Versailles is worse than being queen

◎Alchemist and New Reward◎

Antania and Louis were just about to enter the Hall of Mirrors, and saw this scene before entering the door——

Half of the people in the hall were stunned and half gloating. They gathered around the release platform, and the tall black-haired boy and the stocky blond man looked at each other very delicately.

The boy's eyes sparkled: "You are Mr. Watt?"

"If you have heard of me, you shouldn't plagiarize my wisdom." Watt said coldly.

The boy seemed to realize just now what situation he was in.

He was silent for a few seconds, took off his hat and bowed: "If it's true, I'm sorry. Excuse me, which invention are you talking about?"

"Listen! Listen!" Before Watt could speak, another person clapped his hands excitedly in the crowd, "This shameless liar! He has already admitted it himself!"

Everyone was in an uproar - this is big news!

These days, everyone can clearly see that this talented young man is highly valued by the crown prince and his wife.He is the power engineer of the Versailles reconstruction project presided over by the princess and Mrs. Du Barry, and the prince runs to him all day long.

Such a person turned out to be a thief and a liar, which is a great disrespect to the dignity of the royal family, and going to prison is the next best thing, maybe he will lose his life!

"really?"

"My God! Such a decent and handsome child, wouldn't do that kind of thing?"

"Who knows, he's from Eastern Europe."

"Don't forget, he has evil eyes..."

Louis looked at Antanya in a panic: "We have to say something for him!"

He couldn't believe that Nikolai would do such a thing!His agility, intelligence and unparalleled creativity, there is no need to plagiarize other people's inspiration.

Antanya corrected him: "It's you—as the crown prince, the initiator of this salon—who has to speak for him."

Louis' eyes widened in astonishment: "No, no, how could you..."

At this moment, someone saw them from the half-open door and immediately shouted, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess have arrived!"

The chattering crowd suddenly turned around like a flock of geese seeing feeding.

Their movements were so uniform, it was a bit funny, Antanya almost laughed for a moment-fortunately, she controlled her expression immediately.

Louis's heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and his whole body felt a little weak.

Guided by the attendants, the two walked into the Hall of Mirrors amidst the bows and curtseys of the crowd.Even Watt and Nicholas, who were still about to speak, shut their mouths, bowed to them, and made way for them.

Now, everyone is waiting for them to speak.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Oh, three damn seconds!Louis felt that this was the longest three seconds of his life.

"Antoinette! Please!"

He lowered his voice and looked at Antanya with pleading eyes—like a piglet who has seen his companion slaughtered.

Antania: "..."

All right.In her previous life, the rebel crowd invaded the Palace of Versailles. In order to boost the morale of the guards defending the palace, she wrote a mobilization speech for Louis and helped him practice his intonation, demeanor, and passionate emotions word by word—a skill that is contagious to her. It is as natural as instinct, but for him, it takes hard practice.Even so, when he really stood in front of everyone, he still forgot everything.

In the embarrassing silence at that time, the queen's expression remained unchanged, she picked up the champagne with a smile, and drank the golden wine dedicated to the king and queen. The soldiers suddenly cheered and vowed to fight to defend the king. Last minute.

Antalya didn't make things difficult for Louis any more, and looked directly at the Englishman: "Mr. Watt, is that right? I hope you know that in the salon of the French court, people broke into without invitation and issued detrimental messages without evidence." Reputational accusations are not a very polite thing to do."

"Your Highness, I apologize for my recklessness." Watt bowed again, "but my dignity is also inviolable. Official records and laws will support my claim."

Antanya looked at Nicholas again: "Do you have anything to say, Mr. Tesla?"

Nicholas spread his hands: "I've already said it—I just want to ask, which invention is this accusation referring to. Maybe there is a possibility that we just happened to think of the same point?"

He also didn't want to compete with Watt for the patent - the patent right for alternating current belonged to him back then, and everyone had to pay him a patent fee of 2.5 US dollars for every horsepower of alternating current, but he still gave up this one that could make him the richest man in the world Patent rights to avoid being monopolized by consortia for huge profits.

His alternating current is free and open to all, does he care about a steam engine?

Watt snorted through his nose: "Many of you here are experts and scholars. I think everyone understands how difficult it is to turn a research into an actual invention. I have studied steam engines for many years. Five years ago, I discovered that steam engines are inefficient. The key is the piston condensation problem, most of the heat is wasted in maintaining the temperature. Therefore, I invented the separate condenser, which can greatly improve the thermal efficiency of the steam engine."

"Oh...it turns out that the condenser was improved." Nicholas nodded thoughtfully. "It is indeed very important. It is not without reason that it has a name in history."

Watt frowned, wondering: "What are you talking about?"

Nicholas smiled: "It's nothing. I also improved the condenser, but I have to tell you that my solution is really different from yours - I changed the piston in the steam engine into a turbine, that is, let the connecting rod The reciprocating motion is changed to a rotary motion."

Watt's eyes widened as if struck by lightning: "Ah, you..."

it is this!This is it!In the past year, he has been troubled by the structure of the steam engine, which caused poor movement and poor condensation effect. Why didn't he think of replacing the piston structure!

