Chapter 54: Turn Britain into India s: Fixed a small bug.
The order of chapters is wrong.
The previous chapter of Honkai Impact History was Chapter 53, and this chapter is Chapter 54.
September 1348, London, the capital of the Kingdom of England The tall and sturdy Tower of London, a typical medieval castle, stands majestically on the banks of the Thames, overlooking the city and wilderness below.
In this era, the future famous Buckingham Palace was still three hundred years away, and the Tower of London, the future royal prison and execution ground, assumed the functions of the royal palace.
From the Plantagenet dynasty to the Stuart dynasty, all dynasties of England Kings were crowned, ascended the throne, abdicated and died here.
From the window of the white tower in the center of the Tower of London, you can overlook the urban area of London, which is not that big today, and the Thames River, which has been flowing slowly for thousands of years.
However, the Thames River flowing through London at this moment not only does not have the fragrance of birds and flowers and sparkling waves after comprehensive management in the 21st century, it is even more terrifying than the "European sewers" where fish and shrimp disappeared during the Industrial Revolution.
The turbid river is filled with terrible The stench is such that at a casual glance you can see piles of dead people slowly rotting on the river beach.
Between the slightly undulating waves, there are countless disgusting and deathly floating corpses.
Yes, there is rotting everywhere on the Thames River.
The corpses were mostly human, but there were also those of cows, horses and pigs.
Many times, these bodies wash up on the shore.
Then packs of wild dogs would pounce on them, barking and fighting over a piece of dirty carrion.
Ominous crows rested on the floating corpses in the river, lowering their heads from time to time to peck at the "organic floating objects" at their feet.
The messy bones filled the river beach.
Some of them had only bones left, while others still had a lot of rotten flesh left.
From the rotten and swollen abdominal cavity of the corpse, colorful internal organs flowed out and were scattered everywhere on the river bank, attracting countless dogs to feast on the scene.
This scene was like a city of death.
But this city is not really dead.
In the field of vision, there are still a few living people scattered here and there, like zombies, staggering to the river to fetch water, just beside those disgusting floating corpses.
From the outside, most of these living people looked as skinny as wood, unkempt, and looked more like ghosts than people, but they were still alive, so much so that Miss Ma Tong was considering whether to kill them so that they could be freed as soon as possible.
"Holy crap, is this really the Thames in London?
It looks more like the legendary Ganges full of corpses."
Standing at the window of the White Tower, Senior Sister Ma Tong covered her nose with a perfumed handkerchief, pointed at the disgusting smelly river in front of her, and said that it was the end of summer, and even the temperature in London was very high.
So the body decomposes very quickly.
The main stream of the Thames River in front of us is in relatively good condition due to its large volume of water and wide river surface.
However, the few small tributaries that flow through downtown London are simply blocked by corpses.
"No way, the Thames River now is not only the largest open-air toilet in the UK, but also the largest open-air cemetery in the UK.
It looks like the Ganges River in India at that time, or even worse.
Before modern Indians were buried in water, , after all, the body was burned.”
Wang Qiu shrugged and replied, "Besides, according to Princess Joan, even London before the outbreak of the Black Death was almost the same smell.
It was only slightly better in winter, so the royal family likes to go outdoors in summer."
Go hunting in the forest.
The urban environment is so dirty.
It’s no wonder that the plague broke out so violently in London.
Only a few people died in just a month or two.”
Unlike Italian cities that have inherited some of the heritage of ancient Roman civilization and knew how to maintain environmental hygiene, London in 1348 was really submerged in garbage and feces.
There was no exaggeration or embellishment in London in 1348.
There are no sewers, no running water, not even street trash cans and public toilets.
There are only There are only a dozen to dozens of cleaners who are often unpaid, causing London to be drowned in an ever-increasing amount of feces, urine and garbage every moment.
The only thing these cleaners can do is to collect all kinds of garbage.
Dumping into the Thames River These days, there are no excavators, railways, or trucks.
How can we drag the garbage far away from the city and dig deep pits to bury it?
Therefore, any modern person who pays attention to the most basic cleanliness can basically not walk on these muddy roads in London because they are covered with a thick layer of feces and garbage.
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Every citizen seems to be accustomed to dumping garbage and feces into the street, and the horses pulling the carts also maintain the habit of urinating everywhere.
