The Christmas dinner this year was not lively due to the great plague. The festival, which originally focused on celebration, eating, drinking and having fun, has completely become a ritual and prayer with a strong religious meaning.

Although many desperate people shouted: God's last judgment on mankind has begun, more people will still pray for God's understanding. Through prayer and prayer, they hope that God can protect the world in this dark moment - of course, at least they must protect themselves.

In this atmosphere, Egil followed the trend, with Artoria, and his generals, the officers began to pray collectively. Emperor Norman made up his mind - although it was just a ceremony - or just a show. But as the emperor, even if it was a show, he had to do a great job. Egil announced at that time that he would pray all day on Christmas Day, thinking that the world would pray for blessings and wishes.

His Majesty the Emperor said this, so the officers, generals, and reluctant queens could not refuse. The crowd waited for Christmas that should have been spent lively, all of them stayed in their rooms. Some were praying devoutly. Some were impatient and idle, and some were praying devoutly like Egil, who was praying devoutly on the surface, but in fact, they didn't know what they were thinking deep in their hearts.

In this way, in the snow, in the Norman army, there was only a dead silence. Just like the current situation, cold, depressing, that crazy, excessive quiet...

The biggest crisis broke out in the Norman Empire after its founding. Although now, Egil Scadragrimson, the emperor, can still proudly declare: "As long as you exist for one day, the Normans will always be first-class citizens!" But the fact is that despite His Majesty's efforts, the situation still went bad little by little.

In January, the weather in Moscow remained cold. In order to drive out the cold and to kill the bacteria in the air, too many bonfires were lit in the camps of the Norman Empire, making the surroundings look a little angry.

This is one of the rare methods that can work in this era. Those bastard doctors made a fuss - they had never encountered such things as the Black Death before. In other words, these wastes have no ability to treat the Black Death at all.

Of course, in fact, there are methods to treat the Black Death. Not to mention those Western medicines that require modern chemical means and are basically impossible. In order to obtain "a method that can simply and effectively treat the Black Death (pneumophilia)", Egil spent 100,000 points to exchange for that thing with the system.

Then Egil, the greatest founding emperor of the Norman Empire, was stunned for a long time when he was in front of him:

Raw gypsum (first decoct one or two qian, rhubarb, two qian, buffalo horn (first decoct three qian, two qian of red peony root, three qian of raw rehmannia, two qian of coptis chinensis, two qian of scutellaria baicalensis, six qian of whole Trichosanthes kirilowii, two qian of Pinellia qian, three qian of Forsythia root, six qian of white crane grass, six qian of Sanqian powder (fill half a qian, boil it into juice. It is effective to take it.

"Doesn't you beat me?" Egil almost got furious at the time. He grabbed the prescription and wanted to tear it apart. Of course, he was still unwilling to take action in the end.

"Okay, what do you mean?" So, Egil, who had been sleeping for a long time, contacted Aurora, who was exhausted physically and mentally.

"What does it mean?" Although I know that the situation is not very good now, as a detached and transcends the national position, Aurora's voice still seems leisurely and leisurely. This also made Egil even more angry.

"Prescription! I'm talking about the prescription! Are you playing tricks on me?! You bastard!" Although he wanted to scold him even more unpleasantly, Egil finally held back.

Although it was only connected through the soul, Egil's feeling of frustration was still received by Aurora without reservation.

So this guy was even happier. Of course, Aurora was also very good for her to be happy. Egil's actions some time ago completely made her lively. It was the last time, a few days and nights, when he rushed back to Krakow and Joan of Ark to have an affair - Aurora was obviously one of his women (?). He also came in Krakow. But after Egil had an affair with Joan of Ark, he actually didn't say anything to her. This made Aurora not angry.

"What, don't you know? This is indeed a good recipe for the Black Death that can treat pneumoplague on a large scale in this era." Aurora replied with a chuckling.

"But-but-but--" Egil said several times, but in the end he didn't say the reason. Well, there are indeed too many complaints to complain about. First of all, although Egil has been in ten years, he can still recognize Chinese characters. But Egil has no idea what the bastard herbs written above - well, some of them seem not herbs - are actually what they look like. Where can I get it from - well, it is mostly found in the East.

