"Arrogant! What a damnation of arrogance. Apparently, Armand understood Joseph's words.

"Maybe it's not arrogance." Joseph thought for a moment and said, "It's just the separation—the separation of the upper and lower levels." The French people are full of anger at the top, but the top may not be aware of it, or even feel it at all. The king and queen were surrounded by flattering favorites, living in places where they could not see the bottom at all, and no other voice could reach their ears, so they went their own way. This is bad because it can lead to explosive consequences. Accumulated anger, if left unchanneled, can have devastating consequences when it erupts. It's like a flood breaking a dam. Art should actually play two roles at this time, one is to warn the upper echelons and make them aware of the danger. Because art is one of the few ways to make the upper class pay attention to the bottom. The other is to appease the lower classes. For example, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Monsieur de Beaumarchais, in fact, is trying to accomplish such a task. His satire on the Count of Almaviva is a warning to the upper classes, and his happiness for Figaro in the play is, in a sense, a kind of appeasement to the lower classes. However, it seems that his warning is not sufficient, and it seems that it does not really alert the upper echelons, and it is difficult to say how effective the appeasement is. So the people in the comedy troupe further increased the power of satire, but from the current point of view, the drama has been performed for several months, and nothing has happened to the comedy troupe, and it is estimated that it still has no effect. ”

Everyone nodded. Only Fanny didn't seem to understand, so she asked:

"Well, Mr. Bonaparte, if something happens to the comedy troupe, it means that it has worked?"

"No matter what happens, even if the people in the comedy troupe are arrested and stuffed into the Bastille to feed the rats, or even the heads are cut off one by one, it at least shows that the upper echelons care about these things. Now, after so much time, there is no movement, which can only show that the above does not care at all. Joseph replied.

"In this way, 'The Marriage of Figaro' is still not scathing enough." Samuel Dao.

"Joseph, maybe we should write a more exciting script, I think about what we should write......" Armand pondered.

"How about writing the story of Charles I? It was the English king who had his head cut off. Joseph said. He knew that if history did not change drastically, King Louis XVI of France, like Charles I, would have his head cut off for treason.

"This one is too explicit." Samuel shook his head and said, "If you write this, you and Armand will really be thrown into the Bastille to feed the rats." Moreover, there are not many theater troupes that dare to perform such a snarky thing. I think that if you really want to write about it, you should write about North American independence. That's also rebellion against tyrants. ”

"This seems good," said Armand, "Samuel, you have a personal experience that can help us. ”

"But North America is alone. And given the role that France played in the independence of North America, we write this, and perhaps the king thinks we are singing the praises of virtue. Joseph said.

"How is this possible? The king is not a fool. Samuel said.

"Nothing is impossible, the king is not, but there are men around him who will confuse him and mislead him. Even, the scripts that His Majesty saw and the performances he saw were not necessarily normal. Joseph shook his head. This kind of method of fooling the above is, in his opinion, too simple.

"God, how did you come up with this? Joseph, you have a chance to be a traitor. Armand looked at Joseph and shook his head incessantly.

"You can't insult me like that." Joseph's eyes widened, and he retorted with a very angry look, "You know, how can a person like me be a traitor? At the very least, he should be a traitor. ”

As soon as this was said, everyone laughed, even Fanny, who was a little worried at first because of Joseph's very stern tone, laughed out loud regardless of her image.

Armand pressed his hand on his stomach and pounded the arm of the chair with his hand, and after a long time said: "Joseph, I apologize to you, you will not be a traitor, you will be a big clown...... Hahahaha! ”

Everyone laughed for a while, and Armand said again: "Don't laugh, seriously, do you have any other suggestions?" I mean about my new play. ”

"Why don't you write Spartacus?" Fanny suddenly spoke, "Well, Spartacus is a low-level rebellion, and this can't be changed, and ...... Moreover, the historical record about him is very brief, which gives us a lot of freedom to create, which should be a good choice! ”

As soon as Fanny spoke, Armand immediately expressed her support: "I think it's good. I came up with a series of great episodes almost immediately. Well, let's say how Spartacus fought the tiger in the gladiatorial arena, and for example, ......"

