Joseph submitted the "four-color problem" to the Academy of Sciences, and sure enough, the guys including Laplace were stumped. Everyone studied for a while, but they couldn't come up with an answer, even a feasible solution to the problem. Not yet. Everyone, including Laplace, has their research, and it is impossible to spend time on such a topic, so in the end, as Joseph said, the Academy of Sciences simply made the topic public to the world. Collect answers.

Joseph originally threw this topic to pit Mara. Based on the experience of Joseph's previous life, generally speaking, the subject of citizen science is more in physical chemistry, and very little in mathematics. But what he did not expect was that the reason why there were fewer civilian subjects in mathematics in later generations was that the topics of those mathematical problems in later generations were no longer comprehensible to those subjects. No, it's not because they have any awe of mathematics, but because they can't even understand the title!

But the "four-color problem" is a topic that everyone - including, of course, civilian subjects like Mara - can understand. Therefore, as soon as the announcement of the reward came out, the Academy of Sciences immediately received a paper from Mala, which was said to be a perfect solution to this problem. Then Laplace just glanced at it and saw seven or eight mistakes. Then, naturally, the paper went where it was supposed to be.

However, Mara did not give up and sent the "paper" to Joseph again. He also said in the letter that he believed that Joseph would see the value of his paper. This time, Joseph discovered that he had self-defeated, dug a hole, and buried himself in it.

Mara's "thesis", like all "civil science papers", is full of problems ranging from derivation errors to conceptual errors. Joseph also glanced at it and found seven or eight problems.

"If Napoleon had written this or any of my other students, I would have opened his ass!" Joseph cursed through gritted teeth, struggling with how to reply to Mara's letter.

"It is not easy to find 'things of value' in this 'thesis'. If there is anything of 'worthiness' in this 'thesis', it must be fearless courage After all, ignorant people are fearless." Joseph couldn't help but complain in his heart.

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

So Joseph had to study Marat's "paper" full of loopholes over and over 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 blow this part hard first.”

So Joseph began to write to Mara. In this letter, Joseph begins with two full pages of praise for Mara's short analysis. The compliment even gave him goosebumps all over his body.

"My numbness is about to catch up with the king of lotus root digging, right? I can't think of it, I will do the same for the sake of the meal. Oh, making money, business, not shabby." Joseph continued to write while complaining to himself. reply.

"It's time to turn around now, it's time to stop." Joseph thought about it, and his hand wrote: "But there is still a little problem with this paper, for example, in Mr. Laplace. I think that there are logical loopholes in the argument here, ignoring... You may not know that people who do mathematics are a little paranoid, and Mr. Laplace is very paranoid about this type of problem, so he thinks this paper I have not been able to successfully prove this conjecture..."

Finished writing "but" in a few sentences, and led the misfortune to Laplace. Joseph then completed his reply, and then he carefully blotted the excess ink off the letter with blotting paper, sealed the letter, and sent it back. As for how Mara will hate Laplace after receiving the letter, that's none of his business. Considering that Laplace used his set of things to cause him a lot of headaches in his previous life, Joseph felt that his conscience would be relieved all of a sudden.

This trick did work. Not long after, Mara sent a reply again, thanking him for his affirmation, and expressing his anger at those "conventional guys" in the Academy of Sciences, and faintly revealed that one day I will When they come to Taiwan, they must be kicked out of the Academy of Sciences. At that time, young people who dare to open up like Joseph will be in charge of the Academy of Sciences. I believe that science in France will be able to shine.

"Is this 'If I am the Qing Emperor in his age, I will bloom with the peach blossoms'?" Joseph couldn't help laughing.

Mara 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 toward Joseph. So for the time being, things about Mincoma can come to an end. Now Joseph's attention can be focused on his younger brothers again.

Napoleon didn't need Joseph to bother much anymore. He went back to Corsica and wouldn't be back any time soon. As for Louis, who is still young, Joseph asked someone to find a good primary school and let him study in it. As for Lucien, Joseph arranged for him to enter his alma mater, the King Louis School.

Lucien was certainly not as conspicuous as Joseph at the King Louis School, but he did well academically, and he did well in speaking and acting. Joseph has now removed the screenwriter from the Dragon and Rose troupe, but his connection to the troupe remains. Relying on this relationship, he also let Lucian play a few roles in the troupe from time to time. According to Captain Thenardier, "he was a good actor by nature". It's just that Joseph didn't see Lucien's performance with his own eyes, so he didn't know how much exaggeration there was in Thenardier's words.

In addition, Joseph invited an Austrian musician named Fraser to teach Lucien the piano. According to the musician, although Lucian learned the piano a little late, he has a good talent. If he is willing to work hard on it, he will not have the chance to reach the level of performing on stage in the future.

Joseph did not require Lucien to reach such a level. In his conception, Lucien would be responsible for the publicity of literature and art in the future. He did not need to be proficient in various arts, as long as he had a little dabbling in them.

However, Lucian seems to be talented in these aspects. He has even created a few small plays recently, and also composed a few small pieces by himself. I have seen and heard these works by Joseph. To be honest, they are not very good, but they are still decent.

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

Time passed by gradually. In the blink of an eye, it was 1789. In the past two years, France's finances have become unsustainable, and King Louis XVI has had to propose tax increases to avoid the total bankruptcy of the royal government. French society is divided into three classes, namely priests, nobles, and commoners. The first two classes occupy a large amount of social wealth but do not bear much taxation. These two classes are naturally resolute against raising taxes on them, and with the political power at their disposal, they do have the strength to oppose it. Therefore, the only target of tax increases is naturally the third tier.

To increase the tax, the king had to reconvene the three-level meeting, which 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 and stupid way to hold a three-level meeting at this time!" Napoleon wrote to Joseph in a letter, mocking the French king mercilessly, "He does not Do you know how much dissatisfaction and resentment the third-level has buried with him? If he doesn't hold a third-level meeting, this anger is only hidden, and there will not be too much danger for the time being, but he is holding a third-level meeting! Doesn't he know that this will give those who oppose him a chance to organize? Individuals are always timid and weak, and even with resentment in their hearts, they dare not do anything. But once they come together, they have Organization, with courage and strength, dare to fight lions or even dragons. People are like locusts, when they are not in a swarm, they are just grasshoppers worth mentioning, but once they form a swarm, The unstoppable locust. And that idiot foolishly gave those who oppose him a chance, a chance to unite them, from a grasshopper to a locust. This idiot must think that the third-level guys are just bluffing After a while, they will obediently pay, or at most, even if they refuse to pay, there will be no trouble, but there are still people who are staring at the side..."

For Napoleon's judgment, Joseph is in full agreement. As the representatives of the third estate gradually concentrated in Paris, the whole of Paris was in turmoil. Some pamphlets became popular among citizens. Some of these pamphlets are to introduce the relevant knowledge of the three-level meeting to the citizens. Most of this "knowledge" has a certain direction. On the other hand, they introduce what taxes the king plans to increase, and how to further exploit everyone. This kind of propaganda worries Parisian civilians, who are already living hardships.

At the same time, because of the widespread spring drought in the northern provinces, out of concern for a possible large harvest failure, starting from the grain merchants under the command of several great nobles, almost all grain merchants began to adopt the practice of reluctance to sell and sell them on the market. There is less and less food, and the price naturally rises all the way. The rise in prices has further stimulated the hoarding and reluctance to sell, and the continued rise in food prices has made Paris even more complaining. At this moment, Armand found Joseph again.