Chapter 379: , Clean Olympics

After that, the Turks and the French conducted a series of negotiations on some specific issues, and then the two sides reached a formal agreement on some matters. Of course, the most critical part is still the gentleman's agreement that does not fall behind.
The first thing to be implemented is the training of the Turkish army.
Sending the Turkish army to France for training is too big to be kept secret. It may cause a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings. Moreover, sending the Turkish army to France for training costs a lot of money. Although the French are not afraid of any misunderstanding, the Turks are still very worried that the Russians will misunderstand. As for the issue of spending a lot of money, the French are naturally less worried, but Turkey, if Turkey is so rich, still use this idea?
Taking into account the need for confidentiality, the training location was selected on an island in the Mediterranean. After research, they set the training base on Rhode Island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Rhode Island was once the forefront of the Christian world's resistance to Turkey in the Mediterranean. The Knights of the Hospital had a battle with Turkey here. The bastion left by the Knights of the Hospital remains here.
Although it has been hundreds of years since the Battle of Rhode Island, the shore fortifications of those Barbary pirate nations are not very different from the old-fashioned bastions of Rhode Island. The Pashas of these pirate countries are more willing to spend their money on pleasure and on their ships.
Of course, the artillery erected on their old bastions is no longer the old thing during the Battle of Rhode Island. According to the interrogation of the captured pirates, some important fortresses have been replaced with new front-mounted rifled guns made in France.
Generally speaking, warships cannot directly confront the fort. In the original history, Lord Nelson of the United Kingdom even said this: "A fort with one cannon is enough to fight a warship with a hundred cannons."
This is because, compared with warships, gun emplacements have some advantages:
First of all, the fort is impossible to sink. For a warship to destroy the cannon on the turret, it has to expect its own cannonball to accurately hit the opponent's cannon. But warships can be destroyed, so the artillery on the turret only needs to be able to hit the warship.
Moreover, the warship is constantly shaking, and the fort is solid unless facing an earthquake. This makes the shooting accuracy of the cannon on the turret far surpass that of the naval gun. Coupled with the cannons on the turrets, the nearby seas are basically marked with grids one by one for test firing, so the hit accuracy is even more terrifying. Generally speaking, the warship and the battery fire at each other, unless the guns and personnel training of the two sides are too far apart, as in another time and space, when I first encountered Yingyi’s artillery ship. Otherwise, the fort can always take advantage.
But these are not a problem for the French navy today, because the French-made front-mounted rifled guns in the hands of the Barbary pirates simply cannot penetrate the armor of the new French warships. Even in this world, at least for now, there is no cannon that can penetrate the armor of the battleship "Inbrador". Including the "Inbrador" own cannon as well.
But this does not mean that no weapons can threaten the "Inbredo" battleship, at least, the British and French have enough weapons to sink her-mines. And no one knows if the British have sold some of these things to those Barbary pirates. Therefore, the French Navy also needs to prepare some brave and fearless minesweepers when performing its mission. Well, considering the mine-sweeping level of that era, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a minecraft.
The instructors from the French army also came to Rhode Island. Under their command, the Turks first transformed the fortresses left by the Hospitaller Knights, and roughly turned them into the harbor forts of the Barbary countries. Look like.
In the process, the Turks also sent envoys to the Barbary countries.
This is also a common practice. Although several Barbary pirate countries are basically completely independent countries, they still have a lot of contacts with Turkey. There are also many exchanges between the messengers of the two sides. And at this time, in fact, the Barbary pirate countries also very much hope to use Turkey to inquire about the true meaning of the French and see if they can use any way to ease their relationship with the French. They still don't know that the people they trust and believe in the same have already planned to sell them for money.
However, the old Ottoman system made their secrecy very poor. The fact that Sultan Selim III trained a new army in Rhode Island soon became known to others in Turkey. For these people, the strengthening of Sudan's power may not be a good thing.
These people currently do not have many ways to oppose Sudan. Because after all, this is within the power of Sudan. They were just surprised, where did the Sudan get the money to train the new army. You know, training the army is very expensive. They are very clear about the economic situation in Turkey. So they also knew very well that Sultan Selim III could not get so much money without disturbing them. Considering the French instructors and French weapons, they had a guess, that is, the Sultan must have borrowed a lot of money from the French. Of course, the French have always been unprofitable, and they are willing to lend money to Sudan for some reason.
Thinking about it this way, it’s unavoidable to think more and more crooked, and even crooked as to whether Sudan intends to launch a major anti-corruption operation in the country. He thought of the guys who looked unpleasant as corrupt officials and arrested them and beheaded them, and then used the confiscated money to repay the loan and fill the treasury...
Of course, these people have to be vigilant. While preparing, they disclosed the news to other people-such as Austrians and Russians.
Both Austria and Russia are enemies of Turkey. So they certainly don’t want to see Turkey become stronger. They will definitely take certain measures to drag Turkey back. As long as they take some actions, um, the power of His Majesty Sultan will be restrained, and then they will have Time to strain.
In Paris, a little further south of the main stadium is the original royal hunting ground. At that time, King Louis XVI had two hobbies, one was making various locks, and the other was hunting. Even when the day that decided his future in life-those Paris women rushed to Versailles, finally forced his family to relocate to Paris. King Louis XVI was hunting here when he learned of this.
