Your Mightiness

Of course, Jenny could not have come to France directly with Walter after that, but she wrote to Auguste, saying that when she married Walter and settled the bakery and family affairs, She will set off with her husband to settle in France.

Yes, settle.

Although Walter, who was promoted to Earl due to meritorious service, actually no longer needs to continue to serve as a knight guarding August as he did in the past, but Walter still wants to devote his allegiance to August as close as possible.He himself could indeed live in France for a long time, because August had promised Walter, who had saved the life of the Black Prince, the double titles, the Earl of Essex in England and the Earl of Alsace in France.

Annie, a loyal supporter of her fiancé's decision, also wanted to be closer to August, saying it was time for her to expand, too, and open the bakery into a true fashion capital.This time, it can be directly advertised as the bread that even the king likes to eat.Business is bound to be booming.

August looked at the land deed in the most prosperous area of ​​France that had been prepared in his hand, and decided to hold back the wedding gift for the time being, and give it to Anne when she arrived in France.

"Why don't you say that I would like to be friends with you? I like your way of making friends with local tyrants who don't agree with each other." Julie secretly drank a big sip of sherry wine. As the coronation ceremony approached, Raphael This person who does not need to be crowned is even more nervous than August who needs to be crowned. He is always on the lookout and does not allow anyone to make any mistakes. He must make August's coronation ceremony a world-famous one. , I will never forget.

Of course, the main reason why the ceremony has not been completed until today is not Raphael's faultfinding, but the national conditions of France.Black Prince's father said that he had to convince those people.

August. Can't do anything. His Majesty the King is probably the most leisurely one among all people. He just lived heartlessly in the castle of Reims, and his daily life is nothing more than spending time with Cardinal Joe. Hide-and-seek, and being reminded by Julie to remember the lengthy and cumbersome coronation process.

"Have you practiced your French today for the oath? Don't pretend you didn't hear it! Are you going to let the history books say that you couldn't speak French when you were crowned King of France? It's going to be a big joke of!"

Because of her fluent and elegant French, Miss Julie temporarily became August's oral practice supervisor.

"I can speak French, thank you." Auguste could read and write French without any problems. After all, official documents in England are still being written in French, so there might be no room for them.

"But your pronunciation is not standard." The harshness of the French nobles is no worse than that of the English nobles who are known all over the world for their poisonous tongue.

"Who dares to laugh at me?" August would occasionally be a little inappropriately stubborn, but he felt so sincerely.In history, there are still kings of England who can't speak French at all, but still become kings of France!So what happened to him being the King of France who spoke Anglo-French?In the near future, his face will be printed on all francs.Everyone loves francs, who cares how the francs are pronounced?

Julie raised her hand to surrender, she had nothing to do with August, so she could only ask Raphael and the Black Prince to subdue the demon.

It's a pity that the Black Prince is on the same line as his son on this point: "My son pronounces it how he likes, and it would be nice not to ask all of them to speak an authentic RP sound (official English pronunciation), where So many requests?!"

When the black prince was king, he was always very strict with himself, but when it was his son's turn to be king, he didn't feel so much.

The king can do whatever he wants, otherwise what's the point of being the king? —Said Richard II.

Raphael has a mysterious obsession with the accent problem, and is very keen to have an in-depth discussion with August with the oral teaching method that has not been completed before, but...

August had his own way of coping: "Anne's letter mentioned something that worried me a little."

"what?"

"It's possible that she didn't notice it herself, and she just mentioned it casually, but look..." August didn't deliberately change the subject, but really saw the problem from Anne's letter.

Anne wrote in the letter:

Walter said that on the way he and John traveled back to England from France, they found that people in many villages along the way had the same strange disease—there were more or less blisters and blisters on the exposed skin of arms and thighs. boils, and will be so weak that within a few days the person may be dead.

Orphans working in a bakery also said they had encountered a case in a poor area of ​​London.

I suspect it is contagious, and has spread to the slums of London, and may even continue upwards, though the lords will not set foot in the slums, but their servants will.

The purpose of Anne writing this paragraph is to remind August to pay close attention to the health of the servants around him, so as not to let them accidentally contract this disease when they go out.

But August always felt that this kind of description gave him a kind of thrilling horror.

"What are you worried about?" Raphael didn't understand. Infectious diseases, let alone wars now, when there were no wars, there would be frequent occurrences in some rural areas due to sanitation problems.

