Chapter 802: The Black Death
Chapter 785 The Black Death
“Has the matter been investigated clearly, and is it possible to put the blame on the Anti-Turkish Alliance?” Prime Minister Gladstone asked eagerly
In the face of the enemy’s smearing, the British government naturally will not sit back and wait for death, did not immediately launch a counterattack that is the incident suddenly, they did not have any preparation.
Foreign Secretary George shook his head: ”We have already sent experts to the scene to check it out on the ground, deducing from the time, the Ottoman Empire does have the suspicion of an artificial plague.
In front of the facts, we cannot defend the Ottomans. Russia and Austria are pressing for a conclusion from the international joint investigation mission, and it is estimated that the lid will be on the news in London tomorrow.”
The British government does not have the ability to sway the results of the international mission, and to turn black and white upside down in front of the anti-Turkish alliance is simply not possible.
The “Black Death” is too powerful, even if it is only “suspected” it is still scary enough.
European countries are still counting on Russia and Austria to do a good job of preventing the virus from spreading in the Near East, so as not to jeopardize their own lives.
It was obvious which side public opinion would take, and it did not matter whether the Ottoman government had been forced to do so or not. The European world was absolutely resistant to such a violation of human morality.
The harsh reality shattered Gladstone’s last illusion. This time, the Ottoman government has screwed them over, and it is inevitable that the London government’s support of Ottoman supplies will be relocated by the European public.
Perhaps in a few days, the newspapers will publish: the London government money and effort, for the Ottoman Empire artificial “Black Death” to buy time.
Whether or not the virus created is the Black Death is irrelevant. Anyway, the London government’s support for the Ottoman Empire increased the resistance time of the Sultanate, and indeed created the conditions for the artificial virus.
All that can be said is that the war in the Near East would have ended months earlier without the British supplies. By breaching Ankara ahead of schedule, the Russians would have been in a position to stop the Ottoman government’s backsliding.
Gladstone knew that something had to be done now, or the situation would probably get out of hand later on.
“Immediately organize medical volunteer teams to go to the Near East to control the outbreak, and then purchase a batch of supplies to send over in the name of the government.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted the Austrians, and the Royal Navy is willing to send a fleet to cooperate in blockading the Near East, to show the outside world our determination to fight the epidemic.”
After a moment’s hesitation, Gladstone added, “Arrest the Ottomans in exile in the country, regardless of their status, for the crime of allegedly creating the Black Death.”
Now that the matter was settled, it was only natural that Gladstone would not be polite to the Ottomans who had screwed them over.
This was not a relationship between a little brother and a boss, but a relationship between humans and anti-humans. With the Black Death involved, no one dared to take it lightly.
George, the Foreign Secretary, reminded, “Prime Minister, the medical profession has not yet determined whether it is the Black Death or not, and is still skeptical.”
Gladstone waved his hand, “It doesn’t matter, the fact that the Ottoman government created the plague is always a fact.
What we want now is just an attitude, it is estimated that within a few days, the European world will set off an anti-Turkish wave, so don’t get us caught in the crossfire.
The Ministry of Finance leveled the books as soon as possible, the ones who gave the Ottoman Empire supplies were evil capitalists, and the government had nothing to do with it, we never had any contact with the Ottomans.”
From now on, the British government is the frontrunner in the fight against the epidemic. Collusion with the Ottoman Empire, that is not non-existent.
Supplies to the Ottoman Empire, that was all nonsense, the supplies were clearly exported to Persia. Anglo-Turkish trade ended when the Anti-Turkish League blockaded the Near East coastline.
The reason why supplies went to the Ottoman Empire was because unscrupulous merchants sold them to the Ottoman Empire for profiteering.
Who exactly?
That’s for the Persian government to ask. The supplies all flowed through from Persia, and there was no connection to the London government.
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Watching the wonderful performance of the British, Franz is very tempted to say: this is completely overthinking, now are busy controlling the bubonic plague, who has the time to pull the wool over the eyes of the people?
With this falsehood, there is nothing to be done except to give the British government a bit of trouble and discredit their international image in the meantime.
If you really want to bring down Britain, you can’t do it by simply spreading rumors.
The world is never short of smart people, calm down and realize that “Britain’s conspiracy” does not hold water.
There is no other reason, the main reason is that the “plague” is not controllable, kill people never distinguish between enemy and self, no distinction between high and low.
The European world’s bad luck, Britain can not be alone.
The current international situation, although there are a few points of disharmony for the British, that is only a small problem, far from the point of need to die together.
If it really raged, it would be the Russians who would probably have the least to lose. Ice country is such a little advantage, the virus breeding speed, the spread of the speed to be slower.
See: the mouse that froze to death halfway across the street.
When the Black Death ravaged the European continent, more than 200,000 people also perished in the Russian Empire, but that’s still a minuscule percentage compared to the 25 million in the European world, where one out of every three Europeans saw God due to the disease.
Really, if we were to plant evidence on the British, unless Austria could reconcile the European nations and come up with enough benefits to tempt everyone to assume it was the British who did it.
This is much more difficult than getting everyone to open their eyes and talk nonsense. Neither removing the conflicts between the countries nor coming up with enough benefits is something Franz can do.
Since he couldn’t be defeated, it would be better not to make a move. Find something for the London government to do, so that they obediently cooperate in controlling the epidemic is right.
Facts have proved that the bubonic plague is the most lethal plague, not without reason.
Even though the Vienna government took the most stringent measures to prevent the epidemic, the plague still came to the door, the first to be affected by the Austrian soldiers stationed in the Near East.
From the discovery of the first infected person, three hundred soldiers were infected within just one week thereafter, and also swelled to two thousand the following week.
