Chapter 1757: Angry pope
Sure enough, after the smallpox spread to the Kingdom of Naples, it had not been time to reach the Spanish army camp, but instead spread to the Papal State first.
Why? Because there was a fishing boat in that small fishing village, he went to the port outside Rome to purchase supplies when he was fishing. The fishermen on the boat did not find smallpox when they departed from the fishing village, because the smallpox was lurking. The incubation period of smallpox is more than ten days. This fisherman was infected with smallpox virus by the “mysterious man” from the village without notice, and then went out to fish. Ten days later, the fishing boat approached the waters near Rome. So, out of necessity of life, the fishing boat docked, and the fishermen went ashore to purchase living supplies. After the purchase was completed, the fishermen on the ship went to the tavern on the dock for a while and drank the wine for an afternoon.
The problem is bad here. When they purchase materials, they have a short contact time with people, but they do not infect human smallpox virus. But in the tavern, following a group of drunks close to the table, when they were happy, they hugged one ... Then, the tavern became a virus-affected area ...
When smallpox broke out in the port area outside Rome, Pope Julius II, who was in Rome, was almost not scared to death-Nima, the smallpox even spread to the headquarters of the Holy See!
Fortunately, influenced by his son-in-law Marin, Julius II knew how to fight the disease. As a result, the Pope ordered martial law across the city. At the same time, mobilize all the priests who have survived smallpox from all over the world and go to Rome to gather ...
After martial law in the whole city, all residents are not allowed to go out. Soldiers patrolling the streets also put on a full set of protective clothing and also put on masks.
More than that, 7000 mercenaries from the North Sea country were also ordered to carry bags and sprinkle quick lime in the streets of Rome to disinfect.
As for the food supply of the people in various regions, Pope Julius II ordered 87 middle-aged and elderly people who had received smallpox to push a trolley every day to send food to various residential areas. When they returned, they had to change their clothes and take a shower as soon as possible to avoid spreading the smallpox virus.
After selecting 66 mercenaries from the army who had had smallpox as a child, Julius II sent these people to block the dock area and began to trace the source of smallpox.
With the help of a highly professional spy from the North Sea, Julius II finally traced the small fishing village called Chimons in Naples, and seized several Dalmatians who were hiding outside the village. Smallpox patient.
At this time, the six smallpox patients sent by Dalmatia had already died, and the other two were afraid that they would not be able to survive. There are actually two young men who are probably in good health, and they are strong. Although pockmarks were left on his face, he survived. Moreover, there is no need to worry about smallpox in the future.
The people of the Holy See seized the four who had not yet died and tortured them, and soon learned the truth.
Although Toleni's original intention was to deal with the Spaniards, but this matter endangered the Papal State, it still made Julius II furious!
Furious Julius II announced the first penalty for Toleni. Moreover, the Republic of Venice is strongly requested to extradite this person to the Holy See for trial. Otherwise, the entire Venice will be punished.
At the same time, Julius II sent a letter to the French and Western countries in operation, notifying them of the bad news of smallpox in the Kingdom of Naples, and urging them to temporarily cease the war to jointly resist smallpox. Because the smallpox of Chimons village has spread out from the village. After all, people in the village communicate with the outside world.
The decision of the Holy See passed to Venice, and the Venetian Republic was stunned. Because, the Venetian authorities did not know about this matter.
At the same time, the Venetians were very dissatisfied with the Pope's overbearing demands. Because the Venetians do not take the Holy See in their eyes. From the Venetian's point of view, the Papal State is only one of the states of Italy. How can it have the power to order the Venice official?
Therefore, parliamentarians of the Republic of Venice intend to reject the request of the Holy See. After all, it was a Governor.
However, the members of Venice did not expect that Venice citizens and businessmen, this time on the side of the Holy See!
Why? The Republic of Venice is a commercial country, and its citizens do business throughout Europe. Smallpox outbreaks in other regions will also affect their business.
For example, now that the smallpox in the Kingdom of Naples has spread, Venetian merchants dare not go to Naples to do business. In this way, how much profit would be lost ...
Therefore, the spread of smallpox not only threatened the lives of Venetian merchants, but also seriously affected the business of Venetian merchants.
Therefore, more than half of the Venetian merchants jointly wrote a letter, requesting Venice officials to severely punish Toleni for this kind of extinct humanity. Otherwise, the merchants will refuse to pay taxes again, in order to resist the official inaction of Venice and the life of Sugao.
Soon, the Venice official compromised. They are the top executives of the Venetian Republic, but they were also elected by the Venetian merchants, not hereditary. Strictly speaking, the high-level of Venice is nothing more than a representative of the interests introduced by the merchant class of Venice. If they reject the request of most businessmen, not only will they not receive taxes, they will also lose in the next election.
In desperation, Venice officials can only compromise. However, sending the governor of his country to Rome for trial would hurt the face of the Venetian Republic too much. Because Toleni was sent to Rome for trial, it is likely to be burned to death in public.
The governor of one country was burned to death in public by another country, which is very embarrassing, even if it is the people who are the spiritual leaders of Europe.
However, in the face of public pressure, Venice did not dare to go against it ...
In addition to the anger of the residents of Venice, other countries have sent people to Venice to protest. Because once the smallpox spreads, the entire Europe will be under great threat.
How powerful is smallpox? Just look at Haiti. When Columbus arrived in Haiti, there were 1 million Technos on the island. But in 1544 a few decades later, because of the multiple outbreaks of smallpox, there was no Indian on Haiti and all died of smallpox.
This is not a nonsense lie that the North American Indians died of smallpox in the world. The North American Indians were killed by the old Americans. The Taino on the island of Haiti must have died of smallpox. Because there are one million Indians on the island, and the Spanish colonial army has a maximum of one or two thousand. Even if they kill people every day and kill a million Indians, it is difficult. Moreover, they also want the Indians as labor!
The Spaniards are different from the old Americans, who are white people directly plundering the land of the Indians and legislated to reward the peeling of the Indians ’scalp. Although the Spaniards were brutal, they did not kill the Indians because of the small number of people. Therefore, the death of millions of Tylenols on the undersea island could not be due to the massacre of the Spanish colonists, and the outbreak of smallpox was more reasonable.
Moreover, the Spanish colonization of Haiti Island was indeed the first time Indians were exposed to smallpox, and lack of immunity was normal.
As for the Indians bragging about the old and the United States, most of them died of smallpox and it was pure nonsense. After all, hundreds of years later, the Indians would be somewhat resistant to smallpox. It was wiped out like that.
Moreover, the Indians on Haiti and the North American Indians are two different things. On the island of Haiti, millions of Indians live on small islands with an area of only tens of thousands of square kilometers. The space is small and it is easy to catch all of them. In North America, where the old and beautiful sites alone are more than 9 million square kilometers, how can smallpox spread quickly? If you want to spread smallpox, you first need to make contact with people. The productivity of North American Indians is lagging behind. There is little contact between the tribes and there is no basis for spreading smallpox.
Of course, Europe is different at this time, especially in the Mediterranean region. The maritime trade here is developed, and the exchanges and trade between people are very frequent ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Once the smallpox breaks out, even if the Europeans have a certain resistance to this, they can't resist it. Only those who have had smallpox will not be afraid of smallpox. And those who have never had smallpox are still full of fear of smallpox.
What's more, Kang Mazi became an emperor of the Qing Dynasty because he had survived the smallpox and could live to adulthood safely, not his "heroic martial arts". After all, where can children see good or bad? Er Yuehe described in his "Kangxi Dynasty" that Kang Mazi was smart when he was a child, and was purely blowing Kang Mazi. When you go to the kindergarten, you can see a few people who are very good compared to them when they were young? This is pure nonsense! Of course, the Qing Dynasty historians also wrote this way. After all, if they didn't write it, they would be easily killed ...
Therefore, Toleni's deliberate spread of smallpox, in people's view, is indeed very bad in nature. Because, when smallpox spreads, it is not tens of hundreds of people who died, but tens of thousands. The merchants of Venice and the officials of various countries are aware of this, so they collectively put pressure on the Venice officials to severely punish Toleni to avoid the same tragedy in the future ...
Even France and Spain in the war also sent emissaries to Venice to protest and strongly demanded severe punishment of Toleni. After all, everyone is not stupid. It would be terrible if it was used by others ...
And Pope Julius II, the spiritual leader of Europe, did not want to see this happen again. Therefore, he must kill the chicken and the monkey to prevent this kind of bad thing from happening again ...
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