Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

A week had already passed since Shizuko was consulted by Shibata and the others. But I don't hear any stories of military discussions being resumed. Still, Shizuko was optimistic that the lack of stools was just good news.

For Shizuko, the finish of the cocoa beans was more important than the support of wasabi. If fermentation is progressing as expected, it is time to enter the drying process, which is the next step.

To assess fermentation, Shizuko actually performed a cut test to crack and confirm the cocoa beans. There are two inspection items. Shades and scents shall be checked and fermentation shall be assessed.

If it is a pre-fermentation cocoa bean, the cross section presents a purple color by anthocyanin, a type of polyphenol. This purple color causes a polymerization reaction with fermentation heat the more fermentation progresses and becomes brown.

After the colour flavour, I will also check about the aroma. Far from chocolate, it smells sweet then, whilst being snuggly somewhere reminiscent of miso.

If fermentation was progressing in due course, it would smell more sour, but I decided to give up on the difference in the environment and move on to the drying process.

Cacao beans account for about a third of their weight. The task of reducing this moisture content by about 8-6% is called the drying process.

The drying operations carried out at the place of origin are carried out by laying 'sukoko' on a wooden frame about one metre high in an open area or the like, arranging cocoa beans thereon and carrying out daily drying.

The taste of cocoa beans will depend on the local soil fungus and drying method, as twitching and fermentation will also proceed during this drying operation.

In modern times, after this drying operation a final quality check is carried out, only the passing cocoa beans are packed in hemp bags (standard 60 km) and exported to various parts of the world.

"It feels good and dry."

Japan has a warm and humid climate, with prolonged rainy seasons making it difficult to dry in the open air. So Shizuko initially thought about doing heavenly sun-drying in the vinyl house.

However, there is waste water from hot springs passing through the vinyl house, making it a very humid environment. Since it was clearly an inappropriate environment for the drying process, a new small plastic house (made of transparent faktis) was created that diverted waste and end materials.

With the future expansion of cultivation, a large drying facility will eventually be required, but for the time being operations will be carried out at this facility. Due to its main purpose of drying, it was designed with an important emphasis on breathability, and much wood was used.

The impression is closer to a barn with skylights rather than a vinyl house, as only the ceiling part will be the part where expensive transparent fabrics are used.

Dedicated facilities had been provided, and despite the rainy weather, the cocoa beans were good and dry. Even so far, however, only "chocolate ingredients were made" and further work was awaited to finish the chocolate.

"Next we have to process the cocoa beans to the cocoa mass."

The dried cocoa beans are naturally wrapped in a hard outer skin and the contents need to be removed and removed for processing into cocoa mass.

For this reason, the cocoa beans are first gently roasted and cracked in the outer skin (husk). Then hang it on a mill of water wheel power and crush the cocoa beans roughly.

The crushed cocoa beans are removed from the outer skin using tang (and um) (large using water wheel power for sorting) and sieve (sieve). The remaining embryonic milk (nib) moiety is called cacaonib.

This nib contains more than 50% cocoa butter, which is a lipid, in weight ratio. Finely polishing and pasting this nib is called grinding.

This is also connected to the power of the water wheel, and the nib is crushed into thin pieces by an artisanal grinder from the technical district. As it is finely ground, the cocoa butter it contains frees up and becomes pasty by dissolving in the heat of friction.

From the roller portion, which is the final step of the grinder, a paste-like cocoa mass is unloaded passing between the plurality of rollers. Because this cocoa mass is affixed to the roller, the iron blade was removed by removing it.

If it is a modern machine, it is crushed until it has a sufficient particle diameter in a single task, but it is cruel to ask the primitive machines of the Warring States for that much accuracy.

Therefore, the extracted pasty cocoa mass is hung on the grinder again, and the accuracy is compensated by repeated processing.

Thus the smooth pasty cocoa mass will be mixed with sugar and sugar-free condensed milk (ideally whole milk, but given up due to high manufacturing difficulties) and mixed over a long period of time.

The essence of cocoa mass is in the oily and fatty ingredients and is not easily mixed with liquid sugar or regular milk, so mix together with as much moisture as possible removed. Still, it took time to blend the powder, etc. into the pasty object, and a strong force was needed because of the large resistance.

