Adhering to this principle, Joseph afterwards adopted the practice of not only not objecting, but even applauding, the Minkochi talks of Marat.

But anything is easier said than done. It is not difficult to decide to adopt the policy of "agreeing with him, encouraging him, and cultivating him into a big SB", but it is really uncomfortable to agree with a very SB point of view against your will. Joseph even remembered the joke he had seen in his previous life about the great poet Zhang Zongchang of the Republic of China.

It is said that Commander Zhang wrote poems such as "Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, there are lotus flowers on Daming Lake, and there are toads on the lotus flowers, poke and jump. I compiled a collection of poems, and then I found an old gentleman and asked him to taste it. The old gentleman didn't know that this thing was written by Zhang Zongchang at first, but after reading it, he told the truth: "Bullshit doesn't work!" ”

Commander Zhang was furious when he heard this: "Dare to say that the poem written by Lao Tzu is 'bullshit'? I don't think you old boy wants to live anymore! Come on, drag this old thing out and kill me! ”

When the old gentleman heard this, he knew that it was bad, so he quickly knelt down and begged: "Commander, commander, I am dazzled, I didn't see it clearly just now...... You let me see ...... again."

Zhang Zongchang asked the guard to let go of the old gentleman temporarily, patted the box cannon on his waist and said to him: "Old thing, you have to look carefully this time!" ”

The old gentleman read Commander Zhang's poetry collection twice more seriously, then sighed, put down the poetry collection, stood up and said to Zhang Zongchang: "Commander, you still have to ask someone to drag me out and kill me." ”

Now Joseph was a little tempted to say to Marat, who was spitting all over the place, "You'd better drag me to the guillotine." ”

Fortunately, Danton also seemed to be very disapproving of Marat, so he stood up and argued with Marat. Marat let Joseph go, and began to argue with Danton.

Armand took Joseph and a few others to meet him, and he told them that Joseph was a rising star in science and had an eye for art, for example, much of his unfinished Spartacus was inspired by Joseph's advice.

So we started talking. Whenever young people in France talk together, if the topic is not women, then it must be politics. Joseph was then surprised to find that the future Jacobin bigwigs around him (of course, the most famous Robespierre was not there) did not seem to be politically radical at this time.

Marat advocated a constitutional monarchy – perhaps because he had studied in England. Danton, on the other hand, was more conservative, arguing that an enlightened monarchy was the best institution – and on this point he and Voltaire were largely in agreement. Louis, his political views were more inclined towards Marat, or even a little more towards Aureno, but it was clear that he seemed to hate Marat a little more than Danton. And the owner of this place, Abel, is not so concerned with the specific form of government, he is more concerned with the maintenance of the rights of those sans-culottes at the bottom.

Seriously speaking, O'Reno is almost the only one who supports a republic, and even O'Reno is not particularly firm, because in his opinion, if a republic cannot be realized, then a constitutional monarchy does not seem unacceptable. In general, if they are suddenly thrown into a few years by some force, they will surely be guillotined by their future selves on charges of "counter-revolution", or simply hung on a lamp pole.

"And that's normal, because they're mild—in fact, even the most radical youths are only so radical now—that the Duke of Orleans thinks they can take advantage of them, and use the little sparks in these dry pyres to put themselves on the throne. They didn't know that once the fire broke out, the situation might not be under their control. This is really 'those who play with fire will burn themselves'. Joseph couldn't help but think.

It was not difficult for Joseph to cope with such a rally. He has traveled through later generations, and he does not know how many he has seen all kinds of political theories, political systems, and all kinds of political experiments. It is not a problem to deal with these politically immature future bigwigs. And some of the ideas he casually threw out could inspire these young people so much that even Louis, who had always been as calm as a marble statue, exclaimed, "There is such a versatile person as Bonaparte in the world."