Since only the East is available, we have to go to the East - this is a funny thing no matter how you think about it. After several years of transporting medicinal materials from the East, I am afraid that there will be corpses everywhere in Europe.

And in addition, the legendary Silk Road that trades between the East and the West has been controlled by the Mongols. The Normans and the Mongols are constantly warring. It is naturally impossible for caravans to pass through.

As for the sea route, although the Suez Canal has been opened, it has been said before that the entire Eastern Mediterranean trade has been cut off. There is no ship that can go into the sea. If you don’t go to the Eastern Mediterranean, you can only detour the Cape of Good Hope like Da Gama did back then. Dama now doesn’t even have a route map, and detouring Africa is also a life-and-death adventure.

Well, let’s take a step back, even if the explorers of the Norman Empire’s medicinal materials merchants—or simply explorers—have really reached the legendary mysterious East, so what? At this time, the originally wealthy coastal Jiangnan area has been occupied by Mongolian cavalry. I wonder what it has been ravaged. Can you really find enough medicinal materials there? How should you find those medicinal materials after you get there is also a problem.

Let’s take another step back, even if those people are lucky enough to find enough medicinal materials and transport them over - but after tens of thousands of miles of sea route and years, can these medicinal materials still ensure quality?!

In general, this is a business that is life-and-death, with huge investments and no guarantees in output. It is really...

"After saying so much, do you want to do it?" Egil thought for a long time. Aurora, who was thousands of miles away, could no longer wait, so he asked.

"want!"

With Egil's words, the entire Norman Empire started to run again. A group of navigators, elite Norman spies, sailors and merchants were summoned by Egil. Then Egil copied hundreds of copies of the prescription and handed them one copy to each of them. Then he ordered:

"I don't care what method you use - in short, I want you to go to the East! Go to a country of silk and porcelain farther than India, and transport the medicinal materials on this prescription back - the more the better! Those who complete this task will award him the title of Viscount - and it is unlimited! In addition, land, money, beauty - all worldly wealth, I will grant you!"

That's about it. These tragic guys had no choice but to start a journey of life-threatening to the East under the order of Egil. They divided into three groups, one by one, one by one, hoping to escape the investigation and siege of the Mongolian cavalry. The other two groups set out from the Suez Canal. Although the Mediterranean navigation trade has stopped, the ships in Khlsun could still dispatch several ships. The other was the safest, the most crowded, but the farthest. They set out from Flanders, circled a large circle, and went from the Cape of Africa to the Indian Ocean, which was almost twice as long as the Suez Canal.

That's it. In February, all the adventurers who went to find medicines from the three routes set off. The Norman Empire was a little busy for a while and fell into silence again. The originally scheduled military camp plan was almost stranded. In the end, Egil forced the soldiers to implement the plan:

"What are you going to do?! Are you still warriors of the Norman Empire?! Just a plague scares you so much?! The empire's border defense system has been opened! Even a fly can't come in! Not to mention those patients! Don't worry and go to work boldly! Otherwise, I won't have so much food to let you eat for nothing!!"

In this way, half sarcasm, half encouragement, half threatening. Egil finally fooled—I mean incitement—not right, it was to inspire, motivate these stupid soldiers—I mean the soldiers went to the military camps in Eastern Europe.

But things didn't go as smoothly as Egil promised.

As the weather became warmer, finally, when the temperature at noon one day returned to above zero. At the Norman border checkpoints, more and more people died. The Black Death, a monster that was even more terrifying than the Mongols, finally entered the territory of the Norman Empire. Not long after, Egil received information from Flanders, North Saxony, and Eastern Europe.

Finally, after nearly half a year of persistence, the Black Death stepped onto the territory of the Norman Empire!

What happened was that Egil also received an information. After surviving the severe winter, the main force of the Mongolian Empire began to move forward like a germ. While responding to the physical strength lost due to the severe winter, he rushed towards the north again!
Chapter completed!