A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Today, Yamauchi Fuchu Town is very peaceful. The rising sun is not too hot yet, but people who got up early are already busy.

Women carried buckets to fetch water from the well in the middle of the street. The older children of the martial arts family went to the vassal school in the mountains to study. The children of ordinary families who had some spare time were also sent to the temple to learn a few words. The men carried carrying poles or tools, and they worked higher and higher, straighter and higher.

Tongxin patrolling along the street is armed with a stick, warriors on horseback ride on the bluestone road to the city to pay their respects, and the townsfolk in the shops have also set up a front to attract customers at the door.

The calm and peaceful atmosphere did not last long, an angry shout broke this beautiful summer morning.

"You brat, if you run again, I'll beat your legs into three pieces."

"I'd be a fool if I didn't run!"

That's right, the young man wearing only a pair of pants, shirtless, disheveled hair, and no shoes, running barefoot is our hero. The master of the Yamauchi Clan of Shinano Province, Rikawa 1,302 Kanmon, was born in the Dansho Daitadatsuna family of the Fujiwara Kita family Kanin-ryu, Zikoji.

He was holding a wooden stick behind him, his hair had been braided, and he was at least wearing a single piece of clothing. But the man with a ferocious look, barefoot but still walking quickly, and holding a long wooden stick used to beat quilts, is the famous owner of Shinano Uchida One Thousand and Fifty Two Kanmon, Toyoda Governor Shikojizaemon of Toe. Lieutenant Tsuna Liang.

Behind the two of them were Chen San who was carrying clothes and rice balls, and an old man carrying two pairs of straw sandals.

All kinds of people on the street have stopped at this moment. This scene is too rare. When will you see two famous warriors with more than a thousand swords fighting in the street. One was half naked, the other without shoes. While running and yelling at each other, Uncle Tsuna Liang snatched up all kinds of things he could get in front of him and threw them at Koheita.

Tongxin, who was maintaining order on the street, was at a loss for what to do. He had never seen two big guys of this level running around like this on the road. As for the townspeople, they didn't even dare to interfere. How dare they, ordinary people, interfere with the samurai's affairs.

We turned the clock back to three days ago. Xiao Pingtai inspected the construction site and then applied for manpower transfer. Things were arranged, and I was free for a while. Just go to the iron cannon smelting house and ask the iron cannon craftsmen about match ropes. They can make foreign guns, but twisting a rope is not easy.

During the chat, Koheita heard that some match ropes are soaked in urine before being used, which is said to prolong the burning time. This reminded him of the rumor that Europe often did not use acid, but directly soaked human urine as a combustion accelerant.

Because there was no running water in this era, and the water sources in Europe, both in cities and in rural areas, were very poor, and few people were willing to drink water. Almost everyone’s daily drinking water depends on alcohol, including wine, beer, etc. Due to daily drinking, their urine contained substances similar to potassium nitrate solution.

This reminded Koheta that the grapes in the Shinano-Kai area were also famous in later generations. If they could cultivate some cuttings now, they could make some wine and sell them. It’s not a small business, you can give it a try.

When thinking of fruits like grapes, Koheita thought of the persimmon trees all over the mountains and plains of Shinano Province. Koshin's persimmons are now also a specialty product with good sales.

Of course, what Xiao Pingtai was thinking of was not selling persimmons. How much persimmons can be sold for? And there are no very good varieties of persimmons. The money earned by small farmers today is not enough to maintain a few irons. Cannon Ashigaru.

Xiaopingtai thought of a Chinese medicinal material that was also an extremely good paint.

Even in modern times, raw lacquer is still an expensive paint, and the market is always in short supply. At the same time, taking and making lacquer is very hard and dangerous (there is a certain degree of toxicity when scraping raw lacquer), plus natural factors such as the planting area. As a result, the price of lacquer, a very important coating, has remained high in Japan.

Koheita also thought of many buildings in Kyoto, Japan. Those who have been there will definitely find that many public and private buildings in the Kinai often use stone fences and lattice grilles. In order to pursue a simple flavor, the wooden boards are even burned until they are charred black. Then use it as the exterior wall of the house.

Among them, the very famous Luojing lattice is not painted with raw lacquer. The simple and natural color that looks like black but is not black is definitely not the original color of the wood itself. And just painting the paint on the outside of the wood cannot last long, and it will be exposed to the sun and rain. Will fade quickly.

So what can replace raw lacquer paint and change the color at will for building needs?

We can't wait to see what happens!

Now that Xiaopingtai has thought of this, he will do it. Regardless of Heita's income of three thousand kan a year, his expenses were actually very high. Kyoto spent about a thousand gan every year, and maintaining his samurai ashigaru also cost a thousand gan. Then there is my daily expenses. I can’t save much money throughout the year.

Xiaoping did some calculations and found that he only had about one thousand guan of funds that he could use immediately. This little money was definitely not enough for Xiaopingtai's plan, so Xiaopingtai immediately thought of Uncle Tsunaliang and put the idea on his head.

That night, Xiaoping found his aunt quietly, and they were fooled for a while. Don’t you know Xiaopingtai’s ability to make money? Just develop some special products, right? It’s impossible to double your product in one year. Isn’t it the same as playing to double your product in two or three years?

Besides, we are all on our own side, how can we trick Uncle Tsunaliang? In the past, candles could make three to four hundred dollars a year in cash. Isn't it a good example? Now Xiaoping Tai has a new plan, but the capital is not enough. In line with the principle that wealth should not go to outsiders, let's pool our own family members together and start a business when we have enough capital, right?

My aunt was so fooled by Xiaoheita that she took out her private money and Uncle Tsunaliang's coffin book without even thinking about it.

Good guy, there is actually a thousand taels of gold hidden in the secret room under the floor. This is not a coffin book, it is enough to make hundreds of coffins. Uncle Tsunliang is an old stingy man. He has long guessed that although he is crying about poverty every day, he has so much money secretly.

Xiao Pingtai immediately ran away with the money and used it to order wooden barrels, tung oil, lime, hemp rope, wood, waterwheels, and cotton cloth. He also allocated a new piece of land beside Lianchuan River and entrusted a businessman from Yamauchi to go to Utsunomiya in Shimono Country to purchase Taigu Stone for Koheita.

This money was quickly squandered by Xiao Pingtai!

In the past few days, the Yamauchi feudal clan council will be held, and samurai from all over the country have returned to the mountain. Uncle Tsunaliang was tired from traveling the night before. After eating and taking a bath, he lay down early and rested.

Early the next morning, his aunt who helped him get up told him that Xiao Pingtai had borrowed his thousand taels of gold coffin.

Uncle Tsunaliang was not in a hurry at that time. He also heard in Yuanjiang that Xiaoheita seemed to be planning a match rope business. This kind of weapons and equipment business is easy to do and profitable. He guessed that Xiaoping didn't have enough capital, so it was understandable to borrow his own coffin.

But the aunt said that she had no idea what Xiaopingtai was doing with it, so she said that he didn't have enough money of his own and that the match rope business was not run by Xiaopingtai. Instead, the Yamauchi family directly managed it, and Yamauchi Yoshiharu had already allocated three thousand guan.

Now Uncle Tsunaliang became anxious. He picked up the wooden stick he saw at hand and rushed straight to Xiaopingtai's room.