Chapter 2310 War in the Far East

Rebecca used her influence in the medical and nursing guild to push the municipal council to pass a "Public Health and Epidemic Prevention Act" drafted by herself-this is the first local public health act introduced in the entire New World, which is enough to carry into history.

During this period, Rebecca also recruited volunteers through the medical and nursing guild and the Peiluo Church and Dimos Church in various neighborhoods of the city to form a volunteer public health team. Public facilities in various blocks of the city are disinfected and sterilized.

Even Rebecca herself didn't expect that the event she initiated received exceptionally enthusiastic support. In just three days, the total number of volunteer applicants from the six major dioceses in the city exceeded 5,000!

More than 70% of the volunteers are women, and most of them are very religious. There are both noble ladies in the upper class and small traders from the slums.

Rebecca divided the volunteers into 12 groups based on the neighborhood where they lived. Every day, they called a group in turn to distribute anti-epidemic equipment. Areas prone to germs, such as churches and markets, are sprayed with disinfectants.

These days, Kandy has become Rebecca's most important helper, following her around.

Both of them are divine magic spellcasters, coupled with like-mindedness, their friendship has warmed up at a speed visible to the naked eye. They eat and live together, and they almost sleep in the same bed.

Qiao An was happy to see them making friends, but she felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Ever since Kandy came to the city and hang out with Rebecca all day long, the better the relationship between the two, the less he has anything to do with him... Why does it feel like being left in the cold?

Having said that, Rebecca did not let go of Joan, a strong laborer, and asked him to help develop a bactericidal agent that has an excellent bactericidal effect and will not cause harm to biological health.

A trivial matter, of course, can't help Dr. Vader.

After diluting the potion prepared by "Tears of God", Joan tested it and found that a bottle of potion mixed with 100 liters of water still had the miraculous effect of completely killing common viruses and bacteria, so he recommended this formula to Rebecca.

Joan makes 20 mythical medicines every day, and Rebecca mixes them with water, and directs the volunteers to pour the diluted medicine into the watering can as a "weapon" to eliminate bacteria and viruses in the city.

After being busy until mid-February, the volunteer team led by Rebecca finally completed the mission and basically eliminated the fungus in Leiden City.

On February 10th, according to the statistics of the medical and nursing guild, there were zero new cases of putrid fever infection that day.

This news hit the headlines of the evening newspaper, marking the end of the epidemic in Leiden City. The medical workers and volunteers in Leiden City, headed by Rebecca, have jointly won a brilliant victory in the field of public health, and at the same time, they are also proud of themselves. won wide acclaim.

Rebecca and her "good sister" Conti were interviewed by the Leiden Post. After all, the two little girls are still young, and they are complacent about becoming famous overnight.

Joan looked at their obviously happy but pretending to be reserved, secretly amused, thinking that vanity is not all a bad thing, for example, if many unprofitable public welfare undertakings were not promoted by those with strong vanity, I am afraid can never be achieved.

From this perspective, it is difficult to draw a clear dividing line between "charity" and "vanity", and in fact it is unnecessary.

The interview report of Rebecca and Conti made it to the front page of the Morning Post as expected, but unfortunately it was not the headline news.

Upstaged by the two little ladies is a truly world-shaking piece of news!

On February 12, 1625, the 100,000 troops of the Empire entered the Fortress of Olivier under the command of General Engel, the commander-in-chief of the army.

On the same day, Archbishop Claude, Prime Minister of the Holy Ashan Empire, announced a decree signed by His Majesty the Emperor, declaring war on the kingdom of Korath—called the "Far Eastern Rebel Group" in the official document, and the Eastern Expedition that has been brewing for a long time The battle begins here!

As early as the New Year's Eve of this year, the massacre occurred in Fort Kolas, Rudolf I was assassinated and killed. Many observers who paid attention to the international situation concluded that the imperial authorities were the mastermind behind the assassination, and predicted that the imperial authorities would soon launch a military campaign against the rebel government in the Far East. action.

Joan also held the same point of view, because he had expected it for a long time, and he was not surprised by the news disclosed in the newspaper. What troubled him now was which side to choose in this war.

This incident may sound ridiculous at first glance.

What is the relationship between the wars that broke out in the Far East of the old world and the residents of the New World separated by vast oceans?

Is it your turn, an outsider, to take sides?

However, the situation is far more complicated than it appears.

To put it simply, since the birth of "Cloud Network", the traditional geographical concept of the world of Vales is no longer suitable for this new era of rapid change.

For the general public, the old world and the new world are separated by thousands of miles of ocean, and the war in the Far East, at least for now, will not affect their daily life.

But for the caster class, the "world" in their eyes is completely different from the world in the eyes of ordinary people.

The "cloud network" narrows the distance between the spellcasters and makes them feel each other's strong presence. Whether the other party lives in the next block or on another continent across the ocean, the cloud network can make them have a direct relationship. Contact, to some extent, erases the geographical distance in reality.

In order to deal with the attack of the imperial army, the Kolas government in the Far East, under the leadership of Prince Roland, is actively preparing for war and deploying defenses along the east bank of the Zhuanglang River.

In war, to put it bluntly, what is fought is "money and food", and victory on the battlefield requires strong capital as the backing.

The Far East government urgently needs to raise military expenditures. Taxation is important, but it is not enough to simply raise war taxes. More military expenditures need to be raised from broader channels.

One of the important channels is to issue war bonds on the cloud network to raise funds from all cloud network users, and creatively use "magic bits" as currency—not gold and silver—to trade bonds.

This approach is realistic.

Gold and silver coins are only an equivalent, and they can neither be used as military rations nor weapons. If gold and silver cannot be exchanged for actual materials, they are equivalent to a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.

Spell slots are different.

As long as the spellcasters have sufficient supply of spell slots, everyone is a "perpetual motion machine" and can cast spells at will to provide strong support for their troops.

It was from this war that people of insight, including Joan, suddenly realized that the heroic epics and romantic knight duels of the old era had become obsolete. A new chapter is about to begin.