Chapter 153: The Opening Ceremony of the Great War in Europe

Listening to this stupid interrogation, Descartes Jr. immediately understood three things.

The first thing, the first half of this assassination he launched must have something to do with this fat nobleman, and Descartes Jr. could even be sure that the Ottoman artillery, as well as the gunners, and even the dead soldiers in the square, must have something to do with this fat nobleman.

Second, when his teacher Zhang Liang was preparing for the assassination, he had already begun to find a reliable way out for his students.

Thirdly, judging from the way the cardinals tried the case, they no longer respected Alexander VIVII, and once it was determined that the assassination was related to the fat nobles, their group would return home safely.

Because, the next papal throne will be vacant, as long as the cardinal has a chance.

The archbishop of the Inquisition must also be salivating over the position of the pope, and what he is doing now is to implicate more people by judging the fat man, and as long as all those whom he thinks are unfavorable to his accession to the throne are put in prison, then the possibility of his accession to the throne will be greatly increased.

When framing some people, it is necessary to treat others harmlessly fairly, and Descartes Jr. felt that his group was the kind of people that the cardinal could let out if he showed mercy.

With this judgment, little Descartes appeared very quiet, and took the initiative to take care of the girl with a broken leg.

He put some Chinese patent medicine from Daming on the wound of the girl with a broken leg, which has many kinds of precious Chinese herbal ingredients, the most important of which is Panax notoginseng, snake gall bladder, bezoar, musk, etc., known as Babaodan.

Because this thing has obvious effects on bruises, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving, the Ming Emperor Yunzhao heard that there was this thing in Zhangzhou as early as 20 years ago, and specially sent someone to buy the prescription of Babaodan at the price of 8,000 taels of silver, and established a large pharmacy in Zhangzhou to produce this thing.

also gave this Babaodan a name that is very in line with the characteristics of Zhangzhou - Pien Tze Huang!

Nowadays, this thing has become an effective Chinese patent medicine that is popular in the Ming Dynasty, and after ten years of painstaking study by experts from the Ministry of Health, the treatment effect of this thing has become more obvious.

This girl's leg is broken, and it's just right to use this medicine.

He not only gave medicine to the girl named Kara, but also found a wooden board to help her fix the position of her broken leg, which seemed very gentle.

With the support of love, the niece of the Count of Sicily appeared to be very strong, and as long as little Descartes was by her side, she behaved very tenaciously and understandingly.

With the help of Professor Paris, little Descartes soon understood what was so special about this young girl.

Because, her ancestor is the famous Robert, and this Robert is an outstanding and heroic general.

He quickly expanded his family domain and married the Lombard nobility of Salerno, which was approved by the Pope.

Four hundred years ago, Pope Nicholas II made Robert Duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, and Robert pledged allegiance to the Pope.

Later, he cleared the Byzantine stronghold, and attacked Sicily with his brother Roger.

The following year, he defeated Byzantium in Constantinople and saved Pope Gregory in the Northern Expedition to Rome in 1084.

Since then, the Robert family has been inherited for more than 400 years, and it is considered the most famous family in the Kingdom of Sicily, and this Carla is the descendant of the Robert family.

So, Professor Paris was happy to see little Descartes have a beautiful love affair with this little girl.

Little Descartes was very happy, but both Professor Paris and Miss Carla misunderstood, thinking that Little Descartes was very interested in the little girl's family.

What they don't know is that the reason why little Descartes chose this little girl to save and serve as a witness to his kindness is not because of this little girl's illustrious family background, but because he has been walking in the square for so long, this little girl is the only woman whose body does not emit a stench, and more importantly, she is very lightweight, easy to take care of, and has a broken leg, so she will not run around.

The environment in the prison is good, at least the diet is like this, but these rough foods still can't satisfy the sensitive and incomparable appetite of the senior Ming chef who was brought back by Zhang Liang and Qiao Yong a long time ago.

I have to say that the chefs of Daming are of a very high standard, even if they cook Roman food, it is a hundred times more delicious and ten times better than that cooked by Roman chefs!

Little Descartes was a child who liked to learn everything, especially when it came to the Ming Dynasty, and he would not let it go.

Therefore, after three days of imprisonment and three days of pig food, he decided to ask the cardinal to give him a kitchen, hoping that the nobles who were imprisoned here would still enjoy the treatment of nobles while the charges had not yet been determined.

Cardinal Aspieter thought about how little Descartes was still thinking about how to eat in this environment, and felt that this was a sign that there was no ghost in the hearts of their group of scholars, so he agreed, but he only served a large amount of pasta.

This thing is said to be the food that Marco Polo brought back from the Ming Kingdom, and it was not popular at first, but it was only when people discovered that pasta could be dried and the food could be preserved for a long time, which made pasta popular.

The first pasta was kneaded and cut in this way, cut and dried, and when eaten, it was made in the oven along with meat and vegetables, so the streets and squares of many cities on the Italian peninsula were full of people making noodles and drying noodles. It is said that the longest noodle is 800 meters.

However, because pasta was a product of the Romans' response to food shortages, it was favored mostly by the poor, but its taste soon became irresistible to all classes. Pasta tastes quite inconvenient with juice and water. In the early days, people used their fingers to scratch it, and after eating, they licked the ten fingers dipped in juice without exhaustion.

The way the Europeans ate at this time was still by hand, and as for the table knife, the dinner fork had not yet flourished, and was even despised by the clergy.

They do not accept the way of eating with forks, and even abhor them, believing that human beings should touch the food given by God with their hands, and that using forks is disrespectful to God. They told the world that people created the tableware because they were tempted by Satan and that it was a blasphemous act.

