Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

12 Sep 7450

To sum up what Xenom and Associate Sir Vendel Lannox told us, burning mud was still about peat.

Moreover, according to Brigadier General Lanox, peat can be harvested throughout the marshlands in the east of Henson village, which should not produce much in any other direction.

For example, there are places around which coal can be dug.

Besides, you can expect a 90% or more chance.

This would mean that mining of coal would also be possible within the West Dart at the moment.

I was excited about this.

Oh, yeah.

"Xenom. If you get peat, you'll use it to make smoke, but you can also use it to make booze."

I have to say this or something.

"Liquor?"

Xenom looks strange.

"Oh. Xenom may not know much because he's a shochu, but you know the difference between beer, ale and shochu?

"... what did you say... yes, distillation. Shochu distills, but beer and ale do not distill."

"Right. But there's another big difference. It's beer that sprouts raw wheat and then starts making liquor, and it's shochu that starts making it as edible as it is before it sprouts."

"Well, I didn't know that..."

Xenom says as impressed, but what the hell does that have to do with Pete?

Well, don't be in such a hurry.

"So, I have to stop germination in just the right place to make beer or ale, but there's some way to saute it lightly, smoke it. Sugarize it and turn it into wheat juice. And then it's easy to say, you can add hops while you simmer that wheat juice to make it more conservative and aromatic, cool it down, then add yeast and ferment it."

It is the lager that is made of the upper fermentation yeast when fermented is made of the lower fermentation yeast with ale.

"You just said you'd stop germinating on the way, didn't you? It smells pretty strong when I use Pete as fuel then. So, let it saccharify. We've been together so far. After that, do not boil but ferment. Distill it like shochu. In some cases, I would repeat the distillation twice or three times like some cheap shochu, but this is simply to make alcohol stronger, so it is not an exaggeration to say that I would use aromatic peats for this purpose. So I can do it for once, but if it stays like this, alcohol is just strong and it doesn't taste very good. When I pack it in oak barrels and put it to sleep for several years, the taste and aroma become more complex, and it doesn't taste as good as if it was made of amber-like colors. I call this booze whiskey."

Xenom listens in silence.

"This whiskey, like I just said, takes years to complete, like a fancy shochu, and it evaporates while it's being stored, so it reduces the amount considerably. But personally, I think it's a better drink to smoke than shochu."

"Well, smoke it..."

I became the first face to attract interest.

I thought on the way we were talking, Zenom didn't just like booze.

Again, is it correct to involve smoking......

Then don't we have to talk about brandy?

I've heard that in the countries of the South, where I said the Kingdom of Korakt or the Kingdom of Kegnan, they call a strong liquor made by distilling wine a firecracker, but you think that's brandy.

I never got it because I didn't sell it at the liquor store in Wangdu, but I've heard stories about that kind of liquor.

Well, it's a Romberto kingdom in a wine-backing country that only divides wine between red, white and rosé without dividing it by its region or brewery brand because it's mixed and sold all the time, and I guess the idea didn't come to distill it because wine is a relatively expensive liquor in circulation.

"Oh. Besides, whiskey works for years if you bottle it and seal it tight. Smoking is a specialty, but even if it's smoked, it's about the full moon, right? If they can make it too well, they'll have it for about six months... If the carriage railroad opens up to Wangdu, it'll be somewhat better around there, but why don't we let them make some booze we can enjoy together anyway? Oh, new liquor making. I don't think it's going to be a big success from the beginning, and using Pete for shochu from the beginning is a hand."

"Well, are you in shochu?

"Oh. When making shochu, smoked with this peat in the main ingredient...... especially using wheat or potatoes, it tastes and smells like whiskey when stored in oak barrels. Why don't you try around here first, just to improve your current methods?

"Hmm. Maybe that's a good idea."

Xenom said if he rubbed his mustache.

"Then Pete does burn, as I put it in the example of liquor making. Sometimes they even burn naturally when the conditions are right. However, the performance as fuel, such as the ease of ignition and temperature, is normally less likely to be harvestable wood or charcoal. Even the whiskey smelling fumigation process just now is said to be too inefficient to use only peat for fuel."

"Really?"

