Fox of France

The Turks and the French then conducted a series of negotiations on some specific issues, and then the two sides reached a formal agreement on some things. Of course, the most critical part is still the gentlemen's agreement without leaving words.

The first thing to be implemented is the training of the Turkish army.

Sending the Turkish army to France for training is too big a move to keep secret, it may cause a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings, and sending it to France for training will cost a lot of money. Although the French are not afraid of being misunderstood, the Turks are still very worried that the Russians will be misunderstood. As for the problem of spending too much money, the French are naturally less worried, but Turkey, if Turkey is so rich, why do they still have such an idea?

Taking into account the need for confidentiality, the location of the training was selected on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. After research, they set the training base on Rhodes Island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Rhode Island was once the frontier of Christendom's resistance to Turkey in the Mediterranean. The Knights Hospitaller once fought a war with Turkey here. There are still bastions left by the Knights Hospitaller.

Although it has been hundreds of years since the Battle of Rhodes Island, the shore fortifications of the Barbary pirate countries are actually not very different from the old-fashioned fortresses of Rhodes Island. The pashas of these pirate nations preferred to spend their money on pleasure and their ships.

Of course, the artillery erected on their old-fashioned bastion is no longer the old gadgets of the Rhodes Island Battle. According to the interrogation of the captured pirates, some important forts have been replaced with new-style front-loading rifled guns produced in France.

Generally speaking, warships cannot directly confront forts. In the original history, Lord Nelson of England even said something like this: "A fort with one gun is enough to fight a battleship with a hundred guns."

This is because, compared with warships, turrets have some advantages:

First of all, the fort is impossible to sink. If a warship wants to destroy the cannons on the fort, it can only hope that its shells can accurately hit the opponent's cannons. But warships can be destroyed, so the cannons on the turret only need to be able to hit the warship, which is enough.

Moreover, the warship is constantly shaking, and the fort is solid and immovable unless it is faced with an earthquake. This makes the shooting accuracy of the cannon on the turret far exceeds that of the naval gun. In addition, the cannons on the turret are basically marked with grids and have been tested one by one in the nearby sea area, so the accuracy of the hit is even more terrifying. Generally speaking, warships and forts shoot at each other, unless there is too much difference between the cannons and personnel training of the two sides, just like in another time and space, when I met the British and Yi cannon ships for the first time in the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, the fort can always take advantage.

But these are not a problem for the French navy today, because the French-made front-loading rifled guns in the hands of those 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 "Inberado". The same is true of the "Imberado"'s own cannon.

But this does not mean that there are no weapons that can threaten the "Imberado" battleship. At least, the British and the French have enough weapons to sink her-mines. And no one knows if the British sold some of these things to those Barbary pirates. Therefore, when the French Navy performs missions, it also needs to prepare some brave and fearless minesweepers. Well, considering the mine-sweeping level of that era, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a mine-sweeping ship.

Instructors from the French army also came to Rhodes Island. Under their command, the Turks first remodeled the forts left by the Knights of the Hospitaller, and roughly made them into the harbor fortresses of the several Barbary countries. look.

In the process, the Turks also sent envoys to those 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 envoys of the two sides. And at this time, in fact, those Barbary pirate countries also very much hope to find out what the French really mean through Turkey, and see if they can ease their relationship with the French in any way. Little did they know that the same gods they trusted were already planning to sell them for money.

However, Ottoman's outdated system made their secrecy quite poor. The matter about Sultan Selim III's training of a new army in Rhodes Island was quickly known by other people in Turkey. For these people, the strengthening of Sudan's power may not be a good thing.

These people don't have much to do against the Sultan at the moment. Because this is, after all, within the power of the Sudan. They were just surprised where the Sultan got 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 it was impossible for Sultan Selim III to get so much money without alarming them. Considering the French instructors and French weapons, they had a guess, that is, the Sudan must have borrowed a lot of money from the French. Of course, the French have always been willing to lend money to the Sudan. There must be some reason.

If you think about it this way, you can’t help but think more and more crookedly, even to the point of whether Sudan is planning to launch a big anti-corruption operation in the country. All the guys he thought he didn't like were arrested and beheaded as corrupt officials, and then the confiscated stolen money was used to repay the loan and fill the national treasury...

Of course, these people had to be vigilant. While preparing, they revealed the news to other people-such as the Austrians and Russians.

Both Austria and Russia are enemies of Turkey. So they definitely don't want to see Turkey become stronger, and they will definitely take some measures to hold Turkey back, and as long as they take some actions, um, the power of His Majesty the Sultan will be restrained, and then they still have Time to strain.

In Paris, a little further south of the main stadium is the original royal hunting ground. Back then, King Louis XVI always had two hobbies, one was making all kinds of locks, and the other was hunting. Even, on the day when the future of his life was decided - those Parisian women rushed to the Palace of Versailles, and finally forced his family to move to Paris. King Louis XVI was hunting here when he learned about it.

After the revolution, especially after the king was overthrown, no one took care of the royal hunting grounds, and the animals in the hunting grounds naturally entered the stomachs of nearby villagers. Today, this place is naturally public land managed by the government, and the equestrian and shooting competitions of the Olympic Games are also arranged here.

Now the concrete road leading here has been paved long ago, and the venues and stands for equestrian and shooting competitions have been set up. Some French who participated in these two projects naturally also received preferential treatment to come here for training in advance. This is also one of the natural advantages of the hosts, they have more time to adapt to the venue.

Paulina came here today with her thoroughbred called Poppy. A few days ago, she took Beier Dong to appraise it for several people in the family. In order to let Joseph see clearly that Beier Dong met his requirements, she specially made Beier Dong grow a little mustache and wear a low-necked shirt. Clothes - so that Beldon's Adam's apple can be clearly exposed.

Generally speaking, everything went smoothly. Both Joseph and Napoleon were quite satisfied with the fact that Paulina had brought back a man. What's more, Bell East is not bad, he is tall, not a second-class disabled who needs to wear height increasing shoes; and his facial features are correct, and he looks very sunny. Among other things, their children should grow up very cute in the future. In addition, there seems to be no family hereditary disease (Lucien has investigated it a long time ago), so the brothers have no objections. As for Polina's mother, it was really the mother-in-law who liked her son-in-law more and more.

Now that Polina has fulfilled her promise, the brothers will naturally give her the green light to compete. So Paulina officially became one of the athletes representing France in the Olympic Games.

Now that she agreed to participate in the competition, it is natural to find a way to make Polina win the championship as much as possible. Otherwise, it is better not to participate. For this reason, Joseph also paid for Paulina to buy a very good British thoroughbred horse.

English Thoroughbreds are the fastest and best jumping horses in the world. It’s just that it’s more expensive to raise, and ordinary people can’t afford this thing at all. But for the Bonaparte family, this is not a problem.

With such a thoroughbred horse, Polina has a foundation to win the championship. In addition, Polina itself has an obvious advantage, that is, she weighs relatively small. It also helps the horse run faster and jump higher.

In addition, more importantly, familiarity with the venue. From now on, Polina can keep practicing on the official competition field, so that both she and Bobby will be very familiar with this field and can play their best. What's more, in the obstacle course, the distance and height of the obstacle are optimized for Paulina and her horse.

In addition to horse racing, Polina also participated in shooting competitions. To be honest, Polina's shooting level is considered 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 accumulated saltpeter. Every time you shoot, you are making money. Ordinary people, even if they have guns in their hands, can only practice aiming with empty guns, and they don't have much chance to shoot with live ammunition. Soldiers in the armies of some countries, if they do not encounter real wars, will not be able to fire dozens of rounds of live ammunition from enlistment to retirement.

But for a person like Polina who has money ability, this is not a problem. So she shoots more live ammunition, and her marksmanship is naturally not bad. But according to the instructor who trained her, Polina's shooting talent is actually not good. However, talent is not enough, and money can still be used to make up for it.

Coupled with the advantages of the venue and coordination, um, especially the two-way flying saucer, how to launch the flying saucer, and at what angle to launch the flying saucer, have already been determined for Polina, so as long as you play more, the hit rate is naturally higher than that of the flying saucer. Those foreign players who came here just a few days before the official match and had no more than forty-five minutes to adapt to the venue before the match had a much better advantage.

As an elder brother, Joseph Napoleon and the others can only help Paulina. It is said that one of Joseph's students invented a rather powerful stimulant drug. After using it, it can significantly improve motor skills. Joseph also wanted to use it...of course for Paulina's horse, Anyway, if you have an advantage in medicine and pharmaceutical technology, you don't need to go to the Olympics. Wouldn't you be sorry for the word "modern" in the modern Olympics?

However, when experiments were carried out on other horses, there were problems with the horses being too excited, resulting in a decrease in coordination and obedience. The final conclusion was that although the performance of the horses could be significantly improved, it increased the risk of accidents, and then Joseph shot him without hesitation—no, he should have shot the project temporarily. This also made the first modern Olympic Games called "the only clean Olympic Games" by later generations.

Of course, having Polina prepare for the Olympics also has the added benefit of being spotted far less often at entertainment venues like the Moulin Rouge.

Time also gradually passed in this process. The Olympic torch is getting closer and closer to France. In the north, Victor accompanied the Olympic torch to Petersburg, the capital of Russia. Petersburg celebrated with a massive torch relay around the city, and after a three-day stay in Petersburg, the flame boarded a ship and traveled across the Baltic Sea to other countries.

On the other side, the torch has also left Spain and headed for North America on a French steam-sail hybrid passenger ship called "Hermes". Counting the time, it should have arrived in the United States by now.

In addition, according to the report of "Scientific Pravda", the Papal State has officially signed up to participate in the Olympic Games. (This is also the only time in the history of the Vatican to participate in the Olympic Games) And at that time, His Holiness the Pope will personally lead the delegation of the Papal States to Paris to participate in this grand event for all mankind, and bless the conference on the spot.