After Becoming The Tyrant

The two ships brought the nightmare of death to Blacy.

In the first few days of December 1432, the port city of Aville was still preparing for the New Year's celebrations, but today, the bells of New Year's joy will not ring.

In less than a week, 7000 people died in this large port city of the Blessie Kingdom. The entire city was almost emptied overnight.The desperate record of that month can be seen in the notes of the chroniclers who survived:

"Everyone is dead, ships laden with cargo are drifting with the waves, and city officials forbid the tolling of the knells, fearing that too many knells will drive the city into despair. But soon they won't be so worried, For the bell ringer is dead too. Twelve of the twelve magistrates of such ports are dead...

People fled in all directions like a frightened flock of crows. "

The escape spread the great plague rapidly.

In the city of Grande, near Aville, 3 people died in one week.

Atayle, heading north, lost half of its population in half a month.

More than 540 people are thrown into graves every day in the Kost Lowlands.

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Starting from Port Avell, along the long coastline upwards, and inwards along the cobweb-like land traffic... The plague unfolded with the scattered ships and crowds running wildly.

Who will save mankind?

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Blaise Kingdom, the capital Yasserli.

General Karl walked into the splendid palace worriedly.

Carl Lesia.

He is the commander of the expeditionary force who led the Blacy Expeditionary Force to invade Legrand this year and achieved a major victory.Logically speaking, as the general who achieved such a major victory for Blacy, when he returns, he should be greeted with flowers and cheers.

But no one in Blessie is in the mood to cheer these days.

The plague is spreading in the west of Blaise, and every city's death report has put a heavy stone on people's hearts, and people are panicking.Both nobles and civilians felt the unpredictability and horror of natural disasters.

King Blaise has urgently issued an order to terminate maritime commerce.

But to no avail.

On the one hand, the cities that have not been spread by the plague are unwilling to suffer such losses, and on the other hand, it is difficult to implement the orders issued urgently.

"His Majesty."

General Karl knelt before the new king in his black cloak.

King Blacy, Ferry III, 23 years old.

The reason why the Bracy Expeditionary Army stopped at the Moon River Fortress and withdrew a large number of troops in advance was related to him.For at the end of October the aged old king died.When Legrand's king quelled the civil strife, Bracy's prince Ferry was also quelling the struggle surrounding the royal power.

However, the difference is that Prince Feili has the support of the Holy Court.

After the negotiations, General Karl led most of his troops back to the country in a hurry to conquer the rebellious nobles for Prince Ferry, and he was not able to return to the capital until today.

"Get up."

Ferry III stood in front of the throne, and there was no one else in the hall except him and Karl.The young new king has dark blonde hair combed neatly back.His features were deep and his gray eyes were quiet.When he was still a prince, he was known as a "beautiful man".

General Karl was once the teacher of Prince Ferry and his most valued confidant.

After he stood up, he found that Ferry III was holding a thick excerpt in his hand, which was the history of the Bracy Kingdom used as enlightenment education during the crown prince's time.

"Teacher, how is the situation?"

Ferry III raised his head. When he looked at people with his dark gray eyes, he tended to give people a warm and close feeling.He was not long before the coronation ceremony, and he was Blacy's new king at this time, but in private he still retained his childhood address to General Carl.

"very bad."

General Carl shook his head heavily.

"We cannot stop the spread of the Black Death."

"I heard that Legrand also issued a sea blockade order." Ferry III turned a page and said softly, "There is only one strait away, and Legrand on the other side has not been affected by the Black Death so far. .It is said that all their ports fell asleep overnight at the command of that tyrant. Is that so?"

"……Yes."

General Karl was silent for a moment, then replied.

"Why can't they do it, but we can't do it?" Ferry III closed the book, "Sardinia was the first city to get the blockade order, but a week after the blockade order was issued, there are still merchant ships in the city. Traveling in secret, there are still merchant ships docking at the dock... Tell me, why are the results of the same order so different?"

This question carried a dangerous signal, and it was not for a courtier to answer it bluntly.

Ferry III laughed softly: "Look, even you are too afraid to say the answer."

"His Majesty."

"Because Blacy's royal family is in a fundamentally different position from Legrand's royal family." Ferry III closed the book with a snap, his dark gray eyes sharpened suddenly, "We are going to conquer Luo Grand, because he was able to plunder benefits from Legrand's land, and because this was the battle of the Holy Lord to conquer heresy that was handed down from the beginning. There is a higher authority above the authority of the Crow royal family."

"In Legrand, even with the existence of the Holy Court, the nobles are more accustomed to obeying the glory of the rose royal family. But in Blaise, even the king must be a devout believer, and all my vassals, dispatch Their banners of crosses are better than those of tulips."

"The royal family is nothing but a puppet."

"That's why."

