"Viscountess Beauharne." "I promised to do her a favor, so she was grateful to me." ”

"Viscountess Beauharnay? Wait, Viscount Beauharne? I seem to have heard the name. Joseph said.

"You forget, in '94 in Belgium, the Viscount Boarne who was beheaded because of the unfavorable war," said Lucien.

"Oh." Joseph nodded, "What did she ask you to help with?" ”

"He wants me to find a way to help her get her husband's saber back." Lucien said.

"Ah, yes, yes." Joseph nodded, "Well, after her husband died, who else was in her family?" ”

"I have a teenage son and a daughter." Lucien replied.

"Well, Lucien, what do you think of that woman?" Joseph asked again.

Lucien said, "What is it?" It's just a pretty woman. ”

Listening to Lucien's careless words, Joseph was a little relieved. In fact, he didn't have much ill feeling for the historical Empress Josephine, and he was somewhat influenced by living in France for so many years. To the French, a little green on the head doesn't seem to be a big deal. And compared to Napoleon's later wife, at least Empress Josephine never got into any real trouble. To be honest, Joseph really had a lot of prejudices about Habsburg women.

But that doesn't mean Joseph felt that Josephine should be his brother-in-law on this plane. Not to mention anything else, just because she couldn't have children, Joseph felt that it was inappropriate for her to be a daughter-in-law to any younger brother. Because this will definitely lead to all kinds of problems within the family.

If a family and several brothers have legitimate heirs, then the inheritance of the family's wealth structure and power structure can be relatively stable. However, if one brother does not have a legal heir, then he can only adopt one child from the other brother as an heir. No matter which brother's child he chooses, it is actually equivalent to making the power of this brother's one suddenly stronger. For this reason, it is likely that there will be all kinds of open and secret fights between brothers, and there will be rifts in the originally harmonious family - this is almost certain, and even not transferred by one person's will. Even if the first generation can survive with brotherhood and a prestigious big brother, once the first generation withers, the rift will surely burst.

"Lucien, do you know how she sustained herself after her husband's death?" Joseph asked.

"What's the matter with me? Wrong...... No, Joseph, is it possible that you are suddenly so interested in her...... I should talk to Fanny, but ......" Lucien began to launch a counter-offensive.

"Hell! I'm worried about you! Joseph said, "I'm worried that your tender grass will be eaten by some old heifer!" That woman's purpose for looking for you couldn't be more obvious, and if you think about it, she and Barras must know each other if she was able to show up at Barras's banquet. It's not a particularly difficult thing to get back to the deceased husband's sword. Since she knew Balas, and could even be invited to such a banquet, it was only a trivial matter to return the sword. Can't Ballas do such a thing? Isn't she more familiar with Ballas? My stupid brother, it's all a routine. Don't you understand? ”

"So what are you afraid of? She knows how to do tricks, can't I? I don't know how many routines Armand taught me back then. Well, you also said, 'Since ancient times, the true feelings cannot be kept, only routines can win people's hearts'. Lucien pursed his lips, "Besides, we won't have anything to lose anyway." Speaking of which, you've reached your status, but you don't even have a mistress, and you're too Corsican. ”

In fact, the atmosphere of the Corsican aristocracy was not very conservative, and it was common to have mistresses. So Lucien's so-called "too Corsican" can basically be understood as: too hillbilly!

"I really drank two taels of yellow soup, and I don't know how many catties and taels I have!" Joseph suddenly became annoyed and smiled at Lucien: "It seems that you are not drunk, so it is just right to come to my study and help me make a budget for these plans!" ”

So Lucien didn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, Joseph, dressed in pajamas, took the budget from Lucien and waved his hand to him: "Okay, hard work, you can go to sleep." ”

In fact, before Lucien made the budget, Joseph had already estimated the approximate cost of several plans, and basically made a decision in his heart, and now look at Lucien's figures, check it a little, and sure enough, there is not much difference from his own estimate.

"It's just that it's too expensive to widen the road yourself," although Joseph had made up his mind to stay in a place where the Red Army could come to his rescue at any time for safety.