This was the result of the timely isolation of the outbreak and the spread of rat poison around the barracks, otherwise the number of infected people would have been much higher.
Minister of War Fislav: “This plague is very spreadable, and the number of infected people we have isn’t that many.
The Russian army, which was the first to discover the epidemic, is a different story, the number of infected people is already as high as 35,000, and that’s just the ones who have been diagnosed, the actual number of people should be a bit higher.
The outbreak of the plague is also very shocking, from the onset of the disease to death is usually no more than a week, resistance to the past is only a temporary life, the latter may still recur.
The symptoms of the plague are not much different from those of the common plague, including nausea, dryness, vomiting and fever.
Our side of the epidemic has just appeared, temporarily unable to determine the death rate, but the Russian side of the statistics of the death rate of infected people as high as 13.2%!
There is no cure, and the use of the best antibiotics only reduces the mortality rate and does not guarantee the efficacy of the treatment.
The War Ministry has ordered all units to decentralize in battalions to minimize the chances of infection.”
The percentage of 13.2% made Franz’s heart heavy for a moment.
Even though this was the result of not receiving effective treatment, this percentage of deaths was still too high.
It should be realized that the Russian soldiers were all young and strong, and their resistance itself was the strongest. If they were replaced by the old and sick, the death rate would probably be even more ferocious.
After a little thought, Franz slowly said: ”This death rate notification out, can be artfully processed, appropriately exaggerated plague on the other age groups killed.
Tell the European countries that we have determined that the source of the Black Death is rats.
In order to curb the spread of the Black Plague, we plan to release a large area of rodenticide in the Near East, requiring at least 400,000 tons of rodenticide.”
There is no doubt that such a high death rate is not the “Black Death”, then it must be the “Black Death”.
Only by scaring everyone will European countries produce rat poison in full force and contribute money and effort to the prevention of the epidemic.
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St. Petersburg, as the biggest victim of the plague, Alexander III is now in tears.
To have known that the plague would break out in the Near East, he ordered in advance …… Oh, there is no way to leave, S.H.I.E.L.D. still has to earn.
Undoubtedly, in order to avoid responsibility for the Russian army top management tacitly concealed the number of early infections, official documents on the initial discovery of the plague, the number of Russian soldiers infected only 28 people.
The number of infected people concealed was only a temporary measure. So in the back and then added, the Austrians are not shouting “Black Death”, in order to alleviate the responsibility, the Russian army senior naturally also follow the shouting.
Since it was the Black Death, the rapid rate of infection and high death rate were normal, and it was definitely not the result of malpractice on the part of everyone.
After the data was modified, in the hands of Alexander III, the seriousness of the problem greatly increased.
The time it took for the epidemic to be detected was cut in half from the artificial.
In just over twenty days, the number of Russian troops who died because of the plague exceeded three thousand, and the number of infected people exceeded fifty thousand.
Such figures would be frightening to anyone who saw them. Worse still, because of the relocation of the population, the plague was likely to have been brought into the country.
Now Alexander III could only hope that Siberia was cold enough to freeze the virus, or else it would spread to the western part of the empire, and that would be disastrous.
“What do the Austrians say, we are resettling the migrants for them, the government of Vienna can’t have no say in the matter, can they?”
Foreign Minister Oscar Jimenez replied, “The Vienna government has informed us of the virus research process, and they have come up with ways to reduce the mortality rate of the infected.
The antibiotics developed by the Austrian Royal Academy of Sciences are all capable of suppressing the virus to a certain extent.
Rush production is currently beginning, and the Vienna government has promised to provide us with 20,000 doses within the next month.”
Alexander III frowned and said with dissatisfaction, “How can it be enough when it’s only this much?
Can’t the Austrians provide a little more? If it’s not possible, we can pay for it ourselves!”
Oscar Jimenez explained, “Your Majesty, there is currently no way to industrially produce this drug, it can only be made manually in the lab.
The production is very small, it has always been in short supply, and the price is higher than even the same portion of gold. A dose of twenty thousand servings is already quite a lot.
As a matter of fact, there is also a laboratory in our country that has obtained a patent authorization, but unfortunately, the production technology is too difficult, and it can only produce a thousand or so doses per month.”
The technical difficulty of making penicillin in a laboratory was not great, and as soon as the product appeared on the market, the technology would soon be deciphered.
In order to maximize profits, Franz opened the patent licensing a few years ago, creating a monopoly alliance.
Those who got the license were all the big shots in various countries, and after getting the technology they joined the side of protecting the patent.
Based on the principle of scarcity of goods, everyone tacitly exaggerated the technical difficulty and deliberately limited the production capacity.
Of course, the Russian Empire may not be limiting capacity. After all, this thing is easy to say, and it’s really not something that can be done by anyone if they produce a qualified product in the lab.
Generally speaking, the ones who undertake this work are hands-on science and engineering college students. This area of talent, the Russian Empire itself is seriously lacking.
The Vienna government had promised to provide 20,000 doses, and naturally not all of them were made by hand. Otherwise all the products made would have been given to the Russians, and there would have been no use for them at home.
Unable to carry out industrial production that is the previous thing, so many years have passed, science and technology has undergone great progress.
Austria has been able to realize the mechanized production, only the production of defective products, not only the high rate of defective products, the efficacy of the drug will also be discounted.
In order to ensure the selling price of drugs, industrial production of news, naturally, strictly confidential.
Even if someone discovered the lack of efficacy, it would only be thought that the production staff was careless and there was a mistake in the operation.
The news that the industry insiders didn’t know, the laymen would be even more unaware of it. Hearing this explanation, Alexander III was moved to tears.
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(End of chapter)