April 28, 1772. Denmark, Copenhagen.
A carriage from the prison drove slowly toward the city, the morning mist shrouded the capital, and the neighborhoods were silent.
There were two felons in the carriage, Brandt and Jonathan Strinzer, who were about to be sent to the palace to be forgiven by King Christian VII, as well as an old man.
Brandt was in a good mood. He was the favorite of the Earl of Lancher, and then he was favored by the king. An accidental offense put him in prison. He believed that as long as he could see the king, he and Strinzer would be together. was released safely.
Strindzer, however, does not think so. An ominous foreboding hung in his heart, he knew that after he enacted a series of bills that violated the interests of the nobles and safeguarded the common people, the Queen Mother Juliana and Minister Goldberg would not let him off easily. .
His hunch was quickly verified. When he found out that the old man sitting opposite his carriage was actually a priest, he panicked. He looked out of the car and found that the carriage was not heading in the direction of the Royal Palace Amalienborg at all. Instead, they headed for the outskirts.
In the end, they did not give him a chance to see the king, but took him directly to the guillotine. There were already too many people ready to watch the show.
The carriage stopped in front of the guillotine.
Brandt was the first to be pulled out, and Strindzer sat in the car. After a dull sound, he heard the roars and cheers of the people outside the car, and he felt fear for the first time.
Soon it was his turn, and the soldiers lifted him out of the carriage. The people along the way boiled, the women's sharp shouts and the men's angry roars mixed together like flames, and gradually spread, and the short street leading to the stage turned into a sea of anger. His chestnut hair was stained with the filth that came along with it.
At that moment, even though he had always been as determined as he was, tears were still shed. Perhaps it is because of the grievances that he has finally achieved in this life, perhaps because of the impulsiveness and irrationality of Carolyn and Caroline, or perhaps it is just because of the fear of death.
"I am one of you!"
He roared with all his strength, but his voice was drowned in the crowd as soon as he exited. The people who were blinded by the rumors, the people for whom he defended his life cheered his death.
He tripped while being guillotined because of Brandt's blood and his head was at his feet.
But at that moment, he suddenly calmed down. He has already experienced love and betrayal, and suffered glory and humiliation. He has no regrets about his 34-year life.
He finally gave up the struggle at the last moment and followed the call of fate.
His head eventually landed next to Brandt, and blood spurted out and splashed the spectators in the front row.
Maybe it will be many, many years before those people realize what a great man they killed, not an adulterer, an abusive MP, a jester who violated the king's dignity, a lowly country doctor.
In 1766, Caroline Matilda married the current King Christian VII of Denmark as a British princess. At that time, the United Kingdom had completed the first industrial revolution, the social system was becoming more and more perfect, and the social atmosphere was civilized and civilized. . On the other side of the ocean, Denmark is quite different: religion and kingship restrict the freedom of people's thoughts and actions, the sinful slave trade, the severe limitations of education and the cruel corporal punishment system make this supposedly splendid country dark as if it were in a dark place. middle Ages.
King Christian VII was like a child who never grew up, a handsome fool. He loves animals and plays, and hides extraordinary wisdom under his crazy exterior. However, no one understands him. His biological parents have passed away. His relatives only have a stepmother who covets his throne for a moment, and a younger brother who has no feelings. He had no relationship with his queen, Caroline, and never set foot in her bedroom again after she gave birth to Prince Frederick. It was at this time that Strindzer appeared.
In 1768, Jonathan Strinzer was selected as the king's temporary physician to accompany King Christian VII to travel around Europe, and gained the king's trust and dependence during the eight-month journey. The king's minister Bern and the chancellor of the exchequer Karl von Meinrich were satisfied with the influence he had on the king. Because he reduced the embarrassing performance of the king. When the royal court returned to Copenhagen in January 1769, Strindzer was appointed the king's attending physician, and in March he was able to sit in parliament as a state councilor.
In the past twenty years Christian, because of his madness, no one in Parliament would pay attention to him, and enacting a bill has always only required his signature to make him fulfill his duties as a king. He was like a useless cog in a machine spinning his own tune alone. But Strinzer, the German in the Danish colony, made his serrations fit perfectly with his own, and made him shine.
Strinzer poured all his love into the immature king like a brother: he took care of him in every possible way, he maintained his self-respect at all times, he used gentle words and physical touches Trying to control his self-abuse and self-abuse thoughts caused by epilepsy.
They talked all night about Shakespeare's plays.
"The whole world is a stage, and all men and women are just actors."
"Everyone has his own appearance and his departure."
"What a masterpiece man is."
"I would trade my throne for a horse!"
"..."
Christian relied on him, the fool king never concealed his love for Strinzer. He confided to him in public, in front of ministers, "I need you" and "I want to be with you", a thousand words were not too many for Christian.
Queen Caroline quickly notices the man who has smitten her husband. She hates him and sees him as a thorn in his marriage to Christian, but she soon discovers that she is wrong, Trinzer was a gift from God.
Strinzer himself was born ordinary, and he has five siblings by his side. He entered Halle University in 1752 to study medicine, graduating in December 1757. Contrary to his father's priesthood, he became an atheist, and in college he exposed the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, supporting the critical reformation of socio-political and the theories of Claude-Adrien Helvetic, as well as other French materialism writings of the activists.
However, fate did not make him a thinker. He later became a township doctor, and he became accustomed to the sufferings of the world. After becoming a court physician, the dependence of the king gave Strinzer hope, and he began to have a grand plan in his heart.
However, Caroline was destined to be his doom.
No matter how much Christian loves him, he is at best a fool who is too naive, and the person who really understands him is his wife.
After countless encounters and conversations, they discovered that they had the same ambition, and he found that this princess was very different from all the women he had seen in the past three decades. In addition to bringing the fresh air and advanced thinking of Great Britain, this princess from England. They soon had their first time, in a dim hotel in the city. Love is born in desire, and blooms sinful but gorgeous flowers.
Christian loved him more than anything, and even asked him to accompany him in the bath. Christian loves acting and hates politics, so Strindzer asked him to perform in parliament and play a king who cares about the people. Christian did so. The first bill he enacted himself was to increase the number of city cleaning staff, on the grounds that he could not Let his people endure the filth of garbage all day long, and the second is to let his pet dog "Gourmet" become a member of parliament.
He justly and sternly presented his interests and interests, and the congressmen were stunned. They didn't know what medicine this foolish king, who usually only knew how to play with dogs, took the wrong medicine. There was an uproar in the chamber.
Of all the mutinies, however, only Strinzer was silent. He sat quietly in the gallery and smiled at his king, until the king also looked at him with a silly smile. He knows he has taken the first step, he knows he has a long way to go, and he will always be with him.
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