The Turks and the French then engaged in a series of negotiations on a number of specific issues, and then the two sides reached a formal agreement on a number of things. Of course, the most crucial part is still the unwritten gentleman's agreement.

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

Sending the Turkish army to France for training is too big to be kept secret, which may cause a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings, and it costs a lot of money to send it to France for training. Although the French were not afraid of misunderstanding, the Turks were still worried that the Russians would misunderstand. As for the problem of spending a lot of money, the French are naturally less worried, but Turkey, if Turkey is so rich, it still needs to fight such an idea?

In view of the need for secrecy, the location of the training was chosen on an island in the Mediterranean. After research, they set the training base on Rhodes Island in the Mediterranean.

Rhodes was once the frontier of Christendom's resistance to Turkey in the Mediterranean. The Knights Hospitaller once had a major battle with the Turks here. There is still a fortress left behind by the Knights Hospitaller.

Although it has been hundreds of years since the Battle of Rhodes, the shore fortifications of those Barbary pirate nations are not very different from the old bastions of Rhode Island. The Pasha of these pirate nations preferred to spend their money on pleasure and on their ships.

Of course, the artillery erected on their old forts is no longer the old stuff of the Battle of Rhode Island. According to the interrogation of the captured pirates, some important batteries have been replaced with new, French-made front-loading rifled guns.

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

This is because, compared to warships, the battery has several advantages:

First of all, it is impossible for the battery to be sunk. If a warship wants to destroy the cannon on the battery, it can only expect its shells to accurately hit the opponent's cannon. But warships can be destroyed, so the cannons on the turrets only need to be able to hit the warship, and it is enough.

And the warship was constantly shaking, and the battery was solid and immovable unless it faced an earthquake. This allowed the guns on the batteries to also shoot with a much higher accuracy than the ship guns. In addition, the cannons on the fort have basically been tested with a grid for the nearby sea area, so the hit accuracy is even more terrifying. Generally speaking, warships and batteries fire at each other, unless the gap between the cannons and personnel training of the two sides is too large, just like in another time and space, when I first encountered the British artillery ships in the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, the battery will always take advantage.

However, none of this was a problem for the French navy today, because the French-made front-loading rifled guns in the hands of the Barbary pirates could not penetrate the armor of the new French warships. Even, in this world, at least for the time being, there are no cannons capable of penetrating the armor of the battleship "Anbelator". The same is true of the own cannons of the "Imperator".

But this does not mean that there are no weapons that can threaten the battleship "Imperator", at least, the British and the French have enough weapons to sink her - mines. And no one knows if the British sold some of this to the Barbary pirates. Therefore, when the French Navy is on duty, it also needs to prepare some brave and fearless minesweepers. Well, given the level of minesweeping of that era, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a minesweeper.

Instructors from the French army also came to Rhodes, and under their command, the Turks first transformed the forts left by the Knights Hospitaller into roughly the harbor batteries of the Barbary countries.

In the process, the Turks also sent emissaries to those Barbary countries.

This is also the usual practice, although several Barbary pirate states are basically completely independent countries, but they still have a lot of dealings with Turkey. There was also a great deal of correspondence between the envoys of the two sides. And at this time, in fact, those Barbary pirate countries also very much hope to find out the true meaning of the French through Turkey, and see if they can ease their relations with the French in any way. They didn't know that the people they trusted who believed in the same god were already planning to sell them for money.

However, the Ottoman system made secrecy rather poor, and the fact that Sultan Selim III had trained a new army on Rhodes soon became known to others in Turkey. For these people, the strengthening of the Sultan's command is not necessarily a good thing.

These people do not have much to do against the Sudan at the moment. Because after all, this is within the power of the Sultan. They were just surprised where the Sultan got the money to train the new army. You know, training the army is very expensive. And what is the state of the economy in Turkey, they know very well. So they also knew very well that Sultan Selim III simply could not get so much money without alarming them. Considering the French instructors, the French weapons, they had a guess that the Sultan must have borrowed a lot of money from the French. Of course, the French have always been unprofitable, and there must be some reason why they are willing to lend money to the Sultan.

Thinking about it like this, I can't help but think about it more and more crookedly, and even think about whether the Sultan is planning to carry out a big anti-corruption operation in the country, (anyway, the high-ranking officials of Turkey, as long as they investigate, there will definitely be enough economic problems to kill their heads) and then arrest and behead all the guys who he wants to look unpleasant as corrupt officials, and then use the confiscated stolen money to repay the loan and fill the treasury......

Of course, these people could not help but be vigilant, and as they prepared, they revealed the news to others, such as the Austrians and Russians.

Both Austria and Russia are enemies of Turkey. So they definitely don't want to see Turkey get stronger, they will definitely do something to drag Turkey back, and as long as they take some action, well, His Majesty's power will be pinned, and then, they will have time to react.

In Paris, a little further south of the main stadium is the original royal hunting ground. At that time, King Louis XVI always had two hobbies, one was making various locks, and the other was hunting. Even when, on the day that his life was decided, the women of Paris rushed to Versailles, and finally forced his family to relocate to Paris. King Louis XVI was hunting here when he learned about it.

After the revolution, especially after the king was overthrown, the royal hunting ground was naturally no longer in charge, and the animals in the hunting ground naturally entered the stomachs of the nearby villagers. Today, it is naturally public land managed by the government, and the equestrian and shooting competitions of the Olympic Games are also arranged here.

Today, the concrete road leading to it has been paved for a long time ago, and the arenas and stands for the equestrian and shooting competitions have been erected. Naturally, some of the French who participated in both programs were given the advantage of training here in advance. This is also one of the natural advantages of the hosts, who have more time to settle into the venue.

Polina arrived today with one of her thoroughbreds named Bobby. A few days ago, she took Beldon to examine a few people in the family, and in order to let Joseph see that Beldon met his qualifications, she also made Beldon grow a mustache and wear a low-necked dress so that Beldon's Adam's apple could be clearly exposed.

In general, everything went well, and both Joseph and Napoleon were quite satisfied with the fact that Polina had brought back a man. What's more, Beldon is not bad, he is tall, and he is not a second-degree cripple who needs to wear inner height shoes; And the facial features are upright, and he looks very sunny. If nothing else, their children should be cute in the future. In addition, there doesn't seem to be any family genetic disease (this Lucien has already investigated), so the elder brothers have no opinion. As for Polina's mother, it's really the mother-in-law who looks at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at it, the more she likes it.

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 who represented France at the Olympic Games.

Since Polina was allowed to participate, it was natural to find a way to let Polina win the championship as much as possible. Otherwise, it is better not to participate. For this, Joseph also paid for a very good British thoroughbred horse for Polina.

British thoroughbreds are the fastest and best bouncing horses in the world. It's just that it's more expensive to raise, and ordinary people can't afford to play with this thing at all. But for the Bonapartes, none of this was a problem.

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

In addition, more important is the familiarity with the venue. From now on, Polina will be able to practice on the official competition venue all the time, so that both she and Bobby will be very familiar with the field and will be able to perform at their best. What's more, in the obstacle race, the distance and height of the obstacle are optimized for Polina and her horses.

In addition to horse racing, Polina also competes 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 was no technology to synthesize ammonia, all gunpowder came from expensive natural saltpeter or more expensive nitrate. Every time a shot is fired, it is a money, and ordinary people, even if they have a gun in their hands, can only practice aiming with an empty gun, and they don't have much opportunity to shoot live ammunition at all. In some countries, if the soldiers in the army do not encounter a real war, they will not be able to fire dozens of live ammunition from enlistment to retirement.

But for someone like Polina, who has the ability to make money, this is not a problem. So she fights a lot with live ammunition, and her marksmanship is naturally not bad. However, according to the instructor who trained her, Polina's shooting talent is actually not very good. But if you don't have enough talent, you can still use money to make it up.

Coupled with the advantages of the field and the advantages of coordination, well, especially the two-way skeet, how to launch the skeet, and at what angle to launch in that direction, for Polina, it has already been decided, so as long as you play more, the hit rate is naturally much cheaper than those foreign players who came here a few days before the official game and did not have more than 45 minutes to adapt to the venue before the game.

As an elder brother, Joseph Napoleon, that's all they can do to help Polina. It is said that one of Joseph's students invented a rather potent stimulant drug, which, after use, can significantly improve motor skills, and Joseph once wanted to give ...... Of course, it was for Polina's horse, but if it had an advantage in medicine and pharmaceutical technology, it wouldn't be in the Olympics if it didn't have to be in the Olympics, wouldn't it be sorry for the word "modern" in the modern Olympics?

However, when experiments were carried out on other horses, there was a problem that the horses were overly excited, resulting in a decrease in coordination and obedience. In the end, it was concluded that while it would improve the horse's athletic performance significantly, it would increase the risk of accidents, and Joseph did not hesitate to shoot the event—no, it should have been temporary. As a result, the first modern Olympic Games were later called "the only clean Olympic Games".

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

Time passed in the process. The Olympic flame is also starting to get closer and closer to France, and in the north, Viktor has arrived in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, with the Olympic flame. Petersburg celebrated with a large-scale relay of the flame around the city, which stayed in Petersburg for three days before boarding ships and heading across the Baltic Sea to other countries.

On the other hand, the flame had already left Spain and was on a French steam-sail hybrid passenger ship called the Hermes, heading for North America.

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