Chapter 26: The Coming of the Magical Era Continued What's even worse is that even if the poisonous gas is released frantically to eliminate all living organisms in the contaminated epidemic area, it is still not enough.
Because Yersinia pestis is a very tenacious thing.
According to the medical standards of the Middle Ages, it is almost immortal.
It is very resistant to low temperatures and can survive in the ice for months to years; it can survive the death of others.
It slumbers for decades in leftover furniture and clothes; it can wait patiently in rooms, cellars, suitcases, handkerchiefs and piles of scrap paper until it reappears a few generations later.
Therefore, in the European countryside in the Middle Ages and modern times, there were often horrific legends about a running kid who found a frozen corpse in the icy and snowy wilderness, and pulled out a piece of expensive luxury jewelry from the corpse.
He excitedly took the trophies home.
Then, the disease that had disappeared long ago crawled out from the corpse, resurrected, and swallowed up this unfortunate village bit by bit.
During the spread of the Black Death in 1348, a similar situation occurred.
Most ordinary people naturally avoided the houses where the deceased lived and the items left behind.
But there are also many bold desperadoes, such as thieves and mercenaries, who will sneak into these abandoned and unoccupied houses, steal various valuables inside, and then sell them through the black market that exists in any era.
These shady things As a result, these blankets, clothes, and utensils stained with Yersinia pestis were circulated in markets across Europe.
After passing through the hands of countless merchants, they eventually spread the horrific Black Death to every market town. and countryside.
People who have watched the American TV series The Borgias should know that using plague-contaminated letterheads or gifts to assassinate political opponents was a common strategy used by European bigwigs in the Middle Ages to assassinate each other.
Therefore, letters from enemies cannot be read casually.
You might die just by reading it.
Of course, Yersinia pestis is by no means an invincible killer.
It has very weak resistance to dryness, heat or ultraviolet rays and can be killed by boiling for one minute.
General disinfectants such as cresol, bleaching powder and ethanol can also kill Yersinia pestis.
But the problem is that in the city of Marseille, where ten rooms and nine are empty, and there are no residents left in the city, the time travelers simply cannot organize so much manpower and material resources to carry out a comprehensive sterilization and cleanup of such a huge slum.
Moreover, for at least ten years, no one will be willing to move into these shabby straw huts.
The more decent and good houses are still vacant.
"Well, judging from the current situation, we can only use the simplest and crudest method and burn this place down."
Wang Qiu pointed to the slums at his feet, shrugged helplessly and sighed, "It's just too violent to be able to end everything in one fell swoop."
"Violence and all that are minor problems.
The problem is that setting fires in urban areas is easy, but if it gets out of control, it will be very disastrous."
Looking at these extremely flammable thatched houses, Ma Tong rolled his eyes and rubbed his forehead, "What if it causes a fire that burns the city?"
"That's right, so before you set the house on fire, you have to put in place fire barriers.
There happens to be a good spell here."
Wang Qiu nodded, then turned the "magic book" in his hand to a certain page, and recited aloud: "Dusk よりもDusk きもの, blood flow れより红きもの, time flow れにbury もれし, great なる" Your name is において, I am ここに黑にsworn, I am waiting for が前に立ちsaiがりし, すべての鬼"かなるものに,我とruが力もて,waitしく出びをWRITEえことをドラグスレイブ" Something darker than dusk, something scarier than blood, emerge from the flow of time.
In your great name, I swear in this darkness to remove all foolish things that stand in front of us.
Let’s gather our strength and grant them equal destruction.
Long Po Zhan The show-stopping wizard heroine, "Rogue Buster" Lina.
Inbas's classic ultimate move "Dragon Break" was launched.
"Rumble" In an instant, a dazzling light split the sky and the earth, and the houses, streets, and city walls along the way were all reduced to ashes.
The huge sound like thunder shook people staggering, and the scalding heat wave surged in all directions, especially at the end of this light of destruction. , and a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
Looking down from a high altitude, the scenery is really spectacular.
Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were probably nothing more than this.
All the citizens and villagers who saw this horrific scene were frightened out of their wits.
They knelt down tremblingly one by one, closed their eyes and prayed for mercy.
They all couldn't help but think of the Bible, where God sent fire from heaven to destroy.
The horrific chapter of Sodom and Gomorrah Wang Qiu and Ma Tong, who were flying in the air, also opened their mouths in a daze.
Although they had watched cartoons showing funny magicians, they still underestimated the power of Dragon Break, not to mention being directly attacked.
All the houses hit were reduced to ashes, and even the shock wave and hurricane caused by the explosion swept across half of Marseille Port.
Thousands of houses were simply like tofu, either overturned or collapsed or turned into dilapidated buildings.
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But no matter what, an isolation belt like being run over by a giant was successfully created, completely cutting off the slums from the main city.
"The demolition efficiency is really amazing.
I don't think you will be a city manager in the future.
You may have a better future by joining the demolition team."
After being stunned for a moment, Ma Tong finally calmed down and said jokingly, "Okay, let me do the arson.
My red partner, please let the world feel your majesty, dye the sky red, and give me a piece of it."
Ocean of Fire Meteor Fire Rain Meow Japanese" Boom boom boom As the final "meow" sound fell, hundreds of fireballs instantly appeared in the air and fell like a torrential rain.
Just like a strategic bombing in the World War II era, they quickly burned this abandoned neighborhood into a sea of fire.
Levi, who had just been revered as a "saint", stood in front of his office window, looking at this unscientific and grand scene of destruction, and couldn't help but sigh sadly, "Use magic to cure diseases, use magic to demolish buildings, use magic to set fires, he meows."
Yes, could this world really be entering the age of magic?"
However, after sighing, he sat down at the table again, stared at the map of Provence on the table, and frowned in thought.
At present, Levi has moved his base camp to the Fort Saint-Jean in the port of Marseille.
This was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller of St.
John of Jerusalem in the last century.
However, this castle is not a glorious relic.
A hiding place for cowards: the Knights Hospitaller at that time was The pagans were driven out of the Holy Land of Palestine, and their courage to continue fighting was wiped out by the defeats.
They once wanted to go back to France to find a place to escape the war and live in seclusion.
But in the end, the Knights Hospitaller returned to Rhodes Island in Asia Minor and continued to fight.
Fulfilling his mission as a knight, Fort Saint-Jean was naturally left empty again.
Now that it has been reactivated by Li Wei, the "Knight from the East", it is probably barely returned to its original owner.
Opposite Fort Saint-Jean, across the fishy pier, is the rectangular Saint-Victoire Church, the busiest place in the city, and the official residence of the Bishop of Marseille is also nearby.
Currently, Marikawa Shizuka and Professor Guo are stationed in this church, administering treatments and vaccines to citizens seeking medical treatment to save all sentient beings.
Not far away is the Notre Dame de Lagarde Cathedral built in the eighth century, where the Knights Hospitallers distribute relief food every day.
In short, after the angel came, the situation in Marseille quickly stabilized.
But all the oil and water in the city has been plundered.
"Most of the remaining wealth in the Port of Marseille has been plundered by Doraemon.
Next, we need to get money from other places.
I don't know how that Doraemon owes so many debts just on the fifteenth day of every month.
The interest of 100 million yen is equivalent to 150,000 ducats in this era."
Levi rubbed his head with a headache, "Who should I ask for surgery next?
Is it a fundraiser?"
Marseille, the southern port of the Kingdom of France, is located in the center of a depression surrounded by hills.
It is located at the westernmost end of the unique rocky coastline of the Northern Mediterranean and is a natural harbor.
Further west, on the other side of the large tidal lake called Lake Bercher, the coastline gradually becomes flat, with the Camargue sand dunes of the Firth of Forth and the Rhone delta appearing.
Medieval sailing ships could easily run aground in these areas.
Intimidating to sailors.
At present, although Levi has initially taken over the city, he can only extend his influence to wherever he can see.
