Chapter 1502 "Strait Dilemma"

Academicians of the French Academy are lifelong members and can only be filled by a vote of all members when a vacancy is left by the death of a member.

Being elected as an academician means that you will enter the palace of French culture and history and become an "immortal" with your name engraved on the walls of the academy.

French academicians also wear swords. This kind of sword is called the "Sword of the Immortal." It was difficult for Georgiana to decide whether a sword inlaid with the Prince Regent's diamonds looked better or a ceremonial sword like the Sword of the Immortal.

It was Laplace who invited Georgiana to attend. After the debate at the Faculty of Humanities, he took Georgiana to visit the French Academy. He had recently written the book "Cosmic Mechanics". He hoped that Napoleon could read it and inscribe it on the front volume.

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Georgiana knew that artillery must study mechanics, but she was not sure whether Napoleon could understand "Cosmic Mechanics". Laplace laughed and said that with the intelligence of the First Consul, there would be no problem, so it was difficult for her to be sure that Napoleon could understand it.

Is he as smart as a monster, or is he possessed by something? Anyway, she had a hard time reading that book by herself.

Bonaparte came again that night, and he read the book with her. He flipped through the pages so fast that Georgiana doubted whether he had really read it. After reading half of it, he turned around and asked her how much she understood.

In anger, she slapped him on the forehead.

Muggle bodies are not as good as wizards in many aspects, such as lifespan and some body functions. After ten years of war and two crossings of the Alps, Napoleon's body is definitely not as good as those of people who have always lived a stable life. Physical conditioning has now become the three

part of daily life for teenagers.

Hot weather will make people lazy to move, physically tired, and mentally depressed. Montesquieu believed that only whips can make people perform arduous tasks.

If he finds an older woman, he can be as willful as a child. After relaxing, he lies in her arms, drinking red wine and chatting with her while taking advantage of the cool breeze on the tower.

After several months of "free trade", the United Kingdom made representations, requiring France to open its own market and no longer prohibit British goods from flowing into France.

Chaptal and the big industrialists supported London's proposal, but Coqueber believed that France would import as much goods as Britain imported from France. Chaptal objected that in this case, a charter would have to be issued.

It is not issued in the UK at the moment.

Spain was allied with Britain for a while, and with France for a while. In the past, only Britain had charters. Napoleon issued a few, and Gabriel Houvral took the initiative to issue charters without authorization. Who could solve this problem through diplomatic means?

They didn't dare to act rashly. Portugal didn't pay much attention to the interests of Port wine after the regent established the Lisbon Free Port and the iron ore trade.

Are free ports a good thing? Many people will choose yes. Marseille and Genoa are famous free ports.

When William Petty thought that the free port was a good place to escape tax evasion, for example, he had a barrel of wine, he transported the wine to the free port, sold it secretly, then filled the barrel with sewage and loaded it on the ship, and waited for the ship to sail in

The sea dumped the sewage, and the wine tax escaped.

This shows that William Petty was a political economist very different from Adam Smith.

In addition to customs duties, free ports also have accommodation fees for sailors and passengers, warehouse rentals, porters and coachmen's wages, etc. Even if foreign wine merchants evade taxes, the regent can still make up for the losses by collecting domestic consumption taxes. The problem is

Who is going to tell him?

This was what annoyed Napoleon the most. Even though Britain had refused to provide military assistance, Portugal's heart was still toward Britain.

If you ask a resident living on this blue planet whether red Bordeaux wine or Port wine is better, as long as he is not an alcoholic, he will usually choose Bordeaux wine. Even if it is Port wine, Bordeaux wine is not available in the UK.

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Although Copenhagen in Denmark is also a free port, its geographical location is different from Lisbon. Lisbon does not have a choke point like the Oresund Strait. If the ship does not go to Lisbon, the regent's dream hotel and warehouse will not be repaired. On the contrary,

You will lose money because you invest too much money.

Portugal has become a passive party. How to get the trade line to Lisbon depends on how the regent negotiates. Brazil's timber and iron ore are needed by Britain and France. Those cargo ships serving Britain and France must dock in Lisbon, regardless of whether it is Brazil.

Lisbon is still part of Portugal, and Portugal issues an export license so that the Lisbon Free Port can create profits for it.

It is a common flaw of human beings to not think of storms when the weather is sunny and sunny. Once bad weather comes, they will only think of running away instead of protecting themselves. The Portuguese Regent was such a person in Napoleon's eyes.

Like US President Jefferson, he had a disdain for hereditary kings. They were lucky enough to be able to fail, and failure would not affect their rule, but Napoleon could not. Presidents and prime ministers in the 20th century often took the blame and resigned, which Bonaparte could not accept.

He fails, or rather he does not give up easily. This is his strength and also his weakness.

A normal person would have retreated long ago after being rejected by Georgiana so many times. Are there still too few women in the world?

If he wants to conquer a fortress, he will use all means. If he is given a chance, he will seize it. Georgiana just invited him socially to come to the show, and in the end they went back to the way they were before, as he said before

It was a joke that this was the last time he saw her.

For such a renegade man, it is no wonder that the London side did not believe that he had any long-term intention to maintain peace. Only Fox still believed that Bonaparte would keep his promise. He planned to visit France next month and participate in the second industrial exhibition.

The Stuart dynasty is like the Bourbon dynasty in France, except that they lost their rule longer than the Bourbons, and many people, even the British, have forgotten them.

However, the Stuart dynasty still has the right of inheritance from Britain. Fox hopes that Napoleon can open the French library and let him check the information related to the Stuart dynasty. Bonaparte plans to hand over this task to Georgiana and Ribo.

Cooperate with Fox to find all the information he wants.

Georgiana's feelings towards the Hanoverian royal family were complicated. Without the Hanoverian royal family, Napoleon might not have been able to go to Elba as a prisoner after his defeat.

But if France wins, will the "future" really be better than the one she is in?

She looked into his blue eyes and recalled the middle-aged man in her dream who was crying alone in a simple house. At that time, Bonaparte was much fatter than he is now.

It's all authoritarian and cold, and you can't see that charming smile that makes people move.

"What are you thinking about?" he asked in French with a strange accent.

"I don't want you to become like that." She said in pain.

"What's it like?" he asked with raised eyebrows.

"One Thousand and One Nights still has an ocean that you can step on." She said miserably, "Don't lose your romantic imagination. Your mind is only filled with conspiracies and calculations, Leon."

"As long as you stay with me." He grabbed her hand and said, "If a person has no imagination, he is just a beast."

"How about I tell you a story?" Georgiana said softly. "It's a story about a boy named Pi and his Bengal tiger drifting on the sea."

"I don't want to hear it." He refused. "Swear to me, you won't leave."

"You want me to be like those priests?"

"I don't believe a word of it when some people swear by it. I only believe it when people like you swear by it."

"But I broke my oath."

He didn't speak.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked.

"You broke your oath because of me?" he asked.

She was lost in thought.

But her mind went blank, as if she had lost the ability to think.

"Don't think about it," he said. "Kiss me, sister Dinasad."

She was obedient and did as she was told.

The kiss still tasted like wine, with a hint of sourness, but after being heated by body temperature, it had a strange taste. She couldn't help but taste it carefully, and as a result, the kiss deepened.

The night is still long, maybe the ministers can go home early today and no longer have to hold meetings at the Tuileries Palace in the early morning.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing for a monarch to be less diligent?
Chapter completed!