While the newly formed Chinese Empire in the East was acting for the impending catastrophe of the Yellow River diversion, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the far west was also agonizing over one thing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On this afternoon, a red brick building between Buckingham Palace and Lafarga Square in the capital London is the headquarters of the British Navy.

In a room in the middle of the third floor of the building, the Minister of War, Sidney? Herbert said to his wife, who had come to visit him, "Honey, came to pick me up from work so early today?" But I'm not there yet! ”

"My dear Herbert, why are you so sad, as if someone had stolen a thousand pounds from your private possession! Tell me, what's going on? Mrs. Herbert asked with concern.

"It's not for that damn Crimean war, damn it, it gives me a headache!" Herbert pulled his hair, looking extremely pitiful, he frowned, and said to his wife: "Now the British, French and Turkish forces and the damned Russians are fighting a fortress in the area of Yevpatoria in Kalamita Bay, but at a critical juncture, there is a serious plague, the soldiers are infected with all kinds of diseases, dampness, small insects and schistosomiasis have invaded our barracks, because of the disease, the front line has been disorganized, the soldiers have written to the queen and the parliament to complain, no one knows where the post office is, no one knows where the field hospital is, Even they don't even know where their own generals are. It's all messed up! Those originally strong soldiers had to suffer from disease, damn it, they were not defeated by the Russians, but by the logistics of their own people! ”

Seeing that his wife was stunned, Herbert continued: "Of the more than 80,000 British and French troops and more than 10,000 Turkish infantry, more than 30,000 soldiers were seriously ill and even plagued, and the French military camp was even more cholera and ravaged. Oh my God, I don't know how many soldiers will die! ”

"Oh my God! Poor man, poor Royal Navy Minister of War and Chief of War Sidney? Herbert! Mrs. Herbert cupped him on the cheek, kissed him with pity, and said gently: "Why don't you send more logisticians to the Crimea?" Then those poor people would not be so miserable! ”

"Do you think I don't want to? But someone else wants to go? The whole of Great Britain shook their heads at the words Crimea. No one wants to go there and suffer. Herbert was suddenly stunned, remembered something, and said to his wife: "Honey, by the way, two months ago, I didn't ask you to write to the year-old friend who was the head nurse, I remember her name is Nightingale, what did she say?" ”

"Oh my God, my dear, but I almost forgot about it!" Mrs. Herbert shrugged her shoulders and said exaggeratedly, "I wrote her two letters in a row, and I didn't reply to me. I guess as soon as she heard that I invited her to form a medical nurse team and go to Crimea, she simply did not reply. It seems that she is not willing to go either. ”

"Alas, that's a pity! I've heard that her medical care is counted in all of London! And it is very popular among the nurses in London. Herbert said regretfully, continuing to fret.

"Why don't we visit her at her house. I think that telling her about the illness of the front-line soldiers is kind-hearted and should agree to our request! Anyway, her house is not far from here, and she can get there before dark. "Mrs. Herbert has an idea.

Herbert remembered today's warning from Congress, and he immediately felt a sense of pressure. Yes, if we don't send a high-level team of nurses to care for the wounded and sick, not only will I be more impeached and attacked by those parliamentarians, but the soldiers on the front line will also suffer heavy losses, and these responsibilities are not something I can afford!

He remembered that last year, the commander of the fleet stationed on Hong Kong Island in the Far East, Rear Admiral Cha Wei, was defeated by a group of indigenous Chinese rebels in the Far East because he went to war privately and commanded poorly, resulting in the loss of troops and generals, and was impeached by MPs as soon as he returned to London.

He was only killed or wounded by more than 1,000 people, and he was punished so badly that if he had killed and wounded tens of thousands of soldiers in Crimea, he would have been doomed. Medics must be sent to the front line as soon as possible to save the British soldiers who are suffering from the disease.

"Okay, then I'll pack up, let's go!" Herbert hurriedly closed his office and rode with his wife to a residential area in the eastern suburbs.

When the couple arrived at Nightingale's house, Herbert knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered. Herbert was about to knock again when the next-door neighbor came up to him and told him, "Are you looking for Nightingale?" You're late, she left home two months ago and went away! ”

"Far away? Is it to Manchester? Or Scotland? Herbert asked.

The neighbor shook his head: "It's to go to the far east!" A while ago, an Oriental, the one who sells tea and porcelain, invited Nightingale to their country. Nightingale didn't want to go, saying that a medical team had been set up to go to the Crimea region to treat the soldiers there. However, the Oriental man said that the soldiers were all invading and slaughtering others, and that they were sick and that God punished them; And there are hundreds of thousands of women and children in the East who suffer from simple ailments, but they have no money for treatment. In God's name, they invited her to form a medical team to treat her. Sir, you know, my neighbour Nightingale, a kind girl, relented at once when she heard of the sickness of hundreds of thousands of women and children, and within three days she set up a medical team, with thirty-eight nurses, and on the fourth day she left London with the Oriental on a merchant ship bound for Hong Kong Island. No, she dragged me to help her take care of the yard. ”

"What?" The Herberts were amazed! They also thought that Nightingale did not want to go to the Crimean region, but they did not expect that this was not the case at all, and they were deceived to the far east! Even, it's not just Nightingale alone, a whole thirty-eight nurses have been cheated! You know, there are about 50 nurses in the whole of London and the surrounding area.

The hateful Orientals have deceived most of the nurses in London!

Now, even if he forcibly recruited all the nurses and sent them to the front line, there would only be a few twenty of them. As for the rest of England, there are not many nurses, and even if there are a few occasionally, it must be the private care of the hereditary aristocracy, and I don't even think about beating them.

Herbert couldn't help but cry, he should have come to visit earlier. Now, he can only send more doctors and negotiate with the French Minister of Defense, hoping to borrow a few nurses from them to use them on the front line.