Great time travel

Chapter 54. Turn England into India!

PS: Fixed a small BUG, ​​the order of the chapters was wrong, the last chapter "Let's collapse!history! " is Chapter 53, and this chapter is Chapter 54.

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September 1348, London, capital of the Kingdom of England

The tall and solid Tower of London, a typical medieval castle, stands majestically on the banks of the Thames, overlooking the city and fields below.

In this era, the future of the famous Buckingham Palace is still 300 years later, and the Tower of London, the future royal prison and execution ground, assumes the functions of the royal palace. From the Plantagenet Dynasty to the Stuart Dynasty, the kings of England They are all crowned and abdicated here... From the window of the White Tower in the center of the Tower of London, you can overlook the urban area of ​​London, which is not too big today, and the Thames River, which has been flowing slowly for thousands of years.

However, the Thames River flowing through London at this moment, not only does not have the fragrance of birds and flowers and sparkling light after comprehensive treatment in the 21st century, it is even more terrifying than the "European sewer" where fish and shrimps disappeared in the era of the Industrial Revolution—— The turbid river surface was filled with a horrible stench, and at a glance, he could see piles of dead people slowly rotting on the river beach, and among the slightly undulating waves, there were countless disgusting dead floating corpses!Yes!This Thames is littered with rotting corpses, mostly of people, but also of cows, horses, and pigs.Many times, these bodies will wash up on the shore.Then packs of wild dogs would pounce on them, barking and fighting for a bite of the filthy carrion.

The ominous crows landed on the floating corpses in the river, from time to time they lowered their heads to peck at the "organic flotsam" under their feet, and the river beach was filled with messy bones.Some have only bones left, but some still have a lot of rotten flesh.From the rotten and swollen abdominal cavity of the corpse, colorful viscera flowed out, scattered everywhere on the river bank, attracting countless dogs to feast on it-this situation is like a city of death.

But this city has not really died. In the field of vision, there are still a few living people sporadically, like walking corpses, staggering to the river to fetch water. On the side... It seems that most of these living people are skinny, unkempt, more like ghosts than people, but they are still alive, so that Miss Ma Tong is considering whether to kill them so that they can be freed as soon as possible.

"...Damn it! Is this really the Thames River in London? It looks more like the legendary Ganges River full of corpses!"

Standing at the window of the White Tower, senior sister Ma Tong covered her nose with a perfumed handkerchief, pointed to the stinking and disgusting river in front of her and said - it was the end of summer, and the temperature in London was very high. High, so the corpse decays very quickly.The main stream of the Thames River in front of me is still in good condition due to its large water volume and wide river surface, while the small tributaries that flow through downtown London are simply blocked by corpses.

"...No way, the Thames River at this moment is not only the largest open-air toilet in the UK, but also the largest open-air cemetery in the UK. It looks the same as the Ganges River in India at that time, or even worse-modern India People burn their bodies before water burial..."

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and replied, "... Besides, according to Princess Joan, even London before the outbreak of the Black Death was almost the same smell-only in winter it was slightly better, so the royal family lived in summer. They all like to go hunting in wild forests... Hey, the urban environment is so dirty, it's no wonder that the plague in London broke out so violently, so few people died in just a month or two... ..."

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Unlike Italian cities that have inherited some of the heritage of ancient Roman civilization and knew how to maintain a clean environment, London in 1348 was really submerged in garbage and feces, without any exaggeration or embellishment. In London, there are no sewers, no running water, and even no garbage bins and public toilets on the street. There are only a few dozen to dozens of cleaners in the city who often owe wages, making London flooded every moment and increasing Among the excrement and garbage, and the only thing these cleaners can do is to dump all kinds of garbage into the Thames River-there are no excavators, railways and trucks these days, how can they pull the garbage far away? Is it impossible to dig a deep hole in the city?

Therefore, any modern person who pays attention to the minimum cleanliness basically cannot walk on these muddy roads in the city of London, because it is covered with a thick layer of feces and garbage.Every citizen seems to be used to dumping garbage and excrement on the street, and the horses pulling the cart also maintain the habit of defecating everywhere.As a result, the road surface was paved higher and higher by all kinds of excrement. If no one took care of it, these piles of paving dung, which were increasing every day, would flood the houses on both sides of the street, forcing people to move to the second floor to live... …Don’t laugh, even New York in the nineteenth century was in a similar situation before the invention of the automobile.Especially in some unattended slums in Brooklyn, the feces on the streets were once piled up to four meters high, so that the wheels of the carriage got stuck in the feces and could not move, causing traffic paralysis. It was not cleared until the last few years of the [-]th century. !

