One Hundred and Thirty-Five, the Auspicious World (I)

In a time and space violently disturbed by the time-travelers, from the twenties of the 16th century, the European countries that had just completed the Renaissance all unfortunately fell into a nightmare era in which the writing of "auspicious" was read as a disaster under the influence of some indescribable liliang.

The cause of this unprecedented catastrophe originated from a letter written by the "Emperor of China" to the King of Spain.

The contents of the letterhead are unknown. In short, in the summer of 1520, the letterhead, contained in a brass case, along with some expensive silk, porcelain and spices, was transported across the Atlantic Ocean by a fleet of heavily armed Spanish galleons to the court of the Kingdom of Spain.

Immediately afterward, Charles V, who had just been successfully elected Holy Roman Emperor, King Carlos, as the Spaniards commonly called, was crowned Emperor with great ambition, and immediately after returning to Spain from Germany, he opened the anonymous letterhead...... Poor Emperor Bixia soon contracted smallpox, was covered in terrible red spots and blisters, and died of a violent illness at an alarming rate.

To make matters worse, the young king, or emperor, did not leave any heirs, thus causing a terrible political uproar.

However, the death of Charles V, or King Carlos, was only the beginning of a catastrophe. Before the new king ascended the throne, an unknown and violent plague spread from inside the palace to the outside of the palace, then quickly spread throughout Spain, and then with the voyage of ships and caravans, the terrible epidemic spread further throughout Europe - Lisbon, Barcelona, Marseille, Toulon, Florence, Venice, Paris, Antwerp, London, Copenhagen, Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg, Bremen, Vienna, Prague, Krakow, Warsaw, Stockholm, Moscow, ...... Countless famous, prosperous and wealthy European cities all trembled and groaned under the black wings of death......

From Spain to the Netherlands, from Britain to Denmark, from France to Poland, and across the sea from Spain to the Italian peninsula, almost all Europeans were shocked to find that an unprecedented plague was haunting their heads even greater than the Black Death crisis of the fourteenth century!

-- After a terrible mistake in Central America, the bacteriological weapon that Director Ma dropped on this plane finally broke out at the correct coordinates.

Cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, measles, dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, the Black Death, and the military's anthrax...... All sorts of infectious diseases spread throughout Europe, unscrupulously exerting their power - although the Renaissance Europeans had already made some progress in medicine compared to the Black Death of 1348. However, relying only on the very rudimentary bloodletting, enema and vomiting jishu at that time, as well as the completely unreliable primitive herbs, for the modern infectious bacteria that have been tested by various antibiotics for a long time, there is no therapeutic effect at all.

To make matters worse, Europeans in this era generally did not pay attention to hygiene, and mistakenly regarded bathing as the source of disease, so everyone did not take a bath for the rest of their lives, and their bodies were filthy and smelly, and cities and houses were generally littered with garbage and feces and urine...... Such unhygienic habits immediately accelerated the spread of the above-mentioned plagues, and also caused the mortality rate of the sick to be alarmingly high.

From the summer and autumn of 1520, the bells of every church in Western Europe rang all day long, and countless corpses were buried every day, and the funeral personnel did not even have time to dig the graves, so they could only throw the corpses into the trenches at will, and then shovel some floating soil and bury them hastily. If the church bells finally stop ringing one day, it means that even the bell-ringers and priests have died. …,

What is even more terrifying is that even the surging strait cannot stop the spread of the plague, because rats and fleas carrying germs can hide in boats to cross the sea; And the cold winter can only temporarily curb the power of the plague, once the spring is in full bloom, the plague will resurgence again.

In order to escape death, the helpless Europeans exhausted all means - the poor doctors racked their brains, administered laxatives, emetics, bloodlettings and enemas to their patients, smoked their rooms, and even learned from the legendary witches, throwing toads, boy urine, scorpions, and other messy things into pots to make medicinal soups...... But the result is either no cure, or it hastened death.

On the other hand, devout clergy and believers were fighting the plague in their own way - these religious fanatics, believing that the depravity of mankind had led to the punishment of the gods, prayed even more fervently to Emperor Xiangshang. They marched through every town in Europe, whipping each other with iron-tipped whips and humming, "I am guilty...... Jews and Gypsies, who had long been discriminated against, were accused by mad believers of being the embodiment of the devil and the spreaders of the plague, and thousands of them were driven out of their homes and burned alive. And a new round of cruel witch hunting is also vigorously launched, and tens of thousands of "suspected witches" have been tortured to death in just half a year...... But death keeps coming.

Because so many people died in the plague, there were hardly enough survivors to bury the dead. Every European is seized of the soul by fear, desperate to avoid disease and death far away. Some patients have been buried alive by their relatives who are full of fear before they have died, because people think that they are destined to die of illness anyway, so it is better to bury them early, so as not to infect themselves......

To make matters worse, as in the case of Spain, the kings of some European countries and their legitimate heirs also died of sudden illness in the midst of the plague, which led to civil wars over the succession, and the simultaneous outbreak of war and plague further increased the panic among the people. The god stick that preaches that the end is coming and that Shijie is about to be destroyed is flooded for a while, and people everywhere are bewitched, either committing suicide in despair or avoiding the mountains and forests.

By the time this terrible plague of all kinds had finally come to an end for the time being, Europe had lost more than two-thirds of its population, and even heaven would be filled with so many souls.

Because the higher the population concentration at that time, the worse the sanitary conditions, and the more severe the outbreak of the plague, so many famous European cities became deserted after the plague. After the loss of their capitals, the kings were greatly weakened in their military strength and dominance, and they were increasingly unable to suppress the local aristocracy, with the result that some of the countries that had just begun to show signs of centralization tended to divide and disintegrate again.

The situation in the countryside was just as bad, because so many people died of the plague, and those who survived were generally delayed during the plague, resulting in the farms being abandoned and the fields left with barren weeds...... As a result, the plague was followed by a terrible famine that affected the whole of Europe, and a serious crisis of the feudal ruling order in the countries of Europe, for the whole system of royalty-nobility-freedmen-serfs had collapsed!

Of course, after the catastrophe that plunged the whole of Europe, the plague also inevitably crossed the Mediterranean Sea and spread to the Mu of North Africa and Western Asia. Sling Shijie, likewise caused deaths on a staggering scale.

However, compared to Europe, where vegetation is dense and fauna is abundant, the lifeless Sahara Desert and the Arabian Desert clearly serve as a natural isolation zone. And Mu. Sling's penchant for cleanliness and the tradition of bathing and washing their feet almost every day also benefited them during the plague years. Although they also had no cure for the plague, their mortality rate was much lower than that of the filthy 16th-century Christians.

However, for the sixteenth-century Europeans, who lacked the knowledge of modern medicine and infectious diseases, but were superstitious about the gods, they only saw that the same plague struck, and that Christians everywhere often died of disease in entire villages and cities, while the mortality rate on the part of pagans such as the Turks was much lower...... Zuihou came to the conclusion that the natural Liliang of God seems to be not as true. The Lord is great......

As a result, in the Balkans, Hungary, Romania and other regions of Eastern Europe, which had already been conquered by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, more and more Europeans began to abandon God and turn to worship the truth. Lord, to the great joy of the rulers of the Turkish Empire.