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"Let me rest for a while~" Catherine blinked her eyes and acted coquettishly.
"No, not this."
Jiang Lu shook his head.
Catherine looked puzzled: "That is..."
Jiang Lu sighed: "God helps those who help themselves. I have now realized that our meager strength alone is not enough to save all the people of Florence. I think everyone needs to unite."
"Unity?" Catherine was even more confused.
......
Medici Palace, corridor.
"What?! Mr. Holmes has developed a drug that can cure the plague?"
Giovanni's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Then what is my previous sacrifice?"
"Sacrifice?" Catherine shook her head in disgust, looking through the crack of Giovanni's bedroom door. "I see you're enjoying it, aren't you?"
When she came back, she learned from the old housekeeper that Giovanni had never left the bedroom since they left.
What made her most exploded was that she wanted to knock on the door and call Giovanni out.
But I could vaguely hear the conversation inside at the door——
"I am Sherlock Holmes now, please be careful how you address me."
“Well, well, Mr. Holmes.”
"No, that's not right. You have to resist a little."
"Mr. Holmes, I feel sorry for my husband. If he knew about this, he would be very sad."
"Oh! This is such a great feeling!"
Catherine knocked on the door immediately.
Then there were sounds of falling and things being knocked over.
"Who?"
"Me, Catherine."
"Come right away."
So facing his sister's direct gaze and questioning, Giovanni couldn't even raise his head.
"Did you hear everything?"
Catherine nodded: "Very clear."
Giovanni sighed.
"Let's talk about the medicine. Where were we just now?"
Catherine came here for Jiang Lu's commission, and she was too lazy to argue with Giovanni about his incomprehensible hobby.
"The drug manufacturing is in trouble and cannot be mass-produced. Mr. Holmes needs your help."
"How can I help?"
Giovanni asked curiously, "I know nothing about medicine."
Catherine rolled her eyes. "Of course I'm not asking you to help make the medicine, but I need your help in collecting materials."
"what material?"
Katherine looked around and then leaned over to Giovanni's ear and whispered an explanation.
After hearing this, Giovanni suspected that he had heard it wrongly.
"What?! What?! Are you kidding me?!"
"Yes, that's it. Without that, perhaps only a very small number of people can be saved."
Catherine could guess what Giovanni was thinking and said, "There must be no problem with the medicine. It has been tested. The problem now is how to mass-produce it so that all Florentines can escape this disaster. The only one who can do this is you. Only you have such a strong appeal."
"No, you can't call for this..."
Giovanni was embarrassed: "If this gets out, how can I survive in Europe in the future?"
Upon hearing this, Catherine was furious.
"If everyone in Florence dies, I don't think you'll be able to survive!"
"This..." Giovanni was still a little hesitant: "Let me think about it again."
At this time, Jiang Lu, who was still worried that Catherine would not be able to convince Giovanni, also rushed over.
Seeing that Giovanni was still undecided, he was glad that he came.
"Mr. Medici." He greeted him, then smiled and said, "Now all our hopes rest on you."
"You're here." Giovanni had a complicated expression and smiled bitterly: "This is really... a little too absurd. I don't know what to do now."
"It doesn't matter whether it's absurd or not, what matters is the results you achieve."
Jiang Lu shrugged: "I understand your fear of the unknown and new things, but think about it, if you let this opportunity go and tens of thousands of people die, future generations will not care how absurd this method of saving lives is. They will only remember that you deprived them of the chance to live.
I know this logic sounds stupid, but there are always people who use morality to label themselves and use it to hold others hostage.
Perhaps you can think about it from another perspective. If tens of thousands of people are saved with your help, then this bad result will never happen. On the contrary, you will become a hero, not only allowing the name of the Medici family to be passed down, but also gaining the loyalty of the entire Florence. "
At this point, Jiang Lu smiled and said, "Besides, haven't you already joined my Red Cross? Maybe we can do something big and turn Florence into the new Papal States.
