A few days later, after much discussion, the National Assembly was to vote on Napoleon's political reforms, and the people of Paris spontaneously (absolutely literally) gathered in the square near the Capitol to celebrate the imminent passage of the new bill. Revolutionary songs were sung, rifles, spears and guillotines were brandished as symbols of the revolutionary spirit (note, this is not allowed in the news!). ), expressing support for the National Assembly and joy at victory.

Many soldiers also joined in the gala, bringing cannons and salutes to accompany them. The square in front of the Parliament building became a sea of joy.

It was in this joyous atmosphere that the National Assembly began to deliberate on Napoleon's proposal. Without hesitation, all the members of the Diet voted in favor of the song "It's going to be okay, it's going to be okay, the counter-revolutionaries are hanging on the poles of the street." So Napoleon's plan was successfully adopted.

Under this plan, the French government will carry out a comprehensive overhaul, and the highest executive body in France will be called the ruling government. The consul is composed of three consuls, and the administrative affairs are handled by the three consuls, of which the second consul is responsible for internal affairs, and the consul is responsible for armaments and foreign affairs, and they are directly responsible to the first consul. The First Consul was in charge of all administrative matters and served as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army.

The First Consul is directly elected for a five-year term and is not accountable to Parliament as Head of State. The candidates for the second and third consuls are nominated by the first consul and approved by the parliament.

Under the ruling government, there were several ministries, namely the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Truth. The Ministers of these departments are appointed by and are directly accountable to the First Consul.

As for the National Assembly, it was also reformed and divided into four parts: the State Council, the People's Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, and the Senate. Among them, the State Council is responsible for proposing bills, the People's Yuan is responsible for discussing the bills proposed by the State Council and proposing amendments, and the Legislative Yuan votes on the legal provisions amended by the People's Yuan, and after the vote is passed, it is submitted to the Senate for examination and approval, and then handed over to the First Ruling House for implementation.

Of these four chambers, only the State Department has the power to introduce bills, and these bills need to be approved by the next three departments before they can become laws. This has actually led to a significant reduction in the power of the Parliament.

On the other hand, under the new scheme, the members of the four parliaments are partly recommended by the first consul and the other part are indirectly elected through a relatively complex procedure. This makes the election itself also vulnerable to the influence of the first consul. After the adoption of this plan, the National Assembly really became the Senate after Augustus.

After the passage of such a bill, in the words of the later English writer Charles Dickens, "the National Assembly approved its own death sentence." "From then on, the National Assembly ceased to be the most important player in French politics.

After the bill was passed, and after rapid preparation, a month later, the first ruling election was held in France.

It was the first national election in France, and as the sole candidate, Napoleon received almost all the votes except for the invalid votes that appeared for some technical reasons.

It was precisely because of this election result that Napoleon, when he later accepted in the Senate as to why the execution of a certain decree should be suspended, was able to proudly declare: "I am elected by one person, one vote for all the French people!" My legitimacy is far higher than that of any parliament; Therefore, the legitimacy of my orders is also much higher than that of the so-called laws made by the Parliament! The suspension of the execution of laws that do not conform to the will of the French people is an unquestionable right entrusted to me by the French people! ”

Today, although Napoleon did not receive the name "Dick Tydo", in fact, he had acquired the right to "Dick Tydo". The only person who frustrated Napoleon today was Joseph.

"Hell yes! Napoleon, you idiot! Such a simple design, you can't understand it for a long time, you still want to shamelessly blend into the Academy of Sciences! I'm telling you! Don't say that the number of academicians of the Academy of Sciences has only increased by ten, even if it increases by another hundred, it will not be your turn! Don't look at the fact that you have found a whole bunch of soft eggs like Laplace and asked them to write you a bunch of letters of recommendation, but I will never allow you to use your power to defile the sanctity of the members of the French Academy of Sciences, I say no, I just can't! As long as I am the president of the French Academy of Sciences, then you will never be allowed to use your worldly power to mingle in it! Unless......" Joseph scolded.

"Unless what?" Napoleon asked.

"Unless you can prove any of the several questions that come with the book at the end!" Joseph took a book from the shelf and threw it in front of Napoleon.

