To say that Joseph hasn't had any big things recently, the technology tree that is easy to climb now has basically been climbed, and the technology tree that is not easy to climb is still not able to climb for the time being. For example, in medicine, antibiotics have been discovered in the laboratory. It's not difficult, you 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 ammonia synthesis technology, which was a bit successful in the laboratory at the beginning, but when it tried to industrialize, 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 was not very distressed, anyway, most of them were Germans, and when they died, no one else would care about them except their own relatives. As the saying goes, "relatives or residual sorrow, others have also sung". But the death of more than fifty engineers really distressed the French. Even the lowest-ranking trainee engineer is a graduate of the École Supérieure des Technologies in Paris, and in France, he is a high-level talent. As for the higher-ranking senior engineers, there are several others, and even the chief engineer is on the death list.

As a result, this plan had to be postponed indefinitely. For this, Napoleon was greatly annoyed and severely criticized Joseph for his unscrupulous and rigid ***.

So now, to tell the truth, Joseph doesn't have anything too important on his hands, and the most important thing he has done lately is to encourage his assistant Gauss to throw out something that he has already deduced, but has secretly hidden because it is too scary.

However, mathematically, the European countries are no match for France at all, and Joseph at this time encouraged Gauss to throw this thing out, the main purpose is not to scare foreigners, but to suppress the gang of Parisian masters. By the way, consolidate your status as a top student. Yes, Joseph is now a top student, and he is not the kind of student who takes exams, but the overlord of the academic world.

Nowadays, in the field of physics and medicine, there is no longer a force that can compete with the Josephian school, but in mathematics, the École Supérieure de Paris still has a very strong strength. So Joseph set his sights on them. In particular, it can be seen to what extent the scientific community in France has become involuted under the leadership of Joseph.

Joseph is currently working with Gauss on the final preparations for his groundbreaking, groundbreaking, important and subversive theory. I plan to dig a hole and hit the gang of guys from the Paris High School Department well.

But Gauss was mainly in charge of this, and Joseph was only in charge of the general direction, so now he had a lot of time to teach his children what was worth playing in Italy.

Negotiations with the Italian side have basically been made. Joseph also prepared a boutique Italian tour for Monsieur Lavoisier (in fact, more for his own 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, then to Rome for a week. Well, considering that Alice is still young and needs to rest more, then rest for a few more days in Rome, even if it is half a month, and then ......

In addition, there is not much need 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 come over......

The relevant matters were quickly arranged, however, the day before the departure, the news suddenly came that Monsieur Lavoisier was ill.

Mr. Lavoisier is very old, so it is very normal for him to suddenly have a headache or brain fever or something. Joseph, however, hastened to visit Monsieur Lavoisier.

Joseph met Lavoisier at his home, who was on bed rest. Monsieur Lavoisier looked like he had a cold, lying there, sneezing incessantly and having a runny nose. Lavoisier had already been taken by the doctor with a newly invented mercury thermometer, and Mr. Lavoisier had a slight fever, but no cough, indicating that there was no danger of turning into pneumonia, at least for the time being.

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

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

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

"I know, and that's what the doctor said. The doctor said that after a week, I should be fine. But I don't think I'll be better in two weeks—I'm not a lad after all. Fortunately, your research has completely overturned phlebotomy. If you don't let them bleed, I don't think I'll be better for a month. ”

"Ah, Monsieur Lavoisier, I think you should be well soon. You can tell from the fact that you are still very organized. Joseph said.

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

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

"Gauss is a little younger." Lavoisier said, "Besides, we promised them to be led by someone at the level of the dean, and Gauss's level was not enough. Ah, Joseph, you don't think you've been doing much lately, have you? ”

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

"Well, Gauss is going to Italy too. Otherwise, if you come to lead the team, you can communicate with Gauss if there is any problem anyway. Lavoisier said, "Besides, you can take care of little Alice with you." ”

Joseph thought about it and thought it was a good suggestion. Now that he has achieved fame, it seems that there will be no special danger in France in a short period of time, and it is actually very good to take this opportunity to relax. But Monsieur Lavoisier also seems to have been a little too enthusiastic about Italian affairs—he probably took money from the Italians.

"But Fanny ......," said Joseph.

"Fanny still needs you to take care of you?" Madame Lavoisier said, "You go out, maybe she will be more relaxed." ”

That's true, Joseph himself thinks so. However, although he thought so in his heart, he said: "I can help a lot with family affairs." But Monsieur Lavoisier could not go, and let someone else take Alice, and I was not at ease, and it seemed that this was the only way to go. It just so happens that I don't have much to do now. Well, Monsieur Lavoisier, do you need me to bring you some souvenir back from Italy? ”

"Ah......" Lavoisier thought for a moment, "what is there in Italy?" Ah, Joseph, you can help me bring back a set of Roman coins......"

