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A delegation headed by weavers immediately went to the town hall to protest against the violation of basic human rights by the judges!The spokesperson of the delegation claimed: "Our fathers were there, and now I am there, and my children will go there!"

In the end, the despondent judges had to admit: the citizens of Troyes are born with the right to defecate wherever they want!

The barbarians in Europe are not good at dealing with hygiene, but they have shown enough cleverness in some places-for example, the women in Xiangdu are wearing wooden shoes with thick wooden soles, ranging from more than ten centimeters to half a centimeter. There are rice, walking on the street as if walking on stilts, not affected by the ground at all.

Some top nobles and senior priests who are particular about it will naturally not do things casually in the house like ordinary people. It is OK to dig under the soil with a shovel when they are done. They have toilets.

And near the living room, a special toilet is set up, and it is elegantly and comfortably arranged-because the word toilet is somewhat indecent, it is vaguely called "private room", "comfortable place", "necessary place" or "Prayer Room"...

The great French "Sun King" Louis XIV, in order to solve the problem of defecation everywhere in the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre and Fontainebleau, had only one solution, which was to move house in turn - once a month, in expensive When people spoil one place, arrange servants to clean the other place.

In short, the French after the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have always been the dirtiest and least hygienic slobs in Europe.Even in the magnificent Palace of Versailles, the sewers, toilets and bathrooms were not originally designed...

Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to understand why the perfume produced by Emperor Chongzhen's Shaofu is so expensive and still sells well in Europe.

In addition, there is another more important reason, that is, Europeans at this time do not have the habit of bathing, not only the romantic capital, but also everything else is like a bird. bath.

It was better under the rule of the Roman Empire. Large public bathing facilities were built in many cities, similar to social welfare. Even if the interiors were luxuriously decorated, civilians could still bathe in these facilities for free or at very little cost.

Therefore, during the Roman Empire, people were generally clean and liked to be clean. After all, the feeling of refreshment after taking a bath is a natural feeling of human beings.

However, with the destruction of the Roman Empire, the continent of Europe fell into separatist regimes. Not only were the prosperous public bathing facilities destroyed in the past, but the technology of pipes and boilers for bathing was also gradually lost. situation.

If it's just like this, it's fine. After all, boiling water to take a bath at home or simply jumping into the river to wash can also make people refreshed and clean.

The key lies in the Black Death.

The Black Death that swept across the entire European continent originated from the God's Whip Mongolian army that terrified the whole of Europe. When they attacked the "Jaffa City", they used trebuchets to throw the corpses of rotten and sick Mongolian soldiers into the city of Jiafa. The Italian merchants who controlled the city fell into the shadow of the Black Death.

Not long after, the plague was rampant, and the Mongols, who started to do the tricks, realized that things had gotten worse, and even their own side was affected, so they simply patted their buttocks and ran away.

The Mongols can run away, but where can the Italians in Jiafa City go?There are sore and rotting corpses everywhere, and the "Black Death" people with dark purple skin, where are they going?

After being infected with the Black Death, they would die in just three to five days. Those who were lucky enough not to be infected took advantage of the retreat of the Mongols and quickly got on a few sailboats, wanting to return to Italy, but the fleas that spread the Black Death , mice, have climbed these boats with them...

At this time, the news that the city of Adda was covered by the Black Death had caused panic in the European continent. No country dared to receive these fleets and forbid them to enter their own land.

These sailing ships drifted in the Mediterranean Sea for a long time, and some people died. Most of the ships died and drifted alone on the sea. The Europeans at that time called them "ghost ships".

It would be fine if all the people on these ships died at sea, but God doesn't seem to favor the believers in Europe.

In October 1347, the only remaining ship was in the port of Messina in Sicily, Italy. They bribed the local governor with money and declared that they were not infected.

The locals are not fools either. As soon as they landed, they quarantined the boats. Normally, they would burn all the contents of these boats, but some mice had already taken the opportunity to climb ashore along the cables.

During the week that the ship landed, a large-scale outbreak of the Black Death broke out in Sicily, and then spread inland, sweeping across Italy!

Mike, a surviving monk at that time, recorded what he saw and heard-everyone who was infected with the Black Death, his friends, relatives, and even those who carried him to the grave soon died. will follow in the footsteps.

If such a situation happened in Daming, even if there was no such institution as the medical school, the doctors in the Tai Hospital and all over the place would be as busy as mad dogs trying to solve the problem.

In Europe, where barbers work part-time as doctors and bloodletting is the main treatment method, there is no other way except to pray to God.

If prayers help, what do you need a doctor for?

