Inari wants to live in peace

Episode 22 Opening the Shogun (18) Plate Nori

After all, the negotiations with the papermaker didn't go well.

Then there is no time to be discouraged that it is next, and I will speak to the smallest individual business owner in the port town paper industry who has been talked to in advance by an official.

The craftsman's house was small compared to the biggest, and it was built on the outskirts of town.

I feel a little lonely, but I really admire it because I want to live quietly alone in places and houses like this after my private hideout.

By the way, briefly explaining the biography of the scribbler, he rebelled against the primacy of the interests of the parent of the most important workshop in the port town.

Still, he couldn't give up and asked his wife to help him financially, and recently he started an independent business.

Unfortunately, however, money runs out around the workshop and toolkit, and resources are thin and prices are soaring.

Above all, since the quarreling parent was in charge of the paper industry in the port town, it was likely that the materials and work would be crushed before entering.

So it seems that I asked you what you were going to do and what you were going to do when you were going to fall into poverty and bothering your head.

He and his wife sat down on the tatami mat in front of him and talked seriously because they were passed through by a small workshop where there was a gap breeze from the scratches.I just want to believe it's okay this time.

I don't like the third time, so I want you to succeed only the second time.

Plate seaweed?

"Yes, theoretically, it should be possible if you follow the same steps as paper."

I only told my parents about the ingredients, but I even put out the name "Plate Nori".

Intuitively, I'm sure he'll do it, so I'll explain everything to Guy here.

"Very well, we are not in a position to choose a job.

And if you make a plate of seaweed as God Inari told you, how much money would you give me? "

The expression of the young craftsman fills me with words that I have fallen.I don't think I have any money, and I have all the expenses for my trip with Matsudaira.

The first purpose was to greet Mr. Hojo before moving and to rescue the refugees.And when I was done, I was supposed to be home soon.

In fact, however, it was not only extended, but also stopped by Takeda's territory and next time I was on a luxury trip at Imakawa-san's home.

I can confidently say that solving strange diseases will be for Japan, but I am completely selfish about boar seaweed noodles.

Can I ask you to invest in Matsudaira-san for such a sneaky reason?

While pretending to think deeply, I put my hand on my mouth and sent a line of sight to the guide with a horizontal view.

And since Imakawa-san's territory will be the birthplace of the plate seaweed industry, will you invest in it?and told her in a small voice.

"On behalf of my lord, Mr. Imakawa Ujizawa, let's hire you!Nothing to worry about! "

After he coughs one up, the young couple can shake each other's hands and get a job.I was just glad to hear you did it!

"Oops! Is that Imakawa-sama's ink?!Then I'm relieved and grateful and happy! "

This will probably be Imakawa-san's business as the birthplace of the plate seaweed business, but I don't mind.

Now anyway, I didn't have to bother Mr. Matsudaira, but I took a guzzle pose inside.

After Mr. Imakawa signed a contract to invest in the Nori business, the young couple of paper makers suddenly became motivated.

I'm sure that you will continue to thrive as an industry in Imakawa territory.

That's why I was forced to sign several contracts.

It was something I didn't have when I was in Mikawa, but that's all Mr. Imakawa really meant.

If the young couple who had been in trouble would be well, they would have thought positively about it.

A few days after signing the contract, what I am doing is a trial and error of Plate Nori.

Nothing particularly difficult, stretch the raw seaweed thinly on paper, and then dry it in a sun-dried fashion. That's all.

To be clear, in the near future, it is not strange for anyone to come up with it, and it is easy to imitate it.

Now, however, the number of raw seaweeds themselves is small, and it is only a sacrifice to the Imperial Court and Daimyo.

The dependence on natural products was strict in mass production, and it was reasonable to experiment in small quantities in a small workshop, though unfortunately.

I was right to refuse a major player in that regard.

And in order to get Imakawa-san to invest, we need to deliver results early anyway.

Therefore, it was originally dried in sunlight, but in order to shorten the time slightly, it was roasted with fox fire and the plate seaweed was forcibly completed.

It would be nice if straw and firewood could be procured, but it is a painful measure because the current situation is severe.

Anyway, I think it's okay because I had a tasting, but just in case, I'll give it to the guide with a cooking recipe.

A few days passed after telling him to deliver it to Mr. Imakawa Kazumasa.

In a small workshop where couples could not afford to hire apprentices, I and my children were now replacing apprentices and working unpaid.

By the way, the weather is nice today, so I carefully dried the board seaweed one by one on a wooden shelf placed outside the workshop.

"Yosaku, it's awful!"

Cherry blossoms, Hanako-san, and orange infantry all sweat while sighing a mysterious song I don't remember where I heard it.

Then, the guiding person who sent the product to Imakawa-san returned.

He approached us silently and spoke with a somewhat sorry expression.

"Inari God, I'd like to ask you about the cultivation of seaweed."

"Isn't that what happened?"

I entrusted the caretakers with the task of drying raw seaweed with a strong smell of seaweed on a wooden shelf, and decided to listen to him seriously for the time being.

"Imakawa-sama loved the rice balls wrapped with seaweed."

"It's delicious. Rice Ball with Nori Roll"

"... yes"

The conductor has also eaten seared seaweed wrapped around rice balls as a taste, so he seems to realize that it is a big difference from before.

I also sent Imakawa-san a prototype plate of seaweed and a recipe using it.

The culture of seaweed was engraved on another page of Japanese history.

In the history book, there are signs that Imakawa Nagami (now Kawaujizan) was the first person to eat the seaweed, and that it is likely to be fabricated.

But I didn't know about the historians' arguments.Now it is important to talk about the cultivation of seaweed.

"But is it the cultivation of seaweed?"

Can you do something about it?

I must have been in quite a hurry to steam up the story once I washed it in the water, before I was shaken up.

However, in order to reduce the decline in seafood, cultivation is desirable, and it is good that seaweed can be easily eaten as in the future.

"If you do what I tell you, it's more efficient than recovering natural seaweed."

Oops! Bye!

"But it can also fail."

Everything can't go well from the beginning.

The same artificial cultivation, the cultivation of mushrooms on the floor, took a long time, and not many of them arrived from one box.

There are so many mistakes in Japan in the future.

Still, the artisans involved in the mushroom cultivation were delighted that it was a great success.

However, they found out that they were careful, and next time, they could not help but say that they would do their best to harvest more.

In other words, the cultivation of seaweed is likely to fail at first.

Recently, I have been busy tasting seaweed, so I will not be tempted by my appetite.

So I would advise you that this is an extremely neutral position.

"If you do this in consultation with people who know seaweed, it will be more efficient than collecting natural products."

I only know about real seaweed farmers when I travel to TV news or places where I can see the sea.

In other words, only the sight of an amateur floating a net in the ocean with a lot of seaweed left a clear impression.

Well, Inari God! Thank you very much!

Let's do our best

In the meantime, it was announced that the sun-drying of the seaweed had stopped, and in the meantime, the guide talked to the local fishermen.

As a result, it would be the flow of teaching futuristic aquaculture, but I felt a little anxious in the first place.