8. The Knight of Albion (2)

Miss Montrancy seemed reluctant to part with her, and Li Lin was also like a gentleman who took care of flowers, making a courtesy. After turning around, the baby's face and her father, who was full of copper stench and wise self-preservation thoughts, had been forgotten and clean.

For the interests of the family and to repay the kindness of her parents, this young lady has the consciousness that the performing arts she wants to refuse and welcome can completely carry a little golden man home. But for the Count of Montrancy, who had already been placed on the list of political bargaining offerings, this effort and effort were destined to be in vain.

The hustle and bustle on the dance floor gradually peeled away from behind, and two bald men in black suits and sunglasses stood solemnly at the end of the passage to open the door of the salon, looking sickly and sickly, and the cardinal was slowly trying his luck with the limited-edition best Blue Mountain coffee.

"I'm really sorry that I have been waiting for the Prime Minister for a long time. We ask for your forgiveness for any inattentive hospitality. ”

"Well said. ”

The stooping salute in the form of a profuse was correspondingly cold, and Cardinal Richelieu, Prime Minister of Charlemagne's Kingdom, said lightly:

"I don't really like noisy places, that's the preserve of you young people. ”

At least half of this is true, and the archbishop is indeed very modest, which is completely incompatible with his position.

With the spirit of thunder, the will of the gods, and the sacred sense of responsibility of the creator of order, he is a harsh and ruthless person who is extremely incorruptible and thrifty, and lives like an ascetic. As a cardinal of the Marfa Orthodox Church, he values the interests of the country above faith - Richelieu has so many contradictory characteristics that it is enough to lament the complexity of human nature. At the same time, it has to be admitted that the Mother Goddess infused a vessel called Richelieu with all the necessary qualities of a prime minister.

He is not at all like the "Charlemagne aristocrat" in people's image, nor does he look like a bishop of the Marfa Orthodox Church, but rather like the team of technocrats under Li Lin.

Now the cardinal looked at Li Lin, polite, and his eyes were cold and hard.

"The 'Jack the Ripper' incident is finally over, and the kind citizens don't need to say much, and we merchants in the royal capital can breathe a sigh of relief,"

The pretended reassuring words stirred the Prime Minister's eyebrows, and then regained his composure.

Li Lin was not grateful to Huaide at all. It didn't stop there. The words hidden in the bones continued.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is finally returning from the front line in Lapland, and I thank the Mother Goddess for giving us a crown prince who is fighting to defend the faith, and the peace of mind of the country can rest easy. ”

Moment. The bishop's eyes were almost cold. But as a person who can achieve great things. Richelieu finally relied on his superior self-control to suppress the urge to cut people, and in any case, he had come today to reach a compromise with Li Lin. I'm not here to make a cameo appearance.

For the same reason, Li Lin also stopped his little tricks and turned the topic to the physical level.

"I beg your pardon for not commenting on the Crown Prince's faith, nor on dating. However, as a businessman, the Prime Minister's first priority is to ensure the liquidity of capital and make a profit from it, so the stability of the business environment has a direct impact on profits and the survival of the company. ”

In fact, there is no shortage of business opportunities in war-torn areas, but in a peaceful environment, objective conditions such as infrastructure, logistics, costs, labor quality, and customers' ability to pay are certainly much better. Therefore, even for the purpose of dumping arms, the big capital groups will set the battlefield far away from themselves, not at their doorstep. In the same way, while embezzling huge wealth, V.E is also maintaining Charlemagne's stability.

"We have to be concerned that the 'Dragoon Movement' is undermining this delicate state of affairs, and Charlemagne's domestic political stability no longer seems to be so secure. ”

Dauphin Louis was a devout member of the Marfa Orthodox Church, and his deferential attitude towards the Pope and even more so to the Father is evident in this. He believed that everyone in the land he was going to rule should follow the orthodox teachings of the Marfa Orthodox Church, which would also facilitate his control over the country. Dragoons were then mobilized and stationed in the Burgundian region, where the Hugonotites gathered.

The original intention of the crown prince may have been to persuade the people there to believe in the orthodox, and the dragoons only guaranteed the necessary force to persuade Shun LĂŹ to deter, but under the manipulation of the Orthodox clergy, who were convinced that the death penalty was a necessary means of purifying heresy, the local officials who had been given the chicken feathers as arrows. In practice, there was no gentle persuasion at all, and it became an atrocity of the army, magistrates, and the Orthodox Church arbitrarily plundering, smashing, looting, and burning the Huguenots.

If this was just a mess by the people below, it wouldn't have attracted Li Lin's attention, but what happened next was no longer as simple as a religious struggle to persecute Protestants.

The Dauphin Louis soon learned the truth of the matter, and after the initial outrage, His Highness, who was short of money, was soon attracted by the sight of gold, silver, jewelry, and title deed banknotes. In a series of confrontations with V.E, the crown prince, who has become extremely sensitive to money, has become extremely sensitive to the competition in order to continue the confrontation until he finally wins. Coupled with his always very good self-feeling, the crown prince did not stop, but indulged his subordinates to act recklessly, and was ready to promote the "four old" dragoon movement to the whole country.

"According to my information, Your Highness seems to have some opinion about your policy of religious tolerance, Your Majesty, and some of the ministers have suggested that a new edict should be issued amending the Edict of Nantes, signed by His Majesty Henry IV 200 years ago. ”

Li Lin's words once again stirred up the nameless fire of Richelieu, but this time it was burned towards the crown prince and the group of drill camp villains who were scurrying up and down.

As a young man, the Bishop presided over the military campaign to suppress the Huguenot rebellion of La Rochelle, and personally ordered these heretical rebellions to be hung over the tree, which defied the central monarchy. But the cardinal eventually reached the Peace of Ales with this group of stubborn donkeys who were proficient in commerce and crafts, and used whips and sweet dates to make the Huguenots serve the interests of the country.

Presumably taking his image of a defender of his faith too seriously, and with a little financial temptation, the young crown prince was so stupid that he wanted to repeal the Edict of Nantes, which had reconciled the orthodox and Huguenots.

Once the cornerstone of this definite country and the opportunity to develop into a world-class power is destroyed, Charlemagne, who has little relationship with his neighbors, will be able to imagine with his toes. The guy who proposed the repeal of the Edict of Nantes must have been an insidious Albion spy if he had not had his head crippled by the birth canal due to a difficult birth.

Fire to fire, but if the heir to the throne who is also orthodox is deposed because of this, and the prince of Beaune, who wears a pair of pants with V.E Company, gets the throne, our Archbishop Li will not be able to hold it.

In order not to happen such a terrible thing, the bishop has been busy erasing the traces of the "dragoon movement" for some time now, risking the great upset of the crown prince to set things right in Burgundy, and finally maintain stability before the Huguenots once again carry forward the glorious tradition of rebellion, but the next "Jack the Ripper" incident caught the prime minister off guard. (To be continued......)

PS: Guess the small theater

Li Lin: Yesterday's winners are poor Nameless, Hannan, Jin Leifeng, and September Fuxing, congratulations to the four!

Niederhogg: Today's question is more difficult, welcome to Du Niang!Question 1.What is the source of the Edict of Nantes?(hint: keywords - Henry IV, Protestants), question 2.Who was the initiator of the dragoon movement in history?(hint: the bear child named Louis of the Bourbons, alias the Sun King, except for the Short I, the Gallic chicken was the strongest in the period of this king) Everyone, hurry up!