Fox of France

v1 Chapter 105: , Toulon (3)

Since the death of the royal family, the Palace of Versailles has been almost abandoned. Kano found a place in the Palace of Versailles, and then requisitioned it to serve as the "army technical laboratory" and "army technical inspection department." With a location, there are a lot of things to be busy behind. Joseph was so busy that he could not touch the ground, so he often asked his brother Louis to go to Kano’s house to eat rice. Anyway, he was used to it. The only difference was that there was a Lucien when he used to eat rice. Now, Lucien has gone south.

   Lucien followed Chrysler and more than a dozen others, and soon arrived near Toulon. The group first went to report to General Pope and showed him the official documents of the Ministry of War.

Popper read the official document and smiled slightly: "General Kano is really strong. It is enough for me and my soldiers to regain Toulon. But I still welcome General Napoleon to share my glory-if he can catch up. If you say that you want to conduct reconnaissance on the enemy’s situation, um, recently I have been preparing to attack those invaders and traitors, so your actions had better not interfere with us..."

  Speaking of this, Pope drew a circle on the map: "Well, recently, you'd better not enter the range of this circle."

  Chrysler looked down at the map, and Popper had actually drawn a circle with a radius of at least 15 kilometers around Toulon just now. If his mission is really pre-reconnaissance, he can hardly do anything without entering this range.

   "Okay, General." Chrysler nodded.

   Coming out of Pope, Chrysler took a group of people into civilian clothes, left the barracks, and headed east towards the Rian Peninsula. There is a young man named Lavanelli in the team. Before joining the Fifth Army, he was a member of the Marseille Volunteer Army. His hometown is on the Ri'an Peninsula. Before joining the army, he was a fisherman. According to him, he can help everyone get a fishing boat.

  Rian Peninsula is a tourist attraction in later generations, but at this time, it is still only a remote and poor place. Neither the British army nor the French army paid attention here. The group followed Ravanelli to a small fishing village, and soon got two boats.

   It's just that these two boats are small fishing boats with only one mast. Even more clearly, it's almost a small sampan.

   "Ravanelli, are you sure that such a ship can also reach Corsica? There is not even a shed above this." Chrysler hesitated.

"Ah, there is no problem. You know, the Mediterranean Sea is not the Atlantic Ocean. It is as calm as a pond. As long as it is a boat, as long as there are masts and sails, as long as there is enough fresh water and food, we can even go all the way to Algeria. As for The shed, um, there were originally on these ships. But it's not winter now, and we don't usually go out very far, so we didn't install it."

  The climate of the Mediterranean Sea is different from the places I know it well. One of its biggest characteristics is the different periods of rain and heat. There is no rainy season in the Mediterranean.

   "Then how do you judge the direction at sea? Would you use a sextant?" Lucien asked a more critical question.

   "What is a sextant? We rely on looking at the stars and the sun and a compass to determine the direction." Ravanelli replied.

   "Damn it, when I didn't ask." Lucien said, "But just by looking at the stars and looking at the sun, you can find Corsica on the sea?"

   "We first headed east along the coast, sailed to Nice, and then turned south, we can reach Corsica, and then along the coastline of Corsica, we can always find a suitable place to stop the boat. Waiting on the shore..."

   "As long as you can go ashore, there is no problem," Lucien said.

  ……

   Just as Lucien and the others were going to smuggle in a small fishing boat, Joseph also just welcomed an old friend of his, Lavoisier.

"Damn it, **** it! Joseph, look at what these guys have ruined this country! Oh my God, Versailles has become like this! I still remember that I just became an academician of the Academy of Sciences. At that time, I came to the palace to meet the king. At that time, it was still... But look at what it looks like now! It's as if it was plundered by the Mongols!"

   Indeed, the once magnificent Palace of Versailles is almost in ruins. Since the king was taken hostage to Paris, no one has taken care of it here. Nearby farmers often ran in, rummaged around, looked for them, and looked for valuable or useful things, then knocked them down and carried them home. At the beginning, it was a variety of metal products and wood products, and then gradually developed into building materials such as bricks and stones. If it continues, it is estimated that the Roman citizens in the Middle Ages will be reproduced and the Colosseum in ancient Rome will be demolished in half. Feat.

