I Am Louis XIV

Witch hunting has only lasted for more than a hundred years. Although there may not be many genuine witches among these witches, objectively speaking, when a young girl is accused instead of an old woman, the audience must be particularly large, and the judge will also With great interest, human beings have unparalleled talents in creating beauty and destroying beauty.

Count Rozen was able to satisfy the Duchess Montpensier in both the hall and the bed curtains, so he was destined not to be a superficial guy. Although he could not compare with the works created by the artists of the French Academy of Sculpture and Painting, he was still His torso was lean and his limbs were slender. His skin was as pale as a wall, either due to panic or the lack of sunlight. His legs were so weak that he could not stand up. He needed two executioners to support him.

Alas, when you see this, don’t think that Count Luozeng is cowardly by nature. Although he is a villain, being able to become the king’s musketeer shows that he is not useless. He may be able to fight on the battlefield and in duels without fear of wounds. Even death, but no one would not be afraid of the instruments of torture as pointed out by the duchess - although Louis XIV unofficially abolished some tortures after taking office, only retaining five kinds of torture, including dismemberment, fire, boiling water, beheading and hanging, which are only for serious crimes. He would be punished, but the instruments of torture carried from the Castle of Vincennes to the Bastille were never put away - the king of France had too many enemies, and death could not deter everyone.

If you want to torture a person, you will mostly use a step-by-step method, but like the Duchess, there are ways to directly use terrible torture to destroy the enemy's will. The warden of the Bastille will not refuse the Duchess's request. While constantly praying and shouting "Oh God, Oh God!", Count Luozeng mounted the "horse". Of course, it was not a living horse, but a wooden block with a regular triangle in cross-section and a length similar to that of a horse. , it was set up, higher than the distance that ordinary people's feet can touch the ground. Count Luozeng's hands were tied up and hung on the roof beam, and the sharp corners of the wooden wedges were cut between his legs. Two executioners tied lead weights to his feet.

"Hurry up." the duchess said, so the executioner added a few more lead blocks, so that the weight of Count Luozeng, plus the weight of the lead blocks, pulled his entire body downward. Generally, men would occasionally bump into the lower body. Sometimes he would be so painful that he couldn't scream, but now the count's most important male feature was being slowly crushed, and his eyes, like his balls, were slowly protruding.

Perhaps it was the happy look on the Duchess's face, or the executioner's intention to show off his skills in front of the two ladies. They grabbed the rope hanging from the other end of the beam, pulled it up one after another, and almost tore the room apart. Amidst the screams, it was like the earl "galloping" on horseback. He was bloody and bloody in a short while. In any case, both men and women were the most vulnerable there. The blood flowed down along the sides of the triangle, in Black and shiny in the candlelight, his feet were dangling in the air, along with the lead weight below.

For the count, seconds that seemed as long as centuries passed. He desperately struggled forward, his head dropped, and he fainted.

The warden kept watching with wide eyes until the count fainted. He skillfully held a wine flask with a long spout and handed it to the executioner. He asked the count to insert it into his mouth and said, "This is sweetened with honey." , pressed tablets, lemon and salt wine." He said: "Watch it, you will wake up immediately."

The Count did indeed wake up at once: "Forgive me," he said breathlessly as soon as he opened his eyes: "Forgive me, Holy Mother, forgive me."

The Duchess of Montpensier looked at him indifferently: "You can fool me and deceive me," she said: "But you shouldn't..." She thought for a moment here, because Count Rozen could not threaten Louis X. Fourth, her cousin, the Sun King of France: "You are just a poisonous snake hiding in the darkness, but I cannot forgive any rebellion, including my father. Of course you are not an exception, my dear, but you can choose to endure it." Should you die with your body intact after being tortured for several days? Or should you tell everything and let the executioner slit your throat or break your neck?"

The countess's words made the count look desperate. At first, he really thought that he could persuade the duchess and pray for her mercy, thus escaping. However, the duchess behaved so calmly - without even shouting, It means that she has passed the most intense and easily shaken moment of her emotions. Perhaps she has thought deeply before sending him to the Bastille.

"I could say all the things," said the earl, "but I wish to die as honorably as Duke Calarence."

George, Duke of Clarence, was the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. He once rebelled against the king, and Edward IV drowned him in wine just like the Romans did. Duchess Montpensier glanced at the Marquise de Montespan beside her. , Montespan pondered for a moment, and then agreed: "You can still get a doctor and a priest," otherwise the blood loss and pain alone could kill him: "But you can think about it, Mr. Count, when you are in the dark While you were tortured in your own room and awaited death, those who instigated you were still enjoying their glory and wealth."

As soon as Madam Montespan finished speaking, Duchess Montpensier saw that the count's eyes were filled with deeper hatred than before. No matter what those people had promised to the count, he had the courage to push forward this matter. At the same time, he was definitely not able to get any of the conspiracy against the Duchess and His Majesty the King, and he had even suffered so much humiliation and pain. Madam Montespan turned sideways and said something to Duchess Montpensier, and the Duchess turned to Turning over: "Don't you know that I have prepared to give you a castle, several land deeds, and a good position?"

Count Luozeng has been untied. There is a mess between his legs. To be more specific, he looks like a mashed lamb kidney pudding. He relies on the warden to keep drinking for him to barely stay awake. Hearing such words, he felt even more regretful.

The Duchess walked out without saying anything else, and Madame Montespan followed a few minutes later. Unlike the Duchess, who was masked with frost, this lady still had a peach-like face, and her eyes were as bright as morning stars. Even the Duchess knew that Inside, I couldn't help but hesitate for a while - Madame Montespan was so beautiful that she was like the second Freeny. The ancient Greek socialite Phryni was once brought to the Athenian court for being accused of blasphemy. This charge could have killed her, but her defender only took off her robe, exposing her beautiful body to the public. In front of everyone - there were five hundred and one judges in the court, and they all agreed that it would be blasphemous to let such beauty disappear.

