I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 129 Rome is lively

The undisguised arrogance of the young king certainly caused unease and anger in some countries, but more tentacles poking out of the conspiracy were nonchalantly—I mean, retracted as if they had never appeared, and the French ambassador re-emerged. Back in Spain, the Spanish ambassador came to Paris again. They were equally crowded, but the former were mostly compliments, while the guests of the latter wanted to test the attitude of the Spaniards—they were treated like this, could it be like this? Forget it? In fact, it really can only be counted, at least during this time, one may accuse the king of France of being too reckless, but Philip IV of Spain is worried about this - Spain began to decline half a century ago, it The once proud navy has been crumbling under the attack of the Portuguese and the Dutch. Bishop Richelieu once leased forty warships from Spain, but they returned them to Spain before they were used, of course not because the war suddenly disappeared. It was because the forty warships were outdated and lacked major generals, which greatly disappointed the cardinal, and then he sent spies to find out if this was the intention of the king of Spain or if it was indeed a plight of Spain, the answer was later. - Thirty years later, the situation in Spain has only gotten worse, with defeat after defeat against the Portuguese, unable to fight on two fronts, and against the French led by Prince Condé The army, that's why Louis is so bold.

This can be said to be the first game that Louis has made in the changes of the country and the country. He has no experience as a king. It is not dangerous to bet this time. Not only Spain does not want to fight, but Louis does not want to, if it is true In the event of a war, this greedy gold-devouring beast will greatly delay his reforms - with the power and majesty brought by this success, the king's minister of finance, Colbert, quickly promulgated several laws, and the king's prisoners. The magistrates once again appeared in the lords' territories. Their most important job is to ensure that these officials and lords can pay the due taxes truthfully and in a timely manner, and monitor them to prevent them from transferring some unwarranted taxation regulations to the king. On the body - there are some people who do this, and those ignorant commoners don't know who they really should curse, the effect is immediate, the income of the royal family increased by more than one-third that year, and as the king's power gradually penetrated into France Everywhere, this income will further increase, which makes Louis lightly relieved. After all, the silver and gold in the treasury during this time is like flowing water. As soon as it comes in here, it flows away there. Sometimes he still It was a disturbing situation to borrow money from the Queen Mother, the King's younger brother, and the Duchess of Montpensier.

The king's policy undoubtedly hindered the interests of many people. They dared not do anything to the king, but they dared to point fingers and slander Colbert. The Count of D'Artagnan and Philip, the Duke of Orleans both reported to the king. There are nobles who secretly insulted and slandered this important minister’s words and actions—the most important target was the background of this minister. He was only a wool merchant at first, and he was not as good as Nicholas Fouquet, who also vaguely became a When D'Artagnan reported to the king, who was isolated by the dignitaries, he was a little surprised to find that the king didn't care about this. "Someone has proposed a duel to this lord." Count D'Artagnan said that he did not Compared with those outside, there are very few people who can be trusted by the king. He considers himself one, and Colbert is undoubtedly one of them. Given the king's tolerance, these people will not be easily abandoned as long as they do not make big mistakes.

"Dueling has long been forbidden in Paris," the king said lightly. "If anyone does, my captain, I will allow you to arrest them immediately." The Bastille Castle has been transformed into a solid prison by the king Waiting to be filled - the prison in Wansen will only be used to detain felons, and the werewolves will guarantee that even vampires cannot easily break through their defenses. For example, Amon is like a joke. Prince Kongdai waited. The things that people take away won't happen again - then, if more serious crimes are committed, the king's gallows and guillotine await them.

The king had been waiting for Colbert to complain to him, but this tough woolen merchant didn't do that, so one evening, when the king was about to have dinner, he called Colbert, half a joke, half. It is to seriously ask him what kind of reward and protection he wants... After thinking about it for a while, Colbert said, if it is possible, when the things that the king handed him to him really develop as they expected, then he will ask the king to help him His three daughters presided over the marriage, and Louis couldn't help laughing at the words: "Well," he said, "I don't think I'll have some golden arrows in my quiver."

   "Marriage is originally a solemn contract, and love is just a frivolous game." Colbert said.

   "So what kind of son-in-law do you want?"

   "I hope they have a noble birth."

   Such an answer really made the king puzzled, "You know it's them who are slandering and scorning you, so how can your children be happy?"

"Because they humiliated me, I want to make them feel remorse, nothing can hit me harder than this, they laughed at me, but they want to marry my daughter, their descendants will inevitably inherit from my blood. Those who think I'm just a cloth merchant will end up curtsying to my grandson and granddaughter."

   "It's really embarrassing," Louie said. "I don't think I can promise you now."

   "I know, Your Majesty," Colbert said, "I swear I won't force it, but please look at me. If I can make a grade that satisfies you, then I will give you such a reward."

   "Well," said Louis, "if you can." He might even bestow Colbert a title.

Colbert got the king's promise and left contentedly, and Louis went to see the queen, with whom he has been in bed almost all the time these days, not to have a second child as soon as possible (most people think so), It's just that if he doesn't do this, I'm afraid that Queen Teresa will fall into endless depression. The queen of this era is most afraid of this. The kings of Europa can be said to be in-laws, far or near, But they don't think about their sisters, wives, or daughters when they go to war, and the queen is the most unfortunate, because she can't abandon her motherland (even if she does, others may not believe it), and Unable to face her husband and his country, she is married to her mother country, but she is an untrustworthy foreigner to the country she must be loyal to.

