19 Episode XVIII: The State of Commerce and the Beginning of Ramen

side/Kuyuan Ichima

"Do you have such a good reputation for gold liquor?"

"Yeah. That's a great reaction."

I was with Elle on this day, coming to Mr. Ohashi's mansion to ask about the sale and condition of the Galeon ship's traded goods.

As it stands, it's silk, sugar and pepper that I sold, and the honey liquor that Shin-soo named the golden liquor, but it still sounds like honey liquor to me with a lot of repercussions.

"That's actually easy to make, isn't it? But for that matter, we make it directly, so there won't be any leaks in the manufacturing process."

"If you're a Nanbian, don't you know?

"You know that. Because the ingredients are honey. I was wondering if I could make a lot of copies of it."

Honey of this era is naturally a precious commodity, isn't it? It's just that honey wine basically dilutes and ferments honey with water, so if you sell the same amount for the same price, honey wine is more profitable.

"I see."

"Honestly, you just need to feed on the honey liquor and buy me something else,"

The price is cheaper because it's the first time. Existing products would be good enough to buy from someone you've known for a long time or to make locally.

It will require novelty to expand the commercial area in a new way. Honey liquor just needs to be that eye-catching product, and if we can get a new relationship out of it, the status quo is enough.

In time, if you can produce clear liquor or or silk or cotton textiles with tailings, you can sell them from the connection there.

"Lord Ichima knows his business well."

"No, thanks to Ohashi, Tsushima and Hota."

Although I leave direct sales to all the merchants in Tsushima and Hota. As a request from this one, I asked Ise Nagajima, which has a traditionally popular petition temple that has plagued the Oda family with historical facts, and Sungawa, Yoshiwon Imagawa, to go for sale.

Things can normally be sold to Mino through Kiso River, but Ise Nagashima and Sungawa are connected at present, but there doesn't seem to be commerce centered around Ozhang.

Well basically, in this day and age, the group called Seat, which is an organization of vested power, has power, and its seat often involves a religion that can evict some kind of power from the Shogun.

Some parts of it I can't help because religion itself is a bunch of technocrats at the knowledge level, but it's too much because it even takes force and makes it a sanctuary beyond public power.

Exactly around Tsushima, the Oda family seems to be very powerful, although I don't like religion on my own.

Nevertheless, it will be clear from history that the majority of the population has always been when it comes to forces that genuinely interact with Otani other than Kiuchi.

Because it's really troublesome to do the right thing at Kansai Temple. We need to build up our strength with the trade of the Galeon ship and the sea transport around Ise Bay.

I'm not sure if Iseh Nagashima will turn to the enemy at the moment, but I'd like to enhance the tail tension with the money from Imawa and the traditional masses.

Besides, if this one holds the money and the flow of things, the battle against this river and the traditional masses will be a completely different development from the historical reality. I guess that's just not enough to win just to tighten it up in the economy.

Now if you can remember the taste of honey wine, that's fine.

"But well, I didn't know you were even thinking about making silk or cotton out of tail tension. Nobody thinks so."

"Oh, I'll also plant hemp similar to blueberries. We have to make our own things."

"Wow. What is that again?"

"None of them will be made enough to sell to other countries for the time being. Silk is a problem in the areas where it grows."

"But sooner or later, if we get more people..."

"Well, sooner or later"

It helps that Mr. Ohashi understands to some extent what we're trying to do.

It's just that maybe it's more important than what Ohashi thinks.

Money flowing as a price to the technology of making things and the commercial area in which they are sold. Grab those three and whoever you're dealing with will win in the long run.

Especially since the vested rights of religion need to be crushed before it becomes the world of the Pacific, as in historical fact. The ideal would be to understand the course of the times and reform yourself, but it would be difficult.

"I see. Let's do that, then"

When I returned from Mr. Ohashi's mansion, Mr. Jingsu was visiting me as far as Tsushima.

