The rabbit meat was very good, and according to Louis's instructions, the chef cooked the rabbit meat for a few minutes before stewing it, without using too many complicated spices, only onions and ginger, and some celery, and even the Queen Mother, who didn't like rabbit meat very much, praised it.

Mary ate a large bowl.

Bishop Mazaran also asked the servant to give him another spoonful, and he received a group of people from England today, because of the disappearance of Charles I, Queen Mary insisted that she and Charles I's son Charlie Jr. come to France to pray for the protection of Queen Mother Anne and Mazarin, but Little Charles still stubbornly clinged to his identity- Unwilling to cross the ocean to seek refuge in another country, but anyone could see that England was even more severe than France's, these messengers were sent by Charles the Young, who brought letters from Charles the Younger, thanking his cousin Louis and his two regents, Queen Mother Anne and Cardinal Mazarin, but he still insisted on waiting in England, and hoped that they would give some support, manpower, or money, which Louis and his party needed most now.

It took a lot of effort for Bishop Mazaran to deal with them, and then he had to go to the wizards in the evening, and he was really tired and hungry.

Before returning to his room with the king, Bishop Mazarin confessed to his lord and prayed that he might indeed stay away from these hateful wizards, but he also knew that neither he nor the French court could do without wizards, and Louis XIII originally had his own wizards, but in that well-known horse crash— Yes, it wasn't an accident, the wizard died trying to save the king, and then two more wizards betrayed, and now he can't even find anyone he can trust, so when his sister asks him if he can let her daughter Marie Mancini serve the Queen Mother, he immediately agrees.

Of course, for the members of Marie's paternal line, they don't want Marie to enter the court as a witch, they have titles and power in the wizarding world, they only want Marie to achieve the same honorable status for them in the world of the world.

Bishop Mazaran regretted telling the king the truth directly, and perhaps clever perfunctory was the best way to settle the matter, but these thoughts, when he returned to his room, disappeared immediately.

"Did a wizard visit last night?" said the king, looking at him without the slightest hint of looking away.

"They are Mary's relatives. Mr. Bishop sighed long in his heart: "Your Majesty, I have met werewolves, and they have come to visit Mary. ”

"Then why don't they come to me," Louis continued, "this is my domain, my mansion, surrounded by my knights, tell me why they are free to come and go?"

"Your Majesty, they are wizards. ”

"Aren't wizards my people?"

"They are Neapolitans. ”

"They are going to seek a place in my court. ”

Louis lowered his gaze: "Are they unwilling to respect me, or are they unwilling to respect the king?

Mazaran looked at Louis, the young king, who knew Louis for a long time, and had worked as a governess for a time in a Jesuit school, like children at this age, who almost all wanted to play, and had to hit a wooden board on their chubby hips to keep their attention on the books.

He had also consulted with Queen Mother Anne - there was a question about the king's education, they did not mean to delay, the main thing was that France was in turmoil now, and he and Queen Mother Anne, as well as a group of courtiers, tried their best to barely support it, an ignorant urchin is not terrible, what is terrible is that he knows the benefits of power and does not know how to use it, it is like handing over a sword to a young child, either letting him hurt himself or other innocent people- Moreover, as the agent of the queen mother and the king, Bishop Mazaran was weak, and not everyone could be the king's teacher, so the matter naturally stalled.

But Louis never stopped studying, he studied Latin, French, English, mathematics, and began to read all the books he could touch, and sometimes he would read in Bishop Mazarin's study, so quiet that no one noticed that there was a child there.

“...... So to speak. Bishop Mazaran said after a while: "But Your Majesty, the wizards are all the same, they belong to the inner world, they ......"

"So they think it's better than anyone in the world, even the king. ”

Mazaran sighed deeply: "Indeed. ”

"This perception disgusts me. Louis said, "They should obey me when they stand in my land and share in my power and glory." ”

"The origin of the wizards is Merlin, Your Majesty, who was the teacher of King Arthur. ”

"Pierre Beauchamp was also my teacher, and if he didn't obey me, I would have cut off his head as well. ”

Bishop Mazaran frowned, he didn't know if Louis's words came from the child's willfulness, or from something more terrible: "But Beauchamp is only your dance teacher." “

"All the same," said Louis, "Mr. Bishop, whether it is dancing or witchcraft, it is the same for me, or rather, I prefer dance. "Because dance cannot threaten the king.

Mazaran understood what Louis meant, and for the first time he showed a look of great bewilderment: "But your majesty, why do you think so? You are the king, France and Navarre belong to you, and you will be the ruler of all peoples." ”

"But the king will die too. Louie said.

"Mortals will eventually return to the feet of God. Mazaran said.

"But I wish I could choose which way," said Louis, "is there any news from Charles I?"

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It wasn't until February 1649, when news of Charles I's public execution by the rebels reached Saint-Germain-Léon, that Mazarin understood what Louis meant.