The Turks and the French then held 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 was the gentleman's agreement without writing.

The first thing that was implemented was the training of the Turkish army.

Sending the Turkish army to France for training is too big and cannot be kept secret, which may cause many unnecessary misunderstandings. Moreover, sending it to France for training will cost a lot of money. Although the French are not afraid of anyone making misunderstandings, the Turks are still very worried about the Russians' misunderstandings. As for the issue of spending too much money, the French are naturally not worried, but if Turkey and Türkiye are so rich, do they still have to make such an idea?

Considering the need for confidentiality, the training location was selected on islands in the Mediterranean. After research, they set the training base on Rhode Island in the Mediterranean.

Rhodes Island was once the forefront of the Christian world's resistance to Turkey in the Mediterranean. The Knights of the Hospital once had a great war with Türkiye here. There is still a castle left by the Knights of the Hospital that year.

Although it has been hundreds of years since the Battle of Rhode Island, the shore fortifications of those Barbary pirate countries are actually not particularly different from the old Rhode Island brides. Pashas of these pirate countries are more willing to spend money on pleasure and their ships.

Of course, on their old-fashioned bulwarks, the artillery set up is no longer the old thing from the Battle of Rhode Island. According to the interrogation of captured pirates, some important turrets have been replaced with new styles of front-mounted rifled guns produced in France.

Generally speaking, warships cannot directly confront the turrets. In the original history, Lord Nelson of the United Kingdom even said this: "A turret with one cannon is enough to fight a warship with one hundred cannons."

This is because, compared to warships, the turret has some advantages:

First of all, the turret cannot be sunk. If a warship wants to destroy the cannons on the turret, it is only expected that its shells can accurately hit the opponent's cannons. However, the warship can be destroyed, so the cannons on the turret only need to hit the warship, which is enough.

Moreover, the warships are shaking constantly, and the turrets are solid and unmovable unless they face earthquakes. This makes the shooting accuracy of the cannons on the turrets far exceed that of the naval guns. In addition, the cannons on the turrets have basically been tested for grids in the nearby seas, so the hit accuracy is even more terrifying. Generally speaking, warships and turrets fire at each other, unless the gap between the cannons and personnel training between the two sides is too big, just like in another time and space, when the Qing Dynasty first encountered the British cannon ship. Otherwise, the turrets can always take advantage.

However, these are not a problem for today's French navy, because the French-made rifled guns made by the Barbary pirates cannot penetrate the armor of France's new warships at all. Even in this world, at least at present, there are no cannons that can penetrate the armor of the "Engel-Berado" warship. The same is true for the "Engel-Berado" own cannon.

But this does not mean that no weapons can threaten the warship "Englando". At least, the British and French have enough weapons to sink her - mines. And no one knows whether the British sold some of this to those Barbary pirates. Therefore, when the French Navy performs missions, it also needs to prepare some brave and fearless minesweepers. Well, considering the minesweeping level of that era, it may be more appropriate to call it a minesweeper.

The instructors from the French army also came to Rhode Island. Under their command, the Turks first transformed the forts left by the Knights of the Hospital, and roughly turned them into the harbor forts of the Barbary countries.

During this process, the Turks also sent envoys to those Barbary countries.

This is also a convention. Although several Barbary pirate countries are basically completely independent countries, they still have a lot of contact with Turkey. The two sides have a lot of contact with the messengers. And at this time, those Barbary pirate countries also really hope to find out the true meaning of the French through Turkey and see if they can use any way to ease their relationship with the French. They don’t know that the people they trust who believe in the same god have already planned to sell them for money.

However, the Ottoman system made their confidentiality poorly. The matter of Sultan Selim III's training of a new army in Rhode Island was soon known by others in Turkey. For these people, the strengthening of the power of the Sultan may not be a good thing.

These people do not have many ways to oppose Sudan at present. Because this is within the power of Sudan after all. They are just surprised where the Sudan got the money from to train the new army. You should know that training the army is very expensive. And they are very clear about the economic situation in Turkey. So they also know that Sulim III could not get so much money without disturbing them. Considering the French instructors and French weapons, they had a guess, that Sudan must have borrowed a lot of money from the French. Of course, the French have always been profitable and cannot afford to get early, and there must be some reason for them to lend money to Sudan.

Thinking about this, the more you think, the more you think, the more you feel, the more you feel, even to the point where Sudan plans to carry out a major anti-corruption campaign in China? (Anyway, if the senior officials in Turkey have investigated, there will be enough economic problems to behead him). Then he treats the guys he doesn't like when he thinks about it and arrests them as corrupt officials, and then uses the confiscated stolen money to repay the loan and fill the treasury...

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

Whether it is Austria or Russia, they are all enemies of Turkey. So they certainly don’t want to see Turkey become stronger. They will definitely take some measures to drag Turkey back. As long as they take some action, well, His Majesty the Sultan’s power will be restrained, and then, they will have time to respond.

In Paris, a little further south to the main stadium is the original King's Hunting Ground. King Louis XVI had two hobbies at that time, one was to make various locks, and the other was to hunt. Even when the day that determined his life's future - 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 this.

After the revolution, especially after the king was overthrown, no one cared about the Wang family hunting ground, and the animals in the hunting ground naturally entered the belly of nearby villagers. Nowadays, this place is naturally public land managed by the government, and the equestrian and shooting competitions of the Olympic Games are arranged here.

Now the cement road leading here has been paved long ago, and the venue and stands for equestrian and shooting competitions have been built. Some French people participating in these two events have naturally received preferential treatment for training here in advance. This is also one of the natural advantages of the hosts, and they have more time to adapt to the venue.

Polina came here today with her pure-blooded horse named Poppy. A few days ago, she took Belldong to identify several people at home. In order to let Joseph see clearly that Belldong meets his conditions, she also asked Belldong to have a little beard and wear a low-collared dress - so that Belldong's Adam's apple could be clearly exposed.

In general, everything went smoothly. Whether it was Joseph or Napoleon, they were quite satisfied with Polina's male lead. What's more, Bellton was not a second-level disabled person who needed to wear high-height shoes. He also had a good facial features and looked very sunny. Not to mention, their children should also look cute in the future. In addition, there seems to be no family genetic disease (Lucian has investigated this long ago), so the brothers had no objection. As for Polina's mother, it was really the mother-in-law who looked at her son-in-law, and she liked her more the more she looked at her son-in-law.

Since Polina fulfilled her promise, the brothers naturally gave her a green light to participate in the competition. So Polina officially became one of the athletes representing France in the Olympics.

Since he agreed to Polina participate in the competition, he naturally had to find a way to get Polina to win the championship as much as possible. Otherwise, it would be better not to participate. For this reason, Joseph also paid for Polina and bought a very good British thoroughbred horse.

The British purebred horse is the fastest-running and best-bounce horse in the world. It is more expensive to raise and most people cannot afford to play with this thing. But for the Bonaparte family, this is not a problem.

With such a purebred horse, Polina has a foundation to win the championship. In addition, Polina herself has a clear advantage, that is, her weight is relatively small. This also helps make the horse run faster and jump higher.

What's more important is to be familiar with the venue. From now on, Polina can practice constantly on the formal competition venue, so that both she and Polibi will be very familiar with the venue and can perform at their best. What's more, in the obstacle race, the distance and height of the obstacles are optimized for Polina and her horses.

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 accumulation of nitrate. Every time a shot is fired, it is a money-making process. 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 live ammunition. If soldiers in the army of some countries do not encounter real war, they will not be able to shoot dozens of live ammunitions from enlistment to retirement.

But for people like Polina who have money ability, this is not a problem. So if she shoots more live ammunition, her marksmanship will naturally be good. However, according to the instructor who trained her, Polina's shooting talent is actually not good. However, if she is not talented enough, she can still use money to make up.

In addition to the advantages of the venue and coordination, especially the two-way flying saucer. How to launch the flying saucer and what angle to launch in that direction is already determined for Polina, so as long as she plays more, her hit rate will naturally be much cheaper than those foreign players who came here a few days ago and who did not have more than 45 minutes to adapt to the venue before the game.

As brothers, Joseph Napoleon and others could help Polina. It is said that a certain student of Joseph invented a very powerful excitatory drug. After using it, he could significantly improve his sports skills. Joseph once wanted to give it to... Of course, it was for Polina's horse. Anyway, if there are advantages in medicine and pharmaceutical technology, it would not be necessary to go to the Olympics. Wouldn't you be sorry for the word "modern" of the modern Olympics?

However, when the experiment was conducted on other horses, the horse was overly excited, resulting in a decrease in coordination and compliance. The final conclusion was that although the horse's athletic performance could significantly increase, it increased the risk of accidents. Then Joseph shot him without hesitation - no, he should have shot this event temporarily. This also made the first modern Olympic Games called "the only clean Olympic Games" by later generations.

Of course, asking Polina to prepare for the Olympics also brought another benefit, that is, she was discovered to be in and out of entertainment venues such as "Mold Moon".

Time gradually passed in this process. The Olympic flame began to get closer and closer to France. In the north, Victor accompanied the Olympic flame to reach Petersburg, the capital of Russia. Petersburg held a large-scale relay for the city to celebrate. After staying in Petersburg for three days, the flame boarded the ship and traveled to other countries through the Baltic Sea.

On the other side, the torch had left Spain and took a steam sail hybrid passenger ship called the Hermes from the French to North America. Calculate the time and should have arrived in the United States now.

In addition, according to the report of Pravda, the Pope also officially signed up for the Olympics. (This is also the only time in the history of the Vatican to participate in the Olympics) and at that time, the Pope's Covenant will personally lead the Pope's delegation to Paris to participate in this grand event for all mankind, and bless the conference on the spot.
Chapter completed!