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Chapter 632 The Irishman by the Shannon River

Residents on the island of Ireland are also struggling, with potato blight far more severe than expected.

As potato production dwindles, prices of other crops skyrocket, and families with modest savings find themselves unable to afford expensive crops.

The food that Franz asked the church to leave on the island of Ireland could only lighten their burden, not save everyone.

As a result, some people focused on the things in the cellar, and some people took them as their own and really changed their "identity" and "destiny".

But the price is to sacrifice other people in the village. At this moment, the ugliness of human nature is fully revealed.People robbed each other of the things in the cellar, bloody and cruel between villages and villages, villagers and villagers.

The result was that Franz's previous layout was wiped out. Instead of benefiting from the things in the cellar, people suffered even more severe losses.

This was beyond Franz's expectation. He thought everything too simply.

In fact, it is very difficult to help each other in the same boat without restraint from others.

But what is surprising is that the British chose to turn a blind eye to everything that happened on the island of Ireland. Those who were alive and dead seemed to not exist.

Even after some journalists reported what happened in Ireland to the newspapers, the attitude of the British government and the mainstream media was that maybe what happened there, but no action should be taken before the matter is clarified.

And during the debate in Congress, many members of Congress claimed that the laws of the market are sacrosanct!Violation of it will inevitably lead to punishment, which is particularly deterrent for Britain, which has suffered two economic crises in succession.

Although Robert Peel is more inclined to rely on market laws and time to solve problems, he actually made some suggestions, such as amending the "Corn Law".

Although his proposal was unanimously supported by industrial and commercial capitalists, it was collectively opposed by agricultural capitalists (farmers) and nobles. The latter held high the banner of free trade, and even the British Prime Minister couldn't help it.

In the end, only one proposal was passed by Parliament to seek a solution from the community, and the person who solved the problem on the island of Ireland at this time would be rewarded with 50 pounds and a silver medal.

That's right, it's fifty pounds, and fifty pounds is only enough for those officials and gentlemen to rent a cheap carriage for a year, and if it's a luxury carriage, it may not even be enough for a season.

The British media did not pay much attention to this matter, among which the "London Times" commented on it:
"The Celts on the Shannon River should be like the Reds on the Manhattan River! In order for them to waste less food, the government should be like the Americans!"

Let me talk about it here, the red people on the banks of the Manhattan River refer to the Native Americans and Indians in the United States.The most useful policy of the US government is the "Scalping Act".

In 1814, the U.S. government officially promulgated reward regulations, and rewarded brave men who scalped Indians, with a reward of $100 for a male scalp and $50 for a female scalp.Eventually evolved into today's "Indian Removal Act."

But the world is not all bad people.

Queen's Village, Southern Ireland.

Witnessed by the most influential men in the village, the village head opened the door of the cellar, and then took out two large bags of grain and began to "equally" distribute them to everyone.

In fact, women, children and the elderly can only get half the rations of adult men, which makes Skaha Jennings very unhappy, because there are too many women in her family, and her eldest brother is often away from home.

As the gate was closed heavily, the chains surrounded it again, and with the click of the lock, all the people started the mass for this month.

Since there is no priest, the villagers can only perform baptisms by themselves.It's just that this is as happy as the Songkran Festival in the eyes of the children, and they have no sense of crisis at all.

The worried adults seemed to be infected by this emotion, and they no longer frowned. Perhaps it was the cellar that gave everyone hope.

But everyone knows that the food in it cannot be endless, and people will eat up all the food in it one day, even if they don't eat it up this year, but what about next year?

But relatively speaking, they are already very lucky, because some villages have starved to death, and some people even killed each other because of robbing food. What's worse is that some villages don't have such cellars at all.

Skaha's sleep is very bad recently, because her elder brother doesn't know what he's planning all day long, and that Wynn doesn't feel like a good person.

"But how to remind Patritt?" she mused.

However, Scathach soon saw his eldest brother again. After all, it is not so easy to be a "wild child", especially on the island of Ireland at this time. up.

Patritt's face and hair should have been specially arranged, but the tattered clothes on his body still betrayed him, and he huddled and waited for his sister's relief.

Fortunately, the elders in the village did not forget his share, and it was self-evident that his parents specially handed over Patrick's share to Skahaqi.

"Hero, are you hungry?" Skaha joked.

"Don't be a fool, I haven't eaten for three days. If you don't let me eat something, I'm going to starve to death." Patric said.

Scathach continued, shaking the pancake in his hand at the same time: "Then why don't you go home?"

Although they are called pancakes, they are actually made of flour and grass seeds, both in color and taste.

But Patrick still snatched it up and started chewing it. He didn't know if the pancake was too hard, or the gums were a little loose due to lack of nutrition, and the pancake was soon stained with blood.

"Why don't you go home? Your parents miss you very much, you are the eldest son, you want to inherit this family!"

Patritt was sniffling and nibbling on pancakes.

"Irish men keep their word!"

Scathach was not moved by the other party's speech at all, but asked rhetorically.

"Then the oath you said before to protect your family doesn't count?"

Patrick was speechless for a moment.

"I will silently protect my family"

Patritt was obviously a little lacking in momentum, and Scathach seized the opportunity to continue.

"You can't even take care of yourself! Who else can you protect! Come home with me!"

"If I don't, I'll lose face!"

"You have blown a lot of cowhide, everyone knows what kind of person you are!"

Scathach pulled Patrit and walked towards home.
But in fact there are not many places like Queens Village, but this level of despair seems to be used to the Irish.

Compared with the following years, Ireland at this time can even be described as calm.

O'Connell continued his action, and again he was greeted warmly at Borrez.The people were starving and there was no green flag for Ireland.

But those people still shook the branches vigorously, as if they were welcoming the coming "victory".

(End of this chapter)