Santairiku Eiyuuki

"Hmm, it tastes good..."

Elquille was eating curry.

Completely, lately, it's fitted in the curry.

Usually, Elkühr was eating curry with Nan.

This isn't because Erkür likes Nan or anything, but because there's no rice.

I mean, if I have rice, I want to eat rice. I want to try it.

That is what Elquille is really about.

And Elquille...

Besides you and the sugar cane, Kunara, there was one more thing... ordering you to bring rice to the merchant.

What Elquille is currently eating...

It is a saffron rice made of that rice and a curry made by Kunara.

Elquille moves the spoon and screams like something is missing while eating it looking delicious.

"Yeah, delicious. It's delicious, but it's not... the rice I want to try... it's not..."

What's the difference?

Kunara and the head chef looked at each other, but it's always the case that Elquille is strange.

Stay away from the danger, son.

Still, the discomfort Erkühr feels...

This is the difference between rice varieties.

Rice commonly eaten in Japan is a variety called Japonica rice.

The rice grains are circular and characterized by strong stickiness.

Meanwhile, the rice that Elquille is now eating is a variety called indica rice.

It is characterized by elongated rice grains, weak viscosity, and crispness.

Indian rice accounts for 80% of the rice grown in the world, so Indian rice is more major globally.

In Japan, it was imported in large quantities as an emergency measure in the absence of rice due to the cold summer of 1993.

Most importantly, it didn't go with Japanese rice cooking methods and didn't seem to consume much.

Indica rice is suitable for culinary dishes such as curry, pilaf and paella.

Taking that into account, this is not a bad story because Indica rice may be more food and cultural suitable in the Lemurian Empire than Japonica rice.

For Elquille, it is certain that the man of previous life is someone else, but still inherits that memory.

It can't be unaffected.

It's a little dragging on the taste of a man of his past life.

"... well, can indica rice be recommended in my country? Maybe I won't take Japonica rice..."

I somehow understand the food preferences of the Lemurians.

Well, there's enough demand for Japonica rice for me to eat as porridge.

"First, you both have to study how to cook this cereal"

If I can't find a way to cook it that suits the mouth of the Lemurians, they won't eat it when I grow it.

That doesn't make any sense.

"Um... Your Majesty"

"Hmm, what's up, Carolina"

"This cereal...... it does taste good, but why does Your Majesty want to grow this?

Carolina, who was eating curry rice with Elquille, asks.

Carolina's doubts in particular.

"Um, well, there's a lot going on."

For once, to state in advance, Erkühl is not an asshole who sets up a national project for his nostalgia.

Probably.

I'm sure.

Probably...

may be...

"I think they said something rude... well, good. Carolina, you know what a harvest multiplier is?

"I haven't heard much about it...... read it. By the letter, is it a multiplier of the harvest?

"Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Actually, rice has a better yield ratio than wheat."

The staple food of the Lemurian Empire is wheat.

Wheat has the advantage of being less precipitated and can also be grown where the land is lean, but instead has a small harvest multiplier.

Most importantly, this harvest multiplier depends on plain, laborious, and climatic.

According to the material in the library of the Lemurian Empire, it is the most expensive and thirty times.

triple at the lowest value.

On average, it appears to be about eightfold.

Plain, climate-friendly, and thirty times more if intensive farming is carried out.

Plain place, unfavourable climate, triple if you don't take the trouble.

That's why.

It should be noted that while some places seem to be below double in record, wheat is not grown exactly in areas where the magnification is basically below triple.

On the other hand, rice seemed to have a harvest multiplier of fifteen times in Shimoda, Japan, and twenty-five times in Ueda, in the Heian era.

Considering that the wheat harvest multiplier of the Lemurian Empire is thirty times the head, it is quite a multiplier.

"And it's also a huge advantage that it's difficult to have a dysfunction of collaboration. Once for wheat, you have to give it a rest."

"Heh......" (not sure)

Carolina with a decent face.

Seeing such a carolina, Elquille laughed bitterly.

