Fox of France

"Joseph, do you want to be transferred to manage military production?" Kano looked up from the document and looked at Joseph.

"Yes, Lazar." Joseph said, "Nowadays, other things in the military are slowly getting on the right track, but our military production is still a complete mess. Cut corners, poor quality, all kinds of There are endless problems. It has seriously hindered our army. Although the National Salvation Committee has sent some special commissioners to supervise military production, most of these special commissioners know nothing about technology and production, and it is difficult for them to be of much help..."

"It's not just that it can't help much? If it doesn't help, you have to thank God. Besides arresting saboteurs and killing people randomly?" Kano said. His character is more straightforward, and he dares to speak the truth. But there is a reason why Kano said this. Just a few days ago, the National Salvation Committee sent a special commissioner to a certain artillery factory. Hang up more than half of the engineers in the artillery factory - before the special commissioner was sent, the problem of this artillery factory was only the slow production speed and unstable quality. After the special commissioner was sent, the artillery factory simply stopped production up. Of course, it would not be fair to say that the commissioner did nothing. At least, since he left, the gun factory has never produced any bad-quality cannons.

"So what do you think about this kind of thing?" Kano asked.

"I want to set up such an institution." Joseph said while handing a document to Kano. "This institution consists of the 'Army Technical Laboratory' and the 'Army Technical Inspection Department'."

Kano took the document and read it carefully. Joseph found a chair beside him and sat down, and motioned to Kano's attendant to pour him a cup of coffee.

Kano has always been reading documents very quickly, so when Joseph finished his coffee slowly, Kano raised his head from the documents.

"It's a good idea." Kano said, "Set up an 'army technical laboratory' to be responsible for technical research and formulate standards, set up an 'army technical inspection department', send special technical representatives to military production enterprises, and follow up and supervise the whole process. Production, all products must be signed by the representative of the technical inspection department before they can be sold to the army. This idea is good, very good! It is much better than sending those stupid special commissioners who don’t understand anything to the military factory ! It's just... Joseph, have you ever thought that our army lacks enough people who can do these things."

"It's not impossible." Joseph said, "We can recruit and train some people who can do this job." Joseph said, "There are so many students at the University of Paris. With their knowledge level, they only need a little training. It is enough to be competent for such a job. The more critical thing is actually their supervision. Lazar, I heard that anyone with power will automatically try to expand the boundaries of his power, or in other words, tend to abuse power. Judging whether a product is qualified or not is a huge power, which also involves a lot of economic interests. Therefore, we still need to be able to control those technical representatives.”

"They are soldiers. If the technical representative doesn't find quality problems, but the army finds out, then the military law will do it." Kano said, "Does the laboratory you mentioned have enough researchers?"

"Not yet, but we can go and get some people in. Well, Lazar, you know, the Academy of Sciences has been disbanded, and some academicians of the Academy of Sciences are not in a good situation now..."

Kano stared at Joseph for a while, and then said: "Joseph, your sense of smell is very sensitive, you actually noticed that Lavoisier's situation is not good? Hehe, he may not have noticed it himself. I know Mr. Lavoisier It's your friend. But there's an economic case involving M. Lavoisier, and he's being attacked by the paper "Piee Duchesne," whose background you know..."

"Papa Duchesne" is the newspaper of Ebert, the representative of the ultra-left radicals. After Marat's death, Ebert replaced Marat, and this newspaper replaced the original "Friends of the People" as a newspaper. The most important mouthpiece for the bottom sansculottes.

Compared with Mara, Ebel's ability is much worse. Although Marat is a man who is extreme and mean, he is very unlikable, but Marat has deep insights and a keen sense of politics. And Ebel is far behind Mara in these aspects. So if he wants to replace Marat, he can only be more extreme than Marat.

So Marat said that in order to save the Republic, the heads of 100,000 profiteers must be cut off; Ebert said that the entire merchant class is a parasite of the people, and all merchants should be hung on lampposts. Marat said that among highly educated people, the proportion of bad people is relatively high (because at that time, educated people were rich people); Ebert said that knowledgeable people are bastards, and revolutionary France does not need scientists !

So Lavoisier became their target. He is very famous, and if he is brought down, he can become very famous. At the same time, he doesn't have much influence in politics, and because of his imprudent style, he left a lot of footprints when he got money, so that if he was attacked economically, he would be covered in holes. It is said that when Marat was alive, many people had already encouraged Marat to deal with Lavoisier. However, Marat, who had a personal enmity with Lavoisier, did not do anything because he knew the value of Lavoisier. But now, Ebert, who is eager to inherit Marat's legacy, has pointed his gun at Lavoisier.

"I didn't just do it because Lavoisier was my friend. Lazar, you know, Mr. Lavoisier was our enemy politically. He was a Brissot, even in the Brissot Among them, he must be regarded as a relatively conservative group. I also know that Mr. Lavoisier is still very greedy for money. In the chaotic market, he has also participated in some trouble-making things. But... But Lazar, Lazar Mr. Vassier is the greatest scientist in the whole of France. It may only take a second to cut off such a head, but it may not be possible to grow such a head in France in a hundred years! Mr. Lavoisier is too It’s worth it! Think about it, if his explosives can go one step further and can be loaded into shells, then the feudal lords in the whole of Europe will tremble under our guns. If this can be done, Even if he has more problems, he is still a treasure of France. What's more, even now, if Mr. Lavoisier's contribution is counted as a positive number and his crimes are counted as a negative number, I dare say that the total is also a huge positive number , a much larger positive number than most revolutionaries!"

"Joseph, don't get excited. I know what you mean, and I agree with your idea." Kano said, "But do you really think that we can save him by hiding him in the 'Army Technology Laboratory'? Do you think once those guys from the Public Security Committee issue an arrest warrant, the gate of the 'Military Technical Research Institute' will be able to stop those people?"

"Then let Mr. Lavoisier die in an experimental accident, and there will be no bones left!" Joseph said, "Anyway, research related to explosives is prone to such results."

Kano knew that what Joseph said about letting Lavoisier die in an experimental accident, leaving no bones left, did not really want Lavoisier to die. Instead, use this method to turn him into an anonymous man in the iron mask, so as to protect him.

"Joseph, I know what you mean. But you have to know, what you can think of, Abel... that guy Abel probably can't think of it, but after you do this, he is not so stupid that he can't figure it out." When the time comes, he will hate you to the bone." Kano thought for a while, then lowered his voice and said.

"Then let him hate you! A man who does things all his life, if he doesn't even have anyone who hates you, what a failure he is!" Joseph replied decisively.

Kano stood up, staring at Joseph closely, the light in his eyes made Joseph couldn't help but doubt his sexual orientation.

"Well said, Joseph. Compared with you, I am too cowardly. A real warrior usually does not show off his bravery everywhere, just like a ferocious fighting dog, and never barks and barks everywhere - just like Ebel's Look! Hehe, as long as I'm still in this position, a mad dog like Ebert, don't even think about putting his claws into the army!"

In fact, Kano overestimated Joseph. Because of the limited history he knew in his previous life, Joseph was afraid of Robespierre, Danton, and Marat, but he was not afraid of Saint-Just (never heard of it before), let alone Hébert (who the hell are you?).

After saying this, Kano took a few quick steps in the room, then he stopped, turned around, and said to Joseph: "Hurry up and find a suitable place and arrange the laboratory, preferably at a distance from Stay far away from Paris. Also, find an opportunity and arrange for Mr. Lavoisier to meet me secretly. I'm afraid he doesn't know that he has become someone's target."

"Thank you, General. Thousands of words, I can't express my gratitude to you!" Joseph hurriedly saluted.

"Joseph is so grateful to me because of other people's affairs. This is really a moral and trustworthy person!" Kano thought like this, but said in his mouth: "Joseph, I remember you said that your most hopeful The thing is to be able to stay in the laboratory. Now your plot has succeeded! You are a bad guy who uses power for personal gain and uses power for personal gain!"

"Hahahaha, Lazar, I've been spotted by you, and I like to see you envious." Joseph laughed loudly.