Daming 1805

Chapter 451

Tianzhu, Mumbai.

The big cities and ports that used to be among the best in Tianzhu are now ruins of the same size.

In fact, there are not many people who specifically destroy Mumbai urban areas.

But most of the local population has left, and normal houses will become like ruins after a few years of abandonment.

The entire city is only close to the military dock, and there is a relatively complete building area.

Here lived the last British administration and garrison in Tianzhu.

In the early morning of this day, the British intelligence personnel, Li Bote and Wang Will, boarded the prepared reconnaissance plane at the temporary airfield inside the military dock.

Li Bote controlled the plane, lifted off slowly, left the urban area, and flew towards the northeast.

Wang Weil held the binoculars and continued to observe the surrounding situation.

After leaving the urban area, the situation in the countryside outside became even more miserable to the point of "desolation".

In the countryside of this era, the houses of the residents are simple and simple, and without continuous maintenance, they will soon fall into ruins.

Over the past few years, many have completely collapsed and collapsed.

Occasionally, wild animals can be seen wandering in the village that originally belonged to humans.

Some of the plants that grow rapidly in the tropical rainy season have even begun to cover the traces of the original village.

Wang Weil took out his camera and while taking pictures, he couldn't help but instinctively mutter and sigh:
"It's all over, it's really all over, this is the existence of the suburbs of Mumbai, and now there is no one to see.

"I even doubt now that the city after the outbreak of the Black Death is as clean as this..."

Li Bote looked at the situation below with his head, and then casually responded to his companion's chanting with the same emotion:
"The Black Death broke out naturally, without active human intervention.

"So the entire dissemination process is chaotic without a goal, and there will inevitably be omissions.

"Now, with Daming's research on bacteria, we all know that it is caused by bacteria.

"Under artificial sowing, the death rate is definitely more terrifying than the Black Death..."

Wang Weier sighed and nodded, and then added again:
"Also, those who survived the plague were originally healthy and strong young adults...

"But now in South Tianzhu, all young and middle-aged people have been transferred to Mozhou.

"The rest of Tianzhu are old, weak, sick and disabled. Even if there are no bacteria, a large part of them will die."

Libert said with emotion:
"During the Black Death, we had no idea how the Black Death broke out.

"People at the time probably thought it was God's punishment, and those who survived were the natural choice of God.

"Of course God's Chosen is doing the right thing, which may have indirectly led to the Renaissance...

"At the same time, it may also have promoted the Reconquista movement in Spain and Portugal, and they felt that they were the chosen ones.

"With Daming's research, we know that it was just a large-scale plague caused by bacteria.

"If God's Chosen really exists in this world, it should be Daming people and not us..."

According to later generations on the Internet, some studies believe that the Black Death caused the death of 500 million people, accounting for about one-third of the population of Western Europe at that time.

From the entire Western Pacific continent to Dashi and Egypt, the entire Daqinhai civilization circle was wiped out by the Black Death.

For the Thais at that time, the Black Death was of course the most terrifying nightmare.

But from the point of view of later generations, the Black Death added a special layer of mental state to the Dashi and Western civilization.

The universal disaster is very similar to the world-ending disaster in the religious legends they believe in.

That is God's punishment.

And those who survived the disaster will take it for granted that they are "God's Chosen".

The cogent logic of their beliefs is very strong.

In most cases, interpretations in their own favour.

After modern times, research on bacteria has made humans realize the essence of plague.

The development of physics and chemistry research made them understand more about how the world works.

This, of course, is constantly compressing the authority of God.

But the actual manifestation in the secular world is to compress the authority of the church.

But for ordinary people, they are constantly acquiring new special mental states.

God is very "tolerant" and even "ignorant" of His discipline.

No matter what ordinary people do, it will not actually trigger the legendary "God's Punishment".

At the same time, the moral logic at the bottom of their entire society is extended from the belief system.

In an age full of mystery, when the church controls the world, ordinary people's fear of gods and devils can play a role in maintaining the bottom line of social morality.

