The steamer between Manila and Shanghai is not a special passenger ship, but a mixed passenger and cargo ship. The upper deck of the ship carries passengers, while the lower deck loads cargo. The comfort of this mixed passenger and cargo ship is too far worse than that of a special passenger ship, and the driving on the sea is also more and more bumpy.

In those days of lack of entertainment, five consecutive days of sailing was boring, some athletes chose to get together to play poker, some athletes went to the ship's library to borrow a few books to read, and Chen Qiang's way of killing time was to lie in bed and enter the training space.

At the training space track and field training center, Chen Qiang planned to hire a coach, but saw two new pieces of information.

"Legendary Track and Field Coach, Hireable, Cost: 20 Points per Hour!"

"Legendary track and field athlete, hireable, consumption: 20 points per hour!"

Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, but a trace of joy rose in his heart.

In the past, Chen Qiang could only hire a special coach, and the consumption per hour was 10 points, but the special coach has been able to reach the level of the national team coach in the future.

"The cost of this legendary coach is much higher than that of a grandclass, and the level of training will definitely be higher. Perhaps the legendary coach can reach the level of the world's top coach in the future. Chen Qiang couldn't help but rejoice in his heart.

The world's top coaches are the most scarce resource in any sport, and they are definitely more scarce than the world's top athletes. In many cases, the world's top coaches are hard to come by.

For example, in the NBA league, there will always be more awesome players than awesome coaches.

In the NBA, those who can meet the standard of star players will definitely not fit in the East and West All-Stars every year, and those who can meet the standard of superstars will definitely not fit in the annual All-Star starters, and if you want to talk about superstars, you can also put together a set of starting lineups.

However, there are few coaches who can be called top coaches, and even many coaches with good records will be criticized by fans and question their coaching ability.

The same is true in other sports, behind a world-class athlete must have a world-class coach, but behind a world-class coach there may be several world-class athletes.

Chen Qiang also knew how difficult it was to meet a world-class coach, so when he saw the words "legendary coach", he was instantly pleasantly surprised. He knew he would never worry about coaching again.

Then Chen Qiang read the second piece of information.

"Legendary track and field athletes, can be hired, and the hiring price is the same as that of legendary coaches, it is 20 points, what is this for?"

Chen Qiang looked at the screen, and an option for a legendary athlete appeared next to him, and after Chen Qiang clicked in, a large number of athlete photos appeared in front of Chen Qiang, and the first in line was the photo of the future flyer, Usain Bolt.

In addition to Usain Bolt, photos of people like Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Variner, Kenenisa Bekele, Jonathan Edwards, Andrew Sylnov and others are also on it, all of which are world-class athletes in various sports, and Chen Qiang even saw a photo of Liu Xiang appear on it.

"These are the best athletes in the world, what's the use of hiring them with 20 points?"

Chen Qiang really couldn't understand what these legendary athletes were doing, so he simply decided to give it a try.

"Just hire Liu Xiang, he's the track and field athlete I'm most familiar with."

Chen Qiang directly chose to hire Liu Xiang.

In a blink of an eye, the door of the track and field training ground opened, and this time it was not the coach who walked in with a synthetic face, but a person who was exactly the same as Liu Xiangchang.

This "Liu Xiang" came to Chen Qiang and said in a mechanical voice: "Hello, I am the legendary athlete Liu Xiang, I can teach you my technical characteristics!" ”

Chen Qiang suddenly realized.

Of course, this "Liu Xiang" is not the real Liu Xiang, but a virtual "Liu Xiang" generated by the training space, and the "Liu Xiang" generated by this training space can actually be regarded as a coach, but the content he teaches is not the extensive sports technology, but the 110-meter hurdles skills exclusive to "Liu Xiang".

Every athlete has their own technical characteristics, especially the world's top athletes, the technical characteristics are even more distinct and unique, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are unique.

If you can master the technical characteristics of a certain world-class athlete, it will be obvious that you will improve your strength. The unique technical characteristics of these athletes are like the so-called unique skills in martial arts, such as Li Xunhuan's Xiao Li Flying Knife, Lu Xiaofeng's Lingxi Finger, Ye Gucheng's Flying Immortals, etc., once they are used, they are the existence of a killer move.

