Fox of France

In other words, Joseph hasn’t had any major issues recently. The technology trees that are easy to climb today are basically climbed, and the technology trees that are not easy to climb are still not climbable for the time being. For example, in medicine, antibiotics have been discovered in laboratories. This is not difficult, just need to get some penicillium. But the purification and production of antibiotics, well, I don’t know what year it was. Another example is the synthetic ammonia technology. At the beginning of the laboratory, there were some achievements, but when trying to industrialize it, it immediately caused a big explosion. In the explosion, more than 300 workers and more than 50 engineers died on the spot.

More than 300 workers died, and everyone didn't feel bad about it. Anyway, most of them were Germans. They died, and no one else would take them seriously except their own relatives. As the saying goes, "relatives or Yu Bei, others have already sang." But the death of more than 50 engineering personnel really made the French feel distressed. Among these engineers, even the lowest-level trainee engineers are college students who graduated from the Paris Higher Technical School, and they are also senior talents in France. As for the higher-level senior engineers, there are several, and even the chief engineer is on the death list.

Therefore, this plan can only be postponed indefinitely. For this reason, Napoleon was very angry, and severely criticized Joseph's rape that was not based on objective conditions.

So now, to be honest, Joseph doesn't have anything too important on hand. To say that recently, his most important thing is to encourage his assistant Gauss to deduce something that he has completed, but because it is too scary. , And the things that were secretly hidden were thrown out to scare people.

But in terms of mathematics, the European countries are no longer the opponents of France at all. At this time, Joseph encouraged Gauss to throw this thing out. The main purpose is not to scare foreigners, but to suppress the gang at the Paris Normal University guy. By the way, consolidate your position as a top student. Yes, Joseph is now a top student, and not a top student in exams, but a top student in the academic world.

Nowadays, in physics and medicine, there is no longer any force that can rival the Joseph School, but in terms of mathematics, the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure still has a very strong strength. So Joseph aimed at them. In particular, it can be seen to what extent the French scientific community has been involved under the leadership of Joseph.

Joseph is currently working with Gauss on the final preparations for his groundbreaking, groundbreaking, important and disruptive theory. I plan to use this to dig a hole and give a good blow to those guys from the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure.

However, this matter is mainly done by Gauss, and Joseph only cares about the general direction, so now he has a lot of time, which can be used to teach children what is worth playing in Italy.

It has basically been negotiated with Italy. Joseph also prepared an Italian boutique tour route for Mr. Lavoisier (in fact, more for his daughter). First go to Milan for a few days, then to the University of Padua, then to Venice for a few days, then to the University of Siena, then to the University of Bologna, and then to Rome for a week. Well, considering that Alice is still young, she needs to rest more, so she can rest in Rome for a few more days, even half a month, and then...

In addition, it is no longer necessary for Joseph to go to a university in another country to pretend to be a B. But it is still necessary to arrange for your own students and assistants to go there...

The relevant matters were arranged quickly, but the day before the departure, there was a sudden news that Mr. Lavoisier was ill.

Mr. Lavoisier is already old, so it is very normal to suddenly have a headache or something. But Joseph hurried to visit M. Lavoisier.

Joseph met Lavoisier who was resting in bed at Lavoisier's home. M. Lavoisier, who appeared to have caught a cold, lay there sneezing and running nose. The doctor had already measured Lavoisier's temperature with the newly invented mercury thermometer. Mr. Lavoisier had a slight fever, but he didn't show symptoms of coughing, which meant that there was no danger of turning into pneumonia, at least for the time being.

"How do you feel, Monsieur Lavoisier?" Joseph asked.

"Ah, my head is heavy, and my whole body hurts—what the hell, I was fine last night." Lavoisier lay on the bed, with a wet towel covering his forehead.

"You should have a cold, it's fine." Joseph said.

"I know, that's what the doctor said. The doctor said I should be fine in a week. But I don't think I'll be fine in two weeks—I'm not a boy after all. Well, yours." Research has completely overturned the bloodletting therapy. Otherwise, let them do bloodletting indiscriminately, I don’t think I will recover for a month.”

"Ah, Mr. Lavoisier, I think you should recover soon. It can be seen from your very organized speech." Joseph said.

"Ah, Joseph, tomorrow's delegation, who will lead the team?" Lavoisier said.

"Otherwise, what do you think of Gauss?" Joseph knew that Lavoisier would definitely not be able to lead the team.

"Gauss is still a little young." Lavoisier said, "Besides, we promised them to be led by someone at the dean level, and Gauss's level is not enough. Ah, Joseph, you should actually have nothing to do recently, right?"

"It's nothing, just reviewing a new paper by Gauss." Joseph replied.

"Well, Gauss is going to Italy too. Why don't you come and lead the team, anyway, if there is any problem, you can also communicate with Gauss." Lavoisier said, "Besides, you can also take care of little Alice by the way. .”

Joseph thought about it, and felt that this suggestion was really good. Now that he has achieved fame, it seems that France will not be in any particular danger in a short period of time. It is actually very good to take this opportunity to relax. But M. Lavoisier seems to be a little too enthusiastic about Italian affairs-he probably took Italian money.

"But Fanny . . . " said Joseph.

"Fanny still needs you to take care of her?" Madame Lavoisier said, "You have gone out, maybe she is more relaxed."

This is actually true, and Joseph himself thinks so. But even though he was thinking this way in his heart, he said in his mouth: "I can help a lot with family matters. But Mr. Lavoisier can't go, and I am really worried about letting others take Alice. It seems that That's all I can do. I just don't have anything to do now. Well, Mr. Lavoisier, do you want me to bring you some souvenirs from Italy?"

"Ah..." Lavoisier thought for a while, "What is there in Italy? Ah, why don't you bring me back a set of Roman coins..."

When he got home, Joseph told Fanny that he decided to go to Italy instead of Lavoisier. Fanny had no objection to this.

"You can go, M. Lavoisier is old after all. Fortunately, he fell ill in Paris. If he fell ill in Milan, Padua or Siena, who will take care of Alice?"

So Joseph quickly got equipped, and the next day he took his daughter, a group of students and assistants, and set foot on the road to Italy.

Today there is a railway from Paris to the south of France, but there is no direct railway from France to Italy. Where France and Italy meet are steep mountains. It is still too difficult to build a railway in the Alps, so the usual way of traveling today is to board a ship from Marseilles and then go ashore in Italy.

Napoleon and Lucien personally went to the train station to see Joseph and his party off. Watching Joseph and his group get on the train and enter the special compartment. Then he waved at them, and the train moved slowly.

Napoleon stood on the platform, watched the train slowly go away, couldn't help but waved excitedly, and said to Lucien next to him: "Okay, more than half of the success! Now, let's proceed to the next step according to the plan Bar."

"Don't worry, at least we won't be able to take any real action until Joseph arrives in Milan," Lucien said.

"Yes, yes, don't rush, don't rush." ​​Napoleon rubbed his hands, fidgeting.

"Vanity!" Lucien couldn't help but shook his head.

In Joseph's box, Joseph handed a folder to Gauss.

"Gauss, how about my proof?" Joseph smiled proudly.

Gauss took the folder, opened it, and saw a line like this: "Explanation of Non-Euclidean Geometry".

"Teacher, this is..." Gauss raised his eyes and looked at Joseph in surprise.

"Ah, it is a supplementary proof of your research. From the perspective of differential geometry, I proved your idea on a hyperboloid similar to a saddle. If my proof is correct, your new geometry and Euclidean geometry is equivalent under certain conditions. In addition, I think, I guess, there may be another interesting proof method starting from projection. But I have a lot of things to do, so the proof in this direction , I will leave it to you to complete. Well, the content here must be kept secret, at least for now." Joseph said.

Gauss didn't speak, but just started to read the paper page by page. Joseph turned his head and said to little Alice beside him, "Alice, come here, Dad is here to teach you how to play chess."

This is one of the games Joseph and Alice play the most. Alice enjoyed playing this game with Joseph. Of course, the result of her liking this kind of game with her father is that Joseph's current chess level has plummeted, from being able to easily beat Lucien to being able to be easily beaten by Lucien.

"Okay." Alice ran over, "But this time, I don't want you to give me a rook, a queen, and a knight. I think you only need to give me a queen, and I can win."

So Gauss sat and read the paper while Joseph and little Alice played chess beside him. Little Alice was inattentive, and was led by the bishop of Joseph. She wanted to move the king, but found that if she moved the king, she would lose a rook in vain, so she became anxious. She pouted and pressed her hand Bishop Haig of Joseph said: "No, Dad, your bishop is not allowed to go like this...not allowed to go like this."

"Okay, Alice, I allow you to regret a move." Joseph said.

Little Alice looked at the chessboard carefully, and then said: "I regret two moves..."

Then the two of them went down for a while...

"No, I won't go like this, I want to regret the game..."

"I'm going to go here..."

So it took more than an hour, and after regretting many times, Alice finally defeated Joseph as she wished. The little guy was jumping and jumping happily.

At this time, Gauss had already read this short paper, and even completed the relevant checking calculations. At least for now, he hasn't found any loopholes.

He raised his eyes from the desk, so as to see Joseph raised his hand in surrender to Alice, and said, "Teacher, I finished reading this paper. It should be fine, at least I didn't find any problems. With this proof, my That kind of new geometry seems to be really established. Well, just now, teacher, you said that you can consider it from the perspective of projection, maybe there is another way to prove it?"

"Why, what did you think of?" Joseph asked.

"Teacher, when I was reading this paper just now, I had some ideas, but I haven't thought them all out yet," Gauss said.

Gauss' character is a bit too stable. It is not something that is fully sure, no matter how valuable it is, he always hides it, for fear of being seen by others. For example, in the original history, after Lobachevsky deduced Roche geometry, he sent the paper to Gauss for reading.

Gauss watched it at the time and was full of praise in private. He told people that all sensible mathematicians would have a similar view. Lobachevsky's research, and many of my research, have many similarities.

But in public, Gauss never commented on Roche's geometry, although according to the discovery of his posthumous manuscripts after his death, he went even earlier than Lobachevsky in terms of non-Euclidean geometry, Many places have gone further, but Gauss has been keeping these things under the box because he is too cautious.

But this time, Joseph will not let Gauss put these things under the box again.

"Well, then you can study it when you have time." Joseph nodded and said, "However, the research results must be kept secret. Especially the research on these two proofs must be kept secret. When our trip to Italy When I come back, I will directly publish your new geometry in the journal of the French Academy of Sciences. The guys at the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure will definitely jump out and object. We will let them perform the performance first, and then use these two proofs to severely give All of them..."