Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2083, the Black Death broke out again
"It's not surprising that the Black Death is the plague."

Liu Jin looked at the telegram and began to think.

In the past two years in Europe, due to the Little Ice Age, last year was a severe drought like the Ming Dynasty, and grain production dropped sharply. This year, there was heavy rainfall, which also caused a sharp drop in grain production.

This has been the case for two consecutive years. There has been a great famine in Europe. Once there is a disaster, it will inevitably be accompanied by other corresponding disasters.

Plague is one of the most common.

During the severe drought last year in Ming Dynasty, there was a large outbreak of plague. This is a good example.

Europe was only a year late, and finally made up for the plague.

Famine and floods are the most likely to cause the plague to spread.

The first is famine. Rats have nothing to eat, so they will continue to gather in cities and towns where humans live, thereby infecting humans with the plague.

Secondly, under the famine, the human body is malnourished for a long time, and the body's resistance is very weak, so it is easy to get sick and contract various diseases.

Finally, the continuous heavy rainfall after the severe drought can easily wash out all kinds of dirty things, leading to the spread and raging of diseases.

Once there is a flood disaster in later generations, the first thing to do after the flood is to disinfect on a large scale. The purpose is to eliminate all kinds of plagues and diseases that may spread.

At the beginning, Liu Jin wondered that there was drought, famine, and heavy rainfall in Europe, but there was no plague. Was this a bit too favored?

Looking at it now, it is the same everywhere in the world. All kinds of disasters are interlocking, and they are staged one after another. This is also a major feature of the Little Ice Age.

"Well, we must prevent the European plague from spreading to our Daming."

"From now on, we must strictly restrict the movement of goods and people in Europe, especially the slave trade, to prevent the plague from infecting us Daming people."

"If there is another toss, our Daming will suffer heavy losses again."

Thinking of this matter, Liu Jin hurried into the palace, preparing to report the matter to Emperor Hongzhi.

The port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in the European Lowlands.

At this time the Lowlands were still under the rule of the powerful Spanish Empire and were part of the vast lands of Charles V.

The Port of Rotterdam is now one of the most famous ports in Western Europe. With the prosperity of trade and the governance of the King of the Spanish Empire, its size and population have also grown on a large scale in the past two decades.

However, at this time, the Port of Rotterdam seems to have become a dead city, and people are scrambling to escape here.

The powerful and powerful fled to rural areas far away from cities and densely populated areas; those without money tried to escape to other places.

The reason why everyone fled here desperately is because the horror of the Black Death in the Middle Ages reappeared here in Rotterdam, which made everyone change their faces.

In Europe almost 2 centuries ago, this terrible plague took away almost one-third of the European population and caused tens of millions of deaths.

At that time, almost the whole of Europe was under the haze of the Black Death, unable to get out of it for a long time.

Unexpectedly, after many years, the Black Death appeared again, which made the people here terrified and fled here one after another.

In the streets and alleys of Rotterdam, many corpses can be seen everywhere. These corpses are often black, which is the origin of the name of the Black Death.

The plague causes the skin to die and turn black.

The corpses were thrown on the street very casually, and the expression of everyone who passed by changed greatly, and then hurriedly left like desperately.

Facing the horrible Black Death, Europeans are really too afraid of this kind of thing.

"Collect all the corpses and transport them outside the city to be burned and buried!"

Some city administrators are organizing people to burn and bury these corpses. For the Black Death, the Europeans have summed up some experience in dealing with it.

And last year, the people of Ming Dynasty experienced the plague, which also set a good example for Europeans.

But unlike Daming people who can eat and sleep at home with peace of mind, ordinary people in Europe can't say they are idle at home.

Because Europe is experiencing a famine at this moment, even the Netherlands ruled by the powerful Spanish Empire has not been spared, and it is also experiencing famine.

Just thanks to the trade relationship with the Ming Empire and the large number of overseas colonies, the situation in Spain is much better than that in England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Italy.

Although we are experiencing a famine, we still have money to buy food from outside.

But it is also impossible to say that like the Ming Empire, it directly distributed a large amount of food to the people so that the people could stay at home, which is why everyone fled here.

Only by escaping can we stay away from the Black Death and at the same time obtain food to survive.

The packers in black and masks silently carried the corpses onto the carriage. These corpses looked terrifying.

