31 Episode Thirty, Mino and the Next Plan

side/Saito Dozo

"Oda is digging a moat and building something in two places under Nagono Castle."

"The fort?

"No, I'm closer to Oda than Naguno Castle. There is no point in building fortifications in places. It's not even the kind of place to move a castle. I have no idea what you're building."

Shinsu, don't you think? What the hell are you thinking?

I'm not going to start something I don't understand just because you showed a bareback gesture attacking Meino.

"I thought Ogaki was more of a problem than Naguno. Shinsu has ordered us to send food and money."

"Will the tiger consolidate his protection? I don't think so."

"The same goes for the people around us."

What are you thinking? That man is not the man who turns to guard. Are you ill?

Still, it does trouble for me.

Seriously, nobody wants to bow their heads to me. It's because he's attacking us, even though Mino is a big country.

The money came from a Nanban ship.

"I thought maybe so. Talk about merchants, you say they come many times a month? It's full of examples of golden liquor and sugar in shiitake mushrooms and salmon."

"Who the hell buys something like that?

"We all buy it. Golden liquor, salmon and shiitake mushrooms are cheap. You can save it until New Year's Eve."

That's weird. Why are you selling expensive things to enemy countries for cheap?

Even if I say cheap to that, would the consideration be money or rice? When you don't know when Shinsu will attack you, it is foolish to buy such things until you have reduced your money and food.

No way, is that what you're after?

No. I can buy rice from others if I want to. There's no point in purposefully selling expensive things for less.

I don't know. I don't know, but it's creepy.

"My lord, let's attack Ogaki!

"I don't even know what Shinsu is doing, but I can't move."

It's like it fits into someone's strategy, I feel that way too.

Shouldn't we be moving in a detour? Oda is looking good for the moment.

side/Kuyuan Ichima

"You really sold it for the kind of value you dumped your money on."

"First, you have to remember the taste of gold liquor. You can always collect it."

On this day, I come to Ancient Castle with Elle and Shiqing.

I'm here to report that I had Mr. Takikawa and the others, but here we have an unexpected fact. Hang Hing Ikeda Katsuzaburo's father was from the Takikawa clan.

I didn't hear much about it, so I didn't know.

In the first place, the Ikeda family, Katsuzaburo's father is already dead, and Katsuzaburo has inherited the house.

Besides, your mother said you were Nobunaga's nanny, so it wasn't like Takikagawa didn't have any edges or itching at all. So it's not weird to give them a clan and come to Ozhang.

"Don't feel sorry for me."

"What do you think of Master Yamashiro? I hope you won't simply think of it as cheap enough to sell, but you'll read in depth why you made it cheaper."

"It will read in depth. I like to take measures. The more you think about it, the more cautious you will be. Sounds like a good plan."

Well, as for Mr. Takigawa's blood ties, anyway. The story became about the craftsmanship at Mino.

As it stands, I am thinking on the premise of protecting Ogaki. We sell our products in Minoo and expand our sales channels. Basically, we sell alcohol and preferences in the same way as Imagawa and get rice and money.

However, Mino is not as stable in the realm as the river is now, nor is the value of rice as cheap. So it feels like I'm offering alcohol and preferences from here and exchanging them for money and rice.

But useless liquor and preferences for war would not be a threat, and would be effective in protecting Ogaki.

At last, you're lucky that Mizo keeps us alert and busy.

Looks like he's also exploring the construction site in Nagono, so I'd like to give him some more information and get him lost.

"I like this tree"

"Hmm. Do you want a tree like this?"

"This tree should be felled in order for the trees around it to grow bigger"

The day after I went to say hello to Shinsu. I was away for a little while to come to Ozhang Mountain with all the Els and Ichigo and Nobunaga and all the offerings.

I've had a large number of over thirty in total, but I guess I can't help it in my position.

The purpose today is to inspect the mountains. We hunt mushrooms seasonally, but we'll need plans for logging and planting early to see how the mountains are doing.

The plantation seems to have been in Kichinai for a long time, but given the future, it's not enough.

If you're a native forest where people don't get in, I think you can leave it to nature. If people are going in halfway, we need to manage and grow trees. Even the historical facts seem to have struggled by the time of the Edo period.

"Shall I carry the felled trees to Nagorno?"

"Shiitake mushrooms. Are you sure you can do this?

"Well, maybe I'll be fine."

The felled trees are to be transported to a ranch site in Naguno.

Coniferous trees such as cedar are used for ranch construction, and broadleaf trees are to be dried for several months to grow shiitake mushrooms.

If you just want to grow logs, you don't have to bother taking them to Nagorno, but if you leave them in the mountains, people are going to come in and take them instead of firewood.

That's right, Nobunaga seems a little half-hearted this time.

"I think we should create a village to grow shiitake mushrooms and trees."

"You want a village in the mountains? I don't think we can make rice."

"You can also raise silkworms. You don't have to make rice to make money."

People in this day and age want to make rice for now, right?

Even Nobunaga does, so you won't have to think about anything else.

In mountainous areas, forestry, shiitake mushroom cultivation and silkworm farming should be profitable for the time being, right? I think we can make rice for ourselves, too. Blah, you should plant a crop that will be other money.

By way of example, Elle is giving me a detailed explanation, so I'm listening with everyone else as they pick up the mushrooms.

It's not easy because there are hunters who live in the mountains in these days, and local lords may also own mountains.

Well, I don't have a detailed map like the future, and I guess it's more like who's his mountain here or something.

Essentially, the rule of this era consists in giving land and making it rule.

Neither Shogun Kamakura nor Shogun Muromachi can be described as centralized in the first place. Creating a centralized government is going to be difficult.

"If so, is the place a problem?"

"I think it should also be done as a direct jurisdiction to protect secrets"

Nobunaga began to worry a little about our mountain village plan.

Blah, blah, blah. Nobunaga doesn't really trust ministers, does he? Except for Masahiro and Katsuzaburo. I don't seem to trust the people who slapped their pussies when they were lying.

I'm still old enough to say I'm a child, and it's still impossible to drink it in a cloudy way.

As a matter of reality, Yamamura is a little far from being managed by us while hiding everything. I need someone I can leave to.

With all the technology, it's not going to work.