In short, it is no exaggeration to say that the citizens of London in this era are indeed living in cesspit and garbage.Walking into medieval London, the most impressive thing is definitely the kind of smell that permeates everywhere, cannot be avoided, and makes people faint.Unless there is heavy snow in winter, the city will be covered with a false white veil to temporarily cover its dirty and disgusting side.And in summer...well, if anyone's nose can bear the stench of downtown London, then it is estimated that they can go to the trenches on the French Western Front in World War I to resist gas bombs.

However, the British in the Middle Ages had already adapted to all this filth and took it for granted.The rich and the aristocrats sat in this filthy city as if nothing had happened, holding parties in the middle of the stinking giant garbage dump, because their bodies were probably as rotten and filthy as the city, and the church was busy all day long. Advising people to pray and practice, not to waste time on such mundane things as bathing—so, from the princes and nobles to the common people, most people seldom bathe, let alone cut their hair, and don’t even bother to wash their clothes. Hair and clothes are always greasy.Because there is no sewer, even noble mansions rarely have decent toilets.As for the poor people, they often live together with animals and humans, and the family shares the same haystack with pigs, horses, and donkeys... Well, even if there are a few more mice with fleas in the haystack, it seems nothing strange.

Therefore, when the Black Death broke out, this dirty city was caught off guard and moved towards death and destruction at an alarming speed—the plague broke out so suddenly and violently in London that the City Hall and Before the royal family could take steps, it was all over.

——When Wang Qiu and Doraemon opened the [Random Door], allowing Princess Joan, who had just recovered from a serious illness but died of her fiancée, to return to London, the capital of the Kingdom of England had also been swallowed up by death, and London, the royal palace The tower, likewise, became a dead purgatory full of rotting corpses:

The martial arts King Edward III of England is dead, Queen Philippa is dead, and his legal heir, the Black Prince Edward, is dead. The Black Prince's two younger brothers, the future Duke of Lancaster and Duke John (the next century England Rose The originator of the two camps of the war) also died.

The last remaining English prince, Lionel, who was only ten years old, was escorted by several noble ministers, and took Princess Joan's two sisters, Princess Mary and Princess Margaret, and hurriedly withdrew from London. He fled to Oxford University, which is said to be relatively quiet, to seek refuge.

Although I don't know if the remaining members of the royal family left a few people who were not afraid of death to watch the house before they fled to Oxford for refuge, but after the opening of the [Random Gate], Wang Qiu and Doraemon led people to search the entire building. In the Tower of London, where the corpses are piled up and the smell is filled with decay, only one living person was found, a very unexpected guy-King David II of Scotland who was defeated and captured at the Battle of Neville's Crossroads in the fall of the previous year !
This noble prisoner, who was forgotten by everyone, was imprisoned in the highest spire attic of the entire palace. He claimed that no one came up to bring him food for a week, and he could only survive by drinking the muddy rainwater leaking from the window eaves , but coincidentally avoided the infection of the Black Death... When Doraemon found him, the King David II was already skinny and skinny, with more air and less air, but at any rate Haven't been called by the Lord yet...

Not only the Tower of London has been occupied by the dead, but even the entire city of London, due to the large number of citizens fleeing, there are only about a few thousand living people left, and each one of them is tortured by the dizzying death. , so that it is difficult to communicate with them normally.

Searching all over London, it seems that only in the Venetian's shop did more normal people gather. When they frantically searched for money to repay Doraemon's debts, the traversers wanted to make as much money as possible. He once took the initiative to help the Venetian withdraw foreign funds, opened the [Free Door] to various Venetian business offices abroad, and then asked the Governor of Venice to rush there with a large number of people, ordering those expatriates to quickly hand over all the funds at hand. Working capital and valuable goods are used to pay bills to "angels"...and as a sense of citizen welfare, Doraemon also vaccinated the Venetian merchants who were dispatched abroad. The Venetian Merchant House in London Nature is no exception.Therefore, when the Black Death broke out in London, most of these Venetians were lucky enough to survive. It was from these guys that Doraemon learned that the remaining members of the English royal family had fled to Oxford, the King of Scotland. Being kept in prison all the time, he naturally knew very little about the outside world.

