Viscount Arthur's face turned pale, he and the people around him had constantly "spied" on the preferences and preferences of this majesty, and in his past memories and intelligence, Louis XIV was not an irritable and bloodthirsty man, he still thought ...... Although the secret mission can't take it out, it can't take out the letter of appointment of Charles II and other official documents, no, wait, it should be said that even if they can take it out now, Viscount Arthur will not let them take it out, otherwise a charge of treason will be detained on his head.

But these people ...... It's not an ordinary liar, even if it's a secret mission, the members are all nobles without exception!

Sure enough, the king's verdict was handed down here, and the members of the mission who had been brought to the improvised execution table almost collapsed, pleading incoherently, screaming, crying—they cried that they were not commoners, and deserved more respect and forgiveness, and they called out the names of their relatives and friends— Not to mention the deep enmity between England and France, but there are still frequent marriages and blood ties between them, and the kind that happens in one country, because of the loss of heirs, the courtiers ask another country for a king, and it is still feasible in a fief.

Louis sat on the high platform and listened carefully, there were indeed ministers and nobles associated with these people behind him, but those who could follow the king out on a grand parade, even if they were not loyal enough, were wise enough, even if they did not know the inside story, they could feel the cold ominous sense of the king, and some were almost sure that if anyone spoke at this time, Louis XIV would make him the next unlucky man to be sent to the gallows.

"Thirteen in all, Your Majesty. Justice Sergio Séguière Lebrun approached the throne and whispered.

"That's a good and auspicious number. The king said, reaching out and brushing the paper that had been handed him, and calmly signing his name, and though the members of the legation had a prominent or not-so-prominent surname, here they were only inferior people who were good at deceit and blackmail, and the nobles might have listened to the nonsense of a madman, but would not have believed the confession of a poor man—it is not to blame them, for in those times, and for many years to come, people had always attached high morals and unbeatable conduct to noble persons— They had no formal paperwork, and no one dared to corroborate it, so they had to die.

Soon the first man was dragged up, and he tried to keep his composure, to intimidate the mad king of France with a calm and disgusting gaze, but he failed, and the fear of pain and death easily made him weep, and tears blurred his eyes, and when the executioner rudely pulled out his fist, which he was trying to curl up in the lace cuffs, he trembled and howled, and stopped abruptly—he fainted, and the executioner could not help but glance at the high platform, and the Marquis de Lois made a gesture, and ...... The executioner raised his axe, and with a dull thud, a pale hand tumbled and fell to the ground.

Blood gushed out, and the tortured man was awakened by the severe pain, and when he woke up, he only glanced at it, and then fainted again.

In this era, there were always a lot of people gathered around the execution table, firstly, because there was no entertainment that ordinary people were entitled to enjoy with money, and secondly, according to the medical theory of the time, the human body and blood could be used in medicine, fresh human blood could enhance human energy, human fat could be used to wrap wounds and make candles, and human bones could be used to treat head diseases - headaches and nosebleeds. Therefore, the criminals on the execution table are similar to the pigs, cattle and sheep in the slaughterhouse, and they all have a group of eager customers.

But today, the onlookers are remarkably silent, and not just because the king is here.

These are thirteen noble lords.

The nobles were always treated with extraordinary forgiveness, and any of their crimes except treason could be offset by money and titles, and sometimes the maximum penalty that fell on them was life imprisonment, and the treatment of the prisoners - in every aspect of clothing, food, shelter and transportation, was not much different from his original life, and some criminals could even meet with their families in their own cells, manage their accounts and even receive visiting guests.

It must have been a great deal for a nobleman to be put to death, but here there were thirteen of them, not to mention the silence of the plebeians who were watching the execution, and by the fourth there was a slight commotion even among the nobles standing behind the king, and an earl was unfortunate enough to see his relatives, and he could not help but want to come forward and plead—not to plead with the king, for he was not qualified to speak to the king before he spoke, and he pleaded with the Lord Chancellor, Sergio Ségière Lebrun.

