Chapter 162. Epidemic and Hygiene (3)

"Where's the Mayor of Pisa? Where's the Mayor of Pisa?"

As I tried to rush into city hall, guards crossed their spears in an X to block the way.

"Halt! Identify yourself!"

"I am Baron Rothschild, and this is the Bishop of Pisa beside me. We've come with urgent matters regarding the epidemic! Open the door!"

Normally, no matter how much of a baron I am, I shouldn't act like this.

Though in terms of rank alone, the mayor is just a viscount lower than me.

But the Mayor of Pisa is the representative of the Count who owns the County of Pisa, and barging into where that representative works is no different from smearing dung on the Count's face.

"I'm sorry, but our mayor has ordered us not to let in any outsiders, no matter who."

In urgent situations like epidemics spreading, that's the right way to handle it.

In a situation where every minute and second counts, if outsiders come in arbitrarily and start interfering with officials' work, there'd be no end to it...