Accordingly, the mixer (mixer) used here is powered by livestock. The figure of a cow connected to a stick and circling around the perimeter of the mixer was reminiscent of a domestic handicraft.

The product that can be made is called chocolate dough (duh) and proceeds to a process characterized by chocolate chocolate.

It was created in 1880 in Rudolph Linz, Switzerland, and for more than a hundred years to this day, it is called the heart of chocolate making that is the conching process.

Continuing is the task of 'practicing' if it is to be easily expressed. Continue to elaborate the ground chocolate dough with a machine called Conche.

The water wheel is powered again and keeps the conch moving in order to continue to refine at a constant speed without taking a long break. By doing this conching, the oil seeps out of the du and gradually begins to soften.

In the original conch, the ingredients that are the source of the moisture and unpleasant odor are evaporated, removed and the characteristic aroma stands by taking as long as it is said to have taken 72 hours to refine.

Continuing to further elaborate, the 'emulsification' of the mixture of moisture and oil proceeds, creating a tongue specific to the trout chocolate.

After completing this process, the temperature adjustment called tempering is carried out, and the crystalline structure of the cocoa butter is aligned, resulting in chocolate that becomes hard when glossy and cold.

Chocolate confectionery is commonly spoken for if you are a modern person, but there is a manufacturing process behind it that takes a lot of time.

Shizuko knows the finished form, so she can proceed with manufacturing without hesitation, but there was a very long history before the manufacturing method was knitted.

Traditionally to Europe in the sixteenth century, cocoa was the term used to refer to drinks until the emergence of a technological innovation known as the Four Revolutions of Chocolate in the nineteenth century.

However, unlike modern cocoa, chocolate at the time was bitter and unusually oily. As a result, it was treated more as a medicine than a preference at the time, and a delicious beverage in flattery.

After that, chocolate, which has been a drug for a long time, came into the nineteenth century with various technological innovations. The invention, which can also be called its pioneer, gave birth to a voice in the Dutch food manufacturer 'Van Houten'.

Kasparus van Houten, founder of Van Houten, braided a way to reduce cocoa butter, which contained more than 50% in cocoa beans, to about half by hanging it on a hydraulic pressing machine in 1828.

More dried cocoa mass was crushed and powdered to distribute as a cocoa powder that was easily soluble in hot water.

The ensuing second generation of Coonlart Johannes van Houten develops a method of treating cocoa beans with alkaline liquid, the Dutch Process. This creates a 'cocoa' that neutralizes the acids produced during the fermentation process and increases water solubility.

This technological innovation was derisively created in 1847 to produce solid chocolate that could be eaten directly without dissolving in hot water, and in 1875 Henri Nestlé, founder of Nestlé Corporation, developed a more mellow milk chocolate.

At the end of the Four Revolutions, in 1879, Rodolph Linz discovered an important conching method in making soft chocolate (later a brand called Linz Chocolate) that melted in his mouth due to coincidence (with theories).

When these four major inventions are born, chocolate companies such as Linz in Switzerland, Nestlé, Cadbury in the United Kingdom and Hershey in the United States will be created, and mass production by factories will make the chocolate, which until then has been a luxury product, accessible and popular to the general public.

For the record, chocolate is only a delicious sweetness for mankind, but it can be a harmful substance for dogs and cats. In chocolate there is a xanthine derivative called theobromine.

This is caffeine and other companions, and for humans it is not harmful unless consumed in excess large quantities. However, dogs, cats, etc. have slow metabolic rates of theobromine, causing excessive excitement and dehydration, and in the worst case, death.

"Continuing takes a whole day or more, so let's get started"

Conche, which put in various raw materials and was communicated the power of the water wheel, began to operate. After that, we'll just wait and see how things go on a regular basis and work out.

Shizuko thus gained some leeway, but even there, she lay down.

"... oh, my head hurts"

Shizuko unexpectedly sighed when she read the letter the decree had brought back. The contents of the sentence were always about the Kaga crusade, and I tried to stay out of it, but it seemed like I fell for the worse.

