From March 1803, not far from the Freedom Palace, a new wonder was built.

Because of the railway, the area around the Freedom Palace has gradually become prosperous. The scenery here is beautiful, the transportation is convenient, and it is far away from the city, the air is better, in addition, because you have to take a train here, the poor people are generally not willing to take a train to come here, so there are few poor people. And the fact that there are few poor people means that law and order is relatively good. It is especially suitable for those who have a particularly good heart and do not see the poor to come and settle down. So today, this area is one of the most important wealthy areas in Paris.

Long before the construction of the Freedom Palace, some well-informed people or simply the sky had already bought all the land in this vicinity from the hands of the state, at that time, the area was still barren and worthless, but now, the value of the land here has risen rapidly.

Two years ago, at Napoleon's insistence, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris was also relocated to this area. At that time, because the railway had not yet been built, it was still relatively barren and the land price was low. To facilitate his work, Laplace, as the executive vice-chancellor, also bought a small cottage here - the land here is cheap anyway. Just two years later, the price of his villa has multiplied many times. Now calculated that the villa made much more money than Laplace made as the principal of the École Supérieure in Paris. So, one of the things Laplace regrets the most now is that he only bought one villa at that time. Especially when he knew that Mr. Monge had quietly bought three villas here, three of them. This old guy is so enviable.

In addition to the École Supérieure de Paris, the University of Paris has also moved some of its faculties here. However, the University of Paris is too big, unlike the École Supérieure de Paris, which said that if you move here, you can move over, so they just moved the art academy here.

It was another Sunday, and a group of art students took their easels and went to the Freedom Palace to sketch. While everyone was drawing, they couldn't help but talk about another building being built next to it.

At this time, the new wonder has been built for the most part, in fact, by this time, the main building has been basically completed, but some necessary renovations have not yet begun. In order to reduce the impact of noise and dust on the surroundings, the entire perimeter of the site is fenced. However, from the small hillside where the students often go when they sketch, you can still see the whole construction site relatively clearly.

"It's a big stadium. It's almost time to catch up with the Colosseum. Nikolai sat down in front of his sketchpad and continued to trace the Freedom Palace under the morning sun on the canvas, chatting casually with Fedorov, who was doing nothing on the sidelines.

"It should be a little bigger than the Colosseum. It's like the Liberty Palace is a little bigger than the Pantheon. But we're a long way away now, and from here, everything is on the smaller side. Fedorov replied on one side.

"When do you think this thing will be fixed?" Nikolai asked again.

"Next summer, the Olympics will be held here. So, the project should be almost ready. "Sometimes I really think that the process of building it is the real miracle." My friend, do you remember that when we first moved here, this place was a complete wasteland, and in less than two years, such a huge building was erected. Come to think of it, the Romans used the entire 80,000 slaves and took decades to complete the Colosseum. And the French, it only took two years to build them. ”

"They have reinforced concrete. However, you don't think that the reinforced concrete stuff still doesn't look as good as the real rock. Lack of that feeling. You understand......"

"Come on, Nikolai." Fedorov shook his head disapprovingly and said, "You should know that the Pantheon and the Colosseum were originally made of a lot of cement. Of course, there will be no rebar at that time, but the rebar is all in it, and you can't see it, right? If there's a difference, well, maybe it's not long enough, so there's not enough traces of weathering. ”

"Maybe." "Do you think that the Bonaparte consuls liked Rome very much?" ”

"Isn't that what everybody knows? Otherwise, why would everyone get an Order of Anperado for him, and the people of the Holy See, for the sake of an unreliable rumor, actually wanted to investigate the emperor of a big country. Why is that? Isn't that obvious? The consuls of Bonaparte loved Rome and especially the Roman crown. ”

"A few days before Bonaparte came to power, he made a speech in which he said that democracy is the best system and that he would always be loyal to the French Republic." Nikolai Road.

"Hehe, what the politicians say...... Only a kind person like you would believe it. However, it is indeed strange that by this time, some media should have begun to promote the superiority of the imperial system, because it stands to reason that the time of Bonaparte's coronation should be very close. At this time, it is still saying that the democratic system is good, but when the time comes, the turn will be too urgent, and there may be problems. ”

"You say that Bonaparte is likely to be crowned emperor soon?" Nikolai Road.

"Otherwise, why would the Pope send someone to investigate the affairs of the Austrian Emperor at this time? Isn't it just to take back the crown so that it can be handed over to Bonaparte? ”

"But the relationship between Austria and France seems to be very good today."

