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Les Invalides is also known as the "Paris Disabled Veterans Hospital". It is a building built during the time of Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France, and is located on the sparkling south bank of the Seine, with a tall cupola and an extremely luxurious appearance. As the name suggests, it was used to house the disabled soldiers of the French army, and it was also the French Emperor Napoleon. The site of Bonaparte's mausoleum.

On the third day after attending an extremely lavish but very boring banquet held in the Louvre, Zhu Jishi took Isabel and Bai Swen to visit the Invalides in Paris early in the morning -- this was not an event arranged by the French authorities, and in fact the French officials showed a hot and cold attitude towards Zhu Jishi's visit. The banquet on September 19th was of a very high standard, and King Louis of France. Philip and Prime Minister Field Marshal Sirt both appeared, although it was not for a long time, but it also gave Zhu Jishi enough face. But then the French put Zhu Jishi in the Louvre guest room and no one cared about it, and the meeting with French Foreign Minister Guizot was postponed.

So, Zhu Jishi simply traveled in Paris with Bai Siwen and Isabel. Heming went to the French War Office to sell bombs. As for Maria. Clementina went home to meet her father.

However, the appearance of Paris in this era is really similar to that stinky London, and it can be summed up as "dirty, messy, and poor", which is far worse than when Zhu Jishi came to Paris to travel in later generations. More than 100 years later, the straight boulevards that can be found everywhere in the city of Paris, as well as many neoclassical squares, parks, residential areas, hospitals, libraries, schools, public fountains and street sculptures are missing. Instead, there were more winding old streets, narrow roads that were difficult for horse-drawn carriages to pass through, and the stench was so bad that the air was filled with the smell of garbage, sewage, and excrement, and it seemed that Paris at this time, like London, had no urban drainage system.

But when it comes to the cityscape, Paris is still a little stronger than London, at least it's not a fog capital. There are not many factories in Paris, the industry in France is not as developed as in England, and the center of the textile industry in France is not in Paris but in Lyon. Basically, Paris is now just a financial center and a consumer metropolis, with banks, pawnshops, merchant houses, many taverns, cafes, brothels and so on.

By the way, when Zhu Jishi was wandering around the streets of Paris, he also encountered an extremely embarrassing thing, as if all the prostitutes in Paris knew him! He is also affectionately called "Mr. Condom". It turns out that after a period of promotion, the "Jason-style condom" launched by Jason Cospel Rubber Products Company has become a must-have for prostitutes and amorous ladies! In particular, after the "Jason-style condom" was discovered by the medical circles of various European countries to have the effect of preventing and controlling the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, it became the favorite of European prostitutes.

And Cospel. William, the profiteer, not only named the condom after Zhu Jishi's English name, but also printed his portrait on the outer packaging of the condom as a trademark (the practice of using the boss's portrait as a trademark was extremely common in the European business world at the time). Later, this incident was also written into his "European Travel Interesting Facts" by Bai Siwen, so that the intellectuals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew that Dr. Zhu was a greedy and lustful person......

Encountering this kind of embarrassing thing, of course, Zhu Jishi was not in the mood to go shopping on the street again, so he was in Will. At Hemming's suggestion, he went to Les Invalides in Paris to visit Napoleon's mausoleum. This Napoleon is probably the Frenchman Zhu Jishi is most familiar with, and since he has come to Paris, of course he has to go to his old man's grave to offer flowers or something.

As soon as Zhu Jishi arrived, the director of the Invalides, an elderly French general with a dignified appearance, greeted him, accompanied by many wounded soldiers who lacked arms and legs or wore bandages. At present, France is invading Algeria in North Africa, and the war is not going well. Kadir was very difficult to deal with, his army rarely confronted the French army head-on, but adopted guerrilla, ambush, sneak attack and other flexible tactics and the French army Zhou Xun, the brutal war has been fought for many years, the day of victory still seems far away, but from 1843 onwards, more and more wounded were brought back from Africa, and the entire Invalides was almost full.

This is not because Marshal Biruo, the former commander-in-chief of the French army, does not know how to fight, but because Zhu Jishi's merits -- because the military doctors of the French army before were also murderous doctors, who did not know surgical sterilization, blood transfusion treatment, and no antibacterial drugs and painkillers available. Most of the wounded at the front were murdered by them! From the second quarter of 1843, because the French army doctors first used the method proposed by Zhu Jishi to perform the operation, the survival rate of the wounded was greatly improved, and the Invalides in Paris was naturally overcrowded.

"Dr. Jason, you, xiexie."

"Xiexie, or I won't survive."

"May God bless you......"

"It's so xiexie you......"

Before the old French general could speak, the wounded soldiers bowed to Zhu Jishi one after another to thank him, although they were all speaking French, but looking at their expressions, Zhu Jishi knew what they were talking about.

"This is what I should do, gentlemen......" Zhu Jishi also smiled and nodded back at these deserved imperialist invaders, but suddenly he heard someone talking as if he was talking in Chinese, saying that he didn't hear clearly, but he was definitely saying Chinese.

He looked around and saw a dark-skinned, short, bearded Oriental man staring at him with a leopard's eyes, his mouth still half open, and he couldn't speak. However, this person was wearing a white-washed French military uniform, and Zhu Jishi couldn't figure out what was going on?

The French general said in stiff English: "Sir Zhu, this name is Hans, he is an Indian, he served in the Foreign Legion, and he used to be a very good light infantryman, but he was lame in North Africa. ”

As he spoke, he beckoned to "Hans", "Hans came over to meet Sir Zhu, if it weren't for the surgical disinfection method he invented, your calves wouldn't be saved." ”

The man limped to Zhu Jishi with a crutch, bowed deeply, and opened his mouth in the official dialect of Guangxi, which was difficult to understand, as if he was roaring. "In Xia Guilin Han Si, I have seen the lord."

Where is this man an Indian "Hans" (this name is not like an Indian Ah San, but like a German), he is clearly a dignified Chinese citizen!

The French general smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, this Indian speaks Indian again, and I don't know what to say?" ”

Zhu Jishi is interested in this Chinese named "Han Si", this guy is not slippery, looks quite loyal, at least much stronger than Bai Sven's gang, and has also fought in the French Foreign Legion It seems that he is a little brave, if he can be a bodyguard by his side, it would be good.

Zhu Jishi pulled the French general aside and whispered, "This Hans is still serving in the French Foreign Legion?" ”

The general shook his head and said, "You are still an infantryman with broken legs?" But here to recuperate, and when he recovers, I will give him some severance pay and send him back to India. ”

"How did he join the Foreign Legion?" Zhu Jishi asked with interest.

The general said: "I don't know, maybe some French officer who came back from the Indian colonies sent him to the Foreign Legion, which has been fighting in Algeria all these years and has suffered heavy casualties, so it is easy to join." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, and said with a smile: "Can you let him follow me as a bodyguard?" I think he's pretty reliable. ”

"Bodyguards?" The general looked back at Han Si, asked a few words in French, and then said to Zhu Jishi: "Sir, this Indian said that it is a great honor to serve you. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded and said to Isabel beside him, "Isabel, you take Han Si to wait in our carriage." ”

“haode。” Isabel naturally has no opinion.

Zhu Jishi placed Han Si, and said to the general with a smile: "General, can you take me to offer flowers to Emperor Napoleon now?" I have long admired this great soldier. ”