Fox of France

Joseph submitted the "four-color problem" to the Academy of Sciences, and it really stumped those guys including Laplace. Everyone studied for a while, but they couldn't come up with an answer, even a feasible solution to the problem. , not yet. And everyone, including Laplace, has their own research, and it is impossible to spend all their time on such a topic, so in the end, just like Joseph said, the Academy of Sciences simply announced the topic to the world. Call for answers.

Joseph originally raised this question because he wanted to trick Marat. Based on Joseph's experience in his previous life, generally speaking, there are more physical and chemical aspects of civil science, and very little mathematics. But what he didn't expect was that the reason why there were fewer folk subjects in mathematics in later generations was that the topics of those math problems in later generations were no longer comprehensible to those subjects. Not at all, it's not because they have any reverence for mathematics, but because they can't even understand the questions!

But the "four-color problem" happens to be a topic that everyone—of course including folk science like Mara—can understand. So as soon as the reward announcement came out, the Academy of Sciences immediately received a paper from Mara, which was said to perfectly solve this problem. Then Laplace saw seven or eight mistakes with just a glance. Then, naturally, the paper went where it was supposed to go.

However, Marat refused to give up and sent the "paper" to Joseph. In his letter, he also expressed his belief that Joseph would see the value of his thesis. All of a sudden, Joseph realized that he was self-defeating, dug a hole, and buried himself in it.

Marat's "paper" is like all "civil science papers", full of various problems, from derivation errors to conceptual errors, it can be said to have everything that one expects to find. Joseph also only glanced at it and found seven or eight problems.

"If this was written by Napoleon, or any of my other students, I'd definitely blow his ass!" Joseph gritted his teeth and cursed, while having a headache about how to reply to Marat.

"It is really not easy to find out the 'valuable things' in this 'paper'. If you have to say something 'valuable' in this 'paper', it must be fearless courage Yes. After all, the ignorant are fearless." Joseph couldn't help complaining in his heart.

"However, in the reply letter, you can't keep praising his 'courage', right? Mara is indeed a civil servant, but he is not a fool. If he praises him like this, he will definitely think that I am mocking him."

So Joseph had to study Marat's "thesis" full of loopholes for a long time, and finally found something worthy of praise: "Well, although the derivation of this paragraph is not rigorous, there are some The idea is still a bit interesting. Ah, let’s play this part vigorously first.”

So Joseph began to write a reply to Marat. In the letter, Joseph first devotes two full pages to praising Marat's short analysis. The tone of praise even made him feel goosebumps all over his body.

"I'm almost as nasty as the King of Digging Lotus Roots, right? Unexpectedly, I will do the same for the sake of food. Oh, it's not shabby to make money, business." Joseph continued to write while complaining about himself. reply.

"Now it's time for a turning point, it's time for a break." Joseph thought, and wrote under his hand: "But there are still some small problems in this paper, for example... Mr. Laplace believes that the paper here There is a logical hole in the argument, ignoring... you may not know, people who do mathematics are somewhat paranoid, Mr. Laplace is very paranoid about this kind of problem, so he thinks this paper does not succeed in proving that A guess..."

After writing "but" in a few sentences, he led the disaster to Laplace. Joseph then completed his reply, carefully blotted the excess ink with blotting paper, sealed the letter, and mailed it back. As for how Marat would hate Laplace after receiving the letter, that was none of his business. Considering how much headache Laplace used his set of things in his previous life, Joseph felt that his conscience would feel better all of a sudden.

This trick did work. Not long after, Mara sent another reply letter, expressing his gratitude for his affirmation, and expressed his anger at those "conservative guys" in the Academy of Sciences, and faintly revealed that one day I will come to Beijing. When it comes to Taiwan, these guys must be driven out of the Academy of Sciences, and a pioneering young man like Joseph will be in charge of the Academy of Sciences. I believe that French science will definitely shine.

"Is this 'If I were the Qing Emperor in his year, I will repay the peach blossoms with me'?" Joseph couldn't help laughing.

Marla did get up one day, but that was in the future. And from the current point of view, he has climbed up, and he will not have too much malice towards Joseph. So for the time being, the matter about Minkomara can come to an end. Now Joseph could focus on his brothers again.

Napoleon no longer needs Joseph to worry about it anymore. He has returned to Corsica and will not return for a short time. As for Louis, he is still young, so Joseph asked someone to find a good elementary school and let him study in it. As for Lucien, Joseph arranged for him to enter his alma mater-Louis the Great School.

Lucien was of course not as conspicuous as Joseph at the King Louis-da-King's school, but he was doing well academically and doing well in speech and acting. Joseph has now removed the screenwriter of the Dragon and Rose Troupe, but his connection with the troupe is still there. Relying on this relationship, he also asked Lucien to play a few guest roles in the troupe from time to time. According to the head of Thenardier, "he is a natural actor". It's just that Joseph has never seen Lucien's performance with his own eyes, so he doesn't know how much exaggeration there is in Thenardier's words.

In addition, Joseph also invited an Austrian musician named Fraser to teach Lucien the piano. According to the musician, although Lucien was a bit late in learning the piano, he has a good talent. If he is willing to work hard on it, it is not impossible for him to reach the level of being able to perform on stage in the future.

In fact, Joseph did not require Lucien to reach such a level. In his conception, Lucien would be responsible for the promotion of literature and art in the future. He didn't need to be proficient in all kinds of arts, as long as he dabbled a little.

However, Lucien seems to be really talented in these aspects. Recently, he even created a few small scripts and composed a few small tunes by himself. Joseph has seen and listened to these works, and to be honest, they are not great, but they are passable.

It was precisely because of his performance that Amon simply pulled him into his "Spartacus" creation group, and often pulled him out to discuss script issues on weekends.

Time gradually flowed away like this. In the blink of an eye, it was 1789. In the past two years, France's finances have reached an unsustainable point, and King Louis XVI had to propose tax increases to avoid the complete bankruptcy of the royal government. French society is divided into three classes, namely priests, nobles and commoners. The first two ranks occupy a large amount of social wealth, but do not bear much taxation. These two classes naturally and firmly oppose tax increases on them, and with their political power, they do have the power to oppose it. Therefore, the only target of tax increases is naturally the third class.

In order to increase taxes, the king had to reconvene the three-level meeting that had been interrupted for 175 years to find a solution to the financial crisis.

"The King of France is an idiot. He would come up with such a stupid way to hold a three-level meeting at this time!" Napoleon taunted the King of France mercilessly in his letter to Joseph. Do you know how much dissatisfaction and resentment the third level has already buried against him? If he doesn't hold a third level meeting, these angers are still hidden, and there won't be too much danger for the time being, but what kind of third level meeting does he hold! Didn't he know that this would give those who opposed him a chance to organize? Individuals are always timid and weak, and even if they harbor resentment in their hearts, they dare not do anything. But once they get together, there is Once organized, you have the courage and strength to fight lions and even dragons. People are like locusts. When they are not in groups, they are nothing but grasshoppers, but once they are in groups , is the unstoppable locust. And that idiot foolishly gave those who opposed him such a chance, a chance for them to unite, from grasshoppers to locusts. This idiot must think that the third-level guys As long as you bluff, they will obediently pay, or at most, even if they refuse to pay, there will be no trouble, but there are still people watching from the sidelines..."

Joseph fully agrees with Napoleon's judgment. In fact, as the representatives of the third estate gradually concentrated in Paris, the whole Paris was in turmoil. Some pamphlets became popular among the townspeople. Some of these pamphlets introduced the relevant knowledge of the three-level conference to the citizens. Most of this "knowledge" had a certain direction. On the one hand, they were introducing what taxes the king planned to increase and how he planned to further exploit everyone. Such propaganda made Parisian civilians who were already living in a difficult situation worried.

At the same time, due to the general spring drought in the northern provinces, out of concern about the possible bad harvest, starting from the grain merchants under the command of several big nobles, almost all grain merchants in the end began to adopt the practice of reluctance to sell. There is less and less food available, and the price is naturally rising. The rise in prices has further stimulated the trend of hoarding and reluctance to sell. The continuously rising food prices have even made Paris complain. At this moment, Amon found Joseph again.