Note that rice does not suffer from continuous failure is an error.

To be precise, growing up in paddy fields is unlikely to cause continuous dysfunction.

By the way, why is very good rice not grown all over the world as grain?

Because grains called rice are very vulnerable to dryness and cold.

It's hard to make rice without more than a certain amount of precipitation, a river that serves as a source of water, and a warm climate.

For once, Erkühl is looking into a few candidates for places where he thinks he'll be able to grow rice...

Fulfill, you won't know if you can really do it or not unless you try.

"But, well, the biggest reason is risk aversion."

"Risk aversion, is it?

"Even if wheat disease is endemic, if rice is safe, famine can be prevented, right?

That's the biggest reason Elquille wants to introduce rice.

In other words, risk avoidance due to dispersion.

Most importantly, rice and wheat are not enough.

There's more... If you find soybeans, corn, potatoes, etc. soon, Elkür is going to introduce them.

But I haven't found it so far.

"Not really, you don't seem interested"

"... excuse me"

"No, it's good. It's not much fun."

Now, isn't that some funny story?

Elquille thought a little, but I can't think of any. Well, what's the matter...

Yeah, yeah. When Elquille was thinking, Carolina laughed happily.

"What's up?

"No, it's good because His Majesty seems to be taking it seriously into government"

"... well, it's directly linked to my food situation."

In the end, that's it.

Elquille won't bother if she doesn't have her own interests.

Because of their profits, they import a variety of crops.

It is all for gastronomy.

"... Um, Your Majesty. May I ask you one thing?

"What's up?

"... what is His Highness Hadrianus going to do?

Carolina asked Elquille in a low voice.

His Highness Hadrianus... I mean Hadrianus, Elkür's brother.

"There's nothing like it. I'm not particularly bad. Then there's nothing I can do."

"... but it is not too disrespectful not to come and say hello once after His Majesty has been crowned? Besides, I hear that tax increases are increasing the dissatisfaction of the nobles. Not like this..."

"Carolina!"

Elquille took control of Carolina out loud.

Carolina rushes to her mouth.

"... sorry, I said too much"

Carolina to shun.

Elquille speaks gently to Carolina like that.

"Don't worry. Even I think about it.... you think I don't have any ideas for free?

"... no"

"Right? Trust me. It's all on my hands."

Elquille said that and laughed then...

I narrowed my eyes and whined in a low voice.

"Sounds like it's time to screen it."

At that moment, a chill ran on Carolina's spine.

Because Erkühr... had a frightening, brutal face.

And at the same time, I feel a strange sense of security and a high heartbeat.

(Oh well...... is that why I like this guy)

Carolina isn't the only one.

Galphis, Christos, Lucanos, and even Darios.

It does not defy Elquille.

I can't resist.

And hold your peace of mind.

This brilliant, more cunning and brutal emperor than anyone else is all horrible.

And that's why everyone admires and feels safe.

He said he was a good man on his side.

"Your Majesty, it is a dessert"

"Ooh!! Is this... Melon?"

A large cut melon is brought in.

Melon is a favorite of Elquille.

"Hehe, I'll have it!!

Elquille contains a large cut melon in her mouth…

"Buh!!

I threw up.

Then I wash my mouth with a drink, stick my fingers down my throat and spit out everything in my stomach.

"To, Your Majesty? What the hell..."

Carolina raises a bewildered voice at the sudden eccentricity of Elquille.

Elquille walks silently to Carolina......

"You didn't eat the melon, did you?

"Yeah... not yet, but..."

"Right. That's good. But just in case. I'm sorry, forgive me if I piss you off any later."

"Oh, hey, what is it, geho, uhh..."

Erkühl sticks his finger in Carolina's throat and lets Carolina get all the stuff out of her stomach.

"Yes, the hell, uhh... what is it?

The discomfort caused by vomiting and the shame of putting things out in my stomach in front of my lover's eyes, and my anger at being suddenly made to vomit.

Various things get guzzled inside the carolina.

Erkühl responded briefly to Carolina's protest.

"Poison."