If the 100-meter sprinter had Usain Bolt's technique, the triple jumper had Edwards' technique, and the long-distance runner had Bekele's technique, it would be difficult for the athlete to do well if he didn't want to!

What's more, this is still track and field, if one day in the future, Chen Qiang can unlock legendary athletes in other sports, such as Federer in tennis, Pele in football, Jordan in basketball, and then learn their technical characteristics, then he can definitely dominate this era!

Chen Qiang instantly realized the role of these legendary athletes.

"In the future, if I reach a bottleneck in a certain event, I can hire a legendary athlete and learn their technical characteristics, and maybe I can improve it." Chen Qiang thought to himself in his heart.

However, since "Liu Xiang" was invited, Chen Qiang could not waste these 20 points, although Chen Qiang was not a professional 110-meter hurdles athlete, Chen Qiang still decided to practice with "Liu Xiang" for an hour.

In terms of hurdles, Chen Qiang is not proficient, but he has also practiced, at least in terms of technical movements, Chen Qiang can be regarded as proficient.

Many of the track and field athletes from domestic sports schools are "all-round" athletes, who will be exposed to a variety of track and field sports when they are young, running, jumping, hurdling, throwing, etc., and will not carry out special exercises until they are a little older. For example, Liu Xiang once won the second place in the all-around event of the youth track and field competition.

In his previous life, Chen Qiang, when he was young, also practiced other track and field events such as hurdles, high jump, and discus.

Moreover, Chen Qiang has a very sufficient theoretical knowledge reserve about the 110-meter hurdles, of course, this is also due to Liu Xiang's gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics.

When Liu Xiang won the Olympic gold medal, it was really a national jubilation, especially in the sports world, after all, this is the first gold medal won by the Chinese in sprint sports, not only a breakthrough for the Chinese, but also a breakthrough for the yellow race.

Overnight, the Chinese seemed to have found the direction to develop Chinese athletics.

At that time, there was a wave of "hurdle fever" in China, in the major sports schools, originally did not pay much attention to hurdles, because of Liu Xiang's gold, so that the 110-meter hurdles became the most popular project, many sports school students regard Liu Xiang as an idol, hoping that they can become the second Liu Xiang, there are countless sprinting, long jump, all changed careers to practice the 110-meter hurdles.

Sports teams at all levels have also begun to regard the 110-meter hurdles as a key project, giving financial and policy support, hoping to cultivate athletes like Liu Xiang to stand on the world stage and win glory for the country.

The same is true in colleges and universities, those colleges with sports majors, the status of the 110-meter hurdles project has risen sharply, and the 110-meter hurdles in sports colleges is unprecedentedly hot.

At that time, Chen Qiang, as a professor at the University of Physical Education, also specialized in the research of the 110-meter hurdles, which was mainly because sports institutions at all levels have increased their support for the 110-meter hurdles project, and the research on the 110-meter hurdles is also easy to get funding.

Therefore, Chen Qiang has a more in-depth study of the 110-meter hurdles, and Chen Qiang also hopes that more outstanding athletes like Liu Xiang will emerge in China, of course, even for the sake of money, Chen Qiang will not refuse such research.

To get back to the point, Chen Qiang followed Liu Xiang to practice the 110-meter hurdles for an hour, but he only learned some scratches. This kind of technical characteristics of the world's top athletes may not be learned in a lifetime, and it is not bad to learn a little bit in an hour.

……

After a five-day voyage, Chen Qiang arrived in Shanghai.

Although the Far Eastern Games had been forcibly disbanded by Japan, when the Chinese delegation returned to Shanghai, it was still warmly welcomed by the people of Shanghai.

Only this time, the official welcome specifications are far less than the previous one.

Four years ago, at the Far Eastern Games, the Ministry of Education sent Deputy Director Duan from Nanjing to Shanghai to greet the Chinese delegation, but this time the Ministry of Education only sent a telegram of encouragement, and the Shanghai Municipal Government was responsible for the reception.

