A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Nagano was begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother and the entire military camp borrowed three thousand kan in cash to send across the river. Takeda Harunobu and Oishi counted the money and released the remaining Minawa people back, and everyone was happy.

As for Matsuyama's withdrawal from the city, since there were five hundred ashigaru in the city who were recruited by Musashi locally, they were unwilling to follow Kawada Nagauchi back to Echigo. After knowing that Musu opened the city, there was a commotion.

In the end, all of them were kept, and they were transformed into the Hojo clan's ashigaru, but it only lasted a day.

The remaining 1,300 people stripped off all their armor and weapons, but were allowed to keep their personal belongings and ten days of rations, and left the city. The food that feeds 1,800 people in the city for a year is also cheaper than Oishi's Teru.

The two parties formally signed a contract on the floating bridge of the Tone River, and swore to Yumiya Hachiman Daimyojin and Amida Tathagata that each would defend their borders and not invade each other within a year.

Xiaoping was too strong to sign the monogram, but Takeda Harunobu seemed to have seen the clues.

"After years of hard work, you should always take care of yourself."

"It's just a trivial matter to trouble Your Highness Dashan to be considerate."

Countless samurai have died in their thirties these days. Koheita is twenty-nine this year, and his theory has reached a high point. In an era when medical treatment and medicine are scarce, it is difficult to say if we have not survived.

The consensus was reached and both sides retreated.

This time, in addition to the little lotus who followed thousands of people, our team also had ten scalpers that the people of Kitamuseshi "enthusedly donated". It was all the good intentions of Uesugi Teruhu and Nagano Yamasa, so I had to accept it.

"Father, does your monastery raise cattle?"

“Not only do they raise cattle, but they also raise Andalusian horses, pigs, goats, and even a camel.”

"Your monastery industry is very prosperous."

"That is, our monastery is a sitting monastery chartered by His Royal Highness. His Majesty Alfonso also donated a huge vineyard, two mills and a winemaking workshop."

“Then do you have any cows in your monastery’s livestock?”

"Cows? Yes, but we never drink milk. We only use it to make cheese for consumption and distribute it to believers in the workhouse."

"You don't drink milk?"

"Of course not. Anyone who drinks milk will definitely suffer from diarrhea and even death."

"How could this happen? Don't you drink it fresh?"

"Fresh? Our monastery is on a mountain. It takes two hours to walk up the mountain. So even if there is milk, it must be squeezed in the morning and delivered in the afternoon."

That’s so new! No wonder everyone had diarrhea or even died from diarrhea after drinking it.

It takes less than two hours for bacteria to grow in milk and start to spoil. If you express milk in the morning, deliver it in the afternoon, and drink it in the evening, it must be bad.

No wonder only poor farmers who raise cows drink milk. Although the milk that has just been squeezed out has a bit of a milky smell, it is really fresh at that time and will not cause stomach upset if you drink it.

There is no problem with the cheese made. The first step is to boil it in a large pot. Isn't pasteurization just high-temperature steaming and sterilization?

"Then Father, do you know how to raise cattle?"

"No, I entered the monastery at the age of nine and spent four years studying grammar, copying the Bible, and then studying Latin, Greek, and French, and then mathematics, architecture, painting, and medicine."

"Then who will handle the monastery's livestock?"

"There are slave farmers in the monastery. Don't you have farmers in your territory, sir, to farm and graze for you?"

Father William looked at Xiao Pingtai with a confused expression. Of course, farmers should do farming and herding cattle. As a clergyman, he only had to serve Heavenly Father and God. Xiaopingtai, a lord, only needs to take care of the war, so he can't farm the land himself.

"Yes, yes, hehehehe." Xiaoping smiled awkwardly and covered it up.

The main reason was that the doctor said that he should have a cup of hot milk in the morning and evening. Xiao Pingtai thought that since he wanted to raise a baby, he couldn't just raise one, so he had to ask experts for advice.

Coupled with the inherent impression of European pastures and gray cows in groups in later generations, my first reaction was to ask Father William who was born in the Netherlands. As an intellectual in this era, you may not know anything.

It's a pity that Xiaoping thought too much.

But raising cattle is not a big problem. Anyway, Xiao Pingtai remembers very clearly that even Chinese dairy cows are bred from Holstein cows and cattle. It not only greatly increases milk production, but also inherits the characteristics of cattle that can tolerate rough feeding to a certain extent.

Cattle are really easy to take care of. There are almost no breeding problems. They can even regain weight just by eating grass after spring. As one of the largest livestock breeds in East Asia, there is definitely a reason for it.

But milk production? Xiao Pingtai asked the peasants and soldiers who had raised cattle, but they couldn't tell clearly. Anyway, it wasn't much, or even a little. In other words, feeding calves is okay if you milk them twice occasionally, but if you want to milk them every day, that's a bit of a problem.

Moreover, after raising cattle, everyone uses them for work, including plowing fields, pulling carts, grinding and milling, and even using them to make leather armor.

In farming and agricultural areas, it is really rare, even rare, for cows to be used specifically for milk.

"Does the priest have any idea about the milk production of this kind of cattle?"

"If the cows in our previous monastery could always produce four hundred Parmesan cheeses every year, I don't know about the cows in Japan."

"Okay." Xiao Pingtai was a little helpless.

But a rough analysis, it is enough for a calf to eat. During the lactation period, there must be two kilograms a day, otherwise it will not be possible to raise a calf. So assuming that he has been breastfeeding for nine months, more than 500 kilograms of milk should be about the same. (In fact, modern scalpers only produce 800-1000kg/year)

Of course, in the modern dairy industry, the calves are sorted out after the cows have given birth, and the males are simply killed and thrown away, or otherwise disposed of. Only the female can be kept, and serious dairy cows can produce more than 6,000kg per year, and the most exaggerated varieties can produce 10,000kg per year. They can be used to produce milk while nursing calves.

No matter how you look at it, raising scalpers and drinking milk is a loss-making business, so it can only be used by wealthy people like Xiao Pingtai.

"Sure, it's time to set off to camp! The vanguard Ogasawara team's camp has arrived!" Aji ran over to report.

"Okay! Let Ping Liu arrange the next camp."

Koheita got off the horse, and Ogasawara Nagamasa chose a place leeward of the hillside. He also sent out a battalion to block the road and led the way to the village. The setting was good.

After handing Baidan to Chen San to feed, Xiaoheita leaned on a bamboo stick and looked up the hillside. The grass and trees on the slope were extremely lush, and Qi Gui, who was opening the path, was hacking away with a knife to clear a path.

"Hey, there are grapes."

"What's so strange about grapes? There are grapes everywhere on the mountain. There are pits and valleys full of grapes. You can eat them as you like in two months."

"I won't eat it. It's sour and astringent."

Mountains and valleys full of grapes? yes! During the time of Kai and Shinano, the mountains were covered with grapes! I've been so busy, how could I have completely forgotten about something like this?