After the revolution, especially after the king was overthrown, the king’s hunting ground was naturally left unattended, and the animals in the hunting ground naturally entered the stomachs of nearby villagers. Nowadays, this place is naturally government-managed public land, and the equestrian and shooting competitions of the Olympic Games are also arranged here.
Nowadays, the cement road leading here has long been paved, and the venues and stands for equestrian and shooting competitions have been set up. Some French people who participated in these two projects naturally received preferential treatment to come here in advance for training. This is also one of the natural advantages of the host, they have more time to adapt to the venue.
Polina came here today with one of her thoroughbred horses called Bobby. A few days ago, she took Berdon to appraise several people in the family. In order to let Joseph see that Berdon met his requirements, she also specially asked Berdon to wear a moustache and wear a low-necked collar. Clothes-so that Berdon's Adam's apple can be clearly exposed.
Generally speaking, everything is going well, whether it is Joseph or Napoleon, they are quite satisfied with Polina's bringing back a man. What's more, Berdon is not bad. He is tall, not a second-level disabled who needs to wear inner height-enhancing shoes; and he has good features and looks very sunny. Among other things, their children should look very cute in the future. In addition, there seems to be no family genetic disease (this Lucien has investigated it a long time ago), so several brothers have no objection. As for Polina's mother, it was really the mother-in-law who looked at her son-in-law, and liked it more and more.
Now that Polina has fulfilled her promise, the brothers will naturally give her the green light to compete. So Polina officially became one of the athletes representing France in the Olympic Games.
Now that Polina has agreed to participate, it is natural to find a way to make Polina win the championship as much as possible. Otherwise, it's better not to participate. For this reason, Joseph also paid for Polina a very good English thoroughbred horse.
British thoroughbred horses are the fastest and best jumping horses in the world. It is relatively expensive to raise, and most people simply can't afford it. But for the Bonaparte family, this is not a problem.
With such a thoroughbred, Pauline has a foundation for winning the championship. In addition, Polina itself has an obvious advantage, that is, the weight is relatively small. This also helps the horses to run faster and jump higher.
In addition, more importantly, familiarity with the venue. From now on, Polina can keep practicing on the official competition venue, so that both she and Bobby will be very familiar with this venue and will be able to perform at the best level. What's more, in the obstacle course, the distance and height of the obstacles are optimized for Polina and her horse.
In addition to horse racing, Polina also participates in shooting competitions. To be honest, Polina's shooting level is very good among ordinary people. The reason is also very simple, because shooting is a very expensive sport. Especially in this era when there is no synthetic ammonia technology, all gunpowder comes from expensive natural saltpeter or more expensive nitrate. Every time a shot is fired, it is for money. The average person, even with a gun in his hand, can only practice aiming with an empty gun at ordinary times, and there is not much opportunity to shoot live ammunition. Soldiers in the military of some countries will not be able to fight dozens of live ammunition from enlistment to retirement unless they encounter a real war.
But for people like Polina who have the ability to make money, this is not a problem. So she hit more with live ammunition, and her marksmanship was naturally not bad. But according to the instructor who trained her, Paulina's shooting talent is actually not good. But if you don’t have enough talent, you can still use money to make up.
Coupled with the advantage of the field and cooperation, um, especially the two-way flying saucer, how to launch the flying saucer, and what angle to launch the flying saucer, are all set for Polina, so as long as you play more, the hit rate is naturally higher than Those foreign players who only came here a few days before the official game and did not have to adapt to the venue for more than 45 minutes before the game are much cheaper.
As an older brother, Joseph Napoleon and the others can only help Polina. It is said that a certain Joseph student invented a very powerful stimulant drug. After using it, it can significantly improve motor skills. Joseph also wanted to use it...Of course, it was for Polina’s horse. Anyway, if you have an advantage in medicine and pharmaceutical technology, you don't have to go to the Olympics. Wouldn't you be sorry for the word "modern" in the modern Olympics?
However, when experiments were conducted on other horses, the horses were too excited, resulting in a decrease in coordination and obedience. The final conclusion is that although ~EbookFREE.me~ can significantly increase the horse's athletic performance, it increases the risk of accidents. Then Joseph shot him without hesitation-no, it should be temporarily shot. this project. This also made the first modern Olympics called "the only clean Olympics" by later generations.
Of course, allowing Polina to prepare for the Olympics also brought another benefit, that is, she was found to be in and out of entertainment venues such as the "Moulin Rouge" much less frequently.
Time gradually passed in this process. The Olympic flame is getting closer and closer to France. In the north, Victor accompanied the Olympic flame to Petersburg, the capital of Russia. Petersburg held a large-scale torch relay around the city to celebrate. After the torch stayed in Petersburg for three days, it boarded the ship and traveled to other countries through the Baltic Sea.
On the other road, the torch had left Spain, and took a French steam-sail hybrid passenger ship called the "Hermes" to North America. Counting time, it should have arrived in the United States by now.
In addition, according to a report by "Science Pravda", the Papal State has officially signed up for the Olympic Games. (This is also the only time in the history of the Vatican to participate in the Olympic Games) And by then, the Pope will personally lead a delegation of the Papal State to Paris to participate in this grand event for all mankind and bless the conference on the spot.