"In our time, there was a fear that had haunted the European Middle Ages for hundreds of years, and almost everyone talked about it, that is, the Black Death known as the 'God's Whip'. In modern medicine, the Black Death It's the plague. It's extremely contagious and fast. I thought London's environment had been improved and there shouldn't be any more problems."

but……

The Black Death in history was not actually caused by sanitary problems. It was brought to Italy by a mouse following a certain ship across the ocean, and then quickly spread to the entire Sicily due to the blessing of sanitary problems. Later, It was divided into several paths and spread to the whole of Europe, becoming a terrible ghost that has been harvesting life over Europe for hundreds of years.

In other words, whether the urban environment is good or bad, in fact, it cannot change this period of history, at most it can reduce the number of sick people and the speed of disease.

But the one who should come will still come.

August did not expect that he would be so "lucky" and "won the lottery" in his second life.This terrible black death came quietly, especially in the face of the unfinished Anglo-French war, its fatality rate seemed so insignificant.It will not begin to truly show its horror until after the war is over.Overwhelming, endless troubles.

The only luck is that due to Raphael’s previous urban reforms in England and France, the number of lives taken by the Black Death has been slightly eased, at least much less than the history that August knew.

But... it's still so terrible, it can't be cured, there is no solution, it's like a curse.

"Do you have any impression of how the Black Death was solved in history?" Raphael was also stunned, feeling that this incident was caught off guard.

August looked at Raphael in a daze. He thought hard and thought of it, but it was because of the thought that he panicked even more, his hands and feet were cold: "It wasn't solved, but disappeared by itself. After hundreds of years of ravages and the death of nearly two-thirds of the total population, European countries have come out of this catastrophe from God."

Therefore, in many Western fantasy novels, there are always plots similar to the plague, and they believe that it is the fault of the necromancer.

"What should we do?" The most powerless of human beings is always when facing such unchangeable disasters as nature.The history line of the time and space where August is located has long been a mess, and August himself is also confused, which is why he failed to discover it in time when it was just a little bit earlier.

"Even if you know that this will happen during this period, you can't avoid it." Raphael said to August.There is definitely no accurate record in history, at what time, where, and which ship a mouse ran off.

"But we can lock down that city."

"And go to war with a certain principality in Sicily?"

Foretelling or something, this method is not feasible in Europe.Just look at the ending of Joan of Arc. No matter whether your prediction is right or wrong, the most likely end is to be burned to death.Even if one is not handled well, August may be regarded as a heretic who spread the Black Death.Then he is a sinner through the ages.

"Okay, don't think about it, the most important thing now is how to solve the problem." Raphael was always so calm.

"How to solve it?" If he knew that there would be such a mess, August would definitely go to the medical university in his previous life.

"In your story, only Europe is plagued by the Black Death, right? What about the East? Isn't there plague in the Far East? Why isn't there?"

"There was the plague." August didn't remember very clearly, but at least he knew that there were always various epidemics in Chinese history, accompanied by wars and suffering, but they were all resolved smoothly in the end.

"What we need to do is to go to the East to learn this advanced solution."

At least the terrible painting style that August knows, that if there is a problem in a certain place, they will all be burned to death cannot appear.Raphael even felt that many of the two-thirds of the dead figures must have come from the hands of the Inquisition.

A terrible heart is the real evil.

It will definitely take at least ten years to bring the method back from Europe to the East, but this decade is already much better than the hundreds of years that Auguste knew.

Moreover, during the waiting process, it didn't mean that they didn't do anything. August told Raphael all the disinfection methods he could remember, and the rest was up to Raphael. The professionals raised by Hall and August have come to solve the problem.Calling luck again, Auguste became the king of France at this critical moment, and the best medical profession in the Middle Ages was in Paris!

"Relax and think about the good," Raphael continued to comfort August, "I will write to remind everyone we know, let them pay attention to it, and avoid problems."

France had Auguste, England had Richard III, and at least these two countries could avoid much pain.

In the not-too-distant future, Cardinal Qiao will also be in charge of the Holy See.

everything will get better.

"Besides, if we can really successfully bring back a solution from the East, you don't have to worry about our diplomatic issues with the East." Raphael said to August.Although August didn't say it before, Raphael still knew that August had been secretly worried about the history hundreds of years later. He had been very contradictory. He wanted England to be good, but he didn't want it to be too good. .

Raphael gently kissed August's lips: "I will definitely think of a way, whether it is the Black Death, or the history of aggression hundreds of years later. Trust me, okay?"

"it is good."

The author has something to say:

PS: The Black Death really spread in the 14th century. The background set in the article is the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The timeline is quite confusing.And whether there is a way to cure the plague in ancient my country, the stupid author actually doesn't know, it's just a brain hole.At the beginning of the article, I saw some readers asking, England has become stronger, what should China do.I, who endured until today to announce the answer, feel sublimated again [mud