When Joseph arrived in Paris, the first thing he did was to find Cano.

After entering the building of the War Department, Joseph followed the familiar road and went straight to Kano's office. The office door was closed and Joseph knocked on the door twice.

"Come in, the door is not closed." Kano's tired voice came from inside.

Joseph opened the door and walked inside while shouting:

"Lazar, I'm back, are you surprised? Ah, Lazar, your expression is not right... Are you sick?"

"Nothing? Just annoyed those stupid monkeys... Ah, if you don't say this, why did you suddenly come back?" Kano asked with two panda eyes.

"I heard that Robespierre was finished, and thought that Paris might be a little turbulent, worried that there would be something wrong with the institute, so I ran back without waiting for the order. Well, Lazar, you will give me a replacement order later, so I won't run back privately." Joseph pulled a chair and sat down in front of Kano.

"Joseph..." Kano's expression was quite strange, "You don't know yet...ah...I'm sorry to you, I couldn't keep the institute... The institute was closed by those bad guys! I really want to pull Robespierre out of the grave so that he could cut off all the heads of those guys!"

"The institute is gone?" This news was really beyond Joseph's expectations. He had expected that some people would jump out and show the lower limit without Robespierre's suppression and would touch the institute. But he did not expect that these guys had such a low limit and were so fast that they would not tease them first, but directly...

"What's going on?" Joseph asked quickly. Now he must understand the situation immediately and seize the time to recover the losses.

"It's not those bastards, trash!" When Kano thought of these messy things, he couldn't hold back his anger. He angrily threw the quill in his hand on the ground, "Trash! Those trash that hinder us! They should drag them out to feed the guillotine! During this period, they could steal more than thieves! When they saw that our institute was so great, they all ran to steal and rob..."

"Lazar, don't be excited, don't be excited,...Lazar, things have happened. Now we have to recover the losses as much as possible. Be calm. Come on, Lazar, drink this glass of water before talking about it..." Joseph quickly got up and poured a glass of water for Kano, and handed it over, "Lazar, it's time to drink water."

Kano took the water and drank it all in one sip. He calmed down and then told Joseph carefully. Finally, he lowered his head and ended his story with such a sentence in shame: "Joseph, I'm sorry for you, I couldn't save us..."

"Lazar, cheer up." Joseph said, "We still have a chance to recover the losses. Those slags are slags! You can't even get the idea of ​​damaging them! What is the most precious in the institute? Talents! Those talents are actually taken back by them! We have to pull them back quickly... Well, Lazar, you know, I have made some money, I will calculate, I'm adding up in a mess now, there are about 100,000 livres, you know where you come from.

There may be a little less here, you have a lot of expenses, and then, well, then Napoleon... Damn, I want to apologize to you, I didn't take care of this guy, this guy was in the south and participated in smuggling, (Joseph's smuggling ship was given priority to Napoleon) and got more than 300,000 livres. We worked together to bring those people back and rebuild our research institute and military factory in the south. At present, this is almost the way to minimize the losses."

Kano thought for a while and said, "It's all that's the case now! Joseph, you are so amazing! In such a short time, you can calm down and come up with a solution immediately. In fact, you are more suitable for overviewing the overall situation than me. If you were in my position..."

"Come on, Lazar." Joseph shook his head, "You don't know me, you can't stand things. I hope I can withstand it?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's deal with the immediate problems first." Kano said. "Napoleon's smuggling must be carried out quickly. What are he smuggling now?"

"Of course it's caustic and saltpeter," said Joseph.

"The scale of his smuggling needs to be expanded, because our plan will definitely cost a lot of money in the initial stage. We need more money. Well, don't limit it to the legal smuggling range. You can smuggle whatever comes from, including weapons. Of course, we only sell it to real Americans. Anyway, we don't smuggle, and those slags will do it!"

"In addition to Americans, we can actually sell them to Indians," Joseph added.

"Okay, get ready to act!" said Kano. "Well, Napoleon quickly lets it control, so that those guys will not reach out to them. There are valuable things there!"

"I explained to him before I came," said Joseph.

"Okay, then we don't waste time. I suggest we can divide the labor like this. First of all, are your money ready?" Kano asked.

"About 300,000 Rifts are ready," Joseph replied.

"Very good, if you can trust me. If you give me 120,000 livres, I still have 80,000 livres here. I will go to La Paz immediately and try to buy the "Naval Institute" immediately." Kano said, "As for the personnel, I have a roster of all the personnel here, but now these people are scattered. It takes time to find them one by one. As for you... it's a pity, Joseph, it would be great if you could become two. I can let one go back to Toulon, the Institute for Stability, and the other you can help me deal with some things." Kano frowned and said.

Joseph knew why Kano frowned, because things in Paris involved running away and walking through the back door. Kano was really unpredictable to do such things, so it would be great if Joseph could do something like this for him in Paris. But he was worried that in Toulon, if there was no Joseph in the town, there would be any losses.

"A lot of things in Paris don't actually require us to come forward in person," said Joseph. "Lazar, there is someone who can act as our white gloves."

"Who?" Kano asked.

"Joseph Fouche. I heard what you said just now. This guy is in a bad situation. I think he should be willing to help us." Joseph replied.

"I know you don't have a good impression of this person." Seeing Kano frowning, Joseph knew that he had a bad view of Fouche, and said, "But Fouche is still very capable, including finding people and going through the back door. Well, Lazar, I don't underestimate your talent, but different people are suitable for doing different things. I think Fouche will be much more efficient than you when doing these things."

Kano nodded. Although he was a little proud and stubborn, he was not the kind of person who closed his eyes and did not recognize the reality of the world: "You are right, Joseph, Fouche is indeed more suitable than me in these things. However, I am still a little worried. Do you know? Shortly after Robespierre's fall, Fouche came to me and was still in the "National Saving Committee". At that time, he pointed out the dangers I might face and hoped to join forces with me. But I rejected him, do you know why?"

Before Joseph answered, Cano continued: "Because I was a little afraid of him. This guy performed too well in the process of knocking down Robespierre. He was too good at those conspiracies. Robespierre said he was a poisonous snake, which was good at all. If he had been allowed to stand firm in the top management, I was worried that if he didn't do it well, he would be more terrible than Robespierre. I think La Paz and their intention to suppress him like this may not have such an idea. But I didn't expect that there was no need for Fouche at all, and La Paz and theirs would be more terrible than Robespierre..."

Hearing this, Joseph couldn't help but remembered the ancients' comments on Mrs. Wang when he was reading "Dream of Red Mansions" in his previous life: "People should not be talented. If they have talent and rely on their talents, they will kill more people; especially those who cannot be talented. If they use their talents without talent, they will kill more people." Now, compared and look at it, this is really reasonable.

"Precisely because he is dangerous, it's better to put him under our noses. Lazar, do you know where to find him?" said Joseph.

"Well, that makes sense, too." Kano nodded, "I know where he lives. After get off work, let's go find him together?"

"Okay." Joseph nodded.

When it was time to get off work, Kano and Joseph took a carriage together and took more than a dozen cavalrymen to the St. Antoine District.

The Saint-Antoine district is the largest slum in Paris, with narrow streets and chaotic streets. Especially over the past few days, due to soaring prices, the lives of the people at the bottom are becoming more and more difficult, so the public security in these places is naturally becoming more and more chaotic. People as steady as Joseph are really afraid to come here without taking a little people.

The carriage stopped outside a crooked alleyway. Fouche's residence was inside the alleyway, but the carriage could no longer enter.

Joseph and Kano got out of the car, and Joseph reached into his shirt and held the handle of the musket hidden there. The cavalry also got off the horse and surrounded Joseph and Kano and walked into the alley.

After walking along the alley where sewage flowed, he arrived at a crooked and dilapidated house. A soldier leading the way said, "This is it."
Chapter completed!