I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Xia Fei was shocked.

Although I drank a small glass of brandy before I came here, it was only a small glass for courage!

He is going to visit Mr. Victor Hugo, the most famous writer in France and even in the world, so he must be a little nervous.

Mr. Victor's literary accomplishments are not comparable to that of a third-rate best-selling novelist like Huang He!

If you want to step into the palace of literature, Mr. Victor's appreciation and recommendation are very important.

For this reason, Xiafei found a lot of contacts and went through many contacts, and finally got such a recommendation letter, in order to have the opportunity to ask Mr. Victor to have a look at her work.

Xiafei really couldn't figure out why Mr. Victor's granddaughter would say that about herself.

Soon, he understood.

Because Victor Hugo, who was walking slowly in his pajamas, naturally put his right hand around the waist of the woman who could be his granddaughter, and kneaded her several times.

Obviously, this woman, or rather, this young girl named Sarah Bernhardt, was Victor Hugo's lover.

In fact, Wangnianlian is not a stain.

Not so with Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo fell in love with his wife at the age of 17 and married at the age of 20.

However, the word fidelity to marriage was not in Hugo's dictionary at all.

The lovers in his life are like crucian carp crossing the river, including models, actors, waiters, maids at home, etc. They are all meat and vegetables.

After spending his evening with the flamboyant actress Juliette Derouet, he called it a "sacred dinner".

Called the blonde Oni Donnay "a timid little pigeon".

He also once competed with his own son for a lover.

The actress Joséphine Favel, the noblewoman Madame Roger de Genette, the prodigal Helei Gossin, a vice convicted of theft, the licentious Nathalie Renoud, The actor Sylvanie Plessy, the poetess Louise Colin, the prostitute Este Guimont, the rich Baroness de Huaron and her three beautiful daughters have all become his beauties...

Even now that he is seventy years old, there are at least four of Victor Hugo's lovers with names...

It's not that a great man can't live a dissolute life.

The truth is, too, that a dissolute private life did not detract from Victor Hugo's literary status in the slightest.

Eighteen thousand love letters written by Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo are preserved in the National Library of France.

Their "love" story was talked about and called a romance.

As a Frenchman, Joffre also quickly accepted the setting that Sarah Bernhardt was Victor Hugo's lover, not his granddaughter, and quickly complimented her in an attempt to ease the embarrassment.

But alas, the clumsy tongue of the winery boy from the Pyrenees was of no avail.

Victor Hugo didn't say much.

Every year, there are countless young men who have dreams and want to get a few words of appreciation from themselves.

If everyone takes it seriously, how can he have time to hunt for beauty?

After chatting for a while and confirming that the other party has no background, Hugo said straight to the point: "Young man, show your work, I can only read a few chapters, so you have to choose your favorite work! Paris The price of bread is very expensive, and it is not easy to live there."

"Yes, Mr. Hugo!"

Xia Fei quickly took out a meager hand-bound book from her arms.

He is very confident and believes that his literary dream is about to set sail.

This is another reason why he was still full of confidence after failing in the academy of fine arts.

His literary level is more excellent than his painting level.

This short story by Joffre is called The Tyrant of Egypt.

Although Xiafei has decided to stay away from politics and wars and realize his dream of literature and art.

But there is no doubt that the fastest way to gain appreciation from others is to do what they like.

The reason why Joffre is so confident is because he thinks he has done a thorough investigation. Victor Hugo is a staunch anti-Napoleonist and a liberal against the imperial system.

So he specially wrote a book denouncing Napoleon's atrocities, and in the book, half-truths, half-false, and slightly artistically processed Napoleon's pursuit of sex in Egypt, playing with women, and finally Empress Josephine wore him in Paris. A bigger cuckold story.

At the end of the novel, he ingeniously put the finishing touches on it, using the oriental proverbs he learned from "The Struggle of Myself", "Wife and daughter, a man must be lewd", and "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end" as the ending words, elevating the the topic of the full text.

