It is not new to worship foreign countries, even in later generations. Many so-called public intellectuals are like this. Any achievements made by China must be derogated, and any American must be licked even if they are just a piece of flies.

In this era, China has been bullied by the great powers for decades, and the phenomenon of admiring foreign countries has become even more serious.

To please and curry favor with foreigners and flatter foreigners, many people think it is normal, and it is even considered to be a capable person. By the time the Japanese invaders set foot on this land a few years later, they were considered to be a backbone Chinese. There are countless people who sell their country and seek honor, and those who forget their ancestors.

The Chinese in this era also have inferiority complex. In front of foreigners, they always feel inferior.

Or in this era, facing the great powers, the entire nation was kneeling, and it was not until after the founding of New China that Chinese people truly stood up.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Qiang’s conversation with foreigners in such an equal manner will make people shocked.

He is just a coachman, the lowest class of society. When facing the noble "foreign master", he is not timid, nodded, nor shows flattery, and does not bow at all. All this is beyond everyone's perception.

At least the most elite athletes in Shanghai gathered in this carriage have never seen a confident Chinese like Chen Qiang!

For Chen Qiang, he was happy to talk about sports with this British man, and also to learn about British sports in this era.

Things like culture and sports have always been borderless.

Chen Qiang followed the British gentleman to the first-class carriage.

This class carriage is completely different from the second class carriage. It is decorated in luxury, with sofas and carpets on the floor. A special train conductor is responsible for serving tea and water.

There are very few British gentlemen in the first-class car model, but there are only two foreigners, one man and the other woman look like a couple. In addition, they are a Chinese man wearing a suit and shiny hair. They should be a businessman or comprador.

The conductor saw a Chinese man brought in by a British gentleman, and just looked at Chen Qiang and did not ask much. After all, it was brought by a foreigner, so the conductor dared not offend him.

After Chen Qiang sat down and started chatting with British gentlemen in English, the conductor no longer questioned Chen Qiang's identity. He was probably the friend of this foreigner. Even if he didn't buy a ticket for the first-class carriage, he still had to give him face. Moreover, there were empty seats, and the conductor was unwilling to be angry with the foreigner.

The sofa in the first-class car is indeed much more comfortable than the second-class car.

In the Republic of China, the third-class train model was a hard wooden bench, which was equivalent to the current hard seat of the train; the second-class carriage was a soft-up seat, which was equivalent to the current soft seat of the train, but it was definitely not as comfortable as the soft seat. The first-class carriage was probably the business seat of the high-speed rail. The comfort of the sofa was no less than that of the high-speed rail business seat. It was no problem to lie halfway down.

Mr. Ye Shengtao's "Mimosa" once described the first-class carriage like this: "The chair is made of gooseberry. When you sit down, you will be tightly covered, soft and hold you." Although the train was bumpy at that time, the springs of the sofa were enough to reduce shock. Except for the accidental noise of the train, it was really not tiring to take the first-class cabin to carry out.

After more than five hours of travel, Chen Qiang sat in the first class cabin, lying on the sofa and drinking black tea, and bragging comfortably with the British gentlemen, while other members of the Shanghai team did not have such good treatment. Although there were soft pads in the second class cabin, the train was swaying too much at that time. It was quite tiring to sit for more than five hours.

Finally, the train arrived in Hangzhou.

Chen Qiang said goodbye to the British gentleman and walked off the train.

The platform was very busy, especially those passengers in third-class carriages. There were all kinds of people from all walks of life and rushed out of the car.

I saw some people start wiping their faces, some start slapping off coal ash on their bodies, and more people look dirty.

A face full of coal ash is the sequelae of riding in a third-class carriage.

In this era, trains are steam-driven and burn coal, so the closer they are to the front of the car, the more likely they are to be dyed with coal ash. Usually, third-class carriages must be close to the front of the car, second-class carriages are placed in the middle and first-class carriages are placed at the end, so that coal ash will not be eaten.

So those who came out of the third-class car model were covered in coal ash and their mouthwash was black.

