Fox of France

Adhering to this principle, after that, Joseph took the approach of not only not opposing, but even praising Mara's nonsense talks.

But everything is easier said than done. It is not difficult to decide to adopt the policy of "approving him, encouraging him, and cultivating him into a big SB", but it is really uncomfortable to agree with a very SB viewpoint against your will. Joseph even remembered the joke he saw in his previous life about Zhang Zongchang, the great poet of the Republic of China.

It is said that Commander Zhang compiled a collection of poems he wrote (that is, masterpieces such as "Daming Lake, Minghu is big, there are lotus flowers on Daming Lake, and there are toads on the lotus flowers, poking and jumping."), and then found An old gentleman came and asked him to taste it. The old man didn't know that this thing was written by Zhang Zongchang at first, but after reading it, he said the truth: "It doesn't make sense!"

When Commander Zhang heard this, he was furious: "How dare you say that the poem written by me is 'shit doesn't make sense'? I think you don't want to live anymore! Someone, drag this old thing out for me and kill it!"

When the old gentleman heard it, he knew it was broken, so he quickly knelt down and begged, "Commander, Commander, my eyesight is blurry, I didn't see clearly just now...let me see again..."

Zhang Zongchang asked the guard to let go of the old gentleman temporarily, patted the cannon on his waist and said to him: "Old man, you have to watch carefully this time!"

The old gentleman carefully read Commander Zhang's collection of poems twice, then sighed, put down the collection of poems, stood up and said to Zhang Zongchang: "Commander, you should ask someone to drag me out and kill me. "

Now Joseph wanted to say to Marat who was spitting wildly: "You should drag me to the guillotine."

Fortunately, Dandong also seemed to disapprove of Mara, so he stood up and argued with Mara. Marat also let Joseph go, and started arguing with Danton.

Amon brought Joseph and a few other people to meet again, and he told them that Joseph is a new star in science, and he also has a good eye for art, such as his unfinished "Spartacus" Among them, a lot of content comes from Joseph's suggestions.

So everyone chatted. Mostly when young people in France chat together, if the topic is not women, it must be politics. Then Joseph was surprised to find that these future Jacobin leaders around him (of course, the most famous Robespierre was not there), at this time, their political attitudes did not seem to be radical.

Marat advocates a constitutional monarchy-this may be related to his studying abroad in England. Danton was more conservative, arguing that the best system was an enlightened monarchy—on this point, he basically agreed with Voltaire. As for Louis, his political views are more inclined to Mara, and even more to Aurreno, but obviously, he seems to hate Mara more than Danton. And the owner here, Abel, doesn't care much about the specific political system, he is more concerned with the protection of the rights of those sans-culottes at the bottom.

Seriously speaking, Aureno is almost the only one who supports the republic, and even Aureno is not particularly firm, because in his opinion, if the republic cannot be realized, then the constitutional monarchy does not seem unacceptable. In general, if they are suddenly thrown a few years later by some kind of force, they will definitely be guillotined by their future selves for "counter-revolutionary" charges, or simply hung on the lamppost.

"It's normal, because they are still moderate now-in fact, even the most radical young people are only so radical now-that's why the Duke of Orleans thinks they can use them, use these dry The little spark in the pyre pushed himself to the throne. But they didn't know that once the fire started, the situation might not be under their control. This is really 'those who play with fire must burn themselves'." Joseph couldn't bear it I can't stop thinking like this.

It is not difficult for Joseph to deal with such a rally. He traveled over from later generations, and he has seen many kinds of political theories, political systems, and various political experiments. Dealing with these politically immature future bigwigs is not a problem. And some of the opinions he throws out at random can inspire these young people so much that even Louis, who has always been as calm as a marble statue, also said, "There are people as versatile as Bonaparte in the world." "Sigh.

In fact, at the beginning, Joseph was a little hesitant about accepting Amon's invitation to attend the gathering of these "radicals", because most of these people were not cut down in the frenzy of the coming Great Revolution. A lot of heads were chopped off, even if they were beheaded by others, and some of them were both beheaded and beheaded by others. If you associate too much with these dangerous elements, it may be dangerous too. But considering that the Great Revolution is an unavoidable torrent after all, the so-called unavoidable actually means that it is also dangerous not to recognize these dangerous elements and have no contact with them at all. So in the end Joseph decided that he must deal with these people, but he must keep a good distance. It is necessary to let them have a certain good opinion of themselves, so as to prevent someone from targeting themselves in the future, and not to be too close to them, so as not to be involved in political struggles unnecessarily.

In general, Joseph felt that his performance should be pretty good. Even Mara, after he gave him the honor of continuing to study color blindness and even discovering color blindness, his attitude towards himself actually improved a lot. Although he is still very habitual when speaking. But Joseph still felt that Mara didn't have much malice towards him.

In this era, the status of outstanding scientists is similar to that of great Confucians in ancient China. Although such people may not be powerful, it is an honor for others to be able to associate with such people. So in the end everyone quite sincerely invited Joseph to join their parties more. However, this did not meet Joseph's vision, so Joseph had to apologize to everyone. He said that he himself very much hopes to attend such gatherings often, but he recently has an important math problem that he is working on, and he may be very busy during this period, so he may not be able to attend everyone's gatherings.

"What kind of problems did Mr. Bonaparte encounter?" Marat was very interested in this.

Joseph spread his hands and said: "It sounds simple to talk about this problem, but after serious research, I feel that I can't start. Maybe, I need a spark of inspiration to flash. Well, a student said to me, he I found that all the maps seem to need only four colors to distinguish different areas. It’s just that he didn’t know how to prove this problem mathematically. I thought this problem was very interesting and it didn’t seem too difficult, so I tried I went to prove it, um, but until now, I still haven’t made any progress.”

This problem is the "four-color conjecture", one of the "four major conjectures in world mathematics" in later generations. This question sounds really simple, even elementary school students can understand this question. But to demonstrate it, the difficulty is greater than imagined. Even in later generations, people used computers to complete as many as 10 billion judgments before proving this problem. In this day and age, the question is almost unsolvable.

Joseph brought up this question as an excuse, but in fact, he also took the opportunity to trick Minkomara. Generally speaking, this kind of problems that are easy to understand and seem to be solved with only a spark of inspiration are always the easiest to get the favor of folk science.

Sure enough, Mara immediately became interested in the question: "Is this question difficult?"

"Yes, it's very difficult. Personally, I think that in terms of difficulty, this problem is no less difficult than doubling cubes, squaring circles, and trisecting angles." Joseph replied, "I have already proposed in my letter to the Academy of Sciences. This problem, and I suggest that if you don’t have a way to prove it in a short period of time, you should open the problem and offer a reward.”

This statement naturally made Marat even more excited, and he even took out a small notebook and a pen: "Mr. Bonaparte, please repeat the topic."

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With this excuse, Joseph can properly keep a certain distance from these people. Now except for Napoleon, his two younger brothers are with him, and he has to focus more on training his younger brothers.

Louis was still young at this time, less than ten years old, and it was still too early for him to be specially trained. However, Lucien has begun to show some talents in speech and art. Joseph was not a person proficient in history in his previous life. He did not know that Lucien was once the speaker of the "House of Five Hundred". Lucien played a key role in the process of Napoleon becoming in power, but since Lucien has shown With talent in this area, it seems good to let him develop in this direction.

"At that time, Napoleon will devote himself to the military. As for me, I guarantee the family's good reputation and the general direction of France's development. Well, isn't the greatest advantage of the traverser lies in knowing the general direction of history? Lucien, since He has a certain talent in speech and art, so he can be responsible for public opinion and propaganda in the future. In a sense, roses are also weapons in battle."

Joseph himself has almost no contact with the art world, so he has to ask Amon for help in many things. However, Joseph is quite worried about Amon's attitude towards life. Lucien is in the critical period of forming the Three Views. Let him learn from Amon, that's really... Fortunately, recently, after Amon mixed with those radicals, his virtue in this aspect has improved a lot.