I Am Louis XIV

Dean Larivier is also looking at the young king. He is eleven years old this year, just at the age when a new leaf sprouts. His noble blood and God's gift destined him to have a beautiful face like an angel. , he sat in an armchair, wearing a pair of sapphire-blue shoes on his white stockinged legs, which matched his luxurious indigo silver-embroidered coat. The inflated ruff collar is no longer popular, but elegant and natural large lapel. Today's king is no exception. His lapel is decorated with three layers of hollow lace, which looks delicate and elegant.

Louis laughed as soon as he saw La Rivière, not because of anything else, but because this Mr. Dean looks like a respectable saint. About three hundred years later, this saint will be in every Driving a moose-drawn carriage on Christmas night, rushing on the road to deliver gifts to every good child-Dean La Riviere has the same fluffy white beard as him, shaved on the top of his head, and wears a little black hat , he specially wore a grand Dutch woolen robe and a pair of fragrant gloves (scented lambskin gloves) today. He is not here to give gifts to the king, but it can also make the king feel more and more depressed recently Take it easy.

The king graciously allowed the abbot to kiss his hand. "Please sit down." He said, "Monsieur La Riviere."

Bontang moved a footstool for the dean. After all, his current status is not qualified to use the seat in front of the king. Of course Larivier would not care. He lifted his robe as gracefully as possible, and slowly He sat down calmly, and Bontang served hot tea. He picked it up restrainedly and added about three spoonfuls of sugar before taking a sip, "This is the best tea I've ever tasted." He complimented: "There is no other drink that warms and sobers up."

Louis just smiled, "You can add more sugar, sir." At this time, people are very fond of sweetness, there is no kind of food that does not need to add sugar, of course there is sugar in cakes and bread, especially in wine. It is essential, stewed meat needs to be added with sugar, grilled fish can’t do without honey, boiled eggs should also be dipped in sugar, and a glass of clean water should be put aside to put the sugar bowl aside... Fortunately, at this time, there is already a toothbrush and rock salt , iris dried flowers, tooth powder made of mint and pepper, and Louis asked them to add rose oil, so that they got the simplest toothpaste.

After all, before him, there was a king who died of dental caries. Louis is not very satisfied with his current life, but he doesn't want to see the glorious God so soon, and with the current level of medical treatment-although there is already a prototype of science , but methods such as bloodletting and irrigation still stubbornly stick to the first place in medical books, not to mention, at this time some very heretical practices were popular, for example, using parts of the human body as medicine, from the brain to the brain. Blood, from Charles I who had just had his head cut off to the pharaohs of Egypt thousands of years ago, is omnipresent and all-encompassing-it is said to be effective, but Louis really would rather die than feel the ghoul's recipe.

Dean Larivière immediately added three spoonfuls of sugar to the cup after hearing this, and now not only he, but even the king was satisfied. After he finished drinking the tea in the cup, Louis showed him the tea in his hand. This is a book about werewolf rumors. It was read by Louis as a fantasy novel earlier, but now he knows it is a documentary literature.

"The church recognized werewolves in 1414, at the Council of Stans, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund forced them to recognize them." Dean Lariviere said simply, it seems that Bishop Mazarin had already reminded them He knew it, and he knew very well that the most annoying thing about young people of Louis' age is that someone treats them as children who can be deceived at will, so he planned it from the beginning, as long as the king wants to ask, he will do everything answer.

"But it was twenty years later," said Lariviere, "that the church recognized the existence of vampires."

"In fact, whether it is a werewolf or a vampire, their legends have lasted for nearly a thousand years," the king asked, "Why is the church so reluctant to admit it?"

"Because," Larivier said, "Because...Your Majesty, the church has no way to deal with these dark creatures and devil apostles."

This sentence surprised Louis, "But I saw that there are indeed priests and monks fighting against werewolves."

"Not only werewolves, but also vampires and wizards." Larivier said, "But that's not the church, it's another team with extraordinary power. They have been hiding in the inner world before 1231. It was a part of the other world, and it wasn’t until 1231, when Holy Father Gregory IX insisted on going his own way and set up the Inquisition Court in the name of the Dominican Order, that they gradually turned from the background to the front.”

"Then they existed a long time ago."

"Isn't that right, Your Majesty, among the saints you have heard about, three out of ten were members of them, but they...they are all weird people, and sometimes even the most enlightened His Excellency the Pope also cannot fully trust them—to put it simply, most of them are ascetic monks, so to the previous..." Larivier made a gesture that everyone understood: "The Roman Church has many Dissatisfied, as for Rome, there is no need for such a group of people to come and point fingers at themselves. Anyway, those people always take it as their duty to wipe out dark creatures and wizards. Even if the church deliberately ignores and treats them coldly, they will not care very much. They...Your Majesty, if you want me to say, they are a group of arrogant people, and they will not look down on anyone except God. If I want to say it from the bottom of my heart, I think they are not the same as those werewolves and vampires. There's no big difference."

"So who made them decide to come out?"

"You know Honorius III, the venerable Holy Father who did a lot for the Church, who crowned Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire in 1220 and allowed him to separate Sicily from The Holy Roman Empire merged into one. In order to repay Honorius III, Frederick II promulgated the edict "On the Powers of Priests and Princes", which gave priests various privileges, exempted the church from taxation obligations, and gave up secular rights to the church. Dominion, and promised to suppress heresy - the power of the church suddenly expanded to an unprecedented level - although this can only be said to be the last weight, but for those who have been hesitating whether to switch from the inner world to the outer world... For the monks, this is the will of God, although they have always thought that they are superior to others in terms of character and steadfastness, but there are always times when they can't bear it."

"Can't stand... what?" the king asked with a smile.

"What else could it be?" Dean Larivier also replied with a smile: "Power, money and pleasure! Think about it, they fight against dark creatures all day long, but the ones who are praised and praised Priests who are not so proficient in reciting scriptures, and even if monks should abandon the secular world and cast aside distracting thoughts, how many people can really do it, such a life can be persisted for a year or two, ten or twenty years How about hundreds of years? Thoughts change, and there are not so many saints, they always have to think about themselves."