In order to raise funds for the war, the church increased its efforts to sell indulgences, whether it was witches, thieves, hooligans, or gypsies, Jews, as long as they bought an upgraded version of the indulgences, they could immediately get soul purification.

Even if this was not enough, the Church betrayed the clergy, and even sold the Pope's Golden Crown to Florentine merchants, and used all means to loot money, this time miraculously without criticism or backlash.

Zheng He's fleet docked in the port of London, England.

The king of England at this time was Henry IV, the founder of the Lancastrian dynasty. The nascent dynasty was in the midst of internal and external troubles: externally, the Hundred Years' War with France was still entangled; internally, the nobility of the court and the local powers of Wales were constantly conspiring and rebelling, which made Henry IV anxious and in urgent need of foreign aid, so he welcomed the arrival of the Ming fleet, not only suppressed the opposition of the church, but also personally invited the fleet to dock in the port of London to rest, and used the power of the Ming Dynasty to deter the people who were ready to move.

After docking in London, everyone was bored, Yang Pingfan proposed to go to London for a walk, Su Yu looked at him meaningfully: "Are you sure you want to go?" ”

Yang Pingfan nodded, "It's just a walk, not to make trouble, Dr. Su, you can come along." ”

Su Yu's expression was entangled, and he couldn't bear Li Huamei's soft words beside her, nodded in agreement, Li Huamei brought it, and Sima Ni also had to bring it, so a man and three women, plus a local servant who led the way, embarked on the road of visiting the style of London in the fifteenth century.

As a result, before the group entered the city, they were almost frightened stupid.

A stench like biochemical poison gas collided head-on, almost suffocating the group.

"This is the city? This Nima is a super public toilet, right?"

In front of everyone is the city of London, at this time there is still a city wall, but outside the city wall, there is an extra layer of black and indescribable things, a sky-high smell comes to the face, and the little guy around him smiled and said: "That's poop, we all poured poop directly outside the city." ”

The English people of this era deal with filth in this way, they collect the feces and pile them on the outside of the city walls, and the feces that have accumulated for hundreds of years form a "fecal belt around the city", and London at this time is like a pearl on the feces protected by poop.

Not only that, but the moat has also formed a septic tank, and the defense capability has also been greatly improved, after all, the smell of that smell, the enemy army has already been stunned by more than half.

In fact, not only London, but all European cities at this time, there was a similar biochemical atmosphere.

In order to do this, the director of "Perfume", a film about medieval Paris, even flooded the streets of the location with more than a dozen tons of fish and animal carcasses - the reason for this was to create a slimy and muddy street covered with dung, rotten meat and all kinds of animal offal.

The film is only the tip of the iceberg of the dark ages of medieval Europe, when the sanitary state of the romantic European cities was really good: Romeo has yellow teeth and his boots are full of fecal marks, and Juliet has only bathed two or three times in her life, and her stench is by no means deliberately smeared, but a real historical existence.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the barbarians who took over the imperial legacy had no financial resources or technology to maintain the advanced sewer system, and due to the lack of experience in urban construction and the awareness of garbage disposal, the huge amount of waste generated by the population exceeding the urban load could only be piled up at will, making Europe a huge "garbage can".

Marco Polo described the East as a land of gold, and in fact Europe at that time was also full of "gold"—a mixture of soil, animal dung, animal offal, rotten fish and shrimp, and human dung.

These things, usually no one will clean them up. In the hot summer, after the sun is scorching, the trampling and stirring of many people will continue to emit a unique flavor that makes people faint.

Why is there so much poop and urine on the streets?

At that time in Europe, toilets were a luxury, only a few nobles owned, and they did not have complete drainage projects to clean up human excrement in time.

For ordinary people, the floor is their toilet, the street is their toilet, as long as there is an impulse, it can be solved anytime and anywhere, and it is okay to be able to bury it a little after pulling, and more people don't even wipe their butts and just put on their pants and leave.

Goethe once recounted his experience, once when Goethe was staying in a hotel in Garda, Italy, and he asked where it was "convenient" to go, the hotel man handed him a shovel and calmly told him that he was in the yard.

Not only the plebeian quarters, but even the supreme rulers could not escape the baptism of feces, according to historical records, the situation in the Louvre is as follows:

"Inside and outside the court, in the corridors and behind the doorways, and almost everywhere one can see thousands of piles of 'excrement', and people will smell the foul smell, which is caused by the natural needs of those who live in the Louvre, and those who go to court every day......"

In the end, Louis XIV could not stand the stench of the court, so he came up with a way to move back and forth between the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, and the Fontebleau Palace, living in one place, cleaning the next, until this side was almost ruined, and then changing to the next.

In addition to paying attention to the road under your feet, you should always pay attention to the "feces and urine bombs" above your head, because at that time, every household did not have toilets and sewers, so you had to splash them on the street...

In order to solve the dilemma of flying in the sky, England issued a decree that "no one shall pour 'water' or 'excrement' from the windows of the building, day or night, or else he will be punished with a fine." ”

The fine at the time was 40p, but the rich didn't care about the little money and continued to.

So the authorities had no choice, and for the sake of urban sanitation, a new decree was issued: "If you are willing to shout three times to pay attention to urine, you can dump urine and feces from the windows of the building." ”

That's how watch out came about...

Yang Pingfan flashed a basin of sewage falling from the sky, and after listening to Su Yu's explanation, he couldn't help but complain: "Su Bo...... Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"It's not that you insisted on coming and looking, besides, I also knew from the information, and I thought the report was biased, but I didn't expect the Europeans to be so honest in this regard. ”

Except for the little guy who led the way, who was used to all this, the other three girls all wrinkled their little faces, looking happy, and it seemed that they might vomit out at any time, Yang Pingfan still didn't give up, "Let's go directly to see Tower Bridge and Big Ben in London, and slip away directly after reading." ”