Chapter 60: Total Collapse of the Middle Ages December 31, 1348, Kingdom of England, Oxford, "Hogwarts School of Divinity" The cold wind blowing from the endless permafrost glaciers in the Arctic Ocean and Scandinavia will pass through the leaden-grey foam of the North Sea every year in the middle of winter, roaring across the entire Great Britain.
The island howls and spreads its endless breath of frost onto the heads of every Scotsman and Englishman. yznnBecause the terrain of this island is generally relatively low and lacks steep mountains that can block the cold current, even Oxford, at the southern tip of the island of Great Britain, cannot avoid the wind, snow and severe cold.
Earlier, the cold current and wind and snow came together.
What often landed on the beaches of Britain was the Viking's leading clipper ship.
However, people in England in this era no longer need to worry about the presence of Viking pirates: because the Plantagenet dynasty that currently rules them and will rule until the twenty-first century is the descendant of a group of Viking pirates.
In the 1,348th year after the birth of Jesus, the winter of this dark year when the great plague swept across Europe seemed to be even more difficult than in previous years.
As soon as November entered, a few light snowfalls fell intermittently.
Even on days when it doesn't snow, the sky is always filled with thick, dark clouds, blocking all the sunlight.
It's obviously just after noon, but it's already as dark as after dusk.
Just after Christmas, a blanketing snowstorm roared in.
The snow powder flying in the leaden sky was so dense that it was almost sticky, covering the fields, forests, mountains and cities with a thick white coat.
The eaves of the buildings in the city are covered with densely packed crystal ice.
Even the Thames River was covered with ice overnight.
The snow piled on the streets of Oxford requires all Hogwarts students to mobilize and use fire spells to complete the basic cleaning work.
As for the roads in the wild, they are completely unreachable.
However, although the weather outside is so cold that it turns to ice, in the banquet hall of Hogwarts College located in an ancient tower, red coals are burning in the huge fireplace, making everyone attending the New Year's banquet feel...
They all felt as warm as spring.
Even though they are in a miserable world on the verge of death and destruction Since the total learning content is only thirty spells, this copycat version of Hogwarts Academy has become a two-week short training class.
At the end of the year, the fifth batch of regular students has successfully graduated, and this batch The number of students also quickly expanded to four hundred.
As for the literacy class set up by the remaining teachers and students of the former Oxford University, it has recruited nearly a thousand students, ranging from lolita young ladies to old men and old ladies: after the large-scale emergence of magic and the world entered the magical age, as long as Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the knight's armor and sword have been eclipsed by Pyroblast and Dragon Break.
"Knowledge is power" has become an ironclad fact In the same way, after teaching the first batch of students, the time travelers basically got rid of the heavy teaching work and directly appointed some graduates to serve as Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs and Slaters.
The deans and instructors of Lin's Fourth Branch used the natives of this time and space to teach spells and spells to the younger students in the form of "old students leading new students", and the teaching effect seemed to be pretty good.
As one of the first graduates of the landowner and "angel" professors, Joan, Queen of England.
Plantagenet herself served as the first Head of Ravenclaw.
As for the dean of Gryffindor, the Pope appointed his physician Jolick to serve.
Queen Joanna of Naples was very interested in mastering Hufflepuff House because she also graduated from Hufflepuff House.
Unfortunately, her country was in dire straits and had many affairs.
Even if there was a free door, she could not stay in England for a long time, so " Sister Louise, a member of the Holy Knight Levi, won the favor of Doraemon because she was good at playing with cats.
She rose to become the first Hufflepuff Headmaster, and achieved a status that was equal to that of the Queen of England. status Finally, there was the position of Head of Slytherin, which the Venetian originally wanted to take.
But others believed that the Venetians had taken advantage of the plague crisis to greatly expand their sphere of influence and had taken too much advantage.
They had to be humble on this matter.
After a long debate, they actually took advantage of Boccaccio of Florence.
The great libertine writer made him the chief instructor of male therapists in Italy Of course, as a guy who makes a living by writing and talking, Boccaccio is indeed one of the best people in mastering the "spell".
As for the most lofty position of Hogwarts Headmaster, in this era it seems that only the Pope is qualified to be the headmaster.
