Before seven o'clock in the evening, Dejine came back. He hurriedly went upstairs to find Deng Fei and Zhao Xin, and told him what he had learned.

The place where the king's family was detained was called the "Templar Tower", which really was related to the Knights Templar. It was the earliest stronghold of the Templar in Paris. After the Knights were destroyed, it has been idle. The main building is a 50-meter-high zigzag square spire tower with an average thickness of four meters. There are four floors in total, and there are turrets at all corners. There is a small tower on the front of the main tower, and there are two turrets on both sides of its narrow building. The king's family of five were locked in the main tower.

"Five?"

"Yes, the king and his wife, two children, and one is the king's sister, Mrs. Elizabeth."

Deng Fei asked: "Where are the defense facilities? How many guards are there?"

Degine took a sip of wine and said, "This is not clear yet. But when I passed by the gate of the monastery, I saw more than a dozen National Guard soldiers standing guard."

“The Grand Monastery?”

"Yes, if you want to enter the Temple Tower, you have to go through the monastery."

Zhao Xin said: "Can the floor plan be found?"

"I mentioned it to my father, and he said he would go to the Royal Library to look for it tomorrow, so there is no big problem."

After hearing this, Zhao Xin said to everyone: "We just arrived on the first day, don't worry, get the floor plan first."

Elu said: "Why would I take someone over and take a look tomorrow?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "We must not get involved in these things on the surface. We are so popular in Paris, and there are only a lot of eyes staring around us. Needless to say, the servants, the Russians and the British must be paying attention to our every move."

At 7:30, the housekeeper Buwei came to report and took the carriage for the banquet. In addition to Zhao Xin and Deng Fei, the people who came to Beihai Town were accompanied by Jiao Xun and Huang Chengji, as well as eight special operations soldiers dressed as followers. In addition, Degenie, as the representative and translator of the French East India Company, also accompanied him.

Because today's dinner is of state banquet, it is located in a building on the south side of the Duille Garden on the right bank of the Seine, which is also the office of the Civic Association. When Zhao Xin and the others were taken into the hall by the mayor of Paris, all the French present applauded and welcomed them, and the band next to them immediately played soothing music.

The French people present were all smiling, but they whispered frequently, and they were talking about the unique faces and dresses of the people in Beihai Town.

Deng Fei was still wearing the white naval dress with the rank of lieutenant general. The medals and medals on the left chest were hung in a dense range. The golden decoration hanging from his left shoulder to his chest was even more conspicuous. The gilded brass draped in the lights. You must know that there was no decoration on the European army uniforms in this year. It would not appear until Napoleon became the emperor.

This time, Zhao Xin stood on the back of Deng Fei's left this time. His identity today was Deng Fei's assistant, so he only had the rank of major.

The Frenchman looked at the two of them in a dress, except for their skin color, and could not find the feeling of ancient oriental from head to toe, which was different from those in the picture album. Fortunately, Jiao Xun and Huang Chengji, who were with them, were wearing wide robes and big sleeves, with straight faces, jade belts hanging on their waists, square flat scarves made of black veil on their heads, and a fan in their hands, which made the Frenchmen present believe that they were indeed Chinese.

The French were looking at the people in Beihai Town, and Zhao Xin was also looking at the French people present. He glanced around and found many familiar faces. Although the people in his impression were portraits in textbooks, which were somewhat different from real people, he recognized a thin man wearing a fluffy wig, a pointed chin and sunglasses, who was Robespierre (this person has myopia).

It is hard for Zhao Xin to imagine that such a pale young man who looks harmless and seems to be able to burst out huge energy in the future and drag the entire France into the abyss of blood.

"We must obey the virtues of the people! Terror without virtue is evil, virtue without fear is weakness!"

Yes, just like his spiritual tutor Rousseau, they only love abstract "people", but for real people, they always treat them as rags thrown away after use.

The thinker who wrote the "Social Contract" and saw one love the other, sent his five children to the orphanage, and was finally pushed to the altar by countless people, created two bloody hands for Europeans, Robespierre and Kant. One of them sent the king and more than two thousand citizens to the guillotine in the political field, and the other sent the awesome God to the gallows in the ideological field.

In his later years, Rousseau also wrote a book called "Repentance" as "defense", which is a model of disgust and hypocrisy. In the book, he explained the following behavior of sending his own children to an orphanage: "I was scared when I thought that the children would be raised by a messy family. Leaving the children to them will only worsen the education. The education in the orphanage is much better, and this is the reason why I decided to send the children to the orphanage."

That's right, this guy is busy loving humans, so he doesn't have time to care about his children!

Just as Zhao Xin was staring at Robespierre, the famous "ascetic" suddenly felt like a ray of light on his back, as if there was a great danger hovering above his head. He was like a cat with hair blown, his big eyes hiding behind the green lenses blinked and then instantly locked his target on Zhao Xin.

"It's strange. This person seems to be like me, with his body containing the power that can destroy everything."

Hearing his friend muttering, Dandong, who was standing beside him, said with concern: "My friend, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, nothing. Maybe it's an illusion."

At this time, Deng Fei, under the introduction of Degine, walked to Elli Guadet.

"General Deng, please let me introduce to you the President of the First Republic of France, the President of this parliament, His Excellency Ellie Guadet."

The National Guild is also very funny. In order to prevent all factions from monopolizing their power, they simply sit in a row and eat fruits; the position of chairman is chosen every two weeks, and the elected person can continue to choose two weeks after he steps down.

"Mr. Guadete, ministers, and respected members of the parliament, this is the commander of the Northern Navy's fleet stationed in the East Indies, General Deng Fei. The fleet led by General Deng defeated the navy of the Qing Empire many times, and led the fleet to conquer Batavia, the largest city in East India...."

The congressmen present looked at Deng Fei and others with curiosity. Because the Qing Dynasty did not allow Westerners to enter the mainland, China before the 19th century was too mysterious to Westerners. What they could understand was basically letters or books from missionaries.

Degine introduced everyone present to Deng Fei, Danton, Robespierre, Mara, De Muran, Condorce, the Roland couple, Lebron, Wernav, Saint Just... If nothing unexpected happens, most of these people will end in two years, either entering the bathtub or on the guillotine.

After everyone present had introduced it, Dejine finally added loudly: "What I want to explain is that the Far Eastern regime was founded by a noble descendant of the Ming Dynasty. After ten years of struggle, they have occupied a large tract of territory, including Mongolia, with an area of ​​more than 10 million square kilometers. I believe that in another two or three years, they will complete the war of unity and completely destroy the rule of the Qing Empire!"

Boom!!! The Frenchmen present were all shocked! The chins almost fell to their feet.

God! Ten million square kilometers, isn’t that almost 20 Frances? How big is the whole of Europe?

Robespierre was thinking about what he was doing ten years ago...oh! He was in his hometown Alas and his neighbors suing for lightning rods. Thinking of this, his eyes gradually lit up after his glasses. It seems that he is still right today. If you have the opportunity, you must have a good chat with these Chinese people and discuss the strategies for governing the country.

However, some people suddenly remembered the two major defeats that the Russians had encountered in the past few years, and their eyes looked at Deng Fei and became thoughtful.

Without further ado, the four people in Beihai Town, the members of the National People's Congress, and their gorgeous ladies greeted each other, and then came to the restaurant to sit. Because there were no female guests in Beihai Town this time, Deng Fei took all the male guests to take the seat first. Then the female members took the seat.

In order to take care of the distinguished guests in the distance, a lady and a man sat next to the four-person group in Beihai Town. Zhao Xin and Deng Fei were nothing, but Jiao Xun and Huang Chengji looked a little unnatural when they saw the women's white breasts. Seeing this, Deng Fei asked Dejine to change to the two of them as interpreters.

Although the members of the National Assembly present seemed to be harmonious, the clearly distinguished seats still clearly showed their respective factions. The cabinet ministers were all Girondistant factions, while the guys from the Mountain Sect belonged to the "Paris Commune".

At present, the quarrel between the Mountains and the Gironde factions has just revealed signs. The Gironde factions have been trying to avoid trial of the king, worried that this will rekindle the resistance of the royalist forces in the country and intensify the hostility of European monarchies; while the leaders of the Mountains, such as Robespierre, Danton, Mara, Saint-Just, etc., believe that democracy is not carried out thoroughly enough, and killing the king is the only way to republic.

The problem is that this year's food shortage caught all the representatives of the National Convention off guard. The common people in Paris faced the hunger years three years ago again. Now they are talking about the fact that nothing is coming.

After a while, the waiter wearing a wig brought up the carefully prepared dishes one by one, and under the bright bamboo lamp and surrounding candles, it seemed like flowers were blooming. When Zhao Xin saw that the ingredients were very rich, at least from the appearance, it could be seen that they were cooked carefully.

He didn't know that for today's meal, the mayor of Paris tried his best to convene many court chefs who had been wandering among the people after the Great Revolution, and then he prepared to make such a table of dishes.

You should know that there are not many big hotels in France this year. Even the larger "Hotel" is just a family hotel composed of multiple small rooms. Moreover, this "Hotel" does not provide a wide variety of meals, at most it is bread, milk, and two eggs!

Seeing a bunch of knife, forks and spoons for different purposes in front of him, Jiao Xun and the others did not take out their chopsticks this time. When they were on the boat, Dejine had already taught them a lot and had no sense of strangeness at all. After Guadete and Deng Fei's toasts were over, they slowly used them step by step, and the woman sitting next to them was surprised.

It is said that the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 led to the reshuffle of the original first, second and third levels. All aesthetic ideals of the monarchy era were declared ugly. The palace dining table culture, which symbolized "imperial power and hierarchy", was completely overturned. At least, everyone could speak freely on the dining table and toast each other at will.

However, there were not many wine glasses and bottles on the banquet tables in these days, so if you want to drink, you can only wait for the waiter to bring them over. The purpose of this was to prevent anyone from poisoning the wine. Before the Revolution, even at the palace banquet, there was only one wine glass for everyone to take turns to use.

Want to poison? Come on, hurt each other! Anyway, everyone has to take turns to reach the bottom.

Zhao Xin thought that although all the people here shouted about freedom and equality, for the sake of the people, judging from the exquisite and gorgeous wigs, vests and knee-length shorts on them, they obviously did not stand with the trousers without condoms. It won’t take long for the Jacobins to publicly criticize the trousers for eating "pig food". When the "equality theory" begins to collapse, the ideals will also be disillusioned.

Later generations often said that the purpose of dinner parties was not just for dinner, but also the same in the 18th century. The reason why the mayor of Paris wanted to make such a large list of noodles was not only because Beihai Town was the first mission to visit after the establishment of the "First Republic of France", but he was also concerned about the rumored food. However, this kind of thing cannot be discussed at the table, especially when women are present, such as business and money.

After dinner, when the waiter cleaned the table and finally even removed the tablecloth, the real conversation finally began.

The National Congress members carrying wine began to ask about the system of Beihai Town. The first thing they paid attention to was what the constitution of Beihai Town was.

How did Deng Fei answer this? He could only say that we certainly have an electoral system, but because the education level of the people is not high and the country is too large, it is currently only at the administrative village level. At the age of 18, it can be done.

"We have clear laws, all land is owned by the state, and the people only have the right to use..."

"Decentralization of power? Of course, there is a committee for each division, military, administration, and legislation... The head of state is the descendant of the "last prince of the former Ming Dynasty", and he was the leader who initially led the rebellion against the Qing regime..."

When the French learned that the highest head of Beihai Town did not even have a palace, and their whole family lived in an ordinary house with an area of ​​two or three times larger than this restaurant, they couldn't help but exclaimed...

"About the handling of the emperors and nobles who led the Qing Dynasty, the Supreme Court will be formed to conduct a trial. For specific matters...you see, I am a soldier, and soldiers cannot interfere in politics."

"Mr. Condorcet? I heard you are a mathematician? These two companions have admired you for a long time. Mr. Degine, please help me translate it..."

Deng Fei's mouth was dry and he kept quenching his thirst with wine. Many of the content he said were discussed with him these days and was used to learn and apply it. While he was telling, De Mulan, who was the editor-in-chief of the Old Cordeller, kept recording it. He was going to sort it out overnight after he went back and published it in the newspaper tomorrow.

Zhao Xin stood with a glass of wine for a while, but he couldn't understand French, so he came outside the door and planned to smoke a cigarette. As soon as he took out the cigarette, he heard footsteps coming from behind him. When he turned around, he saw that "Rousseau's hand" had actually followed him.
Chapter completed!