Chapter 362: The Plague

"This is called spaghetti, in fact, it is our Datang noodles, and this will be called macaroni in the future." At this time, the name Italy did not appear, and Li Hao naturally did not use this name as the title of his new cuisine, and all the original names were changed by him.

As one of Italy's most traditional dishes, macaroni, which can be eaten both in Italy and abroad, is not necessarily complicated: the fabric is boiled in boiling water, quickly removed, poured with boiling water, filtered out, spread on a plate, oil, cheese and various sauces, and eaten with a fork. The vermicelli bounces around on the lips and teeth, with a variety of flavors and excellent taste.

In addition to the pasta, the desserts here are also very convincing. Depending on the season, Italy has a special dessert: the fried bread frittere is a special dessert between the Chinese New Year and the Carnival. Christmas cakes at Christmas, and at Easter it's chocolate eggs, eggshells poured with chocolate sauce are not uncommon, ranging from the size of a real egg to a giant egg as big as a pillow, and there are all kinds of strange gifts hidden in the egg.

Li Hao has prepared some of these things, the women of his family love desserts, and the Cai Diexuan of Datang all over the country is still the industry of Li Mansion, and the people of their family are naturally no strangers to desserts. However, the desserts here are a little different for Cai Diexuan, and they are more in the style of this side.

Although many later generations of delicacies have not appeared here, it does not prevent Li Hao from making these things. Desserts are the same, Li Hao has prepared a lot, and the women in his house can eat these things to their heart's content.

In addition to desserts, there are also a lot of things to do in crepes, and even other uses. Li Hao has eaten pizza, which is the most familiar kind of Italian crepe. However, in Italy, authentic focaccia is thin and crunchy, topped with tomato, cheese, olives or herbs, and eaten with a knife or fork cut to fit the size or rolled up.

In addition, Li Hao prepared some cold bread and a hard biscuit called Grissini. These long, thin hard biscuits are fragrant and chewy, while cold bread is mostly used to dip the sauce left over from the first or second course. Because whether the main rai is delicious or not often depends on the deliciousness of the sauce.

In addition to these, Li Hao also prepared Italian rice and Italian sausage. Italian rice: also called "salito". This is to stir-fry diced onions, butter and rice together, and add wine while stir-frying to make it dry and flavorful; Or it is simmered with peas, greens, broth and rice, and the taste is soft. Shalito is similar to Uyghur pilaf and is a world-famous food.

Italian intestines: Nicknamed "Salome", it resembles a thick, long, round rolling pin. There is a layer of powdery white mold on the outside, which is red and fragrant after being cut. It has a certain relationship with Germany's **.

"The food seems to be a bit similar to that of Byzantium, but it has its own style." Liu Renliang looked at Li Hao and commanded people to be busy with these, and said loudly on the side.

"Well, a little, it's similar to the different dishes in various places in our Datang territory, but the difference is even greater on their side." After hearing this, Li Hao replied that one of the two places is in the easternmost part of the mainland and the other is in the westernmost part of the mainland, and the geographical environment and living habits of the two sides are obviously different.

"Let's eat first, after eating, I'm going to go to a place to see the water city over there, which is the same as my Datang Jiangnan Water Town, you can go and see how it goes." After preparing the banquet, Li Hao beckoned Liu Renliang to come along. What he wants to go to is Venice in the future, what it looks like now, this Li Hao doesn't know yet.

At this moment, a sudden incident interrupted Li Hao's leisurely life in Italy. A plague that did not know where it originated began to spread among the rebel armies in the heart of Europe, killing a large number of soldiers. The rebels and the Frankish state were in a stalemate in one city, and after a stalemate that lasted for some time, the rebels attacked the city of Gaffa again.

This time, however, they adopted a new "weapon", using a huge catapult to launch the bodies of countless sick rebel soldiers into the city. Soon, the besieged city was littered with dead bodies. The Franks were overwhelmed by the decomposing corpses infected by the plague, and they did not know what to do with them, let alone the power of the legendary plague. A few days later, further decomposing corpses polluted the air, poisoned the water, and a terrible plague broke out.

The besieged city soon became plague-infected, with chills and headaches at first, followed by fever, delirium, coma, extensive bleeding from the skin, sores and respiratory failure; It can be as fast as two or three days, or as often as four or five days, and then they will die one after another.