After the power of belief continues to weaken and more and more outrageous things are confirmed that they will not be "punished", the underlying moral constraints of the entire society will become weaker and weaker.

In fact, unlike many people's inertial cognition, the Middle Ages, when the church had a strong control force, was actually the most stable society on the western continent, and the period when ordinary people had the highest moral level.

"Witch hunting" is a matter of the Renaissance era, and the key point is that the Protestants who broke away from the Holy See after the religious reform did it.

Everyone can communicate directly with God, and the logic of belief is evidenced by the heart, of course, can play a role in emancipating the mind.

But this method of emancipating the mind has a great side effect, that is, everyone can use this logic to justify all kinds of evil deeds they have done in fact.

And using this logic to persecute a few people can provide theoretical support and endorsement for the behavior of attracting groups to attack individuals.

Everyone thinks that this person is a witch who deals with the devil, so she should be a witch.

I can make up a logic that convinces everyone that a woman is a witch.

In contrast to the traditional Holy See, they actually have a unified and clear interpretation logic for matters related to witches:

"All mighty power to God".

All supernatural phenomena in the world are extensions of God, and only God can release supernatural phenomena.

This logic is actually very simple, it is to draw the influence of various supernatural legends that already exist in the folk to their own "gods".

Therefore, their religious personnel do not approve of witches at all, nor will they designate anyone as a demon or a witch.

Even if there are witches, it is the power bestowed by God.

This set of logic is completely opposite to that of the Protestants, and it creates completely opposite solutions.

Religious personnel in the Roman system would go everywhere to places with legends about witches to find the corresponding person.

If the other party did something good, let the other party admit that she was inspired by God, and then she might be taken away to become a nun.

If the other party is doing something bad, let her admit that she is not a witch and that she is just lying.

Therefore, on the side of the Holy See, it does not recognize witches at all, and of course it does not specifically hunt witches.

Even if they want to arrest people who are regarded as witches by the people, they will be judged differently from Protestants after they are caught.

First let the other party publicly admit that they are not witches, and then punish them with deception, evil, and blasphemy.

With the deepening of historical research, more and more researchers began to believe that the so-called Dark Ages of the Middle Ages, when the Holy See controlled the secular world, was probably caused by the unanimous discrediting of the kings and Protestants in the Reformation era...

They are direct enemies of the traditional church. Both sides want to break away from the control of the church and are enemies of the church.

The most stressful and arguably truly darkest and most absurd era in Western society probably happened just after the Renaissance began and before the Enlightenment fully unfolded.

Generally speaking, with the continuous deepening of the religious reformation and ideological emancipation movement, as well as the continuous progress of scientific research, the traditional belief and moral system built around God continued to collapse.

The new moral system of freedom promoted by the Enlightenment, based on the Thai people, has not really been established.

It happened to be the age of great voyages and colonial expansion.

It has long been proven that killing heretics will not trigger divine punishment.

Even if they actively create a large-scale plague, they will not really be punished by God.

The Spaniards and the British also proved this in Yinzhou.

At that time, they even believed that they were God's Chosen, and that it was their destiny to destroy the heretics and rule the world.

Later researchers even directly proved that the plague has nothing to do with God and is controllable, so when they really create the plague again in the future, they will be even more unscrupulous.

These tangible proofs have attacked the prestige of the church from the outside and destroyed the beliefs of religious personnel from the inside.

After the faith of religious personnel collapsed, various evil consequences also appeared simultaneously.

The evil things done by religious personnel, in turn, allow ordinary people to prove themselves right, believing that religion is indeed bad.

If everyone believes in God, the moral code formulated by the prophets in the name of God is extremely binding on everyone.

When no one believes in God, then God's morality is really useless.

In the present world, the previous life was only the Enlightenment Movement influenced by Shenzhou Thought, which was directly purified into the Minghua Movement.

The traditional Chinese moral system, which has no direct relationship with gods, began to play a role in the western continent.

Now when the Thais do evil, they have more or less worries.

