Versailles is worse than being queen

◎The reunion of the dying newspaper office and the deadly enemy◎

Would Emperor Franz want to poach a promising young mathematician into his court?

Of course I would.

Therefore, although he was somewhat puzzled by his daughter's keen interest in poaching people at a young age, he still eagerly extended an olive branch to the mathematician.

Sufficient funding for scientific research, good living conditions, if you want to go to foreign countries for exchanges at any time, you can also continue to participate in the essay competition of the Paris Academy of Sciences - the most important thing is that you can save a lot of time in Paris. social and political time.

In Paris, scholars generally also need to be in politics, and need to maintain a glamorous image and social circle, but Vienna basically does not have this trouble.

Lagrange was originally an Italian, and he was not without yearning for the Holy Roman Empire.

That being the case, give it a try!

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Count Stein and his daughter stayed at the Ambassador Hotel at No. 18 Chancellor Street. This luxurious hotel belongs to the Gurnay family and only accepts nobles. There is also a luxurious hot spring in a city that lacks water.

Franz invited his old friend to hunt in Senna Forest for a few days, and when he returned to the hotel, he soaked in the hot spring comfortably.

As for Antanya—the daughter has no particular interest in hunting, she only said that she wanted to go to the city to see the Mainston Bank that now belonged to her.

The emperor thought for a while, waved his hand and ordered one of his servants and bodyguards to go to the city with his daughter.

In addition to protecting security, the main role is to be a business consultant.

Bank of Mainston used the funds behind it to do the arms business during the war. After the war ended and the economy prospered, it has made a lot of money in the past few years. Now the scale is quite considerable. Many funders are inquiring about mergers and acquisitions or equity participation things.

This manservant has been authorized by the emperor. If Antanya wants to sell part of the ownership of the bank and buy other properties, he, who has been the emperor's right-hand man for many years, can remind the princess at the right time. In the [-]s, the financial industry was more profitable.

Just a suggestion, not a requirement.After all, Mainston Bank is now the property of the little princess.

So, when Franz was soaking in the hot spring and received a message from the male servant, saying that Her Royal Highness turned around and was set up by the lawyer Lavoisier whom he just met at the academy salon, and started to negotiate with the Paris bank on the transfer, he curled his lips but said: Not very surprised.

——It wasn’t until he heard that his daughter planned to sell the entire Bank of Maineston to BNP Paribas, and then began to visit the newspaper office and printing factory of the Rheinische Zeitung, which was about to close down, and seemed to have the intention of mergers and acquisitions, that he almost poured champagne on Go to the hot spring pool.

What is Antanya thinking?

The depressed old father was puzzled.

You know, the newspaper industry in France is barren compared with other surrounding countries.

Germany's first daily newspaper was published in Leipzig more than a century ago, but France has yet to have a real newspaper - only a handful of newspapers such as Les Zeitungs, Courier " and "Scholar", etc., are all concerned with trivial matters in the palace, and no public will read them at all. They are all piled up with money from the French court.

The people sent by Franz soon found out that the Rheinische Zeitung was such a paper, and even the most boring of them all.

What kind of king bathes the feet of the poor in accordance with the tradition, what kind of nobleman has been honored to celebrate Easter with the king-no one is interested at all.

So it was the first one to fail, and the newspaper boss begged others to buy it in social salons, but no one seemed to want to take advantage of it.

... Is your daughter planning to marry in the future, and use her dowry to subsidize the operation of the newspaper?

Hey, I'm still too young to know that the cheapest things are often the most expensive.

Franz let out a long sigh while soaking in the hot spring, feeling a little melancholy.

It seems that the daughter does not seem to have inherited her money-making acumen, she should just be a princess and queen who spends money honestly.

Antanya didn't know what her father was lamenting.She inspected the newspaper under the introduction of Lavoisier and the warm reception of the owner of the "Rheinische Zeitung".

"Miss Countess, have you seen that big tree in the royal garden over there? It is the Krakoff tree, and it is also the center of public discussion in the city of Paris."

The boss rubbed his hands excitedly to introduce, while Lavoisier behind him curled his lips lightly and muttered in a low voice: "But most of them cannot be reported."

""The Rheinische Zeitung" has two branch studios. This studio in the center of Paris has most of the employees. Most of the editors, finance and graphic designers work here. It also has a small printing factory, including 16 a printer."

"But because the king and most of the nobles lived in Versailles, that was the source of the news, so the newspaper's news correspondents, scribes, and liaison officers who directly communicated with the royal family's news and information review officers were all concentrated in the studio in Versailles."

Antanya listened to his introduction quietly and did not respond much.

She knew that this was because the accommodation in Versailles was quite tight. As far as she knew, even many great nobles had to live in palace rooms or buildings with very poor conditions, let alone the staff who received a meager salary.

At this time, since the newspaper office could no longer afford the staff salaries required for full operation of the newspaper office, there were only a few people in the studio.Her gaze swept across the messy piles of newspapers on the messy table in the newspaper office, then she frowned slightly, and picked up one of them.

The owner of the newspaper office has been suffering from the bad news of going bankrupt these days, and after hearing Lavoisier's hint that "this Countess has a difficult background", he seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, so he received him very hospitablely—so he was very kind to this young lady. The little noble girl's faint expression at this time was very disturbing.

Seeing that Antanya suddenly became interested in the content of this newspaper, he hurried over.

It was a royal reward for a scheme that could accurately measure longitude at sea, and the reward was 50 livres.

The price of the notorious necklace in the previous life was 200 million livres.Antanya thought quietly.

A necklace worth a warship, how dare that stupid jeweler do it.

Of course, that was also because Louis XIV was really willing to buy it for one of his mistresses——

"Oh, yes!" The newspaper owner immediately said enthusiastically, "I heard from Antoine that you are interested in scientific research."

"This bounty has been offered for many years, but in fact, it can be almost solved. A very powerful watchmaker has already developed a nautical longitude that can be used. It stands to reason that this bounty should have been withdrawn, but because those longitudes The production is too complicated and precise, and there are not many people who can operate it, so His Majesty the King instructed to continue to keep this reward."

For navigation, determining one's own latitude and longitude position is a matter of life and death.People on land have invented very reliable instruments and formulas to calculate time through the azimuth and angle of water droplets, pendulums, sunlight or the North Star and the ground, and then obtain latitude and longitude.

But in rocky seas, these usual tools fail.

Over the centuries, countless ships have lost their way and died at the bottom of the sea due to the inability to accurately measure time and position, causing tragic losses.

After France's Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a great loss, and the king was even more unwilling at this time. He could only hope that the huge reward would inspire enough smart brains to contribute their wisdom.

Antanya rolled up the newspaper thoughtfully, intending to take it home and show it to someone.

It seems that there is an opportunity to make a fortune in front of you.

"When I came in just now, I seemed to see that there is a hotel next to it?" Antanya asked casually.

When she walked in, she saw that the entrance of the gate next to it was decorated with resplendent gold and jade, which brought the Rococo's soft and charming style to the extreme, so she couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Now that she really wanted to buy the Rheinische Zeitung, she wanted to check the situation around the studio.

"Ah, yes, yes..." The newspaper boss suddenly hesitated.

Antalya glanced at him, then turned around and asked, "Monsieur Lavoisier?"

Lavoisier choked unexpectedly, and blushed suddenly: "Well, that... Maybe you'd better not ask this question."

Antanya raised her eyebrows slightly.

A hotel, something else to tell—oh, maybe she guessed it.

There's nothing to be ashamed of, Parisians, that's what going back and forth is all about.

When she first married and came to France that year, she was quite uncomfortable and blushed at every turn, but after many years, she has become used to it.

However, even so, the cleanliness inherited from her family still popped up - if this newspaper office belongs to her in the future, and it is next to a brothel, it still makes her feel a little disgusting.

At this moment, a crisp applause suddenly came from outside, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, a cry of pain, and many terrified screams: "Jeanna!" "Miss Lange!"

"Mr. Legris! She will die!"

"What's the matter?" Several people in the room subconsciously turned around and looked out.

Through the large glass window, one could see a young girl with blond hair lying on the ground struggling and screaming. A middle-aged man grabbed her hair and forced her to look up, saying viciously, "How dare you lie to me?" Me! I told you to seduce other men behind my back..."

He raised his hands and was about to fall again. While waving his hands and feet, the girl screamed hysterically: "Help! Call the police!"

As soon as she looked up, Antania's extremely familiar face suddenly appeared in the sunlight, the corners of her mouth were bruised and cracked, and a trace of blood flowed out.

Antanya's eyes widened, and she almost blurted out - Madam du Barry!

Isn't this the arrogant and domineering king's mistress who endured for a long time when she first became the French crown prince, and finally couldn't bear it until the death of Louis XIV and drove her out of the palace?

The author says:

Thank you little angels for your patience!The opening ceremony is beautiful and cold orz

That's right, the lottery will be drawn tonight. I wish you all the best luck in the new year!

For French newspaper accounts see Robert Darnton, Washington's Dentures: An Atypical Eighteenth-Century Guide

For the records of theodolite, refer to Ryan North's "Guide to the Invention of Everything"