Because the skin of the patient was often black-purple after death, this terrible plague was called the "Black Death". The Franks knew nothing about this terrible disease, let alone the plague, a virulent infectious disease caused by the bacillus pestis.

Within a few days, the Franks in the city were killed, and the streets of the city were littered with dead bodies covered with sores and dark spots. A once prosperous commercial city has become a hell on earth in an instant, and those who survived have fled out of the city one by one under a black veil.

Outside the city, the rebels had quietly retreated. As for the reason for the retreat, they were also suffering from the plague, a large number of people died, and the siege was no longer enough. In this way, the Franks, who were not yet sick, escaped.

They hurriedly boarded several sailing ships and set out on their way back to their homeland, the Franks. Unexpectedly, rats and fleas, the culprits of the spread of the plague, had already climbed onto the cable of the sailboat, hid in the cargo hold, and followed these escapees to the European continent.

Meanwhile, on the European continent, news of the Black Death in the city of Gapha had spread far and wide, and people in all countries were panicking. So when this fleet returned to Europe, none of the countries dared to receive them, and all the ports refused to land them. While the fleet was adrift alone in the Mediterranean, some sailors died, and they could only wander hopelessly on the sea, most of them dead and silently floating on the water, so they were once called "ghost ships".

Li Hao also received this news at this time, and then immediately sent a telegram to all the troops of the Tang Army, suspended the march, and all of them were on standby in the camp. No one knows better than Li Hao how powerful this ghost is. In later history, this thing has reduced the population of Europe by almost one-third.

According to the normal course, Constantinople, after that one a few decades ago, will go to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries next. But now this kind of thing broke out in advance, or when the Tang army entered this side, which made Li Hao a little entangled, you must know that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Mongol army was about to completely sweep this side, it was stopped because of a plague.

Now after Datang came over, there was such a situation again, which made Li Hao a little suspicious that the feng shui here was not good. But so far, no one in Datang has been infected with this thing, which is a great luck in misfortune.

"Everyone must drink boiled water, bathe every day to kill fleas, mosquitoes, and rats. The area around the camp also needs to be taken care of, to eradicate the root cause of all plagues. "In fact, there is a very mature way to deal with this kind of thing in Datang, as long as Li Hao informs the army to pay attention to the defense of the plague, they will know what to do.

On the other hand, the country immediately sent many Taoist missionaries to this side, all of whom had been vaccinated against the plague, and they also brought prescriptions and medicines that could cure the plague. Some of it was reserved for the army, and the other part was carried by them and began to prepare for the passage to various parts of Europe. In addition to healing, their task was to preach and let Taoism take the place of God.

At this time, the Europeans did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and less than a week after the soldiers and civilians from the besieged castle fled to the heart of the Frankish kingdom, the Black Death spread throughout the Frankish kingdom. Soon after, the plague spread inland from Sicily and across Europe.

Everywhere the plague went, there were dead people. When the plague began to break out in Italy, Li Hao and the others all stayed in this city, but they did not live in the city, but enclosed a place early, and then eliminated all the rats and insects around, and then built a new camp.

Plus they're all vaccinated against plague, so they're not too afraid of this thing. And if anyone in the city were to die of the plague, all those who had visited him, had done business with him, and even carried him to the grave would soon follow in his footsteps. The plague spread so quickly that carts full of corpses flooded into churches for the final Christian rites.

Because this disease can also be transmitted through the respiratory tract, it is transmitted from one person to another when people talk. All patients felt excruciating pain, some trembling all over; As a result, bean nucleated pustules appear in the arms and thighs, which become infected and penetrate the body, causing the patient to vomit blood violently. The horrific symptoms were ineffective and lasted for three days before death. It's not just that talking to a sick person can lead to death, it's that anything you buy, touch, or get from a sick person can die from the infection.

In the face of a sudden plague, people cannot explain it, let alone treat it. In search of sustenance, people flock to churches in anticipation of the protection and comfort of the gods. Led by the pastor, they prayed together and prayed to Heaven to stop the spread of this plague. But nothing came of his prayers. On the contrary, there are more and more dead, and people bury the dead who are sent day and night, and the ceremony becomes very brief.