The natural law that a man becomes bad when he has money is obviously not suitable for our local tyrant Grand Duke, he is infatuated with the princess and lady, and in addition to this, he is in the company of all kinds of "strange tricks and tricks" all day long, no, there is a pile of factory design models on the table during the meal, and he said: "Sissi, I went to Tyndale of the Royal Academy in the evening, and it was the guy who studied magnets that I met at Princess Victoria's wedding that day, and he said that there was an interesting light-related reality for me to see, don't prepare my dinner." ”

Sissi: "Okay...... What are these houses of yours? It's weird. She was referring to the factory design model on the table.

Downing: "Well, it's an oil refinery, it's used to refine the useful components of oil, Temasek Capital has discovered oil in Malaya, and finally found it!" I was almost thought I was a liar, and I wondered, why did I find out after looking for so long? He didn't know that most of Malaya's oil resources were offshore, so it was good luck to find an oil field in northern Balticu.

Sissi: "What's the use of oil?" ”

Downing: "Now it is mainly used to refine paraffin, kerosene, and asphalt for road construction. In the future, it will be mainly used as fuel, our automobile industry will become larger and larger, and the fuel refined from petroleum, mainly methanol, can be turned into hydrogen in the fuel reformer, which will be a good supplement to the current electrolysis of hydrogen. Fuel for power plants in places where wind power is not easily accessible. ”

Sissi: "Oh, that's good, London is running out of electricity now, when will that magical merry-go-round kite be built?" ”

Tang Ning: "The progress is smooth, but this kind of large-scale equipment investment is very expensive, small towns can't do it, so methanol is useful, I am planning to have methanol special pipelines in most cities and towns around the world, this in addition to power generation, can also be used to make a fire for cooking, of course, it is best to use it for power generation, open fire cooking has fire hazards." ”

Sissi sighed softly.

Tang Ning looked up: "What's wrong?" ”

Sissi: "You care too much about technology and industry...... I don't understand any of that. ”

Downing: "This ...... You don't need to understand, as long as 5% of human beings do scientific research, it's fine. Industry is only ten percent enough, you guys, just enjoy it, you can enjoy your music and art, hehe, didn't you just go to the Royal Academy of Art that day? Very well, I support you. By the way, what's the interesting work? Let's listen to it, let me also improve my artistic accomplishment! ”

Sissi: "I went to see the art of the pre-Raphaelites......

Downing: "...... What is a Pre-Raphaelite? "It shows the ignorant nature of the local tyrant.

Sissi: "Raphael is a Renaissance painting master on a par with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, have you ever heard of this?" ”

As if he was despised, Tang Ning hurriedly said: "Da Vinci has heard it!" He's still a master of science, he's discovered the golden section, hey, would you like to hear about the science of the golden section? ”

Not again! Sissi covered her ears: "Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen to science!" ”

Well, Tang Ning put away his bad taste and continued to listen to his wife's literary stories.

Sissi: "This Raphael is the best at painting the Madonna, "Madonna of Ansydi", "Madonna of the Meadow" and "Madonna of Flino", oh, and the large oil painting "Sistine Madonna", I have seen it in the gallery of the masters of Dresden, it is really dignified and serene, beautiful and quiet, which can be called Raphael's masterpiece. ”

Tang Ning: "Huh? And then what? ”

Sissi: "This pre-Raphaelite is the opposite of Raphael, and their Millaean also painted a picture of the Virgin, hehe, not called the Virgin of So-and-so, but called "Christ in the Parents' House" (christ_in_the_house_of_hisparents), Milley painted the Virgin so ugly, Dickens scolded Milley the most fiercely. He said, 'It was so ugly, she was an old bewitch compared to her husband and Christ, and she was in a French ladyboy show, and like in the most exclusive taverns in England.' ”

Tang Ning laughed: "This person named Milley still dares to paint the Virgin like this, it's interesting, I also want to see it......"

Sissi: "Yes, Christ was also painted by him as if he had rickets, so blasphemous that Queen Victoria was embarrassed to see it, and asked someone to secretly send it to Buckingham Palace to see it quietly!" Hmph, you antichrist, you really have a crush on Milley. Sue you, Milley is a bad guy who robbed the daughter-in-law of the former Raphaelite art critic Rakins, who is still so supportive of him in The Times. ”

Downing: "Such gossip...... I'll just see if it's okay not to speak? ”

Sissi: "Then you can go, I'll be your art director, you don't know anything about this." ”

Downing: "Okay, let's go in the afternoon, anyway, there's no rush to go to Tyndall's house." ”

Sissi: "Okay, I didn't arrange it either. Oh, speaking of Queen Victoria, I want to ask, where did that title of Duke of London go? Won't the queen give it? ”

