Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 76 Don’t let yourself be wronged!
"Master Hiyoshi!"

Yuanye had just walked out of the room after getting up in the morning and hadn't even finished stretching when two maids of seven or eight years old knelt down in the corridor and bowed to him to greet him. Besides being respectful, they were also a little scared, just like Yayoi when she first met him - these two maids were picked out from the eighty-nine "unlucky townspeople" he had bought as scapegoats, a total of five of them, and now were under the management of "Bureau Head" Yayoi, the inner housekeeper, and were not familiar with him at all. It was probably because he got up late today and Yayoi had other things to do, so he let them wait here.

But when talking about these eighty-nine "unlucky townspeople", he was filled with tears!
It had been several days since he ran back from Kuno Castle and he had not had a moment of leisure. In order to accommodate these eighty-nine "unlucky townspeople", he was so worried that he even had to write a long letter to Oda Nobunaga, so that he could borrow a piece of wasteland to build shacks for these people so that they would have a temporary place to sleep. Fortunately, he and Oda Nobunaga had fought two battles and had a good relationship, otherwise he would not even know where to put these eighty-nine people.

Other things like treating their diseases and removing parasites, organizing them to take baths in batches to eliminate lice, buying them change of clothes, calming their panicked emotions, making simple personal files for them, assigning work to them according to their abilities and physical strength, etc. It was a lot of trivial things to talk about in detail. It took him several days to finish all of them. He was almost exhausted.

This was really asking for trouble. It would have been much easier and more convenient to hire people, but he ended up buying a bunch of "old, weak, sick and disabled" people. Ah Man kept laughing at him for this, but he didn't regret it...

At least, there are more people who have no regrets than those who have regrets.

After all, he still wants to be a human being, and to be a human being he must insist on something. He has seen innocent people being sold to mine or to be sold as prostitutes, so he should lend a helping hand to the best of his ability and try to do the right thing, even if it seems stupid in A-man's eyes, he still has to do it.

Just ...

If you want to persist, you have to pay a price. His expenses have suddenly skyrocketed, and the number of people eating at home has increased from seven to nearly a hundred. If he didn't have a lot of money and the soy sauce workshop he opened was not profitable, he could have declared bankruptcy now.

For this reason, A'man has been mocking him these past few days, thinking that he just has too much money to burn. It is obvious that each person can only grab a handful of beans, but he insists on feeding everyone. It is a complete waste and extremely stupid. In front of Yuanye, she told A'qing in a "low voice" that he could hear, to keep a close eye on the donkey at home and not let the donkey kick his head again, otherwise he will only become more and more stupid.

Yuanye put up with it. After all, he had just adapted to this era, and his "common sense" was still not enough. Sometimes he was bound to be confused. Now he couldn't do without Aman, this wild child. He could only wait until he could really handle this unfortunate era with ease in the future, and then he would severely cure her bad habits!

In short, time travel is really difficult. It is already difficult to maintain the bottom line as a human being, and you still have to endure the humiliation. This is not a job for human beings!

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Yuanye had just woken up in the morning and his mind was still not clear. He saw the two maids actually thinking about how to deal with the wild child Aman in the future, without even saying "no need to do that" to the two maids - he had already surrendered. These eighty-nine "unlucky townspeople" had now all become his family members, or servants, and would immediately serve him with great courtesy when they saw him. If he repeatedly refused, he would not have to do anything all day long and could just say "no need to do that".

He pretended not to see anything and went to wash up in a daze. The two maids followed him closely as if they were afraid that he would run away, and nervously helped him pour water and get kapok towels and other things. The new "head of the bureau" Yayoi also arrived soon and served him breakfast personally.

After washing his face, Yuanye became much more sober. While eating, he asked casually, "Where's A-Man?"

Yayoi rolled up her sleeves and carefully helped him set the table. She said softly, "Sister Aman took people out early. She said she was going to buy some jars and bring a few carts of bean cakes as well."

Oh, by the way, I think I talked to her yesterday. Did she go so early?
Yuanye was busy in the laboratory until most of the night yesterday. He was so groggy when he woke up in the morning that he forgot to assign work to Aman. Now he feels a little embarrassed when he thinks about it - Aman is a wild child with a lot of bad habits. She always talks nonsense for no reason and is very annoying, but she has no problem doing her work. It is reassuring to send her to do something. It seems that he cannot be too stingy, and there is no need to punish her severely in the future.

He remembered Ah Man again and considered letting her off the hook in the future. He finished his meal and was about to leave, but when he saw the two maids still huddled aside, he hesitated and told Yayoi, "The house will be renovated soon, so you don't have to let them clean up all day. You can teach them to read when you have time... And you should also pay more attention to the food in the workshop. Don't listen to Ah Man's nonsense. Give them enough food and more salt. It's okay to eat brown rice when there's heavy work. We don't need to save this little money."

This is a lesson learned from the past, and we must pay attention to food.