When he returned home, Joseph told Fanny about his decision to go to Italy instead of Lavoisier. Fanny had no objection to this.

"It's better for you to go, Monsieur Lavoisier is old after all. Fortunately, he was sick in Paris, and if he was sick in Milan, Padua or Siena, who would take care of Alice? ”

So Joseph hurriedly got fit, and the next day he took his daughter, already a group of students and assistants, on the road to Italy.

There is now a railway from Paris to the south of France, but there is no direct connection from France to Italy. Where France and Italy meet, there are steep mountain ranges. It was still a little too difficult to build a railway in the middle of the Alps, so the usual way of travel today is to get on a ship from Marseille and then disembark on the Italian side.

Together with Lucien, Napoleon went to the train station to see off Joseph and his party. Watching Joseph and his party get on the train and into the special car. Then he waved at them, and the train moved slowly.

Standing on the platform, Napoleon watched the train slowly move away, couldn't help but wave his hand excitedly, and said to Lucien next to him: "Okay, most of the success is done!" Now, let's move on to the next step as planned. ”

"Don't rush, at least we won't be able to really make a move until Joseph arrives in Milan." Lucien Road.

"Yes, yes, can't rush, can't rush." Napoleon rubbed his hands together and looked restless.

"Vain!" Lucien couldn't help but shake his head.

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

"Gauss, how about you look at this proof of mine?" Joseph smiled triumphantly.

Gauss took the folder, opened it, and saw the following line: "An Explanation of Non-Euclidean Geometry."

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

"Ah, a supplementary proof of that study of yours, I proved that idea of yours from the point of view of differential geometry, on a hyperboloid similar to a saddle. If my proof is correct, your new geometry and Euclidean geometry are equivalent under certain conditions. Also, I think, I guess, there might be another interesting way of proving from the projection. However, I have a lot of things to do, so I will leave the proof of this direction to you. Well, what's in it is going to be kept secret, at least for now. Joseph said.

Gauss didn't speak, but began to flip through the pages of the paper. Joseph turned his head and said to little Alice on the side, "Alice, come here, Daddy will teach you how to play chess." ”

This is one of the most played games by Joseph and Alice. Alice enjoyed playing this game with Joseph. Of course, the result of her liking to play this game with her father is that Joseph's chess level has taken a big dive now, from being able to easily beat Lucien, to being easily beaten by Lucien.

"Okay." Alice ran over, "But this time I don't want you to give me a rook and a queen and a knight." I feel that if you make me a queen, I can win. ”

So Gauss sat down and read the paper, and Joseph and little Alice played chess next to him. Little Alice was not paying attention, and was commanded by the bishop of Joseph, and wanted to move the king, but found that if the king was moved, a car would be lost in vain, so she became anxious, she pouted, and pressed Joseph's Bishop Haig with her hand and said, "No, Dad, your bishop is not allowed to go like this...... You are not allowed to go like this. ”

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

Little Alice looked at the chessboard carefully, and then said, "I regret the two-move chess ......."

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

"No, I'm not going to go like this, I'm going to regret ......"

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

So it took more than an hour, and after many repentances, Alice finally got her wish and defeated Joseph. The little one jumped and jumped with joy.

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

He raised his eyes from the desk, and saw Joseph raise his hand in surrender to Alice, and said, "Teacher, I've finished reading this paper." It should be fine, at least I didn't find a problem. With this proof, it seems that my new geometry can really be established. Well, just now, you said that you can think about it from the perspective of projection, maybe there is another way to prove it? ”

"What, what do you think?" Joseph asked.

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

Gauss's personality is a little too stable. It's not something he is completely sure of, even if it is valuable, he always hides it, for fear of being seen. For example, in the original history, after Lobachevsky deduced Roche geometry, he once sent a paper to Gauss.

At that time, Gauss saw it and praised it in private. He told people that all sensible mathematicians would have similar opinions. Lobachevsky's research, and many of my studies, have a lot in common.

But in public, Gauss never commented on Roche geometry, although according to the discoveries of his posthumous manuscripts after his death, he went even earlier than Lobachevsky in non-Euclidean geometry, and in many places further, Gauss was too cautious to keep these things under the box secret.

This time, though, Joseph wasn't going to let Gauss crush the stuff under the box again.

"Well, then when you see when you're free, study it." Joseph nodded, "However, the results of the study are to be kept secret. In particular, research on these two types of proofs must be kept confidential. When we return from this trip to Italy, I will publish your new geometry directly in the journal of the French Academy of Sciences. The guys at the Masters of Paris will definitely jump out against it. We'll let them perform first, and then we'll use those two proofs to give them a hard ......."