In the Hospital for Foreign Missions in Paris, Lavoisier was lying on the bed writing and calculating rapidly, he was unkempt and excited, and with a wound on his back, he was a proper Frankenstein, and his wife Marie was wiping tears while helping him calculate and transcribe!

"Mary! Don't cry, help me sort these things out, although I have suffered a little loss today, but the discovery of nitroglycerin is of epoch-making significance.

I think that although its instability leads to its instability and it will not be applied to the military field so quickly, but in the civil field, especially in mining and road construction, nitroglycerin will definitely be in a monopoly position, which can represent a lot of wealth, haha! Lavoisier sped away without raising his head, and at the same time his hands did not stop.

"But... But—" Mary still sobbed a little, "do you know how dangerous it is today?" If it weren't for His Excellency the Marquis pulling you, you would have been blown up along with Abel and them!

Poor Abel, he was a good man, but even the body was gone, and only a pile of minced meat was found, I don't know if it was him! ”

"Yes! It's really dangerous! Lavoisier finally stopped writing, looked up at the board and was silent for a long time.

"Mary, Abel, let's pay more for their pensions! Abel's mother has bad eyes, and her daughter is only two years old! ”

After that, Lavoisier lowered his head again and muttered in pain, "But the Marquis of Zinedine will also bear some of it, but I want him to bear more, there should be no problem, right?" ”

In Ye Kai's ward, a nurse with a few freckles on his face was wiping the wound on Ye Kai's back with alcohol, his injury was much lighter than Lavoisier's, so he only needed to treat the wound to avoid infection and inflammation

"Knock knock!" There was a gentle knock on the door, and Ye Kai motioned for the nurse to open the door and saw that Peter, dressed in a lilac clerical robe, was standing at the door, followed by a middle-aged man in a military uniform.

"Are you alright?" Peter greeted Ye Kai with a complicated expression, he originally cultivated Ye Kai as his successor in Guangnan Kingdom, but what happened after that was completely beyond Peter's expectations!

Ye Kai's market has risen all the way, not only did Hastings of the British East India Company treat him as a guest, but after arriving in France, Ye Kai actually became the teacher of Crown Prince Louis, this is not a position that ordinary people can get, this must be a talent school trusted by the king and queen

At the same time, in the French folk, this polymath from the mysterious Seris is even more famous, whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, they are full of curiosity and a trace of respect for Ye Kai, his current status in France is completely above Peter, and he has become a big man that Peter's can't grasp at all!

"You're here, Bishop, I'm fine, it's just scratched by broken glass, it's not a big deal!"

Ye Kai stood up and behaved respectfully, no way, although he didn't like to see this white-skinned god stick in his heart, but everyone knew that it was Peter who baptized him, and there was a special relationship between the baptizers and baptized people in Christian culture, a bit like the Chinese exquisite master and half father.

Therefore, Ye Kai can only show great respect for Peter, otherwise it will not conform to European ethics and morality at this time.

"It's okay, this is Charles. Francois. Major General Dumourieux, a representative of the military, is here to ask you a few questions! Peter pointed to the soldiers behind him and introduced to Ye Kai.

"Your Excellency the Marquis can call me Charles, you don't need to be nervous, we are just here to find out to you what caused the big explosion yesterday?"

Brigadier General Charles, who was wearing a blue military uniform, smiled kindly and comforted Ye Kai, who looked a little nervous.

He thought that Ye Kai was nervous because of his military background, but in fact, Ye Kai remembered who this guy was!

This guy was a major figure during the French Revolution, who fought off the Austro-Prussian intervention at the Battle of Valmy and defended France during the Revolution.

But the drama is that this defender of the Great Revolution period later threw himself into the arms of the royalists, in fact, he was not a staunch revolutionary, nor was he a member of the royalists, this is an opportunist who speculated everywhere and was bent on climbing up, thinking of Mibora he had seen a few times before, Ye Kai smelled a trace of revolution.

Di Mourière has been idle at home lately, and since he lost his position as commander of the Cherbourg fortress, he has not been given any real power.

He came into contact with a lot of reformist figures, and he also caught up with the unrivaled Marquis de Lafayette, so before he could take up a specific position, he was sent by the military to find out the details of the laboratory explosion, because it was rumored that Academician Lavoisier and the mysterious Serris had developed a giant bomb.

Ye Kai, who understood what was going on, couldn't smile bitterly, these French soldiers really had a keen sense of smell!

However, he knows that there is still a long way to go before nitroglycerin can be applied to the military, and even if it is applied to civilian use, it will not be possible for a while.

Dumurier frowned, "Your Excellency Marquis, do you mean that this product called nitroglycerin can indeed produce great destructive power, but he is still very unstable, and he can't be applied to the military or even civilian?" ”

"Yes, General Charles, you know that a nascent affair has a long way to go from generation to application!"

Ye Kai nodded, how to stabilize nitroglycerin, he knew a little direction, but now he was not ready to take it out.

Originally, the military gap between the East and the West was constantly widening, if he opened this golden finger in Europe, when he returned to Nanyang, what would he do to face the white-skinned army equipped with new bombs and explosives in the future?

This is not a pit for yourself, if you want to open this golden finger, you have to wait until you occupy Vietnam and have your own laboratory.

"Alright! I'll report it to the War Office, but since this experiment is so dangerous, don't do it again in the city of Paris!

The War Office would like you and Mr. Lavoisier to move the laboratory to the outskirts, preferably under the protection of the War Department! Di Murier was silent for a long time and said to Ye Kai.

"I'll need to discuss this with Monsieur Lavoisier, but I don't think it's a big deal!"

Ye Kai nodded, he didn't know if it was good or bad to have something to do with the War Department? Leave this to Lavoisier!

However, the laboratory must not be built in the urban area of Paris, the damage caused by this explosion is not good, the injured and frightened citizens near the laboratory exceeded 30 people, and the property damage is estimated to exceed 10,000 liverets.

After getting Ye Kai's statement, Di Mourier walked out, but Peter stayed, he looked at Ye Kai with a somewhat depressed expression.

"Zinedin, things are not going well, I didn't expect that the kingdom's finances have been so difficult, such a big France, related to whether the kingdom can gain a firm foothold in the Far East, can't even take out two million and a half million thousand liver!"

The livre is now the unit of currency measurement in France and will not be replaced by the franc until 1795, note that this thing is not a specific currency, but a monetary unit of measurement, just like a tael of silver in China, which does not refer to a specific currency but to a unit.

According to the current silver content and purchasing power, one livr in 1785 is about equal to six coins and five to seven coins of silver in the Qing Dynasty, and if it is calculated according to seven coins, two and a half million livres, that is, about 1,750,000 taels of silver.

What's more, at this time, the Livre should be worth less than seven pieces of silver, so 2.5 million miles of folls is worth 1.6 million taels of silver at most.

This may be a huge amount of money for an individual, but it is not much for a country, you must know that twelve years later, the Qing government spent 200 million taels of silver on the Nanlong Miao uprising led by the famous heroine Wang Nangxian of the Buyi tribe!

And France, which is known as the hegemon of Europe, can't even take out 1.6 million taels of silver, and this is not military expenses, but borrowed by Ruan Fuying, and it will be repaid in the future, it seems that France's financial system is much more difficult than Ye Kai imagined.

The two fell into silence, and after a while, Peter sighed and said, "I will do my best to negotiate with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance, but I am afraid that Your Majesty the King and Queen will have to go and explain to His Majesty the King the importance of Vietnam to France!"

You must know that only by helping His Royal Highness King Nguyen restore the country can you have a foothold, otherwise even if you mix well in France, this will not be your hometown! ”