Goddess Wanhua Mirror

Thousands of meters away from the East Street Quarantine Area, here is a very different wealthy neighborhood. The Great Temple of the Goddess of the Four Seasons Sect stands here. The colored wall tiles symbolize the most important divinity of the goddess of the four seasons - the rotation of seasons.

Bishop Evan Ruth, who had to sleep until he woke up naturally, didn't open his eyes until mid-morning.This big fat man in white flesh got up and looked around the bed. The two nuns who served the bed last night had already retreated first, and he was the only one in the luxurious bedroom.

Evan Ruth did not rush to ask the nun who had been waiting outside for a long time to come in to help him change and wash, but walked to the window naked.The "painted floor-to-ceiling windows" made up of countless stained glass pieces just allow him to see the scenery outside, but people outside can't see him clearly in the room.

Evan Ruth likes this kind of one-way show very much, it will give him a strange pleasure.

"Ah! What a beautiful day! Fools who are in despair, please pray to the gods for forgiveness! Your beliefs will pave a way for me to ascend!"

Like a second child, Evan Ruth uttered words that ordinary people could not understand.

Those who understand these words understand it, and those who don't don't don't care!

Evan Ruth, who was born in a religious family, learned and grew up in a church environment since he was a child. His family has served the goddess of the seasons for nearly 500 years, which can be traced back to before the War of Gods. Therefore, Evan Ruth's ancestors had three popes. There are countless archbishops and bishops.

With his profound family knowledge, Evan Ruth can get in touch with many "religious inside stories" that ordinary people don't know.But Evan Ruth, who knew the truth, did not collapse because of this belief, but felt ecstatic.

The gods are not wantless and omnipotent. Like the mortal kings, they are full of desires and very good at deceiving the public.Such a god may disappoint many believers who have unrealistic fantasies, but Evan Ruth thinks such a god is simply awesome!

Because he knows what the gods like, he can do what he likes, but the common people are so stupid that they can be easily deceived.Evan Ruth knows exactly which side he should be on!

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the plague that occurred in Oyster Harbor was a terrible disaster, and many people would die from the disease.But Evan Ruth knew that many people would indeed die from the plague, but those who died would only be low-level civilians. The lives of these ants were as cheap as weeds, and they died as soon as they died.

Anyway, the human race has no other specialties, that is, being able to give birth!Even if 10,000+ people die in the entire Oyster Port, the population can be replenished from other places.

As for whether it will cause the people to be disappointed with the gods because too many people died during the epidemic, Evan Ruth does not think this is a big problem, because no matter how serious the epidemic is, as long as there are priests like them, they will definitely Some people survived, and these survivors who survived will tell others about the kindness of the gods with gratitude.

Evan Ruth felt that what he really had to do was to make good use of the "surplus value" of those who were dying to pave the way for his promotion.

Because he understands the principle of belief, Evan Ruth knows that people will burst out with a strong will to survive under a major crisis. He only needs to guide them to pray to the gods to generate a lot of faith.

And sacrificing living beings is the highest level of offering among all religious ceremonies, and the faith that can be generated is far above ordinary prayers.

In other words, before the outbreak of the war of gods, living sacrifices could be said to be a religious ceremony commonly used by all major sects. However, as the times changed, this ancient ceremony began to be criticized for being barbaric, and everyone did not use it often.

But Evan Ruth hopes to restore the "ancient method" in Oyster Harbor, and it is not a small fight of one or two people, but a sacrifice of 100 people at one time, and a big battle of a pair of sons and daughters of the lord's family.

If this ritual is really done by him, the faith generated will be enough to attract the attention of the goddess of the four seasons, and make the high gods pay attention to him.Coupled with the upper-level relationship he had established a long time ago, he can make a smooth rise in this wave, directly leave the Duran Parish, and go to work with the Pope in the main hall.

As for how to carry out post-disaster reconstruction of Oyster Harbor after this, and whether it will never recover from the fall, that is not something Evan Ruth needs to worry about.

Just as she was YYing happily, there was a knock on the door, and then a beautiful young nun pushed the door and walked in.Evan Ruth didn't need to look back to know that if he dared to open the door and enter the bedroom without his permission, there was only one person in the entire temple, and that was his "disciple" Aria.

"My lord, you are awake."

"Well, I just woke up, do you have anything to report to me?"

"There are indeed a few things that need to be reported to you, and they are all related to the God of Medicine who arrived at Oyster Harbor last night."

"Oh! What did they do?"

"They unloaded a lot of goods at the pier this morning and entered the quarantine area on East Street. During the period, those people from the Lake God Sect made small moves and incited some poor people to intercept the convoy, but they failed."

"Hmph! It's really ridiculous to go to save those untouchables!"

Hearing Aria's report that the new God of Medicine is really preparing to treat nearly [-] abandoned poor patients in the quarantine area with great fanfare, Evan Ruth sneered disdainfully.

"Stupid! Hypocrisy! Is it possible that he really thinks he is a saint? The most common people in this world are the untouchables, and the least worthy of saving are these untouchables! You give them benefits and favors, and they will only verbally thank you, but what they think in their hearts is How to get more out of you, so they only deserve lies!"

In front of Aria, Evan Russ, who had always shown himself as a "great good man" in front of outsiders, used extremely vicious words to mock and scold those devout believers.

The bishop who looked like a mountain of meat walked around behind the female disciple as he spoke, and began to lay hands on the young girl.Aria, on the other hand, kept a calm face and allowed the bishop to be frivolous. Obviously, this was not the first time between them.

Evan Ruth licked the girl's slender neck and whispered in the other's ear.

"We lie, we cheat, we steal! My family even set up a course by my father himself when I was very young to teach me these things. This is the secret of the Four Seasons Goddess Church's continuous growth! I My good disciple, it seems that I have to teach you a good lesson!"

"Then, that Master Teacher means... we don't need to pay attention to those Medicine God Sects who are doing useless work, is that right?"

"Hey! There are so many people in the city right now. If we really make a move, we will inevitably be caught by others. But you just said that those guys from the Lake God Sect have some ideas. Just sit and watch these third-rate characters dog bite dog."

According to Evan Ruth's common sense and experience over the years, Lude's actions will definitely end in failure.

Because Evan Ruth knows too well the character of those pariahs, they are stupid and selfish, and they are greedy because they are poor.

Even if the supplies you bring from the God of Medicine Sect are enough to feed 10,000+ people in the city and cure all the patients, some people will still jump out and criticize their benefactors because they get less than others.

This is the people at the bottom, the lowly kind that has not changed for thousands of years!

It's a pity that Evan Ruth didn't have a detailed understanding of Lude's specific actions in the quarantine area. He took it for granted that Lude brought a cart of food and medicine into the quarantine area, and would fight with those pedantic and hypocritical people. Like sects, they simply distribute relief food in exchange for a word of insincere gratitude from those refugees and earn a little faith.

But in fact, the first thing Lu De did after he brought people into the quarantine area was to raise his prestige. He directly wiped out Abadong and Dilis with thunderous means, and then quickly carried out the entire quarantine area with his power and relief food. It took only a few hours to accept the rectification.

As for the distribution of relief food, Lu De did not simply give alms, but gave relief with work.

We must know that most of the mildly ill patients are not completely disabled, they are just hungry and have no energy, so after gathering all the patients, Lu De publicly announced that he is here to save people, but he is not here to raise pigs Yes, if everyone wants to have enough to eat, they must strictly accept his (militarized) management.

The mild patients first had a breakfast, each with a bowl of fragrant tonkotsu soup and a small piece of black bread.The amount is indeed very small, but this is the first serious food these patients have eaten for many days, and many people are even moved to eat while crying.

After everyone had eaten, Lude gave them the first task of the day - cleaning.

Before that, no one was in charge of cleaning the entire quarantine area, so garbage and excrement could be seen everywhere on the streets. If it weren't for Nan Ding and others who would take the initiative to collect the corpses and incinerate them, the sanitation situation would be many times worse than it is now.

Under the supervision and command of the dwarves, more than 1000 mildly ill patients were divided into several groups to take charge of different areas. It didn't take much longer to clean up the garbage on the street.Then queue up to enter the temporarily remodeled bathroom. There will be someone in charge of supervision in the bathroom. If anyone does not wash up to the standard, they will not be able to go out again.

By around three o'clock in the afternoon, except for the critically ill patients who were unable to move, the rest of the patients in the isolation area had been washed clean and received a suit of clean coarse clothes.Later, Lu De noticed that many people's hair was too long, so he ordered a mandatory haircut. Everyone, regardless of gender, was cut into a regular size, and all beards were shaved off.

Thanks to the fact that there is no such thing as "the body and hair are the parents of the skin", everyone just muttered secretly in their hearts, thinking that the old priest is really a "trick", and it's not that they are so resistant to shaving their hair.

After all this was done, the sky was a little dark. Under Lude's management, the isolation area became more and more like a military camp or a prison. However, many patients with mild symptoms found that after such a toss, their bodies were actually delicate. I feel a lot more comfortable.

End of this chapter

Although it has only been 24 hours since I came to Oyster Harbor, based on the observation of nearly [-] infected people in the quarantine area, the symptoms of this plague are actually far less severe than previously guessed.

The main manifestations of mild patients in the early stage are fever and dark blood, and it is only in the middle and late stages that the body temperature becomes unbalanced, which in turn leads to various complications.

Therefore, the culprit of this plague, apart from being relatively prominent in the aspect of contagion, can only be described as ordinary in other aspects.

In Lude's view, if this disease were placed on the other side of the earth, it might not cause much trouble, but this is a dirty and messy magical Middle Ages, even with unscientific powers such as magic and magic, but The level of basic sanitation and epidemic prevention is there, so stretching the hips is inevitable.

Fortunately, the situation was not so serious that it could not be recovered. After Lude stepped in and took over the quarantine area, everything began to get on the right track.

According to the basic epidemic prevention knowledge from the earth, Lu De has formulated corresponding work and rest management and treatment methods for patients of different degrees.Mild patients mainly rely on support. Under the premise of providing sufficient food, they are forced to maintain personal hygiene and do basic exercise every day.

Due to the lack of sufficient food supply, the low-level civilians who were already in a sub-healthy state, their immunity further declined, and often a group of people nested in airtight and simple houses to report to the group for warmth, and they had no energy to exercise at all. , so the condition continued to deteriorate.

Under Lude's "coercion", all the patients in the isolation area signed a contract with him. Lude promised to provide food and treatment for these patients, but these were not free, and everything was clearly priced. During the treatment period, all Lude's instructions must be fully obeyed, and he needs to be repaid at the price after recovery.

Evan Ruth thinks that Lude is the kind of unrealistic idealist like a good old man. No matter how rich his capital is, this kind of person will inevitably be ravaged and bruised in the face of cruel reality in the end, and even die. .

However, Lude is a realist with ideals. Like Evan Ruth, he knows the evil nature of human beings and has faced the dark side of human nature. However, he accepts the fact that human nature is not perfect, and never thinks that ugliness is The truest nature of human beings.

It doesn't matter if the people don't understand, the key is to be taught!

Just because he understands human nature, Ludd will not provide these refugees with completely free things, because things that people get for free will not be rare.

The quarantine area first launched two "big projects", one is to rectify the street houses.The entire East Street used to be a slum. It is said to be a street, but it is actually a shantytown built indiscriminately. Most of the buildings are wooden structures, and many of them have been in disrepair for a long time, posing serious safety hazards.

So Lu De asked to demolish some dilapidated houses and set up a fire isolation zone, and at the same time use the materials obtained from the house demolition to repair the rest of the houses in better condition.

Here, Lude had to praise the "advantages" of medieval feudal rule, that is, the lord had almost absolute power of life and death over his fiefdom.Before the outbreak of the epidemic, more than 0.5 people lived in this land of less than 2 square kilometers in Dongjie. The lord took it back as soon as he said it, and asked the residents to move out within a time limit. No one dared to say "no".

So even if Lude demolished the entire East Street into white space, he only needed to explain it to the local viscount.

And another "big project" that Lude wants to do is the sewer!

Even though Oyster Harbor is a commercial city, it is a prosperous big city in the north of the Kingdom. However, such a big city only has a few privately built sewers in the rich area. Digging a drainage ditch at the door is considered more particular.

In fact, dwarves who are good at digging holes are out-and-out experts when it comes to building sewers. Lude asked the Steel Whip Clan to help build the sewer system in Pine Town.But the construction of sewers is expensive, and many lords don't pay enough attention to this aspect. They think that the domestic sewage generated by the city should be poured directly on the ground. Anyway, it will seep into the soil anyway, so there is no need to spend so much money on repairing sewers.

In view of this, the development level of cities in different regions can be said to be uneven. The good places are really good, and the bad places have nowhere to stay on the main roads.

However, the sewer that Lude wants to build on East Street is not that advanced. It can basically be regarded as a relatively simple sewage system.Mainly to avoid flooding the streets and polluting wells.

For these two major projects, the dwarves are responsible for providing technical guidance, and the patients with mild symptoms are responsible for the specific construction. Lude hopes to use labor to allow these patients to exercise moderately, and at the same time give them a chance to repay their debts.Those who sign up to participate in the work can not only improve the food level, but also get a small amount of wages, which can be used to repay the medical expenses in the contract.

Most of the patients in the isolation area showed no resistance to Lude's request to participate in labor.Thanks to the extremely low moral level of the feudal lords, even the people themselves do not think that the lords are obliged to be responsible for their own health.

Although the religious people are full of benevolence and morality, they are no better than the nobles in their specific actions. Lude, who is accompanied by his peers, has nothing to criticize.

certainly!The most important point is that although Lude forced these patients to do many actions that they thought they could not understand, he would usually urge everyone to perform them while explaining them in easy-to-understand words.

In addition, everyone really realized that their physical condition had improved, so they naturally believed it. After all, facts always speak louder than words.

Two days later, another batch of infected people arrested by the lord's guards were forcibly sent to the isolation area.On the way to be escorted, these patients were all pale, thinking that they were going to die.

The epidemic that lasted for more than two months has caused rumors to spread throughout Oyster Harbor, and the lord's reputation has long since fallen to the bottom.So these patients who were caught thought that the quarantine area was fake, and that it was a secret execution place set up by the lord's guard, and none of the people who entered could come out alive!

However, when more than 100 people were driven into the quarantine area, what appeared in front of them was not the executioner carrying the murder weapon, but a group of masked men in white jumpsuits.There was even a priest among them, raising his hand was a way to soothe the spirit of the group, so that everyone's originally tense emotions could be relaxed.

The man in white first asked all the patients to register their personal information, then there was a girl with a nice voice standing on the high platform, holding a loudspeaker and reading out to them the various rules in the "isolation hospital", and finally in a daze in a medical Fingerprints were pressed on the agreement, and many people didn't know what happened until the end.

End of this chapter

Fast forward seven days, under the management of Lude, everything in the isolation area has become orderly. Although a large number of patients have not been cured, such a "miracle" that most people expect, but since Lude took over, there has been no death here. One patient, plus the three batches sent in successively, the total number of infected people in the quarantine area has reached more than 3000.

certainly!More patients survived, and one of the main problems that followed was the increase in food consumption.

Prior to this, as long as the food provided by Lude for the patients came from the aid of the Earl of Lumley next door, it was something that Lude bought for his own sake. There were about half a boatload of various coarse grains, which was about three tons. , and some jerky and bone sticks from Pinetown.

You must know that it is spring now, and the food stocks on hand of the lords are almost bottomed out after a winter of pure consumption. It can be said that the earl can give so much support to Lude, which can be said to be benevolent.

Seeing that the food stock on hand was about to run out, Lu De could only "beg for alms" in Oyster Port.

As the most important distribution center for seaborne supplies in the northern part of the kingdom, there is actually no shortage of food in the local area when looking at the total amount of food alone. The per capita can even surpass that of many regions, but the problem lies in the uneven distribution.

More than [-]% of the food is hoarded in the heavily guarded warehouses of several large chambers of commerce in Oyster Harbor.Although the lord has great power, his targets are limited to civilians. These big chambers of commerce all have their own backers, and the viscount may not be able to provoke them.

It is unnecessary to count on these profit-seeking businessmen to open warehouses to release food, but fortunately, Lu De is not helpless.And the facts have once again proved that in terms of the level of huge profits, no matter how much food prices go up, they still can't do pharmaceuticals!

Relying on several monopolized magical medicines at hand, Lu De successively met with several chambers of commerce in the city with the largest stockpile of grain. After some bargaining, Lu De finally gritted his teeth and "reluctantly" offered an "extremely low" price. , from the hands of the merchants in exchange for the food they need.

The merchants felt that they had made a profit, because the magic medicine of the God of Medicine Sect is now a "rare commodity" in the northern part of the kingdom, and it can be sold for several times the price easily after being resold, which is much more profitable than food.

Lu De just catered to the psychology of these businessmen and made a performance, pretending to be unwilling to cut their flesh.The original price was 998, but now it is sold for 499. Lu De's expression at that time was like that of Boss Ma who was forced to lose tears because of the discounted items in the mall.

The businessmen feel that they have made a lot of money in this wave!

It is worth mentioning that among the several chambers of commerce that traded with Lude, the Golden Ax chamber of commerce of the dwarves was also included.This commercial dwarf clan and the Steel Whip clan are allies by marriage. Gulig's nephew, Charlotte, is the youngest son of the current Golden Ax patriarch.

However, the main business of the Golden Ax Chamber of Commerce is mining and jewelry, and they don't do much in the grain business, so Lu De and them mainly buy coal.

The entire Oyster Harbor is not too big or small, and people's spirit of gossip has not been weakened by the spread of the epidemic. Therefore, a series of actions of the God of Medicine in the quarantine area were quickly spread among the "wishful people" of all parties. Next, spread in the streets and alleys.

The initial news was negative. Some residents tried to intercept the convoy of supplies destined for the quarantine area, but they failed in the end.Most of the residents at that time were disgusted with the infected people in the quarantine area, thinking that they were a group of sinners spurned by the gods. Instead of giving food relief to these patients who could not live for a few days, it would be better to give them these healthy people for free. people.

Those who disseminated these news took advantage of the selfish side of human nature to successfully incite a group of mobs who were not so smart, but they were quickly suppressed by the iron-blooded guards from the lord's guard. "Quarantine Zone", let these mobs scatter immediately.

For these early rumors and rhythms, Lu De roughly guessed who did it without much investigation.Everything comes and goes without injustice, Lu De not only has to do practical things, but also has to fight hard in publicity!

Don't you want to follow the rhythm of Lao Tzu?Come, Lord accompany you!

Ever since, a war of public opinion without gunpowder started.Although Lude is not a local force in Oyster Harbor, the locals are not monolithic, and all forces have their own plans to fight.

But this time, it was the Lake God Cult, a low-level character, who jumped to the front desk to make trouble. The Four Seasons Goddess Cult behind it hadn't said anything yet, and the attitude of the Sea God Cult was quite ambiguous.So Lu De shot the first bird, and he was the pawn who was about to face the door first.

As far as means are concerned, the Lake God Sect's routine is to incite confrontation, and the Medicine God Sect only rescues patients in the quarantine area, regardless of what other people in the city say.Lu De's counterattack focused on exposing Lake God's peddling and selling fake medicines as the main black spot.

To be honest, when he first got this black material from Ural, Lude was so shocked!At any rate, it is also an orthodox sect that sells ordinary well water as medicine, and fools the ignorant people who come to buy it, saying that it is the "holy water of the lake" that can ward off evil spirits.

The other party deliberately played a word game on this, only saying that the holy water of this lake can make people invulnerable to evil spirits and improve luck, but never promised that the holy water can cure the plague, so even if you drink the holy water, you are still unfortunately infected. That can only show that your luck is not enough even if you get a bonus.

Lu Dexin said that even if you sell boiled cold water, I will take you as a placebo, and the result is that the well water is bottled directly.Drinking this stuff not only can't cure the disease, but it might cause stomach trouble.

Regarding Lude's surprise, Ural just shrugged his shoulders. The stinky DDs like the Lake God Sect who are at the bottom of the religious world have limited influence and a small area for them to survive. Naturally, their financial resources are not as extensive as those of the big sects.So in many cases, in order to have enough food, you have to understand a little crooked thinking.

Actions like selling counterfeit medicines can only be regarded as basic operations. The big sects are well aware of this, but they all turn a blind eye and close their eyes as if they didn't see it.

Lude hated what the Lake God Sect did, but he also knew that it would be very troublesome to explain this kind of thing to the people at the bottom. After all, they didn't see the scene of the Lake God Sect's people filling bottles with well water. If you say it's a counterfeit medicine, the people of the Lake God Sect can definitely bite back that you are slandering, and you will inevitably fall into a meaningless war of words in the end.

So after thinking about it, Lu De clearly realized that he must use religion to be religious!

So soon, new rumors appeared in the city, but it was not to expose that the Lake God Sect used well water as holy water, but to expose that the priests and monks of the Lake God Sect filled their own pockets, substituting the real holy water with fake holy water, and entrapped them. Hong Kong people.

In line with these rumors, some "True Lake Holy Water" that is said to be bought from other places appeared on the market. The bottles in the packaging are the same, but the liquid inside is completely different. It is pure water that exudes a charming fragrance. There is a hint of sweetness in the mouth, and the effect is immediate. After drinking it, the whole body feels refreshed. Some minor problems such as back pain can be cured by medicine.

With this kind of real holy water as a comparison, those locals who had bought fake medicines were immediately outraged.Emotionally, what they can’t accept more than the fact that there is no real product is that there is a real product, but they have bought a fake one.But the people who belonged to the Lake God Sect were the most shocked, because they didn't even know that there was real holy water.

Ever since, an embarrassing scene appeared. The evidence of Lake God Sect selling fake holy water is conclusive and hard to argue with.They really couldn't save their face, saying that the so-called "true holy water" that suddenly appeared on the market was a fake.If the effective ones are fake, then what are the ineffective ones they bought before?