I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 377  Good things come again and again

There is an even more disgusting thing, Louis XIV and the Duke of Orleans have seen it but did not mention it to anyone, that is, the Spaniards have found several more golden brown hair and blue eyes for Carlos II The young lady, which undoubtedly greatly appeased the increasingly violent Carlos II, and they were still plotting - about the queen's pregnancy, Louis XIV suspected that they might take a **** and use an illegitimate child as the queen's head. give birth.

He left this matter to the birds in Spain to continue to inquire and monitor, and he couldn't tell too much concern for the time being—his plan for the Great Spanish Raiders has also reached a critical juncture, that is his second son, the future Duke of Anjou will be born!

Queen Teresa is no longer the best age for pregnancy and childbirth, but Queen Anne was already forty years old when she gave birth to the Duke of Anjou, and Louis XIV has never had any restrictions on Queen Teresa, she has a king The respect and love of her, in the palace, apart from the Queen Mother and the ministers occasionally making trouble for her, she can be considered a fish in water - her only regret is that the eldest son was raised by the Queen Mother at the beginning, and came to his father before he became an adult. Her relationship with her is not as close as that of mother and son, but for little Louis, this kind of relationship with her mother is the most reassuring to the king and French subjects.

The arrival of the second son made her very happy. She told Louis that she felt that she would love this child even more because she was being forced by the Queen Mother and the ministers, and he came. During the whole stage of pregnancy, he did not. What had she suffered, she was completely different from the naughty little Louis at the beginning, and then she worried that this might be a princess—the imperial doctor Vesalius had to use a time-honored female rabbit pregnancy test.

The female rabbit pregnancy test method comes from wizards, shamans, priests, in short, those extraordinary people before the church took the lead, but because of necessity and importance, it has been secretly reserved and used - the specific method is to use pregnant women or suspected pregnant women. The urine is injected into the uterus of the female rabbit, and then the female rabbit's uterus is cut open after a period of time to see if there is a rabbit fetus in it. In one step, he cut open the female rabbit's uterus, and then cut open the body of the rabbit fetus, and determined that the male rabbits were in the majority, and he was sure that the queen was indeed carrying a prince.

Speaking of which, this future prince is the first prince of the Bourbon family to be born at Versailles - the son of the Duchess of Orleans was born at the Palace of Santa Cruz, although Louis XIV didn't care where his brother Philip's child landed. , but Philip has always been able to control the boundary between himself and his brother well, not to mention that it is more reasonable for his son to be born in his fief.

   "I have decided to use your name for this child." In the small drawing room outside the queen's bedroom, the king and the Duke of Orleans said this.

   "It's a great honor," said the Duke of Orleans casually. Although he would be frightened by the change of other ministers, he was sure that Louis would not be happy to see him like this. "What about the second name?"

   "Charles," said Louis.

   "What does it mean?"

"How blue the sky is today," Louis said, in exchange for a glance from his brother, of course Charles means sky blue or blue sky in French, but in English it is Charlie, in Spanish it is Carlos, and Louis gives Of course, the name of the second son is not because of Carlos II. The biggest possibility should be Carlos I. Of course, you can also call him: the blessing of God, the Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Emperor Charles V, Ned The monarch of Lan, the king of Germany, the first king of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, Carlos I, the most powerful monarch in Europe in the 16th century, the founder and maintainer of Spain's prosperity.

   "Carlos II and Leopold I will be **** off," said the Duke of Orleans.

   "Then how much we can save." The king sighed, and the Duke of Orleans couldn't help laughing: "Then your generals and soldiers will blame them, because they have no chance to make achievements."

"You're right," Louis said. "The war is brutal, but the only way for ordinary people at the bottom to make a fortune is through this way." He said lightly: "Even if they are graduates from elementary schools, they must give me the Do things in the military and the security system."

   "They are some good lads."

   "There are more people hanging on the city wall." Louis said, this is also a problem for poor children. They are too easy to be bribed. I hope they can realize as soon as possible, why does the king bother to popularize education? Is it not because there is enough manpower to accept a certain loss?

But even if a wise man could see it, he would only be more cautious and loyal, rather than timidly avoiding, after all, there are too many prominent seniors in front of them - after the end of the great war, the king tried to promote it again A group of lawyers and low-level officials were recruited. Different from the “Ombudsman” class who gradually became the robe aristocracy before, their positions were not fixed, they changed frequently, and they were only between the king and his cronies. People like this, their future and status are all in the hands of the king, their fate is uncertain, only the salary has no fiefs and manor, and it will not be a good object for marriage. A group of bankers, businessmen and factory owners who made their way out of money were close to each other.

However, you can't see these people in this room. Among the people who witnessed the Queen's birth, even the nobles in robes are rare. Most of them are common sword-wielding nobles, and some of their family histories even surpass those of Bo Beside them, they saw the Duke of Orleans sitting directly on the arm of the king's chair and talking to him, and their eyes could not help but fill with jealousy - not to mention that when this kind of thing is used to, the greater the power of the king, the people who chase him The more, let alone the Duke of Orleans, even Queen Teresa and the others would dare to pull it down.

   It’s just that this may only be a distance of ten feet, and some people can’t cross it in a lifetime.

Louis didn't care what they thought. He glanced at the dignitaries crowded at the other end of the room and ordered Bontang to bring iced honey water, while also asking Madame Montespan to ask how the Queen's production was going - yes, the royal family Since the lady has received the royal family's salary, she has to do things for the royal family. When most of the ladies are in the queen's bedroom to witness the queen's birth, she is responsible for the contact between the two.

When Madame Montespan passed the crowd, the men, whether it was the Marquis of Lois, who had always been quite prudent, or the frivolous Prince Conti, couldn't help but keep their eyes on her chest for a second or many seconds. , because according to tradition, all the buttons and ribbons are to be opened in order to avoid the difficult labor of the mother, so the moving scene swept away the minds of the gentlemen, and Mrs. Montespan smiled and turned and walked into the room.

