There were indeed hundreds of French laborers on the island of Capri, who had been transferred from Vesuvius. Today, they are all kept in the military camp on the island, and when they have work, they are watched to come out to work.

Modeste did not take away the rights of the French laborers, so he began to lobby the island's Spanish official, Calis, to gain control of the French laborers, and quietly revealed his plans.

Truth be told, Calis also supports this plan in his heart. But thinking of Toleni's fate, Calis didn't dare to mess around. So, he reported the matter to Gonzalo.

Gonzalo was worried about smallpox in Spain, and he was worried that Spain, which had been baptized by smallpox, would be crushed by France. For strategic reasons, Gonzalo decided to support Modeste's approach. Indeed, this is a good way to do it at the least cost.

However, Gonzalo also knew that this matter was very risky. Toleni has already put his life on the line, and whoever does it is in danger......

But if they don't, the French will happily watch Spain unlucky, and take the opportunity to overpower Spain. Even, the conflict between the Kingdom of Naples and Spain will eventually lose.

After thinking about it, Gonzalo secretly gave Calis an order to acquiesce in Modese's approach, but never to support it publicly, and especially not to leave a written trace......

Clearly, Gonzalo was planning to sacrifice the unlucky man Modeste......

Unbeknownst to the hapless Modeste, after Calis hinted that he could act, he sent men to Naples to find smallpox patients to infect the hundreds of French laborers. And Calis also had a tacit understanding to withdraw the guards on the edge of the labor camp, so that the guards would not also be infected. Later, Modeste's smallpox-stricken sailors took over the management of the labor camp......

Unknowingly, hundreds of French laborers worked together with a dozen patients who had contracted smallpox but had not yet broken out. Because it was so hot, many people were shirtless, and it was easier for the smallpox virus to spread......

A few days later, seeing that the smallpox patients were about to become ill, Modeste quietly sent them away. Subsequently, the French laborers were declared "pardoned" by Modeste and sent back to France by ship......

The French laborers were thrilled to hear that they had been pardoned and sent back to their hometowns. But they didn't know that they had been exacerbated by several smallpox patients who came up with it for several days......

After Modeste sent a ship to take them to the southern coast of France, the French laborers, who had not yet broken out, rushed back to their villages in high spirits......

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Modeste finished this important thing and came back to wait for the "reward". But he didn't know that Gonzalo had already gotten angry with Juan III and was going to give up on this guy.

However, Juan III was also a human, promising Paomodeste's eldest son to become a knight in the future......

Half a month later, smallpox also broke out in southern France. Gonzalo, on the other hand, promptly shifted the blame to Modeste. And the hapless Modeste, when he learned that Gonzalo was going to commit suicide by taking poison himself, his face was full of bewilderment......

"It shouldn't end like this...... It shouldn't end like this......"

"If you are willing to commit suicide and take all the responsibility, your eldest son, Modeste Jr., will become a knight of the Knights of the Tribes...... It's not my promise, it's the promise of the one above......" Gonzalo pointed to the heavens, indicating that it was a sign from above. The meaning is simple, it is a promise of the king......

It is clear that the king was also satisfied with his deeds, but he was forced by public opinion and did not dare to reward him. So, the only way to cash in the reward is to his children......

"Knights of the Picks......" Modeste finally had a light in his eyes......

That night, Modeste committed suicide by poisoning himself in a prison on the island of Capri, and wrote a "letter of repentance" and took all the charges......

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Gonzalo was an honest man and felt sorry for Modeste. So, after Modeste's death, he openly condemned this behavior, but secretly, he sent Modeste's younger brother Vargara to the captain's school, intending to train him as a future captain, which can be regarded as a disguised compensation for Modeste's family. After all, Modeste's eldest son, Modeste Jr., is only 10 years old, and it will take more than ten years to grow up and find an excuse to become a knight. In the past ten years, their family has no pillars and pillars, and it is easy to collapse. So, Gonzalo began to train Modeste's younger brother Vagara. Wait until little Modeste is an adult, and then nurture him. Of course, maybe he won't be able to wait for that day, but Juan III will certainly be able to. After all, Juan III was young.

However, Juan III had no energy to think about anything else at this time, because smallpox had broken out in Spain......

Because it was not detected in time, it was too late, despite some measures taken by Spain. By the time Gonzalo had brought back the methods he had learned from Beihai to control the epidemic, the smallpox epidemic in Spain was out of control......

Several small coastal villages that had been infected with smallpox brought smallpox into the city when residents with the smallpox virus entered the city to buy daily necessities. Then, it was taken to all parts of the country by the merchants of the city......

Although both Juan III and Ferdinand II issued orders banning the movement of people throughout the country, it was a little too late. After all, there was no telegraph telegram in these years. Many of the orders reached the localities after a few days. And in this time gap, there were merchants who traveled north and south to spread smallpox......

In desperation, Juan III and Ferdinand II could only make amends as best they could. While cutting off the trade routes in various cities, in order to ensure the supply of food, thousands of strong men who had survived smallpox were selected to transport food to various cities to avoid starvation. As for the rural areas, there is no need to transport grain, because the rural estates generally have grain storage. Only city dwellers need a constant supply of food.

However, Spain is so big, and it is mountainous, and some mountainous areas are not well transmitted, and there is no time to block the roads to prohibit outsiders from entering...... In short, the epidemic has grown in Spain......

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And France is even more miserable, because the French have a bad relationship with the North Sea country, and they are not very aware of the advanced epidemic prevention and control measures of the North Sea country. Therefore, when the outbreak of smallpox occurred in the coastal areas of southern France, the French were unable to take appropriate measures to control the epidemic in time.

The famous coastal city of Marseille has become an important disaster area for smallpox because of the passing of merchants......

Because there were no restrictions on the movement of residents, smallpox patients were scattered all over the city, and half of the residents of Marseille, a large French city with a population of more than 20,000 people, were infected with smallpox. A large number of residents then fled Marseille to avoid contracting the vicious plague of smallpox. But some of those who escaped contracted smallpox. As a result, smallpox continued to spread to the surrounding area......

In a relatively short period of time, almost all of France's Mediterranean coast regions have been affected by smallpox outbreaks, affecting millions of people – no way, France has a large population......