Water Margin people

Chapter 1765 No Way and No Willingness

"There's no cure? Even if there is a cure, we can't afford it?"

Baldwin IV thought about this sentence. If there is no cure, it means it is a terminal illness, but if it cannot be cured, it means there is a way to treat it.

"Your Majesty, they seem to mean that they have the means and we have no money!"

The merchant was very sensitive to these words and spoke.

"No money?"

Only then did Baldwin IV realize that Sun Lei was asking for money.

"That's great. As long as it can be cured, there is always a way!"

Baldwin IV clapped his hands and said.

"Please tell your Majesty that I am willing to pay any amount of money as long as it can cure the Black Death. I don't have much money, but I hope to give your Majesty all the money in the West."

Baldwin IV said to the iron loudspeaker that he was finally sure that the decree conveyed by Han Shizhong was really from Emperor Sun Lei of Qi, because Sun Lei loved money so much.

If the answer was just "incurable", Baldwin IV would not be sure of anything, but as long as money was mentioned, he would be sure.

There was silence again from the iron loudspeaker.

“Drip…drip…drip…drip…drip!”

There was a sound from the telegraph machine, and the operator immediately began to record it and then passed it to the translator.

"Give me money?"

Sun Lei looked at the translated telegram and stroked his chin in thought.

"Your Majesty, you must not let them take advantage of you just for a little money!"

Xiao Jiasui spoke immediately. He knew that Sun Lei loved money. The conditions offered by Baldwin IV were very generous. All the money in the West was not a small amount.

"Who do you think I am? Can a mere sum of money buy me off?"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

Everyone nodded one after another, like chicks pecking at rice, in unison.

"Damn it! Is my image so bad in your eyes? After all, I am the ruler of the world, rich and powerful. How could I be bought by a mere sum of money?"

Sun Lei said speechlessly.

"Your Majesty, we are just worried!"

Wen Huanzhang said quickly with a smile.

"Don't worry, he can't afford the money! Besides, when half of them are dead, I'll conquer the West, won't it all be mine?"

Sun Lei shook his head.

Alexandria Port, by the sea, inside a wooden house.

"Your Majesty's order: It costs 100 gold coins to cure one person! How many people do you want to cure?"

Han Shizhong's voice rang out.

"One hundred gold coins per person!"

Before the others could react, the merchant was the first to jump up. He could not earn more than a few thousand gold coins from a trip. One gold coin was enough to buy a beautiful woman. If he wanted to buy slaves, he could also buy three or five strong slaves. Who would spend a hundred gold coins to cure a person, except for his own life and the lives of his family, of course.

"So much money!"

The others stared with their eyes wide open. They had never seen so much money in their lives.

"One hundred gold coins? Okay, then one hundred gold coins per person! I hope Your Majesty can treat him!"

Baldwin IV agreed without any hesitation.

"His Majesty!"

William quickly grabbed Baldwin IV. There were probably millions of people infected with the disease. Where did they get so much money? Moreover, those infected people had nothing to do with them. It was not worth spending so much money.

"They are all from the West. If I save them, they will be used by me!"

Baldwin IV said that they were short of manpower now, and the people they rescued would definitely be loyal to them.

"Your Majesty, what are you thinking about? With a hundred gold coins, we can help buy a team of elite soldiers, the kind that are absolutely loyal. Why bother saving a person? Even if you save him, he might be a useless person!"

William hurriedly said, if you have money, why worry about not having soldiers?
"You don't understand. As long as we learn how to treat it, we can attract as many people as we want! This is not something that can be solved with money!"

Baldwin IV said that he didn't want to save people alone, but wanted to learn how to save people.

"So that's it!" William was shocked, but immediately became ecstatic. Baldwin IV's words instantly opened the door to a new world. It turned out that this was possible.

……

In the port of Alexandria.

"Damn it, this Western kid is really sinister. I gave him a meal, but he wanted to take away the pot as well!"

Han Shizhong started cursing, and he could hear clearly what Baldwin IV and others said.

"They are indeed insidious people. Be careful when dealing with them in the future."

Liang Hongyu also frowned and spoke. She had always thought that Westerners were ignorant, but now it seems that she thought too simply. The reason why the West was suppressed by them and always had a smiling face was that His Majesty the Emperor had great power and the army was powerful, so the Westerners did not dare to resist.

"Tell your Majesty everything!"

Han Shizhong wrote everything down clearly and handed it to the radio operator.

“Drip…drip…drip…drip!”

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The operator started sending messages quickly.

Liangshan City.

"Tsk, do you think I'm a fool? How could he teach someone this skill of climbing a tree?"

Sun Lei sneered as he looked at the telegram.

"Your Majesty, these Westerners are insidious and cunning, so don't talk to them!"

An official spoke up.

"Your Majesty, is there really a cure?"

Xiao Jiasui frowned and asked, this was the first time the Black Death appeared, why did the emperor know so much about it and it seemed that there was a treatment for it.

"How can I help? I'm not a doctor!"

Sun Lei shook his head. The Black Death was so scary to think about. How could he possibly do anything about it?

"Could it be Doctor An Shen?"

Everyone thought of An Daoquan again.

"Doctor An has never seen it before. Does he have any treatment? This is not leprosy!"

Sun Lei shook his head and said that the reason why Baldwin IV's leprosy could be controlled was because this disease also existed in the Central Plains, and their ancestors had been trying to find a way to treat it.

"Is that so? Then we'll have to wait for several years!"

Everyone nodded. To treat a newly discovered disease, it would take at least several years at the earliest, and it could take ten or even a hundred years at the slowest. In the end, it might even become incurable.

"Tell them that the cure is for me to bring people there! This method cannot be passed on lightly!"

Sun Lei said.

The operator immediately began sending messages.

"I'm hungry. This kind of communication is really tiring!"

Sun Lei took a sip of tea and his stomach started growling again. Each communication lasted for half an hour, and after a few words, half a day was gone.

Lin Chong immediately asked people to prepare the imperial meal.

“This thing needs to be improved!”

Sun Lei looked at the huge telegraph machine. The distance of the message was limited, and it was a waste of time to convey it layer by layer.

"Your Majesty, this thing is already a miracle!"

An official said that being able to communicate directly with people thousands of miles away was simply unimaginable in the past.

"What kind of miracle is this? I wanted to video chat with them! At least we should talk directly to them. What does this count as? Writing a letter?"

Sun Lei raised the telegram in his hand speechlessly. He looked down upon this kind of conversation and found it inconvenient at all.

"Video? Call?"

People couldn't understand this.

"Don't worry about it, it will be there in the future! It will be much more convenient then!"

Sun Lei was too lazy to explain and just waved his hand.