"For example, we can have Spartacus already qualified as a free man through the victory in the gladiatorial arena, but he decided that all human beings should be born free. It is the responsibility of every good person to overthrow the slavery system of man's oppression and man's exploitation of man. Therefore, although he had won his freedom, he was not satisfied with it, but threw himself into the struggle for the liberation of all slaves! Joseph added in the spirit of watching the excitement and not being afraid of big things.

"Yes, yes, yes! We can also speak through the mouth of Spartacus that 'all men are created equal, that the pursuit of freedom and happiness and the struggle against oppression are sacred and inalienable rights'. Samuel also hurriedly interjected.

"Are you going to have Spartacus thousands of years ago recite the Declaration of Independence in North America? That's too much. Fanny began.

"So what else? Shall he open his mouth and recite the Gospels? Samuel said, "Although Spartacus was a man of thousands of years ago, we wrote about him so that he could have the voice that we need to make in modern times." ”

"Mr. Fermat is right." Joseph agreed, "All history is contemporary." The interpretation of history has always been at the service of reality. Perhaps we could have been a little more daring, after the Battle of Apriria, Crassus crucified more than 6,000 captured slaves. We can show this on stage, posing the crucified slave in the same form as Christ on the cross, and even at this moment, we can prepare a choir and sing a hymn of the rebels. ”

"This ...... Joseph...... I remember that your godfather was a bishop. Armand was dumbfounded.

"The bishop also believes that the Church today has deviated from the spirit of Christ in many places." Joseph's face did not change and he said authentically.

"I think that Monsieur Bonaparte's idea is very creative, and I think that if Monsieur Voltaire were still alive, he would have liked it very much. Well, Monsieur Bonaparte, are you good at music? Fanny asked, her eyes twinkling.

Joseph listened, smiled and said, "When it comes to music, I'm almost illiterate. ”

"That's it." Fanny said a little disappointed, "We are all a bunch of musical illiterates here, who can we ask to write this rebel chant?" ”

"Fanny, it's not that hard, we just have to write the lyrics and find a musician to tune it." "Of course, good lyrics and good tunes are not easy to get. Well, I'm full of creative desires right now. ”

"Brother, your desire to create can't last even a week." Fanny smiled.

"You're right, Fanny. If I hadn't had such a problem, I would have become the new Sophocles. However, I will try to control myself as much as possible. Also, Joseph, you have to help me. Armandau.

"I'll do my best if I'm free." "But I'm afraid I won't be able to help much, at least lately." You know, I've been busy lately. ”

"Monsieur Bonaparte, what have you been up to lately?" Samuel asked.

"Joseph recently had an important experiment to do." "It seems to be about how to determine the speed of light." My uncle praised the experiment for being very cleverly designed. In addition, he had to prepare for a career as a mathematics teacher at the Paris Military Academy. Well, Joseph, your brother is studying at the Paris Military Academy. Did he react to knowing that you were going to be his teacher? ”

"I haven't told him yet." "Because I want to see how I'll react when he suddenly discovers in class that the math teacher is the one." ”

"I can imagine it would be a lot of fun." Fanny laughed.

So the conversation turned to how to play tricks on his brother. Fanny offered a lot of advice, much of which, according to her, was used by his brother to play tricks on her.

Everyone also came to the rescue, and offered Joseph advice on how to play tricks on his brother. If it weren't for the butler coming over and reminding them that dinner was ready, the guys wouldn't have known how many bad ideas they would have to come up with.

"Alright, let's go to the restaurant." Viscount Lavoisier stood up and said, "I just got a couple of nice bottles of wine......"

The rules of dinner at the Armand house were completely different from those at Joseph's. There are no rigid rules at all, and even when eating, everyone can still talk and laugh. Everyone went from the red wine of Viscount Lavoisier to the black tea of Ceylon, then to the mackerel of the Mediterranean, and then to the crocodiles and hippos of the Nile. However, the French are really worthy of being European foodies, and although there are many things to be talked about, there are always only three topics: can you eat them? Is it tasty? How to eat? It must be said that in this regard, the French are very much like the Chinese.