Franz honored their agreement and released Zhu Qiongying. After all, he still needed her to keep the Southern Ming under control.
And what if someone in the Southern Ming seized the opportunity to rebel? What else could he do? Naturally, he would have to set things right. After all, he was now the ruler of Austria, not the Southern Ming.
After Austria and Britain reached a truce, the Austrian Imperial Church resumed its relief efforts. This time, the missionaries were joined by priests from Rome, Italy, Spain, and even France.
After all, rescuing the Irish from British hands was a major event in the Catholic world, so it was only natural for people from other countries to lend a hand. What was truly abnormal was the way Austria had been the only country doing all the work before.
By then, the British leadership's view of Austria's relief efforts had changed. Rather than keeping the Irish around to cause trouble at home, they might as well send them off to cause trouble in other countries.
In fact, compared with providing relief and sending in troops to maintain order, handing them over to the Austrian Empire was the cheapest option.
But the British Government still clung to its customary inhuman ways, deliberately foisting the old, weak, sick, disabled, and criminals onto Austria.
The people primarily responsible for the relief efforts came from the Church, however, and they didn't have much of a problem with these people. At the very least, their attitude was far better than everyone else's.
Since medicine was a required subject in the Austrian Church, Austrian priests were quite skilled at treating the sick.
The herbal medicine championed by the Austrian Church was especially effective against certain strange diseases that seemed extremely difficult to treat at the time. Common