I think I'm here for an industrial village meeting, building a money foundry or something for blast furnaces and south barbarian blowing.

You're known to need Elle or Melty to talk to Mr. Jing Soo in detail, right? I'm not an engineer.

But the problem is, in this day and age, you're not in the right shape to call a woman, you're coming to my house to meet yourself. He's really capable of caring.

The industrial village is directed by Shinsu, and it seems the Oda family will make a lot of money and people out of it this winter.

Now, we're talking about making heat-resistant bricks for blast furnaces ahead of time. I'll have my technical instruction made our android, but I'll have to have a craftsman to remember.

"Lunch is ready. Hirakami, too."

"Whoa, is it ramen today"

"This is not the first time. I've had bare noodles with my lord a few times."

By the time my conversation with Mr. Jing Soo was over for a paragraph, Ketty came to let me know that lunch was ready.

I'm just ramen and dumplings for lunch this day. Are you sure?

By the way, when we eat dinner at our place, we eat at the table, not at the meal, and Nobunaga and Jingsu have been here several times, so I'm used to it these days.

The table itself is a wooden table, made by a carpenter who remodeled the house. Of course, I'm going to ask Mr. Jing Soo to sit in the upper seat.

The ramen itself is a simple soy sauce ramen made from an old-fashioned stewed dish.

"I tried to make some Ming noodles I heard rumors about. I've never eaten it, so it might not be real."

"Hmm. Is it Ming's dish? I'm looking forward to it."

I was a little worried about how to explain it, but let's just say I reproduced Ming's dish. Mr. Jing Soo believed me easily. I guess for people of this era, Ming Yu feels like something from the latest epidemic origin.

It's true that ramen is faster than some recluse makes it. Isn't that nice? I don't know if he will be born in this world in the first place.

And I'm not keeping it in history.

"Holy shit!? This!!

Looks like you've had bare noodles before, and you're Mr. Jing Soo, who starts eating ramen the way you're used to. I raised my voice of surprise when I took a bite.

Soy sauce can be said to be the ancestor of it, but it seems to taste different. Above all, I'm sure the flavor of ramen, the food of the future, is hard to see complete.

"This clear juice tastes good. Which one is this one... Whoa!! This is delicious again. It looks like meat in there, but it tastes like I've never had it before!

Thank you for your help, Mr. Jing Soo. A little payback like this won't hit a bee.

Because we were scrubbing the noodles with the cheats, Mr. Jing-su is eating the noodles to make sure they match at some point.

It's delicious because it involves old-fashioned soy sauce flavoured soups in a chic shrunken noodle that tastes like wheat. It's not an exaggeration to say it tastes like it would stain your stomach.

The ingredients are almost identical to the future: pork char siu and leeks with memma. The dumplings are orthodox too, but this one has spicy lard oil that isn't in the Warring States era again, but it's nice.

The dumplings themselves are Japanese dumplings with one side baked in Paris and the other side slightly finished.

I miss it. I ate it a long time ago. I really miss this flavor, which was always taken for granted as the future.

Nothing untrained about the future, though.

At the end of the day, Mr. Jing Soo even finished eating almond tofu and went home satisfied.

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Nobunaga even had a record that Nobunaga, who heard that Hirakata Jiexiu ate a dish called ramen, Ming noodles, dumplings and almond tofu at Kuyuan's house, didn't care enough to make it the next day.

However, there is no ramen dish in Ming, and there are still materials to suppose that Kuyuan family members attempted to reproduce Ming's dishes, which will be in history as a testament to Kuyuan family building wealth in Ming and the Nanban trade.

It should also be noted that, as far as the record goes, outside the Kuyuan family, it is said to be the first person in Japan to eat ramen and dumplings, and in future generations it is known as the god of ramen, and the Jingxiu Temple, later established by Nobunaga, has become a popular temple where many ramen maniacs and ramen shopkeepers worship.