Unlike the open tights, the room is covered tightly, although scholars and craftsmen have developed microscopes, Malbikey, and Sidonham have also confirmed the existence of such things as bacteria. Existence, but the king can only let the midwives and doctors do is bathing, washing hands and changing clothes, wearing a mask, for some traditional practices, he still kept silent under the shock of the queen mother - anyway, the items in the room have passed through. For cleaning, cooking and sun exposure, metal utensils, especially forceps, have also been wiped with strong alcohol.

The doctor who delivered the queen today did not satisfy the crowd, not because he was a man—the chastity of women in Europa is not too strict, but because he was a Huguenot, and they feared he would do Something bad happened to the queen and the prince. Louis was very at ease. Champollance was not a radical at all, and he had many relatives and friends among the Huguenots who were about to move to Stockholm. He sincerely hoped that they could have the freedom and peace of their beliefs in a Protestant country. Life, at this point, he will try his best.

This is Queen Teresa's third child, but the interval is too long, she is keenly aware that her strength may not be able to support the natural birth of the child, fortunately, Chambrance and the forceps are there, seeing the baby's hairy head. At that time, although it was not the last moment, Chambrance resolutely used the forceps. In a burst of nervousness that was about to collapse, the red and wrinkled baby fell into the hands of Chambrance. Preparation and experience are two very different things.

He thought of his relatives far away in London, who were proud to have delivered their first child to Charles II, the future King of England, and the baby that fell into his hands might also be a king in the future... This kind of thought, before he had yet. When I walked out of the room, I heard the deafening cheers and became more determined. Of course, it is a good thing to have a second heir to the throne, but the arrival of the Duke of Anjou can be as worthy of people's joy as the arrival of the Dauphin. There is a great article to do.

Louis took over the Duke of Anjou from the Duchess of Montpensier. The newborn baby was really ugly. He endured and did not comment. After opening the swaddling clothes and making sure that the child was indeed a boy, he handed the child to the Queen Mother and took the lead. Throwing the hat into the air is a signal that the men scramble to the door while shouting hooray, throwing their hats at the crowd in the corridor, outside the window, and under the terrace, announcing that the little prince has been born.

   Conversely, if it was a princess, they would fold their hands sadly over their chests, as was the case when Queen Teresa gave birth to the eldest princess.

After seeing the child, Louis waved his hand to let another group of people ready to go away. They were Spanish musicians who were prepared to appease the queen's emotions. However, with the king there, they didn't come in handy once three times. There were others waiting outside Versailles.

In this era, people have many methods to ensure the smooth delivery of pregnant women. It is also the several births of Queen Teresa and the Royal Lady that opened the eyes of Louis XIV and the Duke of Orleans - the Duke also asked his attendants to tell the warden of the Bastille. , the prisoners used for whipping can be escorted back, the queen gave birth smoothly, they can't use it - he also heard that there was a queen who was whipped at the same time because she saw 20 people, and she was so scared that she gave birth to a child .

They waited for a few more hours until the Queen's labor was completely over - by this time the night had grown terribly dark, the room was full of candles, and the whole place was resplendent, and the Queen was wiped clean and drank a little painkiller, seriously. , This time the birth was faster and less painful than the previous two. After all, the wizards didn't talk about God's set of tunes that women must be tortured for birth, and neither did Louis XIV. She saw the king coming in through the door, the Duke of Orleans holding a velvet case for him.

  Louis sat down beside the bed and kissed the queen's forehead—wet, hot, "Thank you," he said sincerely, "this is my thanks to you."

  The Duke opened the box, and inside was a radiant gemstone shoulder strap. The round diamonds surrounded the square sapphires and rubies. They all used the latest cutting methods, which was like a beautiful dream.

   "Your Majesty..."

   "I already told my mother," Louis XIV simply put the shoulder **** the queen's shoulder: "The Duke of Anjou will be handed over to you to raise it yourself."

"Your Majesty..." Queen Teresa's chest heaved violently. As a mother, she certainly hoped that the child could grow up by her side, but no French would be happy to see their prince in a Spanish woman - although the king The queen mother is also Spanish, but she is almost French - growing up around her, but if he intends to fight for the Spanish throne in the future, it means, it means growing up beside her who is Spanish, and speaks Spanish language, read the articles of the Spaniards, he will have a very good bargaining chip with a deep understanding of Spain.

   Those Spaniards who are crazy enough to use black magic to make Carlos II have an heir are not afraid that there will be a French to rule Spain? Once they had vast colonies and occupations, they knew all too well what life was like for the people they enslaved... They feared that the French kings would make Spain a second Flanders, but even Flanders How could Louis XIV, who had never been extortionate, kill the chicken and get the eggs? From the moment his second son landed, he had a plan. If the Spaniards just wanted a king of Spain, give them one!

   "You also want Charles to return to Spain." Louis rubbed his wife's hand.

Queen Teresa was silent. Her mother was the eldest daughter of King Henry IV of France. In view of the grievances between Spain and France, this queen was also a so-called "foreigner" queen. She and Philip IV had eight children. A child, in the end, only Teresa survived, and when he grew up, Philip IV would not think it was his problem, but only bet his anger and disappointment on the queen, and when the first queen died, he married the same Queen Maria of Habsburg blood. Queen Maria would not like Teresa even more. Before her engagement with Louis XIV was confirmed, Teresa's situation was similar to that of Princess Isabel of Portugal - if it wasn't for her younger sister, she would have to go into the convent and be depressed. There is a road in life.

   Does she want her children to go back to Spain?

certainly!

   (end of this chapter)