"Oh. But I think there are quite a few uses because if you can tolerate smoke and odors, you can never use them as fuel, and if you can steam well, you can use them as' activated charcoal '. Because of this, if mixed with soil in the field, some crops can do much more to improve the soil than poor fertilizers. Even if not, mix it with lime and you'll be fine..."

Brigadier Lord Lanox has eaten up here.

Apparently I'm interested in the part about improving the soil in the field.

"... mmm, briefly, Pete contains acids like vinegar. Mixing lime can help ease that. The opposite of acid... It's weird to say the opposite, to be exact, but it's the limestone that contains a lot of alkali. All you have to do is crush it with a mortar or something and mix it into powder."

"To what extent are the percentages......?

Ugh...

"Hmmm...... oh yeah. Might be inaccurate, but put Pete and lime in each barrel-like container, strain the water and mix well. When it's about the next day, I'll try to drain that supernatant water on paper or cloth stained with purple dye. If the purple dye is almost identical to what I know, the dripping of Pete's water should turn red, and the lime should turn blue. Then we mix peat and lime in different proportions to make similar water. Ideally, the colour will not change much or it will look slightly blue."

"Is purple dye anything you want?

"No, anything's not good. But I'm not familiar with dyes either... Oh, sure, dyes made from moss. Yeah, you should try collecting all kinds of purple dyes."

The point is instead of litmus paper, but even if there was a litmus paper before reincarnation, it's not a very reliable way to determine it.

"You'll need trial and error. It would be nice to make some proportionally changed soil and grow various crops in a bucket or bowl or something to make it relatively. Grabbing just the right percentage for each crop will take some years in some cases, but in the end it may be the best way. But if you can find the best percentage for any of the different types, then maybe you can make a lot of money by making a fertilizer chamber and selling it nationally?

I tried to tell you half a joke.

It's going to take a lot of work and time.

"I see... do the percentages vary from crop to crop..."

Oh?

Motivated?

If you want to try, you can give him some assistance.

If I succeed, it's going to be a big chamber of commerce other than my capital.

Yeah, if Zenom is going to create a chamber of commerce for whiskey, shochu, or smoking too... then Zenom has that kind of money.

That's an extra favor.

As far as I'm concerned, if it's served with good liquor and food, that's fine.

It's more coal than that.

First of all, we should start the investigation as soon as we know for sure that there is.

The investigator must be someone who understands the characteristics of coal.

Who would be better?

He'll be walking around, and I'd love to mix up the gne, but he's a training squire with Ralpha right now, and no.

Claw, Marie and I have work to do as instructors, as well as the important task of checking if the drugs in the territory are really only spread to the Zondir woodlums.

Cunningham is not a good fit either, but she's still a two-week training squire since she joined the Knights too, so I'm not going to move it.

This must be Fio.

Grace, his wife, has been forced to throw herself into training squire in the form of Ralpha and his juniors, and Fio has dropped his shoulder for missing out on being the archbishop of the Church's bishop.

Let me make a move... Although I said something about coal, and not enough to do nobility.

If you discovered coal in a place I don't know about depositing it, it would be a procedure worthy of full aristocracy.

Still, it would be better than letting them play.

Well, should we get back to Ginger's reception?

September 15, 7450.

Marquis Razod territory of the Kingdom of Dabus.

Its eastern frontier against the Cambit kingdom was about 10 kilometers eastward in a slight period compared to three months ago.

In particular, only six battle-like battles took place, but the Royal Davas Army, under Alec's command, had won a great victory in all of them.

As for the artillery, all of them have been successfully recovered, including those whose archers were unluckily killed in battle or malfunctioned during battle, and none have been captured by the enemy.

He won the battle in the Comill Plains in the middle of June, and at the end of that month he attacked and occupied Fort Karun, which had been built a few miles east of it.

And in July he attacked an unnamed fort, which was in the process of being built near the southern coastline, and at the end of July he was successfully attacking Fort Dokram, north of Fort Karun, Fort Begkazo, which was built east of Fort Karun, and Fort Gajour, south of it, one after the other.

Of course, each fort was not of great magnitude, but even if it was where the Royal Cambit Army was stationed, there was fierce resistance.

