【Ding! Nizam Enters Meditation】

"What's on TV, is this true?"

Nizam finished his ramen and gulped down the soup, staring at the inside of the television.

NHK's late-night news program "American Hostages".

On the screen of the program, a bearded man is playing, waving the documents in his hand that have not yet been destroyed by the US Embassy, and generously and angrily denounces the United States.

"Yes...... However, this is a parallel universe thing. Each cosmic plane is a little different. ”

Nobunaga went to the edge of the rice cooker and filled half a bowl of rice.

"Hmm. The Persians of this world are really full of power. Nizam took a bite of salmon fillet, watched the TV and spoke impassionedly in Persian.

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The meal goes into a meditative state, which is a mystery eater who is biased towards civil officials.

For mysterious diners who have traveled through time and space, the [Yangquan Restaurant] system not only gives information on language, tableware, and social common sense, but also expounds the multiverse theory to each mystery diner.

This saves a lot of trouble.

If every mysterious eater had to explain at length, Nobunaga would die of exhaustion.

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"Try this."

Nobunaga Hato's rice is added to the ramen noodle soup.

This is the traditional way of eating Sapporo ramen.

The flavor of miso and lard stock in the noodle soup blends perfectly with the rice grains, and the aroma of animal fat spreads in the bowl, awakening the body's instinctive craving for fat and carbs.

"The taste is so rich and delicious." Nizam took a bite and was immediately amazed, and he buried himself in the meal again.

【Ding! Nizam enters the pig stupor】

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NHK TV broadcasts the ABC program "American Hostages" at the end.

Nobunaga Hatoshi was transferred to Fuji TV and waited for the new "Late Night Swimsuit Weather Forecast". Before the time of the show, the TV was showing an advertisement for the first-generation Toyota Tercel endorsed by Momoe Yamaguchi.

Nizam also finished the bowl of rice soaked in the ramen soup.

【Ding! Nizam is satisfied]

"Do you have a toman in the store? Toman of the banknotes ......," Nizam whispered hesitantly.

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Toman is the ancient folk currency of Persia, which has a history of several hundred years.

1 toman is equal to 10 riyals.

The rial, on a global scale, is a currency of very low value.

It will bring a lot of trouble to foreigners who travel and do business in Persia, and a taxi can easily cost 500,000 or 1 million riyals.

The cheapest way to buy a car in Persia is 1 billion riyals.

Many foreign tourists, buying things in Persia, it is generally difficult to figure out how many riyals it is, and it takes a long time to count in their hearts.

So it's often a handful of cash to grab and let the seller take it himself.

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Nobunaga Hatoshi took the crumpled note and looked at it, it was a 10 Toman note.

"The Qajar dynasty?"

Nobunaga looked at the institution that printed the currency.

This is a banknote issued by the king's treasury of the Qajar Dynasty.

The Qajar dynasty, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal dynasty in Persia from the 18th century to the early 20th century.

During this period, the Toman banknotes depreciated rapidly, and there was almost no difference between them and waste paper in the later period, and it cost millions of Toman banknotes to buy a naan.

The main currencies in circulation within the territory are the ruble, the British pound and the Sassanid gold coin.

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"Hmm." Nizam replied uneasily, his hand grasping the tattered blanket he had draped over his body.

"There's no problem with this checkout."

Nobunaga looked at the ragged Persian boy and accepted the note.

At this time, Kifu Taro came down from the second floor, and he handed Nizam a large package, a heavy package, which almost crushed the skinny Nizam with a stiff stomach.

"These are canned tuna, salmon. Your hometown is facing famine. Kifutaro said with a smile.

"Thank you...... Thank you......" Nizam sobbed, hugged his package tightly, and left Yangquan Restaurant.

【Ding! Amir Nizam was captured. 】

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This is the second historical figure captured by Nobunaga after Hanshin.

The next day, Nobunaga went to the Yubari City Library to check the history books of the Persian dynasties.

"Ancient Persian Empires", "General History of Persia", "The Crescent Moon and the Rose", "Four Thousand Years of Persia", ......

In these books, Nobunaga found "a description of the Great Famine in Persia in the 19th century" in the history of the Qajar dynasty.

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Wheat is one of Persia's main export commodities.

During the Age of Discovery, grain from the Persian Gulf coast was an important commodity in the trade between Europe and Persia, and the Persian Gulf grain trade was very active.

However, with the arrival of the British, Persia's fragile agricultural economy suffered a devastating blow.

British merchants, on the one hand, dumped a large amount of low-priced British flour, and the market price per kilogram was once lower than the price of Persian native wheat, and Persian farmers went bankrupt;

On the other hand, agricultural loans were granted, requiring Persian farmers to grow "compound decoction" raw materials instead of grain crops;

In just four or five years, the wheat production of the Qajar Dynasty fell to an unprecedented level. The Qajar dynasty had a quarter of its annual foreign exchange for grain imports.

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The low price of food for the Persians did not last long.

The dumping of the Persian market was completed, more than 70% of the wheat plantations were converted to "compound decoction" raw materials, and the price of British grain began to soar, tripling in a short period of time.

At the same time, the raw materials for the elixir cultivated on a large scale in Persia have been harvested for many years, and the price has fallen to the bottom. The Persian peasants simply did not have money and bought expensive imported grain.

Eventually, the Great Famine broke out.

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The few remaining Persian wheat-producing areas happened to be plantations of the British garrison.

These British officers hoarded speculative grain and inflated the price of wheat. At the same time, it further suppressed the purchase price of the raw materials of the elixir and earned the difference in profits.

The famine killed an estimated 2 million people, and a large number of hungry peasants committed suicide by swallowing the mountain of elixir ingredients.

However, the British scholars who wrote the Cambridge History of Persia insisted that:

"The Persian famine of the 19th century was caused by extreme dry weather."

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This mysterious eater named Nizam must have been experiencing this great famine......

Nobunaga looked through the Cambridge History of Persia and found that there was a chapter on the reforms of the Persian Qajar Empire, with a description of Amir Nizam.

"West Asia...... West Asian Bisman? ”

Nobunaga looked at the British historian, how could he sound so familiar with the title given to Nizam.

That's right.

In the history textbook of the previous life, a minister of the Qing State also received a similar title.

However, Bisman will definitely not agree that he is "European Li Hongzhang" and "European Nizam......

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Three days later, Nizam came to Yangquan Restaurant again.