Shibata did not assemble the officials to open a military conference, but took Shizuko's proposal as a matter of decision as a sentence and communicated it to each warlord. The warlords, who were just given bulleted sentences, were puzzled by what even Shibata and the others who were listening directly at the scene could not immediately understand.

It was not accompanied by the sentence sent by Hate and Shibata himself, and I don't know what content was hung, but I felt that there was more fatal explanation than an inquiry to Shizuko.

Shibata's sentence said it was a Shizuko proposal, and instead of a far-fetched exchange through the letter, it was stated that he wanted to gather to open a military conference and have Shizuko participate on the spot as well.

(Sure Shibata doesn't depend on her husband's thoughts, she can't help it because she's a fool to do what she's been ordered to do... but the others naturally want to know how they came to that conclusion and so on...)

The role expected of Shizuko in the military council is to communicate the contents of the draft to everyone in an easy way and to put it into concrete draft.

If it was not Shibata who issued the sentence, but Mitsuyuki and Hideyoshi, they would have held military discussions after careful rooting because they were both the type of wise generals who plotted the plot.

Shibata is a pigbang type of fierce general who is often entrusted with the vanguard, as he was told to "retreat to Shibata and Sakuma". You took it for granted that once your life was given, you would follow it without hesitation.

However, there are not many brave people who can stand on the spot without being briefed. Naturally, you will not obey such life, and as Shibata, you will be furious with the cowards who spare you.

These differences between the two sides created a vicious circle and a white feather arrow stood on Shizuko before the groove between the two became decisive.

"If you make a mistake about this story, Kaga will never be able to conquer it."

The general of the Kaga Traditional Sect is Shibata. It no longer deserves to be called an army, such as a group that does not obey the life of the general. Even if Kaga has always ruled Kaga for decades.

It can't be the kind of enemy you can target with a lack of control as an army. Above all, Shizuko was told that Kaga Shizuko was more fanatical than Nagashima Shizuko.

Religious fanaticism burns to the point of repression. There is a command center that brings up and controls its faith as a weapon.

"Look on the schedule, I don't think I can root for it... and I guess I need to get through it with some adrift. For now, we won't be talking about the lack of judgment material, so let's get the information between factions and forces."

Shizuko, who muttered so, gave orders to Xiao and Cai.

It was late June and the military conference was finally held. There were rumors that Nobunaga was frustrated by ministers who never showed progress.

As a venue for the military conference, it became the auditorium for the school run by Shizuko. Because of the size of the large number of people meeting together and the lack of places to hide around them, I can't even think about what I said to lay down my soldiers or hide my weapons.

Shizuko's childcare unit stood in the security of the venue, and after careful downchecks, payments had been made. The warlords who said Shibata, Mitsui and Hideyoshi had already arrived at the venue, and the other warlords had gathered continuously.

But how the distrust of Shibata's sentence was difficult, everyone didn't even try to hide their dissatisfaction from each of them, and there was a giddy air before it began.

"... that will be my plan"

Because there is also Fujiko Shibata, the general general, Shizuko pulled out the blackboard and explained her proposal in a way that supplemented the contents of the sentence while drawing pictures and diagrams (...).

Kofi for the hard work. Ah, the Warlords reacted well, and he has the look on his face that he was convinced that Shibata's instructions were not absurd.

But the explanation so far is just the starting line. Regardless of the martial arts until Kaga always put Zong on the wasabi field, the great muscle of determining martial arts according to the subsequent achievements was passed on.

Then the military debate proceeds to a specific measure of who will assume which role and in which position. When this happened, Shizuko didn't show up, and I decided to be thorough with the listener until everyone had a plan.

When they were all tired of inconclusive military discussions, Kwang-soo told them as they looked around.

"Hmm... that's grand as it is. Everyone asks for a position in their favor at all, so the story never comes together."

As the military debate was disputed and everyone remembered the irritation, Mitsuhide put things into his mouth (deliberately) that everyone knew, and decided how bad the air was.

When Shizuko sighed at the evil between Mitsuko and his lack of accommodation, he raised his hand and raised his voice in anticipation of the time.

Permission to speak.

"Go ahead."

Shibata gave him immediate permission as everyone was dismayed by Mitsu-su's announcement.