Even if it was supported by a new weapon called an iron cannon and the activity of the Lane with the title of court magician, it is certain that all of it was crushed to expand the area under the control of the Kingdom of Davas.

As a result, no enemy soldiers missed the fort's attack because Lane's magic made it a standard to surround the fort with dirt walls.

Even if there were a handful of people, it was thought that there would be no busy information available about the fighting that took place inside the dirt wall.

It is therefore predicted that information on artillery would be treated as less credible even if it were leaked.

Thus, for the past three months, it has been the Royal Dabus Army, which has been making rapid advances.

But their fast forward had apparently also been forced to pause, and the current Dabus army had stopped their feet while caged in Fort Vegcarzo.

The reason is because the number of prisoners has become huge and the supply has stopped catching up.

Alec and the others, anyway, are also sending troops to victory as the Dabus army.

It had been calculated to obtain some degree of captivity than it was, and quite a few plans had been built for replenishment.

Naturally, consideration was also given to the rendezvous of the troops commanded by Alec.

But the number of prisoners gained swelled more than tenfold, many times the number originally envisaged, and Alec and the others, who tried to contain the leak of information about the new weapons at all, did not even negotiate a ransom for the prisoners they gained.

"Has the convoy arrived yet?

I had evacuated the prisoners four times before.

By the end of yesterday, a unit of the Blue Tiger Knights was scheduled to arrive to evacuate 300 prisoners.

That's why they won't arrive even today, when the night breaks out.

Alec can't hide his frustration because he can't go as far as he thinks.

As far as he was concerned, he wanted to advance as much as he could before more information was communicated about the artillery.

That wasn't what happened because every time I dropped the fort, they stopped me from making progress.

"Ah, it looks like a touch!

For quite some time, Dantes, chief of the Blue Tiger Knights, who essentially turned into Alec's tabernacle, admitted several horseback rides hanging from the end of the road stretching west, and said with joy.

"Are you finally here..."

Alec also spoke with a horrible look on his face.

Nor did he anticipate that the number of prisoners would be so high.

The common sense of the Battle of Aus that we have learned so far is that, unless we win a major battle on an extra scale, the captivity is mostly less than 10% of the other party's total, mostly about 5%.

Even when pursuing enemy troops who lose fights and retreat, it is often not followed too deeply, thinking of damage.

Because even if we can make it even more effective if we chase them, we don't want to commit any more dangers with the wins obtained by the prisoners, and about half of those who retreat are often scattered and run away, so they are less than commensurate with the effort.

But I shouldn't have had the first fight.

It ravaged a devastated enemy in contemplation, killing more than half of them and gaining nearly 200 prisoners.

By contrast, there are only 10 dead here.

Even the fort's tactical battle that followed did a good job of shooting high-powered bullets from a distance where the enemy's arrows could not reach them, and Lane's sorcery served as a boost to it, all of which resulted in the enemy surrendering much earlier than expected.

After all, the number of prisoners acquired will be considerably higher than originally anticipated.

In addition to gaining so many prisoners on the boulder, the great victory also lightens the mouth of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Dabus.

In just a few hours, the vast majority of the prisoners knew that the artillery used in the battle was a magic device that could be described as a new weapon.

Real information about artillery will be known someday, but the later it is, the better, and the more misinformation you mix.

In a way, all of Alec and the others got drunk on the triumph.

Perhaps if Al had been Alec's position, he would have missed out after giving false information that the prisoners obtained after the first battle had left a few high-ranking men behind to kill them all, or that they were capable of firing a series of shots about the artillery, with a further range in units, and that thousands of cloves were ready, etc.

I mean, I saw so much power, I couldn't stop giving them information.

"Mule, how much gunpowder and ammunition are left?

"Gunpowder has about a fifth of a barrel left in a round. And then there are 22,000 bullets left. I sent you a request for supplies in the middle of last month, so I was wondering if you would arrive as early as mid-next month."

"Mmm...... ok"

As he stood at the fort's sight, Alec turned his eyes to the East.

At the end of the woods that cover his sight, a few kilometers away is the city of Dar Curry, his next offensive target.

- I hope it goes well next time...... but it'll be a city fight.