Chapter 35: The end of Rome It has to be admitted that the spiritual quality of most ordinary people in medieval Europe was actually quite tough by the standards of modern society.
The citizens of Avignon, who were mobilized by the church to clean up and burn the Port of Naples, which was currently full of corpses, deserted, and smelly and stuffy, did not express much shock or surprise.
On the other hand, there were many people who knelt down beside the random door in fear, looking like they had brain cramps and mental breakdown.
They worshiped incoherently, probably because the former scene was miserable and terrifying, but it was still within the understanding of medieval Europeans like them.
Inside: Those villages and towns that were massacred during the war, as well as the mansions that were destroyed by their enemies, would probably have similar situations.
Even in medieval European cities with "normal" security, most of them were similar to the black areas of Detroit in the 21st century.
Murder cases and collective riots occurred every three days.
Most of the simplest citizens had seen victims being raped.
A tragic scene of disembowelment.
The reason why they were afraid of the corpses of plague victims before was that they were worried that they would be infected with the disease after coming into contact with the corpses, and die like those unlucky ghosts.
Now that they are protected by angels and protected from diseases, what else is there to be afraid of?
In comparison, the random door that can cross thousands of miles in an instant is already a "miracle" that is completely beyond the understanding of medieval European civilians.
Fortunately, an "angel" has come once before, allowing these bumpkins to have unprecedented access.
My imagination has been opened up for a while, and I have become somewhat adaptable to all kinds of incredible anomalies.
Otherwise, someone would probably be stimulated to the point of being mentally disturbed by now.
The mobilization ability of the church in this era is truly amazing.
Following the order from Pope Clement VI, those priests who had not yet died from the plague immediately began to split up, conveyed to each level, and divided into pieces.
It only took one day to arrive at the ten-room building in Avignon.
In the deserted city, three thousand volunteers who were willing to go to Italy to collect the bodies were mobilized.
Then, seeing that this number of people was not enough, the Holy See sent priests with the Pope's decree to walk through the streets and alleys of the nearby countryside in search of survivors.
In the end, they gathered a team of four thousand people.
Seeing such a scene of unity and cooperation, Wang Qiu and other modern Orientals with weak religious concepts vaguely understood what the so-called "theocratic supremacy" in medieval Europe meant.
Like the party organizations of the 1900s, Christianity had completely penetrated into every corner of social life in medieval Europe, dominating the thoughts and behaviors of everyone in medieval Europe.
God is the starting point of all thinking and behavior.
As the representative of God in the world, the authority of the Pope can also be imagined.
Everyone's family, career, and public life are all subject to the constraints of the church, and people have long been accustomed to accepting such constraints and take them for granted.
Although this suffocating control had been loosened somewhat in the early years of the Renaissance due to various corruption scandals in the church, its final collapse was still far away.
Moreover, another characteristic of medieval Europe was a hierarchical society.
Everyone was divided into different grades based on their origin or occupation.
They were all subordinate to a clear superior member and should obey orders and leadership, without freedom in the true sense.
Strict laws stipulate the rights and obligations of each class, and the gap between different classes is almost insurmountable, even in the ravages of war and plague.
At first glance, with its clear and strict hierarchy, the fanatical atmosphere of national participation, and the pervasive ideological control, this is simply a wonderful mobilization system set up for general war.
It is a pity that above this mobilization system, there is not a general staff composed of professional officers, but a group of magicians who make a living by deceiving people with their words.
What they plan every day is not to invade enemy countries or to launch a full-scale resistance war, but to organize various religious processions, long-distance pilgrimages and collective prayers, plus some public welfare activities at most.
As for the kind of crusade with the participation of all the people, it is already It happened in the last century, okay, this seems to be quite harmonious, isn't it?
At least it's better than just fighting and killing all day long.
In short, with the enthusiastic efforts of this volunteer labor team, in less than a week, the city of Naples, which was full of rotting corpses, was initially cleaned up, and all kinds of gold and silver utensils, woolen blankets, and natural gemstones were , as well as valuable items such as antiques, were also searched out by tireless volunteers from all corners of the city, and were delivered to Doraemon and others like water, and were thrown into the automatic pawn machine.
