After returning to the castle, Chi Shangzhen felt that several of his own women in the family seemed to be a lot more sensible, all of them had the etiquette that Japanese women should have in this era, and they were all very well-behaved, even the most two-dimensional Baidi Shacai in the past was also a little woman.

Although Chi Shang Zhenyi was a little surprised by the changes in his several women, he didn't say anything, after all, he was quite satisfied with the way he looked now, and now he has the feeling of being a Japanese man, because a few women in the family were too jumpy, so he didn't experience the happiness of contemporary Japanese men at all, and now everything has changed, and he has finally become a Japanese man.

As soon as he had eaten the breakfast sent by Misa, Ikesho called Kumaji Yamada and Koji Iguchi from the castle and began to ask about the things he had confessed when he left, and if anything else had happened during this time.

"Nani, you said that the machinery factory in the United States will no longer accept our payment in Japanese yen in the future, so did they ship all the four soda production lines I ordered from them last time?"

A while ago, when Chi Shang Zhenyi went to the Great Smoky Mountains to participate in the exchange meeting of cultivators, he ordered four soda production lines from the American machinery factory that sold their canned food production lines, because he felt that there would definitely be a market for soda in the future, don't look at the Japanese people who are about to run out of food now, but he knew that this situation would not be long before it would change, because there would be an American bread rescue in the future, and the Japanese people who were used to eating bread would gradually accept the combination of bread and soda, so his soda would definitely sell well in the future。

(Historically, after Japan's surrender in 1945, the country fell into famine, when the Ministry of Agriculture and Water initially estimated Japan's domestic grain production at 8.4 million tons in 1945, but in fact Japan had only 6.45 million tons of grain in 1945.) Due to the erroneous estimation of grain reserves, by the time the time March 1946 arrived, there was already a large-scale famine in Japan, and people were often starving to death in the streets. ）

(There are only 6,450,000 tons of grain reserves, which have to support more than 70 million people in the country, and this base must also take into account the massive increase in the consumer population and the millions of army and navy personnel who have been withdrawn from overseas.) Due to the serious shortage of food, the Japanese government at that time had already prepared for the worst scenario of starving 10 million people to death, and in the end it was MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the US forces stationed in Japan, who was afraid that the famine in Japan would not be conducive to the US military's rule over Japan. MacArthur reported his reasons to the U.S. Congress, and finally made it clear that the U.S. Congress had agreed to provide food aid to Japan, and the support at that time was mainly wheat bread. ）

I heard my own adult's question. Koji Iguchi, who was in charge of this matter, hurriedly replied: "My lord, those Yankees were really going to detain our machinery, let us add money and then ship the goods, or exchange them for dollars, for this matter the subordinates communicated with them several times, but it was useless, and then the subordinates really had no choice but to go to Major General Hanks for help, and finally relying on the face of Major General Hanks, the batch of soda machinery production lines ordered by adults was shipped by those people, and the subordinates of the goods had been transported back from the dock the day before yesterday." It is now in the warehouse of the cannery. ”

Chi Shang really didn't expect that the yen was going to depreciate now, from Iguchi Koji's words, he heard that those Yankees were no longer willing to accept the yen in his hand, it seems that he wanted to spend the yen in his hand as soon as possible, this cherry blossom canning factory he opened these days has not made him less money, less than half a year has earned him nearly a million yen, if he didn't spend the money in a hurry to depreciate, then he would have lost a lot.

"The machine has been bought, and your preparations have been done like this, when will it be produced?"

Hearing his own adult's question, Koji Iguchi immediately raised his eyebrows. First of all, he ordered a batch of special soda bottles from Fuyuan Glass Factory, which has been cooperating with him, and the style of the review was completely in accordance with what his own adults said. The style is very novel, and these days he has accumulated more than half a million empty bottles for the factory.

Then Koji Iguchi also deliberately found a few mechanics from a veteran soda factory and asked these people to start mixing fruit-flavored soda.