His Majesty the Pope has many things to do and is busy with affairs, so he cannot stay in Oxford all day, so he only uses his name.
In fact, all academic affairs are still handled by the four branches.
At this moment, the four deans and their teachers were sitting on the teachers' bench on the high platform of the banquet hall, listening to the principal's speech.
"Ahem, the year that just passed was a dark and sad year.
Millions, even tens of millions, of Christians were called by the Lord amidst the catastrophe of the great plague and left the world.
Frightened People are so devastated that they even mistakenly believe that the end of the world is coming.
In the past tragic year, every country in Europe suffered pain and destruction unseen in a century.
From Denmark to Sicily, every once-prosperous region was devastated.
Cities were reduced to ruins, and villages were reduced to wilderness.
Whether they were poor or rich, nobles or serfs, they could only wait desperately for death to come.
Even now, the situation in the world is still not optimistic.
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The area that has been saved is only a small part of Europe as a whole.
In the East, in Denmark, Hungary, and Bohemia, the terrible plague continued to rage.
Even in Britain and France around us, not every town had the plague put out in time.
Thousands of believers in the Lord are still struggling in despair and illness, waiting for the salvation of Almighty God.”
Standing in front of the high platform in the banquet hall, the first honorary principal of Hogwarts College, His Majesty Pope Clement VI, looked slightly haggard, coughing slightly, and after just attending events in Rome and Avignon, he delivered today’s speech With the help of the magical random door, the medieval dignitaries temporarily had the miraculous ability to move quickly, but this also invisibly increased their workload a lot.
“However, this is also a miraculous year, a glorious year, and a great year.
When our world fell into darkness and destruction, the Supreme God finally heard the cry for help from the devout believers and sent holy angels, The divine grace that has been given to save us not only heals our ailing bodies, but also purifies and sublimates our souls.
As an unprecedented grace, God has even generously given mortals divine powers, which you already possess.
These magical spells mean that an era of miracles is coming The past year was unfortunate but also memorable.
The omnipotent God not only used a great plague to test the world and eliminate those who were too cowardly or with bad conduct, but also gave us the necessary courage, wisdom and talent to overcome it.
You must be careful about all disasters in the world Use the powers given by God carefully and use them to serve the Lord as much as possible, rather than just seeking personal gain and using God's power to satisfy your selfish desires.
Such behavior simply betrays God's kindness.
It is a serious crime of blasphemy and one must go to hell after death.”
After finally waiting for the end of the Pope's lengthy speech emphasizing the importance of the church and faith, the fifth graduates of Hogwarts School, who had already been waiting a little impatiently, lined up to go to the stage one by one and received the gifts from Doraemon.
Receive the cat ear hairpin representing the graduation certificate and play with it With a cat tail, I happily wear it on my body.
Of course, this cat tail is hung on the belt, rather than inserted somewhere in the buttocks.
Otherwise, it will be fine in summer.
Once winter comes, these guys My butt is about to turn into a lump of ice because I can’t put on pants.
Next, the band, which had already been prepared, began to play cheerful music with lutes, flutes, and snare drums.
Dining tables made of large oak boards were brought in by the servants.
The tabletops were also covered with linen tablecloths.
The lighting provided for the banquet was not dim and choked torches or oil lamps, but was provided by students according to the instructions.
The light spells performed in shifts made the metal tableware and plates shine brightly, which was very pleasing to the eye.
The wine packed in wooden barrels and the home-brewed mead in large stoneware urns also have some rustic charm.
But these medieval British dishes on the table made Wang Qiu, the "angel", stare straight at the sight, and his appetite disappeared instantly.
Modern people who are familiar with European food know that Northern Europeans rely on potatoes to eat, and Southern Europeans rely on potatoes to eat.
Tomatoes, they simply couldn't live without them.
And Britain is a sad country famous for its potatoes and gays.
Wang Qiu has felt that the British have an extreme lack of imagination when it comes to food since he was a child, because judging from British TV dramas and British classics, what they eat every day seems to be: beef boiled with potatoes, mutton boiled with potatoes, pork boiled with potatoes, and roast beef.
