Chapter 3296 King Mesa’s Garden (5)

Not in a hurry, Georgiana paused as she passed the National Veterinary School of Alfors, which she had been thinking about rebuilding the last time she was in Normandy.

She didn't care what people thought, but cattle didn't want to die from the plague anyway. The rinderpest in the 18th century spread so widely that even Pope Clement XI was alarmed.

One of the ten disasters in Egypt was the livestock disaster, but this time the Pope did not ask God's will, but asked his personal doctor. His advice was to stop migration, slaughter infected animals and bury infected animal carcasses deeply.

Rinderpest is different from bovine tuberculosis. It can be said to be the Black Death of animals. It is infected quickly and has a high morbidity rate. However, it is not a zoonotic disease. Veterinary personnel need to take precautions during prevention and treatment, otherwise it will be transmitted to other animals.

Although she was mentally prepared, she was still shocked by the dilapidated appearance of this school located in the suburbs of Paris. There are no cows here, not even a rabbit. The grass is so tall that it looks like it has been abandoned for many years.

There is a large stable here, and the horses also need to be hospitalized. It is also empty inside, and there is a sense of desolation everywhere.

In the past, the veterinary school was directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, but she expected that veterinary medicine would not specifically serve agriculture.

She hated war and did not want to be a war-minded person like Bonaparte. She had a manor near Versailles, which was converted into a hospital. Almost all the doctors working in the hospital did not need to join the army and leave Paris. The main training there is on epidemic prevention and vaccination.

Studying medicine is expensive, but if you are willing to join the military in the future, the tuition fee can be waived. A doctor like Bouillon-Lagrange would have to follow the army, and he was not a surgeon.

When Napoleon was in Egypt, he built 12 hospitals, four of which were in Cairo, and there was an endless stream of people coming to see him. Unfortunately the ship carrying surgical equipment and a large amount of medical supplies was captured by Nelson, and to make matters worse medicines continued to go missing, and locally recruited nurses were more interested in sending patients away than caring for them.

The hospital lacked everything, wards, hospital gowns, bedding, especially after the Battle of Aboukir, when they lost hope of getting supplies from Europe.

When the plague broke out in Jaffa, a doctor, regardless of personal safety, threw the sheets used by infected people into the fire and set them on fire. This aroused the anger of military representatives, who believed that this was an unnecessary waste.

Sooner or later, the veterinarians here will also go to the battlefield to treat the war horses. Just like those canal workers, they will be drafted into the army once a war breaks out. They will either die in a foreign country or come back alive to live in the Invalides. Very few can become famous generals.

There will be no need to kill her then, and the canal will stop working.

She took out a small copper box from her handbag, which contained several pieces of Turkish delight with pistachios.

This is Bonaparte's favorite food. After eating this gummy, he will sing tuneless songs.

Humboldt visited Brazil in 1800. He heard that there was a meteorite in Monte Santo, which changed the local landscape and made it the driest place in the northeastern hinterland of Brazil.

A child herding sheep discovered it in 1784, but no one ever studied it. When Humboldt went there, it was still left outside without any protection. It is two meters in diameter and weighs several tons. An ordinary meteorite can be as big as a palm and cause terrible destructive power.

He ran away before he could study it carefully because the Portuguese were hunting him and he did not have permission from Portugal for this expedition.

The original plan was for Lannes to be the Portuguese ambassador, but Lannes was sent to Antwerp and his replacement was Miote de Melito, who was a senior official in the War Office before the American Revolution and became the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as special envoy to Florence. After the British evacuated in 1795, Corsica was in a state of anarchy. Melito was sent to Corsica to deal with it, and returned to Italy after Corsica restored peace.

In 1798, he was recalled by the Directory for refusing to foment rebellion in Italy. He served as a Dutch diplomat during the Coup of Brumaire. Augereau was recalled after dissolving the Parliament of the Batavia Republic, and was then recommended by Joseph to become ambassador to Lisbon.

There was a psychiatrist graduated from Oxford University in the Portuguese court. He also diagnosed George III. Queen Mary had gone crazy, and Prince Joao also suffered from severe depression. The dual pressure exerted on him by Britain and France made him look like a psychiatrist. A shell sandwiched between the sea and the reef.

When Saint-Cyr's army arrived near Lisbon, the prince made a secret agreement with the British. As long as Britain was willing to send the royal family to Brazil, Portugal would open Brazilian ports for British use. Before that, only Portuguese merchant ships had the right to trade in Brazil. goods.

At last the prince and queen got on board, but Saint-Cyr withdrew his troops, and they returned to the royal palace of Lisbon. But this agreement still exists, and the British navy has anchored in Rio de Janeiro, which is Portugal's second largest port and accounts for one-third of Portugal's trade share.

Usually when a royal family escapes, the courtiers are the first to receive the news and will run with the royal family.

This false alarm was much the same as the chaos caused by Georgiana's sudden escape for a few days.

In the Treaty of Badajoz, Portugal not only ceded territory in Europe and South America, but also established a clear border with Spain in South America.

The Papal Meridian exists in name only, but has no reference on earth.

When the Dutch achieved independence, the Dutch also came to Brazil. Their purpose of coming to Brazil was not gold and silver, but salt and sugar.

The Dutch were interested in the salt from Setubal, Portugal. In the 1669 Treaty of The Hague, Dutch Brazil and Portugal exchanged Setubal's salt for pickling fish.

Georgiana prefers cryogenic refrigeration, but that requires ice. Theoretically, ice can be made with saltpeter, but saltpeter is a strategic material. Otherwise, Chaptard would not have become France's Minister of the Interior because of his discovery of gunpowder extracted from human and animal excrement.

There may be other ways to make ice, and that's something chemists need to consider.

The technology for making sugar from beets is still very rudimentary. If the cane sugar in the British colonies is cut off, Brazil can also export sugar, provided that the Portuguese can transport it to France.

I heard that there is still an Inquisition in Brazil, but they no longer try heretics and heretics. They arrest those who sell "love potions" and amulets.

It is said that this kind of "magic" can be seen everywhere in Brazil, and almost everyone knows that it is native to the Iberian Peninsula. It can make women infinitely charming, make men unfavorable in love, and gain favor easily.

People under the spell seem to have encountered force majeure, being conquered, tempted, and fallen.

Georgiana closed the candy box and left the long-abandoned campus.

It is said that in Brazil, people have found the embodiment of the "devil". It is called Kurupila. It is the guardian of the forest. He is a handsome man who can make hunters who attack animals lose their way.

Brazil also had fugitive slaves who would escape into the forest. There is a kind of "hunter" who is responsible for hunting them down. The hunter will get about 20% commission based on the slave's worth.

They were afraid of Kurupila and would not interfere even if they saw natives offering sacrifices.

Sacrifice to Kurupila usually involves burning fragrant plants, which induces it to emerge from the depths of the forest and consume the sacrificial fruit wine.

Its legs are long upside down, much like a mandrill.

She had almost forgotten that she had to ask people from the Istanbul Library Association to find information about mandrills and yin people. There would be no shortage of people who could understand Turkish in Istanbul.