"Back to the adult, the subordinates have almost prepared, and the soda has been mixed except for four flavors, one original flavor. A pineapple flavor, an orange flavor, and another is the lychee flavor you said, the other three flavors are easier to find raw materials, and you can mix the same flavor with flavor, but the lychee flavor is not easy to mix, and the old workers of the soda factory recruited by the subordinates can't mix it at all. ”

And his subordinates also inquired about the fact that there seems to be no soda factory in the world that produces enough lychee-flavored soda, and finally his subordinates discussed with the old workers of the soda factory, if you must make the lychee-flavored soda you want, then our factory can only use the most cost-effective way, using fruit to boil concentrated fruit pulp to mix a high-cost soda. ”

In order to complete the adult's explanation, his subordinates inquired in many ways, and finally looked for lychees in Miyazaki Prefecture, but only a small number of local farmers planted lychees, and the number of fruit trees was not very large, and the subordinates estimated that even if all the lychees in Miyazaki Prefecture were purchased, they would not be able to make much concentrated fruit pulp, and they might not even be able to mix 100,000 bottles of lychee-flavored soda from these fruit pulps, and the cost was too high. ”

(Some book friends want to say that there was no lychee in Japan at that time, but this matter disappeared and carefully checked the information, and found that lychee has a history of many years in Japan, but the only place suitable for planting is the Satsuma Domain, (Miyazaki Prefecture) The rest of Japan except for the Satsuma Domain is not suitable for cultivation (except for modern times). ）

(According to the book "The Culture of the Satsuma Domain", it is known that the Satsuma Domain officially cultivated lychees in the second year of Manji (1659). In the fourth year of his reign (1688), the feudal lord Shinna Tokisheng also presented lychee seedlings to the feudal lord. ）

This lychee-flavored soda was specially assigned to Koji Iguchi to mix when Chi Shang Zhenyi decided to buy the soda production line, and he had a soft spot for lychees in his previous life, and now he has been reborn in Japan and has not eaten lychees for more than half a year, and he has long been hungry.

"Oh, you're really looking for lychees, it's a bit far away in Miyazaki Prefecture, but it's okay, you should be able to ship it to Tokyo soon after picking it and sealing it. Did you sign a purchase contract with those farmers?"

"The agreement has been signed for 10 years, and not many people in the local area know about the lychee fruit, and those farmers don't sell it very well, so it is easy for the subordinates to reach an agreement with all the farmers who grow lychees. From this year onwards, we will buy their lychees, and the price will be the same as that of rice. ”

Regarding Koji Iguchi's decision, Chi Shang Zhenyi is quite satisfied.

"That's right, it's not bad, the price is not very expensive and acceptable, since you said that lychees can't make much soda. Then make the good lychee into canned fruit, and the bad one is used to boil the fruit pulp and make soda, and then the bottles of these two products should be designed separately, and the design should be beautiful, and the price should be at least five times higher, as a high-end luxury product. ”

Koji Iguchi, who was kneeling below, was a little stunned when he heard his own adult's words, he didn't expect his own adult to be so dark, and he actually raised the price of this lychee product so high, so would anyone buy it?

"My lord, isn't this price a bit expensive? I'm afraid the general public won't accept it. ”

Chi Shang Zhenyi, who drank tea gently, naturally understood Koji Iguchi's worries, but he wanted his own considerations, he didn't expect ordinary people to accept such a high price, he planned to use this lychee flavor as the flagship product of the Sakura brand, and enter the high-end market with lychee flavor.

"It doesn't matter if it's expensive, ordinary people can't afford it, naturally some people will buy it, don't look at the famine everywhere in Japan now, but there are still a lot of rich people, and those of them won't care about these small money. ”

Koji Iguchi won't refute his own adult's decision, after all, he still knows his duty as a subordinate.

After asking myself about Koji Iguchi. Chi Shang turned his head to Kumaji Yamada, who was kneeling on the other side.

"Yamada, has something happened in the castle in the past few days since I left?"