"But it's not just the research institute, there are other factories and everything, you can put it here, right? Well, this can be called the industrial park in the north of Paris, which can also be regarded as a political achievement of the government, right? In that case, shouldn't the government be responsible for this widening of the road? ”

Joseph slapped himself on the thigh and shouted, "Lucien, Lucien......"

Lucien had just gone to wash his face and was about to go to bed to hug his dear pillow when he was startled when he heard Joseph's cry. He hurriedly ran over and asked nervously, "What's wrong, I miscalculated?" It's impossible, I've checked every piece of data......"

"No," said Joseph, "the data is correct. I just have one thing to remind you of, there will be another election soon. You're going to be in Parliament in the future. When you enter Parliament, you can put forward a bill like this......"

So another hour passed before Lucien went to bed.

After arranging these things, Joseph left Paris again and returned to Toulon, where there were still many things, and the affairs of Paris could only be left to Lucien for the time being. Considering that Lucien had been doing well during this time, and that Fuche was still on his side, Joseph felt that he should not make any big trouble.

However, since Lucien had to deal with those affairs in Paris for the time being, some of the things that he was originally responsible for could only be managed by Joseph himself for the time being, such as the special tactical training camp. This made Joseph can't help but sigh: "Dogs hate less when they use it." ”

Joseph took time out again to find Fanny before leaving Paris. This time, Fanny's enthusiasm for him surprised them all. Finally, when Joseph was about to leave, Fanny finally told him that Monsieur Viscount hoped that the two of them would be married as soon as possible.

Hearing this request, Joseph's heart jerked.

Fanny was able to help herself sort out the math materials that she had to educate her brother, and judging from the correspondence during this time, her math level was actually not bad, at least, much better than that guy in Armand. If she really gets married, it seems that a lot of things are actually very simple, but a little cumbersome, and then the more confidential things can be handed over to her to do. Isn't that the same as adding another capable confidential secretary?

Thinking of this, Joseph hurriedly told Fanny that he had been thinking about this matter for a long time, but he had never been able to return to Paris, so he did not mention it to the old viscount. But now that he was going back to Paris to settle down, it was time to propose to the viscount as soon as possible.

"I'm going to Toulon this time, and I'm probably going to stay for another two months. The next time I come back, I will propose to the viscount, and then marry you as soon as possible. Joseph said.

Fanny couldn't help but kiss Joseph, she probably didn't know that this man was already thinking about how to use her as a man.

After Joseph left, Lucien took a vacation. He began to participate in various political activities frequently in preparation for the upcoming elections. Of course, he also successfully asked the Viscountess de Beauarne to get back her deceased husband's sword, and then this woman, who should have been Lucien's second sister-in-law in the original time and space, is now fighting with Lucien.

However, Lucien's claim that he had learned a great deal of routine from Armand was not entirely false, and it had only been a week since Joseph returned, and he knew from Fouché's letters that his brother already had three or four mistresses.

"Hell, no wonder he's spending so much money these days." Joseph couldn't help but say.

But Joseph didn't pay for Lyucian, because he knew. Lucien's set is a tradition in French political circles. If he is in charge of standing at the front desk and is too different from everyone else, then many things are not easy to do.

"Besides, it won't be long before he becomes a member of Congress, and he will have the state salary to pay, and he will be able to pay for this." Joseph thought so.

A few days later, Joseph received the news that Lucien had been elected to the Diet and had become a key member of the "Military Production Committee" in the new parliament. Of course, this is still a little far from the Speaker that Fouché and Barras negotiated at the beginning, but this matter is not something that can be done overnight. I believe that with the gradual demonstration of Lucien's ability, especially his ability to spend money, it will not take much time to become the speaker.

It was around this time that a group of Poles arrived in Toulon.

These Poles were all Restorationists. The Polish uprising had failed not long ago, and the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians had a meeting and decided that Poland should not exist as an independent state, and that what little land had left of Poland was divided. These people had no choice but to come to France again to seek technical support.