Chapter 417, Punishment
If this is the case, then Napoleon will really have to go back and thank God sincerely. But there is no such cheap thing in the world. Sure enough, Joseph spoke again:
"Napoleon, you spent a lot of money on the family to get the support of those fellows, right?"
As soon as he heard this, Napoleon knew that something was wrong. When it comes to money, Joseph rarely has a good time to talk about.
"Joseph, I ......"
"Those guys from the Paris School of Sciences may just want to stuff you with a Queen of the Paris School of Sciences, and they won't ask you for money directly. But Monsieur Lavoisier, hehe, I know him very well, and with your relationship with him, is it possible for him to help you like this, without money? Moreover, Monsieur Lavoisier has also made a fortune over the years, and his vision is much higher than before. Hehe, it didn't take much to buy him before, but now if you want to buy him, the price must not be low, right? Tell me, how much benefit did you give him? ”
Napoleon knew that the eldest brother was in charge of the family's finances, and these things could not be hidden from him, as long as he went to investigate, he would definitely find out. Therefore, Napoleon did not think at all about hiding Joseph from him. Now when Joseph asked, Napoleon had no choice but to confess honestly. Although Napoleon also understood the truth of being lenient in confession and sitting in prison.
"What? You scumbag! You actually gave him so many benefits? This old bastard, now so greedy, he should have fed the guillotine. Well, Napoleon, and you, you are so unreasonable, what a mad couple! Why are you so stupid that you can't bargain? If I were to change it, I would have cut it by at least half of the price, and if I had changed to an Indian, I would have cut it by half! God, you really can't bargain, and if you change Lucien, you're better than you! ”
"Lucien he refused to participate, he was afraid of ......," Napoleon said.
"Lucien, if you don't report it, you are complicit, you have been in the Ministry of Truth for so many years, and you don't even understand this most basic truth? Either you should tell me as soon as you find out about this conspiracy; Or do your best to help Napoleon. No matter which choice you choose, it's better than both ends of this head! You're such an idiot! Joseph scolded.
Lucien looked at the eldest brother and the second brother, but he didn't dare to speak.
"Lucien, you have to write a review, five thousand words, to touch the soul, and give it to me tomorrow!" Joseph said.
"Oh." Lucien immediately agreed, anyway, he had already prepared a lot of review templates, what was this?
"Napoleon, you have caused great financial damage to the family, so you will also be punished, and from today onwards, half of your dividends will be deducted as a fine until this loss is compensated."
Napoleon calculated in his heart, and felt that the cancellation of the general dividends, although the amount was quite large, would not have any impact on his standard of living, so he quickly expressed his willingness to accept the penalty.
"As long as it can be solved with money, it is not a problem." Napoleon said silently to himself in his heart.
"Besides, Napoleon, since you are already a member of the French Academy of Sciences, you must not take the allowance of the Academy of Sciences in vain. So some of the work of the Academy of Sciences, you also have to be involved. Joseph said again.
"No problem, no problem." Napoleon hurried.
"Originally, according to the rules, you should still be in the probationary period. But you broke the rules and made you a full academician directly - I was a trainee back then! Speaking of which, Joseph was a little dissatisfied, "I don't care if you are official now, you have to do some things that should be done by the trainee academician!" ”
An important part of the work of a Cadet Fellow is to review papers. Every year, a large number of papers are submitted to various affiliated journals of the Academy of Sciences. Reviewing these papers is a lot of work and a lot of difficulty. So most of those official academicians are unwilling to do this kind of thing. Of course, considering that there are many cadet members of the Academy of Sciences, and if Napoleon is really too busy, he can still catch those people from the Paris Academy to be a stand-in for him, so Napoleon thinks that there should be nothing that cannot be beaten in this matter.
"That's fine. Being able to serve the Academy of Sciences is something I've always wanted to do. Napoleon hurried.
"Okay, I'll arrange for you to review your paper in the journal Mathematics." Joseph said.
Napoleon was still very satisfied with the result of the evening, and he felt that Joseph, although sometimes annoying, was still his brother. Today, this is also a typical high pick-up, gently put down, three glasses of wine, not an example.
Joseph was quick to move, but two days later Napoleon had been given a large stack of papers to be reviewed.
Anyway, Napoleon has nothing to do at this time, so let's just think it's another kind of relaxation. So Napoleon really took the paper seriously.
From this glance, Napoleon understood why no one was willing to do this thing, and only a "trainee academician" would take care of such a thing. And if the "trainee academicians" are not willing to do this job if they are not to be turned into regular members as soon as possible. Because of the level of these papers, how to put it, most of them are really not very good. The so-called "papers" of many guys were so full of loopholes that Napoleon felt that this kind of thing should be put into the joke section of the "Sun".
"This is completely a civil science!" Napoleon slammed a paper on the table, then picked up a pen and wrote a comment.
"In the first paragraph of this 'paper', there is a problem of using other equivalent propositions as axioms, and there are obvious logical loopholes at the beginning of the annotations 1, 5, 7, etc., and there are even obvious calculation errors in annotations 3 and 6.
Result: Failed.
Suggestion: The author should retake elementary school mathematics. ”
Finished solving the first paper. Napoleon picked up the second one, and after reading it for a while, he began to write comments again:
"There is nothing wrong with the argumentation process, although it is a bit verbose and cumbersome, but at least there are no mistakes. The argument is also a matter of great importance, and the conclusions drawn are also very correct. But does it make sense to reinvent the wheel? Is it necessary to spend a huge amount of space to prove a theorem that the ancient Greeks proved in one-fifth of the page?
Result: Failed.
Suggestion: The author should continue to study after completing the compulsory education stage. ”
Basically, most papers are something like this. After watching it all day, Napoleon didn't find anything that could catch his eyes, but his stomach hurt from laughter.
Throwing aside another civil treatise, Napoleon saw a very thick paper below, entitled "A Rigorous Proofs of the Principles of Geometry and the Theorem of Parallel Lines," and the author was a little-known man named Lucien Evans.