Not only Italy, but also in northern Italy, the plague also reached the capital of the Byzantine Empire with the Black Sea Passage of Italy, Stantoinoburg.

The two commercial cities of Genoa and Venice were also hit by the plague, and although Genoa blockaded its ports and refused any foreign ships, one ship had to look for ports along the coast because of the refusal.

The French port of Marseille accepted it, and the Black Death came to France.

A great plague, if it cannot be controlled in the initial stage, is almost a catastrophe that can no longer be prevented when its scope expands.

At that time, the sanitary conditions were extremely poor, everyone had fleas, even if a person had antibodies on his body, he would not be infected with the Black Death, but the fleas on his body were also spreading disasters.

As long as a person with the Black Death virus enters a city, it will not take a few days for any prosperous city to become a dead city, and Milan, Turin, Verona, Florence and other prosperous and wealthy cities have all stepped into such a disaster.

Everywhere the Black Death went, food was scarce, prices were skyrocketing, morals were ruined, families were broken, churches were broken, governments were dismantled, and the end of the world was imminent.

Under such a disaster, there are countless people in Anhui who hide themselves in their houses and starve to death, are abandoned by their relatives, and feel that God's end is imminent.

Social ethics and reason have completely collapsed, and all human order has completely dissipated, even if you kill a person or a girl on the street - if you can find a living person or girl on the street, then most of the time no one will stop you, you will only hide behind the cracks in the doors and windows, quietly paying attention to the situation in the outside world.

In such a situation, many people find a place to isolate themselves from the world in order to escape this disaster.

The famous Italian novel "Decameron" is a group of young men and women who hide in a country house to escape the Black Death, telling stories and chatting to survive.

However, all human resistance, in the face of the Black Death, became a joke.

No matter how elite the army, no matter how holy the group of masters, no matter how devout the believers of God, in the face of the Black Death, they were just a group of rotting corpses, and the plague spread faster and faster in Europe.

By 1348, only ten years after the appearance of the Black Death in 1338, the entire European continent was already enveloped by the Black Death, and all disputes between human nations were gone, replaced by the fear of being shrouded in this darkness.

In later generations, there are often stories of "medieval dark creatures are extremely powerful, and countless vampires and werewolves are rampant", which should be from the disaster of the Black Death, which makes everyone who has experienced and understood frightened, and the power of the Black Death is as terrible as those extraordinary dark creatures, and human beings are just food to take in front of them!

Even in 1352, even Moscow was struck by the Black Death.

The period 1348-1352 was the peak of the Black Death, and the Decameron was written during this period, so you can imagine how much of a shock this catastrophe that began in Italy had on the Italian writer Boccaccio.

The catastrophe lasted for a long time, and in many countries, such as Smolensk, in 1386, only 5 people died!

About 25 million people died in one-third of the continent, which does not mean that only one-third of the population died in one place, but that "in the areas where the Black Death broke out, almost all human beings died, and in the rural corners where the Black Death did not spread, the population of Europe remained."

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For Duluth, the Black Death was just a legendary term, and he knew it was terrible, but he had only paid attention to the death of humans, and when he heard that only a third of the population and 25 million people had died, he thought it was just a larger plague.

But now, in the midst of the maid's narration, in this medieval European region, I experienced that great horror.

In the game, in order to let the player understand the history, Duluth can look around, looking for Europe that was ravaged by the Black Death at that time, and then the hell on earth will actually appear in front of him.

The maid didn't know that the world she lived in still had the Black Death, otherwise she would be so scared that she couldn't speak.

Now, he just continues to explain the history he knows.

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After the Black Death gradually disappeared, the medical officers and the church vigorously preached that the dirt on the human body could resist the disease, and promoted this propaganda as usual.

At this time, the Europeans, who were almost frightened crazy by the Black Death, where would they mind a little discomfort on their bodies?

The prevailing view at the time was that water would weaken the function of organs, and that bathing would open pores and allow toxic gases to enter the body.

The so-called "toxic air" is probably a metaphor for the "Black Death", which makes the skin and pores tense all the time, which seems to sound very reasonable, so most people believe this statement.

Even if I don't know whether it's true or not, but this life-saving straw is tightly grasped by everyone, after seeing that I don't take a bath, the Black Death gradually disappears, and it really doesn't appear again, no matter how much I like to be clean, I also threw myself into the army of "not bathing" without hesitation.

In particular, the monks of the time set an example by thoroughly implementing this propaganda of the Church.

Under the influence of the Black Death, there was a wave of "no bathing" in Europe, and the Church even honored this act with glory.

During the period of the Black Death, it was normal for Europeans not to take a bath, or even to wipe their faces with a dry cloth in the morning.

But people are human beings after all, and if they don't take a bath for a long time, no one can stand it.

Therefore, with the disappearance of the Black Death, most people believe that "dirt can resist disease", but they will still find water to take a bath when they can't stand it, but they should not dare to wash the dirt completely.

For this reason, it also fell into the reputation of "Europe does not bathe for a thousand years".

Although this statement is too exaggerated, the church at that time did believe that the dirty body was closer to God, and that not bathing became a symbol of holiness, and those who had the courage to not take a bath for many years would be canonized as saints.

So, lured by this great spiritual inspiration, many devout clergy and Christians began a painstaking practice of filth – St. Abraham persisted for 50 years without washing his face or feet, and finally succeeded in canonization.

Monsieur Saint-Simon allowed the worm to arch over his festering wounds, and never washed it until he died.

Madame Saint Euffracia presided over a convent that taught more than 130 of the most devout nuns, strictly supervising them for the rest of their lives.

The mother of King Henry IV of France insisted on not bathing for the rest of her life and was canonized as the Holy Lady of Agnès......

PS: Originally, I finally saved the chapter manuscript, thinking of keeping it for emergencies, but the plot of these two chapters about the "Black Death" is relatively compact, and it is estimated that it will be very uncomfortable to wait for people to wait urgently, so Shao Chong simply added a little more for the two helmsmen, and talked about his heart, and he was indeed very happy that he had not had a helmsman for a long time.

Thank you brothers for your strong support for Shaochong, the only thing that is depressed is the domestic video website I just found the day before yesterday, and it was blocked after only two days of watching, painful, brothers come to two monthly tickets, recommended tickets to comfort you~~