The Rise of the European Emperor

Sure enough, after smallpox spread to the Kingdom of Naples, it spread to the Papal State before it could reach the Spanish army camp.

why? Because a fishing boat in that small fishing village landed at a port outside Rome to purchase supplies when it went fishing. The fishermen on the boat did not find smallpox when they set off from the fishing village, because smallpox was lurking. Smallpox has an incubation period of more than ten days. The fisherman was infected with the smallpox virus by a "mysterious man" who came from the village without realizing it, and then went fishing. Ten days later, the fishing boat approached the waters near Rome. Therefore, out of living needs, fishing boats docked and fishermen went ashore to purchase living supplies. After purchasing, the fishermen on the boat went to the tavern on the pier to drink for a while, bragging with others all afternoon...

Here's the problem. When they purchased supplies, they had short contact with people, but they didn't infect the human smallpox virus. But in the tavern, a group of drunkards were next to each other on the table, and when they were happy, they even hugged each other... Then, the tavern became a virus-infected area...

When smallpox broke out in the port area outside Rome, Pope Julius II, who was in Rome, was almost scared to death—Nimma, smallpox has spread to the headquarters of the Holy See!

Fortunately, under the influence of his son-in-law Marin, Julius II knew how to fight the epidemic. Then, His Excellency the Pope ordered martial law in the whole city. At the same time, all the priests who survived smallpox were mobilized from all over the world, and they went to Rome to gather...

After the whole city was under martial law, all residents were not allowed to go out. The soldiers patrolling the streets also wore full protective suits and masks.

More than that, 7,000 mercenaries from the North Sea Kingdom were also ordered to carry bags and sprinkle quicklime in the streets and alleys of Rome for disinfection.

As for the food supply of the people in various regions, Pope Julius II ordered 87 middle-aged and elderly people who had suffered from smallpox to push carts every day to deliver food to various residential areas. And after they came back, they had to change their clothes and take a shower immediately, so as not to spread the smallpox virus.

After selecting 66 mercenaries from the army who had smallpox when they were young, Julius II sent these people to block the dock area and began to trace the source of smallpox.

With the help of highly professional spies from the North Sea State, Julius II finally tracked down the small fishing village of Chimons in Naples, and captured several Dalmatians living in seclusion outside the village. Smallpox patient.

At this time, two of the six smallpox patients sent by Dalmatia had died, and the other two might not be able to survive. On the contrary, there were two young men who seemed to be in good health and managed to survive. Although there were pockmarks on his face, he survived after all. Moreover, there is no need to worry about smallpox in the future.

The people of the Holy See captured the four people who were still alive, tortured them severely, and soon learned the truth.

Although Toleni's original intention was to deal with the Spaniards, this incident endangered the Papal State and still made Julius II furious!

The furious Julius II immediately announced the excommunication of Toleni. Moreover, the Republic of Venice is strongly requested to extradite this person to the Holy See for trial. Otherwise, the whole of Venice will be excommunicated.

At the same time, Julius II sent letters to France and Spain, which were fighting, informing them of the bad news of smallpox in the Kingdom of Naples, and urged them to suspend the war and jointly resist smallpox. Because the smallpox in Chemmons Village had spread from the village. After all, the people in the village also communicate with the outside world.

The Holy See's punishment decision spread to Venice, and the Venetian Republic was stunned.

Because the Venetian authorities didn't know about it at all.

At the same time, the Venetians were very dissatisfied with the pope's overbearing demands. Because the Venetians don't take the Holy See seriously. In the eyes of the Venetians, the Pope is just one of the Italian states, how can he have the right to order the Venetian government?

Therefore, the representatives of the Republic of Venice intend to reject the request of the Holy See. After all, that was a governor.

However, what the representatives of Venice did not expect was that the citizens and businessmen of Venice were on the side of the Holy See this time!

why? The Republic of Venice is a commercial country, and its citizens do business all over Europe. Smallpox outbreaks in other areas will also affect their business.

For example, now that smallpox is spreading in the Kingdom of Naples, Venetian merchants are afraid to do business in Naples. In this way, how much profit will be lost...

Therefore, the spread of smallpox not only threatened the lives of Venetian merchants, but also seriously affected their business.

Therefore, more than half of the Venetian merchants jointly signed a letter, requesting that the Venetian government severely punish Toleni for this inhumane crime. Otherwise, merchants will refuse to pay any more taxes in order to resist government inaction and disregard for human life.