Quan Kaka gave Kong Shun 15000 yuan in food allowance, and served him a feast of fish and meat, but Kong Shun attacked. The car didn't stop and he jumped down like dumplings, one faster than the other. Everyone hit him with six sticks per second, and each stick left an afterimage, making the people of Gwangju scream.
Yin Kaka cut the soldiers' food allowance to 3000 yuan, and they ate kimchi and radishes for every meal. As a result, when the soldiers attacked, six of them cooperated to climb through the ordinary windows on the first floor. Each of them seemed to be under a spell of slowness, and it took them 178 seconds to get half of their left leg in. An -year-old man could climb faster than them.

This is a lesson learned from the past. You can save anything but food expenses. Even if your subordinates are just workers and not soldiers, you must not listen to A-Man and say that everyone can eat a handful of beans a day as long as they don't starve to death. Yayoi is now more or less a person of some importance. She is in charge of more than a dozen women in the kitchen who are responsible for cooking. This is also her job. She nodded lightly and said seriously, "Yes, Master Saburo, I understand."

Yuanye thought about it and felt that there was nothing else to do at home, so he got up and went to take a look at the soy sauce workshop.

Now the scale of the workshop is expanding, and it is no longer appropriate to place it in his own yard. It happened that he had previously written to Oda Nobunaga to borrow a piece of wasteland, so he moved the workshop there and is now building a wall around it.

As soon as he went out, A Qing followed him silently. He didn't care and went straight to the workshop. After a rough look around, he didn't find any problems. He told the Taojing brothers to continue working hard with their people, brewing soy sauce while working, and to find A Man if he needed anything. Then he ran back home and plunged into his own laboratory.

He had already prepared his "life improvement plan" long ago, but Oda Nobuhide died suddenly and unrest broke out in Owari, so he was unable to start implementing it. Now that peace has been temporarily restored in Owari and there are no more personal safety issues, of course he has to improve his living conditions as soon as possible - he can't even brush his teeth now, it's too miserable.

He stayed in there for another day. When it got dark, Yayoi would invite him out for dinner, but he would ask to wait a little longer. He did this for three days. When the soy sauce workshop resumed production, he finally completed his first improvement: he used the soy milk method to purify the coarse salt into refined salt.

He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he finally didn't have to eat beige coarse salt anymore, which obviously contained excessive heavy metals and had strange colorful reflections on close inspection. He shouldn't turn into an old man so early - he used to think that the bald Jubei was over fifty years old, but later he found out after asking that the old guy was just suffering from premature aging and was actually only in his early forties.

The same thing happened to Yayoi's father, Jikuro, who always thought he was in his early forties, but he was actually only thirty-three.

Therefore, he seriously suspected that there was something wrong with the crude salt from medieval times in Japan. The heavy metal content exceeded the standard to a serious extent, and was almost like poison. That's why he gave priority to purifying the crude salt and letting his own family eat it first to avoid the tragedy of someone not being beaten to death by others but dying from eating salt.

Of course, this purification technology may be useful in the future. If he moves to the seaside and develops salt fields one day, this snow-white refined salt can be considered a high-end product, and he will probably make a lot of money.

After he got the refined salt, he tried to deodorize soybean oil, but failed. The deodorization technology of soybean oil was not available in the 16th century. There were too many equipment and compounds, and the bean smell could not be removed. So he turned to look for peanuts, but no one had seen peanuts after asking around. It was estimated that peanuts had not yet been introduced to Japan. In the end, he had no choice but to choose from the oils currently available on the market.

He first tried sesame oil, but the taste was a little off, and he was not used to it. Sesame oil was not very suitable for cooking, and it would easily burn the bottom of the pan. He tried other rare oils such as almond oil, Xanthium oil, and fish oil, but none of them was suitable. Finally, he had no choice but to rack his brains to mix sesame oil, ragweed oil, and sesame oil to make a blended oil. It finally tasted a bit like peanut oil in later generations, and it was barely acceptable.

He already had salt and oil, vinegar, and he was producing his own soy sauce, so he had no shortage of it. The only thing left was spiciness, but he couldn't find any chili peppers. However, he had the medicinal herb Sichuan pepper, and dogwood was also a bit spicy, so he could make do with it.

Cooking utensils such as iron pots and shovels were even easier to deal with. After all, he had money now. He could just draw the patterns and ask the blacksmith to make them for him. He didn't have to worry too much about it.

Food is almost solved, and then there are toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, toilets, showers, and summer is coming soon, so we need to quickly draw up a plan for the central air conditioning and prepare for construction...

Anyway, he did nothing for most of the month, and was just messing around with these daily necessities of the later world. After all, the ancient times were really too shitty. He didn't know how other time travelers could endure it and live happily, but he couldn't stand one thing. He couldn't stand eating either roasted or boiled, he wasn't used to squatting in the dry toilet, and he wasn't used to Yayoi always wanting to come in and add hot water for him when he was taking a bath...

Anyway, there are a lot of things he can't get used to, so he wants to turn this place into a place where he can live a normal life, even if it takes some energy and time to do so.

This is what people should do, adapt to the environment, change the environment, and pursue a better life with their own hands!

What's more, he is so unlucky that he has traveled back to the medieval times of Japan, so he cannot let himself down!
(End of this chapter)