chapter 35 arrangements for the brothers

　　In keeping with this principle, Joseph, after this, adopted the practice of not only not objecting to, but even applauding, Mara's strange talk about the Minko.

　　But everything is easier said than done. It is not difficult to decide to adopt the policy of "agreeing with him, encouraging him, and developing him into a big SB", but to agree with a very SB viewpoint against one's will is really hard to bear. Joseph even recalled a passage he had read in his past life about Zhang Zongchang, the great poet of the Republic of China.

　　It was said that Commander Zhang made up those poems he wrote (that is, such as "Daming Lake, Daming Lake is big, there are lotus flowers on Daming Lake, there are toads on top of the lotus flowers, a poke and a jump." and so on) compiled a collection of poems, and then approached an old gentleman to let him taste it. This old gentleman did not know at first that it was written by Zhang Zongchang, and after reading it, he said the truth: "Bullshit!"

　　Commander Zhang was furious: "You dare to say that the poem written by me is 'dog shit'? I think you old boy do not want to live! Someone come, drag this old thing out and shoot him!"

　　The old man heard, know bad, quickly kneeled down and begged: "Commander, commander, I am old and blurred eyes, just did not see clearly ... you let me look again ..."

　　Zhang Zongchang then let the guards temporarily let go of the old gentleman, patted the box gun on his waist and said: "Old thing, this time you can look carefully!"

　　That old gentleman read Commander Zhang's book of poems two more times in earnest, then sighed, put down the book of poems, stood up and said to Zhang Zongchang, "Commander, you might as well ask someone to drag me out and shoot me."

　　Now Joseph then very much wanted to say to Mara, who was talking spitefully, "You might as well drag me to the top of the guillotine."

　　Luckily, Danton also seemed to be very unimpressed with Mara and stepped up to argue with him. Mara also then let Joseph go and argued with Danton with all his heart.

　　Amand then took Joseph to get acquainted with a few other people, and he told them that Joseph was a rising star in science, and also had a great eye for art, for example, in his unfinished Spartacus, which originated from Joseph's suggestions.

　　So they all talked. Whenever young Frenchmen talked together, if the topic wasn't women, it had to be politics. Then Joseph was surprised to find that the future Jacobins around him (the most famous one, Robespierre, was not there, of course) did not seem to be radical in their political attitudes at this time.

　　Marat favored a constitutional monarchy-which may have had something to do with the fact that he had studied in England. Danton, on the other hand, was a bit more conservative, believing that an enlightened monarchy was the best system - in this he was in general agreement with Voltaire. Louis, on the other hand, is a bit more in favor of Mara's political views, and even a bit more in favor of Aurelio, but it's clear that he seems to hate Mara a bit more than Danton. And the owner of the place, Abel, which is less concerned with the specific system of government, he's more concerned with the defense of the rights of those trouserless men at the bottom of the hierarchy.

　　In all seriousness, the only one who supports a republic is pretty much just Oreno, and even Oreno isn't actually particularly adamant about it, as it seems to him that a constitutional monarchy isn't unacceptable if a republic can't be achieved. In a nutshell, that is, if they are now suddenly thrown by some force a few years later, then they will certainly be the future self for "counter-revolutionary" guillotine, or simply hanged on the street lamp post.

　　"It's only natural, because they are moderate today - in fact, at the present time, even the most radical youths are only so radical - that the Duke of Orléans feels that he can make use of them, of these dry faggots in the woodpile, and of the fact that they are not so radical as they are now. them, use these little sparks in the dry woodpile to put themselves on the throne. What they didn't realize was that once the fire was burning, the situation might not be something they could control. This is truly 'those who play with fire will burn themselves'." Joseph couldn't help but think this way.

　　Coping with such an assembly wasn't that difficult for Joseph. He had traveled over in the latter days, and he had seen more than his fair share of various political theories, political systems, and various political experiments. It wasn't a problem to deal with these politically immature future bigwigs. Some of the ideas he casually threw out could make these young people feel deeply inspired, so much so that even Louis, who had always been as calm as a marble statue, also let out an exclamation of "there is actually a person as versatile as Bonaparte in the world".

　　As a matter of fact, at first, Joseph was a bit hesitant to accept Armand's invitation to attend the gathering of these "radicals", because most of these people had either cut off a lot of heads or had their heads cut off by others during the frenzy of the coming Revolution, and some of them had both cut off a lot of heads and had their heads cut off by others. also had their heads cut off by others. I am afraid that too much association with these dangerous elements will also be dangerous. But considering that the Revolution was, after all, an unavoidable torrent, the so-called unavoidable actually meant that it was equally dangerous not to recognize these dangerous elements and to have no interaction with them at all. So in the end Joseph decided that he must deal with these people, but must keep a good distance. It was important to make them feel a certain amount of goodwill towards him, so that no one would target him in the future, but also not to get too close to them, so as not to get unnecessarily involved in political struggles.

　　All in all, Joseph felt that he should be doing quite well, and even Mara, after he had given him the honor of continuing his research on colorblindness, and even discovering it, had actually gotten quite a bit better towards himself. Though he still spoke with a very habitual clip-clop. But Joseph still felt that Mara didn't have much ill will towards himself.

　　In this era, the status of an outstanding scientist was similar to that of a great scholar in ancient China. Although these types of people might not be powerful, being able to socialize with these types of people was an honorable thing for everyone else. So in the end, everyone was quite sincere in inviting Joseph to attend their gatherings more often. However, this didn't go the way Joseph had envisioned, so Joseph just had to apologize to everyone. He said that he personally would love to be able to attend such gatherings more often, except that he recently had an important mathematical problem that he was working on, and I was afraid that he would be very busy during this time and might not be able to come to everyone's gatherings.

　　"What kind of problem has Mr. Bonaparte encountered?" Mara was very interested in this.

　　Joseph spread out his hands and said, "To say this problem, it also sounds simple, but when I seriously study it, I feel that I can't get started. Perhaps, I still need a spark of inspiration to twinkle a bit. Well, one of the students told me that he found that all the maps, it seems, only need four colors to differentiate the different areas. He just didn't know how he could prove this mathematically. I thought it was an interesting problem at the time, and it didn't seem too difficult, so I tried to prove it, and, well, as it turns out, to this day, I still haven't made any progress at all."

　　This problem is the "Four Color Conjecture", one of the so-called "Four Great Conjectures of World Mathematics". This problem sounds simple, even elementary school students can understand this problem. But to prove it, the difficulty is beyond imagination. Even in the later times, people also used electronic computers to complete as many as ten billion judgments before proving this problem. And in this day and age, the problem is virtually insoluble.

　　Joseph brought this problem out just as an excuse, and actually had the intention of taking the opportunity to pit the Minkomala. Generally speaking, these kinds of problems that are easy to understand at first hearing and seem to require only a spark of inspiration to solve are always the easiest to get the favor of the Minchos.

　　Sure enough, Mara immediately took an interest in the problem: "Is this problem difficult?"

　　"Yes, it is difficult. Personally, I think that in terms of difficulty, this problem is no less than cubic multiplication, turning a circle into a square, and trisecting an angle." Joseph replied, "I have already raised the problem in a letter to the Academy of Sciences and suggested that if people do not have a way to prove it in a short time, they should publicize the problem and offer a reward."

　　This statement naturally excited Mara even more, and he even fished out a small notebook and a pen, "Mr. Bonaparte, please repeat the title."

　　...

　　Relying on this excuse, Joseph could appropriately keep a certain distance from these people. Now that both brothers were with him, except for Napoleon, he was going to have to focus more on his younger brother's upbringing.

　　Louis was still young at this time, not yet ten years old, and it was too early for his specialized training. Lucien, however, was already beginning to show some talent in speech and art. Joseph was not well versed in history in his previous life, he did not know that Lucien was once the Speaker of the House of Five Hundred, in the process of Napoleon becoming the consul of the country, Lucien played a rather crucial role, but since Lucien has already demonstrated this aspect of the talent, so let him in this direction, it seems to be good.

　　"When the time comes, Napoleon is committed to the military. As for me, I'll ensure the family's good name, as well as the general direction of France's development, well, doesn't the greatest advantage of a traveler actually lie in knowing the general direction of history? As for Lucien, since he has some talent in speech and art, he can be put in charge of public opinion propaganda in the future. In a sense, roses are just as much a weapon in battle."

　　Joseph himself had little connection to the art world, so quite a bit of this would have to be entrusted to Amang's help. But Joseph was quite uneasy about Amand's attitude towards life. Lucien was in the critical period of forming his three views, letting him and Amang learn from him, that could be ... well, recently, after Amang mixed with the gang of radicals, this aspect of virtue was quite a bit better.