Great time travel

No.20 VII. Is this the Sanguang policy?
A group of heavily armed soldiers, surrounded by several beautifully decorated carriages, drove slowly on the rough and bumpy Provence country road.

On the side of the road, delicate flowers have bloomed, and green grass is growing vigorously.The whispers of the Mediterranean breeze blowing across the wilderness are heartbreakingly beautiful.look up.The sky is so blue and clear, and the air with the fragrance of flowers and plants, like fresh iced lemonade, has been soaking into the lungs, making people feel as if there is a clear spring flowing through the deepest part of their hearts, and they can't help but want to Sing loudly.

This is Provence, the most petty bourgeois romantic place in France.The Mediterranean sun is like gold, and the lavender fields are like paradise.Canyons and ancient castles are scattered among them, which are as strong as a picture scroll and as beautiful as poetry.Even the brutal Hundred Years' War between Britain and France never reached here.

Therefore, just a few feet away from the flames of war and galloping cavalry, the countryside of Provence is still peaceful and peaceful.

However, starting from the spring of 1348, the death knight called the Black Death drove the gray horse and broke into this romantic and tender paradise.

Wherever the horrible plague passed, countless cities and villages were destroyed one by one—in just two or three months, the entire Provence region was reduced to a gloomy ruin of death.Montpellier, Narbon, Toulon... all the poetic and picturesque towns fell at an alarming speed.Millions of corpses piled up in the cities, on the roads, and in the fields, filling the spring winds that blew through the wheat fields with a hideous stench.

The helpless people panicked, they had never seen death on such a scale.Even in nightmares, such a situation is unimaginable.

During the catastrophe of the Black Death, most villages in Provence were almost completely wiped out.Cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens are running around in the fields.Like a herd of wild animals.But even they were vulnerable to the bubonic plague.Everywhere you can see the carcasses of many animals rotting and stinking in the wild...

Over every village where no cooking smoke can be seen, there are flocks of crows circling for a long time, waiting for a sumptuous and delicious meal: these scavengers hover in the sky with their wings spread, and from time to time they take a cold breath to eat Swooping down, it couldn't wait to land on the fresh meat that had just died, stretched out its long bare neck and sharp beak, dragging and tearing aggressively, snatching the most tender and delicious part of the corpse.

Even if a large group of people drove into the village, they did not disturb the meal of these crows - these past few months, they have enjoyed the taste of all kinds of corpses, so they no longer fear humans... What's more , when the "angels" flapped their wings and flew over the village, they were misunderstood by this group of winking flat-haired beasts as the same kind who came to snatch food, and all of a sudden they croaked and attacked!
"...Go! Get out of here, be careful I'll turn you into a crow pot!" Wang Qiu growled viciously while driving the crow away.

"...crow pot? Do you dare to put these crows that just ate human flesh?" Ma Tong immediately laughed teasingly.

——In various parts of the village, there are countless old and new corpses scattered impressively. After driving away the crows and wild dogs entrenched above, the corpses that have been bitten and gnawed to pieces are exposed underneath.Seeing this miserable scene, even the knight Li Wei, who claimed to have seen the battle formation of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, couldn't help but change his face.On the contrary, Wang Qiu's reaction was quite calm - in the zombie apocalypse, they have seen many similar scenes!

With the twilight at dusk, after some inspections, they could quickly confirm that there was no living person in this village anymore!

If it was a normal marching expedition, these medieval travelers would definitely enter the village and occupy these houses to camp.But now this is a special situation... After hastily searching all over the village and taking some random things, everyone escaped as quickly as possible, and set up camp in an upwind place far away from the village, lest they would be contaminated by some kind of filth again of evil.As for how to deal with this deserted village...

"...It is estimated that no one will live in this place in the next ten years! Let's set it on fire! At least one source of pollution can be eliminated!"

Wang Qiu stroked his chin and announced.As a result, a meteor fire rain fell from the sky, turning the dead village into ashes in the flames.

And like this, there are no less than twenty deserted villages that were set on fire by them along the way...

Of course, although the Black Death epidemic in the rural areas of Provence was extremely tragic, and it was one of the best in Europe, some farmers still survived, at least for the time being.But these farmers are not so much alive as walking dead.

——Watching relatives and friends fall down quickly one by one, they also desperately think that the time of death has come, and they are no longer willing to work hard, eat whatever they get, and live day after day.No matter how much painstaking efforts and expectations they had put on the fields and cattle and sheep in the past, they can no longer take care of them now.Cows, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, and man's loyal companions—dogs, left their pens and ran around the fields because they were left unattended.The vegetable crops in the field should be harvested early tomorrow, but no one came to ask.

