"Don't!"

With a sound of awakening from a nightmare, the current Pope Urban VIII broke out of bed and scared himself out of a cold sweat. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was still the time of the night, and the pope, who woke up in the middle of the night, had no intention of sleeping.

He tossed and turned, unable to sleep for a long time.

Frowning and listening, there seemed to be a strange howl from time to time in the deep night. There are also wailing and crying like ghosts crying.

Thinking about the big march last week, he couldn't help but fight a cold war.

Not long ago, the Church took the plunge and organized a grand religious procession, mobilizing thousands of clergy and believers. It turned out to be self-defeating!

At the beginning of the procession, many of the participants had already vomited blood and died, and the rest were so frightened that they lost their crosses and icons and fled in all directions......

Urban VIII was pained to find that everything he had done was in vain.

The more you do, the more people die, and on the contrary, only if you let everyone live separately, the chances of survival will be greater. As a result, the pope, who still had a lot of festivals, tried to save face and ordered that religious processions and gatherings should be banned throughout Europe until the plague was over.

(In this respect, this pope obviously has a little more discipline than Zhu Zilong.) The difference between 59 points and 60 points! ）

It's just that whether you are sick or not seems to have nothing to do with the festival, and at the time of the parade, many people got sick, but it was only in the incubation period. So, when the Pope ordered no more marches, there were still unlucky people every day in the days that followed.

Every day, patients suddenly fall down the street and die, or they breathe in their own homes until the body of the deceased smells of decay, and the neighbors don't know what happened next door.

The church, where the death knell rang for a long time, became an alarm clock in the holy city that woke everyone up on time every day.

Some people just couldn't take it anymore and left their homes, relatives and possessions behind and fled the city. It is better to take simple weapons and daily necessities and run to the mountains to be a wild man for a few years than to live in the city.

(Don't say it, people who do this can really survive.) It's just that when the wild man lasts a long time, he will be out of touch with civilized society, and wild beasts and other hunger diseases are also a problem. ）

According to the latest statistics, more than seven or eight thousand houses have become haunted houses in the whole city of Avignon, and about forty or fifty thousand people have either fallen ill and died, or are already waiting for death to come.

(In total, there are only a few hundred thousand people in this city, so you can imagine how miserable the situation is!) ）

But that's not the worst of it, it's even more terrifying. In the face of the catastrophe, don't say shelter the faithful, the Pope can't even save himself!

When the Papal Palace in Avignon also began to emit the smell of corpses, the Pope's discipline was also gone.

Lives matter!

Unlike the iron-blooded popes of the past, Urban VIII's life was named in the handling of Galileo.

Galileo propagated Copernicus's doctrine and wrote "Dialogue on the Two World Systems", which systematically demonstrated the correctness of the Copernican system and declared the bankruptcy of Cledis Ptolemy's geocentrism.

Urban VIII escorted Galileo, who was nearly 70 years old, before the Roman Inquisition on the pretext that the book "Dialogue" was a crime, and after four "interrogations and tests", he was forced to issue a statement on June 21, 1633, in which he declared that Ptolemy's doctrine was correct and repented of his mistakes.

Other than that, he was not a strong pope.

The personal life is similar to that of corrupt officials. Corruption**, a penchant for luxury and enjoyment, an addiction to music, poetry and painting, and quite a few mistresses ♀ and illegitimate children, as well as a big belly.

After the plague also broke out in the palace, the pope, who had the style of "little fresh alcohol test" in later generations, finally fled in fear.

In normal times, the Pope's actions would certainly have caused the rest of the church to rise up against him.

However, this time and that time too.

Because, this pope said that bad luck is bad luck, and good luck is lucky. But the church administrators, who had different opinions from him, were sicker than his husband and hung up early.

So, he now makes any decisions, and there is no high-ranking person in the church to make irresponsible remarks.

It's just for ordinary believers.

Have you ever seen ordinary people who dared to point out the number one chief-level figure in ancient times?

The situation is similar here, where the pope of the church has more power than the king of a nation at some time.

At this moment, Comrade Pope left Avignon and took refuge in a castle far away on the outskirts. Never come out again!

The pope fled, the bishop fled.

However, many ordinary heroes stick to the front line. The nuns and grassroots clergy in the Holy City are still bravely still rescuing the sick on the front line!

Sure enough, the real heroes are all around us. Not celebrities, not celebrities, but ourselves.

It's just that sometimes it's just a joke that people win over innocence.

At this point in time, there are no antibiotics, and science is not developing. No matter how hard the nuns tried, they could only mentally comfort the sick people.

They do not die and work day and night to care for the sick. also paid the price of his own life!

In the end, in just half a month, almost all the nuns who took care of the sick people died. They're sick themselves!

Liu Feng has been living in the holy city for more than half a month, and he sees all these things in his eyes.

In his heart, on the one hand, he was secretly proud of the results, and at the same time, because some of these disasters came from his own hands, and he was a little entangled.

Sitting in the guest room, Liu Feng said to himself in a complicated mood: "If you are not of my race, your heart will change, if you want to blame it, you are not reincarnated as a Han person...... However, for these people who save people. I would believe that if there was God, they would ascend to heaven...... Alas! ”

At the same time, Liu Feng also secretly met with Charles I on the outskirts of the Holy City not long after. This is one of his tasks!

Charles I (King of England), of course, is obsolete.

In the original unchanged history of Europe, he was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649 (he was the only King of England to be executed as King).

Charles I, the second son of James I and Princess Anne of Denmark, was thin and thin as a child, and like his father, he was taught by Scottish Presbyterian teachers and was fluent in Latin and Greek.

After succeeding to the throne in 1625, he married Rietta Maria, sister of King Louis XIII of France, and Henrietta Maria, who was also a Catholic, and although not as religious as the Spanish princess, her religious beliefs would remain a major problem in the future.

Because Parliament did not trust Buckingham and refused to give him funds for the war, he had to take extreme measures to do so: pawn his wife's dowry; forcibly borrowing money from wealthy subjects and imprisoning five knights who refused to borrow; Let the soldiers live in civilian houses and eat and drink for nothing; customs duties are imposed without parliamentary approval, etc.

It's angry!

So, a few years later, he was ousted.

-------- (To be continued.) )