Fox of France

According to Lucien’s description of the two anti-intelligence organizations of the British in his memoirs, whether it is the Sixth Army Investigation Division or the Wang’s Anti-intelligence Investigation Team, they are not particularly specialized in how to conduct effective spying ——At least it was at first. Because they are not proficient in how to effectively conduct espionage work, they often fail to grasp the key points when countering espionage.

"These two departments have too many traces of the police department. Their past experience of dealing with petty theft has restrained them. They are even immersed in their own past experience, and they are facing new styles. When they challenged, they seemed very clumsy. And when they tried to carry out intelligence work externally, they often reduced the guys from the Ministry of Public Security because of this. In fact, guys from the Ministry of Public Security have the same problems as the British in many places... …(I will omit the complaints to the Ministry of Public Security that can’t be written on a whole piece of paper later-"The Memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte"

In general, Lucien's evaluation of British intelligence agencies is relatively objective, at least more reliable than his evaluation of the French Ministry of Public Security. In the imagination of the British, the French spies would sneak into the factory to check the equipment of the factory; or mix in the factory dressed as workers to obtain intelligence; or even use money and beauties to corrupt certain key figures and let these The guy became a traitor to the United Kingdom... To be honest, the French do the latter, but this is not the main method of the Ministry of Truth to obtain information.

The methods used by the Ministry of Truth to obtain information are actually very upright. That is to collect various data through various legal means, and then compare and analyze them. In the Ministry of Truth, the department that has the most personnel and consumes the most funds is the department engaged in this type of work.

The first is the purchase and price information of various materials. The British know almost nothing about how much the French can learn from this type of information, so naturally they can’t talk about keeping it secret from here, so just from the procurement of various materials, the Ministry of Truth got the first Important information:

There is no evidence that the British have purchased any materials required for the production of alkaline refractories; therefore, it is inferred that the British may still use acidic refractories.

In addition, the spy personnel of the Ministry of Truth also obtained some **** from the Langley Iron Plant through commercial means. At that time, these slags were used as waste materials and were often used for road paving. Therefore, steel plants often sell these slags to companies that have such needs. Using this method, the people of the Ministry of Truth easily obtained some **** from the Langley Iron Works, and after chemical analysis of these slags, the various conditions of the British steelmaking technology were almost revealed.

The **** from England was sent to Lorraine Steel's laboratory. A few days later, the conclusion was sent to the hands of several brothers.

"As we had previously expected, the British steelmaking furnaces use acid linings. In other words, when they make steel, they pick ore very much. If it is the ore from our Lorraine iron ore, they We can only smelt a large amount of scrap steel. However, British iron ore, alas..." Joseph sighed, "If you say that the British have good luck, the sulfur content of British iron ore is much lower than ours. , So they can really rely on acid steelmaking furnaces to make steel. Judging from the information in this information, their steel quality will not be too good, but it can be considered usable.

"What about the cost of their steelmaking?" Napoleon asked. For now, this is the most important issue.

"The cost should be relatively high." Lucian said, "Based on the amount of steel-making **** processed, we can infer their output. Their furnace is too small, the output is small, and the cost is naturally high. Even if it is their pig iron, It was also surprisingly expensive. On this basis, I guess..."

Lucien said a number, and then Napoleon leaned back and approached the thick backrest, and said: "What are the British doing? This cost is much higher than our earliest experimental furnace. Don't say it compares with our open hearth. This is really... well, the representative of the British business negotiation should have come?"

"Tomorrow a British business delegation will arrive in Paris. Do we need to tell Talleyrand a little bit about our news?" Lucien asked.

"You can tell him a little bit, but don't give him precise information, just tell him that we know that the British can make steel, but the cost is much higher than us, and let him know that we hope to be occupied by'free trade' For the domestic steel market in the United Kingdom, it is enough for their own steel industry to be used only for military purposes." Napoleon said, "In addition, Lucien, you have to keep an eye on the technological progress of the British. Our strategy is that the British Where a breakthrough is achieved, we will put something better than his into the market, so that their investment will never get enough returns in the market.