Unfortunately, the productivity level of ancient agricultural society cannot be compared with modern industrialized society, and many of the most valuable gold and silver items were taken away by fleeing people.
There were also many equally valuable horses that were scattered into the wild or starved to death in stables.
Therefore, after all this trouble, even though these volunteers with no salary, no vacation, no labor insurance, and no human rights have worked very hard, Comrade Doraemon finally only received 300 million yen in revenue, which made He complained all day long that this little money was not even enough to put his teeth between his teeth.
On the other hand, after several days of searching, Queen Joanna, the Holy See of Avignon, and Paladin Levi's men finally found about a few hundred people who were lucky enough to survive in several remote villages and small towns. of the Kingdom of Naples.
In addition, a prominent lord and noble was found in a castle full of dead people.
But at this moment, his entire family was dead, and he was sitting alone on the tower like a walking corpse.
This guy was one of the top traitors who colluded with the Hungarian army to expel the Queen during last year's coup.
But now, Her Majesty Queen Joanna, who has been disheartened by the country of the undead at her feet, does not even have the anger to get angry and execute the traitor.
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The familiar face she once knew, seems to have been completely obscured at this moment.
The Lord is calling.
It’s rare that an old acquaintance is left.
Let’s spare him this time.
However, even if Queen Joanna pardoned his crime of rebellion, this once prominent and ambitious nobleman had no intention of loving the world.
His castle had become a tomb, and all his relatives, subjects and friends were dead, and even There were few people he knew in this world.
Even he himself had been seriously ill.
He barely survived, but his body was covered in scars and his face was completely disfigured.
He might not be able to live for a few more years.
As a result, this guy saw through the world, became disheartened, and became enlightened.
After watching everyone burying the bodies of his relatives and ministers, he donated all the gold, silver and jewels secretly stored in the family to the "angels" to atone for his sins, and then simply went to Ah Vignon went to a monastery and became a monk.
Faced with such a bleak end for her old political enemy, Queen Joanna was so sad that she even lost interest in the cause of national restoration.
As we all know, any country throughout the ages is ultimately made up of humans rather than land.
In the long history of mankind, some nations once lost the homeland they worked so hard for, but as long as they found a new place to settle after being displaced, they could rebuild their country again.
But if a kingdom loses its subjects, no matter how fertile the land it possesses, it is meaningless.
This is the so-called principle of "losing land and people, both people and land are lost; saving people and losing land, everyone is gaining land."
So, in the silence that made observers feel panic and palpitations, the Kingdom of Naples, which once dominated southern Italy, , in fact, it is already on the verge of destruction.
Although the murderer who subverted this country was not any foreign enemy or rebel, but the more elusive and irresistible god of death, but in terms of the result, for the queen, it was more dangerous than any foreign enemy invasion or subject rebellion.
It will be even more desperate.
It may be possible to regain subjects and territory lost to the enemy through war and diplomacy.
But where should the souls that have been cut away by the god of death with a scythe be restored?
Even the angels don’t seem to have the ability to bring the dead back to life.
In the same way, the time-travelers failed to get even a single reward point from the main god system after all their efforts in the city of Naples.
Even human beings, the most basic carrier, are almost dead.
What else can be changed about the history of this place?
Next, all the travelers who still have some integrity and sense of responsibility originally planned to send Buddha to the West and continue to linger in the Kingdom of Naples for a while, so as to gather some surviving subjects for Her Majesty Queen Joanna, who is determined to restore the country, and establish a A safe settlement or refuge would be best served by the provisional regime of the Kingdom of Naples.
She should not be allowed to wander alone like a beggar in her own land.
But Pope Clement VI and members of the Avignon Holy See were greatly stimulated after witnessing the tragic destruction of the Kingdom of Naples.
They were afraid that the city of Rome had also suffered such a fate, and they were anxious to go there.
Find out more about the Eternal City, if there is still one If they want to save, it is best to use the power of angels and seize the time to rescue them.
In short, nothing can turn the Papal Kingdom into a country of the dead.