Soon, Venice officials compromised. It is true that they are high-level officials of the Republic of Venice, but they are also elected by Venetian merchants, and they are not hereditary. Strictly speaking, the upper echelons of Venice are nothing more than representatives of interests introduced by the Venetian merchant class. If they reject the demands of most of the businessmen, not only will they not be able to collect taxes, but they will also lose in the next election.

In desperation, Venice officials could only compromise. However, it would be too much to hurt the face of the Republic of Venice to send the doge of the country to Rome for trial. Because Tolani was sent to Rome for trial, he was probably burned to death in public.

It is very shameful for the governor of a country to be burned to death in public by another country, even if it is the Pope, the spiritual leader of Europe.

However, Venice did not dare to violate the pressure of public opinion...

In addition to the anger of Venice's own residents, other countries have also sent people to Venice to protest. Because, once smallpox spreads, the whole of Europe will be under great threat.

How bad is smallpox? Just look at the island of Haiti. When Columbus arrived on the island of Haiti, there were 1 million Taino people on the island. But decades later, in 1544, due to multiple outbreaks of smallpox, there was no Indian on Haiti Island, and all died of smallpox.

This is not the nonsense lie that later generations of the United States fooled the world by saying that the Indians in North America died of smallpox. The Indians in North America were killed by the United States. The Taino people on Haiti, on the other hand, definitely died of smallpox. Because there are 1 million Indians on the island, and the Spanish colonial army has at most one or two thousand people. Even if they kill every day, even if they kill a million Indians, it will be very difficult. Moreover, they also want Indians as labor force!

The Spaniards are different from the old Americans. The old Americans directly plundered the land of the Indians and legislated to reward the scalping of the Indians. Although the Spaniards are very cruel, they will not kill all the Indians because of their small number of people. Therefore, the death of millions of Taino people on the submarine island cannot be caused by the massacre of Spanish colonists, and the outbreak of smallpox is more reasonable.

Moreover, the Spanish colonization of Haiti was indeed the first time the Indians came into contact with smallpox, and it is normal to lack immunity.

As for the Indians boasting that most of the Indians died of smallpox, it is pure nonsense. After all, hundreds of years have passed, and the Indians will be somewhat resistant to smallpox, not like the Taino people on Haiti. That's how it was wiped out.

Also, the Indians on Haiti and the North American Indians are two different things. Millions of Indians on Haiti live on a small island with an area of ​​only tens of thousands of square kilometers. The space is small and it is easy to get infected. And in North America, the territory of Laomei alone has an area of ​​more than 9 million square kilometers. How can smallpox spread quickly? For smallpox to spread, there must first be human-to-human contact. However, the productivity of the North American Indians is backward, and there is little contact between the tribes, and there is no basis for spreading smallpox.

Of course, Europe is different at this time, especially the Mediterranean region. The sea trade is developed here, and the communication and trade between people are very frequent. Once smallpox broke out, even if Europeans had a certain resistance to it, they couldn't stand it. Only those who have had smallpox are not afraid of smallpox. Those who have never had smallpox are still full of fear of smallpox.

What's more, Kang Mazi was able to become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty because he suffered from smallpox and lived to adulthood safely, not because he was "wise and powerful". After all, children can't tell good from bad. Er Yuehe's description of Kang Mazi's intelligence when he was a child in "Kangxi Dynasty" is purely bragging for Kang Mazi. Go to the kindergarten and see, how many people can you see who were awesome when they were young? This is pure nonsense! Of course, the historians of the Qing Dynasty also wrote like this. After all, if they didn’t write like this, they would be easily killed...

Therefore, Tolani's deliberate spread of smallpox, in people's eyes, is indeed very bad in nature. Because, once smallpox spreads, the number of deaths is not tens or hundreds, but tens of thousands. The Venetian merchants, citizens and the officials of various countries are also aware of this, so they collectively put pressure on the Venetian official and severely punished Tolani, so as to avoid the same tragedy in the future...

Even France and Spain, which were at war, sent envoys to Venice to protest and strongly demanded that Torreni be severely punished. After all, everyone is not stupid, if this matter is used on him, it will be very scary...

As the spiritual leader of Europe, Pope Julius II is unwilling to see this kind of thing happen again. Therefore, he must kill the chickens to make an example to the monkeys, lest such bad things happen again...

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