In Paris at this moment, the warm summer breeze roams the streets here, blowing away people's thick spring clothes and telling everyone that the hottest season of the year - summer is coming.

The heat has made the city of Paris even more smelly, the streets are littered with garbage, and the smell of sewage in the rivers is disgusting.

Houses that had been burned or destroyed in the war had new owners of their own, and they were renovated.

But poor Napoleon, after spending half a year of good years, ushered in the saddest period of his adult life.

The victory at the Battle of Toulon catapulted Napoleon to glory. At the end of last year, the Convention appointed Napoleon as the artillery commander of the Italian Legion.

Napoleon, who was only 24 years old, wore the rank of major general of artillery, and the whole person was so high-spirited.

But Napoleon had to rely on the appreciation of the Jacobin revolutionary government and his military prowess to carry out his greater ambitions

An unexpected and sudden political crisis changed everything.

In April of this year, the Jacobin opposition staged a coup d'état, arresting Robespierre and his brother Augustine and other Jacobin leaders. The next day, without trial, the Jacobin leaders were put to death. The Thermidorians, who defended the big bourgeoisie, took power. The Thermidorian then went on a nationwide hunt for cronies of the Jacobin government, and Napoleon was arrested. He was released after half a month of imprisonment because no reason for his imprisonment was found in his file.

Napoleon was not guillotined, but his smooth sailing was cut short by it. After his release from prison, the authorities still looked at Napoleon with distrust, his ambitions were not realized, and his mood was very depressed.

On 22 May, Napoleon arrived in Paris in the hope of a new appointment. But the National Salvation Council ordered him to go to the Vendée to suppress the rebellion, but instead of being an artillery commander, he was an infantry commander.

The young Napoleon angrily refused this order. In his opinion, the Vendée was not enough to show his talents.

In addition, his specialty was artillery, and it was an insult to transfer him from artillery to infantry. He had a big quarrel with the military personnel in charge of the National Salvation Committee. In view of his refusal to accept his appointment, the National Salvation Committee ordered that his name be removed from the list of active generals.

This unexpected blow deeply dampened Napoleon's mood. He lived in a house on Myle Road, not far from Victory Square, and began his previous life of poverty again.

He waited patiently and painfully for those in power to remove all the prejudices against him; He expects that in a changing situation, power will eventually fall into the hands of those who have a favorable opinion of him. During this period, Napoleon spent all day doing nothing, and in the description of the European Office, Napoleon can be described as poor and depressed.

He was always accompanied only by his lieutenant, his close friend and loyal subordinate, Captain Jean-Andoche Junod.

The people in the European Office have a vivid picture of Napoleon at that time: Napoleon was very thin, unkempt, with shaggy hair, unpowdered, and a disgusting appearance. I also saw him enter the courtyard of the Tranquilita Hotel, where he shuffled with a crooked, swaying step, and wore a worn, round hat that almost covered his eyes, and the lapels of his coat covered his alert ears. A pair of long, lanky black hands, without gloves, as he had said were superfluous expenditures. The boots he wears don't look good and don't get oiled. The whole appearance is sickly because of the extremely thin body and yellow face.

In fact, it is not that the people in the European Office have not been in contact with Napoleon, although they have contacted him through a Frenchman. The initial contact was friendly, and although Napoleon was very wary of the unknown, he was willing to associate with the wealthy, and in his bones, Napoleon was not on the same path as the Jacobins, who represented the interests of the small Chinese and Israeli owners and sans-culottes. But when the European Office advised Napoleon to downplay his friendship with the Robespierre brothers, the boat of friendship capsized in an instant.

Napoleon sternly rejected this, because the Robespierre brothers were very optimistic about him at the time, and Robespierre was firmly in control.

The European Office certainly did not anticipate the defeat of the Jacobins, who were absent from another coup d'état in Paris.

That is purely the disapproval of the Jacobins from the top and bottom of the European Office.

These people are insane, and killing seems to be addictive to killing, and it is too idealistic. Faith, for example, abolished monotheism and converted to "rationalism", churches became clubs and temples for the worship of reason, icons were replaced by busts of Marat, Shahril and Le Balti, and altars and prayer paintings were burned on the Place de la Notre Dame.

This method is really too drastic and crude.

The Jacobins adopted a policy of terror to crack down on dissent, but as the situation in France and abroad improved, the differences of opinion within the Jacobins became more and more acute, and finally moved from unity to division.

The Ebelites, representing the lower classes of the urban and rural masses, advocated the continued intensification of the policy of terror, the suppression of suspects, the total price cap, the opposition to monotheism, the promotion of atheism, the continuation of the war abroad, and accused Robespierre of being too lenient towards the Girondists, and demanded that the Robespierres and Dantonites be expelled from the National Convention;

The Dandong faction, on the other hand, advocated an end to the policy of terror, opposed a total price cap, defended freedom of trade and freedom of wealth, and demanded the conclusion of peace treaties with European monarchies and Britain.

The Robespierre faction suppressed the Ebel faction and then the Danton faction, and the power was in power, but it led to alienation from the masses of the people, and was disgusted by the urban and rural private strata, and the mass base of the Jacobins was sharply reduced. It can be said that it is self-defeating.

The European Office saw that Robespierre was not a success, and advised Napoleon to stay away from the Robespierre brothers. But Napoleon, who was in high spirits at that time, did not hesitate to refuse this request, and from this point of view, Napoleon was a man who sought power.

At that time, the Robespierre brothers were in great power and could not be beaten. But where did you think that the current world newspaper would come so quickly?

Robespierre, Augustine, Saint-Just, G. Cudon, and twenty-two other major Jacobin leaders were guillotined, and at the moment Robespierre was clicked, the crowd in the audience expressed joy and applauded for 15 minutes. Later, more than 100 Jacobins were executed.

Napoleon was lucky enough not to be sent to the click.

After Robespierre's death, the Frenchman humorously engraved the following passage on his tombstone: "O passers-by! I Robespierre am buried here, please do not grieve for me, if I live, then you will not live. ”

But it also truly reflects the bloodthirsty and terror reign of the Jacobins from one side.

There is an old Chinese saying: Therefore, the heavens will descend on people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically......

Of course, the people in the European Office will not know the glory of Napoleon in the original plane of time and space, so they will not put this passage of Master Meng on him, a down-and-out person. But they know how to give favors in order to get the most benefits. In this regard, every Chinese knows: the icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow.

The previous office in Europe was the icing on the cake, and now they have to send charcoal in the snow, so it can't be when the snow is just falling, it must be when Napoleon's mountains are exhausted, so that they can win Napoleon's greatest gratitude.

Moreover, this time they can directly show their 'true colors'.

So, Napoleon lived really poor during this time.

Napoleon waited in Paris for a month, time passed without success, he survived the painful May, and in the more difficult and embarrassing June, there was no hope at all, and it seemed that all people had forgotten him, the hero of the former republic.

This injustice has left him with a preoccupation and a desire to make a difference.

In mid-June, he decided that he could no longer mingle in the crowd, and he decided to leave France and go to Istanbul to serve the Ottoman Sultan.

This is not abrupt, and the conversion of European generals to heaven in history has emerged one after another. And as long as they show a certain ability, most of them can gain a certain status and will not be disturbed by the miscellaneous things within the Ottomans. He drafted a petition requesting that he and several other officers of different branches be sent to the Ottoman Empire under the auspices of the French government. He believed that the combination of them had a complete knowledge of military skills, which was enough to make the Ottoman army more powerful on the basis of the new Chinese-style army. Because in the current situation, it seems very likely that the Ottoman Empire will ally with France.

But Napoleon's petition was not approved, and Napoleon remained idle.

Ill-fated and unfortunate life is the truest portrayal of Napoleon's life in June 1794. After all, he passed this hurdle in the original plane and did not become a captive of the god of fate, and he continued to delve into political and strategic issues in his embarrassing life, preparing for the day when he could achieve his ambitions.

And in this time and space, a 'surprise' also fell on Napoleon's head.

Paris in July is the hottest time of the year.

Napoleon no longer wore his military coat or hat, and he was as thin as an ordinary Parisian citizen, although the foreign accent could be heard by the Parisians as soon as he opened his mouth.

Sweat soaked through the shirt, the white shirt was washed yellow, and there were a few stains on it. Napoleon now lives entirely on the patronage of his adjutant and friend Jean-Andoch Juneau.

Juno was born in Bissi-le-Grand, France, the fourth son of a wealthy farmer, and later studied in Chartillon. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Junot, who was studying law in Paris, was influenced by revolutionary ideas and abandoned his pen to join the volunteer army in the Códor region of Burgundy. He was wounded twice in his service and was nicknamed "The Tempest" for his bravery. During the Battle of Toulon he was promoted to sergeant and befriended Napoleon, who appreciated his bravery and promoted him to captain as his deputy. From then on, Juno followed Napoleon.

But in fact, Juno himself is now poor. His father was hit hard by the Revolution, and although he did not die, the family fortune was greatly lost. And he was only one of his father's many sons, but even that he did not leave Napoleon either.

A truly talented person can really completely conquer a person's body and mind.

Napoleon's brilliant performance at the Battle of Toulon convinced Junoult.

Before dark, Napoleon crossed a path, bypassed Victory Square, and finally saw the gates of the Tranquilita Hotel. But instead of immediately returning to the hotel, he walked into a tavern next to the hotel.

Myle Road is a nondescript street, narrow and dirty, and it's close to Victory Square.

It is flanked on both sides by a scattered neighborhood of low-slung wooden houses and shops, and the only building that catches the eye is a small stone church not far from the Tronkilithai Hotel, but the current church is closed and there are piles of garbage in front of it, and it is believed that it has not been for worship for a long time.

When night fell, the first thing Napoleon, whose stomach was rumbling, had to do was eat. He came to the tavern once a week, either to order a simple meal with a drink, or simply to order a rum.

He needed to know about the outside world, and the tavern was only a few steps away from the hotel where he was staying, but it was much more informative than the hotel. The reason why I only came here once a week was because Napoleon was shy of money and it was more economical to eat at the hotel.

As soon as you enter the gate, you can feel the roar inside and full of life.

During the Revolution, the tavern was the most well-known and lively place in Paris.

Countless sans-culottes are active here. Even though the Jacobins were a thing of the past, the newly elected Parisian government clearly did not represent the interests of the lower classes, and the activities of the Parisian sans-culottes had been greatly suppressed.

But in the tavern in front of me, the atmosphere is still very lively.

In the dim candlelight, a large group of sans-culottes flirted around a few women in tunics, a few sans-culottes were sipping rum outside the bar counter, and in a distant corner there were two tables of guests bowing their heads to eat their food and whispering something about something.

None of the people inside noticed Napoleon who came in, and even if Robespierre was resurrected at this moment, I am afraid that they would not recognize this thin, sloppy man as Napoleon Bonaparte, the rising star he fancied.

Napoleon, of course, did not know that as he walked into the tavern, two men at a table in the corner who were 'eating' their food with their heads bowed looked up at him and observed him.

"Is that him?"

"It's him. Napoleon Bonaparte, that's him! ”