Invincible urban management

Chapter 24. We are the plague gods

The sedan chair carrying Wang Qiu bypassed the pyramid, passed through a small empty square, passed several tall wooden fences, and came to the palace where King Avaha and Wen Desi's family lived.

It is said to be a royal palace, but it is actually quite shabby. It is just a few ordinary prefab houses made of colored steel plates.It was just to distinguish it from the blue and white "noble mansions" around the pyramid, so the roof was painted a striking bright red.

However, in terms of the comfort of the living environment, this kind of modern simple house is actually not bad.

In the courtyard of the royal palace, there is a four-meter-high cement totem pole, the main body of which is a statue of an Indian warrior—according to the technical level of the indigenous people, it will take at least one year to construct such a large statue.But in modern small workshops, as long as the drawings are sent over, it takes only two or three days to complete the pouring.

On the other side of the yard, there is also a simple white mobile home with a huge red cross painted on the roof. diagnosis and treatment.

——When a large number of modern commodities spanned five centuries of distant time and space, they poured into the Central American market in this world like a mountain, it seems that because of the modern germs carried by the travelers, a terrible plague, in It followed a few months later, and quickly attacked many city-states and villages on the Pacific coast in southwestern Central America.

The first to bear the brunt was naturally the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom itself.

Suddenly, in fields, cottages, and logging camps, people were coughing, having fevers, and shingles everywhere.

Therefore, Chief Avaha, who had not yet become king at that time, began to convene a group of ministers to discuss the matter.The traditional countermeasures of the Central American Indians against the "scourge" of the plague is to hold grand living sacrifices, use hundreds of beating hearts, and warm blood painted on the pyramids to please those moody and cruel gods .

Obviously, this cruel practice of superstition and ignorance has no positive effect on the treatment of the plague.

Moreover, after these living sacrifices are put to death, they are traditionally placed near the pyramid temple for a long time, and the local weather is so hot, if so many carrion corpses are piled up in a densely populated city, it will definitely lead to plague further spread.

Fortunately, at this moment, there is a group of "god men" beside them who can ask for help, so they don't need to spend a lot of time building pyramids to hold blood sacrifices.As the heir of Wende, the next monarch, he naturally firmly opposed any living sacrifices, so Hong Xiutizqian did not do the above stupid things.

Fortunately, the traversers were not the Spaniards who brought smallpox and the Black Death in the future, and they were already prepared for this-after the outbreak, all kinds of oral antibiotic pills, cold medicines and Anti-inflammatory and anti-fever drugs are continuously transported and sold at relatively low prices.And within the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom, they were simply distributed for free to prevent those slaves and poor people from dying in large numbers.

It has to be admitted that before the bacteria evolve drug resistance, antibiotics can be said to be the magic medicine that can cure all diseases.And these Indians who were able to survive tenaciously in the prehistoric world were far more resilient than modern people.After those small white pills with bitter taste (oral penicillin) and small rainbow-colored granules (cold granules) were distributed, most of the patients showed obvious improvement.

Then, Professor Yang flipped through a rural barefoot doctor's manual published in the 60s, instructing the aborigines to sprinkle lime powder on the roads and courtyards of the cottages; Acetic acid is used for disinfection; healthy people who are not sick must also take preventive medicine; and then there is an order to prohibit drinking raw water, and everyone can only drink cold boiled water...

Coincidentally, the first batch of scallions, onions, and garlic brought from other worlds can also be picked, so they are also distributed, so that everyone can eat more of these sterilized foods, and at the same time, the planting area must be further expanded... As a result, One of the bad consequences is that Wen Desi is unwilling to kiss his wife for a whole month-in order to prevent his wife from getting sick and dying, he eats garlic for Princess Maca almost every day, not to mention the smell.

After half a month, the plague basically ended in the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom. Wen Desi made a rough statistics and found that only 50 people died in the whole country during this period, and half of them were not caused by the plague. Instead, he was crushed to death in an accident while logging, or fell into the water while fishing and disappeared.A small number of dead bodies were cremated to cut off the source of infection.

In the end, according to the test results that Wang Qiu took the patient's sputum to a modern hospital and spent a sum of money to do it, everyone was surprised to find that this terrible plague that seemed to be menacing was actually nothing more than an ordinary plague. It's just the common cold.

However, outside the territory of the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom, the disaster caused by this epidemic was not so slight.

For example, the nearest large Mayan city-state to the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom, Tepetevank, located in the later Guatemala territory, suffered an unprecedented catastrophe that was almost devastating.

According to what a businessman sent to sell medicine saw there, in Tepetwank City, from the port pier to the palace of the lord of the city, dying patients and rotting and smelly dead people were lying everywhere. Pedestrians on the road would suddenly vomit blood and fall down as they walked—this incident puzzled the traversers, because even if a cold deteriorated into pneumonia, it seemed that they would not usually vomit blood—all The city stinks, the streets are full of puddles of vomit, corpses are littered everywhere, covered with maggots, bitten and devoured by stray wild dogs, and there is no one to clean them up.

However, despite the terrible situation in the city, the Mayan priests still maintained their rule, and attributed the plague to the punishment of the gods. Prisoners of war and voluntary self-sacrificing warriors were disemboweled one by one on the tall pyramid altar, offering their blood, heart and head, hoping to redeem the wrath of the gods.

The corpses of the victims were stuck on the spears as if they were wearing barbecue, and they stood densely on the square in front of the pyramid, like a terrifying forest of human flesh. Many of the corpses had turned black and rotted, obviously dead long time.

——When the Mongols attacked Europe, they used trebuchets to throw dead people into the enemy's cities in order to create a plague.The Mayans, on the other hand, piled up rotting corpses in their own cities, lest the plague would not spread enough... It looked like they were seeking their own death.

Even when Hongxiutizgan merchants tried to sell drugs and conducted on-the-spot experiments, they were reprimanded by the Mayan priests in Tepetevank as being bewitched by the devil, and even threatened to tie them up, "sinners". Sacrifice on the pyramid!In the end, they were so frightened that they had no choice but to leave the cargo and climb into the canoe before the pursuers came, paddled desperately and escaped, and even dared not go to that ghost place again.

Before getting this information, Wen Desi originally planned to lead the team there in person, to see if he could take the opportunity to send medicine to be kind, and then promote the "boundless magic power" of these traversers, so that Take this group of Mayans under their command—according to the great chief of Avaha, during the heyday of the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom, the city of Tepetwank was once conquered, but it was a pity that the city was taken away decades ago. The place was lost—but once he heard that the situation there was so horrible, and the actions of the Mayan nobles were so cruel and bloody, he immediately gave up his thoughts.

Everyone has become crazy like this. If he, a "man of god", passes away, who knows if he will also be directly slaughtered to sacrifice to the god?

Wicked things like this, the Aztecs had done when they were still very weak - in order to obtain a human sacrifice with a high enough status, an early Aztec emperor first asked a neighboring country to marry him The princess, vowed to make her a queen.After the poor princess was married, the Aztec emperor immediately turned his face, and sent the princess to the pyramid the next day, disemboweled her belly and dug out her heart to sacrifice to the gods...

However, there are still a few weirdos like Tepetwank City who like to seek their own death.Most of the Indian tribes facing the threat of the plague still expressed their great welcome to the "miracle medicine" of the traversers.Many very poor tribes simply migrated here collectively because they couldn't afford medicine, and joined the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom to pray for the protection of the "gods" and keep them away from illness.

When this sudden plague was basically over, most of the Central American natives in the Pacific coast had already regarded the travelers as their own and worshiped them sincerely. As long as it is useful, it must be worshipped.

Moreover, the Indians still have the idea of ​​"animism", that is to say, they believe that everything has a soul, and there are also gods in charge of them, such as the god of the sun, the god of potatoes, the god of corn, the god of the sea, the god of salt, and the god of rain. etc……

Based on this inference, the travelers who can resist the plague should naturally be in charge of the priesthood of disease.

To put it simply, the traversers are the plague gods.

In the future, the heir of Wende, who will become King Hongxiutizgan, will be the chief servant of the plague gods, the noble Archangel.

In short, when they learned that they were worshiped by the Indians as plague gods, the faces of Wang Qiu and the others were truly wonderful.When he knew that he had somehow become the chief servant of the Archangel, Wen Desi's face was also very exciting.

——He has always thought that he has become a national civil servant, that is, the subordinates of the compatriots in front of him... It seems correct to understand it as a servant?

... Uh, this... Should it be said that it was wrongly hit?