The same is true for the current Madame Montespan. Even if the Duchess of Montpensier is a woman, she cannot feel jealous when facing her, even if she knows that Madame Montespan still serves as the king's dagger - Palace Court Many of them knew that the lady was a ruthless person, but the love and affection pouring out from deep in her heart still made the duchess invite the lady to ride in the same carriage with her back to Versailles.

"How is Auguste?" asked the Duchess of Montpensier on the way back. Auguste was the son that Madame Montespan gave birth to to Louis XIV, but he was not the same as the Duke of Colonna and even Hallebourg. The Duke is different. His Majesty the King is very cold and harsh towards this child. He even went to the expedition in person without even meeting him. When the two Dukes were born, the small celebration held in the palace was not held by this child. The King's Attitude was the guide for ministers and nobles. They tacitly ignored the king's new son, just like Madame Montespan who just went to Fontainebleau for a holiday. Even the Queen Mother never mentioned it. Augustus The name Te was given by Madame Montespan herself.

"He is very good, Your Highness." Mrs. Montespan said. She thought she had gotten everything she wanted, but after the child was born, an unspeakable jealousy still swept through her body and mind. Why? She is no worse than Mary Mancini or Madame Lavalriere! From appearance, figure to assistance to the king, she far surpasses them! But Louis XIV stood by them without hesitation. Madame Montespan was not stupid enough not to see Louis' intentions. Louis XIV deliberately suppressed the child because he was wary that she would use the power in her hands to cause trouble.

"It will be fine when His Majesty comes back from Slovenia." Duchess Montpensier comforted: "I have a manor in Giverny." Originally she wanted to give it to Count Rozen: "I will give it to you. ," she said gently: "When you have time, you can take August to stay for a while, the scenery there is beautiful."

"Thank you very much," said Mrs. Montespan. "Unfortunately, it may not be possible until His Majesty the King comes back. Your Highness, if it is not necessary," she opened her fan, covering half of her face, and looked out the window: "You Don’t leave Versailles these days, and if you want to go somewhere else, don’t come to Paris.”

It seems that another bloody storm is about to break out in Paris. The Duchess sighed. Unlike Versailles, the people of Paris - as Louis said, are a group of half-hearted and ungrateful thugs. They may never be satisfied. She knew that there had been complaints that the king would rather use foreigners (Schumberg) and countrymen (Versailles) than Parisians, and they seemed to have completely forgotten that they had twice raised armed riots to drive the king out of Paris.

She said that Louis had been as just as possible. Although Paris lost its original political status, it also gained the laurels that it had taken from the Netherlands. Louis XIV had destroyed Amsterdam in the Netherlands and rebuilt another in Paris. The actions of the financial center caused those merchants who did not want to see the securities and bills of exchange in their hands to be invalidated. They ran to Paris in droves. As the stock exchange and the new central bank opened their doors, the gold and silver of the entire Europe seemed to be gone. Flowing towards Paris.

At the same time, the four art academies opened by the king in Paris once again established Paris as the fashion king of the entire Europe and even the wider region (colonies, Ottoman Turkey, Russia, etc.). Some even say that Italy's Renaissance career Already inherited by Paris, France.

Sometimes it is difficult for the duchess to understand what these people are thinking. Maybe after the warden and executioner of the Bastille get busy, they will begin to miss the peaceful life at this time.

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When Louis XIV received the message from the raven, he no longer cared much about it. Although there was no one with ulterior motives infiltrated around the young Louis, the crown prince, he did have some ulterior motives when he was busy working for the academy. Malicious people approached him, but as a father, Louis has always been cautious. They did not find an opportunity to sow discord, so they mentioned to little Louis that Louis had almost become a wizard - maybe they thought little Louis would be afraid of them. The father becomes estranged and smoky.

But Louis never intended for little Louis to become a devout believer from the beginning, and Queen Teresa was not a fool. Little Louis was more curious than afraid. For a while, he was still thinking about whether he would become a wizard. , "Of course not," Louis said, "There's a reason for that."

At that time, he had not yet taken office, and Dunkirk was his first battle. He was far away from Paris and Versailles, far away from the bishop and the queen mother, and there were not many trustworthy people around him. The injuries at that time were not something that ordinary doctors could cure.

"What does that feel like?" Little Louis couldn't help but ask.

"A wonderful feeling," Louis said: "It's not bad, dear, it's another feeling that seems to be above everyone else - they are all mortals, you are a wizard, you can do it Things they can never do, you can fly, you can light fire with your fingers, you can control animals and monsters - if I were not the king, if I were Philip and Philip was me, I think I would stay in the other world. But not because of strength or anything else... If Philip is king, then I will try to conquer that strange place for him."

"Like uncle and the Duke of Colonna do now?"

"Well," Louis XIV said, "because once a country is divided, something very terrible will happen - it's like a giant beast being dismembered. No matter how strong its mind and will are, without a body it can only Wailing in vain, even weakening from the rotting wounds, and finally falling - all, all divisions, no matter how small, or how necessary, or for some high-sounding reason Reasons - such as beliefs, race, region, wealth, status, etc..."

"So," Louis said, "I can forgive any enemy, even if he once wanted to kill me or has killed the person I love, but for me, and for you in the future, there is only one sin that is absolutely What cannot be forgiven is anyone who dares to cut France, no matter what the reason."

I haven't been feeling well these past few days, so I haven't updated. I'm sorry. I'll add a thousand words per chapter next month to compensate everyone. I'm sorry, sorry, Jiuyu bows...