart as he smiled inclusively.

(I'm starting to feel like Tianxia Buwu won't end up just dreaming either)