163 Black Death

He himself was playing happily in the east, and Khutthorn was not idle, and the port he was going to conquer was Kafami, just west of the Crimean Peninsula, across the sea. Many of the people here were fugitives who were forced to leave the Crimean Peninsula when the Mongol army marched westward, and they were determined not to surrender, relying on supplies by sea, clearing the wilderness, and closing the city without a fight.

The city was besieged for months, and the plague spread again in the sweltering heat.

Unlike last time, this time the plague was rapid and violent, and the onset of the disease was sudden, and the Mongolian army suffered more than 1,000 casualties overnight.

The angry Khut Thorn threw the corpse directly into the city, and the inexplicable Kafa thought that the Mongolian army had no boulder ammunition to attack the city, so he could only use the corpse to smash it.

In less than half a month, the water and air in the city of Alpha were polluted by rotting corpses, and the plague also broke out, and many people grew huge pus nuclei under their armpits and leg sockets, and their whole bodies were blue and black and died in three or four days.

The surviving Kafa opened the gates of the city and fled by boat.

The Mughals were unable to occupy this place, and the plague did not spare them, and the Khutthorns, whose forces were greatly reduced, had to retreat to the Kipchak steppe, temporarily freeing the coastal cities from the shadow of war.

By this time, news of the outbreak of the plague in the city of Alpha had spread throughout Europe, and almost all the ports refused to allow the survivors to land, and some ports in Venice ordered their ships to quarantine at sea for a month before allowing the people on board to go ashore and continue the quarantine. It's just that everyone didn't expect that the rats carrying fleas and germs on the ship were much more powerful than humans, and they had already swam or landed through cables. There is no sanitation in this European city, the streets are full of dirty water and feces, and garbage and debris are piled up, which is a paradise for rats.

Although only the Chaphs were frightened by the mortality rate of the plague, the Muguls hated the 'divine punishment' for not being able to get their treasures, and the Europeans thought that the disease was isolated from the sea, and the arrival of winter also eased the epidemic a little, blinding the Europeans, and only appearing as a talking point in the mouths of the people, making everyone lose their guard.

However, the Grim Reaper will not give up easily, and the plague, which will later be named the Black Death, is about to begin to spread throughout Europe.

In addition, the Han people have better sanitary conditions than Westerners, not only washing their hands and bathing frequently, but also paying attention to the disposal of dirt. It's just that these medical measures written in Chinese have been shelved by many countries, and the arrogant Holy See has directly taken these exquisite paper and text prints from foreign countries as art treasures, and the content has not even been translated.

In the spring of the tenth year of Shenzong, when the news of the outbreak of a large-scale plague reached Dayu, the tragic situation of the first city of Jiafa to fall spread throughout Europe through the largest city in the West, and everyone had already discovered that the plague known as the 'Black Death' was uncontrollable.

The entire coastal cities of the Damascus and Chozhang Seas were not spared. The following year, Britain, across the sea, did not escape, and Southampton, as the first stop of the Black Death, almost no one lived, and many people only had half a day from onset to death. The Erbas, the sworn enemies of the Britons, thought that their curse had been heard by God, and they punished the Britons, preparing to assist God in completely destroying the invaders, but the Elbas were also recruited, and thousands of people died within a few days, and when they were about to return home, they were counterattacked by the Britons, and more than half of them were killed and wounded.

By the end of the tenth year of the Divine Sect, the Black Death swept through Gaul, Germania, Rakshasa and other places in inland Europe, except for the extremely cold regions, this catastrophe did not spare a single town.

The plague arrived in Mamulu in the autumn of the 11th year of the Emperor's reign, spread along the Nile, and eastward to the holy city and Mecca, but eventually stopped at Baoda a year later.