Therefore, most of the way to eat is still to grasp with the hands, but the commoners grasp the food with five fingers, while the educated nobles use three fingers to grasp the food, and the ring finger and little finger are not allowed to touch the food.

The number of fingers used to eat represents the different identities of the Romans.

When the Ming people ate noodles, they were very particular about various marinades or sauces, so when little Descartes saw a large bag of pasta, he couldn't help but laugh.

Naturally, he learned how to make beef sauce, and a grief-stricken Monsieur Descartes brought him a delicious tomato sauce with little Emily, and after serving it with chili peppers, a world-famous pasta was born.

Food is a natural allure for any animal, especially when little Descartes was boiling tomato beef sauce, and even Cardinal Aspieter couldn't help but come to this small kitchen.

He carefully examined the ingredients that Descartes brought from outside, especially the ketchup, the Europeans stubbornly thought that wolf peaches could not be eaten, and Descartes did not bother to justify, he made tomatoes into ketchup after spoiling them, just telling others that this was a special berry and tasted delicious.

Cardinal Aspieter made it to Descartes the first plate of pasta, and then, until late at night, Descartes, the main chef, never had the opportunity to eat it again.

The injured Carla was like a mouse when she ate her noodles, and she was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to eat in front of Descartes until she got a four-toothed wooden fork and taught her how to use it.

With the popularity of this beef sauce, the famous quote of Descartes Jr. also spread.

"Our stomach is the most noble existence in the body, I don't want it to be wronged in the slightest, and the food I make with my own hands is the most suitable for my body, I firmly believe in this."

Zhang Liang, who continued to stay in Rome, quickly flipped through a book after hearing this, and then left Rome the next day to go back to Paris.

Since little Descartes explained that he was safe and sound, Zhang Liang felt that he had become a burden to the child, and it would be better to leave earlier.

As Descartes Jr. expected.

Cardinal Aspter, after disposing of twenty-seven nobles, finally provoked a fierce counterattack from the nobles, and had to announce the release of a group of people fifteen days after the Pope's assassination.

And the first person to come out of the house of prayer was Descartes the Younger.

After half a month, I came to the square again, and it did not get any better, but because of two rains, it turned the church square into a big mud.

The stench of rotting corpses still came from under the tall rubble, and the Knights only removed the visible corpses, and there was nothing they could do about the corpses crushed under the rubble, even though the bodies of the six cardinals were buried inside.

Descartes the Younger also heard that the Pope was still alive and well, and that the Order had summoned twenty of the most brilliant beak doctors from all over Europe to treat the Pope's wounds day and night.

There are many treatments that Descartes Jr. simply never heard of.

Now, these bird-beak doctors are sawing the Pope's injured leg in a restrained manner, and I heard that they have seen it twice, and after each saw, they will seal the wound with a soldering iron.

Little Descartes admired the strength of the Pope's crown very much, and Little Descartes, who had studied Daming's "Preliminary Study of Pathology", understood that in June, when the weather was getting hotter and hotter, the Pope was basically hopeless, and he didn't know how long the Pope's legs were, and how many times he could hold on!

In this attack, the Holy See suffered heavy losses, the cardinals alone lost as many as nine, and the rest of the clergy, large and small, were killed in the attack 37 people.

The losses of the Roman nobility were also extremely heavy, with four nobles stripped of their titles just because there were no descendants, and sixty-two nobles died on the spot in the attack.

Two dukes, one marquis, and six counts......

It was an unprecedented assassination.

Not only did the Roman aristocracy tremble, but even the royal families in other parts of Europe were silent about the incident.

In view of the fact that the enemy has already begun to carry out large-scale killing activities in Europe, the royal families of various blood relatives in Europe have also formed a military alliance at the first time.

There were even clamoring for another crusade, this time against the Ottoman Empire.

The news of Alexander VII's preparations to support sixteen universities is no longer mentioned, and in Rome and in Europe, death is the norm.

In political activities, if the east wind cannot prevail over the west wind, then the west wind will definitely fight back.

Everything that Pope Alexander VII supported is now beginning to be opposed, for example, the matter of restraining the Inquisition, the already ambitious Inquisition, taking advantage of the lingering sickness of the Pope's crown, once again launched a plan to eliminate witches, and Spain alone burned one hundred and eighty-one witches in five days.

This incident hit Mr. Descartes hard......

After dinner, Monsieur Descartes called little Descartes into his study, and neither father nor grandson seemed to be in a good mood.

In the end, it was Mr. Descartes who said: "The demon of war is about to befall Europe again, and they have been fighting for thirty years, but they still have not fought enough, and they still feel that not enough people have died." ”

Little Descartes frowned, "It's cruel, grandfather, can I put you and Emily there to rest assured?" ”

Mr. Descartes shook his head and said, "War is about to burn across Europe, and no place is safe." ”

"What about England?"

"No, although Protestantism in England has gained absolute dominance, after the death of the Pope, the rest of the people who believe in Christ will look at England as a thorn in their side.

Spain, in particular, was so enamored by the destruction of the Armada that, I even thought, that the flames of war would first burn at sea. ”

"Grandfather, the Spaniards have fallen."

Mr. Descartes shook his head and said, "This time is different, the Spaniards did not know from where they got six new warships, and at the same time, their artillery was greatly improved.

I heard that the person who handled it was the former Count of Wren of the Dutch East India Company! ”

Little Descartes nodded and fell into deep thought, he thought it was time to go through the blue.