"As Akechi pointed out, we only spend time on people (pranks) as we are. Why don't we make sure this is the one place we'll never be able to take it off? In coming to this military conference, we are looking into your situation. It's impossible to have a more complete equal placement, so I thought it would be nice to consolidate a large part and then pack the details."

"May I ask you what you will never be able to take off for your information?

Hanbei Takenaka asks Shizuko for details. When Shizuko saw Hideyoshi, the master of Hanbu, he nodded silently at Shizuko. I received from Hideyoshi that it was okay to publish Hideyoshi's condition in the context of the military council.

"Then... Hanzawa-sama will be responsible for providing armaments. We have heard that Koe in the new territory still has unstable harvests and that investments in the beach are not comfortable stockpiling military funds and munitions. We want our troops to provide the funds and supplies, and we want them to send out personnel who are responsible for a wing of the barracks that will deliver them to every location."

"I appreciate that offer. Unfortunately, this beach is in the midst of a war recovery (or better yet). Soldiers are needed to maintain law and order, and there is no reason to leave the National License. The funds and supplies borrowed will be gradually returned as soon as tax revenues settle."

Hanbei, who had an eye contact with Hideyoshi, responded. You'll be carrying less debt, but you can't shake a sleeveless. Even as Hideyoshi, he reveals weaknesses he couldn't tell him from himself, and once he faces them, even if he owes them money and soldiers.

Shizuko stroked her chest down.

"Next, with regard to Akechi, Akechi will keep Kaga Ichizo from fleeing to Echi. In doing so, we will provide 300 of our army's artillery and enough ammunition. Let me lend you 5,000 more soldiers, military dogs, etc. who are good at mountain hunting."

Mitsuhide will be asked to play a role in consolidating the border so that Kaga's traditional sect does not fall forward. If one central figure survived, it could be rebuilt, so it could be said that Kwang-soo, who is easier to mobilize soldiers than the others, was fit.

If we consolidate the streets through skilled artillery 300, we can build defenses that cannot be broken in the end by a few armies. It is difficult to get through the mountains patrolled by soldiers with military dogs, even as they go down a roadless path.

"Consideration of Lord Shizuko, it hurts"

Shizuko's additional march allows Mitsuko to organize a guerrilla army and increase his strength to turn to Kaga's traditional sectarian attack. If these two formations are decided, the sorting begins automatically later.

Since the General is Shibata, Shibata warlords will be gathered together, followed by Akechi warlords in charge of the vicinity of Echimae. The warlords of the Hanzai sect will take the form of a little bit of a bite, but instead no one expressed their dissatisfaction by standing out because the wear and tear will be kept low.

Through Shizuko's remarks, the military council, which began to revitalize again, diligently subsided as a 'tripartite loss' because Shizuko cut himself.

Once (once) there is a deadly discord, internal collapse cannot be avoided with what kind of Oda army. Shizuko lost temporarily, but gained as an entire Oda army.

The military council, temporarily endangered also by the crisis of collapse, comes to an end without delay and Shibata utters the closing words.

"Then each of you will never fail to prepare."

With these words the military council was dissolved.

This story reaches Nobunaga's ear after a few days. When Nobunaga finished listening to the report, he was in a good mood and decided to keep an eye on the end of each one.

Shizuko, on the other hand, was out of her shoulders because she had finished a military debate that made her stomach ache. As preparations had been under way since before the military council, Shizuko had already left her hands on support for each warlord.

Shizuko, who was able to twist free time again, resumed making the chocolate that had been interrupted. When the conching was finished and the chilled hardened chocolate was removed, we went on to tempering, the last process.

Tempering is a temperature adjustment, first using hot frying to heat and dissolve the chocolate to nearly 50 degrees. Remove the liquefied chocolate from the hot sauce and use ice water or the like to cool to around 28 degrees.

Then hang on the hot sauce again to warm the chocolate and maintain a temperature of about 30-32 degrees. The temperature of this tempering varies depending on the chocolate maker and the type of chocolate.

In the case of static children, it is assumed that there is a lot of impurities, and the temperature is set at an extra cost.

In this way, the chocolate that is finished in a glossy state is poured into a pre-prepared mould and cooled to complete. If I were to say ideal, I would need a maturation period in a thermostatic warehouse called ageing, but I had given up on it as high hopes.

