Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 12 Penicillium culture

Hachiro got up early the next day to greet Ukita Nao's family and expressed his wish to send Jin Guangsheng's younger brother to Guangzhen Temple to study together, and Nao's family agreed.After that, Hachiro hurried to the samurai lodging house in Okayama Town to find Akikami Hisaya and Monk Xuanzhu, and asked them to bring the 500-gun small gold sentence rewarded by rest to Okayama Town to purchase the materials needed to make penicillin.

Hachiro first handed over a drawing of a wooden barrel with a mouth at the bottom and a piston device similar to a faucet, and a drawing of purification racks with 5 rows and 6 rows of purification racks to Akigami Hisashi, and asked him to find the best carpenter in Gangshan Town to build 3 Group, and then go to a nearby farm to get a lot of citrus.Then he asked Fujido Gaohu to order no less than 5 ceramic funnels and no less than 50 flat-bottomed ceramic cups and saucers, and asked Gao Hu to have matching lids.

After the two took orders to leave, they brought Master Xuanzhu to Xiaoxiwu in the city.Japan's Warring States period is actually a Japanese-style feudal guild.It originated from the privileged group of the same industry with the public and temples as its headquarters, and the bureau collected seat service and seat money from the seat.However, no matter in the East or the West, similar guilds do not seem to exist in every rural bunker.

This kind of guild is actually similar to the nature of multiple regions. Large merchants who sell different commodities organize together under the protection of local lords, and sell or trade the materials they purchase from lower-level merchants.In today's words, it is: native product dealers.

These merchants have wider knowledge and wider avenues, and can purchase a large amount of materials more conveniently.

Some chain stores can even transship the materials needed by consumers from other towns. Most of them are not responsible for production themselves, but are just porters of goods.

They will regularly pay a fixed contribution to the lord to ensure that the lord allows them to trade in their territory. Of course, sometimes, if the lord is in urgent need of money, they will also ask for special sponsorship.

The city is similar to the current self-employed. In the past when the industry was underdeveloped, many craftsmen used their own family workshops to produce the materials needed for people's lives, or the rural landlords collected the special products of the village and brought them to the nearby castle town of the lord to fix them. Regional sales.

Some self-employed individuals with better reputations and higher incomes will have fixed shops like seats, while poorer self-employed individuals can only set up stalls to sell in places designated by the lord, but all of the above belong to the scope of the city. The goods brought into the market every day are handed over to the lord in proportion.

Having said so much, it can be summed up in terms of modern business science: the city is the foundation of the building, and the building is the upgraded form of the city.The formation of the seat requires a long history, extremely convenient transportation, and the policy of the lord to form it. Not all cities in Japan have seats.

Most of these hit the main castle of daimyo, or the town of a country's traffic arteries.And the city is a big city with a big name, and a small city with a small lord. No matter how big or small, you need to pay taxes to the lord.

Here, I actually want to complain about another Warring States novel that is more popular than mine on this site. As an important throat castle in the north of Musashi, you Musashi Matsuyama Castle indeed guards the mountains in the west and controls the river in the east. It is an important transportation hub for Ueno to pass through Musashi.

But the original lord of your Matsuyama Castle was Namba Tammasa. Even though you are an important minister of the Ogiya Uesugi family, you are only the lord who owns 3 koku of Saitama. What qualifications do you have to set up a seat under Matsuyama Castle?How can a big businessman ignore you, a rural local tyrant with as many dogs as dogs in the Warring States Period of Japan!
As for Matsuyama Castle, which has not undergone the great development of Kanto in the Edo period, it is not bad to have a few regular merchants in the castle town. Does your ruined castle have any specialties? Why do big merchants set up special offices on your side? Woolen cloth?Why did you promulgate the Lezuo Leshi decree?
In addition to "Le Zuo Le Shi", there is another embarrassing part of the novel, that is, the protagonist who travels through Japan will always propose the separation order of soldiers and peasants in the early stage, saying that the soldiers are more valuable than the elite, and the lord is shocked as a heavenly man. The plot of directly giving your family old treatment and rewarding your territorial knowledge is also extremely entertaining.

You, a little P kid who lived in China in the 21st century with no more than 5 fights, discussing the separation of soldiers and peasants with an old fried dough stick who has been fighting bad debts for decades?Do you think people are unwilling to separate soldiers from peasants?
The original samurai in Japan were the existence of the separation of soldiers and peasants. In the Spring and Autumn Period in China, only soldiers were eligible to go to the battlefield.Ordinary savages are not even qualified to play for our country.But with the expansion of the scale of the war, the destruction of Japan's normal economy, and more importantly, with the success of the people's maritime warfare, the cost of raising 10 warriors who used to play one warrior may now have reached 1.

And can this standard samurai wearing a 1-piece armor, a samurai sword, a heavy rattan bow, and a red spear on his shoulder reflect the combat power of one against ten in an enlarged war?
In other words, assuming that a 10 koku master can support 200 standard warriors in the face of economic destruction, whether these 200 elite warriors can fight 2000, 3000, or even 5000 in the frontal battlefield is only a small part The samurai is attached to a semi-professional team composed of a large number of ashigaru with a small amount of equipment?

Not to mention that it takes 20 years to train a samurai, but it only takes one month to train an ashigaru who can use iron cannons. With one shot, the 1-year-old samurai will be reimbursed.The expansion of battles during the Warring States Period in Japan is just like the expansion of wars during the Warring States Period in China.In the final analysis, the reason why Wei Wuzu, who was originally invincible in Wei State, was eliminated was because of the lack of cost performance.The ancient people did not have as much knowledge as your modern people, but they are not stupid and can settle accounts.

After writing so many complaints, I only hope that in the future, I will also be a history author, and stop writing novels with a domineering air. Respect history, respect readers, and even more respect yourself.

———Okay, take———

Okayama Town has been an important port in the western part of Japan since ancient times, and it also sits at the core of the Chinese streets.In addition, the iron ore of Mizusa is shipped directly from Okayama Town to all parts of the country. In addition, Mizusa is also famous for its specialty of pottery.Although it is a handicraft of the Stone Age, it is very difficult to achieve the ultimate, otherwise it will not be passed down to this day.

And Okayama Town, which is an affiliated town of Ukido Honjo.Needless to say, the policy is tilted, only the transportation, specialty products, and policies are ready, and the big businessmen are willing to give you a fixed protection fee every year to open a business under your protection!

Ba Zero and Master Xuanzhu entered Xiaoxiwu, old acquaintances, see you every year, Xiaoxilong, a wealthy businessman in Xiaoxiwu, his son is the well-known head of Xiaonishi, and now he is the head of the navy team under the Zhijia tent, serving as the leader of the history. It was also this guy who sent Hashiba Hideyoshi to send Hachiro there.

Ronzo Konishi was born as a Harima drug dealer, and he became a big businessman across Bizen, Harima, Takamatsu, and Sakai step by step. Takamatsu approached him in the hope that he could use it to buy test tubes and rubber tubes from Portuguese merchants in Sakai.But halfway through, I remembered that the rubber tube was not invented by the Americans until 1826.

And Hachiro has no reason to ask Konishi Yukio to transport rubber trees from Lu Song for the sake of penicillin.After thinking about it for a moment, I can only temporarily change the drawing, and refer to the principle of the water clock in the country to narrow the gap in the test tube to control the flow rate. At that time, I will use silk cloth as a soil method for drainage.

So after Hachiro handed over the drawings to Xiao Nishi Longzuo and told him that he wanted Nanban's transparent tube, Xiao Nishi Longzuo promised to help Hachiro inquire after returning to Sakai.After dealing with the procurement of supplies, Todo Takatora bid farewell to Hachiro and went to Hachimoto Shomoto, while Xuanzhu took Hachiro and the Akigami Hisami family who had been removed from the establishment back to Guangzhen Temple. Of course, after that, Todo Takatora I would often go to Guangzhen Temple to discuss matters related to the practice with Monk Xuanzhu.

After returning to Guangzhen Temple, Hachiro can start the preliminary preparation of penicillin.The first thing to do is the cultivation of Penicillium and Staphylococcus aureus.Penicillium is okay, I visited the purchased citrus together with the leaves falling from the mountain at the back of Guangzhen Temple in a small room protected from light and humidity, and there happened to be a place where passers-by rested by the mountain spring behind Guangzhen Temple, which was directly requisitioned by Hachiro .

