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Chapter 1276 Puli
The Battle of Plymouth had been fought for nearly a month.

As the town that was the first to kill the germs during the Black Death, Plymouth's biggest advantage was not Cao Daochang, but the small number of people.

Originally there were only over ten thousand people, after a plague, there were only over five thousand and seven hundred people left in the city, not counting the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that this population is a large village between towns and villages.

The law of self-government is also no way for Cao Changqing. The merchants and sailors trapped in the city have to survive, and they can't just watch the people in the city starve to death. This time can only be generous to others.

Teams of people suffering from hunger and cold, led by the guards of the Ming merchant ships, rushed into the mansions of dignitaries and dignitaries in the city, and moved out all the flour and wine in the cellar. With someone backing them up, even the most humble farmer would stand up, not to mention There were very few farmers in Plymouth, only small traders, unwelcome servants, vagrants and whores and pimps.

Qi Jiguang said it well, the people in the city are the most cunning, and the Qi family army does not want to recruit soldiers. This principle is the same everywhere in the world.

The crowd was furious when they stormed the mansion left by the nobles who took refuge in the city. Not only did they snatch away the wine and noodles, but all the valuables in the mansion were also swept away. The foreigners in Ming and France were left alone to resist Drake's attack.

Fortunately, there were only a few dozen people in Drake, and they were repelled by the merchant soldiers of the Daming Guild Hall. They fought all the way into the shipyard. If Wang Jinzhong, a Mongolian who grew up in Tianjin, stopped the act of setting fire to the factory by the merchant soldiers, maybe they even asked for help. None of the ships.

To put it bluntly, the combat effectiveness of these merchant soldiers in Plymouth is indeed quite strong. Some of the sea masters they followed were Chen Mu who had been doing business in Nanyang before going to the ocean, and some were doing business in Nanyang after the establishment of the Nanyang Military Mansion. They have all experienced the most turbulent seas. In the past ten years, among the sailors who have been trading in the sea for more than a decade, the best are skilled in swordsmanship, can draw a bow and fire a gun, and the most honest ones have to be able to afford weapons.

What's more, some of them are regular soldiers themselves, such as the four self-proclaimed lieutenants of Zhongxian from the sixth grade in Plymouth. Wang Jinzhong is a Mongol who grew up in Tianjin Wei. A generation of wrestling instructors employed by one of the six imperial guards in Tianjin, teaching sumo wrestling to the flag army, met Beiyang Kaifu in Tianjin, and went to Nanyang with a caravan. After many years, the person who hired him changed a few times, and then he was exiled. to Plymouth.

Li Changlai is a survivor of the Song Dynasty. His ancestors were maritime merchants who settled in Sumatra in the Song Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, Chen Zuyi, a great pirate, became the king of Sanfoqi. To his generation, relying on the east wind of Chinese warships, he wanted to be a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, recruiting soldiers, buying horses, and trading in the sea.

Strictly speaking, Josepha is Spanish by blood, and he was not welcomed at home. He was sent to Manila as a servant at the age of 14, and grew up in the beating and scolding. After Macheng was captured, he took his uncle I didn’t know what to do with my inheritance. I caught up with Li Yuxi to recruit miners. Relying on his cleverness, strength, and proficiency in Spanish, I wanted to bring him here to do business with Spain, but I didn’t expect Spain to directly set up a Daming port. If it's useless, send him two ships to escort tobacco.

Among the four loyal lieutenants, only Alan Muming is a local, mercenary leader, unlucky soldier in the field, brothel owner, business genius, shit messer in the medical system, and a big cigarette buyer in Plymouth.

In the early years, as a mercenary, he fought for the English royal family in Ireland, and also joined the Spanish mercenary army to rob Antwerp in the Netherlands. He was blinded by gunpowder while shooting a musket, and returned to Plymouth with the stolen money. There are two shops, one is a brothel and the other is a hospital. The brothel entertains customers, and the hospital specializes in treating syphilis. Due to the high cost and incurable disease, the brothel has a dozen thugs, and the hospital also has a dozen thugs.

Alan Muming's real name is James Allen. At the earliest time, four thugs under him tried to rob a Daming businessman on the shore. Unfortunately, it was Wang Jinzhong who escorted the cigarette box from the port to the Daming Guild Hall that day, and all four thugs were disabled. In fact, Alan himself was approached by Wang Jinzhong, and without a word, he was given a heel. The gangster leader who had been fighting fiercely all his life was thrown to the ground from the balcony on the second floor of his brothel.

After that, he changed his Christian name to Mu Ming, and learned Jinmen wrestling from Wang Jinzhong as his teacher. He didn't learn much from wrestling, but he learned himself to be the number one distributor of Plymouth Muye cigarettes.

After his packaging, Makino cigarettes are a magical thing in Plymouth. If you smoke them on the street, they can refresh you; Nourishing the body; if you smoke it in the hospital, it can also treat syphilis.

Not to mention the natives of Plymouth, many sailors from Ming Dynasty believed it.

Since the plague was prevalent in the city, he also said that Muye cigarettes could cure the Black Death. When Wang Jinzhong scolded him for being dishonest, he still plausibly said: Master, this man will not survive anyway if he gets sick, so why don’t you give me the money? How about making money for Daming?
Later, when the Black Death became severe, Alan Muming was the first one to ask for refuge in the Daming Guild Hall. Daoist Cao asked him to wash him and put on new clothes. He hung a whole set of firecrackers outside the Guild Hall. In a few minutes, it was considered that he had stepped into the door of the Daming Guild Hall.

But let’s not say, this person is useful. He was the most active when the merchant soldiers of the Daming Guild Hall fought with Drake. He knew that he had done a lot of bad things. After Drake ran away, the nobles would definitely deal with him when they came back. Still didn't keep Drake, but from then on, he made up his mind to let Da Ming take over the city.

The aristocratic minions in the city were cleaned up, and there were more than 400 troops outside the city. He insisted on rebelling more than 80 people. After the plague subsided, Wang Jinzhong led his troops out of the city to attack. The more than 80 Plymouth soldiers defected on the spot and pitched tents on the beach outside the city to sleep. The baron of the maid was stabbed to death from the back by the guards, and from then on Plymouth was truly independent.

It was two months ago. Under the witness of four chiefs, five hundred sailors, and more than a thousand people, Cao Changqing was in the old yamen of Plymouth—actually Hawkins’ mansion in the city. He bowed far away in the direction of his son, and officially appointed himself as the magistrate of Puli County, which means that everyone can benefit here.

The four chiefs were named Zheng Liupin military officer Zhongxian Xiaowei, and each led the troops to recruit refugees outside the city and give porridge relief; they formed neighbors in the city and took turns to support widows and widows who were unable to survive after the plague; Each elects a person of high morals and prestige as the coordinator, and they discuss together when they encounter problems.

However, when Puli County was established, the first thing they really did was to send a fleet to Muye County for help... because all the nobles who had taken refuge in the city had returned.

　Good morning! Chapter 2 is a little later.

　　
　
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