When Louis received the letter from his chief physician, everything had already settled, and in the presence of the witches, these "pious" people had no power to fight back, nay, it should be said, when they realized that there was a witch in front of them, who was really capable of casting spells, they scattered and fled, but it can only be said to be an extremely interesting coincidence- The group of witches, numbering about 100 people, had been ordered by the Order of Witches to move to Orleans, and then the Bohemians who had been ordered by the king to move to the valley, but they saw fire and dust on the way, and knew from the ravens that someone was burning witches, and although they were not sure, they decided to take a look.

Unexpectedly, the villagers were actually burning a few big men, judging from their clothes, they were all "honorable lords", but the witches didn't care about this, and they didn't care if the other party was a Huguenot, a Calvinist, or a God, these people had a similar attitude towards them, and the Huguenots might be a little more radical- Besides, none of the villagers, led by Anfuor, escaped, for Monsieur Lom had only sobered up a little, and cried out in a voice not in the least appropriate for his age, begging the witches to take these men by themselves, and he said in his letter that as soon as he saw the witches' clothes, he knew that they were Bohemians, so he used the best possible wording, which was to put it simply, by promising that if the witches caught them, each of them would receive a gold louis from the king.

Nothing could touch the hearts of these witches, accustomed to wandering, living by fortune-telling and curses, with few assets in their hands, who scurried out like a pack of wild cats, and the villagers were several times more numerous, but they were afraid of witchcraft, and even if someone mustered up the courage to resist, they could not compete with the magic of the witches, except for one or two witches who suffered some minor injuries in the course of the hunt, such as a leaf scratching their face, or breaking their feet.

The most seriously injured were the plague doctors and their students, Monsieur Lom only broke the bone of one arm because of the cover and help of others, and the others, especially the strongest Chamborance, who almost killed Anfore's youngest son, was broken several ribs and whipped, and his whole back was bloody, and it is said that someone tried to cut off his nose, but fortunately he did not succeed, but he also had a deep scar on his cheek, the wing of his nose was crooked to one side, and the witches threw the villagers into the chapel and moved them to Anfure's big house, and began to boil herbs as a matter of course- that is, the crude potion, to give them to drink, although from Mr. Lom to Chamborence they were not very willing to deal with the devil's wives, but when Malbicki and Sidonham drank the medicine happily, they immediately jumped alive - for the sake of the smallpox prevention that Mr. Lom had mentioned, they had to drink the black, slimy things into their stomachs while repenting.

In the letter, Lom said that although it was an exaggeration to say that they were alive, the drugs did ease their pain and kept them from completely losing control of their thoughts and actions, that minor injuries healed quickly, but that it would take some time for the bones to reconnect, and that they occasionally vomited black blood, and that their feces were also black, and that the witches said that it was because of the wounds in their internal organs, which were the color of clotted blood clots. Oh, and it should be mentioned that in his letters, he carefully referred to the witches as bohemians, without directly using the taboo title.

With the help of the witches, they extracted scars, pus, and ugly things from the Anfol family, which according to Lom described as very similar to those of smallpox patients, but because the two previous women had been burned to death, they could not compare them - and they simply began to experiment with the two vaccines directly in the village of Jura, in the same way that the Oriental doctors used.

Lom said that there were more than 200 people in Jura who had not yet contracted smallpox, and that he selected young and healthy people from among them, vaccinated them with two vaccines, and when they were no longer feverish, he locked them up with patients with red spots, and the result was that thirteen people who had been infected with the scars of the patients died directly, and only one person was infected by the scars taken from Anfuer, and then two of the former had smallpox, but none of the latter, and they were now almost certain that the scars on Anfuel were more mild and effective than those on the patients who were about to heal。

Mr. Sidonham, from England, traced the past after the acne scars on the Anfort family - it makes no sense that this very similar smallpox scar was found on the cowherd or the cow farm worker on both occasions, and then he found similar blisters on cattle with the help of Malbiki, and they boldly used the blister extract on themselves, and then went into contact with smallpox patients— Seeing this, even the king couldn't help but take a breath, God forbid, these two bold fellows proved their conjectures, except for the low-grade fever and rash of the previous few days, they did not show any dangerous or fatal symptoms.

And then there was the Monsieur de Chamborence, and the medical students, and they did not have any accidents, "and it is interesting to note that," wrote Monsieur Lom, "the villagers have become more respectful of that Monsieur Ampour, and they believe that it is by taking the Eucharist of this saint that we have been granted the privilege of being protected from smallpox, and they have urged me to release Anfore and his family, and, of course, them, and of course, to build a church and a monastery for the new saint— They didn't seem to notice that even though they were locked up in a chapel with the saint, those who were supposed to be infected were infected—" He paused here and dropped a huge ink dot: "I made a mistake here," he wrote, "and there are people who are fanatical believers in those 'saints,' but for others, I mean, the sick, when their ills finally can't be appeased by hypocritical appeasement, they're going mad, they," Here his handwriting became hesitant and weak: "They tore old Anfort's throat, drank his blood, and ate his flesh, thinking that they would heal themselves. ”

When the screams came from the chapel, the doctors and witches, who were not yet warriors, were asleep, jumped out of their beds and ran to the chapel, but by that time the Anfure were torn apart by the madmen - the chapel was littered with splatters of flesh, not only of the Anfure family, but also of those who were barely sane and wanted to protect them, and of the madmen who had found out that they had been infected with the plague and had no scruples.