After enlarging and widening the eaves and reducing the light-transmitting surface, a basket of mixed citrus was put in, at least for a month, and Staphylococcus aureus needed Qiu Shangjiu's family to cut a few wounds after capturing a few wild rabbits Later, after letting it inflame and fester, the carrion was taken out from the wound for cultivation. The flat-bottomed ceramic teacup that Fujido Takatora bought at the beginning was a low-end petri dish.

So what about the thermostat?It is still a simple method, Hachiro remodeled a grocery store in the temple, and made a specific cabinet with shelves. Please let the shelves in the cabinet be exposed to the sun directly, and then put on several layers of bedding at night to ensure that the temperature does not drop too much. Fast forward to finally growing a successful strain after several failures.

The next step is to expand the strain.But at this moment, Hachiro remembered that he forgot to order tools such as tweezers and spatulas in Okayama Town. The scraper is easy to handle. You can use a copper spoon to flatten it as much as possible and replace it, but tweezers are irreplaceable and cannot be used as the last Let's touch it directly.There is no other way but to ask Qiu Shangjiu's family to go to a blacksmith to order a few tweezers immediately. At this stage, they can only temporarily replace them with copper spoons.

During the time when Hachiro cultivated the two molds, the tools he ordered were gradually delivered by the subordinates sent by Nishi Longzuo.

At the same time, Konishiya's hand generation also brought Hachiro Hachiro the final news from the front line of last month city. Since there were no reinforcements outside and no rice inside, Katsuhisa Nishi finally decided to use the remaining sons of Nizi's family, including himself. Ding Qiefu, at the cost of opening the city last month, in exchange for the preservation of the entire city's life, it is not the preservation of all members. Because of his behavior of repeatedly jumping back and forth between the Nizi family and the Maori family, the Maori family finally made the Maori family feel that He set an example and ordered him to follow Nizi Shengjiu to cut seppuku.

As a result, this incident became Shen Xiyuantong in the later adaptation of the script. Because he used to eat the salaries of two families at the same time, he couldn't bear to abandon any family as a reason for his righteousness in front of the city, and he directly became a loyal minister.As for the other samurai and farmers who saved their lives, they were all packaged up and rewarded to the retainers who participated in the conquest according to the rules of the Maori family. Compared with people, they are the first productive forces in the Warring States Period of Japan.

But Hachiro was eager to inquire about Shikanosuke's news, and the reply was that the Maori family offered 3000 shi to recruit Shikanosuke, and Shikanosuke had already agreed.Now it's a Maori retainer!
Hachiro was startled, and looked at the Akigami Hisa and the former Tachihara Hisakuna who were arranging the equipment in the house.I secretly wondered in my heart, "What kind of monsters and ghosts are the Nizi Fuxing people in this parallel world? All the former eachothers have been let go, even the eldest brother himself surrendered." '

But now that Yamanaka Yukimori has surrendered to Mori, Hachiro can only continue to prepare for the cultivation of the two bacteria in the spirit of soliciting.As a result, on the eve of the successful expansion and purification of the mold, Todo Takatora arrived and sent a message that silenced Hachiro and the other three.

Yamanaka Yukimori, who had already been recruited by the Mori family for 3000 koku, found an opportunity to contact Mori Terumoto and Kobayakawa Takakage in Beichu, and suddenly grabbed the red gun of the guarding samurai and was about to assassinate Mori Terumoto. Words of revenge for Nizi's family.Needless to say the ending, he was hacked to death by Hamoto's mother clothes.

A generation of famous ministers finally left with the lord.In history, Yamanaka Yukimori used this method to be loyal to the Nizi family. Instead, he was impressed by games and film and television works, and always thought that he died on the way of the Mori family's charge.

After Hachiro heard this news, he couldn't understand Shikanosuke's choice. You Shikanosuke would either not surrender. Since you have already surrendered, and since you have obtained the 3000 shi territory, why do you want to make a rebel assassination?

After all, from the moment you received the knowledge and practice, you had already betrayed the Nizi family, and you have nothing to do with the Nizi family. You are now a retainer of the Maori family, and you assassinated the lord as a retainer of the Maori family. This is not the same as betraying again Is it the master's house?

The peculiarity of Shikanosuke’s ideas deviates from the current samurai’s outlook on life. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that his choice is not accepted by everyone, so he will try to change him into Nizi’s family in various subsequent literary adaptations. The way of devotion is to fulfill the image of loyal ministers and righteous men artificially created by other people.And why Shikanosuke made this choice, perhaps no one will ever know.

(End of this chapter)