Just as Napoleon was attacking the Prussian army, Joseph, who had already returned to Paris, went to the War Department and returned the post of commander of the Northern Army to Carnot. He had a long talk with Carnot before leaving Paris and heading straight south in a carriage.

When the news came that Joseph had been shot and wounded, a group of researchers, led by Lavoisier, left Paris and rushed south. This incident was used to fuel the false news of Joseph's injury, and was considered by many to be a manifestation of the imminent loss of Paris and the preemptive transfer of the "military-industrial complex".

Although Science and Pravda pretended to refute the rumors at the time, saying that the transfer of these people was a normal "work need", almost no one believed this at all. Even Scientific Pravda's own reporters and editors don't believe it, and even in the editorial office of Scientific Pravda, there have been a large number of reporters and editors taking leave.

But at a time when everyone, even those within Scientific Pravda itself, think they are lying, the reports from Scientific Pravda are telling the truth – that the technicians, including Lavoisier, are really going to the south of France as a normal "need for work".

Many years later, the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas quoted a confidante of the Imperial Inspector Lucien Bonaparte in one of his essays that on one occasion, while drinking with Lucien and some of Lucien's other girlfriends, she asked the question: "Tell me what kind of clever liars are in this world?" ”

Then those warblers and swallows naturally laughed, and then they all followed Lucien's model to depict "the world's largest liar, who has never spoken a word of truth".

Finally, Lucien laughed and returned, "You women, how do you know what a truly clever liar looks like? You're just talking about petty liars, not big liars. The real big liar doesn't need to tell lies at all. He only speaks the truth, but, when he needs you to believe, you will certainly believe; If he doesn't need your trust, he'll immediately become a Cassandra (Princess of Troy, priestess of the god Apollo. Because she rejected the plea of the god Apollo, she was cursed by Apollo: she had the ability to foresee the future, but she prophesied that no one would believe it. ）。 And even the more he insists that it's true, the more you'll assume that he's fake. And when the truth is revealed, you will still feel that he is really honest and reliable. ”

So everyone laughed at Lucien and said that he was making things up. Only young Miss Margaret said, "Oh my God, isn't that what Science Pravda is talking about?" ”

"Always tell the truth, and cleverly deceive people with the truth." It is said to be one of the most important principles of Scientific Pravda.

Lavoisier and his family went south because a major project that was supposed to be Joseph's eye was now at its most critical moment: the Polina hydroelectric plant, one of the core parts of the Zeus Project.

The Polina hydroelectric power station is a hydropower plant built on a tributary of the Rhône, a little-known tributary that originates on the western side of the Alps on the border between France and Italy, flows west into the Rhône and then into the Mediterranean. The river, more precisely, the creek has a limited flow and a large drop, and the area through which it flows is mostly mountains and valleys, which are neither navigable nor irrigated, so the locals don't even bother to give her a name.

But the creek suited Joseph's needs well, with a large drop and not far from the road. So he chose this place as the location for the first hydroelectric power station. A year ago, engineers and workers had completed the damming of the creek in a valley. A barrage was built to create a small scenic man-made lake in the valley. Joseph also visited the lake with his family and named his own artificial lake after his sister Polina.

Now, after a year of construction, the world's first hydroelectric generating unit has finally been assembled. And a supporting artillery factory was also built in a small flat basin not far away. Now it's time for trial production. So now it was up to Joseph to rush to preside over this epoch-making feat.

In fact, before Joseph arrived, Lavoisier had already carried out dozens of "trial runs" here, in which he had solved several technical loopholes that he had not anticipated. Even, the supporting gun factories have already produced a lot of "trial products". After all, according to the original plan, the power station should have started generating electricity a long time ago, but Joseph has been unable to get out of Verdun. You can't just let the whole test process stop and wait for him alone, right? You know, it's a waste of money!

However, presiding over the world's first power station to be put into operation for power generation is a feat that opened up an era and is destined to go down in history, so Joseph mandatory: Your power generation can only be called a small test, and only I can call it official power generation!