There were huge lumps under the armpits and the inner thighs, and a large number of black spots appeared on the skin of the body, some of which were even completely covered, so that people had to be careful in cleaning up, for fear of infecting themselves.

The reason why they are willing to do this is because the administrator distributes food to them as a reward, but for their own safety.

They also wrapped themselves tightly, and at the same time wore black robes with pointed-nosed masks, a death costume, because they firmly believed that such costumes could protect them from the black death.

The number of deaths in the Netherlands is not particularly high, but a large number of people have been infected by the Black Death.

On the corners of the streets, you can see a large number of poor people, sitting powerlessly in the corners. They were the first to be infected with the Black Death.

The long-term famine has caused them to suffer from malnutrition, their physical fitness has dropped significantly, and their resistance to various diseases is very low.

At the same time, the Netherlands is a lowland area. This year's heavy rainfall has also caused a lot of water here, where various bacteria and viruses breed. A large number of dirty things from the middle and upper reaches of the region have also rushed here, leading to the Black Death in the Netherlands. Disease spreads.

In the city like the doomsday, people are scrambling to escape, those who cannot escape are waiting to die here silently, and there are too many, too many people who have been infected by the Black Death.

There are huge lumps under the armpits, and the arms cannot be put down. They look very weird. At the same time, there are lumps on the inner thighs, and it is difficult to walk. There are black spots on the body, which makes people look like they are from hell. Like a devil, even his own relatives will stay away in the first time.

Inside the Royal Palace in the capital of the Spanish Empire.

The young emperor Charles V was in great trouble. Two consecutive years of disasters caused his huge empire to experience famine, and many turmoils occurred because of the famine.

The poor in some cities launched uprisings, but they were ruthlessly suppressed by Charles V, but the uprisings continued one after another, and the ordinary people who could not survive seemed to be like wildfire, and there was a feeling that they could not be extinguished no matter what.

This made Charles V have to spend a large amount of money from the treasury to buy food from the Ming people, and then use the food to relieve the victims, so as to overcome the current difficulties.

For the young Charles V, he was obviously very unwilling to petition, because it was difficult to collect taxes, and it was difficult to accumulate money. He also had his own ambition to spend precious money on the poor. He felt very wasted.

European monarchs and nobles are not like Eastern emperors, who have a sense of responsibility and regard it as their mission to govern the people.

For them, ordinary civilians are just the source of their tax revenue and contributors to their own wealth, and they are definitely not used to consume their own wealth.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"It's not good, it's not good!"

At this time, some ministers came hurriedly with frightened faces.

"what's up?"

Charles V asked a little irritably.

Since he became the emperor of the Spanish Empire, it seems that there are many things that bother him, and he has never stopped.

"Your Majesty, the Black Death has broken out in the Netherlands, Sicily, Bavaria, Nuremberg and other places in the Holy Roman Empire!"

The visitor said hurriedly.

"what?"

"Black Death?"

When Charles V heard this, he stood up.

Regarding the Black Death, Europeans instinctively have a kind of horror, because this terrible plague and disease has taken too many lives, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has rewritten the history of Europe.

Unexpectedly, this disease has appeared again now, and it still appears in many places at once.

"Yes, Your Majesty, according to the information we have now, the Black Death has not only appeared in Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, but also in France, England, Italy and other places."

"I'm afraid this time, the Black Death will spread across Europe again."

The minister nodded solemnly, and at the same time said extremely worriedly.

"It seems that the Black Death also appeared in the Ming Empire last year, right?"

Charles V quickly regained his composure, and then asked after thinking about it.

"Yes, Your Majesty, there was also a Black Death epidemic in the Ming Empire last year, but the Ming people called it the plague."

"The people of Ming Dynasty adopted strict sealing and control methods, and finally controlled the plague."

The minister quickly replied.

"Immediately ordered all regions to adopt strict containment measures, implement the strictest isolation and control of infected persons, and prevent the spread of the Black Death."

"Order people to sort out the relevant measures of Daming's fight against the plague, and directly imitate the people of Daming."

After listening to Charles V, he also gave orders decisively. With the people of Ming Dynasty as examples, it is fine to copy by himself. The Black Death is very terrifying. If it cannot be controlled, it is unknown how many people will die.

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