Bang Tang was the first attendant around Louis and the chief supervisor of the bedroom. It can be said that among the servants of the palace, he was unquestionable. At some point, even the king's dracos and musketeers had to obey his orders. He had been with the king for fifteen years, starting from Louis being an ignorant child. To this day, a real king, Bang Tang loved and respected him. It can be said that Louis was really too much to let Bang Tang say such words.

In fact, in the secret library of the Roman Church, there are indeed many documents that may not be made public within a thousand years. These documents are annotated from the Bible from all over the place, to the transactions between the church and various forces, including but not limited to the so-called pagans and wizards, and dark creatures, and some humiliation or consecrations that may cause uproar. For example, this document signed by Louis XIV and the Roman Church was taken for granted. Hundreds of years later, when French scholars filed a lawsuit with the Roman Church, intending to present a real King of the Sun, Louis XIV, the priests of the Roman Church could almost be said to be cold and smiled coldly and threw the extremely well preserved velvet paper before them.

Clement VII's certainly would not have such far-sighted vision. The reason why he asked the priests to keep this document as much as possible was that everyone who had the right to enter could see with his own eyes how shameless and despicable the French king was.

In the mid-16th century, there were already good papers, but orthodox documents, especially those of the church, still use parchment or velvet paper. This velvet paper is well made because it was taken from a calf. Even after three feet, there was no trace of seams or stickers. It was a complete piece. Even after hundreds of years, it was still elastic, with a smooth surface. The extremely smooth paper polished by grinding stone was made of fine and retained for a long time and would not fade.

Ink and ink mixed with gum make the handwriting thick as if it would be revealed at any time. However, these handwritings, while explaining how greedy the French King Louis XIV was, also reveal the weakness of the Roman Church at that time, is undoubtedly hard to say. This time, the Roman Church is willing to display this precious document before everyone. Is it related to a new round of Pope's election? Because the one who called the most at this time was Bishop Bati, who came from Siena, whose surname was Zigi.

Even if hundreds of years apart, when it comes to Clement VII, the people of the church still couldn't help but feel ashamed, because in him, the Roman church broke many firsts, and even Bonifas VIII did not throw the face of the church so silently. French scholars didn't care at all. They put on clean protective clothing and soft-soled shoes, and entered the heart of Rome. The temperature and humidity remained constant, and they could only feel the light, but could not see the light source.

In the room, after they waited for a while, a priest walked into the room with a dark glass box in his own hand. There was a huge table between them and the priest. The priest placed the box on the table, opened it, and carefully took out the velvet paper because it was kept pressed between two wooden boards. Therefore, the velvet paper that was originally rolled into the cylinder had already become flat, and the traces of the dark red and nearly black sealing wax were clearly visible from the edge of the velvet paper.

As soon as they saw the handwriting on it, these scholars couldn't help but make a low and excited call. There were many handwritten handwritten by the King of the Sun, Louis XIV, who left many handwritten handwritten by his children, especially his children, whether they were born in wedlock or had children out of wedlock, they would receive a gift from their father and a handwritten blessing note on their birthday every year. Most of these notes were kept carefully. Until today, they were often displayed at family gatherings of the descendants of the Sun. A small part was donated to the museum because of their successors. Everyone could see the profound and beautiful handwriting of the King of the Sun.

Scholars are extremely familiar with this handwriting. It is no exaggeration to say that it is more familiar than their own, so when they only saw a capital letter at the beginning, they were sure that it was indeed written by Louis XIV. Then they whispered in unison: "It is indeed French!" In the era of François, the nationalism of the French people showed signs of rising, far better than their beliefs. By the time of Louis XIV, it reached its peak. In Europa, people in Europe were still using Latin as the common language and used Latin letters to Pope Clement VII, the letter written by King Louis XIV of France to Pope Clement VII was already in French.

The rows of slightly tilted, but as slender and flexible as spring vines, the beautiful handwriting is lined up on the apricot yellow paper. Except for the capital letters at the beginning, the other letters are not fancy, but have a sense of awesomeness and arrogance. "At that time, the Sun King..." a scholar couldn't help but say.

"At twenty-three years old," said another scholar.

"Young man," said the third scholar, "King." He then added that they began to earnestly fulfill their obligations as scholars and researchers until the priests booed reproachfully.

After paying hypocritical tribute to the Pope in a routine manner, Louis XIV made five requests.

Article 1: He asked the Pope to hand over the bandits who attacked the king's envoys and their families, that is, the Marquis of Craki and his group. Among these people was the brothers of Pope Clement VII. Of course, the Pope would not let his brother die, and of course he could not let his brother die. Therefore, people all know that after the signing of this treaty, the Pope's brothers were expelled from Rome, and the Corsicans who participated in the two battles were sentenced to hanging or beheading.

Article 2: The king demanded that the Pope's Guard must be removed. In fact, the Pope's Guard was indeed removed, and the Pope did not establish a guard again. It was not until three hundred years later that the Pope re-established the guard during World War I due to the security of the Vatican.

Article 3: The Roman Church must apologize to the French king for this matter, and it is not a short and easy to forget or undisclosed ceremony. A special envoy of the Pope must set off for Paris. In the Louvre in Paris, many envoys and dignitaries, bow to the king and the representative of the pope to this respectable Majesty. In addition, in Rome, a stone tablet must be erected, which states the whole thing and the confession of the chief.

This stone tablet originally stood on the west side of the Pope Palace and was at the end of the corridor of St. Peter's Basilica. It is now impossible to find. Although it is valuable as a witness to history, church officials insisted that it was destroyed by artillery fire during World War I. However, now, the documents prove that it did exist after reading it, and the king also specifically stated the size and font of the stone tablet and other requirements.

Article 4: The Roman Church wants to return Casrot and Longciliona to the Duke of Parma, and to return Cormagio to the Duke of Modne or to compensate him for the losses suffered by him. Scholars immediately started to clamor because the descendants of the Duke of Parma still claimed that they had ownership of the two cities, and he did retain the relevant certificates. As for Cormagio, fortunately, the Duke of Modne finally took compensation, otherwise the current Italian government would definitely have a headache about the big problems brought to them by the Roman Church.

This fourth article is also the reason why the Roman churches denounced the Sun King Louis XIV as shameless, because France's covetousness for the Italian Peninsula can be traced back to the Gaul period, when their ancestors were still mercenaries for the Romans. However, Louis XIV, a boy who had been in power for less than five years, dared to claim that he was the protector of the various Italian princes, and wanted to turn this into reality instead of vain verbal frustration to the church, that he did.

If this alone may not have made Clement VII so angry that it would protect this document like the ancient Bible. What made him most indignant was that both Duke Parmesan and Duke Modne (they were all Italian princes, and the previous cities were also in Italy, and they were all former territories of the Pope), and because of these two things, they gave the French a lot of money, yes, please note, everyone, the point is here! Louis XIV of France suppressed Pope Clement VII at the Castle of the San Angels, dared not move,

On the other hand, he threatened him to hand over the territory of the Pope. Of course, the French king was also very clear that his army could not stay in Italy forever, and the territory here was like a waste to him, so his envoys held a secret meeting in a semi-public manner. To put it simply, I would like to ask everyone in Italy if there is anything that needs the Pope's grace. If so, the Duke of Luxembourg and his king were very generous. Those who are willing to ask the Pope on your behalf can also get a satisfactory answer for you, and you only need to pay a little vulgar gold...

Although this approach caused many people to secretly criticize or laugh, some warriors actually stood up, namely Duke Parma and Duke Modne. It is said that the donation they gave was no less than the ransom paid by the Pope for themselves.

Article 5 is ransom. The French king shamelessly wrote that because of the mistakes made by the despicable villains in the Pope's guard, he had to send envoys and loyal people who protected the envoys to Italy to ask the respectable Father about this matter. Although he did not think that the Father would participate in this matter, it was an indisputable fact that the matter arose from the Pope's brothers. In this case, he believed that the Father would inevitably feel grief and guilt, in order to relieve this sorrow and relieve God on earth.

The spokesperson felt guilty, and he asked the Roman Church to bear all the costs of this battle, or the armed parade, as well as the loss of faith of the king. As for why there was a loss of faith, it was precisely because the French king was such a pious person that such a saint had to accept the terrible fact that his envoy was expelled from Rome by the church, and that he had to send troops to surround Rome. He had been unable to sleep and eat normally for several days, so...

He had to hold many masses to calm his heart. Although the mass was held, where to do, and who presided over it, did not mention a word in the letter, in order not to make the Father think too much, the Roman church only needed to give money and the cardinal shawl. The king even mercifully said that if the church could not provide the money for a while, it could also be repaid with the obligations and taxes that the priests and monks should fulfill to the church.

"A new word!" said one of the scholars, almost laughing, the word loss of faith was born here and was later used by many kings, as long as they thought they were shameless enough.

"More important," said Scholar II: "From this time, King Louis XIV of the Sun was interested in taxing the priests and monks."

"Yes, he may have been thinking about it a few years ago. The brother of Clement VII gave him a good excuse. If he collects taxes directly from religious people in the country, he will definitely be attacked and retaliated, but if it is in the name of the church..."

"I think there should be some smart people who can see it."

"Maybe the king can't solve this problem, but it can definitely solve that smart man." The scholars laughed. The church members on one side were very embarrassed, because someone in the church did see it at that time, but he soon encountered a reasonable accident. It was not the conspiracy of the French king, but Clement VII had to bear the blame because he did not want to visit Paris or Avignon.

The discussion of young Guo and Bang Tang five hundred years later was not clear. Bang Tang was surprised by the king's whimsical thoughts, while wondering whether this could completely get rid of the doubts of French church members.

Here we will mention the tax issue in France. The pride of the French king is not groundless. When the king of England was fighting openly and secretly with the members of the parliament because of the taxation issue, the French king had already obtained the power to freely collect taxes because of the Hundred Years' War. Not only are there many taxes in France and many of them serve the war. When war really starts, the king will temporarily increase taxes, or worse, borrow money from domestic bankers, and then use future taxes as collateral, which is the well-known tax-packing system to hand over all the taxes in a region to one person to deal with. For the king, it seems to be a very beneficial and easy thing. Because it is exempted from many work and troubles in the tax collection process, it can also get enough money to meet the needs of oneself or the country.

The key is that, just like any official who has bought an official position, in order to ensure that his or her loan will not be wasted or that he or she cannot get enough benefits, those taxpayers will do their best to exploit those poor people who need to pay taxes.

But the nobles at that time did not have to pay most of the taxes. Then, the religious officials, priests and monks, who were targeted by the king, only needed to pay a donation every few years. Even if there were millions of livres each time, compared to what they really should pay, it was just a drop in the bucket.

So who is driving the heavy carriage of France?
Chapter completed!