Not to mention when the Spaniards would find out that 800 ordinary horses were mixed in the war horses, Marin's side also received information soon after the French army left the city of Naples.

When he heard that Gonzalo had scared away tens of thousands of French troops with fake "blankets of smallpox's clothes", Marin was furious. He can count on the two countries of West and France, and only in this way will the French have no time to take care of it. The reason why he let John. Raffi proposed to François I to control smallpox, in addition to fearing that smallpox would spread to the north and spread to the North Sea countries, in the hope that France would have a stable rear so that it could fight with Spain for Naples with peace of mind.

But now it's good that a few old clothes and old blankets of Gonzalo actually scared tens of thousands of French troops......

After the anger passed, Marin was left nervous. Why? When the 35,000 French troops come back, the French will be able to do things in other directions!

In this way, I will have to be nervous for a while...... Well, no, the most nervous thing is the British who have just taken back Calais.

With this main force returning home, smallpox in northern France is under control again, and it will definitely find a way to recapture the city of Calais......

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Marin frowned......

What did Marlin think? What he thought was - if the French also used the trick of "smallpox dead man's clothes and blankets" to scare the English, who were defending the Calais fortress, would the English be scared away? It's very likely......

"No, the French must be prevented from doing this!"

Marin would not doubt that the French would do this, because the other side had an Earl of Charles in the presence of them, and it was easy to replicate this obscene tactic. So, he had to find a way to stop this!

How can you stop it? First of all, it is necessary to severely punish Gonzalo who used this method first!

Therefore, Marin wrote a secret letter, which was passed on to the Pope's father-in-law, Julius II, who was far away in Rome, advising him to deal with Gonzalo severely. To make an example of others to do the same - in fact, to prevent the French from learning this trick against the fortress of Calais.

When Julius II received Marin's letter, he also thought that he must be severely punished. Otherwise, someone will mess around. As a result, Julius II issued an edict in which he openly and harshly criticized Gonzalo for his fraudulent use of the tactics of "spreading smallpox". Morality. Córdoba announced a three-year excommunication, that is, the cancellation of Gonzalo's membership within three years. This is his first offense, and if there is a similar situation, it will be a permanent excommunication (in fact, Marin is worried that the Spanish nameless will fight against the French, because if he is permanently excommunicated, Gonzalo will be permanently unable to command the army). In Europe, one could not be a nobleman and a high-ranking army commander without a religious membership. But because Gonzalo didn't really do it, he was exempted from burning at the stake. However, at the end of the edict, Julius II sternly warned all of Europe that in the future, it should not be used in warfare by such vile means as "spreading smallpox", otherwise even the king would be excommunicated and would not be pardoned. If you really do this, you will be burned at the stake! If the king supports his men in doing so, the king will also be excommunicated if he is found out!

After this edict was issued, it was supported and welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people throughout Europe. Because the act of spreading smallpox is indeed very bad, and it also makes everyone very afraid.

Only Charles, Count of Nantes, who was halfway back to France, was depressed when he heard about it. For he did think of offering this plan to deal with the fortress of Calais when he returned home. In this way, he was able to gain the attention of the new monarch, François I. Unexpectedly, the Pope "patched" in advance, which frustrated his idea.

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However, despite the Pope's warnings, Marin feared that the French would find a substitute and then perform a bitter ploy against Calais in the same way.

Therefore, Marin sent a message of what had happened in Italy to London with a flying pigeon, and asked his men to hand it over to Edward, telling Edward that the French must be prevented from using this evil method against the fortress of Calais. Therefore, Marin suggested that Edward, who had selected adult men from all over the country who had suffered from smallpox, should be formed into an army and stationed in Calais, lest the French would be so mad as to use smallpox.

However, England does not seem to have had any smallpox outbreaks in recent years, only in a few small places. Therefore, it is estimated that there will not be many strong men who have survived smallpox.

So, it's better to find another way to deal with it......

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What's the solution? Of course, it's the famous "cowpox method"!

In fact, when he decided to colonize the island of Haiti, Marin had thought of using the cowpox method, and he also set up a medical research team to study the cowpox method.

The doctors in this medical research team are all people who have had smallpox, so they are not afraid of the smallpox virus. However, they had a big problem with the cowpox method – there was no source of the smallpox virus!

Even if the cowpox method is studied, it is necessary to infect cattle with smallpox virus. But without a source of the smallpox virus, their research stalled.

It just so happened that there were outbreaks of smallpox in Italy, Spain and southern France this time, so Marin decided to start working on the cowpox method now!

So, Marin sent 2 clippers loaded with the entire medical research team and 30 sturdy cows that did not get seasick, to Spain to collect the smallpox virus to continue the study of the cowpox method.

In fact, Marin was hoping to send more ships and cattle to Spain to collect the smallpox virus. Unfortunately, he could not find enough sailors to survive smallpox......

The people who did this had to have smallpox. Otherwise, there will be a danger to life. Marin got together and got 80 sailors. In desperation, two ships could only be sent to Spain to collect the smallpox virus.

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By the time the two collection ships arrived off the coast of Spain, smallpox had already broken out in Spain. Today, the whole of Spain is trembling, and only the area near the capital Toledo, the northern half of Aragon, and the northern part north of Toledo up to the Atlantic coast have not been affected by smallpox. And half of Spain, south and east of Toledo, was overshadowed by smallpox.

When the smallpox collectors sent by Marin arrived, they found that the port of a small town on the southeast coast of Spain was completely deserted, and the town was empty, and they only found some corpses. It seems that those who died died of smallpox. Because, they have pockmarks on their faces......

So, they rushed to collect the smallpox virus – they wrapped the cattle they had brought with them the blankets and underwear used by the deceased. Then, wait for the cow to get sick......

On the way back, most of the cowpox contracted smallpox, and only 8 very strong bulls did not get sick. The members of the research team were ruthless, collected the blood from the sick cows and applied it to the wounds of the eight cows that had been cut by them. Then, the 8 cows also got sick......

At the end of June, when the fleet returned to East Friesland proper, six of the 30 cattle on board had died of disease, a mortality rate of 20 percent, much lower than the 30 percent rate for humans. After all, cows are stronger.

Upon their return, the ship did not dock at the port of Emden, but on the island of Wangaoge in the East Frisian archipelago, which Marin had specially prepared for them, and studied the cowpox method on the island.

There is no way, if the smallpox virus is brought back to the mainland, many people may die in the North Sea Country. It is relatively safe to study alone on islands in the open sea.

At this point, all the others on Whangaoge Island were evacuated, leaving only enough food and 500 strong cattle for the research team to study.

Of course, Marin also sent 30 death row inmates to be the subject of research......

According to Marin's instructions, when the cows that had smallpox but did not die were about to recover, they collected pustules from their bodies, squeezed out the virus inside, and planted them on the arms of the death row inmates......

Then, they waited to see how the death row inmates reacted......