66 Episode 65: New Year's Eve Party

side/Kuyuan Ichima

This day, the second day after the beginning of the year, had come to Qingzhou for a New Year's greeting.

"I knew Chingzhou was different."

"I'm sure you are."

I came to Qingzhou with Ichigo and a few escorts, but it's busy because of the early entry of merchants from Tsushima and Hotfields into Qingzhou.

Shinsu allowed the merchants of the old Qingzhou, but they also called merchants of Tsushima and Hota.

In this era, commerce is often carried out in the realm of temples. The reason is that temples have a variety of privileges and are protected by powerful force.

Although Qingzhou is not a commercial capital, there are naturally some merchants because of its large population. Such merchants in Qingzhou have monopolized their interests by forming vested rights and eliminating the remainder. As a de facto seat, it was consigned to the former Yamato guardian, Yamato Kami.

Shinsu didn't rule them out, but you destroyed their acquired rights by letting in merchants from Tsushima and Hotfields who have a deep relationship with themselves.

Some former Yamato guardian ministers are close to them, and many borrow money.

I think Shin-soo slowly destroyed the acquired rights of the old system in order to make Tsingzhou a thing of the Oda Bullet Zhongzhong family with both fame.

In fact, the merchants in Qingzhou are not losing money unilaterally either, and their business with the realm of the Oda Bullet Chung family will flourish, and if they do well, they will be able to enter Tsushima and Hotfields.

However, in that case, they will have to leave the ministers of the former Yamato family and follow the Oda Bullet Chung family.

Mr. Shin-soo appeased the possession generously to those who were below the rank of chief minister. But the deputy and other positions were dismissed. I guess you're unconnected with merchants.

It's not like Rakuma Rakuza, but he's trying to follow the old Yamato caretaker and his minister in a way that seems to focus on commerce.

Pretty eggy. You mean Dada had no de facto control over Ozhang in his position under guardianship?

Well, it seems that some ministers of the former Yamato guardian speak out of dissatisfaction, but they have no one to sum them up or take charge of them.

The former Yamato guardian's chief minister has been eliminated, and Shinyo Oda doesn't seem to be willing to do so. He received a hiding fee and a mansion, and seems to have begun his life of comfort under Tsingzhou Castle.

At one point, Mr. Shin-soo diagnosed the advisor, but he refused that it wasn't a vessel. Looks like he was terribly consulted and afraid of being assassinated.

You said Julia and Ceres were cowards, and you honestly wanted to hide out rather than be in a nasty position again.

Looks like I gave him a hiding fee just to keep his former guardianship bill in shape, and no kid lets him inherit the house. Maybe it's easy.

What the former minister of the Yamato Guardian can do is merit in battle or achieve results in internal affairs. Looks like most people can't do either if they just look at the current situation.

"Happy New Year. More people don't know what's going on."

"Oh, and those close to Iwakura will be here today."

Qingzhou Castle had gathered more people at all times.

I came to say hello to Nobunaga for now, but today, not only are there heavy and direct ministers of the Oda Bullet Chung family, but there are also people from the Iwakura Oda Ise Shokake and Mino's Ogaki and Migawa's Anxiang.

If you don't trust them, they will.

"It's better than the unreadable abalone of the moment. You didn't do anything, but admit your territory. Admit your position. and better than the noisy ones."

Nobunaga is still young, too. I don't seem to have very good feelings for the people who came snuggling by.

But you have to obey someone, and it won't be a problem enough to come say hello, than you have no ambition to stand on top of yourself or anything. Even in the original world, most people serve companies as salaried people, and a minority of people start their own businesses as presidents. Following someone is not a bad thing in itself. Besides, I have a guardian over here. I guess it's not a bad place to serve.

I need to gather more people than I can use with or without credibility, and I think it's a good trend.

The New Year's greeting is with the guardian, Shinobu Ishiya, in the upper seat, lined up below by Shinsu and the Oda clan, followed by the heavy minister and others.

My seating position is in the back. Only strangers behind me at the rear of the heavy minister.

Whoever sees it, we all bow our heads to the prodigy, who has no real rights and is a puppet, and there are parts of us that suffer from understanding what is a little funny.

Well, it's not like you don't have a minister who obeys your in-laws, and you don't look lonely.

After greeting him at the beginning, the food and alcohol were immediately brought in.

"Oh!"

"This is luxurious again"

The dishes are fringe dishes and broiled dishes similar to those of the Royal Jubilee.

I have sea bream and Ise shrimp, and I use plenty of ingredients for luxurious edges such as shiitake mushrooms, kelp, abalone, whale meat, etc. Oh, some things like Chestnut Kington.

I use soy sauce and mirin and sugar to flavor, and alcohol is golden wine. Ingredients and seasonings will be the majority of what we deliver.

"Become, what? What's this flavor!? Not salt, not miso!

"How can it taste like this!?

The cooking seems to have been done by someone under Shinsu, but the flavoring is quite close to a contemporary object.

I have been delivering soy sauce and sugar to Nobunaga and Shinsu for a long time, and I teach them how to cook with soy sauce and sugar easily. And then the cook, I guess, adapted to the tastes of Shin-soo and O-Zhang people.

There's a culture of taking stock in this age, and cooking isn't that primitive. But it's only an upper-class story, and it's not something that people can eat to the extent that they have hairy earthlings or earthlings.

There is salt and miso, but it is completely different compared to salt and miso like in the future. Due to the problem of conservation, seafood and other than coastal areas, there are many dried and salted foods and the flavour is also intense.

That's what modern dishes are served, so there's no reason to be surprised.

"Delicious. The rice of the Bullet Zhengzhong family is exceptionally delicious with the same tail. I'm sorry, but I'm not going back to Yamato's dinner."

"There you go."

"Then I guess it's expensive"

"It's a role to make it edible for everyone"

Your in-laws are also eating food in a good mood. Didn't the previous dish taste so good? I had a few meals at Nobunaga's Naguno Castle, but they were delicious.

"Role? Even children and elderly people suffering from epidemic diseases, is it useful to feed them?

"Though it is he that stands above men."

"Can you feed me without taking it away from me in battle? That's the strength of it."

In the midst of a lively New Year's Eve party, Shin-soo and Yoshio are talking soothingly.

It's really the work of the samurai of this era to feed the inhabitants.

The people feed even the sick and the old, and the samurai in this day and age can be made of a broken flavor. And to be able to do it without fighting, I'm surprised and scared around.

You're not supposed to be doing so hard, but only a small part of you understand that tease.

I knew you needed a minister's education.