Tianzhu, Mumbai.

The once top-ranked metropolis and port in the Tianzhu region are now in equally huge ruins.

In fact, there are not many people who have done a special destruction of the city of Mumbai.

But the vast majority of the population is gone, and normal houses become ruins after a few years of abandonment.

The only place in the whole city is close to the military dock, and there is a relatively intact construction area.

It was inhabited by the last British administration and garrison in Tianzhu.

Early that morning, British intelligence officers, Libot and Wang Wei, boarded the prepared reconnaissance planes at the temporary airfield inside the military dock.

Libbot took control of the plane, slowly lifted off into the air, and then left the city and flew northeast.

Wang Wei held a telescope and continued to observe the surrounding situation.

After leaving the city, the situation in the countryside outside became even more miserable to the point of "desolation".

In the countryside of this era, the houses of the residents were originally rudimentary, and after no one continued to maintain them, they would soon fall into disrepair.

Over the past few years, many of them have completely collapsed.

Occasionally, you can see wild animals roaming the villages that originally belonged to humans.

The plants that grow rapidly during the tropical rainy season have even begun to obscure the traces of the original village.

Wang Wei took out his camera and took photos while he couldn't help but instinctively chant and sigh:

"It's all over, it's really all over, it's a suburb of Mumbai, and now there's not a single figure to be seen.

"I even wonder if the city after the Black Death was as clean as it was here......"

Li Bot looked at the situation below, and then casually responded to his companion's chatter with the same emotion:

"The Black Death erupted spontaneously, without human intervention.

"So the whole process of communication is chaotic without a goal, and there will inevitably be omissions.

"Now, with Daming's bacterial research, we all know that it is caused by bacteria.

"Under artificial sowing, the mortality rate must be more terrible than the Black Death......"

Wang Wei sighed and nodded, and then added again:

"Also, those who survived the plague were originally healthy and strong young adults......

"But now in Nantianzhu, all the young adults have been transferred to Mozhou.

"The rest of Tianzhu are old, weak, sick and disabled, and even if there are no bacteria, a large part of them will die."

Li Bot said with emotion:

"When the Black Death happened, we had no idea how it broke out.

At that time, people should have thought that it was God's punishment, and those who survived were God's chosen ones for granted.

"The Chosen did everything right, of course, and that may have indirectly led to the Renaissance......

At the same time, it may have contributed to the Reconquista in Spain and Portugal, who felt more of a chosen one.

"With Daming's research, we know that it is just a large-scale plague caused by bacteria.

"If there is really a divine choice in this world, it should be the Ming people instead of us......"

According to later generations on the Internet, some studies believe that the Black Death caused 25 million deaths, about one-third of the population of Tessie at that time.

From the entire Taixi Continent to the Great Food and Egypt, the entire Great Qinhai Civilization Circle was killed by the Black Death.

For the Tessie people of the time, the Black Death was, of course, the most terrifying nightmare.

However, from the perspective of later generations, the Black Death added a special layer of mental state to the Great Food and the Tessie civilization.

The universal catastrophe is much like the catastrophe of destruction in the religious legends they believe in.

That's divine punishment.

And those who survive the disaster will take it for granted that they are "God's chosen ones."

The logic of self-justification in their beliefs is very strong.

In the vast majority of cases, interpretations can arise in their favor.

In modern times, research on bacteria has led to a clear understanding of the nature of plagues.

The development of physics and chemistry has made them understand more about how the world works.

This, of course, is a constant compression of God's authority.

But the actual manifestation in the world is the compression of the authority of the church.

But for ordinary people, they are constantly acquiring new special mental states.

God is very "tolerant" of His own discipline, even "ignoring."

No matter what ordinary people do, they will not actually trigger the legendary "divine punishment".

At the same time, the moral logic of their entire society extends from the belief system.

In an age full of mysteries, when the church controls the world, the fear of gods and demons for ordinary people can play a role in maintaining the bottom line of social morality.

As the power of faith weakens and more and more things that go out of the ordinary are confirmed to be "punishable", the moral constraints at the bottom of the society as a whole will become weaker and weaker.