If I finish chocolate, the expiration date will be limited to about three months. For this reason, it was decided to save the amount not to be used this time in the state of the pre-conching cocoa mass.

In the case of a cooled and solidified cocoa mass, it is possible to preserve it for one year as long as the temperature is noticed.

"It took a lot of work, but it's finally done! Hmm... a few steps below modern commercials on boulders, right? Well, I guess the powder just didn't blow."

Peel the cold, hardened chocolate from the mold and arrange it on a plate. Removed items that did not peel well, cracks, etc. and sorted items that looked good and offered them to Nobunaga.

Shizuko put a broken chocolate shard in her mouth after failing to peel and tasted it slowly.

"The chocolate I remember melted smoother, but it wrapped around my throat on my tongue..."

Shizuko is unhappy, but the men who gave her to her were surprised.

"Oh my God! When I put it in my mouth, it was as hard as a pancake, but it wandered like a dried persimmon in my mouth!

"Wow, what the hell? I'm not sure if it's bitter or sweet. But this flavour is going to go with booze."

While preparing the offerings, the chocolate failures subsided into the bellies of the Celebrations. Fascinated by the unknown texture, the tightening bitterness and the sweetness that draws after, chocolate quickly disappeared.

"You guys, it's good to eat. Do you want me to taste some more? You had a really hard time making that, didn't you?

"Bad, bad. If you eat it, don't stop."

"Absolutely... I'm going to make a dedication to you, so make sure you get out of here."

That's all I told her, Shizuko entered the mansion holding the plate she had hidden. The person I was looking for was quickly found. I also had an unexpected customer.

"Dear Shizuko, didn't you go to your superior?

The colour tilts his neck strangely. Rare customers, tears and the first time, to see them grabbed by the collar and dragged away, I just happened to hit that even pranks (pranks) were well taken.

"Yeah. I need to run some errands before then. Cai, open your mouth. I don't have the right to veto. This is an order."

"You have something to do with it, don't you? I understand. If it's an order, it's not a no."

Keeping the teas rolling down the hallway for the first time, Cai opened his mouth honestly as he proceeded to the front of Shizuko, adulterously. The situation is called Ahem, but it seems surprisingly embarrassing, and Shizuko threw a piece of chocolate into the mouth of the color when she coughed one up.

The color I was licking and exploring with my tongue without biting at first, but I immediately opened my eyes. The chocolate melted in my mouth. I suppose it's odd that solids that hold their shape well wander like this.

I could hear her swallowing chocolate while making her eyes black and white.

"... that's strange food. It's solid, but it doesn't swing like the water candy I used to get."

"Delicious, isn't it?

"Right. Strange aroma and swinging sweetness, a little bitter, but I liked it."

She had a soft grin whenever she wore colored glasses. Shizuko nodded contentedly that the usual poker face was so broken that it was worth making.

"Shizuko, straw, uh"

"Ah."

But the colour returned to me with tea and the first voice, when I affixed the usual poker face, restrained the tea and the first again.

"First you get scolded."

"I don't mind about one. You've seen Cai's delicate face."

With that said, I opened my mouth and waited like a feeding chick, throwing in the chocolate for the first time with tea. They chewed instantly, but still let their eyes shine on the chocolate that swayed in their mouths.

"Amy, come on, let's go."

"Already."

"You shouldn't. Snacks are after being scolded."

Dragged down the hallway by the colors and slipped, the two say they want another chocolate. When Colour scolded him pizzly, he pulled the two relentlessly.

They managed to escape, but the colors were familiar, and the escape of the toddler did not materialize.

"I'll leave it, if you apologize properly, you can eat it."

"Let's not stay. My concubine will take the rest."

When Shizuko spoke to the two people who kept away, her voice inadvertently hung from behind. At the same time as I looked back, the weight of the plate I was holding disappeared. Looking around, there was a city that took a plate from Shizuko and carried the chocolate to her mouth.

"It's been a while, Shizuko. Doesn't that make any difference?

"Dear city, when are you coming?

"Earlier with my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law is resting in her room, so my concubine came looking for Shizuko."

