A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The Hojo family had lost everything by stealing chickens, but Oishi Shiteru immediately calmed down after experiencing the defeat of the Eighth Prince.

Unlike his younger brothers, Oishi Shiteru is quite a paternal figure. Although he is not as good as his father Hojo Ujiyasu, if he only maintains his career, he is completely qualified.

The Ota family was tricked to death by the four Hojo brothers. Although Uesugi Teruhu brought Ota back, he failed to break Iwasuke Castle and Edo Castle. Ota Shiyori died long ago, but Ota Yasushi is not dead yet.

The Oishi family worked hard and turned around and gave Hojo Uji Nao's younger brother to Ota Shirayi who had been dead for who knows how many years as his son. He directly changed his name to the Ota family and became the head of the Iwatsuke Ota family. At the same time, Yasushi Ota and Ujikuni Fujita served as hindsight.

This suddenly wiped out the largest clan of people in Minami Musashi. The Ota family died without any children. The Ota retainers who followed him in rebellion back then dared to join Ota Zimasa. They could only follow a pirate ship of the Hojo family. black.

Moreover, a wave of capable retainers of the Ota clan died, which made it convenient for the Hojo clan to frantically mix in the trouble.

Despite the fact that Terutora Uesugi's reputation in Kanto has risen to another level, the Hojo family who suffered a huge defeat only lost Matsuyama Castle, but completely digested the Ota clan.

Now the entire Minami Musashi is like an iron barrel. Next time Uesugi Teruhora doesn't know how much effort it will take to break in, and he may not even be able to break in.

The so-called blessing comes from misfortune, and misfortune comes from blessing. It is nothing more than this.

Another major event is that the food shortage predicted by Xiao Pingtai finally broke out.

The barley and wheat in the fields are all greened and eared, and it will take at least a few months for the crops in the fields to grow. But up and down, almost the entire remaining food supply in Kanto has been exhausted.

This year's feng shui is pretty good, the rain is coming and the sun is coming. But last year's drought was unbearable and the counties were connected across the state. At the beginning of the year, there was a violent war in Guandong.

Nowadays, even the prosperous town of Yamauchi Fuchu is beginning to suffer from food shortages. Fortunately, last year Yamauchi Yoshiharu was still considerate and did not sell food to outsiders. Now the people of the Shanuchi Army, big and small, have taken advantage of it again. They have two coins in their hands. They can barely survive and can survive.

Xiaopingta just inquired about the prices of daily necessities, mainly grains, on the market, and knew that the crazy miso price increase frenzy was approaching.

When the four parties in Kawanakajima were fighting fiercely, Sukezaemon, who stayed in the mountain, began to cooperate with Koheita's operations.

Since most of the necessary materials were purchased a year ago, the soybeans purchased alone amounted to more than 20,000 shi, as well as thousands of shi of salt, as well as a small amount of wheat, koji, wine, beans, and dogwood.

The men in the mountains put on armor, carried guns, rolled grain in carts, and went to the front line. However, the samurai women in the town did not have to go out to fight, and they had no land to cultivate. Previously, government-run handicraft workshops had recruited some people, but there were still hundreds of women from the Wu family who could only take care of their children at home.

This time Sukezaemon even saved money, using the cheap grains he brought from the West to hire people. The price of five pieces of fine wheat is offered every day, which is better than paying directly to attract people. If someone brings their own iron pot for use, add a few more refined wheat depending on the situation.

There was no work at hand, and many men and women from the town came to apply. With five pieces of shelled wheat, a strong man could eat enough for a day, let alone a woman.

Anyway, it was work, work for Sukezaemon, and earn a share of food for the children at home.

Hula la, a thousand people came. When everyone heard that they were making miso, they thought it was simple and what they thought they were doing. It turned out that it was just washing and brushing beans, carrying vats and buckets, drying koji and grinding fine salt.

What woman hasn’t done this? In the general environment of feudal society, housewives who could not cook or mend would be laughed at. Nowadays, they just make miso, which is very familiar to them.

Let’s start with a big pot. We don’t have advanced gadgets like pressure cookers. The method used today is to boil it hard in a large pot, using clean mountain spring water and soybeans for more than four hours. At the same time, the soybeans must be stirred continuously during the cooking process until the soybeans are cooked.

The boiled soybeans are put into wooden molds and pressed with stones and manpower to make bean cakes, while excess moisture is removed. In order to prevent mold, the bean cakes are hung up and exposed to the sun for two days.

There are hundreds of people along the entire river, all women scrubbing with straw brushes. The bean cakes must be washed repeatedly with running water to wash away the beany smell on them, and then they can be made into miso.

All the large animals in the mountain were drafted by Yamauchi Yoshinori to supply the logistics for the army of more than 20,000 people. Now there are no large animals to work on.

Anyway, manpower is not valuable, so Sukezaemon arranged for people to push the grinding by hand and smash it with a mallet to grind the coarse salt into fine grains and the fine grains into fine powder. Only fine powdered refined salt that does not stick to your hands when you put your hands into table salt is the best salt.

These businessmen in the old days still had business ethics. Although they oppressed cheap labor, the products they produced were indeed genuine and they were afraid of ruining their reputation.

When the moat of Kaijin Castle is almost dug, the miso here in Yamauchi is basically the same. A barrel of 30 liters is stored in a cool warehouse, waiting for it to slowly change and become a marketing product of Dongguo. Shinshu miso.

Sukezaemon's messenger also followed the Yamauchi family's military station, station by station, delivering the news to Xiao Heita on the front line. Let Xiao Pingtai know what's going on inside the mountain at any time.

After the army retreated to the mountain and rewards were given based on merit, Xiao Pingtai also began to manage this speculation.

The two of them retreated to the left and right, secretly staying in the Yue Ma Pavilion where there was no one around, but it was open on all sides, so no eavesdropping was possible.

“How much does a liter of miso cost?”

"No more than three dollars."

"On weekdays, the price is four to five yuan, which is really a small profit."

"Now Dansheng can make more money than profit." Sukezaemon couldn't see Kohira's hypocrisy at all.

Xiaopingtai waved his hand and turned his head. That's not what he said. According to history, the price of miso this year will soar to more than 17 yuan per liter. He is trying to relieve the people's difficulties.

The people in the interior are already short of salt, so the heavy-flavored Shinshu miso is a necessity for them, and it is also the most basic and low-level food requirement. If Xiaopingtai can be sold at a reasonable price, it will not be like solving the problem of people hanging upside down.

What's more, Shinshu's wheat and bean production is worth hundreds of thousands of koku a year, while Koheita's beans are only twenty thousand koku. With the introduction of miso, it would be a dream to suppress the miso market in Dongguo.

It is better to go all in and ship the goods at a price of ten or even twelve yuan per liter, so that the common people who suffer from high prices can slightly reduce their expenditures, which can also be regarded as benefiting the people.

"When are the bullets ready to be shipped?"

"Don't worry, the miso in other people's hands hasn't been cleared out yet. It's time to get in when the market is empty."

I don’t know when, Xiaopingtai also had the appearance of a ruler.