The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin doesn't care what the Genoese think, he just explains the truth:

"My teacher traveled to the port of Kaffa and talked to the local elders before learning the truth of the year. However, when traveling in Asia, the teacher discovered a very strange phenomenon-although the local Black Death also broke out but not as often as we do. Then, he conducted an investigation in Persia and Turkey for more than ten years, and finally found the secret..."

"What secret?" Everyone pricked up their ears curiously. Because the Black Death was even more terrifying than smallpox, it was very important to avoid the Black Death.

"The teacher found that women in the Middle East are not allowed to go out because they are trapped at home, so many women like to keep cats to accompany them. And these cats are not only the companions of the hostess to relieve the boredom, but also the killers of mice. The rats in the homes of the Middle Eastern people have been wiped out..."

"Raising a cat... But isn't a cat an ominous incarnation?" Emperor Maximilian I wondered.

"That's the problem..." Marin gave the emperor a compliment in his heart - a good compliment!

Marin explained:

"The teacher found that the reason why cats are considered unknown is that on spring nights, cats make terrible and annoying meows when courting. In the silent night, this meow is really frightening, like a devil. But in fact, it's just those cats who want to find the opposite sex..."

Speaking of this, many people present laughed... This kind of topic has been heard by men since ancient times...

Marin waved his hand and said:

"Don't laugh, I'm serious with you! This kind of sound is actually a normal courtship confession by a cat, similar to the 'girl I love you' that humans say..."

Everyone's laughter grew louder, this topic is a bit exciting...

"It's just that the sound of a cat's courtship sounds a bit scary, and it's really a silent night, so people are misunderstood as a devil. However, everyone knows that cats are active in the middle of the night, and there's no way. And dogs are the same. It is a pet, but because it is mainly active during the day, although there is also a meow, it does not affect people's lives. After all, the cat's meowing in the middle of the night is a bit out of place. Besides, it's just a bit ugly..."

"But, Grand Duke Marin... oh no, Your Majesty Marin, what does this have to do with the Black Death?" asked the French envoy Duby.

Marlin glanced at Dolby and explained:

"I said just now that the Black Death is called the plague, and it is spread by fleas on mice. If there are enough cats to eat up the mice, wouldn't there be no way for the Black Death to spread?"

After listening to Dolby, he nodded and said:

"It seems to make sense...but, can you prove it?"

Marin shook his head and said:

"I can't prove it, because it's too dangerous. After all, the black death is different from smallpox. Smallpox is not afraid of smallpox when cowpox is planted. However, after the black death patient survives, the next time they encounter the black death, it is still dangerous. Therefore, , I don't dare to arbitrarily prove it."

Then, Marin said:

"However, what I want to tell you is that Beihai Kingdom has been raising cats for a long time. Every granary in Beihai Kingdom will raise some cats to deal with mice that steal food. Therefore, our granary has less food loss.

Moreover, the eradication of rats also helped to curb the spread of the Black Death. "

"Everyone knows how dirty the bottom tanks of merchant ships are. Many merchant ships have a lot of mice living in the bottom tanks. And the Genoa merchant ship that came back from Kafa was blackened to death because it brought mice back. spread of disease."

"Actually, the Black Death was able to cause so much harm in Europe because we misunderstood cats before and drove them out or even killed them. In this way, rats flooded and the Black Death spread even more rampantly. That's why tens of millions of people died in Europe because of the Black Death..."

"And the teacher's notes recorded that in some cities with many cats, the Black Death never broke out on its own initiative, unless it came from outside. The reason why Europe could not stop the Black Death before was because the cats were expelled. , the rampant rats, will let the Black Death spread so quickly."

"So, in order to prevent those merchant ships from bringing the plague back from the outside world, I have ordered that every merchant ship sailing overseas must have a cat on it, which is specially used to deal with the rats on board, so as to prevent the black death from spreading again. No rats. , the Black Death has no source of transmission."

"Of course, raising cats to kill mice is only the first step. In addition to eliminating mice, the teacher also advocates paying attention to hygiene in the notes. For example, it is necessary to clean up all the feces in the city and transport them out of the city in a centralized manner to avoid the breeding of flies. The teacher Records say that not only are rats prone to breeding problems, but the flies that live on the feces that can be seen everywhere in the city are also prone to causing plagues..."

"So you cleaned up the city of Beihai, and collected all the excrement and transported it out of the city?" King Maximilian I stood up in time.

Marin nodded and said:

"That's right, that's it. Flies grow from maggots that live on feces. Their claws are full of feces and other unclean things. If the flies bite the feces that can be seen everywhere in the city, they will bite you and eat them. white bread..."

Speaking of which, many people have probably thought of something, and their faces are ugly... Because, the possibility of this is really great...