Kumiji Yamada, who had been kneeling and waiting, saw that his adult finally asked him and hurriedly said, "Nothing happened in the adult castle during the time you left, everything is normal, but a visitor came the day before yesterday. It was the former Prime Minister Kishigero Bihara, and after knowing that the adult was not in the castle, he told his subordinates that the adult should call him as soon as he came back, and it seemed that there should be something urgent. ”

Ji Shang really didn't expect that he would come to him, needless to say, Kishigero Bihara, he has already dealt with the other party several times. Although the other party is no longer the prime minister, the momentum is not bad at all, if it weren't for the black cauldron, he should still be the prime minister now

Although he didn't know why Kishigero Bihara visited him, Chi Shang really knew that it would definitely not be easy for the other party to find him, otherwise he wouldn't let him come back and call immediately, and he was also a little curious about this.

After asking about the few days since he was away from the castle, Ji Shang Zhenyi began to explain the task again.

"I plan to build a fence with bluestone outside this lake, completely enclose the lake, and then build a few more corner towers on the outer wall, so that the guards in the castle can also be moved out, now the number of people in this castle is a bit too much, I look a little inconvenient, and then just build up the staff dormitory building on the side of the can, this matter Yamada is responsible for recruiting and managing workers, and the wellhead is responsible for the provision of those building materials, and then the other four people assist the two of them, the six of you coordinate well, and build this wall and the staff dormitory building as soon as possible, I want to complete it within this year, it doesn't matter if you recruit more people, anyway, the labor on the market is very cheap now." It doesn't cost a few bucks. ”

The six people in the room hurriedly answered what their adults ordered.

"Hey, please rest assured, your subordinates will definitely do what your adult tells you as soon as possible. ”

Just when Chi Shang was really trying to assign tasks to his subordinates in the castle, in a large mansion in Yukimachi, Kojimachi, Tokyo, Kishigero Bihara was walking around the courtyard with a frown, obviously in a very urgent mood, and he couldn't even care about standing on the dirt on his white cotton socks.

Things can't help but be anxious, since he was politically attacked by his political rival Shigeru Yoshida half a month ago and was pulled down from the position of prime minister, it didn't take long for him to find that his family had changed, first of all, his wife Masako fainted at home for no reason, and then his eldest son Bihara Shigeo, the second son Bihara Yuko, and the youngest son Bihara Koji all fainted one after another.

Kishigero Bihara's first reaction to this incident was that someone poisoned him, otherwise where would there be such a coincidence, a family of four fainted one after another, but when he brought the doctor to the family to examine it carefully, he found that there was no one at all and no signs of poisoning, but it was caused by weakness and malnutrition.

For the doctor's examination results, Bihara Kishigero can't accept it, he doesn't believe that his wife and son are weak, although now there are people everywhere outside who can't eat, and even there are many people starving to death on the streets, but as a former prime minister, how can he make his family hungry, not to mention anything else, that is, they can only rely on his wife Masako to feed the whole family, because his wife is the fourth daughter of Yataro Iwasaki of the Mitsubishi Foundation, and the dividends in his hands are enough for their whole family to spend.

Since he was sure that it was not the doctor who said that he was weak and malnourished, then why did his family all faint, Kishigero Bihara was a little puzzled, and finally after thinking about it and removing all the possibilities, he suddenly remembered whether someone was using some spell to harm him.

This thought made Kishigero Bihara break out in a cold sweat, you must know that he has seen those supernatural abilities, those abilities are extremely weird, if you want to secretly harm a person, it is too simple, you don't need to see people to make people die.

Following this idea, Kishigero Bihara slowly shifted the object of suspicion to Shigeru Yoshida, who seized his position as prime minister.,He can't understand this political enemy.,The other party is completely incompatible with him.,It's normal to want to restrain him to death.,After all, the relationship between the Liberal Party behind the other party and the democracy behind him is very bad.,And the relationship between the other party and him is also very bad.。

Kishigero Bihara knows that his political rival Shigeru Yoshida has completely defected to the Americans, and the Mitsubishi consortium that supports him has just been dismembered by the other party last year and split into a number of small companies, so it is too normal for such a grudge to become a mortal enemy, and the most important point is that at present, the only person in the entire Democratic Party of Japan who is qualified to fight for the next prime minister is Kishigero Bihara, and if something happens to him, the democratic parties will completely stand aside. (To be continued.) )