In winter, the carriage will be changed, with the first-class carriage closest to the front of the car, and the third-class carriage at the rear of the car. Because the steam engine on the car not only provides power, it also needs to provide heating to the first-class carriage and the second-class carriage. If the front of the car is too far away, the heating effect will be poor. In order to make the people in the first-class carriage warmer, the first-class carriage must be placed close to the front of the car.

And there is no need to worry about coal ash in winter. The weather is relatively cold in winter. In order to keep warm, the windows of the carriage are closed. The windows of the first-class carriage are sealed. Even if they are close to the front of the car, coal ash cannot float in at all.

In summer, the windows of the carriage are all open, especially the third-class carriage. There are many people and crowds. When it is hot, the carriage is like a steamer. It is impossible to bear it without opening the window. Even if it can withstand the heat, the people in the car are sweating. If it is not ventilated, the sour smell is enough to suffocate.

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Get back to the point.

For this National Games, the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the Hangzhou Municipal Government have also made a lot of preparations. For example, the Hangzhou Municipal Government has arranged a special person and a special car to pick up athletes at the train station and go to the athletes' dormitory.

This car was not a rickshaw, but a bus. In this era, there were already buses in big cities, but the price of riding was expensive and ordinary people could not afford it. In Shanghai, buses were mainly taken by foreigners.

The Hangzhou Municipal Government found a bus to pick up the athletes, which was considered a huge investment.

Chen Qiang and his group were taken to the athletes' dormitory.

In order to hold this National Games, the preparatory office of the event requisitioned the 3rd Regiment of the local security team as an office building to rest and recuperate the barracks, and rush to build more than 2,000 beds to provide accommodation for athletes.

The barracks where soldiers live naturally will not have good conditions. There are many attractions in China now, and the barracks at that time are retained, many of which are dark and humid small rooms.

Those athletes from wealthy families naturally complained about living here, and their living conditions were worse than those of their family's servants' rooms, so in the middle of the night, someone yelled to find a hotel outside to live in.

Chen Qiang is not picky about living conditions. For him who has lived in a slum, it is good to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and have a bed to sleep.

Besides, he was not really sleeping. Although his body was in sleep, his mental consciousness entered the training space. For him, sleeping was just a different place to train.

As for eating, there are also special athletes' cafeterias, with 100 square tables, which are enough for hundreds of people to eat at the same time, but there are not enough windows to pick up the meal, and it is a bit slow to line up to eat if there are too many people.

On the evening of that day, Cheng Jinguan also came from Suzhou to Hangzhou and joined the Shanghai team.

The next day, Chen Qiang and his group came to the National Stadium to get to know the competition venue.

This stadium was newly built and was originally planned to be completed by the end of 1929. However, after the beginning of winter, the rain and snow in Hangzhou continued to spread, so the project was delayed until February 1930. At this time, the stadium had not been officially named, and it would not be named the National Stadium until the end of this National Games.

This national sports is built next to Meidong Gaoqiao. In the future, this place has been renovated several times and has become the current Hangzhou Sports Center and Hangzhou Sports Stadium.

"I didn't expect that the Hangzhou Sports Center in the future will be like this now!" Chen Qiang looked around curiously, and felt even more moved by the changes in his heart.

Chen Qiang was feeling emotion, but saw that at the entrance, there were many people surrounding him, and many people were rushing there.

Cheng Jinguan also hurriedly walked towards the entrance, and when he passed by, he pulled Chen Qiang to walk together.

"Old Cheng...uh, Cheng Jinguan, what happened over there?" Chen Qiang almost blurted out the words "Old Cheng".

"Let's go, let's go there together, and a very powerful athlete comes. That's my idol!" Cheng Jinguan said.

"A very powerful athlete, is it Liu Changchun here?" Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, and then trotted all the way to follow Cheng Jinguan's pace.

When Chen Qiang was young in his previous life, Liu Changchun, the "No. 1 person in China's Olympics", had already passed away, so Chen Qiang had never seen Liu Changchun, but he had seen a lot of photos of Liu Changchun.

"In that era, there were black and white photos with very bad pixels, and the clarity was very average. I heard that Liu Changchun's real person looked a bit similar to Liu Xiang, and I don't know if it was true or false."

Chen Qiang couldn't wait to squeeze into the crowd, wanting to see the true face of the number one person in China's Olympics.

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Chapter completed!