Downing: "Huh? Duke? Forget it, I'm a grand duke now, and we don't have the title of duke. ”

Sissi: "Don't! It's not another duke, it's the Duke of London! The title of Duowei must be obtained, listening to the majesty of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. ”

Downing: "This ...... My reputation for atheism is too bad now, the queen's family is embarrassed to deal with me, I think this title is difficult, many people in the royal family oppose it, although the queen does not advocate the divine right of kings, but she, the Archbishop of the Anglican Church, still wants this face, don't embarrass her. ”

Sissi pouted, obviously upset, well, why do I always fall in love with vain girls? Downing assured: "Let's see again when we have a chance." ”

Although the Oxford Motor Show has been widely known, it has not yet been unveiled, that is to say, the mini has not officially gone on sale, and the mini of the "chess tattoo" is still eye-catching everywhere, and the vain lady proudly carries the local tyrant husband through the city and drives to the Royal Academy of Art. However, this time, the local tyrant's husband has the confidence that he can withstand any vanity of his wife, and even has a strong sense of affection for this negative quality.

When the little princess came to the Royal Academy of Art, I was even happier because after Downing's assistant informed the Grand Duke of the Academy of Visit, the other party paid great attention to it, and gathered a large number of strangely dressed artists to wait here. It's not uncommon for a big tyrant to be big, but it's too valuable for a financier like Tang Ning to casually throw out a large amount of money to develop a certain business. He lost 100,000 pounds a year at the British Museum, he generously donated money to international natural disasters, set up a fund for traffic rules, and funded FIFA, and the artists basically relied on local tyrants to tout. Leonardo da Vinci also had to rely on the support of the Medici family to live a nourishing life, let alone a contemporary artist?

Even the young man Milley and his wife Effie, who happened to be coming to see his work, were also present, and Milley was a good man who loved his family and daughter-in-law after "robbing" his friend's wife, and even his painting style changed. The pre-Raphaelite style of painting was characterized by a great attention to detail for perfection, but this resulted in low productivity, and in order to support his family, Milley worked hard to paint on a wide range of subjects, in the words of his rival Larkins, "a great catastrophe".

In any case, an artist like Milley certainly attaches great importance to the presence of local tyrants. Effie is a big beauty, her mouth is sweet, and she is very enthusiastic about the Grand Duchess, and she killed the little princess with a "Princess Sisi is beautiful", because she can get the "appreciation" of Madame Milley, who is also a great beauty, which can not be beautiful? What Milley is a big bad guy, all forgot. By the time Effie tells the little princess about her secrets, she will be even more forgiving for bad men and bad women. Effie, a great beauty, has been outstanding in appearance since she was a child, and when she was twelve years old, Larkins wrote a book for her, "The King of the Golden River". But later, I don't know why Larkins was dissatisfied with the bride's body on the first night, and felt that it was different from the body he imagined to match the beautiful face, and he never touched the beautiful bride.

Later, he even deliberately introduced other men to Effie when he was traveling in Venice in order to find a reason to break up. Effie and her family were disappointed with Larkins, and Milley later moved on to her and her husband's paintings, and finally filed for divorce with the support of her family, on the grounds that she had been a virgin since marriage. Does Laggins hate his friends? It's a mystery. What is it about Efe's body that upsets Larkins? Maybe it's not the woman's problem, it's Lakins' problem, you see Efe has had a good relationship after marrying Milley, and they have always "maintained" having children, just like Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Because his wife warned him not to be friends with the bad guy Milley, Downing was still cautious, and when he looked back, Sissi had become good friends with Mrs. Milley! Hum! Don't trust women anymore.

During this time, the Virgin Mary was very popular, because in the southern French city of Lourdes, there were many news of the appearance of the Virgin, and later even the French Church "had to" admit that it was true, and Bernard, the girl who constantly "saw" the Virgin Mary, became a news figure and frequently accepted newspaper interviews. However, Reuters, the world's largest news agency, did not send a reporter because Downing did not believe in such a thing, and of course, the BBC did not broadcast such news at all. Many people criticize the BBC, the only radio station in the world, for being biased, and why not broadcast it when so many people have witnessed the Virgin Mary?

Milley's "masterpiece" is so fitting that it appears to Downing, and Christ at the Parents' House depicts a young Jesus assisting Joseph in a carpentry shop. Joseph was making a door on the table. Jesus cut his hand with a bare nail, and the guide has a red spot mark that foreshadows the crucifixion. Jesus' grandmother, St. Anne, pulled out the nail with pliers, and while Joseph examined Jesus' wounds, Mary, Jesus' concerned mother, handed him a cheek to kiss. Young John brought a basin of water to wash his wounds, indicating that he was a later baptist of Christ. One of Joseph's helpers witnessed this happening on behalf of the future apostle. The objects in the background further point out the significance of the theme. a ladder, meaning Jacob's Staircase to Heaven as described in Genesis, leaning against the wall behind it; A dove represents the Holy Spirit......

This is not the point, the point is, of course, this slum-like mess, where previous depictions of religious figures have always been magnificent, but Milley uses realism in this work, and has a pre-Raphaelite attention to detail.

Or the Grand Duchess is educated, if it weren't for her explanation, Downing didn't know anyone, he thought that the "apostle" was Jesus, thought that the old lady St. Anne was the Virgin Mary, and thought that this Virgin was also a little old.

There is also a painting of Milley's famous Downing, which is a heartbreaking scene of a couple of lovers breaking up because of religious differences. There are two major schools of Christianity, the more ancient is Catholicism, which regards the Holy See as the authentic and emphasizes the authority of the pope. Wycliffe, Young? Hus, Martin? Luther, John? Initiated by Calvin and others, "sincerity is spirituality" and no longer subject to the constraints of the pope, this is another major school - Protestantism. From a doctrinal point of view, Protestants were less spiritually bound than Catholics, so the later developed industrial countries were basically Protestants.

During the Reformation, in 1572, there was a massacre of Protestants by Catholics in Paris. Calvin's influence on the anti-monarch Huguenots, whose lover tried to bind his arm with a strip of white cloth symbolizing Catholicism, embraced his lover's hand affectionately but resolutely rejecting her bondage, and the girl looked up at her lover in despair and pity.

Milley and the Grand Duchess found that Downing was thinking bitterly about "a_huguenot", thinking that he was moved, but in fact Downing was thinking that Germany and France must have a war, because North Germany, which was dominated by Prussia, was mainly Protestant, and France was still predominantly Catholic, and Napoleon III was a Catholic, if not, it would be strange that he could become emperor.

The war between Catholicism and Protestantism is dog-eat-dog for atheists, but Protestantism is more open, a better dog, and a freer dog. Catholicism was centered on Rome, which was the same as the Tokugawa shogunate's control over Japan, and the farther away from Edo, the smaller the shogunate's control became, such as the Choshu and Satsuma domains. The Baltic states far from Italy, Scandinavia (Northern Europe), England (fairly close to Scandinavia), and North Germany were all strongholds of Protestantism.

Under the guidance of the artists of the Royal Academy of Art, the Grand Duke toured the entire gallery and found a large number of works with religious themes, and finally he could not stand it anymore, and said to Milley: "Mr. Milley, if I ask to create a non-religious theme, would you like to paint?" ”

Milai was shocked, this uneducated scientist really had this kind of non-dividing thought, but he couldn't offend the big tyrant, saying: "What kind of subject matter is it?" ”

Downing: "I don't have to paint in a realistic style, because I have a Leica camera to do it, I need an imaginative artist to help me complete a great science fantasy project - to 'resurrect' a large number of extinct animal fossils in the British Museum's collection, imagine what these animals looked like when they were alive, biologists will provide a lot of information about the habits of these animals, I think this is an unprecedented school of painting, once the school is opened, you will be a grandmaster!" You see, you don't even dare to paint 'blasphemy against Christ', so you should have no problem painting something interesting in the style of science fantasy, right? ”

The more Tang Ning thought about it, the more true he became, and said: "Paleontologists can't help but be happy when they see fossils of animal bones, but ordinary people are not interested in such things, I think the creation of this 'scientific painting school' is to lead the trend and raise the interest of the people. （http:／／.）。 I would like to provide such a job opportunity for interested painters, and if they do a good job, there will be a big prize. It's a big prize, not a small prize. We can set up a jury of scientists and painters to review the final paintings. When the works accumulate to a certain extent, you can hold a scientific art exhibition, and art will lead the science, tsk, I like this very much. ”

The big tyrant really came to throw money at it again, advocating his "scientology".

Milley replied a little awkwardly, "Well, I'll have to think about it." Although he longed for the favor of the local tyrants, he did not dare to rashly join the "scientific painting school", which would be criticized by the entire art world.

The Grand Duchess thought that her husband was tarnishing his art, but she did not dare or would refute his husband's face in public, which was the virtue of a good wife, and even if she had any opinions, she had to go home and say it behind closed doors.

The East India Company owed a lot of debt to the British government, and now the local tycoons had little to spare, so it was not bold to provide only 50,000 pounds to try to fund the School of Science painting.

With a decent painter's income of £500 a year, this would allow 100 painters to live comfortably for a year. I just don't know if the Grand Duke will do this every year in the future, otherwise this amount is quite good, and the artists of the Royal Academy of Arts hope that this is not a one-shot deal.