I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 326 Rare Dispute

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  The crown prince fell ill.

This is not surprising. When the Prince was born, his father was already in power, and Paris had long since become the hallmark of Louis XIV. Although some cruel punishments are still written in the law books, they will no longer be executed. No matter how serious the crime was, at most it was beheading or hanging, and his knowledge of torture was only in books - now he suddenly saw more than 200 people, more than 200 living bodies pierced on wooden spears People, writhing and moaning for days before they die—it's more painful than the roast lamb at a banquet. Even if the roast lamb is to be peeled and cut into meat, it is also a matter of slitting its throat.

It can only be said that after being with Louis XIV for a long time, with his ears and eyes and the education of his teachers, little Louis could barely show a cowardly attitude in front of the Tatars and foreigners, and when he encountered an attack in the woods , he saw the death of his servants who accompanied him day and night, which was a big blow, and when the Tartars erected their wooden spears like a dense forest, it was another big blow, and he became feverish at night.

Fortunately, Louis XIV expected such a problem, so he let his son sleep with him. He just closed his eyes and rested. Hearing the uneasy voice of little Louis beside him, he reached out and touched his hot skin. , Looking at it again, the crown prince has burned his face to blushing. He called the imperial doctor and used physical methods to cool the little Louis, while holding the little Louis in his arms. Although the little Louis is also an adult, he is in his father's arms. Even though he was confused, he was slowly calming down.

Little Louis regained his strength again, a week later, and the spears outside the castle had been removed—for Louis XIV would never have allowed the rotting body to bring the plague, though the chief of the Tartars would have preferred them on it Hanging until they turned into white bones, these corpses were unloaded by slaves on the third day, piled up and burned, and their ashes were taken by Anwo and scattered in the swamp.

Little Louis also did not see Anwar and his father, because the war can be said to have begun, sporadic encounters and sneak attacks against logistics and vassals are constantly happening, and the Tatars who have always been sentinels and forwards are impossible. Staying here, Anvor is already eager to show his power to his new master - the previous setbacks have made him very angry and frustrated, and if it wasn't for the wizard's potion, he would have died, because the Tartars would never allow it A clan whose spine was broken and could not stand up wasting food and bedding, his father's most merciful act was just a neat knife to him.

If a person suffers a fatal blow, there are often two endings, either more cowardly or more fearless. Anwo can say that he has both. When he realized that he was cowardly, his first reaction was to go. On the battlefield, use the flesh and blood of the enemy to wipe out this disgusting instinct.

So he just stood outside the prince's gate, thanked him for his protection, and went to the battlefield impatiently. He didn't think the prince would appear in the same place with him, after all, the French and the Tartars The difference was that their leader was more than a personal hero, as his father had explained after he came to Camnico—his father was still in his rough and dirty old sheepskin coat, but unbuttoned The belt, after pulling the robe, prostrate on the reddish-brown skin are sharp knives, muskets and metal grenades: "It's more than that," said the Tatar chief: "A tribe of warriors, everyone has, He looked into Anwar's eyes: "He has more, enough to arm tens of thousands of soldiers."

His father took him to see the French barracks, the tents covered like clouds over the blue of the heights—the Spaniards and Austrians had so many soldiers, if only in numbers, but the French had tents, weapons, and clothing They are all unified, and they are like a huge giant compared to the motley teams around them. Anwo suddenly understood what his father meant. After all, his father was the leader. Although he was the youngest son, he could also see how his father managed the tribe. Their tribes totaled only a thousand people, or even less. Don't say how hard it is to make them listen to only one voice.

   So even if the father asked him to serve a child as meek as a lamb, he accepted it, because the child would be able to inherit all his father's assets in the future, including them. But this child is different from his older brother. Anwo discovered that most of the people around him seem to want him to remain as gentle and pure as he is now. They don't seem to want him to be with his calm but cruel father. Imagination - Anwo can be loved by the leader because he is good at thinking in addition to bravery, and he also thought about what kind of master they need for the Tartars?

There is no doubt that any slave will need a kind master, from which they can draw blood to fill themselves, and maybe even change each other's positions, but just when he thought of this, he suddenly thought of another. One question - what he can think of, the great sultan (Louis XIV) should also be able to think, when he can't choose his own heir, will he allow the dauphin to continue to be so cowardly? If so, why did he make Anwo the prince's attendant?

  Anwo knew that the prince's attendants were all the sons of the chiefs of the great tribes. They were not only the eldest son, the second son, but also the territory and titles, and the humblest one was a thousand times better than him.

  The king chose him, must be because there is something in Anvor that they don't have.

Anwo was thinking about this when he was lying on the bed, but the people around the king were all smart people, and they were also worried that the Tartars would have a "bad" influence on the crown prince, so they proposed It is suggested that Anwo's spine has been fractured. Although he has been treated by a wizard, it is difficult to say whether there will be any sequelae, allowing him to continue to be the prince's attendant... Maybe there will be some problems.

   Anwo's father didn't say anything, he directly asked Anwo to go to Ljubljana with him.

  Ljubljana was the first line of defense planned by the coalition.