However, this boy actually said the most important part so casually?After all, he is an inexperienced child, and he is too innocent, isn't it just right...

"This, this... I also thought of it!" He subconsciously clenched his fists, "I have applied for a patent on the steam engine condensation treatment method, you have to prove that you did not steal my invention!"

The young man laughed and shook his head: "It doesn't matter, you can take the patent of the steam engine if you have the ability. I didn't plan to apply for a patent at first. This is not the focus of my research. It's too troublesome."

Not going to apply for a patent?Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Even Watt was momentarily speechless in astonishment.

Nicholas turned around, "Sorry, everyone, for the long delay. As the previous invitation said, the theme of today's salon is electricity and physics, and I am honored to be invited as the opening speaker for today. But I I don’t want to say anything, I just want everyone to intuitively see what is the use of electricity.”

He conveniently picked up the candlestick next to him: "I just asked Earl Noaille, a salon like this requires thousands of candles. If it is a larger occasion, tens of thousands of candles may be burned at a time. It cost hundreds of thousands of livres."

"But, with electricity—" He walked over to an instrument that looked like a water tank of a series of giant copper coins, and pulled the handle down.

With a flickering crackling sound, a row of glass balls behind him that everyone ignored lit up!

"Ah!" Everyone dodged subconsciously.

"Wow, it looks like little suns!" A childish voice rang out suddenly.

Little Ampere was not in the crowd, but stood in a corner not far from the glass ball.He hadn't seen a fire, he hadn't seen an explosion, he didn't understand what danger a sudden light could mean—and he reached out his hand fascinatedly to feel it.

"Andre!" His father realized that his son was standing next to such a dangerous thing, and he was so frightened that he couldn't even speak—fortunately, Nicholas, who was not far away from him, reached out his hand in time to stop him from touching the light bulb. intention of.

"Be careful, it glows because the wire inside is hot enough. Don't touch it when it's on."

"... Oh." Little Ampere withdrew her hand depressed.

Nicholas raised his eyebrows, and took a look at Antanya.

For some reason, seeing his expression, Antanya immediately understood what he meant—you see, I didn’t let the children burn it this time and learn not to touch it, did I?

Antanya twitched the corners of her mouth: ...Okay, there has been progress, and it deserves encouragement.

Nothing happened except the sudden flash of fire.

Only then did the panic-stricken crowd come to their senses, and turned to look at those glass balls——

That kind of light is brighter than the light of a candle, and it is also more uniform, soft, and stable.Even if the row of glass balls were all lit up in the surrounding brilliant candlelight, the candlelight suddenly seemed dim.

Nicholas nodded apologetically at everyone: "I'm sorry, I should have told everyone in advance. This is an electric light—just like a candle that burns chemical energy into heat and thus emits light. An electric light uses electricity. Heating a wire makes it glow. Electric lamps are brighter than candles because of the higher temperature."

He really is an alchemist...

This was the first reaction in the hearts of many people present.

This is by no means something of this era. The too young boy in front of him must have been inspired by the gods.

Even Watt took a step back with some fear.

is that true?

He always believed that the gods would send messengers to the world—but he shouldn't have met them. the s

"Of course," the young man smiled, "Illumination is just one of the most inconspicuous applications of electricity. In fact, electric lights have no technical content, just accumulated experience through trial and error." He said, looking at Anta subconsciously. Nia glanced.

Antanya was baffled by him.

She thought back, when she met him in the Palace of Versailles, electric light was just beginning to be popularized - the Palace of Versailles was planning to replace the gas lamp with electric light, she seemed to have heard someone say that an American invented the electric light, what was it called?

While most people were still in a daze, Laplace, the silver-haired young man crowded in front of the crowd, became excited and said to Lavoisier next to him: "Antoine, isn't this the 'energy' he mentioned last time! Chemical energy, thermal energy, electrical energy... Although everyone said that the "law of conservation of energy" he said last time was nonsense, I thought about it over and over for a long time, and suddenly thought, is the law of motion proved by Lord Newton? Is it the embodiment of the conservation of mechanical energy?"

Lavoisier's eyes also lit up: "I did an experiment a few days ago and found that the compound needs to be heated to decompose, and it seems that heat will be released when the compound is formed... Could this also be related?"

The discussion among the crowd became louder and louder, and finally quieted down when the dean of the Paris Academy of Sciences came to the stage.

All saw the scroll in his hand bearing the seal of the king.

——This means that a new bounty will be issued.

"Okay, Nicholas," said the dean with a headache, "I told His Highness the Crown Prince earlier that you children are still too young, and I am afraid that you will mess up the salon. Now it proves that my worries are not without reason. reason."

He cleared his throat, "Ladies and gentlemen, let me talk about the most anticipated topic first. After that, it's up to you what the young people want to play."

"First of all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince issued a new reward from the Academy of Sciences - to study the practical application of electricity."

"Secondly, His Majesty the King issued a special decree to revise a reward that no one has successfully claimed for centuries - change 'invent perpetual motion machine' to 'invent perpetual motion machine, or prove energy conservation'."

The author says:

By the way, Tesla is 188 tall!Although he is only 16 years old now...let's treat him as 185 for now.He's a tall boy!