20. The Bishop and the Boy (1)

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Fifteen people in the village of Chart fell ill! The whereabouts of Lord Anderson Knight are unknown.

La Rochelle died 46 people and asked the royal capital to send doctors to help.

The epidemic situation in Divorum has worsened, and there have been a contingent of victims fleeing in the direction of the royal capital.

Count Guise took his family and moved into the Royal Capital Annex......

Secret agents, officials kept stuffing reports from various sources into the prime minister's office, looking at the mountain of pieces of paper without a single piece of good news, Cardinal Richelieu had the urge to turn himself into an explosive technique, to smash the broken paper in front of him, the flies waiting for him outside, the pigs who abandoned their people and fled to the royal capital, and the building.

"Hell, I'm going to have to get a doctor to check myself. ”

Pouring down a glass of cold water, Richelieu smiled bitterly. He is now in the golden age of 50 years old, with an emaciated face, neatly trimmed white sideburns and a trademark nose that outlines the aggressive figure of the Speaker, and has a snarky smell of a usurer. The strong physique does not doubt that this man in power can fight for another 10 years.

But Richelieu, who has always been physically tough, has also felt a little unbearable recently, he has been having tinnitus since the morning, he has not eaten all day, he still has no appetite when he sees the food served, and he has a dangerous sign of dizziness just now.

Knowing that it was time to take a break in response to his body's protests, Richelieu knew that even if he slacked off for a moment, the seemingly powerful and invincible Charlemagne could collapse while he was napping, at the hands of this sudden mass epidemic and the stupid rulers of this country.

Originally, under the power of this capable prime minister, the state has been in surplus for five consecutive years. The electors and local vassals who were not very deferential to the central government of the royal family were also cleaned up by the bishop's iron fist, but not long after entering the late autumn, a sudden epidemic turned the great country that had begun to enter the road to prosperity upside down.

An unheard-of and wonderful illness swept through Charlemagne's territory in a very short time, causing the patient to experience hallucinations, dizziness, and nausea. This was followed by severe convulsions and spasms of the limbs, pain all over the body, premature birth, dystocia, and death of the pregnant woman. Eventually, all patients will die due to ulcers all over their bodies and their muscles fall off one by one.

The top doctors at the Royal Medical Center are at a loss for this novel condition. The quack physicians were automatically demoted by the bishop and tried fluid balance therapy. Leech blood-sucking treatment, heat-wicking treatment, and healing enhancement - every treatment they knew had been tried, but nothing had worked well. At most, to alleviate the pain of the sick and delay their return to the Mother Goddess for a while, it seems that this group of guys will not be of much use in the short term.

Diseases are terrifying, but even more terrifying is the human heart.

When the epidemic broke out, a large number of people fell ill at the same time and the madness of some patients frightened the common people. In order - the official term was used - the lower nobles and branches of the church who governed the localities were in full swing.

In order to cover up the helplessness of the epidemic and the disaster relief process, the group of pigs with low intelligence invariably thought of this method.

It's embarrassing to think that a simple and effective, but at the same time extremely stupid crazy movement was triggered by this group of self-righteous idiots.

The lord/church looks for mavericks or undesirables in the crowd, and then instigates and induces people with sick families to file complaints against the target, arranging witnesses to testify against the target's unusual behavior on weekdays, and blasphemous remarks in private. Listing these catchers as evidence, and then going through one or two little tricks. He was hastily sent to the stake. According to preliminary statistics, 357 people have been executed in this way in just 10 days. It can be said that wherever there is an epidemic, there is a burner at the stake.

As a cardinal who served the Mother Goddess and assisted the king in governing the world, Richelieu had a strong faith. There is also a strong hatred of heretics, heretics, and atheists. But before that, Prime Minister Richelieu's identity and thinking mode were the first priority.

The bishop clearly foresaw that if the witch hunt was not finished as soon as possible, the craze would sooner or later turn into a wild horse. Drag the kingdom of Charlemagne into a catastrophe from which it will never be recovered.

Unlike in the past, when the cult was extinguished, the epidemic began to show signs of getting out of control. Charlemagne was almost turned into a furnace that burned the living day and night, and lately even the air in the royal capital of Lydes could faintly smell the stench of burning human bodies.

After escalating to the peak of terror, ordinary people and officials will become everyone at risk. Instead, it prompts them to calm down and think about why they are the way they are and what the previous series of actions have been about. Then the spearhead of anger will turn its course on the stupid people who have launched this crazy and useless campaign, the aristocracy and the Church, which have played a dishonorable role, and will eventually turn into a violent revolution that will sweep the whole country.

Richelieu was not afraid of the rebellion of the common people, but in terms of combat effectiveness, the regular standing army was more than enough to deal with emergencies, and if the power of the mages was involved, any rat who tried to subvert the kingdom would be crushed into powder. But Richelieu also knew that Charlemagne could not escape the surveillance of other countries, especially his old rival Walsingham, in any trouble.

None of them are fools and don't sit back and admire.

As long as Castile and Albion put on a posture of increasing troops on the border, Charlemagne must adjust their military forces accordingly and carry out reciprocal escalation to confront each other, so that it is impossible to mobilize all their military forces to suppress the rebellion, and the effect will naturally be greatly reduced, and the country is very likely to fall into long-term turmoil.

For a moment, the cardinal even thought it was a ruse by Walsingham on the other side of the sea, a trap to kill Charlemagne. But Richelieu could not think of how Walsingham could predict the occurrence of an epidemic, how could he control and concatenate such a huge plan as a stroke behind his back? Richelieu couldn't think of it for a long time, so he had to deny this possibility.

The situation was already so critical, but the group of lower-level nobles and priests who were in the water still couldn't correctly understand the meaning of the upper echelons, and instead further escalated the witch hunt, wantonly expanding the scope and suspects, causing panic to continue to intensify.