Wajima Prefecture.

Nara.

As usual, Kiyono finished his day's work on the farm and left home to have a drink at an izakaya not far from the village.

The fields in the countryside of Nara are full of peaches, and the scenery along the way is quite good.

As a supply base for agricultural and sideline products in the Ming Dynasty and a military recuperation base, the primary and tertiary industries have made great progress in recent years.

Unlike Shimonoseki and Hiroshima, Nara has a good port, which allows the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow to replenish their energy and relax.

Therefore, it can only focus on the development of agriculture and food processing industry.

Nara's peaches are famous far and wide.

A few years ago, poverty alleviation cadres from the Ming headquarters set up a fruit canning factory here.

Guoen brand canned fruit has become a leading local enterprise, and its products are supplied to various troops in the Shenzhou Theater and the Pacific Theater in large quantities.

However, the soldiers rarely called this canned food "Kunen canned", but called it canned Japanese peaches, or canned Nara food.

When talking about it, the faces of the warriors were somewhat disgusted, even unlucky.

This is because, compared with the various cans purchased by Zhu Fugui from later generations, the quality of Nara's canned food is poor and the taste is not good.

The cans in Nara that were distributed to the various companies often leaked air, water, and even rotted and deteriorated.

This is not that someone deliberately fooled the military department with inferior products, but that the process and production level really cannot be compared with later generations.

In fact, not only canned food, but also other military supplies, such as underwear, insoles, and socks produced by Wajima, have a poor reputation.

As a result, the military department did not purchase boots and belts that were directly related to combat effectiveness, but used all "high-quality goods" imported from later generations.

However, if Wajima wants to be stable, employment is also a must.

What's more, the boots produced by the Japanese were not worn by the Ming warriors, but the common people could still wear them, but they were really not good, and it was also a good choice to sell them to the Germans and Ottomans.

In short, the Japanese goods have basically become synonymous with inferior goods, and their reputation is only higher than that of German goods, and they are in the middle and lower echelons of the chain of contempt in the army.

Of course, this situation is not absolute.

For example, in Hiroshima, the special rice cooked by the Metropolitan Prefecture and the special rice cooked by the Ming Dynasty who were recuperating was still widely acclaimed.

Although the officers and soldiers generally responded that they couldn't understand what these old men were doing, and they didn't know whether they were cooking rice or dancing, they were still very relieved on the whole.

Spending a few hours watching the old man cook is a great way to soothe the minds of soldiers who have been traumatized on the battlefield.

Similar to it, there is some girly plum wine and the like.

These widows can always give the Ming masters a new trick and sweep away the fatigue accumulated on the battlefield.

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Kiyono Yohei doesn't have such superb skills, and he can't be a peach grower recognized by the Metropolitan Protectorate, just an ordinary farmer.

But he is very satisfied with his current life.

Although they were still busy in the fields every day, they were paid much more than they were for working for the daimyo and landlords in the past.

At least he now has spare money to go to an izakaya for a small drink every day.

By this time, it was getting dark.

A few Shiba Inu barked in the distance, and the sound of a night crow came from nowhere.

"What a spiritual crow!"

Looking up at the dim sky, huge crows were arranging their feathers on the branches, and Kiyono Yohei said to himself, "It's not a big crow flying from China, and the cry is also very loud!" ”

After walking for more than ten minutes, a little light came up in front of me.

This is the incandescent lamp brought by the old men of the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, it was only available in izakayas, but now it is also available on the streets.

Just like the life of the Japanese people, it is getting better day by day.

Kiyono couldn't help but think of the anti-Ming gang and the Amakusa Christian guerrilla army, which had disappeared in the past two years.

At that time, they were bewitched, but there were several people in the village who did not distinguish between right and wrong to join their arms.

Now the grass on the graves of these people is more than two feet high.

Master Ming is still kind-hearted.

If you want Qingye Yangping to say, these scum who disobey the heavenly soldiers, resist the redemption of the Ming Emperor, and go to praise the stinky feet of foreign bodhisattvas, should be violent corpses in the wilderness, and let the Chinese crows peck their bones to rot!

It's a pity that the goddess of the lantern in Shimonoseki, an expert in nursing and medicine in Daming, said that it is easy to cause a plague if so many corpses are exposed to the wilderness.

So the body was eventually burned and buried.

After all, Nara is not close to the sea.

Like Hiroshima, it is much easier to throw it directly into the sea.

Shaking his head, Kiyono stopped thinking about those idiots.

Although the densely populated area of the Wajima Prefecture has been electrified, the voltage is still extremely unstable.

The sizzling sound of the street lamps and the elongated shadows of the people flickered on and off.

【Liu Laogen food stall】

At this time, a large neon signboard appeared in front of Yohei Kiyono.

"Sbaras, Sbarassi, it's finally here!"

Yohei Kiyono happily found a spot and prepared to call the waiter.

Two years ago, Liu Laogen, from Daming Jinzhouwei, came to settle here, married the only daughter of the original izakaya owner, and then took over the izakaya business.

Although the style has changed a lot, in the eyes of regular customers, this Mingfeng izakaya is undoubtedly a notch.

Being able to marry his daughter to a Ming man is undoubtedly a matter of glory to the ancestors.

The owner of the izakaya is very proud of this, and he thinks that he is very polite and Chinese.

Ahh

Kiyono Yohei heard from the Ming poverty alleviation cadres who built the canning factory that this sentence was the self-proclaimed name of the Khitan people.

The Khitan called itself "Zhuxia", worshiped Xuanyuan on the top, worshiped Confucius, and the emperor claimed to be orthodox in the Tang Dynasty, "I repair cultural relics, and I am not different from China." ”

Yelu Dashi, a descendant of Khitan, established Western Liao, and once resisted the counterattack of the Semu people.

You are a Japanese who sells wine, but you just married a woman, why should you be treated the same as the Khitans?

Moreover, in private, everyone said that Liu Laogen was not a serious Ming master.

Because since the Manchus repaired the wicker edge, there are no Han people in Jinzhouwei.

Later, the side wall was briefly opened, allowing the Han people of Beizhili and Shandong to break into the eastern part of the country, but it was also urgently stopped because of the appearance of the Ming Dynasty.

So his son-in-law is probably a captive!

However, the owner of the izakaya insisted that his son-in-law's ancestor was from Guanning, and was later coerced by Zu Dashou to lurk in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Ahh

Yohei Kiyono is not uncommon to say.

But no matter how you talk about it, Liu Laogen Daming Zhengyin speaks really well, and he is a good teacher for those who study Daming Zhengyin nearby, try to take the civil service examination of the Duhu Prefecture, and even take the Daming Zhuka exam.

Even a farmer like Yohei Kiyono has learned a few words of the Great Ming Dynasty.

"Ouch mom, boss lady, give the nest a whole roasted leek! A small bottle of sake! Yohei Kiyono shouted and sat down under the shack.

"Hey!"

The proprietress is Liu Laogen's wife.

Yohei Kiyono glanced at it.

What a great beauty in ten miles and eight towns!

That's right, if you're not a beauty, how can you marry Master Daming?

Although it's just a second-hand master.