Then, Doraemon took Nobita Nobita and other four elementary school students, wearing "Bamboo Dragonfly" to Oxford University City, looking for traces of the British royal team along the way.However, Wang Qiu and others stayed in the Tower of London, followed by members of the British mission who had fled from Bordeaux, and volunteers sent by the Catholic Church in Avignon to help them clean up the palace full of corpses, trying to clear the palace. It becomes a little more livable.

"...No matter what, the current London is better than Naples. At least a few living people can be seen, which is already very good." Overlooking the hell full of corpses from the Tower of London, Wang Qiu Helplessly smiled bitterly, "...Anyway, I will never set foot on any street in this city. Even this palace is already disgustingly dirty..."

In this day and age, the concept of "defecating anywhere is a natural human right" seems to have penetrated into the bone marrow of every Englishman. Even in the Tower of London, which is the royal palace, piles of feces can be found in the corridors from time to time...Of course, There are even more disgusting rotting corpses—due to the limited manpower, only the rotting corpses in the palace have been burned and buried now. As for the feces and garbage piled up everywhere, we can only clean them up later.

"...Yes! Even if the outbreak of the Black Death caused chaos, it wouldn't be so dirty all at once." Ma Tong turned around and looked at the pile of feces. In the corner, he muttered in disgust, "...Well, Doraemon and the others seem to be back?"

——After a while, the figures of Doraemon's five members appeared outside the window of the castle, and jumped in one by one.

"...Unfortunately, the situation in Oxford is as bad as in London. Oxford University has completely collapsed. All teachers and students who can escape have fled, and those who remain are almost dead. The doors of the University are locked. , There are corpses everywhere on the campus. According to the survivors, at the beginning, the teachers and students buried the corpses in the school garden. Later, the few survivors all hid in the house and the cellar. To avoid being infected with the plague, no one dared to bury the corpse, and there was a dead silence from morning to night. In the entire Oxford campus, you can only see all kinds of corpses on the grass, in houses, and in libraries. Slowly rotting... Shizuka Minamoto was looking forward to going to Oxford University in the UK to be an international student, but after seeing Oxford University these days, she felt that she should just study in Japan..."

While drinking the mineral water handed by Wang Qiu, Doraemon talked about the situation they went up the Thames River to Oxford to investigate, "...the Prince Lionel and the two princesses who fled to Oxford also died. Dead, we found their bodies in an abandoned church, and the only coachman who didn't die of illness and escaped, and asked the bad news from him... eh? What does it smell like?"

He suddenly frowned, twitched his round red nose and sniffed, showing a disgusted expression, "...cough cough! It's so choking!"

"...Ah, that is the British burning all kinds of substances that can emit strong odors in the palace, such as hops, frankincense and sage, as well as deliberately wet firewood and dead leaves to create smoke. Relying on smoke to get rid of diseases." Wang Qiu replied.

"...Why are they doing such stupid things? Didn't I already vaccinate each of them against the plague?" Doraemon frowned.

"...Because the vaccine you gave is useless! When searching the Tower of London and nearby urban areas, a knight who had been vaccinated suddenly had a fever, and he couldn't get up after he came back to lie down. Wait until someone notices His situation was wrong, and he was notified layer by layer. Finally, when I rushed over with the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] and [Automatic Medical Box], the unlucky guy had died. Several of his colleagues also I fell ill, but luckily the illness was not serious, and I rescued them all." Wang Qiu said, spreading his hands.

"...that's impossible!!" Doraemon exclaimed, "...our plague vaccine can't be a fake!"

"...that's quite normal, because he didn't have the plague but influenza, and the others had malaria and yellow fever!"

Wang Qiu rubbed his forehead and sighed, "...Doraemon, because the Venetian merchants are scurrying around the world through the [random door], the potent plague bacteria concentrate you released in Jerusalem for revenge has spread back to Europe All over the world, a new round of compound plagues is breaking out!"