Fox of France

"Arrogance! What a cursed arrogance." Obviously, Amon understood Joseph's words.

"Maybe it's not arrogance." Joseph thought for a while and said, "It's just isolation—the isolation between the upper class and the lower class. The French people are full of anger at the upper class, but the upper class may not be aware of it, or even feel it at all. The king and queen were killed. Surrounded by sycophants, living in a place where you can't even see the ground floor, any other voice can't reach their ears, so they go their own way. It's bad, because it can lead to explosive consequences. If the accumulated anger is not channeled, once it erupts, it will inevitably bring about devastating consequences. It’s like a flood destroying a dam. Art should actually play two roles at this time. One is to warn the upper class and let them realize that Dangerous. Because art is a rare way to make the upper class pay attention to the lower class. The other is to appease the lower class. For example, Mr. Beaumarche's "The Marriage of Figaro" is actually trying to complete such a task His satire on Count Almaviva was a warning to the upper class, and his making Figaro happy in the play was, in a sense, a kind of appeasement to the lower class. But now it seems that he The weight of the warning is not enough, and it seems that it has not really alerted the upper echelon, and it is hard to say how effective it is to appease. Therefore, the people in the comedy troupe further increased the power of satire, but from the current point of view, the drama has been performed for several months. Nothing happened to the comedy troupe, so it probably won't work."

Everyone nodded. Only Fanny did not seem to understand, and asked:

"So, Monsieur Bonaparte, if something happens to the comedy troupe, it's working?"

"No matter what happens, even if the members of the comedy troupe are all arrested, stuffed into the Bastille to feed the rats, or even have their heads chopped off one by one, it at least shows that the upper echelon cares about these things. Now , After such a long time, but there is no movement, this can only show that the higher-ups don't care at all." Joseph replied.

"So, "The Marriage of Figaro" is not sharp enough." Samuel said.

"Joseph, maybe we should write a more exciting script. Let me think about what we should write..." Amon began to think.

"How about writing the story of Charles I? It's the British king whose head was beheaded." Joseph said. He knew that if there were no major changes in history, King Louis XVI of France, like Charles I, would have had his head chopped off for treason.

"This is too explicit." Samuel shook his head and said, "If you write this, you and Amon may really be thrown into the Bastille to feed rats. Moreover, few troupes dare to perform such acrimonious performances." Stuff. I think, if you really want to write, you should write about North American independence. That is also a rebellion against tyrants."

"This seems good," Amon said, "Samuel, you have had personal experience, and you can just help us."

"But North America is isolated overseas. And considering the role France played in North America's independence, when we write this, maybe the king thinks we are singing praises." Joseph said.

"How is this possible? The king is not a fool." Samuel said.

"Nothing is impossible, the king is not, but some guys around him will confuse him and mislead him. Even the scripts and performances His Majesty saw may not be normal." Joseph shook his head and said . In his opinion, this similar method of fooling the higher authorities is too simple.

"God, how did you come up with this idea? Joseph, you have a chance to become a traitor." Amon looked at Joseph, shaking his head constantly.

"You can't insult me ​​like this." Joseph's eyes widened and he retorted with an angry look, "You have to know, how can a person like me be a traitor? At least he should be a big Traitor."

As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed, even Fanny, who was a little worried because of Joseph's stern tone at first, laughed out loud regardless of her image.

Aman pressed his stomach with his hand, beat the armrest of the chair with his hand, and said after a while: "Joseph, I apologize to you, you will not become a traitor, you will become a big clown...haha Ha ha!"

Everyone laughed for a while, and Amon said again: "Stop laughing, seriously, do you have any suggestions? I'm talking about my new play."

"Why don't you just write about Spartacus?" Fanny said suddenly, "Well, Spartacus is a low-level rebellion, this cannot be changed, and... and the historical records about him are very brief, this There is a lot of space for free creation, so it should be a good choice!"

Since Fanny opened her mouth, Amon immediately expressed her support: "I think it's good. I almost immediately came up with a series of wonderful plots. Well, for example, how Spartacus fought a tiger in the arena, Let's say..."

"For another example, we can let Spartacus pass the victory in the arena. He has already obtained the qualifications of a free man, but he believes that all people should be born free. He believes that overthrowing people oppresses people, and exploiting people Human slavery is the responsibility of every good person. Therefore, although he has won freedom for himself, he is not satisfied with it, but devotes himself to the struggle to free all slaves!" Mentality, he added.

"That's right! We can also use Spartacus to say, 'all men are created equal, the pursuit of freedom and happiness, and the resistance to oppression is a sacred and inalienable right'." Samuel also hurriedly interjected road.

"Are you going to have Spartacus recite North America's Declaration of Independence thousands of years ago? This is going too far," Fanny said.

"What else can we do? Do you want him to recite the Gospel?" Samuel said, "Although Spartacus was a person thousands of years ago, we wrote him in order to let him express what we need in modern times." the sound of."

"Mr. Fermat is right." Joseph agreed, "All history is contemporary history. The interpretation of history has always served reality. If I ask you, maybe we can be bolder, April. After the Battle of Asia, Crassus crucified more than 6,000 captive slaves. We can fully express this scene on the stage, and put the crucified slaves in the same shape as Christ on the cross. , and even at this moment, we can prepare a choir to sing a hymn for the rebels."

"This... Joseph... I remember your godfather is a bishop." Amon was a little stunned.

"The bishop also believes that today's church has deviated from the spirit of Christ in many places." Joseph said without changing his expression.

"I think Mr. Bonaparte's idea is very creative. I think Mr. Voltaire would like this idea very much if he was still alive. Well, Mr. Bonaparte, are you good at music?" Fan Ni asked with twinkling eyes.

After hearing this, Joseph smiled and said, "In terms of music, I'm almost illiterate."

"That's it." Fanny said a little disappointed, "We are also a bunch of musical illiterates here, who can we ask to write this hymn for the rebels?"

"Fanny, it's not difficult, we just need to write the lyrics and find a musician to match it with a tune." Amon said, "Of course, good lyrics and good tunes are not easy to come by. .Well, I am full of desire to create now."

"Brother, your creative desire can't last even a week." Fanny said with a smile.

"You're right, Fanny. If I hadn't been in trouble like this, I'd be the new Sophocles. But I'll try to keep myself under control. Also, Joseph, help me Me." Amon said.

"If I'm free, I'll try my best." Joseph said, "But at least recently, I'm afraid I can't help much. You know, I'm busy recently."

"Monsieur Bonaparte, what have you been up to lately?" Samuel asked.

"Joseph has an important experiment to do recently." Amon said, "It seems to be about how to measure the speed of light. My uncle praised the design of this experiment is very ingenious. In addition, he also has to prepare for the Paris Military Academy." Mathematics teacher to make some preparations. Well, Joseph, your younger brother is studying at the Paris Military Academy. He knows that you are going to be his teacher, how does he react?"

"I haven't told him yet," Joseph said, "because I want to see how he will react when he suddenly finds out that the math teacher is me in class."

"I can imagine it must be very interesting," laughed Fanny.

So the topic turned to how to play tricks on his brother. Fanny was kind enough to give some advice, many of which she said had been used by his brother to play tricks on her.

Everyone got excited and offered Joseph advice on how to play tricks on his brother. If the housekeeper hadn't come to remind me that dinner was ready, these guys wouldn't know how many bad ideas they would have come up with.

"Okay, let's go to the restaurant." Viscount Lavoisier stood up and said, "I just got some nice bottles of wine..."

The dinner rules of Amon's house are completely different from those of Joseph's house. There are no rigid rules at all, even when eating, everyone can still talk and laugh happily. From the red wine of the Viscount Lavoisier, everyone messed up to the black tea of ​​Ceylon, then to the mackerel in the Mediterranean, and then somehow to the crocodiles and hippos of the Nile. But the French really deserve to be foodies in Europe. Although there are many things that are talked about, there are always only three topics: Can I eat it? Tasty? how to eat? I have to say that in this regard, the French are very similar to the Chinese.