Paris at this time was in chaos, but as far as Louis knew, there were about the following people- At the top, of course, belonged to the king, the brothers and the queen mother, followed by nobles and princes such as the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Orleans, Gaston, and next to them were the cardinals, and the cardinals were worthy of opposition to the venerable marshals and generals, and then the roots of the rebellion, the members of the High Court, the financiers and the great moneylenders, and the magistrates hated by the former, and then the lawyers, the common priests and doctors, and then the securities brokers, the merchants, and the painters, architects, sculptors, and novelists, and below them were the craftsmen, the servant and the poor in the city and the peasant outside the city.

In addition, there were probably those who made a living in the service of the royal family and the nobility, and they fed on the leftovers left out by the servants, like a school of whales in the sea, specifically in the private priests, clerks, butlers and stewards, policemen, agents, attendants, cooks, handymen, coachmen, etc.

In the previous movement of the Slingers, apart from the private armies and guards of the princes and judges, the most common people were the citizens of Paris, those who were supposed to be loyal to Louis, but they were not easily instigated, and the commoners of Paris were in a very difficult living environment compared to those who were favored or reused by the king and were able to accumulate and squander their wealth without limits (such as Richelieu), and they had to pay not only heavy taxes, but also rent, water and bread, and some unspeakable expenses, where they lived, with unglazed windows and broken doorsSome people cook directly on the floor of their rooms, they are often sick and have no money for medical treatment, some people can't even afford to marry a wife, sometimes they have to wait for the landlord to collect the rent before they find out that their tenant is dead, and in this life of pain that there is almost no end in sight, there are people who constantly put pressure on them.

Although Louis was not yet able to interfere in government affairs, he had heard of some things, such as the fact that the bread in Paris was now almost twenty sous-a-pounds.

Here we will briefly mention the French monetary system in the mid-seventeenth century, where the livre and the sue are both familiar terms, but they are not among the common currencies, but they are only monetary units of measurement, and one livre is equal to about half a pound to a pound of silver, and it is equal to twenty suels. Therefore, most of the French people of the seventeenth used the Golden Louis, the Grand Eguille, the Petit Eguille, the Denier and the Riyard. The gold louis, as the name suggests, is a gold coin, one gold louis is equal to twelve to twenty livres (one livre is equal to twenty suels), one (silver coin) large eju is equal to six livres and twelve su, small (silver coin) eju is equal to three livres and six suels, one sue is equal to twenty copper deniers, and one denier is equivalent to three riyadh copper coins.

In other words, converted into the currency we are familiar with, a pound of bread costs about 300 to 500 yuan.

Such a price is enough to collapse the whole region and even the country, and after the Queen Mother Anne returns to Paris, a mass will use up a hundred gold louis candles and spices, and no matter what else, sometimes Louis really wants not to let her pray, it is better to exchange this hundred gold louis for a hundred pounds of bread, and at least a hundred families will be grateful to the royal family for this, rather than full of resentment.

It's a pity that he couldn't convince the Queen Mother Anne, people at this time did not have the concept of charity, a person starved to death because he was not diligent enough, and he was sick because he did evil deeds, God's punishment or retribution, even Cardinal Mazaran did not agree with Louis's method, those white and bright Egü and golden "Louis" can be used to buy fine clothes, delicious food or horses, shotguns, or even toss on the gambling table, it doesn't matter, but to give to the poor...... It's weird, it's weird, no one has ever done anything like this.

Bishop Mazaran resolutely refused, and the people around Louis almost shared the same idea, believing that giving bread to the poor in this way would only increase the number of lazy men and scoundrels, and that if such behavior could not be sustained, the person in charge would be hated— This was not a good point, and Louis changed his mind and asked the bishop of Mazarin to thoroughly investigate the wheat merchants in Paris to see if there were any hoarders, but the bishop did not answer him, but asked the king, whom he had mentioned to the bishop before, and wanted to ask about the Inquisition, and when the bishop was going to summon him.

Bishop Mazarin said this, and Louis knew that the matter could not be pursued - he knew that Bishop Mazarin must have accepted bribes from merchants, and this kind of thing was almost commonplace in the court, dating back to the time of Philip IV, when ministers flocked around the king to compete for his favor, and then used this favor to make a lot of money, Richelieu and Mazarin, and he was even willing to make concessions on some things so that the young king would not pursue it.

What Louis had mentioned earlier was a win-win relationship between the royal family, the Church and the Inquisition, and the Outer World and the Inner World, and the priest he had met was very happy when he came, because he was only an abbot, not a black-clad judge of the Inquisition, nor an ascetic like an executor.

Speaking of which, he had recently made a joke because he thought he had gained a lot of merit in the previous werewolf riots, and even deliberately competed with the Vice-Archbishop of Paris, Reis, and the Prince of Conte (the younger brother of the Prince of Condé) for the Roman hat (referring to the cardinal), of course, he was a comical failure, but he was ridiculed by all Parisians.

He was not discouraged, indeed, this Monsieur de la Rivière may have no other strengths, but he had an extraordinary thirst for power and money, so from him the king knew more than anyone else, so Bishop Mazaran sent him in order to prevent the king from continuing his relationship with wheat and bread.

It was the first time that Abbot La Rivière had entered the Richelieu House, and the residence that could be used as the king's palace was certainly not shabby and cramped, it was an H-shaped complex, each with three floors, and the lower floor was supplemented by a gallery supported by numerous Tauric columns, decorated with various sculptures, and named after it, such as the bow gallery through which the Abbot La Rivière now passes, named because the walls of the corridor are decorated with many sculptures related to the sailing ship.

Passing through the bow porch, you will be greeted by a rectangular garden about 600 feet long and 200 feet wide, with a fountain in the center that looks like a full moon surrounded by well-trimmed trees...... Yes, Dean La Rivière doesn't know how to describe it, but it's ...... That...... Clean and comfortable.

Alas, he was exceptionally clean today, after all, he had inquired about the king's preferences in many ways, and almost all of them were impressed by the king's requirements for cleanliness - as we have said before, people at this time did not like to be clean, first, because of the considerable cost of bathing, second, because the church did not encourage people to bathe often, and third, because of the fear of the Black Death, which had not long been gone...... But they don't really let themselves live so dirty, they still wipe their bodies with clean linen, warm water, especially their faces and hands, women also have to add chests, and the nobles will change their clothes frequently, almost every few hours, so although the streets of Paris stink, except for some poor people who can't find even a piece of extra cloth, the smell of people with a little wealth is not so terrible.

But their king, in this respect, can be said to be harsh, and his preferences, though he was not yet in power, still affected all those around him, and the dean of La Rivière, who was interested in winning the king's favor, took great pains, and in addition to washing himself cleanly, he also sprayed perfume imported from Cologne, Germany, an expensive and wonderful liquid, more expensive than gold, but it was worth it, for the young king smiled at the sight of him.