Marin didn't care whether they were disgusting or not, but continued:

"If the flies have bitten something with a plague, and then bite the food you eat, you will easily get sick or even have a plague after eating this kind of food..."

Many people changed their faces, and it was Maximilian I again, he hesitated:

"It's not that we don't want to do this, but, if we also start collecting feces, the labor cost is very high! If the city is cleaned up, God knows how much it will cost..."

For His Majesty the famous poor ghost emperor, money is the biggest problem...

Marin really wanted to tell them that the feces could be pulled out and used as fertilizer, just like the Ming Dynasty. However, doing so is cultivating competitors, and it is easy for food prices to collapse. Marin made a fortune on this, how could he tell the secret?

However, he thought of a way:

"Everyone, don't you know that when feces are accumulated in the cesspool, can nitrate be collected and used to refine saltpeter? Just build a nitrate collection center outside each city, and dig a number of square pits for collection. Saltpeter. The price of saltpeter is known to everyone, and there is also a shortage of saltpeter. This alone can recover the labor cost of collecting feces in the city..."

"This is a good way..." The emperor nodded, but asked again:

"Nitrile frosts generally occur when the weather is relatively cold. In warm weather such as summer and late spring and early autumn, how to collect nitrate?"

At this time, the method of collecting soil nitrate is still very backward, only know that when the weather is cold, the nitrate that has been frosted in the corner of the cesspool is collected and scraped down to refine.

But they didn't know that in future generations, collecting soil nitrate would not have to be so troublesome, just mix the soil with urine to react naturally. Then, extract directly. In this way, the proportion of collecting saltpeter is also higher. In fact, the proportion of frosted nitrate hanging in the corner is relatively low, and only part of the nitrate can be counted.

But Marin won't tell them the complete method of extracting soil nitrate, so he gives a suggestion:

"Well, if you have a city close to the Rhine, and you can't extract the nitrate in summer, late spring, and early autumn, you can pack it in barrels and ship it to Beihai, and I'll buy it! In this way, you don't have to worry about the warm weather. It's impossible to recover the labor cost of collecting feces!"

In fact, Marin has long coveted the huge amount of feces from various countries. Unfortunately, he could not find a reason to buy it before. Moreover, it is easy to cause suspicion in other countries. But now he has found a reason...

"Do you have a way to collect soil nitrate when it's hot?" Maximilian I asked suspiciously.

Marin already had a countermeasure, so he answered confidently:

"Yes, I have already bought Iceland from Denmark. It is cold all year round, but not so cold that it freezes. It is the best climate for collecting soil nitrate. As long as the feces are shipped to Iceland for accumulation, after a few days, you will definitely be able to A lot of dirt was scraped out. Also, there are not many people in Iceland, and they are not afraid that the island will be full of feces and become too dirty. In addition, the place is a bit cold, and it is difficult for flies to survive..."

When everyone hears it, they all think it makes sense. After all, everyone in Iceland has heard that it is Iceland, but only the inland is relatively cold, and the coast is still not frozen. This temperature is probably equivalent to the kind of frost in the middle of the night in late autumn, which is the most suitable for exuding soil nitrate.

But they don't even know that Marin is actually trying to deceive the fertilizers of various countries through this method. After all, compared to that bit of soil, salt and frost, the fertility of the feces was what Marin valued the most.

Moreover, now Marin has no ability to synthesize ammonia, and if he wants enough nitrogen fertilizer, he can only cheat the feces of other countries...

And the lie of using the Icelandic climate to collect soil nitrate frost powder seems to be flawless, very reasonable, and reasonable enough that no one doubts it. Moreover, Beihai Kingdom really needs saltpeter. After all, the North Sea country's army has a high proportion of firearms.

Therefore, while introducing the causes and prevention methods of the Black Death, Marin, the newly promoted king, even discussed the business of collecting feces with the monarchs and envoys present...

Marin reiterated:

"Must have wet feces with urine, not dry feces!" The reason for this emphasis is that most of the cost of saltpeter is generated in urine, not fecal mass. He was afraid that the dung sold in various countries was too real, so he dried it and sold it to him.

To this end, Marin also offered to provide sealed manure buckets for them to hold wet poop...

As for the purchase price, it's almost the labor needed to collect the feces in those cities. The labor cost in Germany is only 2 pfennig per day, which is really unnecessary.

Those monarchs and great nobles don't care about this money, as long as they don't have to pay the wages of the workers who collect excrement themselves, that's fine.

In this way, a good scientific lecture on how to deal with the Black Death was stunned by the sleazy second-hand Marin, who made the building crooked, and turned into a meeting place for collecting big dung...

"The king collects big shit", Marin is famous. This stalk was later used by Europeans for hundreds of years...

()

Genius website address: . Mobile version reading website: