In ancient Europe, it was very common for bandits to kidnap plague doctors.

Because these plague doctors are not actually experts or famous doctors, most of them are hired by the township after being helpless after the plague attack, and raise money.

They are generally not of high level and do not have excellent medical skills, and most of them are second-rate township doctors, people who cannot establish themselves in hospitals, young people who are fledgling and want to prove themselves, and amateurs who are cramming for a while.

For example, London sent two plague doctors who had been kidnapped on the way, one of whom was a fruit salesman at the wet market on the south bank of the Thames before applying.

Another good point is that although he also came from the wet market, he was a butcher and was employed as a ship doctor on a merchant ship on the Dutch route.

Normally, plague doctors are kidnapped, and the towns that employ them are willing to pay more than the usual number or even a dozen times the ransom to ransom them so that they can enter the plague area.

Under religious doctrine, no one is allowed to dissect a corpse, except for the plague doctor...... Because the mortality rate is too high in this profession, regardless of the law or doctrine, there is actually nothing that can restrain them.

Usually when a plague breaks out, the ten plague doctors who enter the epidemic area are lucky enough to come back with a small amount of information about the epidemic after the end of the day.

However, given the medical skills of the two half-baked plague doctors, Drake didn't think that they could have a higher level of medical skills than Cao Changqing, so he didn't plan to pay their ransom at all.

Perhaps all the cats were killed, and no one in England could stop the rat frenzy, and when the plague spread, the city was full of mad rats.

The English are not fools, and they have discovered a mysterious connection between the plague and the cat: it must be the evil cat that brought the plague.

So as long as you kill all the cats, the plague will be self-defeating!

In Cao Changqing's view, this is the great disrespect of the British natives to the prince of Daminglu!

Through a simple formula, we can know that 'the brother of King Lu is equal to the big orange' and 'the big orange is equal to the cat'.

In the same way, 'the brother of King Lu is equal to the Emperor of Wanli' is also correct.

So, what is the connection between the cat and the Wanli Emperor?

It's very disrespectful!

The eastern city of Plymouth is divided into four neighborhoods by Cho Dao Chang of the Makino Kaikan, the nearest two districts are called Yong'an Fang and Kei An Fang.

According to the ancient naming habits of the Central Plains Dynasty, usually the name represents good wishes, and it has always been called Yong'an, Qing'an, and Stability.

This is no exception, and if you think about it, the Yamen in Plymouth will not sell any good lots for the Makino Guild.

Wing On Fong has Plymouth's largest wet market, surrounded by soldiers and sailors, and Ching On Fong has Plymouth's largest brothel and apprentice street, which means that there are drawbacks such as dense population, poor living, poor sanitation, and easy crowd chaos.

It is not the sailors and soldiers who tend to gather in chaos, but the seemingly stable apprentices.

In the 42nd year of Jiajing, England introduced the Craftsmen's Act, which openly restricted the movement of apprentices to protect the interests of older craftsmen, households, and guilders, making the lives of apprentices even more miserable.

They paid high tuition fees and suffered humiliation in the course of their studies, whether the male apprentices were tied to a pillar and beaten until they vomited blood and were denied food or drink, or the female apprentices were pawned for their clothes, could not participate in normal religious activities, and even lived with filthy people.

They can endure all these hardships.

What they are most dissatisfied with is the recruitment of cheap rural labor from all walks of life, which makes it more difficult for formal apprentices to find employment; In order to maintain its monopoly position, the guilds continued to extend the school system, raise the entrance fee, cancel the apprentice salary, and suppress the normal promotion of apprentice helpers.

There are also older apprentices who never graduate.

Increasing competitive pressures and uncertain employment prospects undoubtedly exacerbate social tensions, so communities with apprentices are most prone to riots such as drunkenness, fights, and brawls.

Just a few days ago, there was a major conflict in Qing'anfang, where a dozen apprentices first surrounded the brothel, and then clashed with the French prostitutes in the brothel, and died for no reason.

Except for the Ming Dynasty, who had a resident hall, the French and the Dutch lived in Yong'an Fang with the sailors, but their captains might live in brothels, and the apprentices hated foreigners for more than a day or two.

Many foreign craftsmen took their jobs, and this phenomenon was even more severe in London.

But the apprentice couldn't beat the foreigners with knives and guns, and he didn't dare to provoke the Ming people.

There are only more than 7,000 people in the entire Plymouth City, and the apprentices account for less than one-twentieth of them, plus Xingdong and old craftsmen, there are only more than 300, and there are nearly 400 Ming people who remain in the city today.

Not to mention the castle-like enclosure and all kinds of weapons, looking for the French and Dutch to bully them means that they are depressed and urgently need to vent, and looking for the Ming people means that this person is so depressed that he simply doesn't want to live.

However, after that conflict, the streets are now quiet, and the apprentices of Qing'anfang do not mess around, and the sailors of Yong'anfang do not toss, because the epidemic is serious, so they can't care about fighting.

The street is quiet, the ground is not quiet.

Swarms of rats rolled back and forth like black clouds on the dirty dirt pavement, and with a scalp-tinging sound, rushed to the boulder-crushed wells, and when they found that they could not get water, they rushed to another street again.

In the corner of the junction stood three sailors dressed in filthy clothes, with short swords pinned to their waists, their faces covered with thick mud, and short swords pinned to their waists, which were worn on their chests like necklaces with hemp rope and a triangle made of talismans.

There's arsenic in there.

Seeing Cao Changqing leading people over, several sailors took off their round hats and bowed their heads to salute, they were volunteers who spontaneously stood up in the neighborhood, and set up a checkpoint under the command of Cao Changqing to prohibit the people in the neighborhood from going out.

In fact, Cao Changqing's original idea was for everyone to stay in the tavern room, stay at home, stay in any place where they could stay in peace and not go out, but he couldn't do it, even if the corpse collector was pushing the five corpses wrapped in sackcloth in the direction of the monastery, there were still people walking around Yong'an Fang behind them.

Even if knives, guns and artillery are used, no one can prohibit the people of Yong'an Fang from going out.

Because they have to go to the toilet, but Plymouth doesn't have a toilet like France – maybe not quite right.

In a small town with a population of less than 10,000 like this, the center of the town is not a political center, but the place with the largest flow of people, which is naturally the vegetable market.

The toilet is next to the vegetable market, every European town will have such a small street, it is next to the vegetable market, the name may be wood street, squatting ass street, or thatched house alley, always, it is the open-air toilet.

It was just a habit for the people who rushed to the market to go to the toilet there, and for the people in the neighborhood to dump their excrement there.

In the words of the seventeenth-century weaver in Troyes, who protested against the judge's violation of his basic human rights in that: "Our fathers defecated there, and now I defecate there, and my children will go there to poop!" ”