"So, there are some things that are really confusing."

While the two students were muttering, the Holy See officially sent investigators to Austria to investigate the case of the Holy Roman Emperor accused of heresy.

Austria was outraged by the fact that they had banned the Holy See's investigators from entering Austria and sent an ultimatum to the Holy See demanding that the Holy See immediately cease this insulting act and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. They expressed the hope that the Holy See would immediately pull back from the precipice, change its course, and not go further and further in the direction of hurting the feelings of the Austrian people. Otherwise, the Holy See should be responsible for any consequences arising therefrom.

The threat in this statement is already very obvious. Naturally, the Holy See refused to accept such a threat, and immediately protested to Austria. The Holy See stated:

It is the traditional right of the Holy See to examine the purity of the faithful of believers, and this right comes from the supreme God. The unjustified behaviour of the Austrian government, a blatant contempt for the Holy See and even for God, has in itself slipped to the brink of heresy.

But His Holiness the Pope and God are merciful and tolerant of mistakes. The original intention of the Holy See's investigation was also to punish the past and the future, and to cure the sick and save people. It's not just about investigating, it's about helping. So there is no insult to His Majesty Franz II in this. His Majesty Franz II should also face the help of the Holy See with the humility of what is corrected and what is not encouraged. And we should not put on such a wrong attitude of avoiding medical treatment and resist the care of the pope.

Therefore, it is now true that His Majesty Franz II, and the Austrian government under his rule, should immediately pull back from the precipice and change course. His Holiness looked forward to the confession and apology of His Majesty Franz II.

This statement by the Holy See naturally infuriated Austria further, at least as it seems. Austria announced the suspension of the payment of the Holy See's tithe. Until the Holy See reverses course, lifts the insulting censorship of His Majesty the Emperor, and apologizes to the Emperor, the taxes will be held in the custody of the Austrian Imperial Family for the time being.

Naturally, this decision made the Holy See very angry. The Holy See sent an envoy to Austria to demand that Emperor Franz II cancel the resolution immediately. However, the envoy was attacked by unknown persons in Vienna and was injured as a result, forcing him to temporarily suspend his mission and return to the Holy See.

Emperor Franz was somewhat passive about the incident, but he insisted that he would not allow a single gold coin to leave Austria and flow to the Vatican until the Holy See lifted the "insulting investigation" against him.

In September of that year, the Holy See again sent a note to Franz, demanding that Austria pay the 11th tax within a time limit, otherwise it would take "drastic measures" against Emperor Franz II.

But Emperor Franz II remained unmoved. The Austrian media also began to launch a direct attack on the pope, and even threatened that Austria should go to Rome to help the Holy See change a pope, as Emperor Henry IV did.

Of course, this kind of rhetoric is only rhetoric, because Austria and the Papal States are still separated by the Republic of Northern Italy, the core ally of the French.

Other newspapers ridiculed the pope in various ways. They ridiculed the Pope for bluffing and not daring to do anything at all, and one newspaper even portrayed His Majesty the Pope in a cartoon as a shivering coward hiding behind an icon of Jesus.

Interestingly, His Majesty Franz's resistance made his image among the people much better. Ever since his repeated defeats in the war with France, His Majesty Franz II has been regarded by many as a representative of his cowardice and incompetence, and even portrayed him as the one who "knows no bounds" when he was programmed to have immoral tendencies. After some operations now, everyone still thinks that His Majesty the Emperor still has a bit of a manly taste, like an emperor.

Of course, this approach naturally forced the Pope to really react. Thus, in February 1804, His Holiness officially issued a royal decree denominating Franz II and stripping him of the title of "Emperor of the Romans".

Austria responded immediately to the Holy See's move, declaring that Pope Pius VI was too old and insane to serve as pope. Austria therefore did not recognize the validity of the edict issued by Pope Pius VI. And His Majesty Emperor Franz II was naturally still a Catholic, and the "Emperor of the Romans".

As for the contradictions between the Holy See and friendly Austria, the French put on a picture that has nothing to do with me, I just watch the play. At the official level, French Foreign Minister Talleyrand made such a statement, in which he stated:

The French Republic has always adhered to a policy of freedom of religion and the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. The French Republic wants to see all countries and religions in the world living in peace, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and making progress together......

In short, although Foreign Minister Talleyrand said a lot, but when he really compressed it, it was basically like this: What is my business?

