I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 330 Versailles

   "Frankly," Theoderic said bluntly, "I didn't intend to get involved that deep at first—if it wasn't for Amon of Zmich's sudden madness..."

   "You must thank Uncle Theoderic well, I said," Louis said happily: "If it weren't for him, I might not have a child as lovely as you."

"The Bishop of Mazarin only made one mistake, when he almost died, and since then your father has always been with the priests - it can only be said that at that time, His Majesty the King or the Bishop had other ideas." Theo Derek said, then he paused: "No, it should be all about our majesty's thoughts. I don't think Bishop Mazarin would be crazy enough to ignore his own beliefs and that of the French." Then he glanced at Louis: " Do you think I should keep talking?"

"I don't think there's anything hidden between us." Louis joked, and then nodded slightly: "Come on, little Louis is also fourteen years old, Mr. Theoderic, and I was almost the same age at that time. "

"Your father was daring." Theoderic said unmoved: "Your Highness, there were not no faithless people before him. They were either too stupid, too clever, or too shameless. Your father may have been both. There are some of these three. In short, after the era of Merlin and King Arthur, the church's crackdown on wizards was the most severe and extensive, far surpassing the so-called Inquisition. Of course, you can understand that it was just two political forces strangling each other. , because their origins are one."

  Little Louis squeezed his hand nervously, and the cat let out a dissatisfied cry. He took it out awkwardly, put it on his knees, and entangled his fingers instead.

"For five hundred years, between 700 and 1200, the Church did succeed in doing what Merlin didn't do, and they took their place - little sir, what a wizard can do, a priest can do, and only a few wizards, Because blood and marriage, of course, the former is the most important, they have the protection of the king, and they survived - this situation did not ease until after the Crusades." Theodoric said this, Louis raised his hand and gestured. pause.

   "Tell me, boy, you've finished your history lessons for this period of time, and you can speculate about what it ended up doing."

   Faced with the king's question, little Louis thought for a moment, of course, as a national heir: "The church originally wanted to use jihad to consolidate their power, but they failed."

   "A very serious defeat," Theoderic said. "The clergy of the church were constantly damaged in successive battles, so that they had to recruit new blood from the inner world, and these new blood were the judges and presiding judges of the Inquisition."

   "You can see," Louis said, "the Inquisition was still constrained by the church at the beginning, but after a hundred years, their cooperation partner turned to secular forces."

"It was like the twin kings of Spain," Theoderic said. "At that time the Queen of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon used the Inquisition to purge the different voices in the court, to plunder the wealth of their subjects, and they Proper application of this weapon saves a lot of energy for future rulers. But," he added, "but even they are not as...excessive as your father did." A softer word was chosen: "The church, though it came from wizards and, so to speak, from older polytheistic beliefs, they did make themselves a virgin, even among kings and queens, without that folly mad believers, but for hundreds of years, continuous education and guidance have also erected a tight line of defense invisibly, so that many people dare not take a step forward."

"I know," said little Louis, pursing his lips, "I've taken a philosophy class." That's why the more educated people are, the less religious they are - the king makes witches work in the army, and it's also in his In the new army, is it the former army? Ha, they either fled, or they swarmed up, sent the witches to the stake, and imprisoned the "crazy" king.

Like those kings and queens in the past, it was also because they were systematically educated since childhood. Although these courses must include theology, they will also include ancient philosophy (mainly Greece and Rome), which flourished in polytheistic beliefs. The philosophy courses of the times can make people clear-headed and quick-thinking, and will not be confined to one place.

   Some people may ask, wasn’t the original university founded by the church? Yes, church people, especially those senior teachers who have not been robbed of their last sanity by alcohol and women, know very well how important education is. When people with power and money realize that knowledge cannot be monopolized in the hands of the church, they will start to learn (the church is a den of counterfeiters and fraudsters when they do not have this realization) - the church can only go one step ahead and put this power Take it in your own hands.

   "So most people still believe in purgatory." Louis said thoughtfully.

   "Everyone except you," Theoderic said.

"Even I may not be able to deny it. After all, no one who died has come back to tell us whether there really exists purgatory, **** and the devil." The king said: "But this kind of thinking, you can also call it faith, has become the church. the intangible property of the He has carefully built a hall and prison of nothingness. Before everyone wants to do something, he has to think about it, so as not to go to **** or lose the qualification to ascend to heaven. As for the priests, they don't need to do it here. Nothing but their spittle."

  Little Louis took a deep breath, and he could vaguely feel it before - but today his father obviously lifted the last layer of the fig leaf.

"Perhaps you are wondering why we chose this time," Theoderic said, "because you have seen the fickleness and **** cruelty in the mundane, and now you will see the strange and unpredictable in the extraordinary with your own eyes. And as I said before, the culprit is your father."

"Your father is rare who doesn't care about the chips at all - the ones held by the priests, he is more ambitious than any monarch I have ever seen, he is like another Caesar, see When it comes to plunder, he can't stand another voice in his court or even in the church, he's making a bad start, worse than King Arthur, there's only one Merlin by his side, and by his side—you know, he doesn't. Mind accepting anyone who is capable."

"So here comes the problem," Louis continued: "I know everyone is staring at me and seeing when I'm going to hell, but they wait and wait, and I not only didn't go to hell, I got Holland and Flanders Del—that barrier, no, it should be said to be spun yarn, was finally pierced by me."