As a result, the "Polina Hydropower Station" finally ushered in the day of "official power generation" after the first power generation for more than half a month and ten days of continuous power generation.

The day before the official power generation ceremony, the "Polina Hydroelectric Power Station" finished its last long "trial power generation" and spent a whole day carefully overhauling it from head to toe, replacing all the wearing parts that had been damaged or might be about to be damaged with new ones, and then waited for Joseph to arrive.

Since this hydropower station is called the "Polina Hydropower Station", it is natural that the Toulon saints must also participate. And then since Polina can come out to play, then the other younger siblings will naturally come out to play, so many big and small younger siblings have come, so naturally Mom will also come. So the Bonaparte family, except for Napoleon, who was still at war, and Lucien, who was still in Paris, came here.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the "official commissioning ceremony" officially began. On the rostrum, which had already been set up, Joseph spoke first. He first thanked the vast number of workers of the "military-industrial complex" for their hard work, then spoke highly of the great significance of this work, and then ......

Finally, at half-past eleven, Joseph's speech ended on time as planned. According to the plan, it will be up to Polina to close the switch, and then the entire generator set will start running, and then everyone will be able to eat.

Polina pushed the electric switch up, and the electric pump next to it didn't move.

This is normal, because the electric switch pushed by Polina is just a symbol, and even for safety reasons, the electric gate is not connected to any wiring at all, and the wires at both ends of the electric gate are actually grounded. This means that no matter whether the switch pushed by Polina is closed or not, there will be no electricity on it.

But it is still unreasonable for the electric pump not to move. Because the power plant was actually running before Polina closed the fake switch, and when Polina closed the switch, another person should have pushed a real switch up, and then the electric pump would spin up.

But perhaps because Joseph's speech was too long, and the weather was so sunny that it was a good time to doze off, the staff member who was in charge of pushing the real electric switch up actually sat there and fell asleep.

Polina knew that if she pushed the electric switch up, the pumps on both sides would spray water, and a water gate would erupt on both sides of the rostrum. However, after the electric switch was pushed up, there was no reaction at all. Polina didn't know that she was pushing a fake switch, and Joseph didn't think she needed to tell her such details.

As a result, Polina was stunned, and after a while, she reacted, and hesitated to pull the electric switch open again. However, just as she opened the electric gate again, the old man who was napping over there happened to understand, so he quickly pushed the real electric gate up, and then the water sprayed out.

"It turns out that the electric switch has to be pushed up and then pulled open before it can work. This doesn't seem to be the same as what Joseph told me. Polina was stunned.

Electric pumping machine pumping water, of course, is very effective for irrigation and agriculture, but the greater role of electricity is still in industrial production. Not far away, an electric motor-driven rig was turning, where the first "production" 12-pounder barrels were being drilled.

In addition to electric drilling, there are also electric forging hammers and other electric equipment. The use of these equipment has greatly increased the production efficiency of this gun factory. With full use of electricity, the plant's production capacity is expected to increase by five to ten times.

This is just the beginning, and the scope of application of electricity is not only for the military industry, but also for almost all the production of enterprises, whether it is heavy industry or light industry. As Josephus said in his lengthy speech, the realization of Zeus' plan would change the era completely.

On the same day that the "Polina hydroelectric power station" began to generate electricity, Napoleon launched an attack on the Anglo-Prussian army in Hanover, and at the cost of 2,000 casualties, the Anglo-Prussian army was once again defeated. The commander of the Allied forces, Field Marshal von Molundorff, was killed on the spot when he was hit by a shrapnel fired by a cannon during the battle, and the 100,000 Anglo-Prussian troops were routed with numerous casualties, and the French army successfully occupied the city of Hanover.

After a brief stop at Hanover, Napoleon continued his march and arrived at Berlin ten days later. At this time, because Prussia had no troops to mobilize, King Frederick William III retreated in the direction of Bolomberg while leaving envoys to continue to sue for peace with Napoleon.