That book was Joseph's "Foundations of Mathematics", and although the name of the book was "Foundations", the things in it were not basic at all, and they were all good things that would have been hated by a lot of science and engineering students even after hundreds of years. In this book, Joseph unceremoniously and shamelessly plagiarized a large number of important creations of great mathematicians in the original time and space, and successfully replaced those people in this time and space, becoming the most hated object of future generations of students in this time and space.

In the final part of the book, Joseph throws a whole bunch of mathematical puzzles at it, including the Fermat conjecture (now known as Fermat's Great Theorem), Goldbach's conjecture, and the four-color problem.

"It's not fair!" Napoleon protested, "Even Laplace, he was not able to make these problems!" ”

"Well, you prove some kind of scientific law that we didn't know about before, or I'll make it a little more difficult for you and ask a question of the same difficulty as the last question in this book!" Joseph said.

"Humph! You wait! Napoleon angrily put away the application with the signatures of Lavoisier, Laplace, and others, and walked out of Joseph's laboratory in a huff. As I walked, I thought, "I have to let Laplace finish a high-quality paper for me as soon as possible!" It must be groundbreaking, groundbreaking, highly discussable, extremely important and popular! ”

Of course, this is just a small matter between brothers. Now the brothers were very busy, Napoleon was busy setting up the framework of his government, and Carnot, who had always had a good relationship with them, became the third consul and also served as the minister of war; And Baras, who at a critical moment joined the "military-industrial complex", became the second consul and received the post of Minister of the Interior.

Lucien became the first minister of the newly created Ministry of Truth, and he also served as president of the House of Salvation. Fouché continued to serve as Minister of Public Security, and the other ministerial positions were also assigned to some people who shared the interests of the Bonaparte family. In short, Napoleon's government was largely completed.

It is said that at a gathering after the official establishment of the government, the young First Consul toasted the people and said: "Sir, many of us have seen with our own eyes how the Directory has lost the hearts of the people and has been abandoned by the people. There are only two main reasons why they have fallen to this point: one is incompetence and the other is corruption.

Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, the Directory men were not really fools, and any one of them alone was a fool, or even a very capable person. But why did the Directory come across as incompetent? I think the reason is very simple, because their ingenuity is consumed in infighting. And the reason why they are constantly fighting internal friction is because they lack consistent interests.

Gentlemen, we are very different from them in this respect. We all have a common interest, and it is in the interest of each and every one of us to make this government run efficiently. There can be competition among us, but I hope that this competition must be limited and not turn into a struggle within us.

As for the second point, which is the problem of corruption. I don't want to tell you any deceptive truths, but I just want to say that many of us have our own industries. It is much more reliable, if not more, to make money from these industries than to make money through corruption and bribery. Don't let the small be a big one. As for those who have not yet had time to gain sufficient status and benefits in our 'military-industrial complex', I can tell you that we have created a special post of 'corporate adviser' in the 'military-industrial complex'. As long as you do well in the government, when you leave the government, you will get much more in this position than you can get through corruption......"

On Joseph's side, now that the "Zeus Project" has been largely successful, Joseph's main focus is now on the "Hephaestus" plan.

"Hephaestus" is the god of fire and craftsmen in Greek mythology, and the plan named after him includes mainly the smelting of steel. In this era, there was a crucible smelting technique. Using graphite crucibles, humans have been able to make the furnace temperature exceed the melting point of pure iron for the first time, so as to obtain liquid steel. This is also the most advanced steelmaking technology of this era. However, this technology is still relatively costly, and the production volume is very limited. This approach clearly did not meet Joseph's needs.

In the original time and space, it was not until the Englishman Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer converter steelmaking method a few decades later that the large-scale and low-cost production of steel was realized for the first time. However, Joseph did not come from a professional in smelting, and he only knew some basic understanding of steelmaking, he only knew that whether it was converter steelmaking or open-hearth steelmaking, the basic principle was to blow oxygen into the molten pig iron and burn off too much carbon to obtain steel. But that's all he knows, and when it comes to the technical details, he immediately doesn't know anything.

But even these general directions that lack technical details are of great value, because it points to the right direction, as long as the direction is good and the technology tree is not crooked, the technical details can be slowly smashed out by throwing money at experiments. Not to mention the fact that here in Joseph there are the greatest chemists of our time.