Since the other day, the city has been admitted to Shizuko's hospital for a while to give birth. He is the youngest son of the three Asai sisters, Jiang. I heard reports that she was able to give birth safely, but she was hospitalized for a while because she was having a difficult childbirth or to recover.

Shizuko was terribly surprised by the appearance of the patient, the city, even though there were no reports that she had been discharged.

"Dear city, can I add or subtract you already?

Nor can the boulder colors drag the tea and the first in front of my mother, the city, releasing them and bowing their heads.

"Thanks to you, I am. I visited without touching on it, so I don't need a hard greeting. What a strange flavor."

"Ha-ha-ha, straw too!

"Also."

"Then no. They are scolded by their nannies."

"Bu, sloppy."

The tea and the first to reach for the plates, but the city keeps the plates high and prevented. Unexpectedly, he smiled at the severity of the situation, but pointed out that it would not be clogged to become a snake, so Shizuko and Cai decided to observe the situation.

"Where, what can I do for you today, to come here?

"What, I heard that Shizuko had something for me, but I was headed to my brother's place. Nor can a boulder concubine replace his brother. Let's wait for Shizuko to come home and talk."

"(That's a decision to stay at my house, isn't it) I understand. Now, I'll leave you up to you as soon as I get back, so please relax until then."

"Um, I asked for it. Look, don't swell like that. After I deliver it to my sister-in-law, I'll split it up, so I need you to run errands first."

The city, which received Shizuko's reply and nodded satisfactorily, threw its first words at the plump tea and left quietly. In contrast to his modest work, Shizuko decided to head to Nobunaga, thinking that he was a stormy man.

Upon climbing to Gifu Castle, Shizuko was led to the tea room. Nobunaga will have talks in the hall when he informs the decision, but when he is led to the tea room, it will be a confidential story.

As for Shizuko, I don't even want to approach the tea room, but there were many opportunities to be guided unexpectedly, and I had already reached the frontier of giving up.

As usual, he kept a knife wrapped around his waist, washed his hands and feet, spoke to Nobunaga indoors, obtained a response, and then entered the tea room through his mouth.

The act of depositing a knife is also in some respects impeccable to bring to the tea room, but also to show the other person how to deposit his life. Being invited to the Tea Room, the Chamber of Secrets, is a sign of trust from Nobunaga, and depositing weapons and gaining them unattended has a side as a ritual to respond to it.

Laundry of hands and feet before entering the room and hygiene will prove that the hands and feet are not poisoned. Following these steps, it is appropriate to finally enter the tea room.

"Excuse me."

The crate was surprisingly large because of the low nitrogen for thermal insulation, and a chocolate delivered crate entered the tea room first, followed by a static child.

Regardless, chocolate, the offering, brings in what the poisonous viewer has confirmed. When I walked into the tea room, I had a visitor. It was supposed to be Mitsuhide in Kyoto.

When he notices Shizuko, he makes a small meeting, and Shizuko rushes to imitate it.

"Shizuko is still good at hurrying people"

"Excuse me. I'm in a hurry, but I don't know how."

"I don't mind. Until I told you to play. Kinkan, you can try it too."

Nobunaga, who quickly put his hand on the chocolate offered, turned the crate toward Kwang-soo. I took out my pocket and picked up the chocolate with respect, Mitsui, but I was rigid in front of a glossy brown object.

Without prior knowledge, it would not seem like food in the end, but there was nothing more than what Nobunaga, my husband, recommended than to be prepared to eat.

Leaving for a few moments, Kwang-soo put the chocolate in his mouth. It was at first that he was frowning, too, with a gradually soft look on his face.

"It's a strange texture. You can hold it in your hand, but when you put it in your mouth, it swings like a mochi, and it melts smoothly all the time."

Nobunaga reaches out to the second, and then Mitsui mimics it as well. We were both thrown into our mouths without hesitation regarding the second and beyond. I had tasted the chocolate silently for a while, but eventually I pushed the box of chocolates aside to see if I was satisfied.

I had difficulty dissolving at the temperature of the tea room, so I put in a factice bag with refrigerant (Nitrogen) and put a lid on the crate.