Wouldn't it be better if all of Europe became our backyard while those incompetent churchgoers in the Vatican were still praying to God?"
These words awakened Giovanni.
Indeed, now is not the time to worry about face.
The opportunity to save the entire Florence is now before him. No matter how ridiculous this matter is, it is better than being said by future generations that he is stupid and incompetent. At least he has truly saved the lives of tens of thousands of people.
And what Jiang Lu said in the second half really touched his heart.
Although the Medici family was the new overlord of Florence, their foundation was not stable and they often had to pay tribute to the Papal States in order to gain recognition and guarantee their status.
Being able to gain a foothold was already a dream come true, not to mention the opportunity to completely break away from the Papal States and achieve complete independence, which was simply an impossible topic to even talk about in the past.
Giovanni was moved.
Compared to the righteousness that Catherine talked about, it was obviously the tangible benefits that Jiang Lu talked about that moved him more.
"Red Cross..."
He murmured, then suddenly laughed: "Okay! Let's do it!"
Catherine watched Jiang Lu quietly. In her opinion, Jiang Lu, who was speaking bold words calmly at this moment and convinced Giovanni with just a few words, was extremely charming.
"Mr. Holmes, you are simply a genius!" Giovanni did not hesitate to express his admiration and respect: "In your eyes, even natural disasters contain opportunities. I really admire you!"
"No need to be polite." Jiang Lu looked at the clock which pointed to two o'clock in the morning and said, "Every minute or second we waste may result in the death of a patient. Now that we have made the decision, let's act quickly."
"Okay, I'll give the order right now."
Giovanni was about to find someone to convey the message when he suddenly remembered something and hurried back to the bedroom.
Not long after, he came out holding a basin of water.
"This is..." Jiang Lu looked at the half-full basin of water and realized something.
Giovanni smiled sheepishly: "These are some of the things you requested that I just collected. They originally had other uses, but... I hope you can use them."
"How about you say it's aristocracy?"
Jiang Lu nodded with satisfaction: "Both the gameplay and the ideological awareness are very high."
......
The Medici family's private soldiers took to the streets in groups, knocked on the doors of every household in the security zone, and handed them leaflets.
The bearded man who worked as a judge in the Vatican and had to stay at home after the outbreak of the plague closed the door, walked up the stairs with a flyer with a frown on his face, returned to the bedroom, lit the oil lamp, and sat down beside the bed.
His wife had been woken up. She looked at the sky and was surprised that her husband had gotten up so early today.
"Honey, what happened?"
Hu Zi stared at the crude flyer that was obviously hastily made, and said with doubt in his heart, "Something strange has happened."
The wife propped up her upper body, leaned against the head of the bed, and began to comb her sleep-messy hair.
"what's up?"
"Uh... the city lord said that a drug that can effectively cure the disease has been found."
"Isn't this a good thing?"
Looking back at his wife who had a calm face and a hint of confusion in her eyes, the bearded man didn't know how to explain.
In order to prevent his wife from panicking, he kept saying at home that there was a contagious disease outside, but he did not tell her how terrible the disease was.
Only as someone who had witnessed the tragic situation outside the city did he know how desperate this plague was.
So in his opinion, finding medicine is simply impossible. This is no longer a disaster that can be reversed by human power, but a punishment from God!
"Is it a good thing? Maybe."
The bearded man didn't explain anything, he just continued reading.
When he saw what Giovanni wanted them to do, he was dumbfounded.
"Ridiculous! It's a joke!"
His wife was surprised to see his big reaction and asked, "What's wrong?"
"look by youself."
He handed the flyer to his wife, and soon, shock appeared on her face as well.
"Go to sleep." The bearded man shook his head, intending to pretend nothing had happened.
But at this moment, his wife was attracted by the last words on the flyer and stopped the bearded man who was about to lie down.
"Look at this."