I Am Louis XIV

   Chapter 219 The Great Adventure of the Doctors (Part 2)

When Louis received the letter from his chief physician, all the dust had settled, and these "religious" people had no power to fight back in front of the witch, no, it should be said, when they realized that there was an uncompromising , when the witches who were really able to cast spells fled, but it can only be said to be an extremely interesting coincidence - the group of witches with a number of about a hundred people was ordered by the witch order to move to Orleans. , and then the Bohemians who were ordered by the king to emigrate to the river valley, but they saw flames and dust on the way, and they knew from the raven that someone was burning witches. Although they were not sure, they decided to take a look.

Unexpectedly, the villagers were 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 whether the other party was a Huguenot or Calvin. Christians, or Christians of God, these people have similar attitudes towards them, and the Huguenots may be a little more radical-in addition, none of the villagers headed by Anfor can escape, because Mr. Lom Slightly sober, he shouted loudly in a voice that did not match his age, begging the witches to catch these people, he said in the letter that as soon as he saw the clothes of these witches, he knew they were Bohemia, so I used the best wording _ to put it simply, it was the promise that as long as the witch caught these people, everyone would get a gold louis from the king.

Nothing can touch the hearts of these witches who are used to wandering, rely on fortune-telling and curses for a living, and have almost no assets in their hands. They run out like a group of wild cats, villagers. They outnumbered them several times, but they were afraid of witchcraft, and even if someone mustered up the courage to resist, they could not compete with the witches' magic, only one or two witches suffered some minor injuries in the process of hunting, such as A face was scratched by a leaf, or a foot was stabbed.

The most seriously injured were the plague doctors and their students. Mr. Lom only broke the bone of one arm because of the shelter and help of others. The others, especially the tallest and strongest Chambord, almost killed Anfu Er's youngest son, he had several broken ribs, was beaten with a whip, and his entire back was dripping with blood. It is said that someone tried to cut off his nose, but it was unsuccessful, but he also had a deep scar on his cheek. Scarred, with their noses crooked to one side, the witches, after throwing the villagers into the chapel and moving them to the great house in Anfur, began to brew herbs—that is, crude potions—for them, as a matter of course. When Mr. Lom went to Chambord, they were reluctant to deal with the devil's wife, but seeing Malbiqui and Sidonham drinking the medicine happily, they immediately jumped to life - for the sake of what Mr. Lom mentioned before Yes, regarding the prevention and treatment of smallpox, they had to bite the bullet, and while repenting, they drank those dark, sticky things into their stomachs.

Lom said in the letter that although it is a bit exaggerated to say that they are alive and kicking, these drugs have really relieved their pain, so that they will not completely lose control of their thoughts and behaviors. Minor injuries heal quickly, but the bones still need a period of time. It takes time to reconnect, and they occasionally spit black blood, and the feces are black too, which the witches say is due to injuries to their internal organs, the color of clotted blood. Oh, and one more thing to mention, that is, in his letter, he carefully referred to the witches as Bohemians, without directly using that taboo title.

With the help of the witches, they extracted scars, pus from the Anfor family, these ugly things, according to Lom's description, are very similar to the smallpox patients, but because the two previous female workers have been burned died, so they couldn't compare - and they simply started trying to grow two vaccines directly in the village of Jura, the same method used by those oriental doctors.

Lom said that there are still more than 200 people in Jura who have not been infected with smallpox. He selected young and healthy people from them, vaccinated them with two kinds of vaccines, waited for them to have no fever, and then directly put them and their bodies covered in red. The patients were locked together, and it turned out that thirteen people who were infected with the patient's scar died directly, and only one case was infected with the scar taken from Anfor. Later, two of the former were infected with smallpox, There were none of the latter, and they were now almost certain that the scars on Anfort were gentler and more effective than those on the patients who were about to heal.

Mr. Sidonham, from England, followed the pox scars on the Anfur family's body - it doesn't make sense to find such scars that are very similar to smallpox on cattle herders or cattle workers twice. With the help of Malbiji, they found similar blisters on cows. They boldly used this blister extract on themselves, and then went to contact with smallpox patients - when they saw this, even the king couldn't help it. Taking a breath, God bless, these two bold guys proved their conjecture. Except for the low fever and rash in the past few days, they did not show any dangerous or fatal symptoms.

And then came the Mr. Chambord, and the students of the doctor, who had no accident either. "Interestingly," Mr. Lom wrote in his letter, "the villagers respected the Anfort even more. Sir, they believe that it is by taking the Eucharist of this saint that we are privileged to be free from smallpox, and they urge me to release Anfor and his family, and of course, them, and others Just to build a church and a monastery for the new saint - they don't seem to notice that even if they were locked up in a chapel with that saint, those who should be infected are infected -" he is here There was a pause, and a giant dot of ink fell: "I made a mistake here," he wrote: "There are people who are fanatical about those 'saints,' but for others, I mean, those Sick, they will go mad when their sickness cannot be appeased at last by false consolation, they," here his handwriting became hesitant and feeble: "they tore old Anfor's throat and drank him blood, and ate his flesh, thinking that he would heal himself."

