Regarding the screening of torchbearers, the determination of specific routes, and security guarantees - well, not every country has such safe things as it has been issued today. For example, in Turkey, there are many places where Alibaba and things are, especially in the junction of Turkey and Russia, where public security is even more messy.

Of course, countries along the way naturally know that the French attach great importance to the Olympics. If there is a problem with the torch relay or something on their territory, the French will most likely be very angry and the consequences will naturally be very serious. Therefore, although they are not very interested in these pagan activities, they have also been very dissatisfied with the various infiltrations of the French in North Africa during this period, especially the French have recently announced that the pirates of Barbary may threaten the safety of the torch's sea voyage from Italy to Spain. Therefore, the French demanded that the Turkish Sultan immediately issue a religious order, ordering the Barbary countries to immediately stop piracy at sea.

The pirate operations of the Barbary countries have a very long and glorious history. Since Heiding, they have relied on piracy to make a fortune in the Mediterranean. For a long time, the pirates in Barbary were the masters of the Mediterranean, and countries along the Mediterranean coast even need to pay protection fees to them.

As a long-term strategic ally of Ottoman Turkey, France has been rarely attacked by them. (The French provided them with various logistics services at that time) After the decline of Ottoman Turkey, its ability to control these nominal territories in North Africa also decreased greatly. In fact, the Barbary countries have only nominal surrendered to Ottoman Turkey, and in fact have become independent countries.

However, because the French navy gradually became stronger over the years, France still did not need to pay protection fees to the Barbary pirates. Later, the British, a maritime powerhouse, also obtained this right.

Strictly speaking, for many years, no French ships were attacked by Barbary pirates. The French made such an argument at this time, which was obviously a ill-intention to North Africa.

However, Turkey is not very good at disobeying the French's wishes and issued such an order - of course, whether the Barbary pirates obey or not is another problem. However, the Barbary pirates are not fools. Of course, they know that flirting with the French on this issue may have very serious consequences. Therefore, the Governor of Algeria even issued an order to prohibit any robbery at sea during the period from the Olympic torch relay to Italy and the torch appeared in Madrid.

But this command actually brought bigger problems.

The finances of the Barbary countries, including Algeria, Tripoli and Tunisia, rely almost entirely on sea plundering and the income from the collection of protection fees. Stopping the plunder will naturally greatly reduce income. How can you live that day? So because you are scheduled to stop maritime activities for a period of time, the Barbary pirates all feel that they should take advantage of the ban that has not been implemented yet and grab more.

So the Mediterranean became even more dangerous.

However, this danger has nothing to do with sitting on the world's most powerful five-star sea hotel, the latest and largest warship called the "Englando".

This is a pure steam-powered warship, and a real iron armored ship. It is different from the former "Free Trade" sold to the British. Her iron armor is not hung outside, but the entire ship is made of steel.

The standard displacement of this ship is close to 7,000 tons, and it uses three newly developed three-cylinder steam engines by the French, with a maximum speed of 16 knots. (The French's steam turbine research has not yet made enough progress.) This speed is a little slower than the latest "Free Trade", but the length and width ratio of this ship is smaller, so it sails more smoothly and has better comfort.

In addition to comfort, the ship's defense and firepower are also higher than the new "Free Trade" actually used as an attack ship. The ship has two turrets, one front and one back, each turret is equipped with a double-equipped 150mm rear-mounted retract cannon.

Due to the limitations of technology factors, the buffering device of the French cannon at this time was still very large and the efficiency was not high. However, with this device, the firing rate of the French naval guns was increased several times on the original basis. Considering the high speed and high defense of this warship, this has become a nightmare for the navies of other countries in this era.

Because of the increase in the efficiency of the artillery, the number of gunners, and the space occupied by the artillery have been greatly reduced, which has left the ship with a lot of space to improve accommodation conditions at sea. At the beginning of the design, the ship was considered to have often required to carry important people, so there is even a luxuriously decorated suite on the ship.

Of course, this suite was prepared for Napoleon, but the first one to use this suite was Polina.

This time Polina will go to Greece, Turkey's territory, where she is responsible for lighting the torch of the Olympics. This is the first time Polina has gone to a pagan country. Joseph and Napoleon are more or less worried. Only Lucien feels that this troublemaker only suffers losses and there is nothing to worry about.

"Can you still worry that Sullym III will fall in love with this lunatic and then bring her into his harem? Ah, if that's the case, then I really have to express sympathy for Sullym III." Lucien said heartlessly.

However, although Lucien said this, it is impossible for everyone to really relax their security for Polina. For example, elite troops were specially drawn from Napoleon's guards to be responsible for her security along the way, and a security expert named Belldong from the Ministry of Public Security was also transferred to protect Polina's safety.

Of course, Lucien was a little dissatisfied with Napoleon's choice to ask the Ministry of Public Security to prepare bodyguards for Polina. He felt that the guy from the Ministry of Public Security was obviously bad-hearted because this guy named Belldong was a young handsome guy.

However, Lucien did not think that the Ministry of Public Security's conspiracy could succeed. Because "Isn't it just a handsome guy? Polina has seen a lot." Besides, if Polina can really marry Polina, well, this young man Belldong is actually pretty good.

In the past, Napoleon always wanted to find a husband for Polina from his capable subordinates, but these capable young men were conservative and scared by Polina. For example, two years ago, Napoleon arranged for Dawu and Polina to go out for an outing together. As a result, Dawu suddenly claimed that he had fallen off the horse on a horse and was injured and could not come. Napoleon also visited him in person and found that Dawu was really injured. However, later, Napoleon's brother-in-law, Mura, who could not control his mouth, accidentally leaked his mouth, saying that when Dawu first saw Polina's appearance, he was actually looking forward to this matter. However, later he gradually heard about Polina's legend and hesitated. Later, he ran to Murah's house and inquired about Polina's things from Murah and Caroline, and then he fell and injured on the way back...

As for Joseph's students and assistants, Joseph thought it would be better not to harm others.

So, by the standards of this era, well, Polina is definitely a senior left-over woman. The whole family thinks that Fouche may be a handsome man, and that Belldong is probably a bait. But the whole family also thinks that if Polina eats that bait, there is nothing wrong with it.

Taking the warship of the "Engel-Berado", Polina and his friends came directly outside the Athens Port. Athens Port was once the most important port in the entire Mediterranean in ancient times, but at this time, its status was far from comparable to that of the past, so that this port did not even have a pier to allow the "Engel-Berado" to be parked. Therefore, although the "Engel-Berado" entered the port, it could only anchor in the port first and then transport people ashore with a small boat.

The "Inbelado" is equipped with a crane that can place lifeboats on the sea, and Polina and the others boarded the Greek coast in this way.

The French ambassador to Turkey and Turkey's local governor Ali Pasha came to the port to welcome Polina. Ali Pasha was surprised by the French's job of sending a woman to host the torch lighting of the Olympics, and at the same time he seemed reluctant to have to welcome a woman - even the woman in the most powerful family in the world. What's more, that woman was really not very decent.

For the sake of convenience, Polina wore a man's hunting suit. She tied her hair up and stuffed it into her high hat. She wore black high-top leather boots with spurs on her feet, and there were also a holster on both sides of the belt around her waist, with two revolvers inserted on it - in terms of diplomatic etiquette, this is indeed too dissatisfactory.

However, one of the powers of the strong is that they don’t have to care about the eyes of the weak. Besides, Polina has seen a lot of strange eyes, and even wanted to say: “I just like you who don’t like me, but you still have to be polite to me in a regular manner.”
Chapter completed!