"Now, let's get down to business, having enjoyed the unknown confectionery. As you know, there is a suspicious movement in Hojo. If the odds go to the Eastern Crusade, they will surely see each other."

"After anticipating harmony, are you going to be able to fight a battle?

"As Kinkan said, after crossing the blade with me and showing Hojo to the East, it would be a harmonious belly"

Nobunaga had been watching Hojo's movements since then. Whether they turn to the enemy or descend to the military gate, they were instructed to gather up-to-date information about the Hojo family so that they could react immediately, whichever way they were chosen.

And I learned from the daily information that the mainstream of the Hojo family was coming together in the direction of engaging the Oda family. If the other person is thinking about the drop from the start, the plan he once told Shizuko will also come alive.

"Now that I've frustrated the Takeda family's martial arts and taken in the Uesugi family as well. I can say that the manipulation against the East is almost over. But if the Hojo family clearly shows hostility to us, there will be advantages on this side."

"Do you mean losing with the Hojo family, or bringing them into the draw, and burning out hostile forces against the Oda family?

"Exactly. Now that Takeda has suffered a great loss and Uesugi has descended on us. Hojo is the last great power in the East. We therefore need to play a situation where they have expectations (...)"

Needless to say, what the anti-Oda coalition expects is for a male Hojo from the East to stand and place a black star on the Oda family.

"Shizuko, you make a situation."

"Ha."

"Kinkan then looks up all the traitors lurking inside him, those who plot a rebellion, those who act suspiciously like insiders,"

"Ha ha."

"They're cramped enough, if you drain them, they eat like dabohaze. You wouldn't even dream of having a fishing needle at the end of that bait. They ate up on the needle, but at the end of the day, it was all over."

Look to the big picture and receive a small negative to get a big win. It's easy to say by mouth, but it's hard to do. To the extent that the opponent determines that he has won, he must be damaged and withdrawn while holding back any further damage.

Sometimes you have to keep secrets from loyalty in order to make this difficult happen. Because Shinzhong trusts Shizuko, I feel depressed from now on when I think about what happened after it was revealed.

"Sometimes, Shizuko, what's going on with the artistic protection from the morning court"

"With the help of leading players in Kyo such as Hoshikawa, we are investigating where and what is there"

Shizuko reported the current situation as she was told about the role of the morning court. Even when it comes to artistic protection, what you do is plain. First figure out where and to what extent. Collect them in an inventory and select the needs from among them.

At the end of the day, check the actual item and obtain a copy, if any, of the document. In the case of paintings and antiques, they were purchased if possible and registered in the inventory as owners if not possible.

If photography can be put into practice, photocopies of paintings can also be taken, but research on photographic technology has not yet been produced.

"There's no need to rush. Sit back and work on it."

"Ha!"

"Uhm. Then back off once. I need you to wait in the other room."

"I understand. Now, if you'll excuse me once."

Nobunaga ordered Shizuko to withdraw once. After the tea room, Shizuko decided to relax in Shi 'a (Azumaya), which was built nearby after being guided by Mimaru.

Recently, the moat is not accompanied, and one of the horsemen guides him, but he shows me a hundred faces every time, so I was not bored watching.

When Shizuko reached Shizuko, she drank the tea served and read the books she had brought in. After a while, there was a call by Nobunaga, and when he missed the book, he headed back to the tea room.

"Looks like you've got a lot of work under control these days."

"Yes, there are fewer jobs I wouldn't go around without"

The business once started by Shizuko was also gradually handed over to distribution, with dedicated ministers growing up in each area. The aquaculture project in the cove and elsewhere was completely out of Shizuko's hands and now he was just looking at the report.

Only this will leave Shizuko's hand in a few more years about the fruit cultivation in the South, which he continued to hold.

"That's good. You try to hold anything too much by yourself. I'll leave it up to you to do what you can."

"Yes."

"First of all, you are too reluctant to ignore yourself. While paying attention to ministers and craftsmen's holidays, why don't you try to rest at the heart! It will not rest those below!

"Ha ha... (Why am I being preached?

Shizuko was puzzled by a sudden reprimand from Nobunaga. Without looking inside Shizuko, Nobunaga's sermon lasted for about a moment.