Therefore, they insist on not wasting time in the Kingdom of Naples and can't wait to rush to Rome in the next second.
Centered in the Papal States.
In addition, Queen Joanna herself was unsatisfied and was so disheartened by the tragedy of the country that she actually felt that it did not matter whether the kingdom, which only left the dead, could recover or not.
Perhaps she could continue to stay in Provence and receive the blessings of angels nearby. and protection until the plague is over It would be good to calm down at the end.
So, after roughly combing the remaining belongings in the city, finding the few survivors of the Kingdom of Naples in the nearby countryside, and rescuing the city of Avignon through the random door, Queen Joanna's trip to restore the kingdom , it ended hastily.
Before leaving, everyone also set a fire in this silent city of death, so that the corpses that had no time to dig holes and bury them were reduced to ashes along with this abandoned city.
It was supposed to be sterilization and disinfection for those who were infected by the plague like this.
Living in a settlement that is completely contaminated by bacilli would be a suicide for ordinary people who have no resistance.
It is better to burn it down and rebuild a new city, which is more convenient and hassle-free, and then leave through the random door with a sigh.
Then, after returning to the city of Avignon in France to rest for a while, Doraemon once again opened the random door that changed the destination, and took the anxious people of the Holy See on the journey to Rome.
When he stepped into the random door, the Pope was still muttering to himself while making the sign of the cross, praying to God to forgive the corruption of the Holy See, and at least not to let the eternal city of Rome be swallowed up by the plague.
However, Pope Clement VI’s extravagant prayer may be doomed to fail.
In this terrible plague that seemed to be raging like a prairie fire, the once densely populated Italian peninsula was completely destroyed from south to north in just half a year.
Almost all cities and villages were turned into a piece of land.
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A place of death filled with bones.
Obviously, in this kind of indiscriminate and unprecedented catastrophe, the so-called "Eternal City" Rome will naturally not escape the disaster.
Central Italian Peninsula, "Eternal City" Rome Since Rome was strictly an inland city, its main urban area was not close to the sea and had no direct contact with the Genoese "death fleet" that brought plague bacteria from the Crimean Peninsula.
Therefore, during this ferocious plague, at least as far as the Italian peninsula was concerned, the city of Rome was considered a place where the Black Death broke out relatively late.
However, as far as the miserable scenes that everyone saw after entering the city of Rome were, they were still shocking at every turn.
When Wang Qiu opened the door and walked to St.
Peter's Basilica, the most sacred St.
Peter's Basilica in Rome in this era, before it was rebuilt.
When we were in the square in front of the church, we were shocked to find that in front of us, around us, and on our left and right, the entire huge square was filled with patients lying side by side, all covered in black spots, pus, and smelly.
A considerable number of people are already dead, and the remaining living people are half-dead and gasping for breath, but there are no nursing staff to take care of them, and even the most basic food is not provided, so that these hungry and thirsty patients can only Lying next to the dead man in despair, moaning slightly with cracked lips, surrounded by large pools of vomit, and mosquitoes and flies buzzing around, the smell was really unpleasant.
In addition, every room in the church was littered with rotting corpses, emitting a strong stench, but no one went to bury or burn them.
Even when I occasionally meet a few seemingly normal citizens, their eyes are dull and their reactions are slow.
They just walk around stupidly and don't respond no matter how you call them, as if they are mentally retarded or demented.
Moreover, he would often suddenly vomit blood and fall down while walking, and would never get up again.
Of course, compared with the eerie silence in Naples, being able to see so many "very lively" living people in Rome is already a big improvement worth celebrating.
But the problem is that in many cases, having more living people in a certain city may not necessarily be a good thing, especially when all morality, order and law have collapsed.
After passing through the random door and arriving at St.
Peter's Basilica in Rome, before the "angels" had time to use their healing techniques to save the patients, they noticed the billowing smoke rising from the streets not far away, and heard the sound of smoke rising from the streets not far away.
When there are all kinds of hysterical roars and screams, if you look carefully with your eyes wide open, you can still see many crazy guys using swords and torches to destroy this sacred city that belongs to God oshow7: