Great time travel

Chapter 56. Turn England into India!

The fire that burned London lasted for three days and three nights before being extinguished one after another, turning the ancient capital city into a blank.

When the last wisps of choking smoke gradually dissipated from the banks of the Thames, the capital of the Kingdom of England had disappeared between heaven and earth, leaving only the Tower of London on the north bank of the Thames, standing majestically on the vast scorched earth, overlooking Seeing the ruined walls covered with ashes all around.

——The unique cold style of the Tower of London in history is integrated with the gloomy and oppressive atmosphere around it.

The last remaining 2000 citizens of London, the capital of the kingdom, hid in the only remaining Tower of London at this time, watching their homes being burned in numbness and despair——in the face of a devastating crisis, Queen Joan, who had just ascended the throne, Generously opened her palace to house her last remaining subjects.

However, in today's gloomy age of death, the Tower of London as a royal palace is not a good place—the original maids and servants either died of the plague or fled. Lack of enough knights and guards to carry out patrol duties.

For the personal safety of the nobles, these citizens who fled into the Tower of London were not allowed to enter the palace. A shriveled apple and onion...unaware that many lice, bugs and fleas are making their home in them, jumping from one man's hair to another...

Due to the overconfidence of the traversers in the "magic spell", they forgot to do a good job in sanitation and purification of the citizens, so even though the entire city of London has been burned with the sacrifice of a strong man, the deadly plague is still not far away from these people. Poor medieval Britons.

——Among the falling ashes like light snow in early winter, a stumbling figure slowly walked out of the door opening. Judging from his attire, he should be a middle-aged man from the lower class.I saw him leaning on the wall with his hands, his steps were difficult and slow, his breathing was heavy and messy, his long hair and hooded cloak covered the man's face indiscriminately, making it impossible to see his face clearly .

But if you look closely, you can also find that there is a dark dry scab on the surface of his bare arm stretched out from his clothes, and around the dry scab are surrounded by blisters and ulcers like burns, and there are radiance from his whole body. An unpleasant stench.

"...Oh, it's Conrad! Where have you been for the past two days? The city is full of smoke and fire, and everyone is worried about you... Even if you forget something valuable at home , just consider yourself unlucky and forget it! Some people have already gone because of such things..."

An old man squatting at the base of the wall and eating black bread, finally saw the man's attire clearly, and found that he seemed to be an old acquaintance, so he greeted him very familiarly, but was surprised to find that the man did not respond, only trembling Trembling in place, as if possessed by some demon

"...You don't seem to be feeling well? Are you okay?" Seeing something wrong with Conrad's situation, the old man stood up, patted the other person's back lightly, and then heard the other party coughing and hoarse Panting, and fell down softly.The old man quickly reached out to support his back, and at the same time lifted his hood with the other hand, and wiped his hair... The next moment, a terrifying face appeared in front of the old man—a broken blister Mixed with charred ulcers and spots, the neck is swollen like a ball, and there are erosive granulation around the corner of the mouth!
"...God! This guy is suffering from the plague again!!! Oh - he was healed by the angel just five days ago!"

After being dazed for a few seconds, the old man suddenly uttered a scream like killing a pig, and with the strength he didn't know where he came from, he pushed the opponent far away.

"...Heh-heh-help, Uncle John, help me..."

Conrad, who was seriously ill and dying, collapsed on the ground, and stretched out his hand to his former acquaintance in the neighborhood, but the voice in his throat was hoarse like a beast, which made people feel numb all over, and scared the old man and the people nearby. The others retreated again and again... Then, accompanied by a few hysterical screams, the entire crowded courtyard exploded, as if being hit by an invisible boulder, spreading out circles of chaotic waves.

Hearing this, more and more people came to watch, but they all carefully kept a certain distance away, for fear that one accidentally infected themselves with the disease.

Fortunately, unlike those unlucky people who were abandoned by their families and relatives because of the Black Death and could only die of hunger and thirst in loneliness, the citizens of England who can now hide in the Tower of London have been blessed by "angels" ——After a while, amidst the panicked shouts of several troublemakers, this middle-aged man infected with an unknown plague was picked up by several strong nuns wearing masks and dragged across A hallway that smelled of bleach and disinfectant ended up in a hall that had been set up as a makeshift medical area.

A group of volunteers sent by the Catholic Church in Avignon stripped off Conrad's clothes in a hurry, washed the patient's charred and rotten skin with disinfectant water, and then hurriedly carried him to the hospital. Arrived on a stone platform—although these volunteers were all wearing thick masks and were tightly wrapped by hooded robes from head to toe, you could still see the fearful eyes coming out of their eyes, and even their calves were tight. trembling.

For medieval Europeans with extremely backward medical conditions, the first thing anyone thinks of when they hear the word plague is to flee quickly. There will be so many volunteers willing to help.

"...Hey, this guy looks so miserable, his skin is almost scorched, this is probably anthrax!"

Classmate Wang Qiu, who played the role of an angel, leaned close to the stone platform with a bright golden ring on his head, looked at the patient carefully, and muttered like this - even if he had already fully experienced in the zombie apocalypse of Resident Evil before, he would not be afraid of it. The scorched black festered skin in front of his eyes was deeply disgusting, so after only a quick glance, Wang Qiu took out a small booklet and recited the meowing healing spell: "...Meow! With the holy cat In the name of God, bathe in the holy breath, eliminate the pain of the body, bloom the vitality of life, and completely heal meow! (Japanese)”

Then, under the action of the magical prop [Dictionary of Encyclopedia of Magic], a pure white holy beam of light descended from the sky, and the jewel-like crystal-clear multicolored brilliance shone and overflowed on his body surface, which soon greatly relieved the symptoms on the patient's body surface. The charcoal-like scabs and blisters disappeared quickly visible to the naked eye, and the festering wounds on the skin began to return to normal, which greatly inspired the temporary medical staff who were watching around... The patients who were out of danger gradually woke up, feeling the warm warmth Shengguang was so excited that tears streamed down his face, "...Thank you Angel, you saved me again..."

"...Even anthrax was cured so quickly? Your 'Complete Healing Technique' really cures all diseases!"

Only when it was confirmed that the anthrax patient had been cured did the paladin, Mr. Li Wei, sigh softly, and mustered up the courage to come forward—even for modern people whose medical conditions have been greatly improved in the 21st century, " "Anthrax" is also a very scary term, even scarier than AIDS: at least AIDS is not so easily contagious... So, when I heard that there were anthrax patients among the citizens of London, I was talking to some British ladies. The flirtatious Knight Levi subconsciously felt numb all over his body.If it weren't for maintaining his "bright and fearless" paladin image, he would have retreated to his small manor opposite the [Random Gate] to live in.

"...Don't worry, Brother Li Wei, Doraemon has injected us with the [Super Invincible Universal Vaccine] of the 22nd century before. At least within three months, we can be immune to any infectious disease, so let alone anthrax, Even if the zombie virus is thrown in front of you, there is no need to be afraid at all."

Wang Qiu waved his hands very tiredly, and said in a hoarse voice, "...Unfortunately, this [Super Invincible Universal Vaccine] is too expensive, and it is not effective for a lifetime, so we can use it ourselves. It is absolutely impossible to spread it to every European in the Middle Ages—unless they can spend tens of billions of yen in medical expenses..."

"...tens of billions of yen? How is that possible?" Li Wei rolled his eyes, "...before you shamelessly asked the Venetian for 100 billion yen, it was already a mess, and Venice is still the same now. The wealthiest city in Europe. England is notoriously poor at the moment, and it is a little richer than the home of the Viking pirates, so how much money can you afford?"

——Although since she came to the throne, Queen Joan has "done London's material resources to seek the favor of angels" and donated almost all the gold and silver utensils, jewelry and coins collected from the Tower of London, as well as furniture made of precious wood , and the mobile chapel decorated with Byzantine gold coins in her dowry, but the money that was pawned in the end was only a mere [-] million yen.

"...So, if even burning London can't control the epidemic, then we really have nothing to do. After enduring this round of catastrophe, if the 700 million subjects under England's Plantagenet Dynasty can survive One million is already extremely lucky.”

Wang Qiu rubbed his temples with some headaches, "...dysentery, flu, cholera, typhoid, smallpox, yellow fever, anthrax...almost every conceivable plague has appeared, and someday Ebola will appear The virus is not surprising, I am almost exhausted to death!"

(About the British population during the Hundred Years War, it has always been a mess, and it can be more than doubled in different historical records. The main problem is that the English Plantagenet Dynasty owned a large number of densely populated and fertile territories in France at that time, such as Bordeaux, Normandy Wait, there are even some sporadic strongholds in the Netherlands and Ireland. The combined population of these overseas territories is larger than the population of the British Isles. However, these territories cannot be regarded as the kind of colonies in the future-not only the British royal family It originally originated in Normandy, France, and a considerable number of British nobles were also born in continental Europe. The Bordeaux region of France was ruled by the Plantagenet Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the local people generally consider themselves subjects of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Britain is just An integral part of the Plantagenet dynasty, not to mention the native land, even many English kings spent more time in France than in London, and spoke French more fluently than English. So it is difficult for later historians Judging whether the people in these places are British or not.

Roughly speaking, if the population of all the territories of the Plantagenet Dynasty is added up, then the population of Britain at that time was 700 million.If only the population of England is counted, it is less than 300 million.If you count Ireland and Wales, then it is about 400 million. )
——Due to Doraemon’s retaliation too hastily before, they dropped a variety of plague pathogen concentrates on Jerusalem——These gods of the Holy City not only held a religious meeting to write a message to attack Doraemon, a group of false angels , also tried to confuse people and make things difficult for the time travelers, seriously disturbing the fundraising plans of the time travelers, so angry that Doraemon was completely blackened, and simply carried out a fixed-point exclusion...but seriously underestimated the plague weapons and a large number of people in the 22nd century The superimposed transmission ability through the [random door] flow has led to a new wave of compound plague outbreaks across Europe.

Those poor Europeans who have not yet struggled out of the catastrophe of the Black Death have now suffered a second round of crimes in this menacing new type of compound plague frenzy.Even Marseille, Avignon, Rome, Florence, Venice and other places saved by the traversers have once again fallen into the haze of terrifying death... Based on the minimum professional ethics and humanitarian spirit, fellow traversers They had to split up and fight fires from one city to another, but the result was that before one plague was extinguished, another plague had already broken out. Thanks to the "complete healing spell" that can cure all diseases as a backing, Wang Qiu and the others were still terribly tired, and their throats became hoarse just from reciting the healing spell...

"...According to the current situation, this compound plague is probably like a game of whack-a-mole, and it will never end. If we don't want the Europeans in this world to die inexplicably, what countermeasures can we think of? The only way is to open a magic school, pass on healing techniques, and then keep the magical item [Encyclopedia of Magic] as the treasure of the town school, then there may be hope of defeating the plague."

Wang Qiu lowered his head and coughed a few times, and said to Li Wei, "...you don't want those mistresses who have slept with you to die of the plague as soon as we leave! What a way to die like that Ugly and terrifying, you have seen it just now..."

"...It sounds good, but that's for the future. How can we solve the labor shortage problem that Europe is facing now? Large tracts of fields have been abandoned, and the wheat has rotted in the fields, not to mention the winter. How to raise food, next year's fields will not be plowed."

Li Wei shrugged, "...can you use magic to conjure serfs to fill England's manors and plant crops for the queen and her nobles?"

"...It's impossible, but we can import people from elsewhere. Didn't those Venetians have been planning this a while ago?"

A playful smile appeared on the corner of Wang Qiu's mouth, "...Anyway, there are already as many floating corpses on the Thames River as there are on the Ganges River. If we can vigorously introduce oriental immigrants and change the racial composition structure of Great Britain 700 years in advance, it seems It's also quite interesting..."