Even the French media didn't pay much attention to it, and although it managed to make the front page of Science Pravda on the first day, it didn't take the headline because the headline was: "The French Academy of Sciences officially awards the 'Prometheus Prize'".

Yes, the day the Pope announced the excommunication of Franz II coincided with the time when the French Academy of Sciences awarded the first "Prometheus Prize in Mathematics" and "Prometheus Prize in Medicine". So this decision not only failed to make headlines in Science Pravda, but also barely made headlines in other mainstream newspapers.

Strictly speaking, because Catholicism is, after all, the universal faith of the French, so Scientific Pravda still crowned the Pope and put his edict on the front page; And in places where Protestantism was believed, like the Rhine Union and the United Kingdom, the news didn't even make its turn on the front page.

On the side of the Rheinland Union, because the mathematics prize was given to Gauss, who was born in Braunschweig, the newspapers there naturally had headlines on the front page of the report of Gauss's award. The rest of the front page is naturally full of information about Gauss's achievements, although to be honest, introducing Gauss's achievements is a difficult task for most newspaper reporters and editors. Not to mention that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, even in the twenty-first century, how many journalists, editors, figured out Gauss's stuff? Even a few years before Joseph traveled, he saw a news on the Internet that "Chinese students threw leftover raw materials all over the ground in a mathematical modeling competition".

Thankfully, Scientific Pravda helped them solve this problem. "Science Pravda" has a lot of popular science about Gauss's mathematical achievements. Just copy them. Although the popular science in "Science Pravda" also generally belongs to the kind of "every word, every number, and every symbol on it, I recognize it separately, but I don't understand what it means together", but those stupid North Germans just like to read it, although they stupidly can't understand it at all, but they still look at these things and look at them, and then say to themselves, although I don't understand anything, but we people in the Rhine Union are amazing!

As for the Pope's removal of the Austrian Emperor, what does that matter to us? Put it in the back, put it in the back, well, the first edition is going to put news about our Gauss, as well as the popularization of Gauss's scholarship. Second edition? That's to introduce the medical prize - we can't be too biased. In addition, I also need to interview Gauss's friends, classmates and elementary school teachers, well, do you know how Gauss calculated 1+2+3......+100 when he was a child?

So the matter of the Pope and the Emperor of Austria naturally had to be put into the third edition. Even if it is the third edition, the position of the first point should be used to praise the selflessness of the French.

As for the UK, their situation is not too much. The headline of the first edition naturally reports on the awards, and the rest of the pages are naturally used to introduce the various situations of the two winners. Considering that Carroll's achievement, which has been widely known in the previous "Lancet" turmoil, the introduction to him can be simpler. However, the introduction to Gauss is indispensable.

And Gauss is still a child prodigy, which makes it all the more necessary to report. You must know that readers from all over the world have a preference for the stories of child prodigies, so almost every newspaper reports the story of how Gauss counted 1+2+3......+100 when he was a child.

But these things are finally solved on the front page. After all, Gauss is not English, and Carol, this one is even worse, he is a rebel. So it naturally takes less space to report on them than on the Rhine side. So the first version was able to put all of this content down.

It was only in the second edition that the British felt it was appropriate to publish some reflections on the current state of the development of science and technology in the UK, reflecting on the question of why the UK was not competitive in such an award. In addition, by the way, the development of their main opponents, the French, in this regard, and their various points worth learning from the English - so that there was no place for the second edition of the papal edict.

In the third edition, I would like to introduce the situation of various schools in France for international students who are preparing to study in France in the future. Especially this time, although the mathematics prize fell into the hands of Gauss, the other three people who were shortlisted for the mathematics prize with him were all from the École Supérieure de Paris, which made the British people full of interest in this newly established university, so it took a lot of pages to introduce these schools. Finally, the Pope's excommunication of Austria did not occupy a very prominent place in the third edition.

In Austria, the news did not appear in the newspapers at all, and many people did not appear in the newspapers a few days later, when the Austrian government declared Pope Pius VI old and decrepit, unconscious, and no longer fit to serve as pope. Thus it became known that the Pope had been excommunicated and stripped of the title of "Emperor of the Romans" when Austria did not recognize the validity of the edict issued by Pope Pius VI.

In short, this move of the Holy See should have attracted the attention of the whole of Europe, but because they deliberately chose a good time, coupled with the intentional or unintentional cooperation of all parties, it was quite a bit of a shock.