As a result, the road surface is paved higher and higher with all kinds of excrement.
If no one takes care of it, these paving dung piles, which are increasing every day, will submerge the houses on both sides of the street and force people to move to the second floor.
Laughing, even in New York in the 19th century, before the invention of the automobile, the situation was similar.
Especially in some neglected slums in Brooklyn, the feces on the streets were once piled four meters high, so much so that the wheels of carriages were stuck in the feces, causing traffic to be paralyzed.
It was not cleared until the last few years of the 19th century.
In short, it is no exaggeration to say that the citizens of London in this era are indeed living in cesspits and garbage.
When you walk into medieval London, the most impressive thing is definitely the stench that permeates everywhere, making you faint and inescapable.
Unless it snows heavily in winter, the city will be covered with a false white gauze, temporarily covering up its dirty and disgusting side.
And in the summer, if anyone's nose can tolerate the stench of urban London, then they can probably go to the trenches of the French Western Front in World War I to resist gas bombs.
However, the medieval British had already adapted to all this filth and took it for granted.
The rich and nobles stayed in this filthy city as if nothing had happened, having a banquet in the middle of a huge smelly garbage dump, because their bodies were probably as rotten and filthy as the city, and the church spent all day Advise people to pray and practice and not waste time on mundane things like bathing.
Therefore, from the princes and nobles to the common people, most people rarely bathe, let alone get haircuts, and don't even bother to wash their clothes, so that their hair and Clothes are always greasy.
Because there were no sewers, even noble houses rarely had decent toilets.
As for the poor people, they often live together with animals and humans.
A family shares the same haystack with pigs, horses, and donkeys.
Even if there are a few more rats with fleas in the haystack, there seems to be nothing surprising.
So, when the Black Death broke out, this dirty city was caught off guard and headed toward death and destruction at an alarming speed.
The plague broke out so suddenly and violently in London that the city hall and the royal family even Before any measures could be taken, everything was over.
When Wang Qiu and Doraemon opened the door and allowed Princess Joan, who had just recovered from a serious illness but lost her fiancé, to return to London, the capital of the Kingdom of England had also been swallowed by death, and the Tower of London, as the royal palace, had also become a A death hell filled with rotting corpses: The mighty King Edward III of England died, Queen Philippa died, and his legitimate heir, Edward the Black Prince, died.
The Black Prince's two younger brothers, the future Duke of Lancaster and Duke John, the War of the Roses in England in the next century.
The founders of the two camps also died.
The last remaining English prince, the ten-year-old Lionel, was escorted by several noble ministers and took Princess Joan's two sisters, Princess Mary and Princess Margaret, to evacuate London in a hurry.
Flee to the university town of Oxford, which is said to be relatively quiet, to take refuge.
Although it is not known whether the remaining royal family members left a few people who were not afraid of death to look after the house before they fled to Oxford, but after the random door was opened, Wang Qiu and Doraemon led people to rummage through the entire house.
In the Tower of London, which was filled with rotten smells, only one living person was found, a very unexpected guy.
King David II of Scotland was defeated and captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross last autumn.
This noble prisoner who was forgotten by everyone was imprisoned in the attic of the highest spire in the entire palace.
He claimed that no one had come up to bring him food for a week, and he could only survive by drinking the turbid rainwater leaking from the window eaves. , but accidentally avoided the infection of the Black Death.
When Doraemon found him, King David II was already skin and bones from hunger, with more air coming out and less air coming in, but at least he was not there yet.
Called by the Lord Not only has the Tower of London been occupied by the dead, but even the entire city of London, due to the large number of citizens fleeing, there are now only about a few thousand living people left, all of whom have been tortured to the point of mental collapse and madness by the dizzying sight of death. , so that it is difficult to communicate with them normally.
After searching all over London, it seemed that only in the Venetian store did more normal people gather.
When they were frantically searching for money to repay Doraemon's debts, the time travelers took the initiative to make as much money as possible.
Help us withdraw foreign funds, open random doors to our various business offices abroad, and then let us Governor Si rushed over aggressively with a large group of people and ordered those expatriates to quickly hand over all the working capital and valuable goods on hand to pay bills to the "angels" as a sense of citizen welfare.
