Chapter 17 hallucinations of charles eleven

There are many things between heaven and earth, Horatio, which your philosophy does not dream of. (The original text is in English. See Zhu Shenghao’s translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5.) ——Shakespeare’s Hamlet Most people don't believe in bizarre hallucinations and visions, but some of them have been confirmed.If you refuse to believe it, you have no choice but to completely overthrow all historical witnesses. There is an official record signed by four trusted witnesses (the so-called record here is written by King Charles XI and published by the Waterlanddisses Museum in Sweden and signed by four witnesses, the Prime Minister Charles Birke, Kingdom Senator M.w. Birke, Alexander Ossenstein, Deputy Gatekeeper Peter Grauslan. Merimee did not use the real names of these people here, and except for the king Only three people are mentioned. There are discrepancies between the content of the narrative and the records.), this is the guarantee that the story I will narrate below is completely true.Let me also say that the prophecy contained in this record was known and mentioned at that time, and the events that happened later seem to prove that the prophecy really came true.

Charles XI, father of the famous Charles XII, was one of Sweden's most despotic, but also wisest, monarchs.He limited the excessive privileges of the nobility, removed the power of the Senate, and made his own laws.In short, he changed the state system that had been controlled by oligarchic forces before him, forcing the various classes to give him absolute power.In addition, he was an enlightened and courageous person who had a strong understanding of Lutheran religion (Lutheran religion, that is, Lutheranism, one of the main sects of Protestant Christianity, based on Martin Luther's religious thoughts, advocated the establishment of The church governed by the Holy See believes that beliefs and doctrines should be consistent, emphasizing that the authority of the "Bible" is higher than that of the church.) Extremely loyal, strong character, cold, practical and unrelated to fantasy.

His wife, Ulrike Eleonore, had just died.Although some people say that it was his ruthlessness that caused his wife to leave the world prematurely (the relationship between the king and the queen is not harmonious, and there are other mistresses in private.), in fact, he still respects his wife, and beyond people's expectations, his wife His death was also a blow to him.Since this incident, he has become more morose and silent than before, slaving away at his work, explaining his need to get rid of painful thoughts. In the second half of an autumn night, he was wearing pajamas and slippers, sitting in his study in the Stockholm Royal Palace, facing the burning stove, and beside him were his favorite servants, Count Brae and Dr. Baumgarten.By the way, this doctor is very pompous and tries to make everything suspicious except medicine.He summoned the doctor that night because he was feeling a little unwell and wanted to ask the doctor's opinion.

It was late at night, but the king, contrary to his usual habit, did not say good night to let them know how to leave. Instead, he lowered his head, stared at the firewood that had not burned out, and remained silent.It bothered him to have them around him, but he didn't know why, and he was afraid of being alone.The count of Brahe found that the king did not like his presence, and had repeatedly expressed his fear that the king needed to rest: but a gesture from the king kept him where he was.The doctor also said that staying up late is bad for health, but Charlie answered him with a word through his teeth: "You stay, I don't want to sleep yet."

So, everyone tried to talk about several different topics, but they couldn't continue talking after two or three sentences.It seemed obvious that the king was in a bad mood, and it was indeed difficult for a courtier to deal with such a situation.The Earl of Brahe thought that the king's sorrow was caused by mourning for his dead wife, so he looked at the portrait of the queen hanging in the study for a while, then heaved a long sigh and said loudly: "This portrait is just like a real person! It is indeed This expression is both solemn and gentle!..." "Forget it!" answered the king roughly, who took it as a reproach whenever the Queen's name was mentioned in his presence. "This portrait is much more beautiful than the real person! The queen is very ugly." After saying this, he resented himself for being so cruel, so he got up and walked around the room to conceal the excitement that made him blush.Walking to the window overlooking the courtyard, he stopped.The night was dark, with a crescent moon hanging in the sky.

The royal palace where the Swedish king lives today had not yet been built (it was built between 1690 and 1754.).It was Charles XI who started the construction of the palace.At that time he lived in the old palace at the corner of Ritterholm facing Lake Morrel.It was a huge building shaped like a horseshoe.The king's study is at one end.The hall where the oracles are heard by all levels is almost opposite the study. At this moment, the windows of the hall seemed to be illuminated by a strong light.The king felt strange, and at first thought it was the light from a candle in the hand of some servant.However, the hall has not been opened for a long time, what are you doing there at this time?Besides, the light was too bright to make a candle go out.There was probably a fire, but there was no smoke, and the windows were not broken, and nothing could be heard.Everything shows that it may be a manifestation of the gods.

Charlie looked at the windows for a while without saying a word.At this time, the Earl of Brae stretched out his hand and rang the bell, wanting to call a follower to understand the ins and outs of this strange light, but the king stopped him and said, "I want to go to this hall in person." When he said this, the king His face was pale, and he looked like he was afraid of ghosts and gods.But he still walked out with firm steps.The chamberlain and the doctor followed, each holding a lighted candle. The porter with the keys was asleep.Baumgarten went to wake him up and ordered him in the king's name to open the door of the audience hall immediately.The gatekeeper was greatly alarmed by the sudden order, dressed hastily, and brought the whole bunch of keys with him to the king.He first opened the door of a long corridor, which was the vestibule and aisle of the audience hall.The King came in, and was astonished to see the walls hung with black curtains.

"Who ordered such curtains to be hung over the hall?" he asked angrily. "Your Majesty, as far as I know, no one has given such an order." The janitor replied with a look of bewilderment, "The last time I ordered someone to clean the corridor, the wall was nailed with oak paneling as before... and so on. The curtain did not come from His Majesty's furniture store." By this time, the king was walking two-thirds of the way down the corridor.The count and the gatekeeper followed closely, and the medical officer Baumgarten was a little behind. He was afraid of being left alone and worried about the situation, so he ventured forward.

"Your Majesty, don't go any further!" The gatekeeper said loudly, "I assure you with my soul that there must be a demonic obstacle inside. At this time,...since your Majesty's beloved wife, the queen, died...it is said that she is always on this road. Walking in the promenade... may God bless us!" "Your Majesty, please stop!" the count also shouted, "Didn't Your Majesty hear the voice from the audience hall? Who knows what danger Your Majesty will be in!" "Your Majesty," Baumgarten said, the candle in his hand had just been blown out by a gust of wind, "please ask me to summon at least twenty of His Majesty's iron-axe-wielding guards."

"I'll go in." The king stopped at the door of the hall and said firmly, "Gatekeeper, open this door quickly." He kicked the door with his foot, and the sound echoed under the vault like the sound of a cannon. The entire corridor was shaken. The porter trembled all over, and the key banged in the lock, but would not go in. "An old soldier is trembling!" Charlie shrugged his shoulders and said, "Hey, Earl, please open this door quickly." "Your Majesty," the count said, taking a step back, "if Your Majesty orders you to march towards the guns of the Danes or Germans, I will obey you without hesitation, but what your Majesty wants you to face now is hell."

The king snatched the key from the gatekeeper. "I know very well," he said contemptuously, "that this is my personal business." Before his entourage could stop him, he opened the thick oaken door."God help me," he said as he entered the hall, and his three attendants, though frightened but also curious, and perhaps ashamed of leaving the king behind, followed them inside. The candles in the hall were brilliant, and the black curtains replaced the ancient tapestry with figures.Along the walls, as usual, the flags of Germany, Denmark or Moscow, Gustav Adolf (Gustav Adolf, Gustav Adolf the Great, born 1594 , reigned from 1611 to 1632, and defeated Denmark, Russia and Germany for twenty-one years.) The spoils captured by the soldiers.The Swedish battle flag, draped in funeral crape, is clearly visible in the centre. The benches were filled with MPs.The four ranks of the country are in place (there is no record of this meeting.).Everyone was dressed in black, and many faces appeared dazzling against the black background. Therefore, among the four people who witnessed this abnormal scene, it was difficult for anyone to find a familiar face in this group of people.It's like facing a large number of audiences, the actors only see a large group of people indistinctly, and they can't even see a single person clearly. From the throne where the king usually addresses Parliament, they saw a bloody corpse wearing the royal emblem.On the right side of the corpse, stands a child wearing a crown and holding a scepter; on the left is an elderly man, or another ghost, leaning on the throne, wearing the clothes worn by the Swedish governors before Vassa established Sweden as a kingdom. Great dress (Sweden was initially annexed by Denmark and Norway, then struggled and was governed by the "Governor" from 1448 to 1520. The Governor of Warsaw (1496-1560) finally freed it from Danish rule .In 1523, Warsaw was elected king by the parliament. In 1540, he declared Sweden his family's hereditary kingdom.).In front of the throne, several dignified and solemn figures in black robes, who looked like judges, sat behind a table on which were laid out large folios and parchments.Between the throne and the bench on which the senators sat stood a wooden anvil covered with black gauze, and beside it lay an axe. No one in this extraordinary company seemed to notice the presence of Charles and his three attendants.When they entered there was at first only a murmur indistinct, and it was difficult for the ear to catch any distinct words.Then, among the judges in black robes, the oldest one, who seemed to be the chairman, stood up and tapped three times with his hand on a book spread out in front of him, and the whole room fell silent.Several young men with ruddy complexions, well-dressed clothes, and hands tied behind their backs entered the hall from another door opposite the one Charlie XI had just opened.They held their heads high and walked with firm eyes.Behind them, a stocky figure in a tight brown leather jacket held the ropes that tied their hands.It seemed that the most important one among the prisoners walking in the head stopped in front of the wooden anvil in the middle of the hall, and looked at the wooden anvil with indifference and contempt.At the same time, the corpse seemed to shake convulsively, red blood gurgling from the wound.The young man knelt and held out his head.The ax flashed in the air and fell with a bang.A stream of blood spurted onto the stage, merging with the blood of the corpse.The head bounced a few times on the blood-stained ground until it rolled around Charlie, staining his feet red too. Hitherto Charles had been silent in astonishment, but at this dreadful sight the knot in his tongue was undone; and he took a few steps towards the throne, and facing the man in the governor's coat, Bravely uttered the famous words: "If you are from God, please speak; if you are from another, please go away." The ghost answered him slowly and solemnly: "King Charles, this blood will not shed while you are in power... (Here, the voice can't be heard clearly) ), Ulric Eleonore (reigned 1719-1720), Frederick I (reigned 1720-1751), Adolf Frederick (reigned 1751-1771) and Gustav III (Reigned from 1771 to 1792) There are five generations in total. Among them, Gustav III, the fifth generation, was killed.) Later, Huasa’s Tianhuang lineage will suffer, suffer, suffer!” As a result, the numerous figures in this astonishing council gradually blurred, as if they were only colored shadows, and soon disappeared completely.The magic candle was extinguished, and the candles in the hands of Charles and his attendants only illuminated the ancient tapestry gently blown by the breeze.For a while there was also heard a sound quite melodious, which one eyewitness likened to the whisper of the wind in the leaves, and to the snapping of a harp as it was tuned by another.Everyone agrees on the duration of the illusion, which is about ten minutes. The black curtain, the severed head, the gurgling blood that stained the floor red, all disappeared with the ghosts.Only a tinge of red remained in Charlie's slippers, and that would have been enough to jog his memory if the night hadn't been etched deeply into his mind. When the king returned to his study, he asked someone to record what he had seen, and asked his entourage to sign it, and he signed it himself.Although care was taken to conceal the contents of the records from the public, it was quickly known even before Charles XI was alive.This document still exists today, and until now, no one has dared to question its authenticity.The end of the record is brilliant.The King said: "As I have just stated, it is false to say that the United will give up all hope of enjoying a better life, which I deserve and deserve, because of the outstanding achievements of the United Nations. The religion of our ancestors." (As mentioned earlier, there are many discrepancies between Merimee's narration and records, and this paragraph is also unrecorded.) Now, if people think of Gustav III (Gustav III, born In 1746, he restricted the rights of the nobility during his reign. On March 15, 1792, he was assassinated at a masquerade ball and died on March 29.) Death and the murder of him Trial of Ancastelom the Murderer , must feel that this incident is not unrelated to the above-mentioned bizarre omen. The one who ordered Ancastrom was probably the young man who was beheaded in front of the representatives of all ranks. The corpse with the crown is that of Gustav III. And that child was his son and successor, Gustav Adolf IV (Gustav Adolf IV, born in 1778, was only fourteen years old when his father died, and was ruled by his uncle, Duke Sudermani Regent. Due to ineffective governance and difficulty in resisting the invasion of foreign enemies, the government and the public were dissatisfied and lost the support of the people, so he was forced to abdicate on March 25, 1809.). Also, the old man is probably Gustav IV’s uncle, Duke Sudmani (Duke Sudmani, after the abdication of Gustav Adolf IV, the uncle Duke Sudmani succeeded to the throne for Charles X. 3, ruled Sweden until 1818.), he was regent of the kingdom, and succeeded as king after his nephew was deposed. (Charles XI, King of Sweden, was born in 1655 and died in 1697. After ascending the throne in 1672, absolute kingship was established.)