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At first, the frightened people did not know any other effective defense methods except isolation, such as bloodletting, vomiting, smoking, laxative, or bathing in urine, killing domestic animals, cats and dogs, burning lumps, and sticking dried toad skins, and other home remedies such as parades from one place to another, whipping the back with a tribulus whip in their hands, in order to wash away their sins, and of course, at the same time, bringing bacteria to various places, which is more conducive to the spread of diseases. Some kings, out of respect for Dayu, issued 'sweeping orders', but the nobles ignored them and were unwilling to pay more to hire people to do this 'senseless waste of life'.

Disasters are often accompanied by man-made disasters.

Detention, unjust convictions, discrimination, hatred, overwhelmingly targeting vulnerable groups such as strangers, lepers, mentally ill, beggars, the poor, and prostitutes.

The Moses were the first to bear the brunt of the blame. Because their living quarters were cleaner and less intrusive, the isolated parish was isolating them from the general public, making them all the more suspicious. In the Germanic region of Mainz, it is even believed that Moses poisoned the city's wells, and more than 15,000 Moses were burned at the stake or tortured to death. They were being slaughtered all over Europe, slaughtered like animals, or burned alive in wooden huts. Countless survivors rushed to the Crimean Peninsula, passing through various cities where they were evicted and isolated from the sick as a source of infection, killing and wounding severely. This senseless slaughter betrays a deep-seated anti-sorceral sentiment in the hearts of Europeans, sometimes not out of fear of plague or sectarian strife, but because Moses were traditionally forbidden to own property, and many were forced to engage in purely money-making transactions, such as brokerage, or abhorrent money lending. So, in order to get rid of the debt once and for all, ordinary debtors will also raise their butcher knives at them.

In the world of other denominations, the Moses became public enemies.

The only exception was the kingdom of Poreslav, because the most profitable concubines of the successor king Beleslav were the Moses, who not only opened their doors to receive them, but also offered to send troops to escort them to the island of Fulang.

When the helpless physician heard that Da Yu had sent a solution and asked to read and do it, as one of the most famous cities in the Great Qin Empire, Fei Leng Cui (Florence), had been emptied of ten rooms under the repeated plague, especially the clergy who handled the corpses. The belief that the church is the only way to God began to crumble, and people accused the Holy See of its incompetence and incompetence, and began to question the authority of the sect.

However, even with the reminder of epidemic prevention measures, in addition to isolating the sick, the Europeans and the Mugultures have no experience in carrying out rodent and flea control, supplementing sugar and salt water, wearing protective clothing for those who come into contact with corpses, cleaning and hand washing, garbage disposal, etc., and the manpower and materials are insufficient, especially the number of cats that have always been regarded by the Ecumenical Church as the embodiment of ghosts and evil is too small, and the situation has not improved significantly.

Among the few Han Chinese who volunteered to stay in the West to study, there was a proud disciple of Li Dongbi, Pang Xian. He went to the Emerald and, with the support of the Pope, participated in the dissection of the papal physicians, and discovered that the plague was divided into three types and three modes of transmission, and found that the medium that transmitted the plague from rats to humans was fleas, confirming the correctness of Dayu's medical theory. The most convincing evidence is that the herbs purchased from Dayu can effectively alleviate and prolong the patient's condition.

It was nearly three years before Ella, the plague god, quietly withdrew her black wings and took a quarter of the Europeans as trophies, including the one who terrified Westerners.

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Since the middle of the ninth year of Shenzong, Ming Ting led the fleet back to Shangjing, for the Dayu people who have broadened their horizons, the turbulent Western world, even if it is the terrifying Black Death, is just an interesting story in the newspaper, they are more concerned about the trends of the royal industry and the new laws revised by the imperial court, at most sigh what big moves have been made by the armies of the Quartet recently.

