Joseph submitted the "Four Colors Questions" to the Academy of Sciences, and indeed all the guys, including Laplace, were stumped. Everyone studied for a while, but couldn't come up with an answer, and there was no feasible solution to the problem for the time being. People, including Laplace, all have their own research, and it is impossible to spend all their time on such topics. So in the end, as Joseph said, the Academy of Sciences simply publicized the question and solicited answers from the world.

Joseph originally put forward this question to trick Mara. Based on Joseph's experience in his previous life, generally speaking, there are more things in the field of physical sciences and chemistry, but very few people in mathematics. But what he did not expect was that the reason why there were fewer civil sciences in later generations was because the questions of mathematical problems in later generations were no longer understandable to those in later generations. Therefore, the few people in later generations of mathematics were not because they had awe of mathematics, but because they couldn't even understand the questions!

But the "Four Colors Problem" is a topic that everyone, including Mara, can understand. So as soon as the reward notice came out, the Academy of Sciences immediately received a paper sent by Mara, which is said to have perfectly solved the problem. Then Laplace just glanced at it and saw seven or eight mistakes. Then, the paper naturally reached where it should have been.

However, Mara did not give up and sent the "paper" to Joseph. In the letter, he also expressed that he believed that Joseph would definitely see the value of his paper. At this moment, Joseph realized that he had made a mistake and dug a hole, but ended up burying himself in.

Mara's "papers" are like all "civil science papers", full of various problems, from derivation errors to conceptual errors, which can be said to be everything. Joseph also glanced at them and found seven or eight problems.

"If this was written by Napoleon, or any of my other students, I would have opened his butt!" Joseph gritted his teeth and cursed, while having a headache about how to reply to the horse.

"It is really not easy to find 'valued things' in this 'paper'. If you have to say that there is 'valued things' in this 'paper', it must be fearless courage. After all, the ignorant is fearless." Joseph couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"But in the reply, I can't always praise his 'courage'? Mara is indeed a civil servant, but he is not a fool. If he praises him like this, he will definitely think that I am mocking him."

So Joseph had to turn over the "paper" of Mara, which was full of loopholes, and studied it for a long time before finally finding something worthy of praise: "Well, although the derivation of this paragraph is not rigorous, some of the ideas are still interesting. Ah, let's blow this paragraph first."

So Joseph began to write a reply to Mara. In this letter, Joseph first used two sides of paper to praise Mara's short analysis. The tone of praise even made him feel goosebumps all over his body.

"I'm so stingy, I'm almost as good as the lotus-digging king? I really didn't expect that I would do this for the sake of a meal. Oh, it's because of making money, and the business is not shabby." Joseph continued to write a reply while complaining about himself.

"It's time to turn around now, but it's time to make a quick turn." Joseph thought so, and wrote: "But there are still some minor problems in this paper. For example... Mr. Laplace believes that there are logical loopholes in the argument here and ignores it... You may not know that people who do mathematics are a little paranoid. Mr. Laplace is very paranoid about this kind of problem, so he believes that this paper has not successfully proved this conjecture..."

After writing "But" in a few sentences, he guided the disaster to Laplace. Then Joseph completed his reply, and then he carefully sucked off the excess ink on the letter with ink-absorbing paper, sealed the letter and sent it back. As for how Mara would hold a grudge against Laplace after receiving the letter, it was not his business. Considering that Laplace used his stuff in his previous life to make him feel troubled, Joseph felt that his conscience would be better all of a sudden.

This trick did work. Not long after, Mara sent a reply again, expressing his gratitude for his affirmation, and expressed his anger at the "conservative guys" in the Academy of Sciences, and it was faintly revealed that one day I would come to the stage and would drive these guys out of the Academy of Sciences. At that time, young people like Joseph who are brave enough to explore will be in charge of the Academy of Sciences. I believe that France's science will shine.

"Is this 'If I were to be the Qing Emperor in another year, I would be able to repay the same peach blossoms as the same place'?" Joseph couldn't help laughing.

Mara did get up, but that was still the future. And as of now, he would not have too much malice to Joseph when he climbed up. So for the time being, the matter about Mincomala can come to an end. Now Joseph's attention can be focused on his younger brothers again.

Napoleon no longer needs Joseph to bother, so he returned to Corsica and would not come back in a short time. As for Louis, he is still young, so Joseph asked someone to find a good elementary school to study in it. As for Lucien, Joseph arranged for him to enter his alma mater, Louis King School.

Of course, Lucien's performance at Louis King's School was not as prominent as Joseph, but his academic performance was pretty good, and he performed well in speeches and performances. Joseph has now removed the screenwriter of the Dragon and Rose Theatre, but his connection with the troupe is still there. With this relationship, he also asked Lucien to play a few guest roles in the troupe from time to time. According to leader Denadi, "he is a natural good actor." But Joseph has not seen Lucien's performance with his own eyes, so he doesn't know how many exaggerated the words of Denadi are.

In addition, Joseph also invited an Austrian musician named Fraser to teach Lucien's piano. According to this musician, although Lucien learned piano a little late, he had a good talent. If he was willing to work hard on this, he would not have the chance to achieve the level of being able to perform on stage in the future.

In fact, Joseph did not require Lucien to reach this level. In his conception, Lucien would be responsible for literary and artistic publicity in the future. He did not need to be proficient in all kinds of arts, just a little bit of it.

However, Lucien seems to be really talented in these aspects. He has even written several small scripts recently and composed several small songs by himself. Joseph has read and heard these works. To be honest, they are not very outstanding, but they are still acceptable.

It is precisely because of his performance that Armand simply pulled him into his "Spartacus creation group" and often pulled him out to discuss script issues on weekends.

Time gradually passed away. In a blink of an eye, it was 1789. In the past two years, France's finances had reached an unsustainable point. King Louis XVI had to propose to use tax increases to avoid the complete bankruptcy of the kingdom's government. French society was divided into three levels, namely priests, nobles and civilians. The first two levels occupied a large amount of social wealth, but did not bear much tax. These two levels naturally firmly opposed the increase of taxes on them, and with the political power they had mastered, they did have the strength to oppose it. Therefore, the only goal of tax increases was naturally the third level.

In order to increase taxes, the king had to reconvene a third-level meeting that had been interrupted for one hundred and seventy-five years to seek solutions to the financial crisis.

"The French king is a fool. At this time, he would come up with a stupid and stupid way to hold a third-level meeting!" Napoleon mercilessly mocked the French king in his letter to Joseph. "Don't he know how much dissatisfaction and resentment he has buried with him? If he did not hold a third-level meeting, these angers were only hidden, and there would not be too much danger for the time being, but he would hold a third-level meeting! He didn't know that this would give those who opposed him a chance to organize? Single people are always timid and weak, and even if they have resentment in their hearts, they dare not do anything. But they

Once they get together, with organization, with courage and strength, they dare to fight lions and even dragons. People are like locusts. When they don’t flock, they are just grasshoppers that are not worth mentioning, but once they become swarms, they are unstoppable locusts. But that idiot foolishly gave those who opposed him such an opportunity, a chance to unite them from grasshoppers to locusts. This idiot must have thought that as long as the third-level guys are bluffing, they will pay the money obediently, or at most, even if they refuse to pay, they will not cause any trouble, but there are still people who are eyeing him..."

Joseph fully agreed with Napoleon's judgment. In fact, as the representatives of the third level gradually concentrated in Paris, the whole of Paris became turbulent. Some pamphlets began to be popular among the citizens. Some of these pamphlets introduced the relevant knowledge of the third level meeting to the citizens. Most of these "knowledge" have certain directions, and on the one hand they introduced what taxes the king was preparing to increase and how to further exploit everyone. Such propaganda made the Paris civilians who were already living a difficult life worry.

At the same time, due to the widespread spring drought in northern provinces, due to concerns about possible bad harvests, starting with the grain merchants under several great nobles, almost all grain merchants began to adopt the practice of reluctance to sell. The food sold in the market became less and less, and the prices naturally rose. The rising prices of prices further stimulated the atmosphere of hoarding and reluctance to sell. The continued rise in grain prices made Paris complain. At this time, Armand found Joseph again.
Chapter completed!