Ljubljana is a more important city than Kamnic. It is separated from Kamnic by a Sava River and surrounded by mountains. The city is located between a depression and connected to four roads. It can be said that merchants and A must for the army, there is a hill in the center of the city, on the hill there is a civil fortress that originally belonged to the local family. General Bang came here with the king. The first thing he did was to destroy the bridges and soil that the Ottoman Turks had to pass through with his army of engineers. The second thing was to strengthen and transform the castle.

So after Anvor came here, he could no longer recognize the place he had passed by. The Ljubljana Castle had changed from the original rectangle to a hexagon. Outside the bastion was a moat, and beyond the moat was a moat. A low bunker, with layers of trenches outside the bunker, a hill is like a mole's crypt, the city under the hill has been emptied, and almost all the intersections have been built with simple fortifications.

However, most of the Tatars acted as scouts before the war. When Anwo followed his father and brother wandering around the Ottoman Turkish army, they were often chased and even surrounded by their Crimean Tatars and Sipaci cavalry. He was injured a few times, but not as badly as at Camnico. He had just returned to his tent that day, when he was called by his father, and he was not surprised when he heard his father say that he should go with General Vauban to meet the Dauphin of France.

   I said before that Anwo did not think that the French crown prince would appear on the battlefield with him. After all, it was too dangerous here. The situation on the battlefield was ever-changing, and no one could guess what would happen. The general Vauban also kept his face tense and said nothing.

It was also Louis XIV's will to let little Louis go to Ljubljana. God knows that the king of France has only one son with the queen, and he is also an adult, but some characteristics of little Louis worry Louis. This is not to say that little Louis is not good. —Children who grow up carefree in the court are always like this, and if it wasn’t for Louis having an adult soul and having gone through two precarious rebellions by the Fronds, he probably wouldn’t be able to get away from what little Louis is now.

   Kindness, tolerance, tenderness - but the most fatal thing is that little Louis is only that. Louis can guarantee that he can hold the rudder of the great ship of France firmly until he goes to see God, and keep it from going off the set course, but a weak hand cannot do, no, it should be said, a A weak heart cannot do it. Although little Louis is an adult, he has no idea of ​​the threats that a king may face and the pain he must endure, and he cannot even deeply understand the real humiliation and death.

The death of those Crimean Tatars was just a small beginning, a trifle that any king, even a minister, could easily deal with - not that respect for life is a bad thing, but sometimes fate It is such a joke that if the person in power fails to make the right decision, then he will find that, perhaps only for a moment of hesitation, it will lead to more dire consequences.

The person accompanying the Dauphin turned out to be Count Henry, the eldest son of the King of Poland, with a wry smile on his face, because Louis XIV insisted that the Dauphin be sent to Ljubljana, and all his ministers and generals were Got into a fight with him - maybe not so intense, of course, but at least it's an argument. Even his father, King Ludwig I of Poland, heard the news and forgot his identity. He hurried over, dragged Louis XIV from the bed, and urged him to take back this ridiculous idea.

Earl Henry is a little envious. No, no, he is not envious of the Prince Louis, the young prince. He followed his father in exile since he was a child, and grew up in the army instead of the court, but unlike people's imagination, he has long been used to this. This kind of life is hard but very fulfilling, and he is more confident than the crown prince. He is not only his father's heir, but also his capable right-hand man, which is indispensable.

   He envied Louis XIV. Earl Henry and his father, the former Prince of Condé, and the current Ludwig I, were in Poland, they were fed up with the yin and yang of the great Polish nobles and the Schlachtas and their shirking. When Louis XIV was on the throne, Henry was so envious, but when Prince Condé really became a king, they realized how heavy a crown can be - and deeply understood why Louis XIV was In order to reduce the power of the big nobles in the country, he did everything possible to control all the power in his hands.

Louis XIV, too, had deserted, or, at that time, no one was on his side except his brother Philippe, including his mother and the Bishop of Mazarin - but he now has a group of credible ministers And the general, they may also have their own selfish intentions, but when the Marquis of Lois, who was bent on seeking the position of the Minister of War, and the Italian Marshal Schumberg, were also risking the danger of angering the king, when they gave advice to Louis Fourteen also has some sincere feelings. The Marquis of Lois even said that if the king thinks that the crown prince should go to the battlefield, then please don't be here - at least not in Ljubljana.

   Even the imperial physician and wizard, who had always liked to sit on the sidelines and stay on the sidelines, Varo Vesalius also said that they could use the means of wizards to make up for the lack of lessons for the crown prince.

They should know that when the king has begun to doubt them, their blocking is likely to put them in a bad situation. When the power of the sun king has covered more than half of Europa, even the marshal or the war minister will be punished. Throwing in jail was just a matter of words, but they said it anyway.

   Although they failed to convince the king in the end.

The Dauphin-Louis entered the castle under the **** of Marshal Vauban and the Guards. During this long journey, he was bewildered and disturbed, not because his father insisted that he come to this dangerous place, but because, What he saw far exceeded his imagination: "Are those civilians?" he asked.

  Anwo turned his head and glanced at the crowd blocked by the guards in the distance: "No, that's our striker," he said.

   "But if I'm not mistaken," said the crown prince, "they don't even have weapons." Not to mention muskets, these people are almost all bare-handed, not even a stick.

"It won't be given to them until before the war," said Anwar, and then he glanced at General Vauban: "Your Highness, they were highland herdsmen, and your father forgave their sins—then they accepted ours Recruit, they're all brave people, you'll see."

   (end of this chapter)