Chen Qiang couldn't help but begin to sigh at the reality of Nanjing, they knew that there would be no Far Eastern Games in the future, and these athletes would be of little use, so they didn't even bother to do the façade project.

Chen Qiang did not plan to stay in Shanghai either, he bought a train ticket and returned directly to Tianjin.

Tianjin is still very prosperous, and the traders on the railway station come and go, carrying large bags and small bags, shuttling on the platform, in addition to the Tianjin accent, such as the accent of Beiping, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and other places are also common.

Chen Qiang found a rickshaw and planned to return to Nankai, and the markets he encountered on the road were also very lively.

"I haven't come back for more than half a year, and this Tianjin is much more lively than before." Chen Qiang said.

"That's what you say, sir." The coachman continued: "After the beginning of spring this year, the number of people who come to Tianjin to do business has indeed increased, and they mainly come to buy goods. ”

"Restocking? What to buy? Has a new factory been opened in Tianjin? Chen Qiang asked subconsciously.

"How can there be a new factory! It's all private goods. The coachman replied.

"In this way, the market is prosperous because there are more smugglers!" Chen Qiang smiled helplessly, the active market was all due to the rampant smuggling, which showed how failed the rulers at that time were.

"What are you smuggling?" Chen Qiang then asked.

The coachman replied, "There are too many, oil and cloth, perfume, flour, alcohol, dyes, cigarettes, tires, wire, soda, wax, nails, everything, and I heard that there are also tobacco and munitions!" The coachman paused, and then said: "This private goods are also really cheap, such as sugar, if you usually buy it, it costs 22 yuan a load, and the private goods are only 10 yuan a load, which is half cheaper. ”

Chen Qiang gasped, according to the coachman's description, the smuggling situation in Tianjin is already very serious, if the smuggling is not cracked down, it will not be long before the domestic national enterprises will fall a large area. Not to mention anything else, such as the textile industry, sugar industry, cigarette industry, flour industry, etc., domestic national enterprises are certainly not the opponents of foreign enterprises, and many emerging national enterprises will also be nipped in the bud.

"If there is more smuggling, won't the customs investigate it?" Chen Qiang asked again.

"There are hundreds of smuggling firms in Tianjin, and they are all opened by Japanese, and many of them are in the Japanese concession. And the grandsons of the customs also made a lot of money in it! The driver said disdainfully.

Chen Qiang nodded suddenly, even a coachman knew about smuggling, so how could those government officials in Tianjin not know? But smuggling is still so rampant, which shows that the officials in Tianjin are covering up the smuggling, and they must have taken a piece of the pie.

Considering the Japanese background behind the smugglers, Chen Qiang has realized that such large-scale smuggling is not just as simple as obtaining economic profits, but that Japan has launched an economic invasion of China.

Tianjin is a port city, there will be smuggling before, but it is not very serious, Japan wants to smuggle goods to Tianjin, it is also a very difficult thing, and now Japan has occupied the northeast, Tianjin is in the Bohai Bay, Japan wants to carry out large-scale smuggling to Tianjin, it has become very easy.

Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of three years ago, when China took back its tariff autonomy, and the whole country was so jubilant that Tianjin people even took to the streets to celebrate. However, the fact that smuggling in Tianjin is completely out of control shows that even if the government is given tariff autonomy, they will not be able to manage it well. In the past, when the British were in charge of China's customs, there was no such serious smuggling and corruption.

Thinking of the British, Chen Qiang couldn't help but sigh again.

It stands to reason that smuggling is rampant in China, and the biggest loss is Britain in addition to China. The British worked hard to set up customs in China, not to promote the spirit of helpfulness, but to better dump British products into China, and in fact the Chinese market has been flooded with British products in the past few years.

Obviously, the smuggled goods from Japan will affect the sales of British products and squeeze the market for British products, and Britain will inevitably react to Japanese smuggling. However, Britain in the mid-thirties was pursuing a policy of appeasement, supporting Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia, with the aim of targeting the Soviet Union. It was precisely for this reason that Britain did not strictly stop Japanese smuggling, but indulged it greatly.

"Sure enough, facts have proved that to safeguard the interests of the country, you still have to rely on yourself, and foreigners can't count on it!" Chen Qiang sighed secretly in his heart.

……

The rickshaw pulled Chen Qiang and walked on the streets of Tianjin, looking at the familiar street scene around him, the feeling of going home in Chen Qiang's heart became stronger and stronger.

"I'm finally back, take a rest today, and go to Yuqing Pool tomorrow for a good bubble bath!" Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

At this moment, a cheer rang out from not far away.

"Good!"

"Master Gu, come on!"

"Big brother, come on! That foreigner is definitely not your opponent! ”

Chen Qiang looked at the sound and saw that a group of people were surrounding in the direction where the voice came from.

"That's Zhongshan Park, right? Why did so many people gather, and did you have any special events today? Chen Qiang asked.

"Sir, you're right! This is really new! The coachman said, deliberately slowed down, and said: "It is said that a foreigner came from Australia, this person is a master, and he is very good at light skills, so he set up a competition in Zhongshan Park to test light skills and challenge the martial arts people in Tianjin!" ”

"Foreigners? Foreigners will also work lightly? Still challenging Tianjin Wulin? Chen Qiang's eyes widened in surprise.

Chen Qiang still remembers that during the Spring Festival three years ago, when he helped Wuzhou Pharmacy to engage in sales, he once performed a sprint at the temple fair, but was found fault by a group of light masters in Tianjin, and a wave of gourd babies came to save his grandfather.

Now that Chen Qiang heard the word "light work" again, a different taste rose in his heart.

And what made Chen Qiang feel even more strange was that a foreigner who could do light work came out! And dare to go to Tianjin to challenge!

That's! directly refreshed Chen Qiang's three views!

Chen Qiang's curiosity was also successfully aroused, and he planned to go and see what was going on.

So Chen Qiang motioned to the coachman to pull the car over, then gave the coachman some money, asked the coachman to wait for him in place, and then walked into the crowd. Chen Qiang wanted to see what kind of foreigner he dared to compete with the martial arts people in Tianjin.

Chen Qiang squeezed into the crowd, and he saw two rows of wooden crossbars more than one meter high in the open space in front of him.

In the far north, there is a foreigner with black curly hair, a big nose and blue eyes, and a height of about one meter and eight, and next to the foreigner, there is a Chinese, dressed shortly, with a very strong figure, looking like a person who practices martial arts.

Chen Qiang looked at this Chinese carefully and found that this person was somewhat familiar, and when he heard someone in the crowd shouting "Master Brother Come on", Chen Qiang suddenly remembered that this person was Gu Tianzhi, the master brother of the "Zhenwu Sports Association"!

When Chen Qiang performed at the temple fair, a martial arts person surnamed Zhao came to Chen Qiang to challenge, and Chen Qiang won the one surnamed Zhao, and as a result, a senior brother was provoked, which was this Gu Tianzhi.

"How is this Gu Tianzhi! Why does he like to compete with others so much! ”

Seeing Gu Tianzhi again, Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, and he opened his mouth to ask the middle-aged man in his forties beside him: "Uncle, are these wooden poles used for?" ”

The middle-aged man glanced at Chen Qiang, and then said, "Housheng, you just came over, right?" I'm telling you, they're trying to do it! This wooden shelf is more than a light function. ”

"How do you try to do light work?" Chen Qiang asked again.

"There are ten rows of wooden shelves from north to south, and the northernmost and southernmost lines are drawn respectively, starting from the northernmost line, running to the southernmost line, and crossing these ten wooden shelves in the middle, and not knocking down the wooden shelves, whoever runs from the northernmost line to the southernmost line first, will win!" The middle-aged man explained.

"I see!" Chen Qiang pretended to understand.

However, in Chen Qiang's heart, he began to complain: "What kind of light skill competition is this, this is the 110-meter hurdle at all!" This Gu Tianzhi shouldn't be the same as three years ago, planning to use his light skills to run the 110-meter hurdles, right? ”

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