Chapter 388: Ponzi scheme (2)
Early medieval Europe, inheriting the traditions of Rome, was surprisingly clean.
People, if not daily, still made efforts to bathe often, and public baths were built. In any case, they were quite diligent about hygiene.
But everything changed after the Black Death struck.
I don’t know exactly why the Black Death happened, but because so many people gathered in public baths, the plague spread widely, and the chances of contracting the disease increased.
The primitive people of the Middle Ages believed that being too clean made one more susceptible to illness.
Ignorant people, when faced with bad outcomes, tend to make foolish mistakes.
If I understand this, I should make use of it myself.
“Sebastian, people grow through experience, right?”
“Yes, my lord. I, too, have made countless mistakes in my life, and it is based on those experiences that I am who I am today.”
“Everyone’s the same. When you make a mistake, something bad happens, and you learn from that suffering, avoiding the actions that lead to such mistakes. If you’ve bitten into a lemon raw, you’ve experienced the sourness, and if you’ve eaten a chili raw, you know the pain of spiciness, and that’s why you avoid doing it again.”
“But my lord, you eat the chili peppers from the New World quite well, don’t you? Leo tried to imitate that, and kept coughing and drooling, and then Chloe...”
“Don’t bring up painful stories.”