The Rise of the European Emperor

Not to mention when the Spaniards discovered that there were 800 ordinary horses mixed into the war horses, Marin's side, after the French army left Naples, also quickly received information.

When he heard that Gonzalo used the fake "clothes and blankets of the dead from smallpox" to scare away tens of thousands of French troops, Marin was so angry that his liver hurt. He is counting on the two countries of West and France to fight to the death, and only in this way, the French have no time to take care of him. The reason why he asked John Lafite to propose to François I to control the smallpox, in addition to the fear that smallpox would spread to the north and affect the North Sea country, was that he hoped that France would have a stable rear, so that he would be at ease with Spain and fight for Naples. .

But now it's good, Gonzalo's old clothes and old blankets actually scared the French army of tens of thousands...

After his anger, Marin was left nervous. why? When the 35,000 French troops come back, the French can do things in other directions!

In this way, I will be nervous for a while... Well, no, the most nervous is the British who just got back to Calais.

With this main force returning to China, the smallpox in northern France has been controlled again, and they will definitely find a way to retake Calais...

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Marin frowned...

What did Marlin think? What he thought was - if the French also used the trick of "the clothes and blankets of the dead of the smallpox" to scare the English people who were defending the Fortress of Calais, would the English people be scared away? It's very possible...

"No, the French must be stopped from doing this!"

Marin will not doubt whether the French will do this, because the other party has a Count of Charles, and it is easy to copy this wretched tactic. Therefore, he must find a way to stop this situation!

How to stop it? First of all, it is to severely punish Gonzalo who used this method first!

So Marin wrote a secret letter, and the pigeon biography was passed to Julius II, the Pope's father-in-law, who was far away in Rome, advising him to deal with Gonzalo severely. Kill one example to prevent others from following suit - in fact, to prevent the French from learning this trick to deal with the fortress of Calais.

After Julius II received Marin's letter, he also believed that he must be severely punished. Otherwise, someone will really mess up. As a result, Julius II issued a decree, publicly and severely criticized Gonzalo de Cordoba, who used the tactics of "spreading smallpox", and announced that he would be excommunicated for three years, that is, to cancel Gonzalo within three years. 's teaching status. This is his first offense. If there is a similar situation again, it will be permanently excommunicated (actually, Marin is worried that the Spanish unknown will fight against France, because if he is permanently excommunicated, Gonzalo will never be able to command the army. In Europe , you cannot become a noble and a high-ranking army commander without a religious status.) But because Gonzalo did not really do this, he was exempted from the punishment of burning at the stake. However, at the end of the teaching, Julius II sternly warned the whole of Europe that in the future, "spreading smallpox" and other bad means should not be used in wars, otherwise, even the king will be excommunicated, and there will be no pardon. If you really do this, you will be sentenced to be burned at the stake! If the king supports his subordinates to do so, once found out, the king will also be excommunicated!

After this teaching was issued, it was supported and welcomed by the vast majority of people in Europe. Because the act of spreading smallpox is indeed very bad, and it makes everyone very afraid.

Only when Charles, Count of Nantes, who was on his way back to France, heard about it, he was extremely depressed. Because, he did think of offering this plan to the fortress of Calais after returning home. In this way, he can get the attention of the new king, Francois I. Unexpectedly, the Pope "patched a patch" in advance, which made his idea fail.

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Despite the Pope's warnings, Marin worried that the French would find a scapegoat and then stage a trick to do the same against Calais.

Therefore, Marin sent a book about what happened in Italy to London with flying pigeons, and asked his men to hand it over to Edward, telling Edward that the French must be prevented from using this evil method to deal with the fortress of Calais. Therefore, Marin suggested that Edward, a man from all over the country who had survived smallpox, should be recruited into an army and stationed in Calais, lest the French would be so mad that they would use smallpox.

However, it seems that England has not had any smallpox outbreaks in these years, only a few small places have appeared on a small scale. Therefore, it is estimated that there are not many strong men who have survived smallpox.

So, it's best to find another way to deal with it...

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What can be done? Of course, it is the famous "cowpox method"!

In fact, when he decided to colonize the island of Haiti, Marin thought of using the cowpox method, and he also set up a medical research group to study the cowpox method.

The doctors of this medical research team are all people who have suffered from smallpox, so they are not afraid of the smallpox virus. However, they encountered a big problem in studying the cowpox method - there is no source of smallpox virus!

Even if the cowpox method is studied, it is necessary to infect the cattle with the smallpox virus. But without the source of the smallpox virus, their research stalled.

Coincidentally, smallpox broke out in Italy, Spain and southern France this time, so Marin decided to start researching the cowpox method now!

So Marin sent 2 clippers, loaded with the entire medical research team and 30 robust cows that were not seasick, to Spain to collect smallpox virus to continue research on vaccinia methods.

In fact, Marin hopes to send more ships and more cattle to Spain to collect smallpox virus. But unfortunately, he can't find enough sailors who have survived smallpox...

Those who perform this task must all have had smallpox. Otherwise, there will be danger to life. Marin gathered around and gathered 80 sailors. In desperation, we had to send two ships to Spain to collect smallpox virus.

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By the time the two gathering ships arrived off the coast of Spain, smallpox in Spain had already erupted. Today, the whole of Spain is shaking, only the area around the capital Toledo, the northern half of Aragon, and the northern area north of Toledo up to the Atlantic coast have not been affected by smallpox. And half of Spain to the south and east of Toledo was shrouded in the shadow of smallpox.

When the smallpox collection boat sent by Marin arrived, they found that a small town port on the southeastern coast of Spain was completely deserted, and the town was empty. They only found some bodies. It seemed that those who died had died of smallpox. Because they have pockmarks on their faces...

So, they hurriedly collected the smallpox virus-they used the blankets and underwear used by the deceased to wrap the strong cattle they brought. Then, wait for the cow to get sick...

On the way back, sure enough, most of the cowpox was infected with smallpox, and only 8 very strong bulls did not get sick. The researchers in the research team were heartless and collected blood from the sick cows and smeared them on the wounds of the eight cows they had cut open. Then, these 8 cows also got sick...

At the end of June, when the fleet returned to East Frisian mainland, 6 of the 30 cattle on board had died of illness, and the mortality rate was 20%, which was much lower than the 30% of human beings. After all, cows are stronger.

After returning home, the ship did not dock at the port of Emden, but docked on the island of Whangeoge in the East Frisian Islands specially prepared for them by Marin, and studied the cowpox method on the island.

There is no way, if the smallpox virus is brought back to the mainland hastily, many people may die in Beihai Kingdom. However, it is relatively safe to study alone on islands in the open sea.

At this point, all the others on Wangaoge Island were evacuated, leaving only enough food, as well as 500 strong cattle, for the research team to study.

Of course, Marin also sent over 30 death row prisoners as research subjects...

According to Marin's instructions, when these smallpox but not dead cows are about to recover, collect the pustules on their bodies, squeeze out the virus inside, and plant them on the arms of death row prisoners...

Then, they waited to see the reaction of the death row prisoners...

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