A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The rushes on the mudflats on the coast of Yuanjiang Country face the warm and humid sea breeze of the Pacific Ocean and the sufficient sunshine in summer. They grow as fast as the wind. When they are ready to be harvested, they have grown to more than 1.5 meters. They grow so well that they can be harvested. Careless people get lost in the grass.

Artificially cultivated grass does grow well, just like the green onions in our country's Shandong Peninsula. Good guy, those green onions are over 1.4 meters tall, taller than a child. Many netizens replied that they got lost in the green onion field when they were children.

The artificially cultivated rushes also have the same meaning. There is a particular emphasis here, and attention must be paid to the selection and breeding of grass seeds. If you don't carefully select and breed grass seeds and plant them three times or five times, the rush will become a weed. But this guy can grow to more than one meter even if it turns into a weed, so it is really good to be chosen as a handicraft material.

And this thing also has another function. A well-maintained rush starts at 1.5 meters high. According to ancient sayings, it is to ambush a group of people. At the sound of the cannon, they all come out from all directions, killing those who are killed. It is simply the best terrain for an ambush, it is extremely hidden.

Therefore, in ancient times, many people lurked in the wilderness, and there were no hillsides, valleys, tall trees or deep forests. After planting the rushes, Xiaoping realized that thousands of men and horses could be ambushed in the field. The grass was so long that no one could tell there was anyone hiding in it.

It seems that this rush field can also play a role as a "defense fortification". Xiaopingta smiled secretly in his heart, feeling that the grass was a little cute.

Leave the tallest and best patch of rushes to bloom and produce seeds naturally and use them as seeds for the next crop of rushes. Others are harvested from dawn at four or five in the morning to when the sun rises completely at nine o'clock. This is also very particular. If you harvest when it is too hot, the grass will wither. When harvesting in the morning, the grass is tender, green, green, and vigorous, and looks fresh.

Then the rushes are dehydrated. Ordinary rushes can be exposed to the sun for two days. There are no special requirements. Triangle rush has another idea.

If the rush is directly exposed to the sun and dehydrated, it will lose its original green color and the natural charm of grass art. Ordinary rushes don't pay attention to this. Anyway, those who make straw sandals and straw bags, who wears a pair of straw sandals, also pays attention to the sandals to be bright and green. In this age when people don't have enough to eat, people who can care about whether their shoes look good or not will not wear them. Straw sandals.

So how to ensure that rushes can maintain their original color during drying and dehydration?

Of course Xiao Pingtai has a way, it’s drying! Construct a conservatory out of native solid planks and place a stove in the center. In order to ensure no ash flying and fire prevention, an independent flue must be installed. The temperature in the greenhouse does not need to be too hot, thirty degrees is perfectly fine. It's equivalent to just moving a wood-burning stove used in winter and burning it hotter.

The principle is the same as that of the Song Dynasty in my country, where greenhouses were made to grow off-season vegetables in winter. People used this method to sell fresh vegetables in winter. They were the only ones in the frozen city of Kaifeng, so they were able to make huge profits. After all, Zhong Ming Ding Food House would not care about such a small amount of money, and would definitely be happy to spend money to enjoy this service.

Xiao Pingtai's idea almost completely overlaps with this vegetable greenhouse, but the direction of utilization is different.

Xiaopingtai built such a greenhouse to rely on controllable heat to accelerate the dehydration of rushes. In such a greenhouse, the bundled rushes can be completely dried in only four hours. At the same time, the high-quality triangular rushes that use the drying method can maintain the natural original color when harvested, and even become more beautiful. beauty.

Because they are protected from sunlight, the grass stems are able to lose moisture in a gentle environment. At the same time, the artificially created high temperature greatly exceeds the heat emitted by the distant sun. The dehydration process of grass stems is faster, making the grass stems more flexible. It can be said that it is very cheap.

The rushes after drying cannot be used yet. There is also a convenient pedal-type lawn separator. It first splits the rushes in half, and then cuts the half-length rushes in half again. In fact, a small rush can be divided into 4 strips for weaving. A few rushes or saltgrass can be divided into 6 strips for use, but the texture is really not good, and generally few people grow and use them.

Then the divided straw strips are weaved as needed. A skilled weaver can use a mat loom to weave two tatami mats a day. There is nothing particularly difficult about the mat loom. You can use it skillfully with just a few days of practice. . We only need to wait for the people who went to Mimasakutsuyama and Bungo Usuki to come back and bring back the purchased looms, and we can start work.

In addition, when Koheta was away, Hokahata University had already dispatched a Yuri who was responsible for the acquisition of shellfish at Ejiri Port (it is estimated that in Japanese it is Kaiyuri. If this position was inherited into the Edo period, it is estimated that there would be another one. A position that no one knows about just by looking at the name.) During this time, a mountain of shells had been purchased, and all the meat extraction process was done by hiring women from the town and the countryside below the city. The price was extremely cheap, only five yuan a day.

Most of the large amounts of shellfish taken off are pickled or dried to become seafood that can be preserved for a long time. They were sold to various places in the vicinity via sea and land routes. Since Koheta Tai demanded that these by-products be sold at low prices from the beginning, as long as there was a small profit, the sales of these seafood were excellent. Even poor people who don't have much money and can't afford fish can spend one or two dollars to buy a lot of it and take it home to supplement protein and salt.

Unexpectedly, despite so many plans, the disposal of leftover shellfish that Ejiri paid no attention to became the first thing in Ejiri's development plan to open up the market and gain profits. It can also supply Ejiri's regular ashigaru for consumption. After long-term consumption, the physical strength of these ashigaru may be improved, which indirectly affects their combat effectiveness.

And the women who were hired to fetch the meat had their incomes increased as jobs appeared out of thin air. Although it is not too much, it still greatly invigorates the entire market. After all, one hundred and fifty yuan a month is equivalent to eight hundred yuan a year. Xiaoping Tai can only earn this amount of money by working as a tenant farmer for a year. . This little money is enough for two people to drink and not starve to death.

Families with hundreds of women who originally could only do housework or help with farm work have become the first to stand out. When military service accounts are rebuilt next year, these 100 families will 100% be classified as military service members.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu's political task of increasing the number of military service members by 500 has already been completed one-fifth of the time in just two months.