Napoleon was busy with his code, which now had the added task of preparing the family for the future to take control of the situation behind the scenes. Lucien was busy with the affairs of the church and, of course, all kinds of popular entertainments. The ruling government has just adopted the Plan for the Promotion of Cultural Undertakings in France. According to this plan, many of the land and buildings that originally belonged to the royal family will be converted into various public entertainment facilities to meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people.

"The importance of recreational facilities cannot be overstated." In the Ministry of Truth, Lucien is emphasizing the importance of this work to his subordinates, "There are always many things in the world that do not go as planned. Even people who live a good life in the eyes of others will have all kinds of unsatisfactory conditions, let alone those who have a difficult life?

These emotions accumulate more and more, just like a flood accumulates more and more. Simply relying on strong suppression can only be suppressed for a while, and once it can't be suppressed, it will immediately be a catastrophe. So one of our responsibilities is not to let such emotions build. Let them be cathartic in a harmless way. Art and entertainment are just such ways. Therefore, we should understand our work from a political perspective, from a political perspective that can ensure the long-term peace and stability of the country, and not just regard it as a superficial article to whitewash the peace.

The creators of the Roman Empire knew this very well, so if you have been to the ruins of Rome, you will find a lot of these facilities there, such as theaters, such as the Colosseum. They performed all kinds of tragedies and comedies in the theater, and showed all kinds of battles in the Colosseum, so that the people's emotions could be effectively guided and vented. So the people were satisfied, the smiling faces increased, the people became more united and efficient, and Rome grew stronger and stronger...... So, we're going to build more stadiums and opera houses too! This is the need of the country and the people, and it is also the requirement of the manifest destiny that France inherited from the Roman Empire!

In addition, our propaganda is not only aimed at domestic propaganda, but also foreign propaganda cannot be relaxed. This propaganda must use our brains, not just stupidly shouting 'France is good, France is good, France is good, it is good', but in a more refined way, the beautiful image of France, the French thought, and the French art should be promoted.

We want to make the people of all Europe envy France, and be proud of speaking French, eating French meals, watching French plays, and using French goods; Let the people of the whole of Europe think that France is the Roman of civilization. Outside of Rome, there were barbarians. We must make the people of Europe feel that only by being with France, learning from France, and following France can we move towards civilization, and anyone who is an enemy of France is a barbarian who is willing to degenerate. France has to rely not only on the hard power of an invincible army, but also on our culture, our soft power, to influence Europe.

Ladies and gentlemen, our hard power is incomparably powerful, and it can force our enemies to obey our will. But hard power alone is not enough.

In the history of the world, in terms of military achievements alone, there is no one in this world who has surpassed the terrible Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and his descendants. But their empire lasted very short, why? Because their empire is a cripple who has nothing but force.

We cannot follow the old path of the Mongols, our hard power must make them dare not disobey us, and our soft power must make the whole of Europe willingly obey us, with our interests as the highest interest.

So, we want to be ambassadors of civilization, we want to cooperate with European universities, we want to ...... In the final analysis, we need to cultivate in Europe a large number of spiritual French people, and a large number of revolutionary parties willing to lead the European people to follow the French road – of course, the so-called 'French road' refers to what we make them think of as the 'French road'......"

In order to achieve such a goal, Lucien was naturally so busy that some tabloid reporters even observed that the rate at which Monsieur Lucien Bonaparte changed his girlfriend dropped by four floors.

As for Joseph, it's not a big deal at the moment. All kinds of scientific research projects are basically on the right track, and there is no longer any need for him to keep an eye on it personally. Joseph gave himself the title of professor at the University of Paris, tricked more than 20 doctoral students in one go, and then threw them a whole bunch of specific operations in the projects he was responsible for. Later, Mr. Ampère, a double member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Roman Imperial Academy of Sciences, recalled his time as a student with Joseph

"Professor Bonaparte was a remarkable man, and what impressed him most was his keen eye and his strange intuition. At that time, some of our classmates stayed by the experimental equipment day and night, recording a lot of messy data, and they didn't think that these data could explain anything at all. At this time, Madame Bonaparte, who was also his secretary, came in and took back our data, and it often only took a day or even less, and Professor Bonaparte could find out the doubts in them, and immediately set up a new direction of research. Sometimes, in the course of research, we always encounter various points of disagreement, forks in the road, and we don't know which direction to work towards. At this point, the professor is often quick to point in a certain direction to his intuition, and the accuracy of his intuition is frighteningly high......

However, perhaps because Professor Bonaparte was in charge of so many things, he was rarely seen in normal times, and basically only saw him in the monthly progress report. But even so, we accumulated a month of problems, many times which Professor Bonaparte solved in just a few minutes......"

Because he left all these things to the students, Joseph only used the control node, which greatly reduced Joseph's workload, and there was nothing that he needed to "officially put into production" during this time, so Joseph was rarely idle. This idle time lasted for almost half a month, until Fulton, an American engineer he had hired out of the ordinary, informed him that the new steamship could be "officially tested."

In its original history, Fulton was considered a key figure in the maturation of steamships. As in history, Fulton came to Paris in ninety-three years to try to find someone who could finance his development of a steamship. However, his luck was not very good, and the steamship he built was sunk in the Seine due to strong winds before it could be completed. He was also heavily fined by the revolutionary government for the shipwreck blocking the shipping lane.

As a result, Fulton, who was cornered, was dragged by Joseph to the Military Technical Research Institute at a low price, and later was pulled down to Toulon and joined the Naval Institute.

At the Institute of Military Technology and the Naval Institute in Toulon, he did not perform too well because the projects he excelled in did not receive much investment. However, when the military-industrial complex began the research project of steamships, this Yankee, who was considered to have weak basic knowledge and was more suitable to be a skilled worker than an engineer, showed the advantages of strong hands-on ability, strong action, and good at coordination and trade-offs, and became the deputy general manager of the steamship project. Who is the person in charge? Of course, it's Joseph, who has a sign on it, but basically doesn't care much about things.

Now that it is already possible to "officially sea trials", that is, in fact, the ship has already completed all the "unofficial sea trials" projects and has basically succeeded.

Early in the morning, Joseph took his secretary and wife, and the secretary's secretary, to a shipyard at the western end of Paris, which belonged to the military-industrial complex.

When they arrived at the dock of the shipyard, they could see from afar that there was a boat smoking from the pier.

"Joseph, is this your replica of a British ship?" Polina, the female secretary of the female secretary, asked. The captured English steamship was eventually towed to Paris by the French for further research, and then handed over to Lucien for public display to show off the French victory, for which Lucien arranged for the story of Morel and others to be staged in Paris.

Naturally, Polina had seen the British steamship that had been somewhat restored. Unlike most people, the British ship is generally considered to be ugly, but Polina felt that the steamship with two large wheels and a tall black chimney had a "peculiar, clumsy beauty with a sense of evil power", and even compared it to the god of fire standing next to the god of beauty. Therefore, Polina would have liked that the French would simply copy the ship.

"How is this possible? How could we possibly build something so backward? Polina's words immediately reminded Joseph of his fifty thousand francs.

The carriage stopped directly on the pier. Several men disembarked from the carriage, and a slender boat with two masts and two chimneys in front of them was moored in front of them.

Fulton had been waiting for Joseph and them here for a long time, and when he saw several people getting out of the carriage, he hurried to meet them.

"Professor, everything is ready, just waiting for you to get on board." Fulton said.

"Good. The lifeboats on this ship are all in place, right? Joseph asked.

"It's all in place." Fulton said.

"And the life jackets are ready, right? You must know that everyone on this ship is an immeasurable treasure of the association, and you must protect them. You must know that there is no small matter. ”

"Professor, don't worry, we have always been very concerned about security, and there are enough lifeboats on the boat to use twice as many people, and you can get lifebuoys or life jackets at your fingertips—Professor, you see there's a row over there."

Joseph looked over there, and there was indeed a row of lifebuoys hanging there, so he nodded, then turned to the others and said, "All right, let's get on board." ”

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