Also, Joseph, what about your mission? The United Kingdom can quickly keep up and follow us closely in technology because they have Cambridge and Oxford. I remember that you told me that we can use various means to allow people from all over the world, including the United Kingdom, with a little scientific and technical level to come to France, thereby weakening their scientific research capabilities. Joseph, how are you doing this? "

"Do you still worry about my affairs?" Joseph rolled his eyes. "When is it your turn to check my affairs?"

Even so, Joseph said: "The situation in the UK is a little better now. In other countries, hehe, the number of students enrolled at the University of Paris has increased by more than 20% every year in recent years. Especially some science and technology This is especially true for the category of subjects. Where do a large number of students come from? Except for the French, the others are from other European countries. The number of international students has increased by 4 to 5 per cent each year in recent years. Ten years of growth. Because other countries cannot provide so many employment opportunities for graduates, most of these international students who come to France, especially those studying science and engineering subjects, will stay in France.

In addition, our subsidiaries also support education in European countries in the name of charity. We have successively established more than 20 universities in Italy, the Rhine region, and Prussia and Austria. These universities have received our financial support, so they can provide full scholarships to those talented but relatively poor students.

Well, this scholarship is even called the "Napoleon Scholarship". Those who are relatively poor, but gifted students, can apply for themselves and get the teacher's recommendation, they can complete their studies without spending a penny, and even get the opportunity to study at the University of Paris. Of course, in return, after graduation, they must enter those companies that have funded them and work for a certain number of years — our tentative time limit is now five years — this is because they consider their age when they graduate. In a period of time, they will probably start a family in France. Once they set up a family in France, it is basically impossible for them to leave France. Besides, those who study science and engineering will probably become useless heroes if they leave France. "

Hearing the name of the scholarship, Napoleon was obviously happy, but he asked again: "Well, Joseph, this scholarship is named after me, why didn't you tell me beforehand?"

"I'm busy with work." Joseph said, "Besides, didn't you just use your name? What does it have to do with you? I still need to tell you? Is it so troublesome? If you don't want to, then change to Lu Xi’an’s name is ready. Lucien, do you have any comments?"

"No, no, I don't have any opinion on this." Napoleon hurriedly said, and at the same time glared at Lucien, motioning him not to talk nonsense.

"Isn't that all right?" Joseph said, "In addition, we also intend to, in the name of the French Academy of Sciences, present awards to scientists worldwide who have made great contributions to science. The award is selected once a year. Half a million francs is relatively exaggerated, but it can certainly bring about a huge advertising effect. We plan to divide the awards into four projects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, and medicine. Well, the name of the bonus is called..."

Napoleon immediately opened his eyes and sat upright.

"It's called the'Prometheus' Award." Joseph said, "Prometheus brings civilization to the world, and is a symbol of scientific exploration and the development of civilization, so it would be great to use his name. Napoleon, what do you think?"

"I... you ask me whether I like it or not, of course I am in favor. Well,'I made humans no longer able to predict death. I put my hope in their hearts. Besides, I gave them the fire.' "Napoleon read two more verses from the tragedy "Prometheus Bound".

"Then it's decided." Joseph said.

Napoleon was a bit unwilling, but he knew that if this award were to be named after a person, Joseph was obviously more qualified than him.

"Also, I also made a'University Science Level Ranking'." Joseph added, "Basically, it is based on the number of papers published in the journal Nature of the French Academy of Sciences by scholars of various universities over the years, and The number of citations of these papers is derived.——Because “Nature” often has major breakthroughs, and the cost of manuscripts is very high, it is not known where it is higher than other countries’ magazines, so even if it is a foreign country The school’s scholars are also willing to publish their findings in the "Nature"-based on this ranking, the University of Paris certainly has an overwhelming advantage, but the two British schools also performed well. This is a good thing, which shows that the authority of "Nature" has been recognized by the British.

Then we put the openness, that is, the number of foreign students accepted, and the number of foreign professors as a reference standard. Our French universities have more obvious advantages over schools in other countries. I can be sure that it will not be long before universities in Europe, including the British, will become our fish ponds. "

This is also a very common trick in later generations. In Joseph's previous life, those Onza people just used this set to rank the University of Melbourne, the University of Singapore, and the University of Hong Kong a lot ahead of the University of Tokyo, which has 11 Nobel Prize winners. Then he leaned heavily on this and played a trick of treating other countries as fish ponds.

For a long time, almost all of the best students in Chitu Kingdom were taken away by them. If it hadn’t been for them to embark on the evil road of de-industrialization, there were not enough jobs in the country to accommodate engineering talents from all over the world, I am afraid this situation would continue. And until Joseph crossed, some of the world’s largest democracies were still showing Amei you as a fish pond, and they also used the number of big fish caught from their pond in American companies as the top wage earners. And proud of it. Therefore, Joseph always has a kind of vigilance from his previous life for the guys playing finance. But for A-mei, you can admire your experience in fishing.

Napoleon listened and nodded. Joseph's plan is quite perfect. Generally speaking, in Joseph's business scope, there is really no need for him to be verbose. It's just that many times, he didn't understand how his brother's head grew.

"Generally speaking, a person's brain power and energy are limited. Especially in scientific research, how much brain power or even physical power is consumed! Look at Joseph’s assistant Gauss, how smart that guy is. Human guy, his thinking is so fast... But even Gauss has almost exhausted his brain power in his research work, so that even some of the simplest life problems often have problems.

But about Joseph, this guy has to do scientific research, military research, business, and political conspiracy. What's more terrible is that he can play to an amazing height in any case. In science, people have said that he is the greatest scientist since Newton; in the military, Napoleon has to admit that this guy has changed the face of the entire war; when it comes to doing business, he now controls the largest in the world Consortium, his tentacles have reached every corner of the world; as for playing conspiracies-of course, this **** will never admit that he is playing conspiracies. He shamelessly declares that he is playing fair and honest strategies, like playing chess Never conceal, every step can make the opponent see clearly, and then let him be checkmate helplessly-for example, the set just now has this style. Fortunately, when this guy really played chess, he didn't have such a level. Almost all of them were his most obvious flaws. You said, this guy, why is he so unscientific? Fortunately, this guy is my elder brother with the same surname as me, Bonaparte..."

Just when Napoleon was bored with these silly thoughts, Joseph spoke again.

"Lucien, the selection of the first Prometheus Prize is about to begin. You have to raise the heat of this matter, not only in the academic circle, nor only in the circle of decent people. If we do it, we need to get to the whole of Europe. Everyone knows about this, everyone is talking about it, even if he is an illiterate who doesn't even know the word! Can it be done?"

"If you raise the bonus to one million francs, there will be no problem at all." Lucien said. "Five hundred thousand is a big number, but compared to one million, the shock is inferior. Too much."

Lucien’s statement certainly makes sense. Indeed, 500,000 is already a big number, and most people will never get such a large sum of money for a lifetime, or even a few lifetimes. But when people describe a person as rich, they still like to say that he is a "millionaire". Has anyone heard of "Five Millionaires"? An award instantly turns a person into a millionaire, which is much more exciting than a "half millionaire".

"A bonus of four million is given out at once? That's not impossible, but it requires Napoleon and you to allocate more funds to the Academy of Sciences." Joseph said.

"Ah, this question..." Napoleon felt that when it comes to small amounts of money, it is best not to decide so hastily, but to consider carefully. Well, this matter needs to be considered carefully.

"You are really fools!" Lucien said disdainfully, "Joseph, do you remember the story of the man who raised monkeys in India? That was three apples in the morning~www.novelmtl.com~four apples in the evening. ; Or four apples in the morning and three apples in the evening?"

Joseph was shocked.

"You tell the story or I listened to it. You don't know how to play monkey tricks like Indians? We can stagger the four awards. Well, this year we will send out math and physics, and next year we will send out medicine. With chemistry, in this way, only two bonuses are issued each year, and the total annual bonus is originally two million. Isn’t this the grand prize of one million? And although this has become a two-year bonus, it still keeps the annual bonus. There are awards every year, and every year there is enthusiasm. You see, this is so great! You guys, you don't even know how to play monkeys. It's so stupid, too..." Lucien immediately became proud.

"Napoleon, Lucien's trick seems to be really good. What do you think?" Joseph asked.

"Lucien is so clever." Napoleon said with disdain. However, although his tone was dismissive, he did not express any objection. Obviously Napoleon himself felt that this was actually quite good.

So Lucien's proposal was quickly passed. Then Lucien, who has worked hard for the capable, hurried back to his office, a luxurious office in the Moulin Rouge, and began arranging related matters.