In fact, at first, Joseph was a little hesitant to accept Armand's invitation to attend the gathering of these "radicals", because most of these people had either had a large number of heads cut off or had their heads cut off in the coming frenzy of the Great Revolution, and some of them had their heads cut off as well as their heads. If you have too much contact with these dangerous people, I am afraid that it will also be dangerous. But considering that the Revolution was, after all, an unavoidable torrent, the so-called unavoidable means that it is also dangerous to not recognize these dangerous elements and have no contact with them at all. So in the end, Joseph decided that he had to deal with these people, but he had to keep a good distance. It is necessary to let them have a certain favorable impression of themselves and save them from being targeted by others in the future, but also not to get too close to them, so as not to get unnecessarily involved in political struggles.

Overall, Joseph felt that his performance should be quite good, even if Marat continued to study color blindness, and even after the honor of discovering color blindness was given to him, his attitude towards himself actually improved a lot. Although he still has a very habitual habit of holding a gun and a stick when he speaks. But Joseph still felt that Marat did not have much ill will towards him.

In this era, the status of outstanding scientists is similar to that of ancient Chinese Confucianism. Although such people may not be powerful, it is an honorable thing for others to be able to associate with such people. So in the end, everyone quite cordially invited Joseph to attend more of their meetings. However, this did not fit Joseph's vision, so Joseph had to apologize to everyone. He said that he would like to attend such gatherings regularly, but he has recently had an important math problem that he is working on, and he may be very busy during this time, so he may not be able to attend everyone's meetings.

"What kind of problem did Monsieur Bonaparte have?" Marat was very interested.

Joseph spread his hands and said, "If you want to talk about this question, it sounds very simple, but when you study it carefully, you don't feel like you can start. Perhaps, I still need a spark of inspiration to flicker. Well, one student told me that he found that all the maps seemed to be able to distinguish different areas with only four colors. It's just that he doesn't know how to prove the problem mathematically. I thought it was interesting and didn't seem too difficult, so I tried to prove it, well, and so far, I haven't made any progress. ”

This problem is the "four-color conjecture", one of the so-called "four conjectures of world mathematics". This is a simple question, even for elementary school students. But to prove it, it is more difficult than you think. Even in later generations, it was with the help of electronic computers that people made as many as 10 billion judgments to prove this problem. And in this day and age, the problem is almost unsolvable.

Joseph used this question as an excuse, but in fact, he also took the opportunity to trap Minkomala. Generally speaking, this kind of problem that can be understood at first hearing and seems to be solved with just a spark of inspiration is always the easiest to win the favor of civil scientists.

Sure enough, Marat immediately became interested in the question: "Is this question difficult?" ”

"Yes, it's hard. Personally, I feel that in terms of difficulty, this problem is no less than cubic multiplication, square circles, and trisects. Joseph replied, "I have raised this question in my letter to the Academy of Sciences, and have suggested that if you do not have a proven method in a short time, you should make the matter public and offer a reward." ”

Naturally, this statement made Marat even more excited, and he even took out a small notebook and a pen: "Monsieur Bonaparte, please repeat the subject." ”

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With this excuse, Joseph could properly keep a certain distance from these people. Now that he has two younger brothers except Napoleon, he has to focus more on his younger brothers.

Louis was still young, not yet ten years old, and it was too early to train him. Lucien, however, was already beginning to show some talent for oratory and the arts. Joseph was not a man who was well versed in history in his previous life, and he did not know that Lucien had once been the speaker of the "House of Five Hundred", and that Lucien had played a key role in the process of Napoleon becoming a consul, but since Lucien had already shown his talent in this area, it seemed good to let him develop in this direction.

"When the time came, Napoleon devoted himself to the military. As for me, I guarantee the good reputation of the family, as well as the general direction of the development of France, well, the biggest advantage of the traverser, in fact, is not it to know the general direction of history? As for Lucien, since he has a certain talent for speech and art, he can be put in charge of public opinion propaganda in the future. In a sense, roses are also weapons of battle. ”

Joseph himself had little contact with the art world, so he had to ask Armand for a lot of things. However, Joseph is quite uneasy about Amand's attitude towards life. Lucien is in a critical period of the formation of the three views, let him learn from Armand, that is really ......, but fortunately, recently, after Armand and those group of radicals mixed together, this aspect of virtue is much better.