To put it simply, this is a bit like a Western version of Shimizu's "The Golden Plum".

……

15 minute later.

"Get out, old man!"

"Immediately, immediately, get out!"

Joffre was thrown out of the gate by Victor's servants like garbage, and the torn book was also thrown out, hitting him on the head.

He didn't know the situation at all.

Not only did he not know, every stanza and every sentence of his novel was like a knife stuck in Master Wei's lung tube.

What he didn't even know was that although Master Wei had scolded Napoleon as a tyrant who brought blood decades ago, with the surge of thoughts of nostalgia for the monarchy, Victor Hugo had long been an out-and-out Napoleon Pink!

If you write such a novel, if you don’t criticize you, who will you criticize?

"Damn alcoholic, do you want to follow the example of the upper-class masters in literature and art? Ah bah, country bumpkin, go read your "The Complete Works of the Yellow Crane"!"

The butler of the Wei Mansion kicked Xia Fei's buttocks, then turned around and slammed the door shut.

What he closed was not only the gate of Victoria Mansion, but also the gate of Xiafei's literature and art.

Xia Fei sat motionless on the ground.

Pedestrians who came and went cast contemptuous glances, but he remained indifferent.

I don't know how long it took, Xiafei moved.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, bent down to collect the pages of the novel, and stuffed them into his arms.

He lowered his head, ignored the pedestrians' comments, and walked into the distance.

That direction is the direction of the French Army's Fontainebleau Military Engineering School.

Xiafei knew that from this moment on, that Xiafei who was obsessed with literature and art died.

In its place was the careerist Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre.

He glanced back at the tall and majestic Hugo mansion, and said softly: "I wish you a long life, Mr. Victor Hugo..."

Chapter 638

Winter goes to spring, everything recovers, and the weather gets better day by day.

After several years of continuous repairs, the new imperial residence of Emperor Da Ming was finally fully completed.

Now it is a majestic and magnificent scenery.

However, the New Imperial Residence is actually just a folk name, and another name often spoken by ordinary people is Fugui Palace.

But in fact, the real Fugui Palace, that is, the small villa built after the Meiling Palace when the Ming Empire was first established, has now been converted into a royal museum to display the collections belonging to His Majesty Zhu Fugui.

For example, gifts from envoys from various countries and so on.

Of course, this thing is essentially the same as the Beijing Panjiayuan antique market 20 years ago. There are more fakes than real ones, more civet cats and fewer princes.

But this is not important.

Zhu Fugui lived in a new imperial residence similar to the No. [-] Shuisi Tower in the world, and its official name was Zhuxia Wanguo Tianshu.

Obviously, this plagiarized a bit of Emperor Wu Zhao's idea.

But the Zhaixing Building, Lutai, Qionglin Palace and the like inside have nothing to do with her.

All in all, it can only be called "gathering from all sides."

The Zhaixinglou area where His Majesty Zhu Fugui and the royal family lived is only a small part of Tianshu, surrounded by beautiful gold tiles and red walls. The tall main building pierces the wall, overlooking the entire Tianshu, and even the Phoenix in the distance. Metropolitan area.

In fact, His Majesty Zhu Fugui is a thrifty person.

The land area inside the wall is only a pitiful 2 square meters, accounting for only 1/20 of the total area of ​​Tianshu.

However, because the star-catching platform is more than 90 meters high, the construction area has reached 10 square meters, accounting for one-twelfth of the total construction area.

The office areas of the six ministries of the imperial court, the Privy Council, the Grand Marshal's Mansion, the Fusi of Jinyiwei Township, and other important departments of the Ming Dynasty are the bulk of Tianshu.

These all show the hardships and simplicity of the emperor, the sage of Ming Dynasty, and several concubines of the Ming Dynasty, and also demonstrate the emperor's spirit of putting state affairs and China's revival as the most important thing.

……

The palace is close to the confidential departments, and the benefits are self-evident.

At least the greatly shortened commute time allows Zhu Fugui to sleep until nine o'clock every day, and then rush to his loyal office before ten o'clock.

Even Zhu Fugui had a genius idea, that is to build a slide on the top floor of the Star Picking Terrace to directly connect to the Marshal's Mansion.

This makes it easier to go to work every day.

However, considering that doing so might cause sparks in his butt, Zhu Fugui finally gave up.

Last night, Brother William, who had eaten the gunpowder, sent two more urgent telegrams in a row, discussing with Zhu Fugui about inviting Daming to invest and build a factory in Germany to increase the production capacity of tractor chassis.

He said that the tractor chassis is related to Europa Universalis, and it is imperative to expand production capacity.

Of course, Zhu Fugui was very embarrassed by Brother William's naive thoughts.

In recent years, the tractor chassis imitated by Germany has become more and more sophisticated, but compared with the Ming Dynasty technology, there is still a significant generation gap, and even the gap is still widening.

The Daming craftsmanship here refers to the craftsmanship of the Daming Royal Tractor Factory and the Daming Xuri Automobile Factory, not the "imported" craftsmanship of Daming.

From beginning to end, Daming never sold an "imported" tractor chassis to Europe.

But even so, the difference between bright goods and German goods is getting bigger and bigger.

According to Marshal Moltke's investigation report, the failure rate of the tanks of the German mechanic is three times higher than that of the Ming mechanic.

Now, whether it is Emperor William or the Shuming faction in Germany, they have to admit that the craftsman spirit of the Ming people cannot be easily learned by lazy German workers.

The practical way is to attract investment, introduce Daming's technology, and build a chassis factory in Germany.

To be honest, although Zhu Fugui is not a German stick, in his mind, the Germans are much more capable than brother William himself estimated.

Zhu Fugui has no doubt that once he invests and builds a factory in Germany, the Germans will become per capita Sharingan, and they will get pregnant every time they look at it.

So Zhu Fugui tried to decline Kaiser Wilhelm's invitation.

"Tractor production will cause a lot of environmental pollution. The Black Forest in Germany is a treasure trove of biodiversity in Europe and should be well protected!"

"No, no, my dear Fugui, the photochemical smog from London is the culprit of European pollution. We produce tractor chassis to eliminate the source of pollution once and for all. This is a big drop of environmental protection!"

"But... a high-tech tractor chassis requires a lot of coal and iron resources. My Ming Empire has a vast territory and everything is there, and your resources..."

"Don't worry, my dear Fugui, the mines in Alsace and Lorraine are already hungry and thirsty, and don't worry about the subsidy, we can pay in French francs at any time!"

"..."

Zhu Fugui felt that brother William was very clever last night.

He quite doubted that it was not William who was on the other end of the telegraph, but Li Hongzhang from the West, Cao Mengde from Germany, and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck.

And maybe he just calculated the time correctly, and came to harass him when he was too sleepy.

After all, Zhu Fugui also used this trick on Her Majesty Queen Victoria in the early years.

So unfortunately, Zhu Fugui was not fooled and did not make any promises.

In theory, the industrial system is not impossible to sell.

Historically, the Soviet Union took advantage of the Western economic crisis in the 1930s to buy a complete set of industrial systems from countries such as the United States, France, and Italy.

But obviously, my Ming Dynasty is rich and the people are strong (shearing sheep across time and space), how could there be an economic crisis?

Moreover, Zhu Fugui, who has witnessed both positive and negative experiences of the American emperors in later generations, is even less likely to make such a low-level mistake.

But don't give it at all, it will indeed affect the unity of the alliance.

After all, what William said was not unreasonable.

At present, Daming has exported about 2200 chassis to Germany in total.

Counting the consumption and wear and tear of the previous Franco-Prussian War, it is estimated that it has been installed or can be installed at any time, about 1200 yuan.