Since the seventh year of Shenzong's fleet of 10,000 people went to the Western Ocean, Gu Ci informed the trading company to adjust the plan for the next few years, whether it was the possibility of war in Da Shi or the rise of the Muguls in Europe, it would definitely affect the profits. Her original intention of establishing the royal industry was not to monopolize and brutally expand in the country, but to exert her strength to countries outside the territory of Dayu, which indirectly stimulated the people's attention to Nanyang and the rapid rise of the Shinda family. When the fleet returned, she was pregnant again, and it was not suitable to work, so she had to put her mind on the European side and help sort out some information. Yiqing took over all the day-to-day affairs of the royal estate, and began to spend more time in the country, cooperating with Gu Ao to survey the number of non-slave people, integrate guilds, advise on commercial taxes, trade in mountainous areas, and promote new species.

Now that the Black Death broke out, Western buyers didn't know if they would survive, and the trading company immediately contacted other buyers, and if it didn't work, they would clear their positions and stop losses in time. The buyers who are likely to take over are only the Polo and Chola dynasties, as well as a few daimyo of Dongying, and it is conceivable that the prices are certainly not as high as those offered by the rich Dashi or the Western Holy See.

Gu Ci, who had a big belly, couldn't think of any good way, so he simply asked his husband and the extremely smart ministers to take this opportunity to discuss whether to start tightening the qualifications of maritime trade, control the trade qualifications of maritime merchants, and implement a license system. Then explain that Yiqing lists the supplier quality rankings in various industries from the data accumulated by the Royal Trading Company over the years, and then estimates the scale of transactions that may be reduced, so as to help Yuan Yi do his homework.

In order to prevent the spread of the plague into the country, except for the royal property, the 'navigation certificate' was issued only by the fleet that passed the inspection of the municipal shipping department, with which the port could enter and leave the port. In addition, local governments have also received rectification tasks, whether it is a port wharf, a post station checkpoint, or a city gate or government office, they must strictly implement the principle of 'right entry and left exit, separate entry and exit', so as to immunize the disease from infection.

For the large country that is often hit by the plague, everyone thinks that this is just a trivial matter, and it is the task of the port terminal.

Today's seaports or wharves are conditionally equipped with steam engine barges and cranes for unloading, which is more convenient than manpower or animal power. Although a machine is ridiculously expensive, the queen said that the Industrial Construction Bureau can accept 'installments' - as long as a mortgage of similar value is provided, only a part of the monthly royalty can be used. The usage fee is actually the installment of principal and interest, and the machine is returned to the purchaser after the principal and interest are paid. If the payment is stopped halfway, the Industrial Construction Bureau may choose to take away the collateral and give the machine to the purchaser, or it can distribute the purchase price to the original buyer in proportion to the proportion that the purchaser has paid, as long as a part of the collateral is sold, and then the machine will be sold to another person, deducting depreciation and management expenses. The advent of installment loans, so that many businessmen who operate warehousing are willing to pay money to buy machinery, and the Industrial Manufacturing Bureau has also found that this is more money than a direct one-time buyout, but in the event of a dispute, the Criminal Department may have issued an additional precedent teaching material to guide Dali Temple to judge the case.

There are two other reasons for Gu Ci to pay in installments, one is that the production and cost of prosthetics are relatively high, and the price is not affordable for anyone. Another important reason is to prepare for the excavation of the Suez Canal, Egypt may be the only partner to cooperate, not only because they already control both sides of the Red Sea, but more importantly, they are used to obtaining a steady stream of labor from the hinterland of Africa in the upper Nile to use, it is the Zanginu brought back by Gu Xun.

At present, in order to adjust the passage of ships in and out, many places need to be widened or rebuilt, and it is not a matter that an official can just find some elders and craftsmen to come up with, but also rely on professionals to rebuild. GLG University is happy now, what a great internship opportunity. The Water Conservancy Division sent hundreds of students to various places to help the technicians of the Industrial Construction Bureau. Their professional theories and planning skills have made many official squires who are not impressed with the University of Gregory begin to look squarely at this institution with a higher standard than Heming.

University, compared to Taixue, is only a little worse.