How to Survive in the Roanoke Colony

Chapter 16 - 16: Heavenly Unit System

New Year 1589.

The remaining Shine Muscat grapes are passing their preservation period and losing flavor. I should try doing something else with them. Maybe make wine?

...I'm sick of pseudo-wine made from Shine Muscat. From next year, we'll have the domestic wine variety 'Seisui' anyway.

Everyone was excited since it was their first New Year in the Croatoan colony.

And I...

"Cabbage, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, corn, potatoes... what else? Ah, tomatoes."

Was organizing the list of 'producible food'.

For livestock, we have chickens. Koke-kokko have already started a family. The number of hens is increasing so much that we might soon be able to distribute them to the villagers.

But what I need to focus on now is...

"...crops."

Right. Since the colony's population suddenly increased to 300, I need to somehow feed these people with agricultural products.

Well, of course, there's not much worry since most of them are natives. They were already living well in this area, so we won't face an ending where everyone starves to death if farming fails.

Just the colony's centripetal force would decrease.

To firmly settle 300 people here, I need to carefully plan out the year's farming schedule from now.

Considering I'll need to allocate time for Shine Muscat and other grapes for six months from March, when frost ends, until September when harvest approaches, I need to distribute labor even more efficiently.

"...First, we need to increase the grapes."

I had forgotten until now. The fact that wine is essential for Europeans, especially Christians of this era.

We can't keep drinking Shine Muscat wine... without proper acidity forever. It's fortunate that I at least have wine varieties.

I should start preparing the groundwork now for the land I've already picked out to grow new wine varieties.

First of all, as long as the phylloxera mite, the death of grapes, the disaster of viticulture, the archenemy of grape farmers, lives somewhere in this land, it's nonsense to directly plant Seisui cuttings.

In the end, we'll have to plant rootstock resistant to phylloxera (the base tree for grafting) and graft onto it. So this too is a long-term project that needs time.

That wraps up the grape farming matters for now.

Excluding grapes, I have quite a variety of crops. This is all thanks to my mother who focused on tending her garden instead of socializing with neighbors after moving to the countryside.

"Thank you, mother! I'll bow three times toward the Japane

"...Though I am a fervent Calvinist, now that everything has been clearly revealed, I must admit."

At that day's service, Mr. Hewet began writing down Lord Nemo's 'revelation' in front of the congregation.

'Those who were truly righteous can go to heaven after paying for their sins.'

→ There is a place to pay for sins after death.

→ Purgatory, or a similar place not directly mentioned in the Bible, exists!

→ The claim of 'Sola scriptura' (Scripture alone) needs to be reconsidered!

"This means we need to re... reconsider how far we accept the teachings of the, um, great reformers..."

Mr. Hewet's head was spinning.

"Whether one keeps the law, what is good... we cannot know by human will? Then... why did we burn Protestants...?"

Conversely, Vicente was also dizzy contemplating the 'angel's' bombshell statements.

"Then... pe-perhaps... the angel's words mean... we shouldn't kill and die over obsession with minor doctrines?"

"Ah, hallelujah!"

"Ah...!"

And at those words someone threw out, the faint remaining distinctions between Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist in the settlement melted away.

That day Thomas Hewet and Vicente González hugged each other and cried.

The great angel Nemo achieved Catholic-Protestant harmony 29 years before the Thirty Years' War.

Though the person in question was currently drinking his last Cola and eating popcorn while watching 'Demon S: The Movie'... anyway, that's what happened.

Today too, the Croatoan settlement is peaceful.