Invincible urban management

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130 Five. Auspicious world ()

In a time and space that was violently disturbed by the traversers, from the 16s, the European countries that had just completed the Renaissance all unfortunately fell into a nightmare era of writing "auspiciousness" as a disaster under the action of some indescribable force. .

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, this letter contained in a brass box and some expensive silk, porcelain and spices were transported across the vast Atlantic by a group of heavily armed Spanish galleons to the court of the Kingdom of Spain.

Immediately afterwards, Charles V, who had just been successfully elected as the Holy Roman Emperor, also known as King Carlos by the Spaniards, tore open the letter with unknown content after returning to Spain from Germany immediately after being crowned emperor... Then the poor emperor soon contracted smallpox, covered with terrible red spots and blisters, and died of a sudden illness at an alarming rate.

What's more terrible is that the young king or emperor did not leave any heirs, which triggered a terrible political turmoil.

However, the death of Charles V or King Carlos was only the beginning of the disaster.Before the new king ascended the throne, the unknown violent plague spread from inside the palace to outside the palace, and then quickly spread to the whole of Spain. Then, along with the journey of ships and caravans, the terrible epidemic further spread rapidly to the whole of Europe——Lisbon , Barcelona, ​​Marseille, Toulon, Florence, Venice, Paris, Antwerp, London, Copenhagen, Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg, Bremen, Vienna, Prague, Krakow, Warsaw, Stockholm, Moscow... countless famous, The prosperous and prosperous European cities are all trembling and moaning under the black wings of death...

From Spain to the Netherlands, from Britain to Denmark, from France to Poland, and the Italian peninsula across the sea from Spain, almost all Europeans are shocked to find that an unprecedented plague that is worse than the Black Death crisis in the fourteenth century is coming to them Heads linger around!

——After experiencing the terrible mistakes in Central America, the bacterial weapon that Director Ma dropped into this time and space finally broke out at the correct coordinates.

Cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, measles, dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, black death, and military anthrax... All kinds of infectious diseases spread throughout Europe and unscrupulously exerted their yin power—although they followed the Compared with the era of the outbreak of the Black Death in 1348, Europeans who had experienced the Renaissance had made some progress in medicine.However, only relying on the very crude bloodletting, enema and emetic techniques at that time, as well as completely unreliable primitive herbal medicines, has no therapeutic effect on the modern infectious bacteria that have been tested by various antibiotics.

What's worse is that Europeans in this era generally don't pay attention to hygiene and mistakenly regard bathing as the source of disease, so everyone doesn't bathe all their lives. Feces and urine everywhere... Such an unhygienic living habit greatly accelerated the spread of the above-mentioned various plagues and caused the death rate of the sick to be astonishingly high.

Since the summer and autumn of 1520, the bells of every church in Western Europe have been ringing continuously all day long. Every day, countless corpses are buried. The funeral personnel did not even have time to dig the grave, so they could only throw the corpses into the trench at random, and shovel some floating soil to bury them. As a result, the dead bodies were buried in a short time The wild dogs dug it out again and gnawed it to pieces.If one day the church bell finally stops, it means that even the bell ringer and the priest have died of illness.

What's more frightening is that even the torrential strait can't stop the spread of the plague, because the rats and fleas carrying the germs can hide in the boats to cross the sea; and the cold winter can only temporarily curb the power of the plague. .

In order to escape death, helpless Europeans exhausted all kinds of methods - poor doctors racked their brains to give patients laxatives, emetics, bloodletting and enemas, smoked rooms and even learned legends according to the sad medical common sense of the Middle Ages The witch in the book throws toads, boy urine, scorpions and other messy things into the pot to make medicinal soup... But the result is either no cure or hastened death.

On the other hand, pious clergy and believers are also fighting the plague in their own way-these religious fanatics believe that the fall of mankind has attracted the punishment of the gods, so they pray to the emperor even more fanatically.They marched in every town in Europe, whipped each other with iron-pointed whips and hummed: "I'm guilty"... Jews and Gypsies who have been discriminated against for a long time were identified by crazy believers as the devil's The avatar, the bearer of the plague, drove them out of their homes by the tens of thousands and burned them alive.And a new round of cruel witch hunting is also underway vigorously. In just half a year, tens of thousands of "suspected witches" were tortured to death... But death continues to come to the world.

So many died in the plague that there were hardly enough surviving to bury the dead.Fear grips the soul of every European and the desperate desire to keep disease and death at a distance.Some patients were dug up and buried alive by their terrified relatives before they died, because people thought he was doomed to die of illness anyway, so they were buried early so as not to infect themselves...

To make matters worse, similar to the situation in Spain, the kings of some European countries and their orthodox heirs also died of sudden illness during the plague, which triggered a civil war around the inheritance rights, and the simultaneous outbreak of war and plague further increased people's panic.The god sticks who proclaimed that the doomsday is coming and the world is about to be destroyed were flooded for a while, and people everywhere were bewitched, either committing suicide in despair or fleeing to the mountains.

After all kinds of deadly plagues finally come to an end temporarily, the whole of Europe has lost more than two-thirds of its population, and even heaven will be filled with so many souls.

At that time, the higher the population concentration, the worse the sanitation conditions and the more severe the plague outbreak, so many famous European cities became deserted and abandoned cities after the plague.And after the kings lost their capital, their military strength and ruling ability were greatly reduced, and they became more and more unable to suppress the local nobles-as a result, some countries that had just begun to centralize power tended to split and disintegrate again.

And the situation in the countryside is equally bad-because too many people who died of the plague and survived generally delayed farming during the plague, resulting in the farms being abandoned and only barren weeds left on the farmland... As a result, what followed the plague It involves the terrible famine throughout Europe and the serious crisis of the feudal ruling order in European countries-because the entire royal family-nobility-free people-serf system has completely collapsed!

Of course, after the whole of Europe fell into disaster, the plague inevitably spread across the Mediterranean to the Muslim world in North Africa and West Asia, which also caused an alarming scale of deaths.

However, compared with Europe, which has dense vegetation and abundant animals, the lifeless Sahara Desert and the Arabian Desert obviously played the role of natural isolation zones.The tradition of Muslims who like to be clean and have to bathe and wash their feet almost every day also benefited them a lot during the plague years.Although they also have no specific medicine for the plague, the death rate is much lower than that of the dirty 16th century Christians.

However, for the Europeans in the [-]th century who lacked common knowledge of modern medicine and epidemiology but believed in gods, they only saw that they were also under the attack of the plague. Christians everywhere often died of illness in whole villages and cities, while Turks The death rate on the pagan side is relatively much lower... The final conclusion is naturally that the power of the emperor seems to be not as great as the true Lord...

As a result, more and more Europeans in the Balkan Peninsula, Hungary, Romania and other areas of Eastern Europe that had been conquered by the Ottoman Turkish Empire began to abandon the emperor and turn to worship Allah, which made the rulers of the Turkish Empire very happy.

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