As for the entire Provence region centered on Marseille, there are still many doubts about him, but they have been temporarily covered up under the haze of the plague.
The place name Provence used to mean the entire southern France from the Alps in the north to the Pyrenees in the south.
Although today's County of Provence has a much smaller territory, it still includes most of France's Mediterranean coastline in the future.
However, Provence has only become a part of France in name only.
It is made up of members of the French royal family.
To be precise, it is made up of the Anjou family.
This family produced kings of many countries in the Middle Ages.
For example, Britain was also made up of the Anjou family.
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A member of the ruling aristocracy of the dynasty, serving only as count of Provence.
What’s even more sad is that the title of this count is very low, probably similar to that of the Emperor of Japan during the shogunate era.
He is nominally the head of a country, but in fact he cannot even control the capital city of Marseille, and most of the land under his name is Feudal princes, large and small, were entrenched.
They paid little attention to the so-called Earl of Provence.
Each had its own fiefs and troops.
Castles, large and small, occupied every strategic location.
And the Count of Provence, who nominally rules them, would not even be able to step into Provence without the acquiescence of these small princes.
Li Wei's Bacon family was originally one of these unruly feudal princes, and it was also one of the more popular among them.
It had to cling to the lap of the Knights Hospitaller to survive.
But, it happened to be like this.
A guy who is neither above nor below has entered the capital city of Marseille in a big way and climbed on the heads of all the princes.
How can they be convinced by such a thing that reverses the hierarchy?
With the information dissemination capabilities of the Middle Ages, it was difficult to convince these powerful people that the miracles in Marseille were true.
In fact, after the miracle of the "angel's arrival" spread, almost as many powerful local factions came to protest as there were pilgrims coming to perform Hajj.
What's more, even if a living "angel" stood in front of them, some guys with stubborn minds like granite still insisted that it was the devil and called on everyone to tie up these "birdmen" and burn them.
Of course, the result They can only be burned by panicked people.
But this situation only occurs near Marseille.
If it is a little far away from the city, where the "angels" can't be seen soaring, the appeal of Levi, the "saint", will not be very bright.
For example, in recent days, some priests in the city who were grateful for being cured of the plague spontaneously went to nearby villages and towns to preach about the miracles of Marseille and called on people to go to the city to pay tribute and receive medical treatment.
As a result, they were scorned by local princes and country priests, and were even regarded as heretics.
At first, these priests were expelled, and at worst, soldiers were sent to arrest them and be burned at the stake for "spreading heresy".
Only those lords and In places where the priests had died of illness or fled, and the ruling order had completely collapsed, some villagers listened to the persuasion of the "propaganda team" and carried their savings and patients to the city for pilgrimage and seeking help.
The situation was even worse for the nuns' medical team that was dispatched.
After Li Wei took control of Marseille, Mother Teresa, who had just learned some modern medical techniques, volunteered to organize a nuns' medical team, bringing antibiotic tablets, syringes and Plague vaccine, go to the nearby port of Toulon to treat diseases and save people, so that more patients can feel the "favor of God", and collect donations by the way.
These guys don't speak Japanese, so naturally they can't cast healing spells.
Unexpectedly, the warm-hearted Mother Teresa led the team to Toulon and settled down.
After she started practicing medicine, she successfully cured some people.
After receiving the news, the Bishop of Toulon came to the door with several monks and couldn't help but explain.
He scolded her for "piercing the skin with needles and pouring unclean liquid into her skin".
"Into the human body" is a blasphemous witchcraft.
The reason is "because the plague was created by the devil, so only the devil knows how to treat it."
So a large number of citizens were incited to destroy these precious modern medical supplies, and each one of them shouted "For the sake of Purify your faith and destroy these evil things of the devil.”
What makes Mother Teresa even more sad and devastated is that some patients who had just taken antibiotic pills and whose condition had improved significantly also listened to the deception of the bishop and others, shouting, "We have been helped by the devil, and now we can no longer When they go to heaven, they can only fight to the death to apologize for their sins."