In fact, contrary to many people's habitual cognition, the Middle Ages, when the church had a strong control force, was actually the most stable society on the Taixi continent and the highest moral level of ordinary people.

"Witch hunting" was a Renaissance affair, and the key was that the Protestants who carried out the Reformation and broke away from the Holy See were engaged in it.

Everyone can communicate directly with God, and the logic of faith from the heart can certainly play a role in emancipating the mind.

But one of the great side effects of this method of emancipating the mind is that everyone can use this logic to justify the fact that they have done all kinds of evil deeds.

And using this logic to persecute a small number of people can provide theoretical support and endorsement for winning over groups to attack individual behaviors.

Everyone thinks that this person is a witch who makes a deal with demons, so she should be a witch.

I can come up with a logic that convinces people that a woman is a witch.

On the other hand, the traditional Holy See, they actually have a unified and clear interpretation logic for witch-related matters:

"All great power be to God."

All supernatural phenomena in the world are extensions of God, and only God can unleash supernatural phenomena.

This logic is actually very simple, that is, to pull the influence of all kinds of supernatural legends that already exist in the folk to their own "gods".

So their religious staff do not agree with the witch claim at all, and they will not identify anyone as a demon or a witch.

Even if there is a witch, it is a god-given power.

This logic is the exact opposite of that of the Protestants, which creates a completely opposite solution.

Religious people in the Roman system would go everywhere where there were witch legends and find their counterparts.

If the other person is doing a good deed, let the other person admit that he has been inspired by God, and then possibly take her away to become a nun.

If the other party is doing something bad, let her admit that she is not a witch and that she is just lying.

Therefore, on the side of the Holy See, it does not agree with the statement of witches at all, and of course it will not hunt witches specifically.

Even if they were to arrest people who were considered witches by the people, they would be judged differently from those of Protestants.

Let the other party publicly admit that he is not a witch, and then punish him for cheating, evil, and blasphemy.

With the deepening of historical research, more and more researchers have begun to believe that the so-called dark ages of the Middle Ages, when the Holy See controlled the secular world, were probably the result of the unanimous smears of kings and Protestants in the Reformation era......

They are direct enemies of the traditional church, and both sides want to get out of the control of the church, and both are enemies of the church.

The most stressful and truly darkest and absurd era in Tessie's society was probably the period after the beginning of the Renaissance and before the Enlightenment was fully rolled out.

In general, with the deepening of the Reformation and the emancipation of the mind, as well as the continuous progress of scientific research, the traditional belief and moral system built around God continued to collapse.

The new moral system of freedom, based on the Tessians, promoted by the Enlightenment, had not yet been established.

It was the era of great navigation and colonial expansion.

Slaughtering infidels does not trigger divine punishment, something that has long been proven.

Even if you take the initiative to create a large-scale plague, you will not really be punished by God.

The Spaniards and the British also proved this in Yinzhou.

They even decided that they were God's chosen ones, and that it was destiny to destroy the infidels and rule the world.

Later researchers directly proved that the plague had nothing to do with God and could be controlled, so when they really went to create the plague again in the future, they would be even more unscrupulous.

These tangible proofs have struck at the prestige of the Church from the outside and undermined the faith of religious personnel from within.

After the collapse of religious beliefs, all kinds of evil consequences also appeared.

The evil deeds done by religious people, in turn, allow ordinary people to prove that they are right, and that believing in religion is indeed bad.

If all believe in God, the moral code laid down by the prophets in the name of God is extremely binding on all.

When everybody doesn't believe in God, then God's morality is really useless.

In the current world, the Enlightenment Movement, which was only influenced by Shenzhou Thought in the previous life, was directly purified into the Minghua Movement.

Shenzhou's traditional Shenzhou moral system, which was not directly related to the gods, began to play a role in the Taixi continent.

Now when the Tessie people are doing evil, they have more or less concerns.

Wang Wei used a dry smile that didn't feel like laughing at all to hide the discomfort in his heart:

"Hah...... Ha...... It's all cleaned up so clean, this land can almost be handed over to Daming, and we can leave this hell place......"