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Chapter 853 The Europe That Doesn't Take a Bath

Although it is said that professional matters should be handled by professional people, what should we do if there are no professional people?

The Central Plains Dynasty has had such an official institution as the Tai Hospital since ancient times. Although it is not necessarily called this name, after thousands of years, the official Tai Hospital and private doctors have long established a mature medical system. During the Three Kingdoms period, craniotomy was considered.

After the Roman Empire was finished, the Holy Roman Empire that took over was strictly speaking neither holy nor Roman, let alone called it an empire.

The perfect urban public facilities of the ancient Roman Empire have been declared lost, no one cares about the drainage system and public health conditions, and even the medicine that can affect a nation has been declared dead.

At this time in Europe, the profession of doctors was a sideline of barbers, or the two were simply unclear, and this influence even affected barbershops in later generations.

Many people have seen the three-color lamp post in front of the barber shop, with red, blue and white colors on it. The reason why these three colors are chosen is not because they are eye-catching or for other reasons, but because red represents arteries. Blue represents the vein and white represents the gauze.

In other words, the three-color lamp represents bloodletting, because when a barber is a part-time doctor, the main treatment method is bloodletting.

In the future, it will basically treat the head if it hurts, treat the foot if the foot hurts, and cut it off if it can't be cured. In this case, those barbarians in Europe still think that they can solve the Black Death?

The final result is that after the outbreak of the Black Death, there will always be someone pushing a wheelbarrow at dusk, ringing the bell in his hand and shouting "Collect the dead body!", and then every household will open the door and carry the dead to the car , and then pushed outside the city for burning or burial.

Monk Mike watched the "boils" on those sick people turn into the size of walnuts, eggs, and goose eggs, and watched them die with his own eyes.

Later, even the burial pits outside the city could not hold so many corpses, so they had to be scattered and discarded. The scene was horrible. More and more people believed that this disaster was God's punishment on the world.

Not only in Italy, but in the north of Italy, the plague also arrived at Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, along the Black Sea route in Italy.

The two commercial cities of Genoa and Venice were also hit by the plague, although Genoa blocked the port and refused any foreign ships.

Then the port of Marseilles in France accepted a ship that was rejected by Genoa, and the Black Death came to France again.

If a great plague cannot be controlled at the initial stage, it will almost be a disaster that cannot be stopped when its scope expands.

As long as a person with the Black Death virus enters a city, within a few days, no matter how prosperous the city is, it will become a dead city. Milan, Turin, Verona, Florence, etc. are prosperous and prosperous. The cities are all stepping into such a catastrophe.

Where the Black Death went, food was scarce, prices soared, morals were corrupted, families were broken, churches collapsed, and governments collapsed. It was a scene of the end of the world.

Under such disasters, there are countless people who hide themselves in their houses and starve to death, are abandoned by their relatives, and feel that God's destruction of the world is imminent, and enjoy themselves to the fullest.

Social ethics have completely collapsed, and all human order has completely dissipated. Even if you kill someone on the street, most of the time, no one will stop them. If you can find a living person on the street.

All human resistance has become a joke in the face of the Black Death.

No matter how elite the army, no matter how wise the monarch, no matter how devout believers in God, they are just a group of rotting corpses in front of the Black Death, and the plague is spreading faster and faster in Europe.

In just ten years, the entire European continent has been completely enveloped by the Black Death, and all disputes between human countries have disappeared, replaced by the fear of being shrouded in darkness.

This disaster lasted for a long time. In many countries and regions, such as Smolensk, in 1386, only 5 people died!

One-third of the European continent, about 500 million people died, this does not mean that only one-third of the people died in one place, but "in the area where the Black Death broke out, basic human beings died out, and In the corners of the countryside where the Black Death did not reach, the population of Europe remained."

The famous Italian novel "Ten Days Talk" is about a group of young men and women hiding in a country house in order to avoid the Black Death, telling stories and chatting to get by.

It’s okay if it’s just a plague, after all, people haven’t died yet, and sooner or later the plague will pass, or it will be wiped out artificially, or human beings themselves have developed antibodies, so it’s not a big problem.

The key point is that the Holy See jumped out at this time.

After the Black Death gradually disappeared, the Holy See began to vigorously publicize that the dirt on people's bodies is bestowed by God and can resist diseases.

God knows how they thought of the nonsense that Ye would always give Huigou as a magic weapon for protection, but the European barbarians who were frightened into dogs by the Black Death believed it without doubt...

Believe it, it is because the Black Death is gradually disappearing, and at this time the European barbarians just started not to take a bath. This dramatic coincidence made the barbarians think that not taking a bath can really resist the disease.