Chapter 14: Operation Cat Rescue across Time and Space "Earn 2000 bonus points for successfully spreading a new influenza virus of the 21st century in medieval Europe" Looking at this line of prompts that appeared on the book of time travel, the cold patient Wang Qiu suddenly became embarrassed and excited.
Poor Europeans, the old plague has not gone away, but the new plague has come again.
Do you want me to become the world-destroying devil?
Don’t underestimate a common ailment like a cold.
Influenza can occasionally kill people.
For example, the Spanish flu pandemic that spread across the world at the beginning of the 20th century and at the end of World War I caused a total death toll in human society.
Not much worse than the Black Death in the Middle Ages Of course, even Wang Qiu felt as if he was being run over by 10,000 grass-mud horses, 10,000 dogs, 10,000 cats, and finally 10,000 squeaks.
Others also felt the same.
No one has such intense psychological entanglements as him.
But then again, since Wang Qiu is still alive and kicking now, it means that this cold virus is not very dangerous.
Because of the high variability of influenza viruses, even modern people who have been tested for a long time will be infected every time.
The cold virus is also a new contact for the first time.
Therefore, in the face of cold viruses, the immunity of ancient people and modern people is almost the same.
At best, the nutritional conditions of ancient people are slightly different, and their hygiene habits and immune knowledge are relatively lacking.
It is unlikely that a time traveler will return to ancient times with a runny nose. , causing widespread death immediately.
But in any case, before the Black Death epidemic has eased, a new plague has appeared, which really makes Wang Qiu feel like he is possessed by auspiciousness.
In short, he did not proactively confess to anyone about the flu, but quietly concealed the bad news.
At the same time, Knight Levi, who knew nothing about the crisis, was still happily talking to Professor Guo Jingguo, whom he met for the first time, about how to carry out cross-time and space trade between medieval Europe and the modern world.
At the same time, he also patted his chest and promised that he would try his best to provide convenience for government exploration teams that might arrive in the future.
After learning that the old gentleman was an official of the government's secret department, he fawned over him in a dog-like manner.
In many novels, trade across time and space is a huge business, and its huge profits can be compared with the New World trade in the Age of Discovery.
In those days, many unscrupulous European adventurers only used some worthless garbage to make money.
Deceived a group of Indian chiefs.
In the novel, those travelers who show their magical powers across the sea can also use mobile phones, computers, mechanical watches, and even simple banknotes to coax the lack of knowledge of the ancients into a daze, thus gaining the first place for themselves.
A pot of gold can be said to be a huge profit.
Although the products in the Middle Ages in Europe were poor, precious metals were scarce, purchasing power was limited, and transportation and logistics were terrible, after all, it was still a huge market of 70 to 80 million people.
If it was managed well, it should still have a bright future.
Not to mention anything else, just by bringing a batch of porcelain, silk and spices from the modern world, what crazy profits could be made in medieval Europe?
To give a simple example, pepper is not valuable in the modern world.
In Europe of this era, it was used as a substitute for gold and silver and could be used directly as currency.
For example, the taxes paid by British counties to the King of England in the Middle Ages often included several pounds of pepper.
This habit continued for a long time, until 1973, when Prince Charles crossed the Taima River to accept the symbolic ducal fief, the fief's tribute still included a pound of pepper as a symbolic rent, and the "pepper coin" was used in Europe.
It was used until the last century.
In the distant Middle Ages, the pepper donated to the royal family was of course not a symbolic tribute, but hard currency that everyone loved.
In a sense, pepper in the Middle Ages was just like the modern dollar.
The most popular "international currency".
Therefore, as long as time travelers from later generations spend a little money to buy a bag of pepper to take with them, they will immediately become popular and super rich.
Taking out one or two grains of pepper every time you pay the bill is simply more respectable than the platinum credit cards of later generations.
If some high-tech products that pretend to be gods and ghosts are trafficked, with the help of Levi, a local snake, the time travelers will definitely be able to drain this time and space.
The rich man's last coin But the problem is that Wang Qiu and the others chose the least suitable time to start trade during their journey through the Middle Ages.
"In normal times, I would have had a hundred ways to sell modern goods all over Europe, but now I can't."
Looking at the map of Europe spread out in front of him, Knight Levi sighed in distress, "As soon as the Black Death came, trade routes were immediately cut off.
Many cities would be closed and quarantined, prohibiting outsiders from entering and exiting.
Most of the wealthy men fled into the wild, God knows where.
Fang goes to them to sell.
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Those who stay in the city have no time to show off their talents anymore.
In short, during this period, all businesses in Europe will gradually stop and collapse.
Except for plague medicine, any luxury goods are unlikely to be sold.”
But no matter what, it is still necessary to prepare some modern products in this stronghold for promotion.
Who knows when customers will come to your door?
So, Wang Qiu went home through Doraemon's pocket, turning his family from a job All kinds of porcelain, from teacups to teacups, especially those finely decorated vases, were all moved here.
There is also a silk shirt and several silk scarves, plus soap, matches, lighters, etc.
After a pleasant conversation, Levi took them to inspect a charity hospital run by the Knights of the Hospital.
By modern standards, this hospital is at most a refugee camp or a concentration camp.
There are no beds for the patients, only a huge bunk where the patients lie on dirty wheat straw and hay.
While watching rats and cockroaches crawling all over the floor, I tenaciously fought against the disease.
In addition to vinegar disinfection, the main treatment methods provided here are still prayer and chanting, and the role of doctor is God.
At least until Sir Levi received the sulfonamide powder and antibiotics provided by the traveler, the situation of the patients was still like this.
However, even after getting sulfonamides and antibiotics, the environment in this hospital ward was still terrible from every angle.
Most of the patients were coughing non-stop, and some were trying to hold back, but this half-muffled cough sounded even more uncomfortable.
Some people were lying in bed with a severe fever, and they were talking nonsense.
Even taking antipyretic drugs had no effect.
Others who had just improved had to support their still weak bodies to take care of the seriously ill patients who were dying and feed them some gruel.
However, although the living conditions in the hospital are very poor by modern standards, the conditions were similar to ordinary residential buildings in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Recently, some people have unfortunately died of illness, but after all, many patients have begun to improve and recover, thus giving the remaining patients It brought great encouragement and confidence to the patients.
After surviving the unspeakable despair and numbness in the past few days, they finally saw hope of overcoming the disease.
In addition to his steadfast faith and the mercy of Almighty God, this is all thanks to the incredibly effective medicines sent by Sir Levi.
So, when Levi led a group of travelers who had changed into medieval costumes, When entering the hospital, both the patients and the nuns and servants taking care of the patients greeted His Lordship in the most respectful tone.
After listening to Li Wei's introduction and learning that these guests had brought the elixir to cure the plague, the nuns and patients treated all the time-travelers with awe and gratitude.
I would like to add that in order to prevent Doraemon from going berserk after seeing the mouse, the time travelers deliberately did not take him with them this time.
However, when facing another group of special visitors brought by Lord Levi, the attitude of everyone in the hospital was very embarrassing.
"Meow meow meow meow" "God, these are all cats.
Where did you get so many cats?
I have never seen so many cats in my life.
Dear Sir, what do you want to do by bringing so many cats here?"
A middle-aged man said The nun looked at the big cats, kittens, black and white cats, and tabby and yellow cats meowing all over the yard in confusion.
Her expression was very strange for a moment, and she turned to Lord Levi with a puzzled look.
"Of course it is to let them catch mice.
Dear Aunty, remember what I said a few days ago, this damn plague is caused by mice.
If the source of the disease cannot be cut off, just curing the patients will not be enough.
It’s not enough, because I would see rats walking around in this hospital every day before the disease relapsed.
I felt that the sanitary environment was really worrying, so I specially brought these cats to kill rats.”
Lord Levi pointed to the cats in the yard and said this enthusiastically.
But they never noticed that when the middle-aged nun looked at these cats, she did not show her love and fascination for cute animals like most modern women do, but was filled with some kind of indescribable feeling.
Resistance and entangled emotions, and even a touch of disgust and fear, just like seeing a Godzilla monster or a three-headed dog from hell.
What Knight Levi didn't expect was that just a few hours later, a sneaky figure slipped out of his family's manor and ran all the way to the city of Marseille, twisting and turning along the streets and alleys. , finally knocked on the door of the Marseilles Pharmacists Guild oshow7: