Chapter 58

Two ships brought the nightmare of death to Blaise.

In the first few days of December 1432, the port city of avil was still preparing for the new year's celebration, but today, the new year's joy bell will not ring.

In less than a week, 47000 people died in this big port city in the kingdom of Blaise, and the whole city was almost empty overnight, as if the city had never been inhabited. From the notes of chroniclers who survived by luck, we can see the record of despair in that month:

"everyone died, ships full of goods floated with the waves, and municipal officials prohibited ringing the death knell, fearing that too frequent death knell would lead the whole city into despair. But soon they won't have to worry as much because the bell ringer is dead. Twelve of the twelve magistrates in this port died

People like frightened crows, scattered and fled

The escape spread the great plague rapidly.

Thirty thousand people died in a week in the city of Grande near avil.

Atair, who went north, lost half of its population in half a month.

More than 540 people are thrown into graves every day in the Koster lowlands.

……

Starting from the port of Avir, along the long coastline upward, along the cobweb of land traffic inward With the spread of the plague group of ships, the rush of the crowd spread out.

Who will save mankind?

………………

The kingdom of Blaise, the capital of asseli.

General Carr walked into the splendid palace with great anxiety.

Carl leicia.

He was the commander of the expedition who led the Blaise expedition to invade Legrand this year and won a great victory. In principle, as a general who has won such a great victory for Blaise, when he returns, he should be welcomed with flowers and cheers.

But no one in Blaise today is in the mood to cheer.

The plague is spreading in the west of Blaise, and the death report of every city has put a heavy stone on people's hearts, which makes people panic. Both nobles and civilians felt the unpredictability and terror of natural disasters.

King Blaise has given an urgent order to terminate the maritime trade.

But it didn't help.

On the one hand, cities that have not yet been spread by the plague are not willing to suffer such losses; on the other hand, it is difficult to implement the urgent orders thoroughly.

"Your Majesty."

General Carr knelt down to the new king in his black cloak.

King Blaise, ferry III, 23.

The reason why the brescian expeditionary army stopped at Yuehe fortress and withdrew a large number of troops ahead of time was related to him. Because at the end of October, the old king died. When the king of Legrand calmed down the civil strife, Prince Felipe of Blaise was also calming down the struggle for the royal power.

However, the difference is that Prince Ferri is supported by the Holy See.

After the negotiation, general Carr led most of his troops to rush back to China to fight for Prince Ferri, and then returned to the capital today.

"Get up."

Ferri III stood before the throne, and there was no one in the hall but him and Carl. The young new king had dark golden hair, combed back neatly. His features were deep and his gray eyes were quiet. When he was the prince, he was known as a "beautiful man".

General Carr was a teacher of Prince Ferri's time and his most valued confidant.

When he got up, he found that ferry III was holding a thick extract of the history of the kingdom of Blaise, which was used as an enlightenment education during the crown prince's period.

"Teacher, what's the situation?"

Ferri III raised his head. When he looked at people with dark gray eyes, it was easy to give people a kind of gentle and intimate feeling. He was not long from the coronation ceremony, and he was the new king of Blaise, but in private he still retained his childhood title of general Carl.

"It's bad."

General Carr shook his head heavily.

"We can't stop the spread of the black death."

"I heard that Legrand also issued a sea blockade order." Ferri III turned a page and said softly, "it's only one channel away, and rogrand on the other side has not been affected by the black death so far. It is said that all their ports fell asleep overnight under the command of the tyrant. Is that so? "

“…… Yes

General Carr was silent for a moment and answered.

"Why can they do it, but we can't?" Ferri III closed the book, "Sardinia was the first city to receive the blockade order. However, a week after the blockade order was issued, there were still merchant ships travelling in secret, and there were still merchant ships berthing at the dock Why, you say, are the same orders so different? "

This question carries a dangerous signal and should not be answered by ministers.

Ferri III chuckled. "Look, even you are afraid to say the answer.""Your Majesty."

"Because the royal family of Blaise is in a fundamentally different position from the royal family of Legrand." Ferri III closed the book with a slap, and his dark gray eyes suddenly became sharp. "We went to Legrand because we could plunder interests from Legrand's land, and because it was the Holy Lord's battle that was handed down at the beginning. There is more authority than the clough royal family. "

"In Legrand, even with the presence of the holy court, the nobles were accustomed to be more obedient to the glory of the rose royal family. But in Blaise, even the king must be a devout believer, and all my vassals, the flag that sent them to the cross is far better than the flag painted with tulips. "

"The royal family is just a puppet."

"That's why."

Ferri III's voice was cold.

"Your Majesty." General Carr was shocked. He quickly looked around to make sure that there was no one else around him. "Why do you suddenly..."

"The Pope will arrive in a week to coronate me in person."

Said Ferri III lightly.

"The Pope?" General Carr frowned. "Why did the Pope come?"

"The letter said it was a natural disaster, so I came to preside over it in person." Ferri III said, "that's the real king of kings."

Blanche royal family is different from Legrand. Although Legrand's church power is strong, it is nothing compared with Blanche. In Blaise's three ranks, the clergy was superior to the secular nobility.

This is related to the establishment of the kingdom of Blaise.

217 A.D.

The land on the East Bank of the abyss Strait is still in chaos, with numerous states. The central ethnic groups, known as "barbarians", swept across the continent, sweeping one country after another, as if with the mission of heaven to destroy all the scattered civilizations.

It was against this background that the original body of Blaise Kingdom, Chloe Kingdom, met the army of the barbarians. The king of Blaise at that time, the great hero of history, crimo, led the last army to fight in the valley of the lowlands. In desperation, the king swore to the then unaccepted holy see.

As long as the Lord protects them and helps them win, the kingdom of Chloe is willing to accept the holy see as the national religion.

“…… The merciful God sent his saints and his army. The angels fought with the mortals in armor. They gave the crown of victory to the great and devout king cremo. The priests drew a cross under the hero's chest, so the brave knights were invincible.

…… They conquered all the heretic countries and established the great kingdom of Blaise on the vast land. The gods protected this land

At the beginning of Blaise's history, the klow dynasty took the holy see as the link to unify hundreds of chaotic countries and established a great Blaise on the basis of the unity of belief.

Since Blaise's founding is closely combined with the help of the Holy See, it is doomed that the Holy See, a huge spiritual monster, will be a towering world tree, which is deeply rooted in Blaise's land and its spreading network underground.

Ferri III gave a self mocking smile. He looked at the glorious throne.

"Do you know? teacher. When I stand in front of this chair, I feel no excitement, no joy, but endless absurdity. We've been watching Legrand struggle in the war for so many years, laughing at their wasted energy and thinking they're all idiots. "

"But in the end, who is the fool?"

Legrand, who disobeyed the Vatican, was "punished" a thousand years ago.

The country is divided, the States stand in great numbers, and the enemy countries around are falling down. The rose royal family almost disappeared from the world, but even then, they never bow to the church and never ask for any help. They rely on their own generations of suffering, and finally in the war a little bit to restore the original outline of the powerful country.

They walked scarred, but they stood.

"When the butcher's knife of the holy court waved to Legrand, we chanted," holy Lord, long live, but when it turned to us, we felt the pain. "

Ferri III threw chronicles on the throne.

"Your Majesty..." General Carr painfully closed his eyes, he reluctantly comforted, "it's just a coronation, not so serious, maybe it's really to solve the black death."

"No

Ferri III calmly cut off the comfort.

"I think their purpose is not just coronation."

"What's that for?"

"I don't know."

………………

As the Pope's carriage drove to the capital of Brescia, Legrand was ready to take on the challenge.

Legrand, Rose Palace.

The king was looking through the letters coming back and forth from the southeast coast.

During this period, the Gru family, who had great influence in the transportation industry, was formally incorporated into the royal family. The king set up the "Transport Department of Legrand", with the head of the Gru clan as the Minister of transport. At the same time, the royal family appointed two auditors and a deputy minister appointed by the king.Chief Gru certainly understood what the king meant.

The king did use the Gru family to give them power and status, but at the same time, he also put a knife on their neck to supervise and restrict them. Once they cross the border, they are waiting for their heads to fall to the ground.

This kind of behavior style is very "King".

According to the king's own long-term plan, the road traffic network will definitely be connected with inland river shipping and marine shipping in the later stage.

However, it is not possible to do so for the time being. It is the king's commissioners who cooperate with it.

Before the brilliant meeting, the commissioners who were sent to the counties by the king to investigate.

They are affectionately called "the black wings of the king".

In that big investigation, the commissioners did a good job. After the meeting, instead of dissolving them, the king transferred them to the southeast and set up a nominal "local people's response committee".

In fact, it belongs to the king's supervision and intelligence agency.

At present, the responsibilities are more focused on "intelligence".

This time, the king was able to control the situation of the southeast coast in time, and also benefited from these investigators. I'm afraid the nobles hate these commissioners in private. However, contrary to their previous aversion to similar intelligence agents, the civilians have a good feeling for the "black wings" of these kings.

Black wings are also willing to accept their "bribes" - the money will be registered and handed in uniformly - and record the illegal exploitation of so and so officials, then feed back to the top. One Ombudsman, for the sake of statistics, stipulated that one penny should be charged for each bribe.

This has even become a "penny" tradition.

This belongs to the follow-up positive impact of the exchange transfusion.

All kinds of letters like snow keep coming into the Rose Palace. More than once, the Duke of Buckingham saw the light in the king's study come on into the night.

"Sure enough, the black death is far beyond the medical level of this era."

The king pressed his forehead and then gave a little smile.

"But it's a bunch of lunatics."

The Duke of Buckingham received a letter from the pharmacist at the madman Academy of Sciences from the king.

After the outbreak of the black death, the king inquired about the intelligence of the uninhabited island in the southeast of Charles, and finally chose an uninhabited island isolated from the mainland and not on the route. At the private expense of the king, he established a "Department of pathology of the first Academy of Sciences in Legrand".

It's called "lunatic hospital" for short.

When dealing with the sporadic spread of the black death along the coast of Legrand, the devil kept the bodies of some black death patients according to the king's wishes, and then sent them to the uninhabited island by special means.

In this lunatic hospital is a medical team with the core of anatomists, pharmacists and Surgeons of the lunatic Academy of Sciences.

They were ordered to do their best to study the black death.

It's hard.

If it wasn't for the devil's special means, relying on the isolation technology of this era, let alone studying the pathology of the black death, I'm afraid that people in a scientific academy would be infected and die.

In addition to the three lunatics, the rest of the researchers were doctors selected secretly from all over the country and then passed the examination. They have been summoned by the king in person in each of them. They are all people who have solemnly vowed to give their lives for mankind. They know their mission, and they are willing to die.

However, the king did not intend to let these silly doctors really give their lives.

Although Well

These enthusiastic young doctors and elderly kind-hearted old doctors, after they set foot on the uninhabited island full of tragedy, face not only three mentally abnormal immediate superiors, but also pestilence doctors with beak mask exoskeleton.

It was a really sad running in experience.

Although no solution has been found, in terms of the black death, edge hospital has made "breakthrough" achievements in this era.

It has something to do with the experimental pharmacist.

In order to better understand the whole process of the black death, he took the initiative to infect himself

If it wasn't for the presence of the plague doctor, the devil would have gone to hell in half a day. After recovery, the pharmacist, with his spirit, recorded the whole course of the black death in detail. And try to infect again, experience again and again, and test the solution on yourself.

Even the silent, speechless plague doctor was shocked by his madness.

Fortunately, the Knight Commander stopped him in time.

The fragile human body can't stand the repeated tossing and turning.

But his spirit won the admiration and love of other doctors.

They scrambled to leave the ranks of normal people and stepped into the sea of neuropathy.

"These guys."The Duke of Buckingham turned to the second half of the letter and couldn't help laughing.

In the second half of the letter, a joint written request from other doctors of the madman hospital is attached.

The other doctors assimilated by the three lunatics seemed to jump from one extreme to the other. Not only did they forget their faith in the Holy See, they also tried to write to the king asking for the same treatment as their immediate superior.

They tried to persuade the king and set up a fire rack for them.

"A doctor without a torch is not worthy to be a member of the madman Academy of Sciences! We strongly demand the same treatment as gentlemen! "

"I think that the scaffold represents the supreme glory of medicine. It shows the tireless pursuit of doctors in academic and life truth."

“……”

The Duke of Buckingham began to think, is the assimilation ability of madman really so strong?

"What a bunch of lunatics."

The Duke of Buckingham couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

"Yes, lunatics, some great lunatics."

The Duke of Buckingham nodded with a smile and approved the king's comment.

Crazy enough, great enough.

"You can't really..."

Then the Duke of Buckingham looked at the king wordlessly and began to write.

"Since it's their request, give it to them."

The king replied with a little smile.

He also made a special medal for the first Academy of Sciences - a scaffold of fire, and announced that only those who have made outstanding achievements can get this medal.

The Duke of Buckingham laughed and shook his head, not against the king's decision.

He picked up another report.

After a few eyes, the Duke of Buckingham's face sank.

The king signed his name at the end of the letter, stopped writing and looked up. He saw Duke Buckingham's face: "what's the matter?"