Not only in the counties of Bruges in Flanders, but also in busy port cities, plague cases appeared, and outbreaks of the Black Death occurred in ports along the long coastline of the Norman kingdom, from Brittany to Normandy to Flanders.

The port cities of the Duchy of Normandy are better, and the government has been able to keep the plague out of the port area with strong enforcement power, and has long since isolated ships carrying the pathogen from the port area. Subsequently, under the command of officials at all levels, it was disinfected with lime, and all personnel operating in the port area were also required to undergo quarantine, and one case was found to be immediately quarantined.

But in the newly conquered areas, there was no such good luck, and William and the Norman government had weak control over these areas, and they were unable to organize such a large number of manpower to rescue them, and the Black Death began to spread rapidly.

Unable to sit idly by and watch his territory ravage by the Black Death, William soon took his Guards with him and entrusted the war against Henry I to Earl Hubert. In order to relieve the pressure on Earl Hubert, William sent emissaries to train his two allies, England and Castile of Spain, to send soldiers and fleets to take charge of pinning down Henry I and his allies.

Explain everything, William and Jenny. Morality. Duck returned to Rouen and began to command the forces of the Norman kingdom in the anti-epidemic and disaster relief work.

It is common for people in the city to live with big black rats every day; Not only that, but people and rats are also in close contact on cargo ships that travel to and from the city; As long as there are people, there are rats. These black rats are the most vulnerable targets of the plague, and when they die, the humans on board are naturally the next targets. There were sick commoners everywhere, and many nobles unfortunately suffered from the Black Death.

Nosebleeds are a precursor to death; Men and women first develop nameless bumps on the inner thighs and under the armpits, some as big as apples and eggs...... The lump spreads from these two places to the whole body; Then black spots appear, especially on the arms and thighs, densely packed; Almost all those who developed symptoms died within three days, and those who were lucky enough to survive gathered in safe houses, locked themselves up, and carefully survived.

The plague is extremely contagious, and there are four main ways of transmission, one is rat-flea bites, which are transmitted by rat-fleas, rat-flea bites are the main transmission routes, and rodents→ fleas → human transmission is the main mode of transmission of bubonic plague; One is respiratory tract infection, which is transmitted through respiratory droplets, through breathing, talking, coughing, etc., through droplets to form a "person-→-person" way, and can cause a human plague pandemic; One is skin infection, which is transmitted through the skin, peeling the skin and flesh of diseased rodents or directly contacting the pus, blood or sputum of patients, and becoming infected through skin wounds; One is a digestive tract infection, in which a person eats infected meat that is not thoroughly cooked.

In the Middle Ages, when medical conditions were rudimentary and medical technology was not developed, the only safe measure was complete isolation from the sick. The sick are certainly the source of infection, but people don't understand that the real culprits are the microbes in their bodies; The lack of knowledge made the rudimentary public health measures of the time as ineffective as boiling soup.

Even in Normandy, where William was at his strongest, he could only control the spread of the Black Death in this way.

According to the intelligence at his disposal, the source of the Black Death was probably carried by merchant ships between Normandy and Apulia, Eastern Rome and Arabia, for which the roads to Brittany, Anjou and Flanders were blocked, the densely populated cities were placed under martial law, and every person found to have the Black Death was quickly isolated, and then his location was strictly monitored, and the inhabitants were strictly checked for the Black Death.

In addition to strict quarantine measures, one of the biggest measures William used was to build public baths throughout the city, forcing city dwellers to bathe in public baths several times a week. At the same time, the city's municipal authorities were also dispatched to investigate all possible sources of pollution in the city, and then quickly remove them.

The policy of "quarantine" was widespread in the ports of the Norman kingdom, but it could not stop the invasion of the plague, and it turned out that the rats were ashore along the ropes that tethered the ships. The anti-epidemic blockade line composed of soldiers severely restricted the routes and scope of people's movement in the city, and to some extent controlled the spread of the plague.

However, the number of deaths has continued unabated due to the fact that families with sick members are often trapped in their houses and cannot go out, resulting in the loss of otherwise healthy family members. In contrast, more effective measures include burning the deceased's hospital clothes and bedding, burying the deceased and spraying lye. Sadly, public ignorance of the disease has led many foreigners to become scapegoats for spreading the plague, most horrific than the blaming of the Jews and the mass persecution.

Jenny herself asked to follow William back to Normandy, and it was okay to have Count Hubert on the front line, but she was more concerned about the lives of the common people as she was born in a commoner. As soon as she returned to Normandy, she took her followers to the county of Bruges in Flanders, the source of the Black Death, to help civilians ravaged by the Black Death.

"Fathers abandon their children, wives abandon their husbands, and the plague seems to be transmitted by breath and sight. And so they died, and there was no one to bury them, because there was no one to be found, and friendship and money were not working. The bodies were piled up in several large earth pits, and I buried my five children with my own hands. There are too many dead people...... The half-hidden corpses were pulled out of the soil by hungry dogs and torn to shreds......"

Health institutions have been organized, which have taken measures that trample on the rights of citizens in order to effectively prevent the epidemic. The sick are treated as enemies and are isolated from healthy people. They were placed in wards far from the city, often locked up with rats, left unattended and fed, and left to fend for themselves, burying them hastily and burning their clothes when they died.

In a city of 50,000 people like Bruges, about 500 people die every day, and monks who regularly deal with the dead have the highest mortality rates. The vulnerability of these servants of God to the Black Death undoubtedly diminished the status of the Church in the hearts of the people and undermined the authority of the Holy See.

At this moment, a maiden from Dijon, known as the Norman Holy Maiden, was born. Morality. Duck arrived in Bruges, accompanied by her followers, the cavalry of the Guards sent by William, and all sorts of relief supplies, men, and medicinal herbs.