Chapter 1584: Suppress

"Don't you have a sore waist?" Louis XII and a few French petty officials looked at John Rafi strangely.

The ages of Louis XII and several French princes were almost 50 years old. Even the youngest John Rafi is in his 40s. At this age, it can be so long ... It seems incredible ...

John Lafite is naturally not sore, but he knows that this is just an illusion. This is because the drug contains a component that specifically stimulates the nerve center and masks the phenomenon of backache. In other words, it numbs the nerves and makes people feel no backache.

However, when you wake up the next morning, the effect of the medicine will pass, and there will still be backache. But no one will be held accountable for the bad effects of medicines. After all, everyone knows the truth, there can be no such kind of medicines that are not tired afterwards. It was already very powerful to feel tired at the time.

Moreover, John Rafi also has fat brothers as an internal response. According to Marin's arrangement, after Louis XII began taking the "Fang Shilong" drug, the Fat Brothers added some medicines with slight analgesia and paralysis to Louis XII's breakfast every day. Louis XII felt no physical discomfort.

As for what to add? This thing is actually familiar to modern people-the initial composition of aspirin, salicylic acid ...

The ingredient of aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid, which is the product of acetylation of salicylic acid. But its active ingredient is actually salicylic acid. However, salicylic acid is liquid and acidic, and cannot be used directly as medicine.

But fat brothers have a way-they can use salicylic acid as a seasoning instead of apple cider vinegar and add it to food.

Salicylic acid, as the main component of aspirin, has a great relief effect on headache, neuralgia and muscle aches. Disguised as vinegar and added to Louis XII's food, it can greatly reduce Louis XII's perception of waist acid ...

what? You ask where does salicylic acid come from? Tell you, this thing is extracted from the willow bark ...

Those familiar with the history of aspirin will know that salicylic acid was originally extracted from the bark of weeping willow. Later, people only found ways to synthesize. The emergence of aspirin also led to the emergence of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, a super giant in the pharmaceutical industry.

Marin's trip to Daming brought back Willow and successfully planted seeds in Beihai. It is relatively easy to extract a little salicylic acid from willow bark. As for the harm of salicylic acid to the stomach? This is easy, so the Fat Brothers suggested that Louis XII drink a glass of soda 1 hour after a meal.

Soda water is an alkaline aqueous solution that neutralizes the damage of salicylic acid to the stomach. Of course, it is necessary to wait for salicylic acid to exert its effect before drinking it, in order to avoid the reduction or even failure of the effect of salicylic acid.

In short, in order to harm Louis XII, Marin also worked hard, even the main ingredients of aspirin were obtained, just to let Louis XII reduce the feeling of backache ...

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Fortunately, Europeans in this era have a strong taste. Fat brothers can use salicylic acid instead of vinegar, and then add some other seasonings to cover up changes in food taste. If someone eats lightly, it might be exposed.

While Marin was doing everything he could to calculate Louis XII, news also came from the southern region of Germany-Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, has officially begun a counterattack!

During this period, under the deliberate guidance of several spies sent by the Duke of Ulrich, many of the noble estates of the Principality of Württemberg that the Duke of Ulrich did not deal with have been looted by the peasant uprising. The wealth, food, weapon armor and war horses in the manor were all snatched by the rebels. Many nobles themselves were also killed by several spies who bewitched uprising soldiers.

By June, the estate of the Principality of Württemberg had been attacked by the rebels and had reached several hundred. There are more than two hundred noble estates alone.

In addition to the noble manor, there are many Junker manor. The so-called Junker manor mainly refers to the manor controlled by the noble's descendants without inheritance rights. Although the manor owners are descendants of the nobility, because they are not the eldest son, they can only be reduced to civilians. However, they have their own shelter, which is still much stronger than ordinary people. For example, they can own a manor and a lot of land. Those without aristocratic lineage have no right to own the estate. At most, it can only be a businessman or craftsman or something.

For such estates, oil and water are generally not large. Because these Junker landlords, in order to obtain asylum from the host family, they need to contribute a lot of property to the host family in exchange for asylum. After all, this is an era of nobility. Without the protection of nobility, the industry is easily robbed by other nobility. And this is also an important reason why after the crossing of Marin, he desperately wants to be a mercenary to obtain a noble title ...

Generally speaking, these Junker manors have a limited number of generations, and some are just a generation or two. Therefore, this Junker manor generally has less oil and water. Moreover, there is no military supplies such as weapon armor and war horses favored by the rebels. After all, they lost the status of nobility, they are not qualified to have these, and it is not necessary.

Those noble estates are different. Generally, noble families are families that have been inherited for hundreds of years. Such a family will always have a lot of savings. As long as the aristocratic manor is broken, the income such as grain and Junk manor may be similar, but it can harvest a lot of weapons and armor, as well as war horses. Of course, there are gold and silver treasures that the noble families have hoarded for hundreds of years ...

Therefore, after swept through hundreds of manor houses, including more than 200 aristocratic manor houses, Kasbar's "poor Conrad" rebel army has grown to a huge scale of more than 30,000 people. This is not counted, the scale of the cavalry has expanded to 800 plate armor and 2500 light cavalry ...

This cavalry scale scared Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg. In order to avoid further expansion of the strength of the rebel army, Duke Ulrich finally could not bear it and launched an offensive against the rebel army ...

He first transferred 6,000 noble soldiers including 400 knights from the noble factions of the Principality of Württemberg ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ and the neutral Württemberg nobles who obeyed his orders. Then, 8,000 soldiers were borrowed from the Swabian League.

In this way, the number of soldiers and horses used to suppress the peasant uprising in the Principality of Württemberg reached as many as 14,000.

Although it is said that the conscripts of those noble soldiers and horses have very low combat effectiveness. However, they have received regular military training, and their combat effectiveness is always better than those members of the peasant uprising who have no military qualities.

Moreover, the Duke Ulrich was very cautious. He knew that recruiting troops was the worst in the noble army and was not worthy of trust. So, he simply let his noble 6,000 noble soldiers and horses, withdraw 4,000 conscripts, sent to the stronghold of his own territory and allied territory, replacing the 5000 regular soldiers sent by the North Sea country. In this way, the grasp of suppressing the peasant uprising is greater ...

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Later, Duke Ulrich led a 15,000 army and launched a siege of the peasant uprising. But the funny thing is that the peasant uprising in Württemberg seems to be addicted to the looting manor, and they did not notice that the Duke Ulrich has sent a large army to chase down.

When Ulrich led the 15,000-strong army to catch up with the peasant uprising, Kasbar was taking more than 30,000 peasant uprising troops to siege a noble manor in a valley ...