Wang Weiwei concealed the discomfort in his heart with a dry smile that didn't feel like laughing at all:
"Ha... ha... everything has been cleaned up so cleanly, this land can almost be handed over to Daming, and we can leave this damn place..."

Li Bote asked with some worry:
"Do you think Daming would want this kind of place? There's no way Daming doesn't know what we're doing here.

"Now this is a hell of death. Do people from Daming dare to come to this kind of place?"

Wang Weier thought for a while and said:
"It's been so long, it should be fine, the black death is because all the carriers died, causing the transmission to stop.

"The situation here should be the same now, and here...the death is more clean and thorough.

"If it doesn't work, let the Tianzhu people in several strongholds on the edge of the mainland be driven into the wilderness for an experiment.

"If they can survive, then it is sure that this land is really safe..."

The remaining strongholds around South Tianzhu are all strongholds reserved by the British to control and observe the situation.

The remaining Tianzhu people also serve the British here.

After Wang Wei finished speaking, he subconsciously twisted his body, always feeling a little chilly around him.

Open the windows of the plane in the sky, of course it will be cold.

Although Li Bote felt a little awkward, he did not express any objection in the end.

In the next few days, the two continued to observe and record the situation in several remaining strongholds.

Finally, the observed information and photos were compiled into documents and sent to the British mainland by telegram and fax.

And put forward a test proposal to drive the remaining Tianzhu people to the wilderness.

The report was sent to British Prime Minister Grenville.

In the original history, Grenville resigned after not being prime minister for long.

But in this world, Grenville persevered.

The more complicated environment of this world actually made Grenville more mature than he was in his previous life.

Moreover, Grenville has the consciousness of uniting people from all walks of life, otherwise he would not have created the so-called "smart cabinet".

He drew capable people from all factions into his cabinet.

Of course, it may lead to the outbreak of conflicts, making this platform impossible to operate at all.

However, it is also possible for all parties to quickly communicate and complete compromises, thereby maintaining the overall stability of the situation.

When Grenville was prime minister in the previous life, it was the time when the Napoleonic Wars were in full swing.

The talented cabinet that Grenville pulled up was simply not capable of handling various emergencies.

Grenville's character is not strong enough to suppress the various factions and concentrate on dealing with the situation on the mainland.

Coupled with the fact that his views on religious issues were contrary to those of King George III who was still sober, the Prime Minister left office after fourteen months.

Now in this world, the World War and the Yinzhou War have stopped, and the most complicated problems have been almost solved by his cousin, the former Prime Minister William Pitt Jr.

The current situation just allowed Grenville's peaceful thinking to be brought into play.

At the same time, as a diplomat, Grenville actually let his colleagues and newspapers see his "merits" when dealing with Ming Dynasty and signing the naval treaty.

Coupled with the king's mental illness, the regent Prince of Wales had no opinion, which made Grenville persist.

Two years on, Grenville is even getting used to life as prime minister.

But now that he saw the special information from Tianzhu, Grenville suddenly felt that the backup was a bit chilly.

Grenville couldn't estimate how many people had died in the Tianzhu area over the years.

But it must be tens of millions, and not 1000 million...

More than ten years before the World War, not so many people died in the Tianzhu area.

Now only the North Tianzhu controlled by Ming Dynasty still has people, the population of the whole Tianzhu should be less than 9000 million...

This is obviously something that my cousin did...

After adapting for a while, Grenville regained his mental state.

Then start thinking about real problems.

No matter how this decision was made at the beginning, this matter will eventually come to an end.

The land in South Tianzhu, which has been completely abandoned, can almost be officially sold.

After solving the Tianzhu issue, the last thorn between Britain and Ming Dynasty was completely removed.

In the future, the relationship between Britain and Ming Dynasty will become more harmonious.

Especially when Her Highness Charlotte is willing to accept the title of Princess Dashi after she ascends the throne.

However, another thing also worried Grenville.

The Ming people pulled the Lucians, the Prussians, and the French to negotiate in private.

What are the countries on these continents doing without the British on the islands?
These useless intelligence officers have never received accurate information.

(End of this chapter)