"This is bamboo rice?"

Chuemon was holding the bowl and looking at the bamboo rice inside, a little curious. Even in the previous life, I have never eaten the so-called bamboo rice, which is indeed extremely rare.

"It's also the first time to steam bamboo rice. I don't know what it tastes like." Alan hugged the tray to her chest and replied slightly.

"It is said that the bamboos of all countries have produced bamboo solids, which are as big as wheat, and the people have eaten them one after another." Shoin Yoshida is also looking at the bowl of bamboo rice in front of him.

"Let's taste it first." Fukuzawa Yukichi could not see why he came, and suggested to eat.

"Yes, let's eat." Chuemon took a bite.

It is indeed a bit similar to wheat rice, and it can't be said to be throaty, but it is not as good as polished white rice. It is estimated that this bamboo rice is also a crude fiber coarse grain, which can promote intestinal peristalsis. Try something fresh, it's rare to eat this time. It may take five years to ten years, or even twenty to thirty years to encounter bamboo flowering and fruiting, and it will be eaten this time in this life.

"Everywhere it is said that this bamboo is really auspicious, so that the people all over the world will eat for a few days." Shoin Yoshida didn't pick his mouth, he ate a lot of wheat rice, and now it's very fragrant to eat bamboo rice.

"When I eat it, it looks like wheat and rice, no difference." Fukuzawa Yukichi nodded.

"Satisfying the people for a few days is indeed auspicious."

But isn't it just the great auspiciousness coming from the sky? In these days, the common people are not hungry for a full meal. There is so much bamboo rice out of thin air to allow people from all over the world to eat a few full meals. This auspiciousness is too big.

"one more bowl!"

"Hurry up and go to school after eating." One bowl of Chuemon is enough, Fukuzawa Yukichi is still growing, and his half-sized boy has eaten Laozi.

After Yoshida Shoin and Fukuzawa Yukichi had finished eating, they set off to school together, and Chuemon had time to sit down for a while, and then set off to get value. If we can arrive on duty at nine o'clock, it is better than more than half of the shogunate officials.

Since there is still time, I might as well ask Shintaro Terazawa about this matter in the market. There are so many bamboos that can be sold in Edo as a whole, so how big is the output? And the bamboo after it blooms and bears fruit, the whole piece of bamboo will die. This is not less than half of the Japanese bamboo will die.

When Shintaro Terazawa went out to practice the Great Sword in the morning, he also heard the hawkers who delivered food from the neighborhood and the street talking about it. In places like Musashi, where there are not many mountains and forests, there are not many bamboos, but in areas like West Country, Kinki, and Koshin, except for some plains and basins, a large number of mountains are covered with bamboo.

As a result, these bamboos are blooming and fruiting in pieces. Now the situation in mountains and forests is mostly "balding", with one piece missing in the east and one piece missing in the west. Hahahahahaha...

After thinking about that scene, Chungemon smiled in his heart, riding his horse, he was about to go to the barracks to show his face, then go to the school for a walk, and finally go to the official office of the watch before noon to order, today’s official business It's done.

We are really a loyal minister of the shogunate, and we work like this every day!

After visiting the barracks and school, I went to Biaoao to listen to the samurai masters chewing their tongues. Time flies quickly. There was no need to talk to each other, and it was natural to insert others' chat circles. Everyone didn't treat Chungemon as an outsider and continued to chew.

Today’s chewing is a bit strange, and the Netherlands summarized the major events that took place in the world last year and passed it on to the shogunate in the form of "Dutch Style Storytelling." The thing didn't have any sense of secrecy, so it was sent to Biaoao. If there was something new, it was taken out and chewed.

The most interesting thing is that the next door is clear. It is said that in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas close to Hong Kong, there have been large and small civil disturbances, and the situation is spreading. However, the local states and counties are still relatively strong, and there are regiments to practice Baojia, and the suppression is fairly quick. Only a group of chaotic people fled and lurked in Guangxi, which is still developing for the time being.

Worship God!

Good guy, Chuemon was stunned when he heard the name. That’s right, in 1850, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, has united with Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, and recruited thousands of charcoal-burning workers from the Zijingshan generation. They used the special religious ceremony of inviting gods in Guangxi, known as the "Father of Heaven." "Go down to earth", has won the hearts of a lot of people. In a few months, these people will unite and set off a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement.

Wait a minute, why can this society quickly recruit thousands of people in a few months, follow the worship of God, and then raise troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty?

correct!

Drought!

Since the spring of 1850, a severe drought has swept across half of China from Shaanxi to Guangdong and Guangxi. In Yulin Prefecture (Yulin) in Guangxi, there was even a horrible scene of years of drought and death of humans and animals. In Wuzhou, the river water is not as good as March 1 in previous years.

It was precisely because of this severe drought that the Taiping Army was able to quickly recruit a large number of people who could not survive from the summer of 1850 to the spring of 1851, and then began the entire campaign.

It's no wonder that the Japanese bamboos are well-known!

Understand, understand, understand, because bamboo knows that a terrible drought will soon be ushered in! If you can’t take advantage of the current moisture and nutrients, bloom and bear fruit, and save the fruit seeds through a large amount that humans cannot collect all of them, then the entire bamboo community may be extinct in a severe drought~www.mtlnovel. com~ This severe drought will certainly not only sweep across the Qing Dynasty on the mainland, but also the whole of Japan. At that time, it will not kill one or two people, but thousands or even hundreds of millions of people. .

The face of Chuemon was shocked, and the people on the left and right thought that Chuemon was just like that when he heard that God worships. So they all said that foreign religion is definitely not a good thing, and the early generals banned the spread of Nanban religion, which really makes sense. If there is the spread of Nanbanism in Japan now, there will be people who are instigated by the missionaries of Nanbanism to make trouble.

It was our general who had the foresight. In the 200th year of the Shogunate, except for the Shimabara Rebellion at the beginning, that is, the Christian peasant uprising of Shima Amakusa Shiro, I have never heard of any incidents of foreign religion.

Chungemon Shinn carelessly talked to them a few words, and immediately prepared to go to Matsudaira Chisun. A long-lasting drought is right in front of us. Even if we can't save the people of the world, we must save Edo. People.

There are no signs of drought, and even because of the large number of bamboo seeds, the people have eaten a lot. The price of rice on the market is relatively stable. If the shogunate can buy rice, store it temporarily, and wait until the disaster occurs after the summer, and then sell it at a fair price, then I don't know how many people can live.