He took off his diamond brooch and his ring and held it in his hand—everyone dressed up as brightly as he could, so that the king could see him, and the jewels he wore were worth a lot, which was enough for the justice, he thought, not to mention that people might not blame the king, but they might criticize Sergee Lebrun, who was with him at that time.

But he was immediately stopped, and when he looked back, it was one of his good friends, who was working under the Marquis de Senele, and he glared at the count, and shook his head hard but slightly, and his stern gaze extinguished the count's courage like ice water, and he hung his hand feebly, and looked away from the poor man.

The Count's friend breathed a sigh of relief, and if it were someone else, he might have tried, but Sergio Lebrun, who was one of the fourteen judges who Louis XIV had gladly agreed to the High Court's request to relocate to Pontoise, that is, to become vassals of the king from an independent institution, and that he was thought insane at the time. The High Court was at that time, and each of the judges regarded themselves as uncrowned kings, and not only sided with the king's opponents in the first and second Fronde riots, but also openly declared a reward for the head of Bishop Mazaran and every part of his body, and they despised the king as an apprentice in a handicraft workshop...... At that time, there were not many people who were optimistic about this king, but Sergière had such courage and vision.

He did win the gamble, and the king not only gave him the position of chief president of the court of Pontoise, but also made him the head of the mission to welcome Princess Teresa of Spain to France for her consummation, and this good gentleman was even more grateful and reverent to the king, even the Count d'Artagnan, who was the most eloquent at the lotus, and Bontang or Monsieur Colbert, who were the most able to understand the king's thoughts, were not as prostrate as him, and wanted him to say even a word against the king's wishes, but I was afraid that it would be more difficult than ascending to heaven.

If nothing else, the Marquis de Lois had carefully read the transcript of the interrogation and the evidence submitted, but the chief justice had only one thought—if the king said that they were liars, they must be liars! Not to mention Charles II, even if Jesus Christ had come to him, here were his thirteen disciples, he would have insisted on this!

Therefore, if you bribe this man without permission, not only will he not persuade the king according to your wishes, but he will even betray you in front of the king, and then things will only become more troublesome, and the king will be more angry, and thirteen Englishmen will be enough, not one or two more Frenchmen.

But the earl soon had no need to worry about it any longer, and the whole execution process did not take long, thirteen corpses were neatly hung on the makeshift gallows, and perhaps some people begged to cut off their heads with axes, but the punishment of beheading was generally used on nobles, who of course did not have this "qualification", and their severed hands were placed under their shaky feet, and a large swarm of flying insects was quickly summoned.

"It shouldn't be all. Louis said as if talking to himself.

"And twenty-two wizards," Vesalius said, "and they went into the Lost Forest, saying that they were intent on finding Merlin's relics, and came to ...... Do something. ”

"Assassinate me, or bewitch some stupid people. Louis said indifferently: "They probably don't know that they are just a fog that others use to divert their attention." "Those men were not in Dunkirk, nor in Calais, nor on the sea, nor in Brittany, and Charles II was undoubtedly a participant—the so-called secret mission did attract some attention, and it was Barras who remained in Paris, a man of little mercy, and although Elelius had reminded him that the Bastille had a prisoner to keep an eye on, he thought that he had already been saved and did not think that this abandoned woman would be of any great value......

"Did you find that spell?" said Louie, "Forget it, get in the car." ”

Vesari bowed her head, and had the honor of being the king's chariot under a dry and envious gaze—Madame de Montespan gave up her place under the king's cold gaze—with a little bit of weakness, she had absolutely no involvement in the matter, she might hate Marie Mancini, but how could anyone be allowed to pose a threat to the king?

"Now the Duke of Colonna and Madame Milady Milady are searching for records of this spell in Tuscany, Naples, Gayola, etc.," Vesalius said: "Madame Aubigne is seeking the help of Rome, Madame Lavallière, the mother of the Duke of Hallepur, has sent their people to Serbia in search of clues, and His Majesty Ludwig I, who has also collected some priests and shamans......"

