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Chapter 4 Dirty Holy Water

Coming to the first floor, Ronan looked at the various abstract "medical tools" placed here, and felt a headache for a while.

Just deal with it on the spot and sell it along with the house?

Ronan thought for a while, and dismissed the idea. After playing the role of a local doctor for so long, it would be strange to sell his entire family all at once.

In addition, the nobles are not interested in these things, and they can't sell them for much money.

He picked up the huge beak mask hanging on the wall and put it on his face.

The mask covers his entire head, and the forward-protruding beak is stuffed with wormwood, which is believed to block the spread of disease.

Placed next to the bird's beak mask is a plague costume made of thick linen that has been soaked in wax. The overall appearance is black and can cover Ronan's whole body.

This is the image of the doctor who was feared and hated by countless civilians in Triumph City during this period, and called "Black Death".

Because when a large number of doctors dressed like this gather in a certain area, it means that there are multiple infected people of the Black Death there, and the people nearby have to be deported to the isolation area outside the city.

And the result of going there can be imagined.

Ronan shook his head, took off his mask, and packed his clothes into the box.

At the same time, call Ed outside to come in and help him take away all the objects here.

Although doctors in this era are hard to trust, Ronan is not worried that the empire will be overwhelmed by disease.

Extraordinary existence is one factor. He doesn't know the situation of the church, but a strong man who has reached the knight level can rely on his physical fitness to forcibly resist the past.

This is also the reason why the order in Triumph City is still stable. The truly powerful nobles are not afraid of the Black Death.

On the other hand, the population of the empire is large enough.

The Ordovician Kingdom alone has a population of hundreds of millions, and the total number of people in the entire empire is at least to million.

When the disease is ravaged and the losers are eliminated, herd immunity will be established in the cruelest way.

After arranging all the items on the first floor into the large wooden box, Ed lifted it up easily, and followed Ronan out of the gate.

There are still many things that need to be dealt with next. Whether it is buying a fief or selling a house, the fastest way is to ask the Chamber of Commerce in Triumph City for help.

Those businessmen are as sensitive to information as the hyenas foraging in the grasslands, allowing him to quickly match the trading partners.

But before that, Ronan had to go home first.

Since he unlocked pharmacy ten days ago, he lived in the house on Fragrant Street and began to prepare a large number of pharmacies.

This time, in addition to reporting to the family about the mass at the church, I also had to explain my plan and find a way to feed them the immune medicine.

Walking on the street, Ronan could clearly feel the deserted surroundings.

As the center of the city, compared to before, there are no more bustling crowds on the side of the road, the doors of every house are closed, and the occasional passerby is in a hurry, with a dignified expression on their face.

It's just that this deserted situation quickly changed.

Ronan stopped and looked towards a platform.

There was a large group of people gathered there at the moment, and it was extremely lively, in stark contrast to the dead environment around.

In the center of the crowd was a priest in a white pastor's robe, holding a Gospel book, with a gentle smile on his face, preaching to the people around him.

"Praise my Lord, the holy water will wash away the filth of the soul and take away the troubles of disease."

In addition to his speech, he did not forget to take out small wooden boxes and distribute them to the surrounding audience.

It contains soap made from ground pine nuts and water, which is not cheap in this world.

Ronan stood aside, listened for a while, and soon understood what was going on.

This is the faction of Archbishop Shengshui, who are promoting their concept of salvation.

The so-called holy water is not a supernatural item, but hot water, or even more bluntly, bath water.

Early years ago, when Ronan realized that he had come to a barbaric era that resembled the Middle Ages, it once made him feel desperate.

He thought he was going to live in an extremely dirty, disgusting world where everyone stinks, but it turned out to be far better than he imagined.

Although the lives of nobles cannot be compared with modern times, they can still be called clean.

Although the environment of the common people is bad, they do not dislike bathing. On the contrary, going to the bathhouse is a rare enjoyment for them every week. Many factories even offer regular bathing as a reward, attracting a large number of workers to come.

In cities large and small in the kingdom, public bathhouses called steam baths can be seen everywhere.

Even one of the archbishops of the Cardinal Council, the highest authority of the church, stood up and endorsed the steam bath, calling it a "soul bath", which can wash away the filth of the body and mind.

However, this situation changed after the outbreak of the Black Death.

Like doctors, the church is also actively looking for the source of the disease, and there are two factions with completely different opinions.

Among them, fundamentalism believes that the Black Death was caused by bathing. While the water washes the body, it also takes away the vitality of the human body.

Maintaining the original posture of the body is devotion to the Lord and an obligation that every believer should fulfill.

They called on the emperor to immediately shut down all public bathhouses and prohibit everyone from bathing.

The faction headed by the archbishop of Shengshui believes that bathing can wash away the filth of the body and take away diseases.

Instead of banning it, it needs to be vigorously promoted. City halls in various places should allocate funds to allow people to bathe for free.

As a modern person, there is no need to say much about Ronan's position.

Can you still have a problem taking a shower?
Well, he is on the fundamentalist side, and he really has a problem with taking a shower.

While the theory is groundless, their conclusions are correct and steam rooms should indeed be shut down.

Out of curiosity, Ronan went to the steam baths in various areas of Triumph City several times, and he has never stepped into such a place since then.

Bathrooms are unisex.

Many bishops think it is immoral for men and women to bathe together, but the bosses behind the bathroom pretend to turn a blind eye.

Moreover, the sex industry in bathhouses has been banned repeatedly. In some cities, there is no difference between public bathhouses and brothels.

That's fine, but the worst part is that public baths are filled with dirty people every day, contaminating the bathing water and pipes, and then hardly anyone cleans and replaces them.

In addition, the heat emitted by the steam pipes will attract rats to gather, and dead rats are often found stuck in the pipe opening or floating in the bathhouse.This makes the bathroom almost a large breeding ground for bacteria, and everyone who enters is at risk of infection.

Ronan couldn't interfere with the struggle between the two factions of the church. What made him relieved was that at least in Triumph City, all steam rooms were temporarily closed.

Most of the members of the faction supporting the archbishop of Shengshui are small and medium-sized nobles and factory businessmen, etc., and their influence in Triumph City is insufficient.

(End of this chapter)