Libott asked with some concern:

"Do you think Da Ming would want this kind of place? There's no way Daming doesn't know what we're doing here.

"Now this is a complete hell of death, do the Ming people dare to come to such a place?"

Wang Wei thought for a while and said:

"It's been so long, it should be fine, the Black Death has stopped spreading because all the carriers died.

"It should be the same here now, and it's ...... The death is cleaner and more thorough.

"If it really doesn't work, I will drive the Tianzhu people from a few strongholds on the edge of the continent to the wilderness for an experiment.

"If they survive, then it's safe to be sure......"

The remaining strongholds around Nantianzhu were all strongholds retained by the British to control and observe the situation.

The remaining Tianzhu people also serve the British here.

After Wang Wei finished speaking, he subconsciously twisted his body, and always felt a little cold around him.

With the airplane windows open in the sky, of course it will be cold.

Although Li Bot felt a little awkward, he did not object in the end.

Over the next few days, the two of them continued to observe the recording situation at several remaining strongholds.

Finally, the information and photographs of the observations were compiled into documents and sent to the British mainland by telegram and fax.

and put forward a test proposal to drive the remaining Tianzhu people to the wilderness.

The report was sent to British Prime Minister Grenville.

In its original history, Grenville did not have long been prime minister before resigning.

But in this world, Grenville persevered.

The more complex environment of this world actually made Grenville more mature than he was in his previous life.

Moreover, Grenville has the consciousness of uniting people from all walks of life, otherwise he would not have created a so-called "meritocracy cabinet".

He brought the talented people of all factions into his cabinet.

Of course, it may lead to the outbreak of contradictions, so that the platform cannot function at all.

However, it is also possible to allow all parties to communicate quickly and complete compromises, thereby maintaining the overall stability of the situation.

When Grenville was prime minister in his previous life, it was when the Napoleonic Wars were in full swing.

The meritocracy that Grenville pulled up was simply not capable of dealing with all kinds of emergencies.

Grenville's character is not strong enough to suppress the various factions and concentrate on dealing with the situation on the mainland.

Coupled with the fact that his views on religious issues were contrary to those of King George III, who was still sober, the prime minister resigned after 14 months.

Now that the world war and the Yinzhou war have stopped, the most complex problems have been solved by his cousin, former Prime Minister William Pitt Jr.

The current situation just allows Grenville's idea of harmony with the mud to be brought into play.

At the same time, Grenville, as a diplomat, in his dealings with the Ming Dynasty, in the process of signing the naval treaty, actually let his colleagues and newspapers see his "merits".

Coupled with the king's insane insanity, the Prince of Wales, who was regent, had no opinion and let Grenville hold on.

Two years have passed, and Grenville has even somewhat adjusted to the life of the prime minister.

However, now seeing the special information on Tianzhu, Grenville suddenly felt that the reserve was a little cold.

Grenville couldn't assess how many people had died in the Tianzhu area over the years.

But it's definitely at the level of 10 million, and it's not 10 million......

More than ten years before the world war, there were not so many people killed in the Tianzhu area.

Now only the Northern Tianzhu controlled by the Ming Dynasty still has people, and the population of the entire Tianzhu should be less than 90 million......

This is obviously also the work of his cousin......

It took a while for Grenville to regain his mental state.

Then start thinking about the practical issues.

No matter how this decision was made in the first place, this matter is finally over.

Nantianzhu, a land that has been completely deserted, can almost be officially taken off.

The Tianzhu problem was solved, and the last thorn between Britain and the Ming Dynasty was completely removed.

In the future, the relationship between Britain and Daming will be more harmonious.

Especially when Her Royal Highness Charlotte is willing to accept the title of Princess of the Great Food after her accession to the throne.

However, there was another thing that worried Grenville.

The Ming people pulled the Lucians, Prussians, and French to negotiate in private.

What are the British doing in these countries on the continent, aside from the islands?

These useless intelligence agents have never received accurate information.

(End of chapter)