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Chapter 1427 Struggling
"Lower your chin, arch your back, yes, fold your hands in front of your chest, wrap your left hand around your right, and say: Lord Jun."

Bai Lier held a horsewhip with the logo of the Eastern Army Mansion behind her back, raised her white chin and pointed to the two rows of London people on the left and right. It’s funny to say, be a polite person.”

At this time, she was wearing black soap boots, blue cotton trousers, brown cotton trousers with dragons on the back of the Oriental Army Mansion, and a fur shawl torn off from some big fox cloak. A round-brimmed hat with a wooden post on top.

It looks like that.

At this very moment, Bai Lier is in a farm named Liu Zhizhuang 45 miles west of London.

Her identity is no longer a prisoner in the city of London, but Liu Zhi's owner and Liu Zhi's companion, who is responsible for educating the 430 households in the village who moved out of London.

After Yang Ce's Western Han Allied Forces entered the city of London, the war inside and outside the city continued, but the Tower of London was hard to break, even after the fort was built south of the Thames.

Therefore, the siege of the city was accepted by Yang Ce, who had many soldiers and generals, and planned to besiege Baron Charles in the city, or simply wait until he surrendered.

Ying Ming took over the more pressing issue, which was the livelihood of the people in London.

In fact, this is an urgent matter for the entire 'Puzhou', an overseas administrative division under the Ming Dynasty.

Today, Puzhou has nearly 11% of the land in England. These lands were devastated by the Black Death and wars in the [-]th year of Wanli, and most of them were almost wasteland. My hometown is hundreds of miles away.

Some people privately reclaimed land that the Ming army had never intervened in, and competed with the refugees; some people were lucky enough to be granted land by the government on the route of the Ming army's eastward expedition.

Land needs to be measured and redistributed. Some places have more people and some places have fewer people. The government must act as an authoritative force to uphold justice.

But the government of Puzhou?That is something that exists in name but does not exist in reality, and even Ying Ming doesn't know whether it exists or not.

Not to mention the so-called Puzhou, even the yamen in Puli County is basically a big market. The main function is for merchants to put interesting goods at the yamen gate, and the business is also done at the yamen gate, because the county magistrate will always suddenly ask the yamen servants Go out and buy some weird things and come back to experiment.

Let's say it doesn't exist. People with conflicts and problems can indeed get things done when they go to the Yamen.

Let’s say it exists. When no one is looking for it, the yamen doesn’t do any business.

As a result, Yingming, a half-assed man, can only manage the people in a way of managing troops, sending banner troops to various places to take pirates to measure the land, and after the measurement is completed, assign them to the banner troops for management.

There are no other requirements. This year I have to grow the grain in the field. If I can’t grow grain, I will plant other things. If I need anything, I can find it in London.

Before Ying Ming entered London, there were no less than [-] people in London. After he entered London, there were still [-] people in London, and now?
Now London probably doesn't have [-] people, all the people have been moved out by him.

In his simple concept, this kind of urbanization in London is against the trend of history. Why are there so many useless people in the city?Except for the craftsmen, they all went to the countryside to farm.

In addition to alleviating the food shortage in the city, the other purpose of doing this was to weaken the strength of the defenders. Tens of thousands of people were given surnames and household registrations, and were distributed to various places. Their fathers, sons, and brothers who served as soldiers in the defenders would only have to defect. The family members can be found immediately through the army.

England has national consciousness, but no sense of national pride. Before the British-Spanish Great War, they really had nothing to be proud of.

Drake is probably most proud of having stolen and robbed a Spanish treasure ship.

The biggest reason why the defenders are willing to stick to the isolated city is that they understand the truth that if they want to protect their family members, they must stand with other defenders.

Now the family members are all farming in the countryside, which immediately demoralizes the defenders.

What is even more frustrating is actually the Spaniards who appeared on the battlefield.

Baron Charles stayed on for two weeks without realizing that the enemy had changed. He always thought that the enemy besieging the Tower of London was Ying Ming and his Ming army.

Therefore, the strategy used by the defenders for a long time is to give up the streets in the city to the Ming army after appropriate blocking, try to use each street to further dilute Yingming's troops, in order to use more troops to completely wipe out Yingming's troops. One or several elite squads.

And complacent because of this plan.

Soldiers can surrender in battle, and even if they surrender to Baron Charles in a desperate situation, they don’t blame them. When they get to the Ming army, the Ming army will definitely treat them badly and bully their women. Clicking is enough.

The first half of their plan went very smoothly. The Ming army recruited a large number of puppet defenders without encountering any resistance, and occupied a large number of streets.

But before the puppet-surrendered defenders got together to counterattack, it was difficult for them to regroup after just eating a meal.

When the defenders surrendered, they cursed at the Ming commander for the poor supplies in London Fort, and asked when he would let them fight back.

The Ming army did not let them go to war, wrapped them in blankets to keep them from freezing, and someone cooked for them, hot pancakes and soup, with oil in the pancakes, and a few vegetable leaves and a piece of meat in the soup.

People eat and cry.

The tears were not moved by the kindness of the Ming army, but saddened by the suffering of the defenders.

They were running out of food in the Tower of London, and people were so hungry that they wanted to eat people, but it was very likely that they would not even eat corpses when they ran out of food—the weather was getting hotter.

Here in the Ming army, soldiers can drink broth and eat meat, and no one even eats bread.

What's even more strange is that it only takes a few days to raise them for nothing, without giving them weapons or letting them fight. The soldiers have a tacit understanding and no one asks about the war anymore.

No one has forgotten their mission, it's just... just that they don't have to worry about dying in the next battle, and it's so good to have food every day, so they deliberately want to escape the war.

People collectively tell a big lie, as if the matter of first surrender and then defection can be postponed infinitely as long as it is not mentioned.

The fact is that the Ming army did not give them this opportunity at all. The Ming army on the front line changed again and again. The red hats and blue hats left and there were Muyemen, and the Muyemen left and there were Han people. Spanish.

No one issued them weapons, bundles of hoes were piled on the carriages, and the leader of the team led them away from the Tower of London, until the city of London was left behind, farther and farther away.

The most painful thing for human beings is the inner struggle. At this time, this suffering befalls every defender.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)