I Am Louis XIV - Chapter 579

   Chapter 579 Hell and Heaven (Continued)

Why? Of course Elizabeth wouldn’t tell Karl XI that no matter how much he loved her and respected her, there was one thing that would never change, that she was a French princess after all, and that the Swedes had made a mistake, she told Karl XI that it was in the Sow discord, intending to seize power that should not be hers. But what if Karl XI discovered it himself and gave Gotland to her? That’s a matter of course, as long as she doesn’t make mistakes, no one will want to take this island away from her.

In addition to being too greedy, the previous governors also had some last resorts. There were tens of thousands of aborigines in Gotland. They called themselves Gotlanders, not Danes, nor Hanseatic League people. Not the Swedes, and we all know that the conflicts between the colony’s natives and immigrants, the new rulers have always been the most intense.

Gotland is again in the middle of the Baltic Sea, and the exchanges are either fishermen, merchants, or pirates. These three types of people have never been self-disciplined – as the so-called mildness will be seen as cowardly, strictness is violent, and normal taxation will also It is regarded as plunder, but if people are not ruled, and these people are ignored, Gotland will always be Gotland, not part of Sweden.

   Queen Elizabeth is here to implement the policy of Louis XIV in Lorraine and Alsace. Ask how to incorporate a group of strangers who are hostile to you into your frame, the answer is only one – interest. As long as people live in the world, they must eat, drink, clothe and sleep, reproduce, and have spiritual sustenance. These things will not fall from the sky.

On the one hand, Elizabeth asked Viscount Turenne, who was in the Netherlands, for the assistance of the navy-to clear the pirates around Gotland for her. She paid a large commission for this, but it was worth the money. But in fact she was sorting out the inner and outer passages of Gotland – those merchants, pirates and smugglers, without management, she would not be able to form a financial constraint on Gotland.

After these “passages” were all in hand, on the other side, the merchants under Elizabeth began to trade with Gotland. Gotland has a lot of limestone resources, but from Elizabeth’s point of view, she didn’t want to. Let Gotland embark on this fork in the road – the mining of limestone has destroyed a lot of vegetation and seawater, and the lime factory opened directly near the mine has made many people sick because of soot and dust, but they do not. Knowing that their disease came from here, they are also happy to be workers and get a fixed salary.

Elizabeth had priests and doctors tell the Gotlanders that they were sick from working in the lime factory without protection, and that the contamination of the lime factory would directly affect their catch, Gotland Although people are arrogant, they are not stupid, and this is indeed a fact.

   They angrily drove away the managers of the lime factory and closed the lime factory, but some people said that their income would drop sharply because of this. Do they have to wait for the Swedes’ army to “collect taxes”?

  When the Gotlanders were at a loss, Elizabeth’s officials offered to teach them to raise sheep, shave wool, weave, plant mulberries (silkworms), and open sanatoriums here.

Visby, the capital of Gotland, has a nickname called the City of Roses, but this name has nothing to do with charming love – the name is because Visby is almost sunny all year round and the temperature is suitable , even in November, roses will still bloom in Visby, and almost the same is true in the whole Gotland, so when Elizabeth heard it, she thought that if she raised sheep and silkworms here, she could guarantee sufficient supply. As for wool textiles, you still remember that there were many Huguenots who followed the princess and the princess to Sweden and Prussia respectively, and the princess has the most Flanders and the Buddha. The Randalls are best at spinning wool.

As for sericulture, the Europa people first thought that the silk used for silk was also plucked from a kind of sheep that grows on trees, and later learned that it was silk spit out by an insect, but it was not until the sixth century that there was a missionary. The silkworm seeds were hidden in a hollow walking stick and were stolen back to Europe.

Now this technology has developed quite maturely, but sericulture, whether in Europa or in China where it originated, has a problem, that is, mulberry is a deciduous tree species. Light branches, and silkworms have always only eaten fresh mulberry leaves…

But this problem does not exist in Visby, which is always spring-like. In just a few years, the Gotlanders have planted countless mulberry trees, covering almost the entire island, from the sparkling sea. Looking up, it was like a green cloud floating at a low altitude, and the thin white edges—rock and sand were as dazzling as the light shot from behind the clouds, and little Eugen could not help but be dazzled.

   In the endless blue, there are dots of red roof ridges and white towers. The princess in the tower is Elizabeth Bourbon, whom he has not seen for more than ten years.

   At this time, little Eugen became frightened and trembled with fear. If anyone saw him, he would definitely think that he was going to fight a battle that was bound to be lost, rather than seeing long-lost friends and relatives.

   “Nothing to be afraid of,” joked the Duke of Orleans. “One more slap at most.”

Of course, Elizabeth would not slap little Eugen again. Although little Eugen did some stupid things after she left, think about it, at that time he was just a boy worthy of an adult, even love, friendship and family. Indistinguishable, it’s really unbelievable.

What’s more, little Eugen Savoy is already a military general, even if he is only a member of the embassy, ​​a Swedish officer named Gustav, who came from Malmö, where he was stationed. meet him.

   But when they met at the town hall in Visby, suddenly, they returned to the Palace of Versailles, one was the eldest princess of France, and the other was a disgraced illegitimate child.

Little Eugen calmed down and realized that the eldest princess, who had become the Queen of Sweden, was already a charming lady, because Louis XIV was very concerned about the development of medicine – no matter which aspect, although she had been in the past ten years She gave birth many times, but with the help of doctors and wizards, she did not leave any serious illness, and the wear and tear caused by the child has been made up. Time has been extremely generous to her. Like her father, except for becoming more mature, Apart from being charming, little has changed in her.

   “You’ve changed a lot.” After the welcoming ceremony, there were only Bourbons in the room, and Elizabeth didn’t need to cover her words: “It’s more like a Habsburg.”

   “Don’t mention this…” Thinking of what he had done in Vienna, little Eugen blushed with shame, “I really shouldn’t…”

  He raised his head, how could he mistakenly recognize Duke Lunenberg’s sister as someone like the eldest princess and the lord of the county? What he should have noticed is that fakes are fakes after all. A woman who uses love and marriage as a bargaining chip, no matter how good she is, can’t compare with the same **** like the latter. The courage, pride and dignity of the Bourbon daughters are all their own. What he grabbed and held tightly, the former only waited in vain for a mercy and charity, letting others dictate their own destiny.

  Especially in Elizabeth of Gotland, here is her domain, she is the master here, that kind of sharp light belongs only to kings and emperors, and even the Duke of Orleans never had.

   (end of this chapter)