Ferry III's voice was cold.

"Your Majesty." General Karl was shocked. He quickly turned his head and looked around to make sure that there was no one else around. "Why are you so suddenly..."

"The Pope will arrive in a week to crown me himself."

Ferry III said lightly.

"The Pope is here?" General Karl frowned, "Why is the Pope here?"

"The letter said that it was a natural disaster, so I came to preside over it personally." Ferry III said, "That is the real king of kings."

The Blacy royal family is different from Legrand. Although Legrand's church is powerful, it is nothing compared to Blacy.Among the three levels of Blessie, the clergy are above the secular nobles.

This is related to the establishment of the Kingdom of Bracy.

217 AD.

The land on the east coast of the Abyss Strait is still in chaos, and there are many countries.The central ethnic group known as "barbaric slaves" swept across this continent, and they swept across one country after another, as if they were carrying the mission of heaven to destroy all the civilizations in bits and pieces.

It was against this background that the original body of the Blessey Kingdom, the Kingdom of Crowe, welcomed the army of barbarians. At that time, King Blessey, the great hero in the history of King Kerimo, led the last army to fight against the lowland valley. .In desperation, the king swore an oath to a then-unaccepted court.

As long as the Holy Lord blesses them and helps them achieve victory, the Kingdom of Crowe is willing to accept the Holy Court as the state religion.

"...the merciful Lord sent his saints and his armies, angels in armor to fight with mortals, and they crowned the great and pious king of Cremo with the laurels of victory. Priests under the breast of heroes Draw crosses one by one, so the brave knights are invincible ever since.

... They conquered all the heretic countries and established the great Bracy Kingdom on a vast land, and the gods blessed this land. "

——"The Blacy Chronicles Volume [-]"

At the beginning of Bracy's history, the Crow Dynasty, with the terrible willpower of the Holy Court as a link, unified hundreds of chaotic countries, and established the mammoth Bracy on the basis of the unity of faith.

Since Blessie's founding of the country was closely combined with the help of the Holy Court, it was destined - the huge spiritual monster of the Holy Court would be a towering world tree, which was deeply rooted in Blessie On the vast land and underground are its spreading networks.

Ferry III laughed at himself, looking at the glorious throne.

"Do you know? Teacher. When I stood in front of this chair, I felt no excitement or joy, only endless absurdity. We have seen Legrand struggling in the flames of war for so many years, laughing at their wasted effort , think they are all fools."

"But in the end, who is the fool?"

Legrand, who disobeyed the Holy Court, was "divinely punished" 1000 years ago.

The country is divided, there are many states, and the surrounding enemy countries are worse.The Rose Royal Family almost completely disappeared from the world, but even so, they never really bowed their heads to the church, and never prayed for help from any power.Relying on their hard work from generation to generation, they finally restored the outline of the powerful country at the beginning bit by bit in the flames of war.

They walk scarred, but they are standing.

"When the Holy Court swung the butcher's knife at Legrand, we shouted holy, long live the Holy Lord, but we didn't feel the pain until the knife swung at us instead."

Ferry III threw the Chronicle on the throne.

"Your Majesty..." General Karl closed his eyes in pain, and he tried to comfort him, "It's just a coronation, it's not so serious, maybe it really came to solve the Black Death."

"Do not."

Ferry III calmly cut off the comfort.

"I think their purpose is not just a coronation."

"What's that for?"

"I do not know."

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When the Pope's carriage drove towards the capital of Blacy, Legrand was also ready to meet the challenge.

Legrand, the Rose Palace.

The king was looking through the letters sent back from the southeast coast.

During this period of time, the Gru family with outstanding influence in the transportation industry was formally incorporated into the direct line of the royal family.The king established the "Legrand Ministry of Communications", and Chief Gelu served as the minister of the Ministry of Communications. At the same time, the royal family appointed two auditors and a deputy minister appointed by the king.

Chief Gelu certainly understood what the king meant.

The king did reuse the Gru family and gave them power and status without hesitation, but at the same time put a knife on their necks for supervision and restriction. Once they made any cross-border moves, they would wait for their heads to fall.

This style of acting is very "kingly".

According to the king's own long-term plan, this road transportation network will definitely be connected with inland waterway shipping and ocean shipping in the later stage.

However, it is not possible to do it for the time being, and the king's commissioners are cooperating with it.

——It was the commissioners who were ordered by the king to conduct investigations in various counties and counties before the brilliant meeting.

They are affectionately known as the "King's Black Wings".

The commissioners did a good job in that big investigation.After the meeting, the king did not dismiss them, but transferred them to the southeast region and established a nominal "Local People's Response Committee".

In fact, it is the monitoring and intelligence agency of the king.

The current responsibilities are more focused on "intelligence".

