The battle in Plymouth has been ongoing for nearly a month.

As the first town to kill bacteria this time, Plymouth's biggest advantage is not Taoist Cao, but the small number of people.

There were only more than 10,000 people, but after a plague, there were only more than 5,700 merchants in the city, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this population is a large village between towns and towns.

There was no way for Cao Changqing to practice the law of autonomy. The Ming merchants trapped in the city had to survive and could not watch the people in the city starve to death. However, the food stored in the Ming Chamber of Commerce was enough for them to eat by themselves. At this time, they could only be generous to others.

Teams of hungry and cold people rushed into the mansion of nobles in the city under the escort of the Ming merchant ships, and brought out all the flour and wine from the cellar. Some people supported them, even the most humble farmers would stand up. Moreover, there were few farmers in Plymouth, all of them were small vendors, unwelcome slaves, unemployed vagrants, prostitutes and pimps.

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

When they attacked the mansion left by the nobles who left the city to take refuge, the crowd was infuriated. Not only did they grab the wine, but they also swept all the valuable items in the mansion. When Drake, who was guarding the shipyard, led the guards to come in, they scattered faster than anyone else, leaving the foreigners from the Ming Dynasty and France alone to resist Drake's attack.

Fortunately, Drake had only a few dozen people, so he was repelled by the Shang soldiers at the Ming Dynasty Hall and fought all the way into the shipyard. If it weren't for the Mongolian Wang Jinzhong, who grew up in Tianjin, who called the Shang soldiers to raise fire and burn the factory, they might not even have a ship to ask for help.

Speaking of which, the combat effectiveness of these merchant soldiers in Plymouth is indeed quite strong. Some of the sea lords they followed were Chen Mu who had already gone to the South China Sea before they went abroad to trade, while others had gone to sea after the establishment of the Nanyang Military Palace. They all experienced the most turbulent years at sea. In the past ten years, the sailors of the sea traders were skillful in swordsmanship, but when they opened their bows and fired guns, the most honest ones had to be able to take weapons.

What's more, some of them are regular soldiers themselves. Now Plymouth has four self-proclaimed captains from the sixth rank of Zhongxian. Wang Jinzhong is a Mongolian who grew up in Tianjin Wei. His ancestors were knights outside the Great Wall who went south to Jingnan with Emperor Yongle. To his generation of wrestling coaches who were hired as one of the six emperors of Tianjin Wei, he taught flag army sumo wrestling, and went to Nanyang with the caravan to go to Nanyang. After many years, he had hired him for several waves before he was trapped in Plymouth.

Li Changlai was 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, was appointed as a king in the Three Buddhas Qi. His father served Zhang Lian, the Feilong Kingdom, who was the former independent advocate of Raoping, Guangdong. In his generation, he leaned against the east wind of Chinese warships, and wanted to be a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, recruiting soldiers and shopping for business and sea.

Strictly speaking, Joseph Hua was a Spanish in blood and was not welcomed at home. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to his uncle who served as a soldier in Manila as a servant. He grew up while beating and scolding. After Ma Cheng was captured, he took his uncle's inheritance and didn't know what to do. He caught up with Li Yuxi to recruit miners. He relied on his cleverness, strength and knowledge of Spanish. He wanted to bring him here to facilitate business with Spain, but unexpectedly, Spain set up a Ming Port directly, and he escorted tobacco on two boats when it was useless.

Among the four Zhongxian lieutenants, only Alan Muming is a local, a mercenary leader, a bad luck in the battlefield, a brothel owner, a business genius, a shit-scratcher in the medical system, and a big cigarette buyer in Plymouth.

In the early years, when mercenaries fought a war in Ireland for the English royal family, they also joined the Spanish mercenary robbed Antwerp in the Netherlands. They were blinded by gunpowder while firing a musket. They used the stolen money to return to Plymouth to open two stores, one was a brothel and the other was a hospital. The brothel was used to entertain guests and the hospital specialized in treating syphilis. Due to the high cost and inability to cure, the brothel had more than a dozen thugs and the hospital also had more than a dozen thugs.

Alan Muming's real name is James Allen. At the earliest, four thugs under his command tried to rob the Ming merchants on the shore. Unfortunately, Wang Jinzhong escorted a cigarette box from the port to the Ming Guild Hall that day. Not only were the four thugs all been crippled, but Alan himself was also found by Wang Jinzhong, and without saying a word, he gave him a terror. The rogue leader who had been using martial arts to perform his life was thrown to the ground from the balcony on the second floor of his brothel.

After that, he changed his name to Mu Ming and studied Tianjin wrestling by Wang Jinzhong. He didn't learn much from wrestling, but instead learned himself as the number one distributor of Makino cigarettes in Plymouth.

After his packaging, Makino cigarettes are a magical thing in Plymouth. If you smoke on the street, it can refresh your spirits; if you smoke in a brothel, it can strengthen your aphrodisiac; if you smoke at the dinner table, it can increase your appetite; if you smoke in a bath, it can invigorate your body; if you smoke in a hospital, it can also cure syphilis.

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

Since the plague was prevalent in the city, he said that Muye cigarettes can cure the Black Death. When Wang Jinzhong scolded him for being inappropriate, he was also polite: Master, this person can't survive anyway, so what happened to give me the money? Am I also making money for the Ming Dynasty?

Later, the Black Death disease was a big deal. Alan Muming was the first to ask for refuge in the Daming Guild Hall. Master Cao asked him to wash it and put on new clothes. He hung firecrackers outside the Guild Hall. It was crackling for a minute, and then he stepped into the door of the Daming Guild Hall.

But it's true that this person is useful. The Shang soldiers in the Ming Dynasty guild fought with Drake the most. He knew that he had done a lot of bad things, so he asked Drake to run away and the nobles came back and they would definitely deal with him. Later, Drake did not leave him, but since then he was determined to let the Ming Dynasty take over the city.

The noble minions in the city were cleaned up, and more than 400 troops outside the city were forced to rebel by him. After the plague subsided, Wang Jinzhong led his troops out of the city to attack. The more than 80 Plymouth soldiers turned against each other on the spot. The baron who had set up tents on the beach outside the city was stabbed to death by the guards in the back. Since then, Plymouth has been truly independent.

That happened two months ago. Cao Changqing was in the old Plymouth yamen under the witness of four leaders, five hundred sailors and more than a thousand people. In fact, it was Hawkins's mansion in the city. He burned incense in front of the mansion to worship the sky, bowed far away to the direction of the Emperor Ming in the West, and formally appointed himself as the magistrate of Puli, meaning that everyone could benefit here.

Four leaders were named Zhongxian, the sixth-rank military officer, and each led the troops to recruit refugees outside the city and provide porridge for relief; they formed neighbors in the city, and took turns to support widows, widows, widows, orphans who were unable to survive after the plague; they set up a village agreement, and allowed the people to recommend respected people as the head of the appointment, and discussed together when they encountered problems.

However, when Puli County was first established, the first thing they really did was to send a fleet to Makino County for help... because the nobles who left the city to take refuge were all back.
Chapter completed!