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Chapter 1764 The Pope's Order and Study of the Cowpox Law

Not to mention when the Spaniards discovered that 800 ordinary horses were mixed into the war horses, Marin's side soon received information after the French army left the city of Naples.

When he heard that Gonzalo had scared away tens of thousands of French troops with fake "clothing blankets for the deceased", Marin was so angry that he was so angry that he hoped that the two countries of Spain and France would fight to the death. Only in this way would the French have no time to care about it. The reason why he asked John Rafi to propose control of smallpox to François I was not only afraid that the smallpox would spread to the north and affect the North Sea Kingdom, but he hoped that France could have a stable rear and be at ease to fight with Spain to fight for Naples.

But now, Gonzalo's few old clothes and blankets actually scared the tens of thousands of French troops...

After getting angry, Marin was left nervous. Why? When the 35,000 French troops came back, the French could make trouble in other directions!

In this way, I will be nervous for a while... Well, no, the one I should be nervous most is the British who just took back Calais City.

With this main force returning to China, the smallpox in northern France has been controlled again, and I will definitely find a way to retake Calais City...

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Marin frowned...

What did Marin think of? What he thought was--if the French also used the trick of "clothing blankets for the dead of the smallpox" to scare the Englishmen who were guarding the Calais Fortress, would the Englishmen be scared away? The possibility is very high...

"No, the French must be stopped!"

Marin would not doubt whether the French would do this, because the other party had a Count Charlie in it, and it was easy to replicate this vulgar tactic. So, he had to find a way to stop this situation!

How to stop it? First of all, we must severely punish Gonzalo, who uses this method first!

Therefore, Marin wrote a secret letter, and Fei Ge passed it to the Pope's father-in-law Julius II, who was far away in Rome, and suggested that he deal with Gonzalo severely. He would like to prevent others from following the same example - in fact, it was to prevent the French from learning this trick against the Calais Fortress.

After receiving Marin's letter, Julius II also believed that severe punishment must be severely punished. Otherwise, someone would do anything randomly. So Julius II issued an edict, publicly and severely criticizing Gonzalo de Cordoba, who used the "spreading smallpox" tactic, and announced that he would be expelled for three years, that is, the abolition of Gonzalo's church within three years. This is his first offense, and if there is a similar situation, it would be permanently expelled (in fact, Marin was worried that the Spanish nameless general would fight against France, because if it was permanently expelled, Gonzalo would be permanently disqualified.

The army was swayed. In Europe, without a church, you cannot become a noble or senior army commander.) But because Gonzalo did not really do this, he was exempted from stolen punishment. However, in the end, Julius II severely warned the whole of Europe that he would not use bad means such as "spreading smallpox" to war in the future. Otherwise, even the king would be expelled and would not be pardoned. Those who really did this would be sentenced to stolen directly! If the king supports his subordinates to do this, once it is found out, the king would be expelled!

After this instruction was issued, it received support and welcome from most people in Europe. Because the behavior of spreading smallpox is indeed very bad and scared everyone.

Only Charles, Count Nantes, who was rushing back to France, was extremely depressed when he heard about it. Because he did think of offering this plan to deal with the Fortress of Calais after returning home. In this way, he would be given the attention of the new king François I. Unexpectedly, the Pope "patched" in advance, which made his idea fail.

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However, despite the Pope's warning, Marin was worried that the French would find the scapegoat and then perform a bitter trick to deal with Calais in the same way.

Therefore, Marin sent what happened in Italy to London by flying pigeons, and asked his subordinates to hand them over to Edward, telling Edward that the French must prevent this evil method from using the French to deal with the Fortress of Calais. Therefore, Marin suggested that Edward - select adult men who can surpass smallpox from the whole country, train them into an army, and settle in Calais, so as not to be so crazy that the French use smallpox.

However, England seems to have not experienced any smallpox in recent years, only some small places have appeared on a small scale. Therefore, it is estimated that there are not many strong men with smallpox that are better than smallpox.

So, it's better to find another way to deal with it...

...

What method? Of course it is the famous "vulpox method"!

In fact, when he decided to colonize Haiti Island, Marin thought of using the vowelpox method, and also formed a medical research team to study the vowelpox method.

The doctors in this medical research team are all people who have smallpox, so they are not afraid of smallpox virus. However, they encountered a big problem in studying the method of cowpox - there is no source of smallpox virus!

Even if the cowpox method is studied, it is necessary to infect cows with smallpox virus. However, without the source of smallpox virus, their research will no longer be carried out.

It just so happened that smallpox broke out in Italy, Spain and southern France this time, so Marin decided to start studying the vowel method now!

So Marin sent two fast ships to load the entire medical research team and 30 strong, non-seasy cattle to Spain to collect smallpox viruses to continue to study the vowel method.

In fact, Marin hopes to send more ships and more cattle to Spain to collect smallpox virus. Unfortunately, he can't find enough sailors who can surpass smallpox...

Those who perform this task must all have to overcome smallpox. Otherwise, they will be in danger of life. Marin gathered around and gathered 80 sailors. He had no choice but to send two ships to Spain to collect smallpox virus.

...

When the two collection ships arrived on the coast of Spain, the Spanish smallpox had already exploded in full swing. Today, the whole of Spain is trembling, only the area near the capital Toledo, the northern half of Aragon, and the northern part of Toledo to the Atlantic coast have not been affected by smallpox. And half Spain, south of Toledo and east of Toledo, are shrouded in the shadow of smallpox.

After arriving at the ship Marin, he found that the port of a small town on the southeastern coast of Spain was completely abandoned and the town was empty. They only found some corpses. It seemed that the dead had smallpox. Because they had pockmarks on their faces...

So they quickly collected smallpox virus - they used blankets and close-fitting clothes from the deceased to wrap the strong cows they brought. Then, they waited for the cows to get sick...

During the voyage, most of the cowpox was infected with smallpox, and only 8 very strong bulls did not get sick. The people in the research group made a cruel decision to collect the blood from the sick cows and apply them to the wounds cut by them. Then, the eight cows were also sick...

At the end of June, when the fleet returned to the East Friesland, six of the 30 cows on the ship had died of illness, with a mortality rate of 20%, which was much lower than the 30% of humans. After all, the body of the cows is stronger.

After returning home, the ship did not dock at Port Emden, but instead docked on the Wanageog Island in the East Frisia Islands specially prepared for them by Marin, and studied the method of cowpox on the island.

There is no way. If the smallpox virus is brought back to the local area rashly, many people may die in the Beihai Kingdom. However, it is relatively safe to study it separately on islands outside the sea.

At this time, all the others on Wongaog Island had withdrawn, leaving only enough food and 500 strong cattle for the research team to study.

Of course, Marin also sent people to send 30 death row prisoners to serve as research subjects...

Following Marin's instructions, when these smallpox-prone cattle were about to recover from illness, they collected pustules from their bodies, squeezed out the virus, and planted them on the arms of the death row prisoners...
Chapter completed!
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