When the screams came from the chapel, it could not be said that the doctors and witches of the soldiers were sleeping. They immediately jumped up from the bed and ran to the chapel, but at that time, the Anforts were all driven into madness. shredded - the chapel was littered with splattered flesh, not just of the Anfor family, but of those who were barely sensible and who wanted to protect them and those who found themselves infected with the disease and had nowhere to go. Left behind by the madman whom he feared.

  There is only one left of the Anfur family, a girl who did experiments to extract scars and pus.

Monsieur Lom was only horrified, but not apologetic. When the chief of Blois asked him if he wanted to leave Jura, he still decided to stay in Jura, because there was no better experimental site than Jura. , the villagers, for having committed such a horrific crime, the best outcome is hard labor, and the greatest possibility is to die naked as the Huguenots of St. Bartholomew massacre on rivers and streets. In this way, it is a lucky thing that they can become the experimental materials of the chief physician of Lom - at least they will be buried in the end.

"Yes," said Louis to Philip, "Monsieur Lom is also a Christian." According to the age of the old gentleman, he had passed through the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Under the will of Queen Mother Qi, how did the soldiers and nobles break through the door with the white cross painted on (God believers use this to distinguish Huguenots), drag the men, women, old people, and children out to kill them— At that time, the lives of the Huguenots were like grass. Although the chief physician was very gentle now, even a peaceful person would be afraid and angry when he encountered what happened that night.

It's like you are willing to be tolerant, but your enemies are always aggressive - the reason why Louis is unwilling to let go of these Huguenots is that the element of faith is negligible and almost negligible. What he hates is that the Huguenots suffer Despite the kindness of his grandfather and father, he has always regarded the Bourbon family as traitors, constantly brewing conspiracies and rebellions, and is trying to ensure that the whole of France and even Europa has only one voice. Of course, Louis can't stand this... But the Huguenots are among the French people. All the influence, wealth and technology, and advanced ideas and practice of education - Huguenots have spent a lot of energy on education in order to compete with the Roman Church, they promote primary education, coeducational schools , teaching in French, etc., is exactly what Louis is doing and will be doing - even for those teachers needed for primary education, Louis wouldn't just let the Huguenots defect to other countries.

  Because of that kind of behavior, it not only weakened France, but also strengthened its enemies.

"The name Chambrance makes me feel familiar." Philip said, because his subordinates are almost all envoys and nobles sent by France to various countries, so most of the information he can get is from the upper class. , of course, the name of Chamberlain's family cannot escape his ears. He also sent spies to find the secret of Chamberlain's family, but he failed. Later, because Louis directly introduced the power of the inner world. Watching the world, giving birth and caring for babies are no longer something royals need to fear, and Philip dropped his original plans.

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

"Because for doctors, these witches are also worth studying." When he was in the inner world, Louis discovered from the books he collected that wizards were far more resistant to disease, pain and aging than mortals. , it's no wonder they are always so arrogant, even wizards like Bohemian witches who have almost lost their roots can come and go freely in the epidemic area... "That's right," Philip said half inquiries and half guesses. : "How many wizards are there in Orleans now?"

"About seven thousand." Louis replied. Although Philip is the Duke of Orleans, the person in charge of this matter is Marie Mancini, the mother of the king's firstborn son, the Duchess of Colonna. As a mortal, he is not Fa directly knew this number, "They lied." Philip said that the elders of the witch order were almost completely damaged in Flanders, and the others had to bow their heads under the threat of the wizards of Gayola Island, Just tired of the never-ending wandering, they also longed to return to the court, it's just that the king wouldn't trust them so quickly.

   "And some at Versailles," said Louis, "with their husbands."

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

"Even the Mancini family can have a cardinal's kin," said Louis. "What's so hard about these witches being baptized, penitent, and worshipping?" , witches and wizards do not have any real beliefs - what they revere is only power, although Merlin is often talked about, but Merlin is only a powerful wizard who has never been before, and whose descendants have not been able to reach it. Calling Merlin, I just hope that I can have magic like Merlin.

These witches will be closely watched, especially their children - wizards are not werewolves, werewolf children must be werewolves, but wizard children may be mortals or wizards, especially bohemian witches in fact There are many who have mixed blood with mortals more than once, but Louis be careful, if something is wrong with the child, if the husband or the husband's parents can't accept it, it may cause a very **** situation - these witches are not. All docile puppies.

  The king put the matter of the special school on the agenda, but these will have to wait until the war against the Netherlands is over.

Before that, he specially wrote a reply to Mr. Lom. He had great expectations for Mr. Lom, Sidonham, Malbiqui, and the unexpectedly joined Chamblance. For this reason, the king specially allocated a A considerable sum was given to M. Lom and gave him more power, so that he could mobilize Blois' troops and taxes without having to ask the king for his orders.

In addition, the king also told Lowe about his use of witches (of course, in the letter he only vaguely referred to them as Bohemians) in nursing works at the Battle of Flanders Mr. Mu, and promised that if he had the guts, or the idea, he could also recruit the Bohemians who had gathered in Orleans to take care of the sick.

   (end of this chapter)