After leaving the Academy of Sciences, Lavoisier did not go home, but took a carriage out of Paris and headed to a manor of the Duke of Orleans. A few days ago, he borrowed a place from the Duke for new scientific experiments.

Perhaps it was because for a long time, His Majesty the King could not give birth to a son. (Queen Marie Antoinette gave birth to his first son eleven years after marrying him) Many great nobles in China who had close relatives with the king had the idea that the king might die and the crown might fall on their heads. The Orleans family, as the king's close relative, may not have had similar ideas. A few years ago, after the king underwent a surgery, he finally got pregnant and gave birth to two princes in succession. But once ambition was produced, it was difficult to extinguish naturally. Just like Macbeth, because of the prophecy of the witch, had developed a crown of Scotland.

Ambition. Although the old king clearly stated after that that, his crown would be handed over to his son, not Macbeth, Macbeth's ambition for the crown was not extinguished, but became more intense. It eventually drove him to the path of regicide and seize the throne. Some great nobles, including the Orleans family, also did not disappear because of the birth of the prince. In addition, the king's personality was weak, and the queen, although her personality was much tougher, as a woman, she did not receive much political education and was quite naive in politics. This made the great nobles feel that "he could replace him."

In order to "replace it", in recent years, the great nobles, including the Orleans, tried hard to sabotage the king openly and secretly, so that the king could not do anything well. At the same time, they deliberately created public opinion to slander the royal family. Of course, they would not point the finger directly at the king, which was too direct and too easy to expose their ambitions. So they all pointed their target at Queen Mary. Queen Mary was strong in character, but lacked political wisdom, and was vain and had no idea about money, so they easily let her go

They got into a trap. While they flattered Queen Mary, they tempted her to hold various dances and cheated millions of francs of "gifts" from her every year; while they slandered her in society and even gave her a nickname "Lady of Deficit". The strange necklace incident that recently broke out even ruined the queen's reputation. (A female liar was able to get out of the heavily guarded prison after directing such a drama that trapped the queen in. God knows whether there is any problem here.)

Of course, the nobles still have a sense of proportion. They always insist on their propaganda, that is, the king is a good person, but his ears are too soft and he is too afraid of his wife, so... In short, "the saints and wisest are now, but they are just being led by a few treacherous ministers... not right, they are just led by a woman."

On the surface, this kind of propaganda seems to be an excuse for the king, but in terms of its effect, it is actually better than directly attacking the king with greed and cruelty. Because a greedy and cruel king is hated, but it is also feared; but a kind and weak "good man" who is controlled by his own wife will be despised.

Machiavelli believed that the weakest and most easily overthrown king was not the tyrant that everyone hated, but the king that was generally despised by his subjects. Through such propaganda, the great nobles led people's hatred to the queen, and at the same time left the most terrible thing to the king.

If Louis XVI was a hero, no, or even a hero, but only a tyrant. He could also silence these arguments through storms, at least turning people's contempt for him into hatred and fear. Relatively speaking, the crown of a fearful tyrant is more stable than the crown of a despised king.

However, Louis XVI was a weak person. He looked forward and could not make up his mind to cut off the great nobles. However, his concessions made the great nobles, including the Orleans, feel that France's crown should naturally be worn on their heads.

In the King's Theory, Machiavelli also proposed that the king should also make the people grateful and expect themselves by giving favors little by little. Therefore, while giving various scourges to the king, the great nobles scrambled to dress themselves up as "friends of the people", "enlightened gentlemen", and "pioneers of democracy". In the words of the great mentor later, it was: "In order to win over the people, the nobles waved the proletariat's begging bags as flags." Of course, the final result of the great nobles doing this was definitely "whenever the people followed them, they found that their buttocks had old feudal heralds, so they laughed and scattered." But at least for now, these methods could still make the people come to their backs.

In order to dress up as "friends of the people", "enlightened gentlemen", "pioneers of democracy", the great nobles all acted as loving science, loving the motherland, and loving the people. The more they supported academic research and academic freedom, it became the thing that these great nobles competed to promote. Supporting the research of Lavoisier, which has become the proud Frenchman, is naturally a "friends of the people", "enlightened gentlemen", and "pioneers of democracy" should do.

His Highness, Duke Phillips, was fine, so he was waiting for Lavoisier there. He was also interested in Lavoisier's experiment, so he asked Lavoisier about the content of his experiment.

"Master, you know, I don't mean anything else, I'm just simple curiosity. Can you tell me what experiment you are going to do here?" Duke Phillips asked when he loaned the venue.

"Oh, Joseph wrote me a letter. The letter mentioned that he used concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid to carefully process glycerin, and obtained a very powerful liquid fire. Medicine. Well, maybe just like Joseph said, it should not be called fire. Medicine, but explosives. There are still many problems with this liquid explosive. It is just that Joseph is busy with mathematical matters and is not particularly proficient in such matters, so he told me about this matter with only preliminary experiments. I tried it, and it is indeed as he said, this thing is very powerful. It is at least dozens to more than a hundred times that of brown gunpowder."

"So powerful?" Duke Phillips was shocked.

"Isn't it?" said Lavoisier. "You know, Joseph said the power of that thing was like Zeus's thunder. He suggested that when I tried it myself, the amount should not exceed one gram at a time. Then I made one gram and tried it, and it really exploded. And the power was far beyond my expectations. Well, Mr. Duke, this thing is quite dangerous. If you want to conduct a comprehensive experiment, it will definitely not be possible in Paris."

"It seems that such things should be studied by the military, right?" said Duke Phillips.

"Ah, Your Highness, you may not know that although this thing is powerful, it is really not suitable for military use. At least it is not suitable for military use at present." Lavoisier looked at Duke Phillips and said, "You may not know that this thing is very unstable. A little bit of vibration, light, or a little heat, this thing will explode. Your Highness, think that if it is used for military use, during transportation, as long as the wheels of the carriage bump in a small pit, the explosives of a whole carriage will explode with a blast, and the power is equivalent to the gunpowder of more than one hundred carriages explode together."

"My God!" said the Duke of Phillips. "If it is so dangerous, how can this thing be used?"

"Military use is not good," said Lavoisier. "This thing is not easy to transport, and it often needs to be modulated on the site. How can it be modulated on the battlefield on the battlefield? For example, for mining, we can prepare this thing directly at the mining site and then use it immediately, which is relatively safe. Lord Duke, this thing is actually very useful. For example, mining, digging canals and other projects, which can even bring about revolutionary changes. Moreover, the cost of raw materials used is not high. If the preparation problem can be solved, this thing should make a lot of money. Is Your Highness interested?"

"If the preparation problem can be solved? My master, then, there are still problems in the production of this thing?" asked Duke Phillips.

"Yes, at present, it can only be produced in laboratories, and the amount of production is quite limited. If it is applied on a large scale, the preparation method must have certain changes. Moreover, this thing is quite dangerous even when it is prepared. If it is prepared on a large scale, the environment is different from that on laboratories, so it still requires careful research." Lavoisier explained.

"So, Mr. Lavoisier, can I participate in this study?" asked Duke Phillips.

"Of course, I highly welcome your participation. You can also name this product in the future, and you can also sign your name in the position of the author of the paper in the future." Lavoisier said.

The Duke laughed: "Ah, this is not possible. People will say that I shamelessly pursue my own honor that does not belong to me. So there must be no name for the author of the paper. But if you can mention in the paper that I have provided some insignificant help for this research, I would be very happy."
Chapter completed!