"Is there a general direction?" Louis interrupted, "Actually, it's very simple, if I die, whoever gets the most benefit will be the most likely." ”

Vesalius sighed, the Sun King is in full swing, and has almost become a symbol of France, if it is said that for that throne, the Duke of Orleans and the Dauphin Louis the Younger are the most unlikely people, except for the emotional factor, none of them can touch the height that Louis XIV can reach, if Louis is really assassinated, no one can suppress the powerful generals under Louis XIV, let those princes and lords bow down, France will only fall into uninterrupted turmoil again, and his enemies will take the opportunity to set off riots and conquests, pushing this huge kingdom into the quagmire of decay again。

So speaking of which, it is most likely that there are still foreigners and opponents of the king, not to mention the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, the once ally of King Charles II of England - who has almost no longer concealed his hostility to Louis XIV, and Spain, which is also Habsburg, after their king Carlos II miraculously recovered, they also began to plot to restore the glory of a hundred years ago, as well as the Dutch government-in-exile, and such as Flanders, Lorraine, Alsace and Brittany, although called French territories, were more Habsburg, or simply wanted to be independent...... There may also be some nobles who sensed that Louis XIV was weakening local power, unifying France, and strengthening royal power, such as the former Duke of Saint-Simon......

There is another one, the Roman Church, although the relationship between the current Pope Innocent XI and Louis XIV is not as stiff as before, and he even sent his own illegitimate granddaughter as a hostage and messenger, but if it is said that the grudge between the Roman Church and the French king, unless Louis XIV is willing to hand over the right to appoint and dismiss the bishop, and remove the restrictions on the outflow of gold, silver and valuables, the relationship between the Church and the French royal family will never be good.

"I hope to hear the exact news before Marie's funeral is over," Louis said mildly, but remembering the thirteen corpses still hanging from the gallows, Vesari did not think that the king was really "as it always was", and on the other hand, they did not need any hard evidence, more to avoid the same type of assassination in the future—the number of enemies after Louis XIV would only increase, not few.

"I will, Your Majesty. Vesalius said, "But can you go and ask a few adults on my behalf?"

Louis was a little surprised, and he even smiled: "Who?"

"Prince of the Bloodline. ”

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Theoderick, the prince of Van Zo, was once the king of the Franks, and Paris was his ancestral land, and because of this, he served as the guide and guardian of Louis XIV when he first came into contact with the inner world, and the other, Amun, the prince of Zmeich, who was a mad and powerful blood, not inferior to Theoderick, but he approached the king because he took a fancy to the young Louis XIV and intended to develop him into a descendant, and in the process he almost killed Louis, and was later recaptured by King John II of Poland because he needed to recapture itThe ancestral land that Casimir had lost, namely Livonia, gradually established an equal alliance with Louis.

Theoderic, a man of old-fashioned and restrained character, appeared to Louis because of Amon's offense to the king, and after Louis XIV became the Sun Queen, he continued to shelter Louis's children for a while, and when little Louis also came of age, he said goodbye to the king - because for Theoderic, a king and a prince of blood should not have a too close relationship.

At the same time, it was also to restrain Amon - if he was always by the side of the king or a member of the royal family, it would be difficult to ask Amon to stay away from Paris or Versailles, and Tsmig, who was not restricted by any rules, continued to stay with Louis XIV, which would do more harm than good.

It's not so difficult to find the members of Fanzhuo, after all, most of the members of Fanzhuo are in big cities, they are nobles in the night, some of the blood clans still have semi-public identities, and they have dealings and transactions with mortals, and Louis is surrounded by priests and wizards, the latter wants to find the blood clan, it is still very easy, but he has to talk to Prince Fanzhuo, and Vesalius is not qualified enough now.

But if you want to send a letter to the prince, that's still okay.

Unexpectedly, Prince Theoderick arrived that night.