In this big blockade, the king was able to control the situation along the southeast coast in a timely manner, thanks to these investigators.The great nobles probably hated these commissioners in private.However, the civilians, contrary to their previous aversion to similar intelligence personnel, have a good impression of the "black wings" of these kings.

The Black Wings are also happy to accept their "bribery" - the money will be registered and handed over in a unified way - to record the illegal exploitation of a certain official, and then give feedback to their superiors.An Ombudsman, for the sake of statistics, imposed a penny for every bribe.

It even became a "penny" tradition.

This belongs to the follow-up positive impact of the sheriff's exchange of blood.

All kinds of letters, like flying snow, entered the Rose Palace continuously.More than once the Duke of Buckingham saw the King's study lit late into the night.

"Sure enough, the Black Death is far beyond the medical level of this era."

The king pressed his forehead, then smiled slightly.

"However, what a bunch of lunatics."

The Duke of Buckingham received from the King the letter from the apothecary of the Academy of Madmen.

After the outbreak of the Black Death, the king inquired about uninhabited islands southeast of Charles, and finally chose an uninhabited island that was isolated from the mainland and not on the route.At the King's private expense, he established a "Pathological Research Department of the First Academy of Legrand" thereon.

It's called the "Hospital for the Madman" for short.

When the devil dealt with the black death sporadically spreading to the coast of Legrand, he kept some corpses of the black death patients according to the king's wishes, and then sent them to the uninhabited island by special means.

A medical team with anatomists, pharmacists, and surgeons from the Academy of Mad Sciences as the core is stationed in this mad hospital.

They were ordered to study the Black Death with all their might.

It's hard.

If it weren't for the devil's special means, relying on the isolation technology of this era, let alone studying the pathology of the Black Death, I am afraid that a member of the Academy of Sciences would be infected and die.

Except for the three lunatics, the rest of the researchers were doctors who were secretly selected from various places and passed the examination.Each of them has been personally summoned by the king, and they are all people who have taken a solemn oath and are willing to sacrifice their lives for mankind.They know their mission and have a will to sacrifice.

However, the king did not intend to let these stupid doctors really give their lives.

Although...well...

After these enthusiastic young doctors and elderly kind old doctors set foot on the uninhabited island full of tragedy, they faced not only three mentally abnormal bosses, but also a man with an exoskeleton like a bird's beak mask. Plague doctor.

That was a really heart-wrenching, heart-wrenching experience.

Although no solution has been found, the Edge Hospital has achieved what can be called a "breakthrough" in this era regarding the Black Death.

This has something to do with the experimental pharmacist.

In order to understand the whole process of the outbreak of the Black Death more clearly, he actually took the initiative to be infected with the Black Death...

If it weren't for the presence of the plague doctor who was left by the devil, he would probably have returned to hell in just half a day.After recovering, Mr. Pharmacist relied on his spirit to record the entire onset of the Black Death in detail.And try to infect it again, experience it repeatedly, and test the solution medicine on yourself.

Even the silent, speechless plague doctor was shocked by his madness.

Fortunately, the knight commander stopped him in time.

——The fragile human body cannot withstand this repeated toss.

But his spirit has won the admiration and love of other doctors.

They scrambled to get out of the ranks of normal people and step into the ocean of neurosis.

"These guys."

The Duke of Buckingham turned to the second half of the letter and couldn't help laughing.

In the second half of the letter, a request jointly written by other doctors in the mad hospital is attached.

The other doctors who were assimilated by these three lunatics seemed to have jumped from one extreme to the other.Not only did they throw their faith in the Holy Court behind them, they also tried to write to the king demanding the same treatment as their immediate superiors.

—they tried to persuade the king to set them a stake too.

"A doctor without a stake does not deserve to be a member of the Academy of Mad Men! We strongly demand the same treatment as gentlemen!"

"I think the stake represents the supreme glory of medicine, and it shows doctors' tireless pursuit of academics and the truth of life."

"..."

The Duke of Buckingham began to think about whether the madman's assimilation ability is really so strong?

"What a bunch of lunatics."

The Duke of Buckingham couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

"Yes, madmen, some great madmen."

The Duke of Buckingham nodded with a smile, approving the king's evaluation.

Crazy enough and great enough.

"You don't really...?"

Then the Duke of Buckingham watched silently as the king took up his pen and began to write.

"Since it is their request, then give it to them."

The king answered with a little smile.

He actually gave the First Academy of Sciences an exclusive medal-a fire rack, and announced that only those who have made outstanding achievements can receive this medal.

The Duke of Buckingham shook his head with a smile and did not object to the king's decision.

He picked up another report.

After a few glances, the Duke of Buckingham's face darkened.

The king signed his name at the end of the letter, put down the pen and looked up, seeing the serious face of the Duke of Buckingham: "What's the matter?"