257 Bread and Peace
Wearing a black mask that covered most of his cheeks, John lined up in front of the long relief station, looking down at his toes, for fear of being seen by acquaintances.
As a senior lawyer, John never imagined that one day he would need to eat government relief food to open the pot!
All the food was rationed after the bombing began, and gradually, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy rationed food, and the price of food on the black market is getting higher day by day!
Worst of all, John, a lawyer, lost his job......
A large number of brick-and-mortar enterprises closed down due to the bombing, and with the devastating bombing of the surrounding anti-Romanian allies who had good relations with the British Empire, the British Empire, as an island nation, took the lead in the era of food shortage.
Not to mention the people at the bottom, even the middle class has reached the moment when food is stretched thin.
After all, the original people of the British Empire did not have much concept of saving money, and all enjoyed life in the wave of consumerism.
Out of the corner of John's eye, he saw many figures who were more numb than him, with thin and naked faces, and John thought that he was not in the same class as these people, but now he was waiting in a long line at the almshouse.
At this moment, the relief station in front suddenly announced that today's food had been distributed, and John, who had been queuing for only three hours from early morning to now, was dumbfounded.
The crowd began to get agitated, but no one dared to mess around with the military and police watching, and this was not the first day that the relief station had been opened.
Suddenly, a shrill air raid siren sounded, but John and the rest of the population did not panic at all, they knew that these intruder fighters from the Han tyrant had never been bombed by dense troops, and they were only interested in those factories.
However, when John instinctively looked up, he saw the white leaflet paper slowly falling from the rain.
All of a sudden, the whistle of the military police was even more piercing than the sound of air raid sirens!
However, the number of white leaflets came from the abandoned skies of the British Empire, and the military and police on the ground simply did not have the ability to collect them all, or even a tenth of them.
Thanks to compulsory education, nine out of ten people are literate, and John, like the thin and numb crowd at the bottom, picked up the white flyer from the ground with hunger in the ninja's belly.
The font on the first line suddenly made John's breathing become rapid.
"As long as you surrender unconditionally to the great Han Emperor Luo Tianjie, he will give free bread and peace!"
As a lawyer, John naturally understood the words on the white leaflet, and he was not touched by the contents of the leaflet, but ......
John looked at the emaciated crowd, their eyes were changing, and the leaflet made most of the unsuspecting people find a 'shortcut' to their own food problems.
Patriotic has his own belly heavy or?
The answer is obvious, the British Empire is not a country of **** brainwashing, and the citizens of the British Empire here only believe in themselves except for believing in God!
In peacetime, many people will privately curse about the corruption of government officials, let alone now?
The day after the leaflets were spilled, the streets of John's city of London flooded with hungry people, holding banners and rushing to the seat of the Provisional Government and the Imperial Palace of Britain, which had remained intact!
John became one of them, too, because he didn't want to see the hungry eyes of his wife and daughter!
The war must stop, even if the British Empire disappears!
The few remaining orders in the market collapsed in time, and the military and police appeared in front of the people on time, and the high-level government of the British Empire naturally did not dare to withhold the food of the military and police, so they now have powerful forces in front of the people.
However, Luo Tianjie did not carry out a targeted massacre of the people of the British Empire, and the population of a metropolis like the city of London was too large.
Driven by hunger, people began to clash with the military and police, even if they were hungry and weak, but the will to survive made them unable to give up!
And food distribution is no longer possible for the British Imperial Government, they have too many mouths to feed, and the hateful Luo Tianjie didn't even let go of the bombing of those orchards and farmsteads!
The use of expensive cloudburst bombs to blow up farms and orchards, such a vicious bombing pattern made the food shortage of the British Empire very severe.
The government of the British Empire did not even dare to open to the population where the grain was stored!
Under the push and shove of the overwhelming numerical superiority, the defense line of the military police quickly collapsed, and at this moment, I don't know if the military police was beaten by the angry crowd and lost his mind, took out his pistol and pulled the trigger!
The gunfire sounded like a signal, and the beaten military and police officers took out their guns in their arms one after another, and vented their bullets and anger at the unarmed crowd.
Thanks to the British Empire's gun ban system, the unarmed marchers were quickly dispersed by bullets, leaving only screams of fleeing in all directions.
When the high-level officials of the British Imperial Government learned of the news, they did not severely punish the military and police who fired the shots, because they had just negotiated with Luo Tianjie's Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Han Empire.
There is no room for compromise on the terms of the armistice of the other side, and the British Empire is required to surrender unconditionally and be incorporated into the ruling system of the Han Empire!
Without the treatment of a state, it is impossible to leave any autonomy, and it is already the greatest gift to let surrendered government officials stay in their original positions.
In the face of the war in which the British Empire is about to disappear, they have no room to retreat at all, the army will not forgive them, and the royal family of the British Empire will not let them go!
The white leaflets were unexpectedly lethal, and in an environment of lack of food, large-scale popular demonstrations broke out in the anti-Romanian coalition countries that had been ravaged by the invaders' warplanes.
However, countries that have already mobilized for war have dealt with popular demonstrations very ruthlessly and decisively, and popular demonstrations without weapons have ended up in failure.
Only the popular demonstrations of the White Eagle Federation were effective, and under the suppression of the military and police, large and small 'bread uprisings' broke out.
What's more, many of the rebels formed a cult with Bailuo Tianjie as a god.
They were broken by Luo Tianjie's strong force, believing that only the Han Empire that had taken refuge in Luo Tianjie could they get the right to live, and the racial system set by Luo Tianjie was just a test for them.
Being racist or even enslaved is better than starving to death!
All in all, the White Eagle Federation, which yearns for freedom and diversity of thinking, emerged in the outbreak of the uprising, and a variety of sectarian ideas emerged to find a way for themselves to survive in the future.
Even the people's stomachs could not be filled, and the White Eagle Federation, which had done nothing on the battlefield, had been abandoned by them.