Struggle in Russia

Alexei looked at Li Xiao with some surprise, and sighed: "Earlier I heard Vishniak and Leonid say that you value education, but I didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that you do value education." , It is simply regarded as the first priority!"

After thinking for a while, he asked: "I understand the importance of education, but if we really start to reform, will we really need to spend so much money to improve our basic education?"

Li Xiao nodded firmly and said, "It's very worthwhile and necessary! If we can't open up the wisdom of the people, then our reform will be just a flash in the pan after all, and Russia's backwardness cannot be fundamentally changed!"

"Only by enlightening the people's wisdom and letting everyone understand the significance of reform and the necessity of reform can the reform be maintained!"

Alexei nodded: "It makes sense, but I think there are very few people who agree with and understand you now!"

Li Xiao is not surprised. If everyone agrees with him, even as long as the majority of people in Russia agree with him, let alone reform, it will be no problem to catch up with France and surpass England.

It is a pity that Russia is not only poor and backward, but also has a particularly ignorant heart, not only the ignorance of the serfs, but also the ignorance of the powerful class, which is simply hopeless.

Li Xiao sometimes admired how the Bolshevik mentors saw how such a country had the courage to struggle to change the world.

To be honest, he felt that the mentors were very lucky, and their victory was really just a fluke, otherwise, how could the descendants of the mentors die in just over half a century?

Should it be said that the mentors are too powerful, or that their juniors are too useless?

Alexei suddenly said: "I heard that the expectations of Count Rostovtsev and Count Nikolai Milutin for the reform are to completely abolish the serf system, initially realize the freedom and liberation of serfs, and let each serf have his own. Fields, you can live freely..."

Li Xiao listened quietly, not surprised by this, because this is the ideal of generations of Decembrists, they only want freedom and nothing else.

As for whether they can lead Russia to modernization, in fact, they didn't think so much. After all, fighting for freedom is extremely difficult, and they don't know how long it will take to achieve this small goal.

Alexey continued: "In addition, Count Nikolai Milutin believes that it is necessary to introduce some advanced Western concepts, such as advanced industry. After all, we will be beaten if we fall behind. The last war has shown that if we don't catch up quickly , I am afraid that facing the provocations and insults of Britain and France will not be much better than the Turks."

Turks?

Li Xiao sighed again. Turkey in this era is actually almost the same as the Qing Dynasty later. It is almost a tool of imperialist proxy rule, and it can be regarded as a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Anyway, it is the meat on the chopping board, which is slaughtered by the big powers at will.

Is it possible for Russia to become like Turkey? That's really hard to say, after all, Russia has a unique geographical advantage, and its support should be stronger than Turkey.

Of course, if you really don't want to make progress, it will be over sooner or later. But according to Alexei, Nikolai Milutin only felt that the introduction of a little advanced technology could solve the current crisis.

What is the difference between this and the Westernization School of the Qing Dynasty?

Has Russia introduced advanced technology? It should be said that it has always been there, but it is not systematic or routine. If you have a headache, treat your head and feet, treat your feet with a hammer and a stick. In the end, it seems that I can do everything, but when I actually do it, I find that everything is almost impossible.

If you look at Russia's performance in World War I, even the production of rifles could not fully meet the demand, and it had to be bought from abroad. As for the cannons and warships, especially the warships that were the commanding heights of technology back then, the Russian shipbuilding industry is just barely enough.

After several entry-level dreadnoughts received foreign technical support and purchased a considerable number of technical finished products, the production process was stuttering, and the quality was not to mention a mess, which was enough to worry about.

There is almost no difference from the third brother in later generations, except that he has been squatting in the dock for more than ten years.

Why is this the result?

It is not because the foundation is weak, the foundation is obviously in a mess, and many basic things cannot be produced and developed, but due to external pressure, they have to rush the ducks to the shelves. This has resulted in a heart that is higher than the sky and a life that is thinner than paper.

To put it bluntly, Russia is a hollow imperialist, with great ambitions but an empty stomach. Usually, it can show off its might and frighten the children who are worse than him around it, but once it fights against real powers, it will show its true colors in minutes.

This was especially evident in World War I. He was the first power that could not hold on, and fell faster than Turkey. Do you think he is hollow?

And now Nikolai Milyutin obviously still wants to follow this old path. The Crimean War was violently beaten by Britain and France, and he felt tremendous pressure, so he immediately wanted to make up for his shortcomings.

In the end, after examining myself, I found that there are too many shortcomings~www.readwn.com~The price to make up for is too high, and I don’t have the determination or the will at all.

But you can't do nothing, can you?

So I picked some quick results that seemed to be bluffing and improved first, such as the introduction of some military industries, so that the Russian army would not look too far behind.

Is this ok?

If it is just to solve the urgent need without any problem, even Li Xiao will praise him for clearly distinguishing the priorities.

But Li Xiao knows that the Russian tradition is to lie down immediately when the urgent need is solved. Without external pressure or not enough external pressure, these local turtles will lose their aggressiveness in minutes.

It is very likely that when the army seems to be able to do it again, it is immediately felt that the cost of continuing to reform and laying a solid foundation is too high, so it is simply not done. Until later, I was stimulated by the outside world again, and then I got up again all of a sudden.

Just tossing back and forth between lying down and cheating corpses, and finally lost precious time and missed the opportunity of the times, and then confusedly took another gamble of the century, and finally lost without even pants left, so they had to declare bankruptcy.

Not surprisingly, this is the result of the reforms led by Nicholas Milyutin and the others, papermakers! Don't expect them to actually push the house to rebuild.

Although Li Xiao didn't intend to push it to rebuild, but he is not a paper maker, he is a decorator, he hopes to remove those outdated things, and then get a new decoration that meets the development of the times.

It may not be able to solve the fundamental problem, but the foundation is more or less solid, so that it will not show its original shape when it comes to the real thing, at least it can't lose to the little devil of Gou Ri!

After thinking about it, he said to Alexei: "Can you come forward and propose that the national basic education must be strengthened. We urgently need talents and fresh blood!"