However, when the "angel" descended and brought them spells to resist diseases and the hope of surviving, these decadent guys seemed to have changed into another person in an instant, and became full of energy... However Although the disease on them could be cured, their dead relatives, friends, wives and children could not be revived, and their broken old life could not come back... As a result, many destitute people saw through the mortal world, became enlightened, and resolutely burned their houses , voluntarily joined this great mission team, and followed the effectiveness of the "angels" and "sages".

So, after tens of kilometers away from Marseille, Li Wei's team rapidly expanded from dozens of people to as many as 500 people... Fortunately, the travelers did not need to afford the rations of these people, because in the fertile fields of Provence, There are unowned barns and cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks everywhere, and the mission team can carry out "self-service" supplies everywhere, and they can take whatever they want.There was even a "surprise surprise"...

"...Scary! Such a chicken can be sold for more than 5000 yen? Although the chicken is quite fat, the price is too exaggerated!"

——When Doraemon accidentally threw a chicken he caught casually into the [Automatic Pawn Machine], he was immediately dazzled by the large-denomination banknotes spit out from the machine, "... I remember being at Nobi's house. In the nearby supermarket, chicken thigh meat seems to only sell for [-] yen per kilogram..."

"...It's normal! How can the [-]-day fast feed chicken we ate at that time be compared with this kind of pure natural, pollution-free and hormone-free green food chicken? Let alone a capon!" Professor Guo thinks the price is normal.

"...Don't talk about Japan, where your agricultural products are expensive, even in China, the kind of free-range capon in the farm can be sold for 80 yuan a catty in the vegetable market, and a capon costs 600 yuan! Naturally, the yen costs tens of thousands! And there are often no prices! Alas, this kind of capon tastes very delicious, but the price is too expensive...Hey, don’t pawn all these chickens Yes! Save a few to make soup at night!"

——The so-called capon is a long-established method of fast fattening that can save feed: after castration, the rooster can no longer spend the precious feed and energy in the stomach on dressing up and singing in vain And the fight went above.Therefore, castrated chickens grow faster and fatter. Besides, roosters grow bigger than hens, and after castration, they gain weight, and the meat is naturally more tender.Europeans in the Middle Ages generally regarded capon as a delicacy.In modern society, the "local chickens" raised in free-range farms are already very expensive, and the labor costs for castration of cocks are even higher. These capons from medieval European farms can be sold for sky-high prices according to the standards of the modern century, that is, It's a matter of course...

In addition to the free-range chickens, ducks and geese in various farms, those cattle and sheep that have lost their owners and wandered around, and even vegetables growing in the ground, because they are also pure natural and pollution-free green food, they are also in […] The automatic pawn machine] sold a pretty good price—maybe I can’t guarantee anything else, but there must be no hormones such as clenbuterol in the meat of these animals, and they have never eaten feed, and they are absolutely free-range!Vegetables have never been stained with chemical fertilizers, let alone pesticides. They are all natural from beginning to end. Can the selling price not be high?Even modern green food can be planted and raised in the same way regardless of cost, but the ancient natural environment with no chemical pollution in soil, water and air can't be obtained with any money.

Therefore, the members of the mission originally took sheep from the abandoned village just to solve the problem of food during the journey.But as the poor and crazy Doraemon discovered this way to make money, the mission of the Knights of Li Wei became a gang of robbers who made money, and all the chickens, ducks, cattle and horses along the way were not spared... Fortunately, there are enough people at the moment. There was no bitter master who fought desperately with these bandits (basically they all died of plague), so no big trouble was caused.

In this way, everyone burned down the village and took things all the way. Although there were not many gold and silver coins, but the pawned cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and unowned horses have already been exchanged for nearly [-] million yen. Jumping up and down with excitement, I felt that I had made a windfall.

But looking at this scene, Wang Qiu couldn't help muttering, "...Why does this feel like devils raiding the village? Killing, burning, and robbing them all the way...Although we didn't kill these people , but also all died..."

"...Sanguang policy? This is waste utilization!" Professor Guo retorted, "And no one will play tunnel warfare and landmine warfare with us..."

Then, before he finished his sentence, he saw the robot cat running out of a barn in a panic, and let out a heart-piercing cry:

"...Wow! There are mice!!!!!!"