   Even if Queen Teresa had already given birth to the eldest son for Louis, did you not see the Queen Mother take away the little prince, so she wouldn't let her raise her personally?

But today, Madame Lavalier brought a rare basket of roses with a fragrant scent. When she saw them, although the queen was very unhappy, she gave the king generously. The king saw that it was the king who brought the roses. The queen mother's maid also guessed that the queen mother was dissatisfied with him staying with the queen recently, and was urging him to stay with Madame Lavalier. It stands to reason that Madame Lavalier should be more favored than the queen. to make the French feel at ease.

The king can say that he went to Madame Lavalier in disbelief. Madame Lavalier really had something to do with him. It turned out that the Marquis François de Crecy gave her an expensive gift. , hoping that she would be able to intercede with the king - the Marquis of Craki had been loyal to the king throughout the first and second riots, and he should have been used by the king with this loyalty, but unfortunately, he foolishly took refuge in Nicholas Fouquet went there. Louis could understand that, a few months after the death of Bishop Mazarin, people always believed that he would appoint Fouquet as the next Prime Minister, but the king had already decided, as Bishop Mazarin instructed. , and no longer establish the prime minister, a position that will compete with the king for power.

Sensitive people, when the ministers asked the king who should report the things that were handled by the bishop of Mazarin, the king proudly replied: "I." When the king wisely chose to wait and see, but the Marquis Leckey was obviously a little dull. Until Fouquet was arrested, he was still lobbying hard to rescue the benefactor. There is no need to say more about the next thing. Fouquet was held in secret with an uncertain sentence, and Cleckey also Along with other Fouquet gangsters who didn't have time to get out, he was exiled outside Paris - even if he knew he had done wrong, it was too late, but fortunately he also had a competent father-in-law, that is, the head of the royal family. The Duke of Guieres, the Duke handed a lot of olive branches to Madame Lavalier, the first royal wife of the king. Madame Lavalier had to mention this person to the king, but she also explained to the duke first that she There is no guarantee that the king will change his mind.

She said the same to the king, she still placed herself in the position of the king's vassal, which comforted Louis, after all, everyone was wondering whether he would allow Madame Lavalier to reach out to the In the court, it was best for Mrs. Lavalier to have such a knowledge. He comforted her by saying that his exile of the Craigie knight was originally temporary. After all, Craigie was originally a world-famous military officer. The family, His Majesty the King, who once envied the Protector Oliver Cromwell, certainly would not arbitrarily throw away the talents of a possible general, but the actions of the Marquis of Crake undoubtedly made it clear to the King that he was a complete political leader. Fool, the king had to send him to the north to clear his hot head and see if he could make him normal.

Madame Lavalier lobbied, and the Marquis of Crecy was finally relieved from his anxiety. He happily accepted the latest appointment. He still could not go back to Paris, but he could be appointed by the king as the ambassador of Rome. , it can also be said to be a kind of honor, but this stubborn and reckless Mr. Knight had a conflict with the papal guards before he arrived in Rome.

Although people in later generations often refer to France as the eldest daughter of God, in fact, although France has inherited the most political heritage from Charlemagne-Roman, the kings of Frank have always been advertised as the benchmark of the church. It does seem so, after all they fought the pagans so thoroughly for two hundred years that the pagans called all the Europa Franks - but since Philip IV the pious kings have been Words and deeds did not go together, or, they were originally, but since Philip IV (the king was very generous in inviting the pope to be a guest on his own territory), he was too lazy to cover up, after that , In order to break through the siege of the Habsburg family against France, the Grand Chin François I did not hesitate to form an alliance with the Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the knot lasted for more than a hundred years. And calmly became an ally with the Protestants, and in the Thirty Years' War defeated other Catholic countries...

Later, when Louis XIV came to the throne and Bishop Mazarin became the Prime Minister, the Roman Church also had contact with the religious prince in red, who was obviously more loyal to France than the Church, hoping that he could favor the Church in policy, for example, in three At the council, the previous king's decree against the church - similar to the law that gold, silver, currency, weapons, horses, etc. may not be exported abroad without the king's permission - because this law made the pope The French nobles and priests cannot be taxed. There are also some behaviors such as vacant teaching posts, appointment and dismissal of priests, etc., not to mention the acts of stealing food from the mouth of the church, but Bishop Mazarin can be said to have rejected them without hesitation.

As we saw at the beginning, the church's revenge was to send the Grand Inquisitor of the Paris Inquisition to Rome. As a result, Paris' defense line against dark creatures appeared unexpectedly terrifyingly empty-a team of hired alien werewolves were silent. The land replaced the native werewolf on the outskirts of Paris, and the king and the queen dowager almost died in the belly of the wolf. If it wasn't for Mary, the little witch who stayed with the queen dowager, the bishop might have succeeded in the conspiracy of the church.

In return, Bishop Mazarin was not polite. He directly assigned his own person, that is, Elatrix replaced the position of the Grand Inquisition, firmly grasping the Paris Inquisition, and from then on, In all the districts in the hands of bishops and kings, from churches to monasteries, from fields to shops, from monks to priests, the church has received nothing but public taxes, and even the bishop of Mazarin should pay The inheritance returned to the church was also passed on to a king like his son before his death, so it is strange that the Roman church would be polite to Louis' ambassador.

   But they took the new French ambassador too lightly.

   (end of this chapter)