Speaking of which, even Theoderic showed a sarcastic look. The former beautiful man Philip IV (King) completely broke the illusion of the church militarily, and Louis XIV made the church the last in his faith. There is no majesty left, and France is really a good daughter of the Roman Church—a Goneril, a Reagan (note 1).

"So after the Battle of Holland, the kings of all countries began to use the wizards of the world for their own use," Theoderic said: "There are not many wizards with long-term vision and wise minds, but they also have ordinary people who can't The replaced parts, the son of King Charles II of England, and the sudden recovery of Carlos II of Spain, are probably inseparable from them, and in this war, if you saw those kings and generals around Not like knights or priests, those might be wizards."

"And I heard that the Ottoman Turks also brought their grand masters and priests." Theoderic said: "I'm still a little stranger to them, so next, you'd better bring the cat, and the best Don't leave the priest beside you."

Little Louis nodded obediently, and Theoderic couldn't help but glanced at Louis. Although Little Louis was the son of Louis XIV and had been brought by him for many years, in terms of temper and character, he was different from his father. There's nothing like it: "Then I'll take my leave first, you two," he said, and then it turned into a gray-black mist and burrowed out of the gap in the window.

  Theodoric can also go out, but the corridors outside the room are full of priests. Although he has a tacit understanding with the priests around the king, speaking of it, they better not meet if they don’t meet.

Little Louis watched the fog disappear and hesitated for a moment. Louis grabbed the cat from his lap, put it outside the door, and pushed its ass: "Wait a moment," said His Majesty the King, "for dinner You salmon." He walked back and saw that his crown prince had a complicated look - he didn't know it before, now he knew that the cat was part of Theoderic...he could know what the king did to it...

   "Theoderic will understand." Louis said: "What do you want to say to me?"

   "Father," said little Louis, "I thought you would let the Duke of Colonna run the French world..."

   "How could you have such a thought?" said Louis: "How could I make such a childish mistake of tearing France apart with my own hands when I could not make it one?"

   "But I'm just a mortal."

   "I'm just a mortal too," said Louis XIV.

   "Not so," said little Louis. "You are not extraordinary, I know."

   "Hey," Louis showed a subtle smile: "Tell me about it, son."

  Today was just the right time, he didn't mind under his watch, giving little Louis a deeper understanding of the other world he would rule, but what did he hear?

  ———

"The king is a wizard?!" The Duchess of Montpensier was on the bed when she heard this. It was a very good night - the Duchess lost three consecutive marriages - Louis XIV, After the Duke of Orleans and the Prince of Condé, he had lost the impulse and enthusiasm to find a husband, but there were still many people who were willing to court the richest heiress in France, including several foreign dukes and princes.

But let the Duchess say that if France were the same weak and languid she was thirty years ago, she might consider marrying abroad, especially when her father could not be king of France and she could not be queen of France , But now France is powerful and prosperous, prosperous and fashionable. Her status among noble girls is second only to the Queen Mother and the Queen, the eldest princess. She will leave France when she is crazy.

With such considerations, the Duchess will never accept the courtship of foreigners, and the only people who can surround her are the French—yes, even though the Duchess is in her forties, the king has also complimented her like a blooming flower. Rose is the time when the color is the most intense and the aroma is the most vivid, because Louis XIV has developed cosmetics that do not cause much harm to the human body in advance, liberating the wizards, giving honors and awards to craftsmen and bachelors, duchesses and other nobles. Women will not be like the previous women, who usher in aging and disease in advance for beauty - she is tall and plump, her skin is smooth and white, her dark chestnut hair and eyes are like a lioness, with a charming look in her ferocity. Although not all of her suitors came out of sincerity, she was not so embarrassed when it came to compliments.

However, the only guest of the Duchess for the past year has been the Count of Lozin, the lucky boy of the Caumont family. A man who is accustomed to having fun and mischief, he was kicked out of the Musketeers long before the Battle of Flanders - after that he was often seen wandering the Bois de Boulogne, without knowing it afterwards. Through whom, he walked into the Palace of Versailles and took the opportunity to catch the Duchess.

Earl Luo Zeng has a worrying character, but in terms of appearance, he has nothing to fault, and he has a strong physique. In the Duchess's room, on her bed, he often wears loose clothes. The linen nightgown is a long-sleeved robe that is roughly knee-length, with nothing underneath, and the knots at the neckline are fully opened to reveal the chiluo's chest.

   Now he is leaning gently behind the Duchess, stroking her neck, rubbing her ears with his breath, and saying these words as if talking to himself.

   Note 1: Both are characters in Shakespeare's play King Lear.

King Lear is an old British legend, which was later adapted into a play by Shakespeare. It is also one of Shakespeare's four tragedies. It tells that the elderly King Lear intends to divide the land among his 3 daughters, the eldest daughter Gaona Lille and his second daughter, Regan, won their favor and divided up the land, but the youngest daughter Cordelia got nothing because she was unwilling to be flattered. King Lear left the throne, and the eldest daughter and the second daughter did not give him a place to live. The king had to go to the wilderness... Cordelia led a team to attack, and the father and daughter were reunited. But the war was unfavorable, Cordelia was killed, and King Lear died in mourning guarding the body of his beloved little daughter.

   (end of this chapter)