Chapter 239 Another world
After Yang Ce entered London, the war situation seemed to suddenly become fierce in Belle of Westminster.
In the past, the quietness of Westminster Temple at the chef's house was broken in an instant. Every day, countless wounded soldiers were sent into the temple from the front lines of various places. The people occupied by the Ming army in the city were displaced everywhere and gathered at Westminster Temple.
There were originally many beggars and homeless residents in London. After the South City was captured by pirates, the people heard the instructions that the army opened a porridge factory in Westminster Temple to provide relief, and hundreds of people fled there.
Westminster Temple is divided into three pieces, and the tower of the monastery is still the backup command center for senior Ming army officers after the defeat of the war. The wide square is used as a military medical battalion on one side, and Liu Zhi's Chef's Battalion on the other side.
Neither the military doctor camp nor the chef camp could accommodate the hungry Londoners who came from outside the city, so they could only place them on a few streets outside the temple.
Those who come early can still shelter in stone walled courtyards that have not been destroyed by war.
More people who came late could only sleep in the lines drawn by Ming military charcoal lime on both sides of the street, and squeezed into a ball.
The cold wind in early spring is still biting. They shivered in the wind, holding a bowl of wheat porridge that is as thin as water, trembling, complaining, moaning, and sighing.
Liu Zhi, who was temporarily in charge of logistics, could not bear to see it and told the Makino Hundred House, who had reorganized the troops in Westminster Temple to go to the street to identify the people, distinguish the elderly, women, women, and children from strong men, and redistribute the street-side houses for them to temporarily live.
Liu Zhi wanted to put all the people in the house. They had a large number of uninhabited houses in the West City, but they could not resist the suspension of production inside and outside the city. Not long after they separated the people, a group of pirates took all the men away from the street.
They want to go out of the city to resume production, and they cannot violate it during the farming period. Yang Ce's production capacity is much more concerned about this land than Ying Ming.
London is surrounded by good fields, and Han pirates sleeping in the open-air are most shameful to waste fertile land. Moreover, they are more clear in strategy than Ying Ming's troops. Next year, this place will be a rear base for the Western Han Dynasty joint fleet to attack the Netherlands. Even if they use military funds to buy, they must have food.
Not long after the official army of the Western Han Dynasty Combined Fleet arrived in London, the pressure on the Westminster Military Medical Battalion doubled. Yang Ce reversed Yingming's more stable key defensive strategy in the past and began to further squeeze the living space of the defenders in this city.
He used the Spaniards and pirate troops to block the city gate outside the city, and used large-scale troops in the city to fight repeatedly with the defenders, one street and one street. Almost every day, more than a dozen wounded soldiers were sent to Westminster for surgery, and more than a dozen wounded soldiers walked out of here and went to the front line again every day.
The military doctors in Yingming's army were not sufficient, and Yang Ce's army did not need medicine. They only needed surgery. The seriously injured were not sent to Westminster Temple. Whether the wounded soldiers could survive depends entirely on whether they were hard enough.
"They fought another battle in the west, and the lowlander's intestines were flowing out. After sewing, he followed the officer with his stomach covered. I guess he would not come back."
As the pressure on the military medical battalion increased, Belle also changed from a cook under Liu Zhi to a deputy of a military doctor. This time it was not a forced recruitment. Because she knew some Chinese, the Eastern military doctor wanted to calm the wounded soldiers and also had the responsibility of delivering tools.
There are seven girls like her who were assigned to the military medical camp, which belongs to the temporary establishment. They are given three packs of Muye cigarettes and six packs of rock candy in a month. They can eat two meals a day. What Mingjun eats?
Such a salary is actually very high. Although you don’t pay directly, you can’t buy three packs of Muye cigarettes even if you pay two and a half taels a month.
However, Muyeyan is priceless no matter who is in his hands. Only in Spain can he quickly get rid of it at a price of one and a half taels per pack. England is not possible, but they can exchange it for something with the Spanish soldiers in London.
Although I have a new job and am no longer a completely enslaved prisoner, the atmosphere in the military medical camp is too depressing, and the air on the grass is filled with an undispersed smell of blood.
Belle still likes to go to the Gujun to talk to Liu Zhi in her spare time. It is much easier here. Compared to working in the military medical camp, she would rather roll cakes in the fire camp - if she could eat it.
The women who first arrived at Westminster Temple had almost all their own tasks. Most of the factories outside the city were reopened by the Ming army, and some of them were taken away by their families. Most of the families left behind were the families of old nobles. Their aristocratic identities were of no value to the Ming army, so they were still working.
Belle was quite special. Ming Jun adhered to the attitude of attacking England's textile industry and did not let the workshop open again in a cooperative manner. Her family completed the transformation from a giant businessman to an unemployed person in this war.
Now Liu Zhi has a group of new cooks under his command, mainly recruiting some women with children from the people on both sides of the street to avoid starving the children to death due to the war.
Liu Zhi had nothing to say about what happened in the military medical camp, but just shook his head and said, "They are Han troops, different from us. I don't know what military law they are practicing, and I think they are stricter than us."
The Han troops entered the city continuously, and countless wounded soldiers entered the camp day and night were also seen by Liu Zhi. The soldiers from all kinds of skin were fighting under the Han flag, which was a very novel thing in itself.
He could not understand how Yang Ce controlled many soldiers who could not even speak Chinese, and let these soldiers with different cultures, thoughts, experiences, and countries also obeyed him with a fearless attitude and fought bloody battles with the defenders.
However, we can probably guess that perhaps the Han officers who followed the wounded soldiers to Westminster Temple are the reason. Like the European troops that Liu Zhi had met, they must be led by officers if they were not able to rob, otherwise the soldiers would not be able to return to the camp.
Although the family's property was confiscated by the Ming army, Belle was increasingly willing to call herself a military doctor or a fire army cook under the Meiji Dynasty.
When Liu Zhi found this clue and asked the reason, Belle just laughed, and she couldn't understand why.
This should have nothing to do with being a prisoner, because Liu Zhi never forced her to do anything except not letting her go out of Westminster.
Maybe it was because she was bound by too many feudal religions in the past, or maybe it was because she had never seen a strong man like Liu Zhi who defended women, children, and elderly people, or maybe it was because Ming Jun let her know what respect is.
There is no respect in their culture, only compliance; there is no discipline, only education.
The reasons for the existence of all words are limited to religion and aristocrats, which is a world where there is no living space for the lower class of people.
Chapter completed!