During the Chen Shigong era, the Toyo Military Hospital had gained a lot of understanding of plagues, such as the need for plagues to live on a parasitic host and to spread the disease through contact between the host and others.

Back then, in Changsheng Baima River, Chen Shigong repeated Chen Mu's sentence many times: People can't see the plague, let alone talk to it, so kill its host, don't care if it's a human being, a god or a disease, everyone in the world can understand the knife on the neck.

So that's what he did in Plymouth, he killed everything that could be killed in the sky and in the ground, except for the war horses, which were necessities and could not be slaughtered, and all of them were moved to separate stables around the house, away from the central residential area of the hall.

Except for cats.

It's not that Cao Changqing and the others know that this plague is the plague, it's not that they don't kill cats because the Wanli Emperor likes cats, and there are no cats in Plymouth.

It's hard to find cats not just in Plymouth, but throughout England.

In England, if these Protestants saw a cat, they would shave it clean, put on a Mass robe to make it look like a priest, and hang it on the gallows as a sign of contempt for Catholicism.

The first is the belief that cats have magical and evil powers, and that when a cat enters the bakery, the bread will stop expanding; The fisherman saw a cat on the road when he went out, and he could not catch a fish today; And, of course, the devil's symbol that a cat lies on the bed of a seriously ill person and that the sick person will die.

Flipping it over, it is believed that since the cat has this evil power, mutilating it will bring a mysterious benefit.

It has been medically found that sucking blood from a cat's tail after a severe fall can speed up healing; If you cough all the time, you will mix the blood from the cat's ears with wine and drink it; The scariest cat brain can make people invisible.

Architecturally, it is an ancient ritual to seal the cat inside the wall to protect the new home.

At the same time, because it represents the power of evil, the cat and the witch are linked, and a farmer with a stick breaks the peasant woman's leg, and if only he can get ahead of the peasant woman, saying that yesterday I only found a cat in the barn and threw something on its leg, no one will think that the farmer is guilty.

Instead, the peasant woman would be thrown into the river to prove whether she was a witch or not.

Every morning, Cao Daochang and his disciples would tie the sleeves and leather gloves, the middle trousers and wide socks tightly with the Ming army, wrap the throat with a cloth towel, tie a hairscarf without a net, try not to expose the excess skin in the first layer of clothing, and then wear the outer layer of clothing, and tie it tightly everywhere, which is considered to complete the protection work.

Tie it around his waist, carry all kinds of poison sacs containing cinnabar, realgar, and arsenic in his arms, and put the suicide note written the night before in his own room, and then go out of the independent courtyard, and wait for a while if he goes out early, and hurry up if he goes out late, anyway, no one urges.

Everyone gathered in the open space of the guild hall, and then set up the emperor's long flag, erected the banner of the dragon and tiger road, and most of the nineteen people in the group carried the medicine box talisman box, and a few people put their hands on their waists and pressed their waist knives, and after completing a series of preparations, they gathered behind the shadow wall of the courtyard of the Makino Guild Hall.

Burning incense, burning talismans, rattling bells and beating drums, and doing a ritual to give himself courage, only then under the leadership of Cao Daochang, he said goodbye to the merchants, captains, and sailors who saw him off one by one, and walked out of the Makino Hall as if facing a great enemy.

They had to save people.

In this chaotic, unguarded, ungoverned Plymouth, town councillor, the more than 6,000 residents do not need to be saved, they save others, they save themselves.

The shipyard near Devon Harbour is surrounded by a high wooden wall, which was acquired by Hawkins when he was the Queen's naval logistics officer, and its main business was to build warships for England's new royal navy and buy the booty of pirates from various countries at sea.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Makino Kaikan is a city within a city, as England is in the midst of a period of rapid poverty and wealth, and the architectural style of the towns is similarly disorganized.

In the streets of Plymouth, it is no longer common to squeeze twenty or more people into Tudor stone-walled wooden huts with thatched roofs, with only one bed in the whole house, and three or four people sleeping with pigs, cows and sheep in the bed at night, although there are many such houses throughout England, but most of them exist only in country farmhouses.

Gone are the days when it was important for everyone to be able to stay together safely, and when there was no need for privacy.

Two-storey buildings with separate bedrooms are now common in Plymouth, and while a free-standing bed is still a symbol of wealth and status, the city's extortionists can afford it, and there is no shortage of two- or even three-story mansions of the new commercial aristocracy rising from the ground along the city's main streets, twenty or thirty feet wide, with wells dug out, marble mansions with two dozen or more windows.

But the Makino Guild of the Ming people was obviously not like that, they bought a huge green space in the southeast corner of the city, and quickly brought in boatloads of green bricks and tiles from the sea like magic, each of them was an excellent architect, and they started construction like a castle for the lords, and even forbade the guild to sell wood to them after Plymouth found out that they did not hire local workers to build houses, and they were able to pull wood from the sea as quickly as magic.

All the building materials were brought from the port of Daming in Ireland, where the Ayland Restoration Army of the Ming Dynasty fought and immigrants built towns in the northeast to create a complete building materials industry.

For the merchants of the Makino Kaikan, it was much cheaper to bring bricks and tiles from there than to buy stone directly from Plymouth – they didn't burn bricks and rarely made tiles, which was a natural choice.

The Spaniards were accustomed to using bricks and tiles, even with the newly formed Netherlands, but England did not and did not need to use bricks and tiles, they had only just come out of the thatched roof era, and those who were involved in the maritime trade made good income from it, and bought stone houses that were only inhabited by the aristocracy in the past, and those who had nothing to do with the maritime trade...... Do you build a house with your head?

The Makino Guild was not intended to accommodate many people when it was built, so it was only a small walled building, but it looked more like a castle to the English, so much so that they strongly urged the merchants to build the castle a little lower during the construction process.

In the distance, the next moment when Cao Changqing led the team out of the Makino Guild Hall, the small bell on the wooden wall of the Plymouth Shipyard was struck by the guards, and the haggard Drake quickly stepped onto the wooden wall, squinting his eyes and looking nervously in the direction of the guild hall.

In the first few days, he was very tired of seeing the Ming people running out with banners to cure the sick and save people, that should be the work of the priests in the city, not their business.

But God's servants could not bear the plague, and the monks who prayed with the sick died one after another, and the worst thing was that yesterday we received news that two plague doctors sent by London were kidnapped by bandits on the way.

Now Plymouth can only rely on these Ming people.