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chapter eight

Queen Mother Anne frowned. She could not understand Bishop Mazaran's meaning. This Austrian princess was not smart, but she was tolerant and endurance. For example, Bishop Mazaran in front of her was once a disciple and political heir of Bishop Richelieu. In the early days of Louis XIII, this Austrian Anne was often hit by the then Queen Mother Mary De Medici and her ally Richelieu. When Louis XIII passed away, people thought that she would suppress Mazaran with the identity of the mother of the king and even put him in prison.

But Anne did not do this. Not only did she not, she even did not establish a parliament to take charge of state affairs in accordance with the orders of Louis XIII. Instead, she was regent, with her brother Gaston as the king's director, and appointed Bishop Mazaran as the prime minister to maintain the operation of this huge empire. Therefore, there have been rumors that Queen Mother Anne had an ambiguous relationship with Prime Minister Bishop Mazaran - they all said that Bishop Mazaran was the "ruler" of France and Queen Mother Anne.

Only the Queen Mother and the Bishop knew that this was pure nonsense, and they were absolutely unable to say that they were harmonious. They could only work hard to get along for France and the king.

Although Bishop Mazaran was full of things, he had to rest assured so that Queen Mother Anne knew that the young king had nothing to worry about him. In fact, it was because there was nothing to worry about that it would make people feel strange. After all, he was just a ten-year-old child, especially a boy. Whether a king or a beggar, he always had some incredible things that made the adults laugh and cry. Although what happened in Versailles angered Bishop Mazaran, he also felt that it was natural that when he first met a wizard, he also had thousands of strange thoughts.

But after understanding the details, he changed his original idea. This was not the child's temporary willfulness. Louis's thoughts were obviously more complex than he thought, and more cruel than his peers. The bishop attributed these rebellions and the atrocities of the dark creatures to the king. However, he could not help but take more attention to his king in his spare time. Unexpectedly, those who had contact with the king said that he was a good Majesty who was elegant, kind, humble, fair, and noble.

Saint-Germain Enlai once lived in many French kings. It was originally a monastery built by Robert II in the 11th century. After the monastery was gradually expanded into a city, Louis IX built a palace here, and Charles V established a new house on the ruins of the palace. François I, Henry IV and Louis XIII also renovated the palaces and cities of this castle nature, so the people here are not those remote rural country bumpkins. To gain their recognition, it is not a small favor.

And they can't even bring out the small favors now. Although Bishop Mazaran was always at the negotiating table (he signed the Peace Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and won the Verdun, Metz and Alsace for France), finance was not the project he was good at.

While he had no choice but to dismiss many court servants, even selling the jewelry and clothes of the Queen Mother, the young king was able to maintain the majesty that a ruler should have and gained the love of the people of Saint-Germain, which is really something worthy of emotion and praise. Therefore, Bishop Mazaran unconsciously sighed like this today.

"But this is a good thing, isn't it?" Queen Mother Anne was very calm. "It's Louis, not my little princess Philip, or the Duke of His Highness Gaston, or the Chief Prince (referring to Prince Conde, the side of the Bourbon dynasty). What can we worry about?"

"You are talking about it." Bishop Mazaran said, but was unable to relieve himself.

But soon, he no longer was concerned about this matter because there were more and more important matters waiting for him to deal with. However, at night, the teacher of His Highness Philip was scolded because he praised His Highness Philip for being extremely intelligent, diligent and studious, which was not what the Queen Mother wanted to see.

The teacher of his highness Philip was soon replaced, and the Queen Mother and her maid were more keen on dressing up their "little girl". Even the ministers wanted to praise her natural beauty and gracefulness. Louis wanted to take his younger brother to hunt, but he was scolded by the Queen Mother.

Louis had to take Mary Mancini to hunt and fulfill his promise. Of course, he had many loyal followers around him, and the head was the governor Nicholas Fuke, a man with a keen sense of smell and skill. He rebelled by the Stone Party, and the King and Queen Mother, and Bishop Mazaran had to abandon Paris and temporarily lived in Saint-Germain Ahla. He was regarded as a great opportunity. He not only brought some reliable officials, but also raised a considerable amount of funds from the merchants with the drivers for the daily expenses of the Queen Mother and the King.

Of course, such people should give rewards, but now both the Bishop and the Queen Mother are short of money, so the king gave Mr. Fukai the honor of hunting with him and allowed him to keep his gunpowder bags for himself throughout the hunting process.

Such an honor made Mr. Fukai flattered, especially when he heard that he was the first minister to enjoy such an honor, for which he specially presented the king with a red velvet jacket worth five hundred livres, adorned with rows of silver buttons and a dark brown weasel leather lining.

While leaving Saint-Germain Castle, Mary, who was traveling with him, saw the king riding on a horse, specifically signaling to a gatekeeper's head, but the face was very strange. "Who is that?" she asked curiously.

"That was Jean Baptiste Colbert," said Louis, "that horse..." As he spoke of this, he suddenly remembered that Mary no longer remembered Versailles: "The sick horse was in my carriage, and later they found one from Colbert, and Mr. Colbert was willing to dedicate his horse to his king, so the Bishop gave him the qualification of a merchant with the driver, and now he is guarding the gate for me with my guard."

When Fukai heard this, he was surprised at the approachableness of the king. Mr. Colbert didn't seem to adapt to the clothes and swords on his body. It seemed that he might have been a gentleman or a merchant. He immediately forgot about this guy - he was just a lucky person. He thought in his heart, focusing his attention on the king again.
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