Louis XIV's expedition to Lorraine and Alsace should be counted as the third, and his propaganda mouthpiece, the newspapers, the catalogues, and the itinerant troupe, was as much hype as possible, not that Louis had become proud, but that unlike the Dutch and Flanders, they had gone against the Ottoman Turks, the enemies of Christ, the devil, and before the Ottoman sultans had destroyed the glory of their ancestors, such an expedition was undoubtedly like another crusade, pious and courageous.

Under this propaganda, every Frenchman puffed up their chests, and although the king did not want them to pay additional taxes on military service, they managed to raise a hundred thousand livres for the king's military expenses, as well as five hundred sturdy Camargue horses, which meant "white horses of the sea" The good local horses that grew up in the Rhône Delta in the south of France, where each horse was about five feet five inches tall at the shoulder and between two and three years old, made Louis XIV's army look even more imposing and extravagant, because almost every soldier had a mount under him, and one or two pack horses by his side - not to mention his dragoons, guards and musketeers.

In the days when there were no motorcycles and automobiles, such an army would make any monarch jealous, and any general would be fascinated, and Marshal Schaumberg said to Louis XIV that he had done his best to get the opportunity to go with him, otherwise he would lose the opportunity to witness this magnificent sight - the Marquis de Lois could not help glaring at him, a sight that was truly amazing, but with it the daily military expenditure soared to a terrible level.

"When we leave Versailles," said Louis XIV, "the army will be drawn in groups." "So as not to put too much pressure on the cities and military warehouses along the way, this time Louis only brought an army of 30,000 people, a reserve of 20,000 people, depending on whether the situation is to be invested or not, 50,000 people is almost the number of long-term residents of a small city- In the lowlands, they could of course expropriate the enemy's land, but from here to the gathering place of the coalition army, that is, the Sava River valley in Slovenia, most of the passage was French territory, and Louis XIV, who loved the people and was not even willing to raise taxes in wartime, certainly did not hurt the French economy and harvest because of the urging of the Roman Church or Leopold I.

It was about 500 fats from Paris to the Sava Valley, and at Louis XIV's speed they should have arrived at the Allied garrison in early June, and he had the ravens send a handwritten letter to Ludwig I of Poland, promising that they would arrive at about the same time—preferably later than Louis XIV, for the same reason that Louis had given his ministers, he was the only one among the generals who could stand alongside the Holy Roman Emperor.

In fact, as Louis had predicted, they arrived at Camnico on June 7.

Leopold I agreed to meet with King Louis XIV of France here, and since the King of France had never been subservient to the Holy Roman Emperor, they could not even meet in a building, because a building must have only one main entrance, and the order of entry would directly affect the subsequent negotiations, and if Leopold I allowed the King of France to walk in front of him, he would be honored by the King of France, and vice versa.

So the French and Austrian ministers quarreled until Louis XIV was only three days away from Camnico, and then they reluctantly decided to set up a tent in the main square in the center of the city, and open a door to Vienna and Paris at the same time, so that the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France could enter the tent at the same time, in no particular order.

Both Leopold I and Louis XIV looked strange when they saw this arrangement, and the corners of their mouths twitched— Because they seem to have used this arrangement when welcoming the bride, because the king and the emperor at this time would only marry foreign princesses, they had to set up a tent on the border between the two countries, and the princess and the officials of the country and the noblewoman entered through one exit, and in the tent they changed all the clothes and jewels of the mother's family into the in-laws' house, and then went out separately through the other exit, where the officials and nobles of the husband's family were greeted......

Louis XIV quickly threw away this absurd thought, these officials have also thought it through, the opening of the tent is not only decorated with the flags of France and Louis XIV, but also decorated with royal blue ribbons, at a glance it is known that it is for the Sun King, he walked in with a cane, it is now three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is just right, the top of the tent is a thin white silk, the people inside will only feel cool but not dark or oppressive.

This was the first meeting between Louis XIV and Leopold I, the old enemy, not a portrait, not a sculpture, not from someone else's mouth, but Louis XIV probably did not think that he saw Leopold I as an enemy, he said in his heart that if he had to give a definition, he could only say that they were only fighters who fought each other until the last moment in the bloody gladiatorial arena of Europa for their country and family.

In any case, Louis XIV would not easily place his treasured things or people on the morals and reputation of Leopold I, because if he were Leopold I, he knew exactly what he would do.

If a later director wanted to recreate this scene, it would probably not be surprising that Leopold I, who was 14 or 2 years old when Louis the Younger, made the impression that he was younger than Louis, but the swollen bags under his eyes made him look older and more tired than Louis, his eyebrows and eyes were barely straight, but the Habsburg inheritance was endless, and only the increasingly pronounced large chin even affected his nose, which was unsightly tilted to one side.

He wore long, curly black hair, of course, fake, and the heavy color did not match his grayish-yellow skin, and he wore black armor trimmed with pure gold trim, a crimson velvet cloak on his shoulders, and a golden cane.

While Louis stood to examine his enemy, now an ally, Leopold I was also looking at the long-known, but first-time King of France.

In appearance, the Bourbons were clearly more favored by God, and starting with Louis, they were impeccable in appearance, and at most some ridiculed them for being a bit of a sissy because of the French tradition of shaving—but Louis XIV was more than six feet tall, with broad shoulders and a straight back, and even if he was not a king, but a knight, he would have chased the ladies and ladies of the court like birds for bait.

If all this is it, it is not worth Leopold I's jealousy, he saw at a glance Louis the Dauphin of France, almost exactly the same as Louis XIV, this fourteen-year-old boy, as tall as his father's shoulders, he and Louis XIV were generally dressed in half-length silver armor, the milky white coat hung down to the knees, and the peacock-blue cloak was lifted to reveal leggings and boots of the same color as the coat.

He looked alive and healthy, and was the coveted heir of every king or emperor.

Leopold I and Louis XIV have another similarity, that is, they were also married in the year, the queen was pregnant, and gave birth to a son-in-law the following year, but Leopold I's eldest son was very weak from birth, and died after barely supporting it for a year, but it was the eldest princess, who was lucky to live to the present, but for Leopold I, the princess had nothing to be happy with him except for marriage, he still expected a son, and as a result, the queen gave birth to another son for him four years ago, and he only had time to give him a name, and the poor child went to see God again, born the same day, and died on the same day。

As if Heaven had not dealt Leopold I a blow enough, two years earlier the queen gave birth to another princess, and this time she persevered a little longer, from February 9 to February 23...... Leopold I was almost numb, but when he saw the Dauphin of France today, he thought of his two daughters and one son, and his chest couldn't help but sour.

But in any case, the emperor and Louis XIV's ostensible etiquette and posture still had to be sufficient, so the courtiers who were fortunate enough to follow the monarch to the tent saw the two rulers move in unison and hand the cane to the person next to him, take two steps forward, touch the chest with his left hand, take off his hat with his right hand, bow slightly, put on his hat, show a smile, and sit down together on the seat of the head like a pair of half-brothers.

There is no need to repeat the hypocritical comings and goings here, the bottom line between Austria and France was determined as early as hundreds of meetings in Vienna and Versailles, and even Leopold I and Louis XIV could not have made any changes on a whim at this time-the reason why Louis XIV was willing to help Leopold I was to quell some rumors and rumors at home that questioned his piety— Although Louis had also touched half of the Virgin Mary before, when the Catholic Confederate countries were attacked by pagans, France still maintained an attitude of standing by and watching, and even took advantage of the fire to rob, which could not help but make people wonder that France was still not the most staunch supporter of the Roman Church.

Although France, as the so-called "eldest daughter", had behaved in the same way as the legendary Medea (note 1), Louis XIV did not want to make a fuss, and it was not a bad thing that Madame d'Aubigne's maternal grandfather had made a deal with the king, and that it was not a bad thing that the Roman Church still held an unshakable position in the religious world, and at the same time held a power far greater than that of any other royal family.

Like Clement X, his misfortune lies in the fact that he has a keen and eager political enemy, and Madame de Montespan's coldness is beyond his estimates, which will cause the current situation, otherwise he can also bring some shadows to the Sun King- In addition, there is Louis XIV's arrangement of the Duke of Colonna, who is now the son-in-law of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the daughter of Gaston, former Duke of Orleans...... The true origin of the Duke of Colonna is well known, and if Louis can win a great victory in the battle against the infidels, the Duke of Colonna can also get some credit from him.

Leopold I may not have been so despicable as to use the infidels to defeat France, but Austria faced the same situation as most of the Holy Roman Empire's electoral vassals, which were to have no standing army and had to be recruited hastily in time of war—even if it was a war in preparation, and in the event of a surprise attack by an enemy and a disparity in troops, such a recruitment method would be overstretched.

Now, in addition to his own army, Leopold I had only the three princely states of Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria to come to his aid, and the three episcopal states headed by the Archbishop of Cologne were able to look at each other coldly, thanks to Louis XIV, who had been allies of France in the attack on Flanders and the Netherlands, and who could of course turn a blind eye to Austria's predicament today...... And they also did not need to prove their piety to the Church of Rome.

In addition to these, there are also some soldiers and troops in Denmark, Switzerland and other countries, which can only be said to be better than nothing......

There was also an army that Leopold I was waiting for, and the problem was that half of this army also belonged to King Louis XIV of France, because the commander of the army from Poland was the former Prince of Condé, now King Ludwig I of Poland, who arrived on the fourth day after Louis XIV's meeting with Leopold I, and went to see the Sun King on the same day.

"Send this letter to Duke Jan Sobiesky. Leopold I said.

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Duke Jan Sobieski had a lot of complaints about his king coming to Camnico, first going to meet the French king Louis XIV, but he also knew very well that without the French king, no matter how brave and good Condé was, he would not be able to sit on the Polish throne, and he also had to thank Louis XIV, without Louis XIV's financial support, Poland's wheat could not be sold at a good price, and what could he and Ludwig I do to regain some of the rebellious Cossacks?

In a play, or in a legend, the kind of good thing that can persuade others to take refuge in themselves by just relying on wisdom, bravery or courage is impossible to happen in reality, and he and Ludwig I used sugar, salt and flour, jerky, and enough money to finally make the Cossacks change their minds, and even then, only a small part, some of the Cossacks simply threw themselves into the arms of the Ottoman Turks, and the other part returned to Russia.

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