"Mr. Lavoisier, you can't blame me for this." Joseph smiled. "If we hadn't moved here, I'm afraid it would be destroyed more severely. Okay, Mr. Lavoisier, please let me take you to your place. Take a look at where you live."

   "Above? You are not a laboratory here? Look at the laboratory first!" Lavoisier said, "By the way, Kano promised me that my salary is paid in silver coins instead of coupons!"

   Joseph smiled slightly, but said nothing. These are all trivial things. In fact, Lavoisier didn't really value those wages when he said this. He was actually complaining.

"That guy Kano, alarmist, scared to death, just like the truth. But Paris is really too noisy, and there is no room for quiet learning. It's not bad to come to you. Well, I just did it a while ago. I have an idea and want to do a new experiment. I can do it with you..." Lavoisier continued to mumble.

   Actually, is Kano alarmist, and Lavoisier is not a fool, how could he not know? When Kano told Lavoisier about what he had learned, Lavoisier's face turned pale. Of course he knows what the consequences of such an accusation will bring now. The erected guillotine on Harmony Square is busy every day!

   If it was in the kingdom period, people like him would have some problems like this, and his reputation would protect him. But now, those in power are all illiterate thugs, (Lavoisier's view) even Condorcet is being hunted down, Lavoisier doesn't feel that they will open their doors to themselves.

   But being rescued by Kano, Lavoisier is still not very happy. Because in Lavoisier's view, Kano and the barbarians are in the same group. Although he has read a lot of books, he is still a barbarian in nature. You can see that he fought against other members in Parliament. He is a barbarian who knows mathematics!

Therefore, when Kano asked him if he would like to work in the "Military Technology Laboratory" and promised that he could protect him and his family, Lavoisier hesitated for a full second. Only reluctantly agreed to Kano.

  ……

In the National Salvation Committee, Robespierre is also asking Kano: "General Kano, I heard that you just set up an organization called the'Military Technology Laboratory', and then you get some people who are very conservative in their thinking. Where did it go?"

"Yes." Kano didn't deny it, and he couldn't deny this kind of thing, but he still found a reason for his own approach, "I think this is a very appropriate approach. Just like we send some rebel soldiers. It’s like going to a quarry or a mine."

"People in the Public Security Committee have very strong opinions about this. They think that criminals, no matter who they are, should be punished equally, even if they are sentenced to hard labor, they should first be handed over to them for trial." Robespierre Continue to say.

   Regarding this question, Kano had already discussed with Joseph to deal with it. Kano said: "Mr. Robespierre, you have to note that how to deal with these people is not a legal issue. It is a political issue. People like Lavoisier are not criminals, but enemies. He , And the other guys in his group are our enemies, but they were defeated and captured by us. Such people are not protected by our laws, so the principle of war should be used to treat them . For captured barbarians, we can either shoot them or turn them into slaves. Send them to various places to let them work to death~lightnovelpub.net~ As for who we shoot, or let who The only principle of hard labor is the principle that is good for France and that is good for our army to defeat the enemy.

   Besides, where did the knowledge and skills of these enemies come from? Of course it was cultivated by plundering people’s money. So their knowledge and skills are stolen goods, and they are also our seizures. I have never heard of someone who caught a thief, but did not recover the stolen stolen stolen stolen goods on the premise of being able to recover the stolen stolen goods; I have never heard of it, because what we seized was originally the enemy's and must be destroyed. I think that the people of the Public Security Committee are too lack of political awareness, and their hands are stretched too long! "

   "General Kano, the Public Security Committee just wants to go through a process." Kudong said.

"Haha..." Kano smiled, "These people are captured barbarians and are not protected by the law, so there is no cutscene. Moreover, all their time is ours, and the guys from the Public Security Committee cannot be wasted. !"

  Kano's words are of course full of sophistry. But this set of logic, neither Robespierre nor Cudon are willing to deny it. Because this set of logic comes from another important member of the National Salvation Committee who is not present today-Saint Just. St. Just used this logic to deny the law of inviolability of the king of France. As the so-called priest can touch, I can't touch it?

   "Well, General Kano." Robespierre said, "Then can we ask to send people to monitor these prisoners..."

   Robespierre thought for a while and said: "Monitor the labor of these captives at any time?"