These days, Ougen has been busy all the time and has no intention of taking care of other matters.

After accepting a large number of refugees, the Pohe defense line has officially entered a period of stability. The impact of the refugee wave has gradually decreased, and more problems lie in the isolation areas inside the defense line.

It’s still the same. People die every day in the isolation area, and new people are infected every day. However, under all-round monitoring and management, newly infected people will be found and isolated soon.

Overall, the frequency of infection is not very high. Among the nearly one million people in the entire defense line, only a dozen people accidentally infected with the Black Death every day.

The week before the refugee wave was the period when deaths broke out in concentrated cases, during which hundreds of people died on average every day.

They were all infected with the Black Death before, but they were in the incubation period and showed no symptoms. They suddenly fell ill and died after being quarantined.

The total number of people who died in a week exceeded 10,000, but then it entered a long period of stability, and the number of people who died every day also decreased significantly.

The weather is getting colder and there have been several heavy snowfalls in the Pohe defense line area over the past few days. In winter, the Black Death has also entered a dormant period. Affected by the low temperature, the spread of the disease has slowed down significantly.

However, in this case, the demand for coal and wood has increased. Most isolation areas have just been built shortly and can only barely block the wind and rain, so the insulation effect is much worse.

For this reason, people are often frozen to death because they cannot withstand the cold temperature. On several occasions, the number of people who have been frozen to death exceeded that of those who died of the Black Death.

This is also impossible. Most people who are frozen to death are old and have poor physical condition. They may never wake up again if they fall asleep at night.

After learning the news, Eugen immediately ordered a batch of warmer old buildings in the city and transformed them into temporary isolation areas, and some elderly, weak, sick and disabled people were transferred to it, which curbed the number of people who were frozen to death.

November passed, and December quietly arrived in silence.

The isolation area has officially entered a stable period. Most of the quarantined refugees have adapted to their current lives and their resistance to being quarantined has also been greatly alleviated.

The frontier areas will receive several groups of refugees from the south from time to time. Most of them were hesitant or underprepared, so they delayed their departure time and did not reach the defense line until now.

The frontier area is naturally unwilling to accept everyone. Regardless of your situation, you should first check in the temporary isolation area and wait a few days to confirm that there is no problem before transferring it to the isolation area.

Seeing that the pressure in the frontier area became smaller, Eugen transferred some of the soldiers from the frontier area to the isolation area to assist in handling the work there.

In addition, some people in the quarantine area have completed quarantine observation and are transferred to the evacuation area behind. When they arrive at this area, they can choose to leave freely.

However, it is winter now, and there is no place for these people to go. Most of them stay in nearby cities and work and live directly in the cities.

During this month, Eugen handled affairs of all kinds of defense, and from time to time had to talk to Father Luther. The time line was quite tight, and sometimes there was no time to sit down and have a meal.

Seeing the achievements of the Po River defense line within the empire, Eugen's evaluation gradually turned. Through the fall of Rome and Florence, most people have seen the terrible aspects of the Black Death, so they have more respect for the Eugen who can resist the Black Death.

The royal family took the initiative and directly expressed their intention to award an Imperial Hero Medal to Eugen. However, Eugen was short of time and could not leave the defense line to go to Vienna to award medals, so he was temporarily put on hold.

At this time, no one in the country clamored to judge Eugen. As the causes and consequences of Eugen's beheading gradually became exposed, everyone gradually understood Eugen's behavior, and the trial was left in vain.

Of course, even in this case, some people will not stop their hostility towards Eugen. They just temporarily put away their blades and are quietly waiting for a suitable opportunity.

Francis, son of the Duke of Lorraine in the Vettelsbach family, is one of them. Since the beginning of winter, he has been staying in Viana looking at a corner of Schonbrunn Palace, hoping to find an opportunity to meet Princess Maria.

However, no matter when he went, a maid came out of the palace and respectfully invited him back, telling him that Princess Maria is not seeing guests now.

For a whole month, Francis never saw Princess Maria, but he still persevered and insisted on waiting in front of Princess Maria's palace for half an hour every day to show his sincerity.

Seeing what happened a few days ago, Francis thought that he was probably not as good as Eugen in terms of talent, and he was too lazy to do those coolies. After thinking about it, he felt that he still had to use his own charm to conquer Princess Maria. After all, he was a veteran of more than ten years of flowers. Isn’t it easy to deceive a fledgling little sister?

In order to capture her attention at the first moment of meeting Princess Maria, Francis also learned two tricks from a circus actor and prepared to show off in front of Princess Maria.

As a result, one day a month later, Francis suddenly heard a news: Princess Maria had already left Viana and headed to Eugen's territory, Lebre.

The news was like a bolt from the blue slashing over Francis' head. In an instant, anger filled his chest. Francis felt like he was slapped hard, his face was burning, and there was a feeling of being angry in his chest.

"Eugen!!!" Francis was stuffy in his room, roaring deep and like a wounded lion, his tone filled with hatred for Eugen.

If possible, he even wanted to run directly to Verona to find Eugen and start a duel between nobles with him until one person died in battle!

However, when Francis thought of the name of Eugen's swordsmanship, he wisely gave up this idea. After thinking about it, he still felt that he had a high IQ. Even if he wanted to deal with Eugen, he had to use his IQ instead of brute force to deal with it.

So Francis turned his attention to the business road between Leber and Munich.

Eugen previously used a trade certificate signed by the Duke of Erluo Lun to open up the trade path with the Wittelsbach family, and trade between merchants on both sides became particularly frequent.

In just a few months, the benefits generated on the business road reached 100,000 Kielder gold coins.
Chapter completed!