The Anfull family left only one, a girl who was experimenting on extracting scars and pus.

Monsieur Lom was horrified, but not apologetic, and when the governor of Blois asked him if he wanted to leave Joura, he decided to stay in Joula, because there was no better place for experimentation than Jura, and the villagers, who, in view of the terrible sins they had committed, would have died naked in the rivers and in the streets, as had been the Huguenots of St. Bartholomew's massacre. In this way, it was a blessing that they could be used as experimental materials for Lom's chief physician - at least they would all end up being buried.

"Yes," Louis said to Philip, "Monsieur Lom is also a Catholic." "The old gentleman, who had been through the massacre of St. Bartholomew, had seen how, at the behest of Queen Mary Medici, the soldiers and nobles had broken through the door painted with the white cross (which the Christians used to identify the Huguenots) and dragged out the men, women, old men, and children inside— At that time, the life of the Huguenots was like a mustard, and although the chief physician was now very gentle, even the most peaceful man could not help but be afraid and angry when he encountered the events of that night.

It's like you're willing to be tolerant, but your enemies are always aggressive—Louis was reluctant to let go of these Huguenots, the element of faith was negligible, and he hated that the Huguenots, despite the kindness of his grandfather and father, had always regarded the Bourbons as traitors, and were constantly brewing conspiracies and rebellions, and Louis, who was trying to ensure that there was only one voice in France and even in Europa, could not bear this...... But all the influence of the Huguenots among the French people, their wealth and technology, and their advanced ideas and practices of education—the Huguenots put a lot of effort into education in order to compete with the Church of Rome for the right to speak, and they promoted primary education, coeducation, teaching in French, etc., which was exactly what Louis was doing and would do - even for the teachers needed for primary education, Louis would not just let the Huguenots defect to other countries.

Because that kind of behavior not only weakened France, but also strengthened France's enemies.

"The name Chamborence struck me to feel familiar. Philip said that because almost all of his subordinates were French envoys and nobles stationed in various countries, most of the information he could get came from the upper class, originally Chamborant, and now it is Chamberlain's family name, of course, it is impossible to escape his ears, and he also sent secret agents to find the secrets of the Chamberlain family, but he was unsuccessful, and later because Louis directly introduced the power of the inner world into the watch world, production and the care of babies are no longer things that royal family members need to fear, and Philip also put down the original plan。

"Those bohemian witches actually get along well with the doctors. Philip picked up the letter and read it to the last page.

"Because for doctors, these witches are also quite worth studying. "When he was in the inner world, Louis found out from the books he collected that wizards are far more resistant to epidemics, injuries and aging than mortals, and it is no wonder that they are always so arrogant, even wizards like the Bohemian witches, who have almost lost their roots, can come and go freely in the plague area......" By the way," Philip said half-inquiringly, half-guessing, "how many wizards are there in Orleans now?"

"About seven thousand. Louis replied that although Philippe was the Duke of Orleans, the person in charge of the matter was Marie Mancini, the mother of the king's firstborn son, the Duchess of Cologna, who, as a mortal, could not know the number directly, "They lied." Philip said that the elders of the Order of Witches were almost completely destroyed in Flanders, and that the others, who either had to bow their heads under the threat of the wizards of Gayola or were tired of the never-ending wandering, also longed to return to the court, but the king would not be so quick to believe them.

"And some in Versailles. Louis said, "With their husbands." ”

"Oh, have they decided to convert?" asked Philip curiously.

"Even the Mancini family can have a cardinal's kin," said Louis, "what is so difficult about these witches to be baptized, to confess, and to worship?" or rather, whether it is Gayola or France, witches and wizards have no real faith—they only revere power, and although Merlin is often on their lips, Merlin is only a powerful wizard who has never been before, and which future generations have not yet reached, and to be precise, they call Merlin, just hoping that they too can have magic like Merlin.

These witches will be closely monitored, especially their children - wizards are not werewolves, werewolves' children must be werewolves, but wizards' children may be mortals, or they may be wizards, especially Bohemian witches, in fact, many of them have been mixed with mortals more than once, but Louis should be careful, if something strange happens to the child, if the husband or the husband's parents can't accept it, it may cause a rather tragic and bloody situation - these witches are not all docile puppies.

The king had special schools on his agenda, but this was not until the end of the war against the Netherlands.

Prior to this, he had written a reply to Monsieur Lom, in which he had great expectations for Monsieur Lom, Sidonham, Malbiqui, and the unexpectedly joined Chambolance, for which the king had made a special appropriation of a considerable sum of money, and to give him more powers, so that he could mobilize the army and taxes of Blois without asking the king for his will.

In addition, the king told Monsieur Lom of the use of witches (of course, he only vaguely referred to them as Bohemians in his letters) in the work of nursing at the Battle of Flanders, and promised that if he had the courage or the idea, he could recruit the Bohemians gathered in Orleans to take care of the sick.