Chapter 1584 Suppression
"Don't your waist be sore?" Louis XII and several French favorites looked at John Lafite strangely.
Louis XII and several French favorites were basically around 50 years old. Even the youngest John Lafite was in his 40s. At this age, it seemed incredible that he could be so long...
John Lafite naturally had no soreness in his waist, but he knew that this was just an illusion. Because the medicine has components that specifically stimulate the nerve center, covering up the phenomenon of waist soreness. In other words, it paralyzes the nerves and makes people feel soreness.
However, when you wake up the next morning and the effect of the medicine is over, you will still have back pain. But no one will investigate whether the medicine is not effective. After all, everyone understands the truth. It is impossible to have such drugs that you will not feel tired afterwards. It is already very amazing to be able to feel tired at the time.
Moreover, John Lafite had Fat Brothers as inner-commands. According to Marin's arrangement, after Louis XII began to take the "Fansel Long" auxiliary drug, the Fat Brothers would add some drugs with slight analgesic and paralyzing to Louis XII's breakfast every day so that Louis XII could not feel uncomfortable.
As for what to add? This thing is actually very familiar to modern people - the initial ingredient of aspirin, salicylic acid...
The component of aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid, which is the product of acetylation of salicylic acid. But its effective ingredient is actually salicylic acid. However, salicylic acid is a liquid and acidic, and cannot be used as a drug directly.
But the fat brothers have a way - they can add salicylic acid as a seasoning instead of apple cider vinegar to the food.
As the main component of aspirin, salicylic acid has a great relief for headache, neuralgia and muscle aches. It is disguised as vinegar and added to Louis XII's food, which can greatly reduce Louis XII's perception of backache...
What? You ask where the salicylic acid comes from? Tell you, this thing is extracted from the bark of willow trees...
If you are familiar with the history of aspirin, you will know that salicylic acid was first extracted from the bark of weeping willows. Later, people found ways to synthesize it manually. The emergence of aspirin also led to the emergence of Bayer Pharmaceutical, a super giant in the pharmaceutical industry.
During Marin's trip to the Ming Dynasty, he brought the willow tree back and successfully tried it in Beihai Country. It is relatively easy to extract a little salicylic acid from the bark of willow. As for the harm of salicylic acid to the stomach? This is easy, let the fat brothers suggest that Louis XII drink a glass of soda water 1 hour after the meal.
Soda water is an alkaline aqueous solution that can neutralize the damage of salicylic acid to the stomach. Of course, you have to wait until salicylic acid has taken effect before drinking it before you can avoid the effect of salicylic acid.
In short, in order to harm Louis XII, Marin also had good intentions. Even the main ingredients of aspirin were made, just to help Louis XII reduce the feeling of back pain...
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Fortunately, the Europeans in this era have a strong taste. The fat brothers can use salicylic acid instead of vinegar, and then add some other mixed seasonings to cover up the changes in the taste of the food. If the food is light, it might be exposed.
When Marin was there trying every possible way to plot against Louis XII, news came from southern Germany - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, had officially begun a large counterattack!
Over the past period of time, under the intentional guidance of several spies sent by Duke Ulrich, many noble manors in the Duke of Württemberg that were not in opposition to Duke Ulrich were looted by peasant uprising troops. The wealth, food, weapons, armor and war horses in the manor were all robbed by the rebels. Many nobles themselves were also deceived by several spies and killed by the soldiers of the rebels.
By June, there were hundreds of manors that were captured by the rebel army in the Principality of Württemberg. There were more than two hundred manors alone.
In addition to the noble manors, there are many Junker manors. The so-called Junker manors mainly refer to the manors controlled by the descendants of the nobles without inheritance. Although the owners of the manors are descendants of the nobles, they can only become civilians because they are not from the eldest son. However, they are still much better than ordinary people with the protection of their own family. For example, they can own a manor and a large amount of land. People without aristocratic blood have no right to own a manor. At most, they can only be merchants or craftsmen.
For this type of manor, it is generally not very good. Because, in order to obtain the protection of the master, these Junker landlords need to contribute a lot of their property to the master in exchange for protection. After all, this is an era of aristocratic. Without the protection of aristocratic people, the industry is easily snatched by other nobles. This is also an important reason why Marin tried his best to be a mercenary after traveling through time to obtain the title of aristocratic...
Generally speaking, these Junker Manors have experienced limited algebra, and some of them are only one or two generations. Therefore, these Junker Manors are generally less oily and less popular. Moreover, they do not have the weapons, armor, war horses and other military supplies favored by the rebels. After all, they have lost their aristocratic status, and there is no need to have them.
Those aristocratic manors are different. Generally, aristocratic families are families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Such families will always have a lot of savings. As long as they break through the aristocratic manor, the income such as grain may be similar to that of the Juncker Manor, but they can harvest a lot of weapons, armor, and war horses than the Juncker Manor. Of course, there are also gold, silver and treasures that the noble families have hoarded for hundreds of years...
Therefore, after sweeping hundreds of manors, including more than 200 noble manors, Casbar's "Poor Conrad" rebel army has grown to a huge scale of more than 30,000 people. Not to mention, the scale of cavalry among them has actually expanded to 800 plate armor heavy cavalry and 2,500 light cavalry...
The scale of this cavalry scared Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg. In order to prevent the strength of the rebel army from further expanding, Duke Ulrich finally couldn't bear it and launched an attack on the rebel army...
He first drew 6,000 noble soldiers, including 400 knights from his territory and the noble faction of the Duchy of Württemberg who obeyed his orders, and from the neutral Wurttemberg nobles. Then, he borrowed 8,000 soldiers from the Swabian League to which he belonged.
In this way, the number of troops used by the Principality of Württemberg to suppress peasant uprisings reached as many as 14,000.
Although the recruiting soldiers among the nobles was not very effective, they had received regular military training and were always more powerful than those members of the peasant uprising army who had no military qualities.
Moreover, Duke Ulrich was very cautious. He knew that among the noble army, recruitment was the worst combat power and was not trustworthy. So he simply asked his 6,000 noble soldiers to draw out 4,000 recruitment soldiers and sent them to the strongholds of his own territory and allied territories to replace 5,000 regular soldiers sent by the Beihai Kingdom. In this way, he had a greater grasp of suppressing the peasant uprising...
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Subsequently, Duke Ulrich personally led an army of 15,000 to encircle and intercept the peasant uprising army. But what is funny is that the peasant uprising army in Württemberg seemed to be addicted to looting the manor, and did not notice that Duke Ulrich had sent a large army to chase him.
Chapter completed!