Chapter 260 35. Xinzhou Flavor Increases and Becomes Extinct

"You didn't bring any money?" Chen San spread his hands, indicating that he had no money.

Xiao Pingtai glanced at Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, no need to look, the young master never went out without money.

"Brother, brother. Did you bring money?" Xiao Pingtai looked at Hosokawa Cainu with a licking face.

"Don't shout nonsense, I'm not your brother." Although she was very repulsive, Hosokawa Cainu still gestured to her family, and the old family member immediately understood.

"Danzheng is about to become a new son-in-law, why does the family need to borrow six coins." The old family member muttered and counted out six Yongle coins from a small cloth bag.

Matsumi Sai, who was standing nearby, heard it clearly and couldn't hold back his laughter. He quickly covered his face with his sleeves and laughed out loud.

The old man laughed, and those who were close to him could hear it clearly, and they didn't cover it up, and laughed out loud.

Hosokawa Saijo was smart this time. Seeing these people laughing, she ignored them, waved her whip, and ran away. She didn't waste any words with these men and hid quickly.

Kobayata took the money and handed it to the farmer.

The man took the money with many thanks and quickly filled a bamboo basket with two liters of beans. Tatsuzo was carrying a straw bag, so Kobayata asked everyone to pour the beans into the straw bag and carry it all the way.

Everyone set off again. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Matsumi Sai discussed the drought this year, while Kobayata took a closer look at this year's soybeans. The grains were not too full and the size was not as big as in previous years. It was indeed affected by the drought.

"Shinshu, do you know what Shinano's largest export product is?" Kobayata asked for no reason.

"The products of Shinano, horses, gold, raw silk, black beans, barley, buckwheat, rice, wood, medicinal materials, so many!" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu seemed to be reciting in his mind.

"No, no, no, not these, it's the kind of products that are handmade and sold to various countries!" Xiao Pingtai didn't mind saying a few more words.

"What is it?" "You are talking about Shinshu miso, right?" Old man Matsumi Sai stroked his beard and said with a smile.

"That's right! Shinano's golden war horses are famous throughout the country, but it is miso that is really sold to various countries! What the old man said is very true!" Xiao Pingtai flattered him.

"Xiao Pingtai, what's wrong with miso? Is there any problem?" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu also reflected. Miso is almost one of the most ordinary, common, ordinary and cheap foods in the lives of Japanese people. No matter what kind of people, there is always a bucket of miso in their homes to eat from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

"Miso? Ha! There is a big problem with miso this year!" Xiao Pingtai handed the soybeans in his hand to the two people.

"Well, the beans this year are not good!" The old man used to farm when he was young, it's not shameful, it's not uncommon for poor samurai to farm. He could tell at a glance that the quality of soybeans in Shinano this year was not as good as in previous years, and it was not satisfactory.

"The irrigation and water conservancy of farmland in the Yamanouchi area is complete, but most of them have reduced production and harvested nothing. The war in northern Shinano is now raging, and the village has been defending the country for years, fighting with the Takanari clan, the Shimazu clan, and the Suda clan. I'm afraid that the soybeans in northern Shinano are not just reduced in production, they are probably all harvested!" Xiao Pingtai said with great certainty.

"What does Tanzheng mean? There will be no beans for Shinshu miso next year? There will be no miso to eat in more than ten countries in the East next year?" Matsumi Sai had already heard everything Xiao Pingtai meant.

"The old man is really wise! The Shinshu miso sold in more than ten countries in the East will be completely unproduced next year!" Xiao Pingtai said such a big thing that could affect the lives of millions of people so lightly.

Here is a digression. Miso can be divided into sweet miso and spicy miso. Due to the warm climate in the west, the people's eating habits are relatively light, so the popular white miso, such as Kyushu miso, is light.

Where is this sweet miso produced? It is destined by heaven!

The best soybean variety in Japan is "Fukuho soybean"! It is produced in Saga, Saga Prefecture. In the Warring States period, this place was called Ryuzoji Domain in Hizen Province. The local lords were Ryuzoji Takanobu and Naoshige Nabeshima. With this special product marketed in the west, wasn't the rise of the Ryuzoji family destined by heaven?

The great writers and scholars who are high above certainly don't care about the small soybeans dug out of the muddy ground. They always say that the people of Kyushu resisted the rule of the Otomo clan, that the spread of Christianity brought iron cannons and foreign guns, that the Nanman trade gained huge wealth, and that Ryuzoji was strong and good at fighting.

Just be happy!

In fact, the rise of the Ryuzoji family was due to the miso made from soybeans sown in the summer and harvested in the autumn by the humble farmers who worked hard with rotten teeth at two or three sen per liter.

The huge income brought by the monopoly of miso supported the 50,000-man army of Ryuzoji Takanobu, the governor of the five states and two islands of Hizen no Kuma!

Soybeans destined the rise of Ryuzoji Takanobu!

Apart from the Western Kingdom, the Eastern Kingdom has a cold climate, especially in Echigo and Ou, where it is possible to be minus 20 degrees in winter, so the people eat relatively heavy food.

This Shinshu miso is the most outstanding representative of the spicy miso in the entire Eastern Kingdom. Barrels of miso are produced in Shinano, and then transported by local merchants to the cold Mitsukoshi and Ou, as well as the densely populated Kanto Plain.

Now Shinano has experienced an increasingly severe drought. In the short term, even the wheat and barley that are about to be sown may be affected and a large area of ​​harvest failure!

Not to mention this soybean!

Although Xiaopingtai had a completely clear understanding of the general direction of the world after traveling through time, it was a pity that he had no impression of floods, droughts, earthquakes and landslides.

The drought that started this summer had actually reminded Koheita, but at that time, he was busy setting up match ropes, persimmon lacquer, and feudal lord reserves. He just felt that the weather was hot, and Xiaoheita had no connection with soybeans, let alone miso.

Now, after seeing the actual harvest in the fields, I finally realized that next year many people in the East Kingdom will have a really "mundane" year.

For millions of people, this is very bad news, but what about Xiao Pingtai, who has already foresighted and discovered the problem? That is nothing short of great good news!

How could a small local businessman and a single miso-making farmer in Shinano have the connections and financial resources to mobilize food supplies across Japan? Even if they also discovered at the same time that Shinano's soybean production had declined, there was nothing they could do.

And who is Xiaopingtai? Are the big businessmen from Kyoto and Sakai connected? There was a drought in Shinano-kai, Eastern Province, but there was no drought in Western Province and Kinki. We have a bumper harvest this year, and there are mountains of white rice in Sakai!

Xiaoping Tai has a plan in mind!

"Xinshu, have you ever heard of futures?"