Potatoes, roasted lamb and potatoes, roasted pork and potatoes, beef and potato soup, lamb and potato soup, pork and potato soup The only world-class famous dish in the UK seems to be grilled fish and chips, which is what is written in middle school English textbooks.
When Wang Qiu got a little older, he saw the legendary British dish "Looking up at the Starry Sky Pie" from the Internet.
Countless fish heads were stuck on the pie to look up at the stars, "Chocolate Roasted Eggplant", "Goat Milk Boiled Oranges", After dark dishes such as "Pineapple Boiled in Jelly" with an unsightly appearance and an indescribable taste, the status of British food in Wang Qiu's mind has further risen from "ordinary" to "scary".
So, before potatoes, pineapples, chocolate and other American specialties came to Europe, were British recipes a little more normal?
At least, before the New Year Appreciation Banquet carefully prepared by Hogwarts students, Wang Qiu was still looking forward to it.
But when these dishes were served, Wang Qiu discovered with infinite despair that as early as the distant Middle Ages, The British have already distorted the technology tree in terms of cooking and have become a dark country of cuisine that is extremely weird in the eyes of modern people.
This is true for both the Scots and the English.
Putting aside those black breads that are so hard that they can be used as bricks to kill people, the fact is that even medieval white bread is as hard as modern French baguettes.
Even the main course served at the banquet made Wang Qiu feel unbearable.
First of all, let’s be clear.
Europeans in the Middle Ages ate almost anything.
Many Europeans who lived a better life in later generations no longer bothered to care about things that they even found cruel and disgusting, such as sewage and offal.
The hungry and red-eyed poor people in the Middle Ages also ate them. .
For example, the "national dish" haggis, which is served as the highlight by Scottish students at the moment, is made by filling the stomach of a sheep with haggis.
What's more terrible is that Europeans who behave in a rough way are not as willing to spend too much money on cooking offal as the Chinese are.
It takes a lot of time to wash the large intestines and cut the kidneys.
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It is too troublesome for them.
They only know to chop them into pieces and stuff them into some container, or throw them into a big pot and stew them.
People can notice a lot of dirt inside at a glance.
The stuff is really off-putting.
So, looking at the greasy sheep stomach stuffed with haggis on the plate, and the strange-smelling offal soup in the small pot, as a Jiangnan native who never tires of eating, Wang Qiu was stunned for a long time with his spoon. , I just didn’t dare to put it in my mouth, and in the end I had to give it all to a few low-level servants who were drooling.
The dishes of Scotland in the Middle Ages were so unpalatable, and the dishes of England seemed not to be much better either.
First of all, the famous "starry sky pie", in which a group of fish heads were poked on the pie and stared at Wang Qiu.
Moreover, the fish inside the cake was not fresh fish, but salted fish with a stinky smell.
It was so smelly that Wang Qiu thought it came from canned Swedish herring, so he had to cover his nose and order the servant to bring it out immediately and give it to the poor.
In addition, the imaginative chefs of medieval England also explored the creativity of the "Starry Sky Pie": they poked not only fish heads, but also whole crabs and lobsters on the hot pie crust.
In short, Wang Qiu was almost dumbfounded as he stared at the ferocious crab claws and lobster claws poked out of the pie crust.
He could not understand the thinking of medieval English chefs at all.
Although China also has snacks such as crab meat and lion heads, but that's not the case.
Also Crab meat is only put into dishes after being peeled off.
How can whole crabs and lobsters be used as fillings without even peeling the shells?
Do you have a grudge against the diners’ teeth, or are you looking forward to their lip skin and Was a hole poked out of the cheek meat by the crab's claws?
However, when he looked around in shock to see how other people enjoyed this dish, he was even more horrified to find that except for some girls, most of the boys actually picked up these crab and lobster pies.
It makes a crunching sound when chewed.
While spitting out a few broken shells, swallow the whole shrimp and crab together with the pancake.
Well, the diamond teeth of medieval Europeans, which were fully exercised by black bread that was comparable to stones every day, really made me delicate and expensive.
Modern people with fragile teeth are amazed And next, the chefs in England worked hard to present an even bigger "surprise" to you "angels" oshow7: