Fox of France

Napoleon was busy with his code, which now has an additional task, which is to prepare for the future when the family hides behind the scenes to control the situation. Lucien was busy with church affairs, and of course various entertainments that the people loved. The executive government has just passed the French Cultural Promotion Plan. According to this plan, many lands and buildings originally belonging to the royal family will be transformed into various public entertainment facilities to meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people.

"The importance of recreational facilities cannot be overestimated." In the Ministry of Truth, Lucien was emphasizing the importance of this work to his subordinates, "There are always many unsatisfactory things in the world. It seems that people who have a good life will also have various unsatisfactory things, let alone those who have a difficult life?

The accumulation of these emotions will increase, just like the accumulation of floods. Simply relying on strong suppression can only suppress it for a while, but once it cannot be suppressed, it will immediately be a catastrophe. So one of our responsibilities is to not allow such emotions to accumulate. Let them vent in a harmless way. Art and entertainment is just that way. Therefore, we must understand our work from a political perspective, from a political perspective that can ensure the long-term stability of the country, and don't just regard it as a superficial article that whitewashes peace.

The creators of the Roman Empire understood this truth deeply, so if you have been to the ruins of Rome, you will find a large number of such facilities there, such as theaters and the Colosseum. They performed various tragedies and comedies in the theater, and displayed various battles in the Colosseum, so that the emotions of the people can be effectively guided and vented. So the people are satisfied, the smiling faces increase, and the people become more united and efficient, so Rome becomes stronger and stronger... So, we also want to build more stadiums and opera houses! This is the need of the country and the people, and it is also the requirement of the manifest destiny that France inherited from the Roman Empire!

In addition, our propaganda is not only aimed at domestic, but also cannot be relaxed in foreign propaganda. This propaganda must use your brains. You can't just call out "France is good, France is good, it's good, it's good" there, but use a more refined way to integrate the beautiful image of France, the thoughts of France, and the ideas of France. The art is publicized.

We want people all over Europe to envy France, and to be proud of speaking French, eating French meals, watching French dramas, and using French goods; we want people all over Europe to think that France is Rome in civilization. Outside of Rome, there are barbarians. We need to make the people of all Europe feel that only by being with France, learning from France, and following France, can they move towards civilization, and anyone who is against France is a barbarian who will be willing to degenerate. France not only relies on hard power such as an invincible army to rule the roost, but also depends on our culture and our soft power to influence Europe.

Ladies and gentlemen, our hard power is immense. It can compel our enemies to obey our will. But if there is only hard power, it is far from enough.

In the history of the world, in terms of military achievements alone, no one in this world has surpassed the terrible Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan and his descendants. But the duration of their empire is very short, why? For their empire is a cripple with nothing but force.

We cannot follow the old path of the Mongols. Our hard power must make them dare not disobey us, and our soft power must make the whole of Europe obey us willingly, with our interests as the highest interests.

Therefore, we want to be ambassadors of civilization, we want to cooperate with universities all over Europe, we want to... In the final analysis, we want to cultivate a large number of spiritual French people in Europe, and a large number of revolutionaries who are willing to lead the European people to follow the French road Party—Of course, the so-called 'following the French way' refers to the 'French way' we let them think..."

In order to achieve such a goal, Lucien was naturally extremely busy, so that some tabloid reporters even observed that the speed at which Mr. Lucien Bonaparte changed his girlfriend dropped by four levels.

As for Joseph, it's nothing serious at the moment. All kinds of scientific research projects are basically on the right track, and there is no need for him to stare at them in person. Joseph got himself a professor title at the University of Paris, and then tricked more than 20 doctoral students in one breath, and then threw a lot of specific operations in the project he was responsible for to them. Later, Mr. Ampere, a double academician of the French Academy of Sciences and the Roman Academy of Sciences, once recalled the situation when he was a student with Joseph:

"Professor Bonaparte is a very remarkable person, and his most admirable thing is his sharp eyes and that kind of strange intuition. At that time, some of our classmates stood by the experimental equipment day and night, I recorded a lot of messy data, and I didn’t feel that these data could explain anything. At this time, Mrs. Bonaparte, who was also his secretary, came in and took our data back. In a day or even less, Professor Bonaparte can discover doubts and immediately set up a new research direction. Sometimes, in the research, we always encounter various divergence points, forks in the road, and don’t know where to go Trying hard in the direction. At this time, the professor will often quickly point out a certain direction in his intuition, and the correct rate of his intuition is frighteningly high...

But maybe it's because Professor Bonaparte is responsible for too many things, and he is rarely seen at ordinary times. Basically, he can only be seen in the monthly progress report. But even so, we have accumulated various problems for a month, and many times, Professor Bonaparte solved them all in just a few minutes..."

Because all these things were left to the students, Joseph only had to control the nodes, which greatly reduced Joseph's workload. In addition, there was nothing that required him to "officially put into production" during this period, so Joseph was instead A rare leisure down. This idle time lasted for almost half a month, until Fulton, an American engineer whom he hired exceptionally, notified him that the new steamship could be "officially tested".

In the original history, Fulton was considered a key figure in the maturity of the steamship. Like in the original history, Fulton came to Paris in 1993, trying to find someone who could fund him to develop a steamship. However, his luck was not very good. Before the steamboat he built had time to complete, it sank in the Seine River due to strong winds. He was also fined heavily by the revolutionary government for blocking the shipping lanes with the sunken ship.

As a result, Fulton, who had nowhere to go, was pulled into the Army Technical Research Institute by Joseph at a low price, and was later pulled down by Toulon to join the Naval Research Institute.

In the Institute of Army Technology and the Naval Institute in Toulon, because the projects he was good at did not receive much investment, he did not perform very well. But when the military-industrial complex started the steamship research project, this Yankee, who was considered to have weak basic knowledge and was more suitable to be a skilled worker rather than an engineer, showed the advantages of strong hands-on ability, strong mobility, and good coordination and trade-offs , became the deputy director of the steamship project. Who is the person in charge? Of course, there is a sign, but Joseph, who is basically not in charge.

Now that the "official sea trial" is already available, that is to say, in fact, the ship has already completed all the "informal sea trial" projects and has basically succeeded.

The location of the trial voyage was on the Seine River. Early in the morning, Joseph took his female secretary and wife, and the female secretary's female secretary, to a shipyard belonging to the military-industrial complex at the west end of Paris.

When they arrived at the pier of the shipyard, they could see from a distance that there was a ship smoking on the pier.

"Joseph, is this the British ship you imitated?" Paulina, the female secretary's female secretary, asked. The captured British steamship was finally towed to Paris by the French for further research, and then handed over to Lucien for public exhibition to show off the French victory. The stories of Er and others were made into a play and staged in Paris.

Of course Paulina had also seen the English steamer which had been somewhat restored. Unlike ordinary people, everyone generally thinks that the British ship is simply ugly, but Paulina thinks that there is a kind of steamboat with two big wheels and a tall black chimney. "Unique beauty with a sense of evil power in clumsiness", and even compared it to the Vulcan standing beside the god of beauty. Therefore, Polina really hopes that the French can simply imitate this ship.

"How is this possible? How could we build such a backward thing?" Paulina's words immediately reminded Joseph of his fifty thousand francs.

The carriage stopped directly at the pier. Several people got off the carriage, and a slender boat with two masts and two funnels in front of one another was moored in front of them.

Fulton had been waiting for Joseph and the others here for a long time, and when he saw a few people getting out of the carriage, he hurried up to meet them.

"Professor, everything is ready, just waiting for you to board the ship." Fulton said.

"Very good. Are the lifeboats on this ship in place?" Joseph asked.

"It's all in place," Fulton said.

"Also have the life jackets ready? You have to know that everyone on this boat is an inestimable treasure of the union. They must be protected well. You must know that safety is no small matter."

"Professor, don't worry, we have always been very concerned about safety precautions. There are lifeboats on board that are sufficient for twice the number of passengers. You can get life buoys or life jackets within easy reach—Professor, look over there. There's a row."

Joseph looked over there, and there was indeed a row of life buoys hanging there, so he nodded, then turned to the others and said, "Okay, let's get on the boat."