He got up and started fighting with the nun who was taking care of them a moment ago.
After beating several people to death, Doraemon finally saw something was wrong from the surveillance screen of the reconnaissance satellite, so he quickly took the time to fly to Toulon, and personally used lightning to kill the bishop of Toulon, scaring him away.
The thugs who wanted to avenge their kindness were able to rescue the remaining members of the medical team, but they were already in a state of extreme embarrassment and with severe head injuries.
From then on, Li Wei was determined not to care about the life and death of Toulon citizens and let them fend for themselves.
He was not a submissive Virgin.
In short, it can be seen that even if he concocted the miracle of "the arrival of an angel", Livy could not make people all over Provence bow to him and offer their property and belongings respectfully.
It would be too much trouble to take the "angels" around and "reason" from house to house, and you wouldn't be able to squeeze out much profit.
Except for a few decent cities, the remaining remote rural areas cannot be financed.
How much does it cost.
Therefore, Knight Levi, who was looking at the map at the moment, moved his eyes to the other end of the Alps: Italy.
In the dark medieval Europe, Italy retained the most ancient Roman civilization heritage.
By the time of the dawn of the Renaissance, the Italian peninsula had the most prosperous city clusters in Europe: Venice, Milan, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Pisa, Siena and the great eternal city of Rome.
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In the fourteenth century, they were not only famous art cities where people gathered, but also financial centers where wealth gathered.
Before being replaced by the Dutch, they had the Wall Street, Ginza and Lujiazui Financial City of this era.
If you want to get a lot of money as soon as possible If so, the wealthy cities of the Italian peninsula, where money flows, are obviously a better choice than the pastoral countryside of France.
But the question is, under what banner should I enter Italy?
The mere title of French Baron is obviously not enough.
The name of the Knights Hospitaller may not be very useful there.
It is not impossible to use the banner of "saint" and lead a group of "angels" to perform "miracles" in every city, but it seems that some "organizational procedures" are still needed.
After all, in this era when the church is powerful, Self-proclaimed "saints" are always not as happy as real saints.
So, he naturally set his sights on a place northwest of Marseille.
Then, when everyone divided the work and cooperated in the city of Marseille and worked hard for several days, finally the prompt "End the Black Death epidemic in Marseille early and get 500 reward points" appeared on Wang Qiu's time travel book.
Knight Li Wei also Taking advantage of the situation, he proposed the next course of action.
"Why go to pilgrimage to the Pope first?"
Wang Qiu blinked, "Why?"
"It's very simple.
In order to go to Italy to raise money," Levi replied calmly.
"Right now, Doraemon needs a lot of money to pay off its debts.
The monthly interest alone is equivalent to 150,000 ducats or Buddhas."
The value of Luolin gold coins is the same, but the city-states where they are minted are different.
Same.
The principal amount is as high as 1.5 million gold coins.
It is difficult for us to raise so much money in France.
Marseille is already the most developed place in France, but we dug deep and searched the whole city to get it. 150,000 gold coins, and Britain's financial situation is not as good as France's.
Nowadays, there is only one place in Europe that can bring out so much wealth, and that is Italy.
However, before entering Italy, we must get a title or position that is fair enough, reasonable and legal, and have an identity that is prominent enough and is important to Italy.
Only a guide who knows the inside story of the political situation is the best way to act there," he explained.
"And the Pope happens to be able to provide these two things.
Only after the above conditions are met, our trip to Italy can be more confident. " "But if you want to go to the Pope, don't you have to cross half of Italy and enter the city of Rome?"
Ma Tong blinked in confusion, "Are you planning to go in a big circle?
It feels like a waste to go back.
It’s time” "No, the pope these days is not in Rome, but has moved to France."
Levi waved his hand, "To be precise, the current papal residence is in Avignon, in the north of Provence.
It is very close to Marseille, only eight miles away.
It’s more than ten kilometers and can be reached in about two days.”oshow7: