Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

By the time autumn deepened and the winter felt coming, rice harvested from all over was gathering as a tax.

Not to mention Ozhang, since Mino and Omi have also become abundant houses, the Festival of Shou (Miho) has been celebrated.

In the plains of Ozhang, production of Ozhang rice continued to increase, or yields were recorded to double the previous year.

It is the inhabitants of the Chita Peninsula who are showing particular excitement. During the planting period, which required large quantities of water, the waterways were not open, so the inhabitants were more lively than other areas, which were abundant, even though the harvest itself remained on an annual basis.

Anyway, my life changed when I relied on heavenly rainwater. Even though blood flowed through the water in the years of low precipitation, the days of looking up at the sky and worrying were over thanks to the constant flow of clear water.

The expectation that next year will be a boon similar to the barn zone boiling in abundance cheers them up.

In such a bright atmosphere, Shizuko was haunting her head. The cause is a meeting in the tea room with Nobunaga that took place last month.

"Mm-hmm. 'Cause the old lady's words mean it's time to get ready because we're going to start doing a lot of work."

It wasn't made into words clearly, but it was felt from the ends of the words that Nobunaga was about to celebrate his time of euphoria by ending his time of femininity.

Shizuko had predicted that Nobunaga would gather key ministers nearby to declare war open. And it wasn't until a few days later that the summons warrant actually arrived at her as predicted.

Shizuko, who had already finished preparing, took over the work he had with him to Cai, and the next day he led the distribution to Yasushi.

The road was going well, and we arrived at Yasushi without any problems, except that Shinzhong joined us at Mino, where we stopped on the way.

Shizuko, who entered a separate mansion under Yasushi Castle, set out to inform Nobunaga of his arrival, and moved to make the most of his spare time because he was out of hand.

"We have time for ministers other than me to arrive, so in the meantime let's do a field test of alcohol stoves and lunch boxes!

Shizuko assembled the technicians accompanying him in the garden to declare.

A large quantity of wood vinegar fluid is currently stored in Shizuko territory. Wooden vinegar liquid occurs as a by-product by cooling and liquefying the exhaust smoke that exits when charcoal-burning, and until now it has been used mainly for sterilization, insect repelling, soil improvement, etc.

However, there is little demand for the supply produced on a daily basis, and if the exhaust smoke is released into the atmosphere, it will pollute the environment. It is not of the nature that it can be made as soon as it is necessary because it requires a long period of rest in order to be used as a wood vinegar solution.

An excessive amount of wood vinegar liquid has continued to be made from this background. It is a source of concern that the ever-increasing number of ceramic clams will occupy the warehouse.

So what Shizuko came up with was to further process the wood vinegar solution to produce methanol. Methanol is called wood spirit and is an alcoholic ingredient derived from wood.

Unlike ethanol for beverages, it is harmful to the human body but can be used as a fuel without problems, and there is as much demand for liquid fuel as there is for non-stick.

And one of the consumers was an alcohol stove, or, if you can tell, a portable stove.

For portable use only, the material is made of briquette with tin (not) plating on iron, which is quite heavy compared to aluminum as in modern times.

However, the convenience of carrying large quantities of firewood is immeasurable given that it is made from scratch (kamadu) every time it is cooked.

Of course, methanol is a volatile and highly flammable theatre, so care should be taken when transporting it, but the likelihood of cracking it by impact can also be mitigated if packed in a box divided into wooden frames after being packed in a glass bottle, together with sawdust.

"You have to be careful not to suck a lot of fuel when paying for it, but it's a very convenient fuel if you're aware of it."

You can't keep more in one soldier than ethanol is dangerous. Each time it is used, it is paid for by a handler-trained payment clerk, and the excess is collected.

The reason for introducing portable stoves until such time as this was a hassle to imitate was to improve meals in the field.

Because of the importance attached to preservativeness and portability in the diet, many salt products are drained from moisture and cannot be considered delicious for flattery.

If you can afford to cook, you can mouth a warm meal, but in situations where you can even see cooking smoke, the sight is repeated that you can force raw meals to pour in water.

In the Shizuko Army, there is also an alpha rice diet in modern times. This is usually done by washing cooked rice in water, skipping moisture in an oven or stone kiln, or drying it until it becomes crispy in the heavenly sun.

This is like a retort food, if soaked in water, it will be the original cooked rice in about a few dozen minutes, so if hot water is used, it is possible to eat it as a warm porridge if miso balls and the like are melted back.

However, if the hot water cannot be boiled, it will have to be returned with water, and in that case the wings will sip (soot) cold porridge.

It is a meal of the Shizuko Army, which boasts an incomparable variation from the armies of other countries, but still does not extend far enough to freshly cooked warm meals.

As Shizuko's theory, "Kudosa wins if you are hungry for good food", and there is no need to improve the diet in the field, which tends to be biased solely towards calories and nutritional value.

That said, the cooking during the march is already smoke up, so the presence of the army is easily detected. So I needed tools that I could cook without smoke.

Sometimes you can't even spot the size of an enemy army or even plan a march because of the smoke in the cooking. I've never gone beyond giving less information to my enemies.

It is easy to understand if you think of an alcohol lamp here, but little coal (soot) is produced from fuel alcohol when burned. There are many fuel-based alcohols that mix about 70% methanol against 30% ethanol, depending on the product.

Since the proportion of methanol increases, the less coal there is, the portable stove developed by Shizuko means a cooking kit that hardly produces smoke.

"Don't keep it pretty funny. But the hot air's still standing up, right?

"There's a difference between the outside temperature and the water temperature, so there's no other way to get hot air. Hot air looks white when the water vapor cools and becomes droplets, and as it diffuses, it will return to the water vapor, so it will soon become invisible. And if they get close enough to see the hot air, they can't cover it up..."

While disputing the voice of doubt thrown from behind, he recalled who was watering him to a place where he was thriving because of it.

As soon as the voice lord entered his sight, Shizuko's voice dwindled to butt blush. It wasn't supposed to be here that the prank was sitting there looking like a successful evil kid.

"Ugh, Dear Sir! When did you get here?

"What, until you arrived and left directly?"

In the words of Shizuko the werewolf, the technicians who understood the person present as Nobunaga hurriedly lay down.

"It doesn't matter to me. Do what you have to do."

The technicians, who had been consolidated by the unexpected situation of Nobunaga, resumed their work on instructions from Nobunaga himself.

Shizuko gave up complaining about Nobunaga's behavior but had no choice, and ordered Xiaozu to bring two floorboards.

Nobunaga urges Shizuko to sit next to him as he slowly lowers his back to the prepared floor table.

He hasn't even been out in the field lately.

"Yes, we're working on something else now that everyone can take care of me even if I'm not here"

"Wow! Is that part of how you built a pond in the mountains and started keeping fish?

"Did you know about Tilapia? It is not yet finished enough for you, but we will bring it with us later."

"Hmm. I didn't mean to remind you, but if you want me to prepare it, I'll have it."

I felt overtly talked about it, but I wouldn't mention it there would be a flower. When Shizuko speaks to the juniors, she asks them to contact the kitchen to cook Tilapian food.

As Nobunaga pointed out, Shizuko had sperm in the aquaculture industry these days. Cereals and vegetables are stable in supply, chicken and pig farming, and veterinary meat from cattle farming and hunting are also distributed to the market, so that proteins can also be taken.

But from a cost point of view, carnivores tend to be expensive, and they embarked on cultivating Tilapia with a view to providing cheaper and more stable protein.

"But people seem to be doing everything they can to buy all kinds of fish, but is there only one kind of fish they can serve me?

"There are many reasons, but Tilapia has a good idea of how to cook, so we decided that you could enjoy it. The aim is to provide a stable supply of fish meat, so if we rely solely on one type, we cannot replace it when the disease is endemic. All the species I am purchasing are highly vital and will reproduce without a little bad environment or anything else. Sooner or later, when you leave my hand and raise it in the hands of the people, you don't have to take care of it delicately."

"I see you're planning to improve your diet in the hands of the people, just like rice."

"Because it is not just an organism that originally inhabits the land, there is a risk of territorial strife with native species or repainting ecosystems. We are now avoiding them by farming them in isolated environments, but sooner or later they will need to be dealt with in the hands of the people."

Ease of cultivation is preferable in terms of meat supply. On the other hand, it also means that once you let it go into the world, you can't take it back.

In fact Tilapia is also recognised as an invasive alien species that destroys ecosystems around the world. Even in modern Japan, Tilapians have settled, but the environment has been confirmed where ecosystems have collapsed and other species can no longer live.

So Shizuko was building a closed environment centered around a pond, where she was trying to farm. Rabbit huts and chicken huts are also set up around the pond, which is how the pond plankton grows by their manure and leftovers.

The problem lies in the poor quality of the water due to the nature of the cistern, which stays for a long time. Tilapia still grows fine, but the tilapia thus farmed inhabits itself with a stench.

For this reason, new water is regularly drawn from the river, and turbid water is kept in quality by draining only the supernatant through the sedimentation tank.

What was originally planned was carp farming, a native species, which failed due to unexpected factors.

Cultivation was recommended for edible purposes, but the mountain people chose the path of selling the carp they had raised and buying other foods with their income.

Tilapia is not considered edible in Japanese books, so there is no current demand for places, but carp has long been considered edible, so it is traded at considerable prices.

Banning the trafficking of carp is easy, but turning back an improved diet can be a real fall.

So I started farming Tilapia as my next hand. This one is priceless because no one wants it, and there is no use other than to make it edible.

"If you choose a fish, you can expect it to taste good. And to see where else you collect fish, consider what you deserve to eat?

"Savvy, I'm afraid"

"" The Cane Without Falling "or" The Cane Without Falling ", you're always ready for sale. Let me see you too."

"I do get it, but I'm still in the process of increasing the number, so I can't get it out. Please forgive me for contacting you again on the fold I collected my eggs"

As Nobunaga pointed out, Shizuko was attempting to capture and farm southern Sabahee besides Tilapia and the chowsharks living on the northeastern coast.

None of them have different habitats than Taizhang, so whether they can be farmed on this land is better than trying it out in the tunnel.

Caviar, which is famous for salting its eggs when it comes to chowsharks, actually has enough flavor for fish meat to be classified as a luxury ingredient.

In China, the caracho shark was called (the Emperor's fish) and was rarely used as an ingredient to be placed on the Emperor's table. It was also called the Royal Fish in Europe, and was such that chowshark dishes were served at crowning ceremonies and feasts hosted by the Crown.

On the other hand, only Russia attached importance to caviar, which was often used for fishing bait in the United States and France only a century later.

It was the Russian nobles who emigrated collectively from Russia to France in the February revolution of 1917 that made the world aware of the caviar, which was not so oriented, as a luxury ingredient.

When they bring caviar methods to France and become popular among the French nobles, they become rare all over the world as superb ingredients.

The Beluga species is famous when it comes to chowsharks, but the species differed from Japan in that there were also native species of chowsharks. However, it is currently designated as an 'extinct species' on the Ministry of the Environment's Red List.

The first appearance of chowsharks in Japanese history will be a record dedicated by the Matsumae clan to the Shogun in 1717 as "Kikutoji-kun".

Since then, until about the end of the Meiji period, the chowshark has been busy with the market as a summer fish. But successive river renovations and caviar popularity have reduced the number of views that we see, and when we entered the era of Showa, Japanese chowsharks had become extinct.

Shizuko had never seen a Japanese shark in modern times, but he thought that it would be available in warring times when no one had access to it.

However, even the originator, Shizuko, does not possess detailed knowledge of the shark, and is now in a phase of repeated trials and errors.

What we know at present is that we need to keep the water clean, that the water temperature will be the most active at about 15 to 20 degrees, that the food will not be eaten unless it is reduced, and that apparently it will not be eaten by bait with weak vision and weak smell.

Besides being difficult to raise compared to Tilapia, if you don't take the time to set up your environment, you will soon be weakened.

I am struggling to believe that this is a business that can be nurtured as a luxury goods route, although it is not very much, but it will never be on the market at the price of entering the mouth of the common people.

"Hmm. Let's just say we wait and see the day that that good fortune comes"

Nobunaga laughed pleasantly, knowing or not Shizuko's struggles.

About a week after the convocation of Nobunaga, the main ministerial groups had assembled in Affordable Land.

From the Oda family, it begins with Nobunaga's brothers, such as Nobuka and Nagai, and continues with Nobunaga, his successor, Nobunaga, and Nobunaga.

Hideyoshi Ikeda, Hideyoshi Takigawa, Hideyoshi Takiwa, Hideyoshi Haneda, Hideyoshi Akechi, Rika Maeda, Seiji Sasaki, Mitsuharu, Souji Hayashi (Hitachi), Shinsei Sakuma, Hideyoshi Kanemori, Hideyoshi Kawajiri, and many others gathered together.

Although not visible from Shizuko's position, there were many other warlords gathered, so much so that the Great Hall felt narrow.

(stomach aches)

Shizuko sat high in such a large hall. There is no one lined up next to him, and there is a situation where Nobunaga sits even higher.

In other words, he sits in a side-by-side position with Nobunaga, and is relative to the other ministers as they shrug off.

(Just because I don't belong to any faction, this is the heavy pressure inside...... Was it for this reason that Master went out of his way at that time...)

Nobunaga went directly to Shizuko's apartment to inspect Shizuko's life, but to order Shizuko to act as a marshal for the military.

Usually Nobunaga conducts military discussions, but in the context of coming here and promoting Shizuko, the struggle for power among the ministers has become intense.

If we were to assemble our subordinates in such a fold and issue a grand decree, even a seat in the military council could be a source of contention. So Nobunaga guided him through the totality, and let him pull out everyone's liver through more impact.

Shizuko has an upright role as an Oda family counselor, but this has until now been seen as a prestigious and innocent honorary position. Nobunaga was therefore literally the position responsible for consulting the head of the Oda family, and he decided to exercise authority in communicating Nobunaga's opinions to everyone in public.

Everyone, you've come a long way.

There is an air stretched out on the field with a word from Nobunaga. Everyone was focused on Nobunaga's words, not to miss his every word.

Nobunaga spoke quietly, but forcefully, knowing that everyone's consciousness was right for him.

"Finally, the hour is full"

Everyone vaguely guessed where the word meant. Nobunaga stood up before the minister, who could not hide his excitement that it would finally begin.

"People seem to be rumouring that there are still people in the Japanese book who separate us from the heavens."

When Nobunaga smiles a lot, he shook his head and shows it, not saying it was a mistake.

Everyone was drawn to the fact that this was the only fool who said it would be troublesome because it was completely lamentable and unreasonable.

"We have broken even Takeda, who was dubbed Hondo Temple in Imagawa and Heavenly Invincible. Every time I was told," I've never been under Oda's heaven, "I overturned it and showed it!

With that said, Nobunaga looked around at the breathtaking ministers.

"They have only one cause of defeat. There was not enough vessel to carry the heavens equally. I failed to prepare and couldn't wait for the opportunity for the weather to visit. I endured the time of the female ambush, and finally the time came to call upon the heavens! Takeda or Hojo? What the fuck are you doing? Maori and fearless enough! Let the world know that there is no one in line for us!

The words of Nobunaga, who was rushed and discouraged, deeply impressed the ministers that a major offensive would begin.

And by choosing not to be opponent with the ancient haughty dubbed the male of Nippon East and West, we drive everyone's will to war.

"I command everyone to sweep away the enemies that stand before me. Instead, the Oda family counselor tells the formation, so listen carefully."

"Ha!"

Shizuko, who took over the progression from Nobunaga, stood up with the scroll in his hand. Shizuko looking down from the altar concentrates the gaze of murderous ministers.

Everyone had already understood how Shizuko's fate would depend greatly on the formation he spoke of.

Shibata Tatsuosen, of course, would have been able to pull his back if he had been Shizuko before the enthusiasm generated by the samurai to his last seat.

But the death of a close family member who said Vitman and Barti made her decide to be ready to survive in the land.

"Please note that you are aware of what I will tell you from now on and that my words are equal to your words"

There is now a minority of those who insult Shizuko, but there is nevertheless a deep-rooted trend of female contempt.

It is a form of caution against those who are averse to being told by a woman's mouth about a position that even determines her life and death.

So when he looked around at the minister where Shizuko lived, he was seen lying flattened.

As in "Forget the heat if you're past your throat," it's forgotten how many achievements you've made, and it's common for Tsubaki to show up when you can do it yourself.

And the tendency is often found in bloody young people.

"Then if you have been called by name now, gather before me"

With that said, when Shizuko cut the seal of the roll and spread it, everyone sat back and waited for Shizuko's words.