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Chapter 1766 Don’t Be a Scapegoat

"Your Majesty needs to come in person? The law cannot be passed lightly?"

Baldwin IV frowned. He didn't expect it to be so troublesome.

"I don't know how the message came! But it would take more than half a year for His Majesty to come in person, right?"

Baldwin IV pondered secretly. Although he did not understand it all, he knew very well that the emperor of Qi would never come easily.

"It's clear that you don't want to save me!"

Some people murmured quietly, how could the emperor of Qi come to the West so easily? It would be impossible for them to go there either.

"Are we just going to wait to die?"

Baldwin IV spoke.

Everyone lowered their heads and said nothing. They didn't have any good solutions.

"Your Majesty, there are 70 million people in the West. If Your Majesty does not save them, I am afraid that there will be corpses everywhere and it will become a hell on earth!"

Baldwin IV began to play the victim, but they were really miserable. Although they had civilization, they were helpless against diseases. Unlike the Central Plains, they did not have systematic medicine and relied more on praying to gods.

"Seventy million people? That's a lot of people!"

Sun Lei looked at the telegram in his hand. This was the first time he knew the detailed population of the West.

The others were also looking at the paper. The number of 70 million surprised them. The population was not much different from that of Central Plains.

You have to know that the reason why the population of Central Plains is prosperous now is that Sun Lei used an extremely clever strategy to complete the dynasty change with the smallest scale of fighting and casualties. If it were the same as before, when war swept the world, it would not be surprising that the population of Central Plains would be reduced by half.

"I never thought there would be such a large population in this foreign land! This world is really big!"

Xu Guanzhong also sighed. He thought he had traveled to many places, but he didn't expect that there were so many people in the far West.

"I really am just watching them die without helping them! I'm not their father! Besides, these sins were caused by themselves!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Tell Baldwin IV that I really don't want to save him. After all, they are all ungrateful people. If I cure him, their damn church might even accuse me of spreading the plague! They are the best at confusing right and wrong."

Sun Lei said.

"Your Majesty, how did this plague come about?"

Seeing that the emperor had no intention of interfering in other people's affairs, everyone became interested in the plague.

"Some time ago, I asked you to study, but you all made excuses saying you had something to do. Are you willing to study now?"

Sun Lei said unhappily that when he asked Yue Fei and others to study, he also planned to let the officials learn as well, but these people refused to go on the grounds that they were busy with official duties.

"The causes of disease are nothing more than what we eat, what we breathe, and then the living environment."

"You know the West, they are all barbarians who eat raw meat and drink blood. They are not particular about what they eat. They deliberately don't roast the meat thoroughly and eat it with blood on, saying that it is tender, juicy and nutritious! They don't even think about the meaning of fire."

"Besides, they don't care about hygiene at all. They are just like the barbarians on the grasslands. They stink all over and they only take a bath a few times a year!"

"The city is even dirtier and messier, with garbage thrown away randomly and no one dealing with it. Snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling everywhere, feces dumped directly on the streets, and corpses thrown directly into the river..."

"Over the years, there have been countless plagues in the West, and there have been constant fights between kingdoms. No one has taken care of the dead, and they are thrown away at will..."

Sun Lei briefly described the situation in the West. Of course, he described less than one-tenth or one-twelfth of it. At that time, the West was truly a stinking garbage dump.

Everyone felt nauseous after hearing this, and they couldn't eat the dishes in front of them.

"What barbarians!" Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang were the first ones who couldn't stand it. One of them was from a famous family and the other was a scholar. They were very particular about being clean and decent. No matter how poor they were in those days, their clothes were always the cleanest and their hair was always washed and combed meticulously.

"This is just like some people in remote areas!"

Xu Guanzhong said that this was the situation of the tribes in the mountains when he was conquering the southwest.

"Also, the climate in the west is different from ours. You should have felt that the winters in the Central Plains have been getting colder and colder over the years. This is why the grassland barbarians are in a hurry to invade the Central Plains, because it is more difficult to survive in the northern grasslands!"

Sun Lei said, every time during the Little Ice Age, the nomadic peoples of the grassland would move south like crazy, and once they arrived, they would not leave.

But during relatively warm periods, the grassland is a good place, and the grassland nomads only think about grabbing some things and going back to enjoy them.

"The West is completely the opposite of us. It is said that the climate there has been warm over the past hundred years. Even in the north, there are birds singing and flowers blooming, and the climate is pleasant, so their population is guaranteed!"

"A warm climate is suitable for human survival, crop growth, animal reproduction, and of course, disease! Just like when it snows in winter, wheat has fewer insect pests in the spring, but warm winters are prone to locust plagues, and some things need to be frozen to death!"

Sun Lei continued.

“So this Black Death in the West was inevitable?”

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Only then did everyone realize that the Black Death might be inevitable, it was destined by heaven.

"It's about the same, so I don't bother to care about them. Those people in the West are not good people. If they can't solve this problem, they will look for scapegoats, such as us spreading the plague."

Sun Lei smiled and said, the West has always said that the Black Death was transmitted from the East, but they don’t need to think about it. The population in the East is more densely populated, so why didn’t such a serious plague break out nearby at the same time?
"These guys deserve it!"

Everyone started cursing, and no one had a good face towards such an ungrateful person.

After receiving the reply, Baldwin IV sat on the ground helplessly. He could no longer think of a solution.

"Your Majesty, even if there is no cure, is there any way to prevent it?"

William spoke into the iron trumpet.

Half an hour later, a reply came through the loudspeaker.

"There is a solution. It will be better if we pay more attention to hygiene!"

Han Shizhong said Sun Lei's reply.

Sun Lei didn't want to help Westerners. Westerners would soon realize the importance of hygiene. No matter who came out now, it would not matter. The Black Death had already broken out, and nothing would be done now.

"Pay attention to hygiene!"

Baldwin IV looked confused. Hygiene was really unfamiliar to them because they had never cared about it.

"Come on, let's go back and be hygienic!"

Baldwin IV stood up and said.

"Your Majesty, are you going back?"

The merchants were horrified. They had finally escaped from that horrible place and were unwilling to go back now.

"You don't want to? Can you stay here?"

Baldwin IV looked at the merchant, the captain, and the first mate and asked, it was not up to them to decide whether to stay or not.

"Your Majesty, it's not that we don't want to, there are ships... We don't have any ships!"

The captain wanted to say that the slaves in the cabin had contracted the Black Death, but he didn't dare to say the word Black Death.