A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

What was Koheta's first reaction when he heard that Matsudaira Ieyasu entered the country?

Of course I did it!

Dare I ask those of you who are alive now? Which of you can survive Matsudaira Ieyasu? Fighting for life?

Matsudaira Ieyasu could have just smiled contemptuously and said, "You can be strong, you can be reckless, you can live to be eighty-eight if you have the ability!"

He is now eighteen, and Xiaoping is too twenty-six. He would live to be seventy-four, which meant he had fifty-six years left. Good guy, Mrs. Xiaoping was already eighty-two at that time, so she didn’t dare to think about it. Let alone fifty-six years, being able to live another thirty-six years is all thanks to God.

Xiaoping couldn't even eat anymore. How could he eat with peace of mind after knowing this kind of thing?

"How about we really find someone to kill him!" This thought lingered in Xiao Pingtai's mind for a long time. But this man is now regarded as Nobunaga's horse boy, and the level of assassination in this era is so low. If the assassination fails, the assassin is exposed, and Nobunaga finally learns that it was Kodaira who did it, this will be a joke.

Although he was not afraid that Nobunaga would send troops across the Mikawa Kingdom to beat people up just for this matter, he finally had a close relationship with Nobunaga and left some escape routes for himself. It's impossible to just abandon it so casually and not care.

Xiao Pingtai secretly thought about killing someone, but suddenly Ding Chensan opened the barrier door from the outside, and then brought in the account book of the specialty products presented from outside.

There is no doubt that Ejiri's grass products are selling well, and Sukezaemon and others have repeatedly increased their share of hosting. Straw sandals, straw bags, straw ropes, etc. are all necessities of life. They will never be eliminated in the next two to three hundred years, and the sales have always been very good.

In addition, some people wonder why rushes can be grown in Ejiri but not elsewhere.

Ejiri was successful because of the flood discharge area developed by Koheita. We might as well use the two major production areas that have truly developed in history to explain.

First of all, there is no doubt that rushes can be grown in places with sufficient sunshine and warm climates, including half of Japan, as long as there is a paddy field. This is a prerequisite, everyone knows it.

So why was Jinshan able to develop the drafting industry in the end? You might as well Baidu the map. The Mitsuyama Basin, like the Kai Basin, is a rare flat land among the rolling mountains and is very suitable for agricultural development. At the same time, since Tsuyama is located in a low-lying area between mountains, the Yoshii River with abundant water flows through the entire basin. This enables the continuous development of high-quality paddy fields in the basin and the cultivation of countless rice.

But why don’t people grow rice despite such good conditions? The earth made a joke with them, and this joke was a little bit poisonous.

The Tsuyama area is right near Okutsu Hot Spring, one of the "Three Beautiful Hot Springs". So what does such a famous and active hot spring bring? Naturally there is countless sulfur! This resulted in high sulfur content in the Yoshii River. Then everyone discovered that something was wrong, the rice grown from this thing didn’t taste right! Eat dead people!

So naturally, the precious paddy fields in the Jinshan area were planted with rushes, and eventually the world-famous Jinshandie was developed. This is not because they are smart, but because they are forced by life!

Another place is Usuki, Bungo Province. Why are the good paddy fields used here to grow grass?

When we look at the map now, Japan may be drawn in a rectangle, but Japan actually runs north-south on the earth. Bungo Province is located in the most violent typhoon area on the Pacific coast, and the terrain of Usuki is a small protruding peninsula.

So everyone can understand that after finally planting rice, a typhoon came in the summer and all the rice was blown down. Finally, it rotted in the ground and there was no harvest.

It's okay if typhoons don't come every year. Everyone just grits their teeth and gets through it. But in this era of 1560, the Little Ice Age had already begun. Typhoons come every year and become more severe each time. Then all those who insisted on growing rice starved to death, but those who knew how to adapt and grow rushes that were not afraid of lodging survived by selling grass.

This is the reason, everything has a cause and effect. After all, only a few people can achieve success, and the environment drives development.

Putting aside the matter of rushes, shell ash caused a big problem for Xiaoping because it was not famous and could not produce immediate results. The price was a little more expensive than ordinary plaster, and the sales volume was very small, only a few hundred bags. Several months have passed and nothing can be done.

Some people even suggested to Koheita that the shell ash project should be cut down. Anyway, the grass products are selling so well, and Yamauchi Yoshiharu is very satisfied. It was not short of Beihui's money, but Xiaoping knew that this thing would be successful in the future, so he always insisted on subsidizing production.

But this time when he looked through the account book, Heita Xiao found that Sukezaemon had actually ordered two thousand bags at once and had already picked up the goods.

This made Xiaoping Tai happy, and he immediately asked Chen San to ask for help from Zaemon. This legendary and talented businessman must have found a way, otherwise why would he order so many at once?

When Sukezaemon arrived, things turned out just as Heita expected, and Sukezaemon found a big buyer.

Sukezaemon has always been very serious about his work. He personally went to Kyushu to examine the differences between Usuki Die and Ejiri Die. Because of the "Kurotide", Sakai went to Kyushu very quickly, just one day and one night. That night he stopped at Jukumo in Nishi Tosa on the way.

In Sumo, he heard the news that Yasumasa Ichijo and Sozan Doi, the family elders of Lieutenant General Ichibo, ordered merchants in Sumo to purchase sufficient amounts of high-quality lime from the Shinmi area of ​​China to repair the flooding caused by the violent typhoon. The destroyed walls of Nakamura Imperial Palace.

Sukezaemon's business acumen immediately burst out, and he met the two leaders of the Ichijo family through the relationship between the Otomo family. People can't save face, after all, Lieutenant General Ichijo is the grandson of Otomo Yoshiken. So he entrusted Sukezaemon to purchase 200 bags of shell ash to repair part of the walls of the Nakamura Imperial Palace. Lime was still used in other places.

As a result, compared with this year, other city walls that were eroded by violent wind and rain have suffered varying degrees of damage, which has a great impact on the castle whose internal structure is made of wood. However, the section of city wall repaired by Beihui was not only unharmed in the strong winds of the cold winter season due to Beihui's extremely strong weather resistance and waterproofness. At the same time, it has no problem experiencing heavy rain and is as clean as new.

This surprised Doi Zongshan and Ichijo Yasumasa, and they were very satisfied with the shell ash provided by Sukezaemon. So he sent people to Sakai to find Nawu. On the one hand, he wanted to thank Nawu, and on the other hand, he asked Nawu to immediately carry out 2,000 bags of shell ash and renovate the Nakamura Imperial Palace.

Imai Munehisa didn't know about this at all, and he heard that Sukezaemon was responsible for it. Find him immediately and praise him. He was very satisfied with the big customer he had acquired from the Tosa Ichichi clan, which later led to his ordering shell ash.

Xiaopingtai thought to himself, after all, you are the best at doing business.