Doraemon By the way, the Venetian merchants who were sent abroad were also vaccinated against the plague, and the Venetian Merchant House in London was no exception.
So, when the Black Death broke out in London, most of these Venetians were lucky to survive.
It was from the mouths of these guys that Doraemon learned that the remaining members of the English royal family fled to Oxford and the King of Scotland had been Being locked up in prison, one naturally knows very little about what is going on outside.
Then, Doraemon took Nobi Nobita and four other elementary school students to fly to Oxford University City wearing bamboo dragonflies, looking for traces of the English royal family along the way.
Wang Qiu and others stayed in the Tower of London, and together with the members of the British mission who escaped from Bordeaux, and the volunteers sent by the Catholic Church of Avignon to support them, they started to clean up the palace full of corpses, trying to clear out the corpses.
It becomes a little more livable.
"No matter what, London is a little better than Naples now.
At least you can see a few living people, which is already good."
Looking down at this hell filled with corpses from the Tower of London, Wang Qiu said helplessly He smiled bitterly and said, "Anyway, I will never set foot on any street in this city.
Even this palace is already dirty enough and disgusting."
In this era, the concept that "open defecation is a natural human right" seems to have penetrated into the bone marrow of every English person.
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Even in the Tower of London, which is the royal palace, piles of feces can be found in the corridors from time to time.
Of course, there are The more disgusting rotting corpses were due to limited manpower.
Now they only had time to burn and bury the rotting corpses in the palace.
As for the feces and garbage piled up everywhere, they could only wait and clean them up later.
"Yeah, even if the outbreak of the Black Death caused chaos, it wouldn't be like this all of a sudden."
Ma Tong turned around and looked at the corner filled with feces, disgusted He muttered, "Well, it seems like Doraemon and the others are back."
A moment later, Doraemon's five-person team appeared outside the window of the castle, and jumped in one after another.
"Unfortunately, the situation in Oxford is as bad as in London.
Oxford University has completely collapsed.
All the teachers and students who could escape have fled, and almost all those who stayed have died.
The doors of the university are locked tightly, and the campus There were corpses everywhere.
According to the few survivors, at the beginning, the teachers and students buried the corpses in the school garden.
Later, the few survivors hid in the houses and grounds.
In order to avoid contracting the plague, no one dared to bury corpses.
From morning to night, the entire Oxford campus could only see various corpses on the grass, in houses, and in books.
In the library, it was slowly rotting.
Minamoto Shizuka was originally looking forward to going to Oxford University in England to be an international student, but after looking at Oxford University these days, she felt that she might as well go to university in Japan."
While Doraemon drank the mineral water Wang Qiu handed him, he talked about the situation they went up the Thames River to Oxford to detect, "The Prince Lionel and the two princesses who escaped to Oxford are also dead. , we found their bodies in an abandoned church, as well as the only coachman who did not die of illness or escape, and asked him the bad news, "What does it taste like?"
He suddenly frowned, twitched his round red nose and sniffed, showing an expression of disgust, "Ahem, it's so choking."
“Ah, that’s when the British burned various strong-smelling substances in the palace, such as hops, frankincense and sage, as well as deliberately wet firewood and dead leaves, to create smoke.
Use fumigation to get rid of the disease," Wang Qiu replied.
"Why would they do such a stupid thing?
Haven't I already injected each of them with the plague vaccine?"
Doraemon said with a frown.
"Because the vaccine you gave is not effective.
When I was searching the Tower of London and nearby urban areas, a knight who had been vaccinated suddenly developed a fever.
After he came back and lay down, he couldn't get up.
Wait until others noticed his condition No, reports are coming up one level at a time. , and finally when I rushed over with the magic encyclopedia and the automatic medical kit, this unlucky guy had already passed away, and several of his colleagues were also sick.
Fortunately, they were not serious, and they were all saved by me.
Come back."
Wang Qiu spread his hands and said.
"This can't be possible" Doraemon shouted, "Our plague vaccine can't be fake" "This is normal, because what he had was not the plague, but influenza, while the others had malaria and yellow fever."
Wang Qiu rubbed his forehead and sighed, "Doraemon, because the Venetian merchants are running around the world through random doors, the concentrated liquid plague bacteria you released in Jerusalem in revenge has spread back to all parts of Europe, setting off a new wave of A round of compound plague” oshow7: