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"If you want to blame someone, you can only blame the fact that your flags are so boring. They use the same old colors over and over again."

Liu Bohong looked at the sinking Russian gunboat with pity, and then ordered the guns to continue firing.

"Boom!"

The port was hit by an unexpected bombardment. Valeo on the top of the mountain was stunned. He didn't know what was happening on the dock.

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Just when he was about to order all the soldiers to temporarily flee the dock and retreat into the city.

The deafening sound of artillery fire could also be heard from the land behind him.

"Boom!"

Valeo's eyes widened, then he slowly turned his head in disbelief.

At some point, the Chinese troops who were originally building fortifications were charging densely along the valley.

The cannons led the way, and the army followed closely with bayonets and rifles.

Seeing this scene, Valeo closed his eyes in pain.

...

On June 1896, 6, the Russian city of Vladivostok met its end.

And Vladivostok, China's homeland, has been reborn!

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Chapter 332: Olympics Over, Secret War Begins

The fierce war in the Far East seems to have not yet spread to Europe, and here it still looks prosperous and peaceful.

The Olympic Games, which have attracted the attention of the whole of Europe, are already halfway through. Newspapers across Europe are talking about this ongoing event that has not been held for a thousand years.

People in taverns from various countries also shared the interesting things they learned.

First of all, in this Olympics, Americans emerged as a strong force, surpassing the Greeks who had the largest number of participants and having the most first place winners.

As the competition draws to a close, Americans have taken first place nine times, while Greeks have only taken first place seven times.

But the Greeks were not satisfied because Greece had never won first place in the track and field events that they valued most.

It was not until the start of the marathon that Greek Spiridon Ruiz won the second place in the 6km marathon for Greece and won a silver medal.

Yes, there were no gold medals in the first Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee believed that gold was often associated with gambling games and was very tacky.

Therefore, the champion can only receive a silver medal + olive wreath.

The runner-up receives a bronze medal and a laurel wreath.

As for the third place, he can only get a lonely bronze medal.

However, compared with the Americans dominating the medal list and the Greeks failing to win a track and field championship, what is more eye-catching is the appearance of several yellow-skinned people.

In this Olympics, if we don't count the countries that withdrew midway, there were only 9 countries in total, 8 of which were white countries, and only one, China, was a yellow country.

When several Chinese people marched into the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens holding the yellow sun and twelve-star red flag, the attention of the 8 people in the stadium was attracted by this unfamiliar flag.

In 1896, there were only 15 people in Athens, but the number of spectators attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games reached 8.

Even though there were tourists from various countries, nearly half of the people of Athens participated in this event.

When they saw China enter, they whispered to each other and asked the people around them what country the flag represented.

When the Greeks heard tourists from Britain and Germany say that these people came from the far East, from China, they all expressed confusion.

It's strange, don't Chinese people have a long braid behind their heads that looks like a pig's tail?

Why do these Chinese people have short black hair and no braids?

When they were confused, these Greeks slowly recalled the news about "political changes in the Far East and the establishment of a new republic" that they had vaguely seen in the newspapers some time ago.

Only then did they realize that China had become a republic.

It is incredible that a republic was established in such a corrupt and backward place.

In fact, this is inevitable. In these nineteen centuries, most European people were absolutely Eurocentric.

The Greeks are no exception. Apart from the Balkans and a few countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Turkey, they hardly care about the affairs of other countries.

They would think that South America was still a Spanish colony and would not be able to distinguish between China and Japan.

Even the small Eastern European country of Bulgaria has a stronger presence in their eyes than China.

In other words, it was not until they saw Chinese people appear in the Olympic Games with their own eyes that they transformed China from an abstract symbol into a concrete country.

However, these Europeans soon forgot about China's participation in the competition.

Because the Chinese have consistently achieved last-place results in swimming, marathon and other events.

At the end of the 19th century, there was no such saying as "competition first, friendship second" or "the last place winner will be applauded by the audience."

This was an era when social Darwinism was prevalent, and the Olympics was a naked exercise in survival of the fittest.

So, when the Chinese always ranked last, Europeans lost interest in continuing to understand.

Just like in later Olympic Games, a Chinese spectator would not take the initiative to pay attention to India's performance.

The same was true for these Europeans, who quickly turned their attention to their own athletes.

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However, a few days after the Olympics, what all Europeans did not expect was that the Chinese actually won an award!

In the weightlifting event, a Chinese man named Huo Yuanjia won first place and won the silver medal and olive crown.

At this time, weightlifting was not divided into clean and jerk and snatch as in later generations, but was simply and crudely divided into one-handed lift and two-handed lift.

Also, there are no weight class differences in powerlifting.

No distinction is made whether the competitor weighs 50kg or 100kg.

With his height of 1.72 meters and weight of 90 kg, Huo Yuanjia lifted 75 kg with one hand, surpassing the British Lloyd Elliott and won the first place.

A yellow man won the championship in a sports event dominated by white people, and he was an extremely influential weightlifting champion.

There is no doubt that Huo Yuanjia immediately became the focus of this Olympic Games.

Countless British, American and Greek reporters wanted to interview him, asking him about the situation in China and his feelings about winning the championship. At one point, they even blocked him from leaving the room.

Of course, the Chinese winning the championship also aroused the dissatisfaction of some Russian journalists. They first made wild remarks, claiming that Huo Yuanjia had cheated and wanted to teach him a lesson.

Then they went around claiming that this was a sign of the Yellow Peril returning!

It is also said that the Chinese will copy the route of the Turks and Mongols, invade Europe from the Ukrainian steppes and the Anatolian Peninsula, and repeat the fall of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

Naturally, no one took such a joke seriously.

The Yellow Peril theory does have a certain market in Europe, but most of those who hold this view are concentrated in Russia.

Because Russia wanted to package itself as the "pioneer of the white world" and use the power of all of Europe to fight against the Chinese and Japanese in the Far East.

Outside of Russia, the Yellow Peril theory is just a conspiracy theory.

Some politicians may believe in the Yellow Peril Theory, such as German Emperor Wilhelm II, but they will not turn it into a code of conduct for their government towards China.

Therefore, when most Europeans heard some of the Russians' "fantastic" remarks at the Olympics, they did not take them seriously and just laughed them off.

However, Huo Yuanjia did not relax his vigilance.

Even though he was protected by the guards of the National Revolutionary Army, he did not act rashly as he was in an unfamiliar place.

Until the end of the Olympics, Huo Yuanjia stayed indoors cautiously and rarely went out.

In the end, Huo Yuanjia was able to escape successfully with the help of Brad Hoover, an American official who came to visit the Olympics.

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Athens dock, three days after the Olympics.

The place was bustling with spectators from all over the world. There were also seven or eight ships docked in the port, waiting to transport spectators from all over Europe back home.

"Three grams of oil."

At the dock, Huo Yuanjia bowed and thanked old Hoover in front of him.

This phrase, "Three grams of oil", was a few foreign words he learned from the sailors when he was on the ship to Greece. It was originally an unintentional thing, but he did not expect it to come in handy at this time.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little effort."

Old Hoover put on his hat, waved his hand, and replied in Chinese with a Northeast Korean accent.

Hearing the answer was in Chinese, Huo Yuanjia raised his head in surprise: "Sir, can you speak Mandarin?"

"I spent some time in North Korea, so I can speak a few words."

"Thank you, sir!" Huo Yuanjia bowed solemnly to express his gratitude.

"If possible, I'm about to go to China. I wonder if I can come with you?" Old Hoover pointed to the merchant ship behind Huo Yuanjia and asked.

"I can't ask for it!"

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Huo Yuanjia turned sideways and took old Hoover up the gangway, with little Hoover following closely behind.

"beep!"

A melodious whistle sounded, and the merchant ship under the British Straits Settlements turned and headed towards the Suez Canal, its destination being the Far East.

At the same time, the Bordeaux cruise ship, owned by the French Mediterranean Shipping Company, passed by it and headed north towards the Turkish Strait.

In the first-class cabin of the Bordeaux cruise ship, the new French Foreign Minister "Delcassé" was holding a cigar, looking worried, and he just hoped to get to St. Petersburg as soon as possible to reach the latest round of cooperation.

Whether it is Formosa in the Far East or Sudan in Africa, France is facing the relentless pressure from the three major powers: Britain, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Putting down his cigar, Delcasser exhaled a puff of smoke.