Struggle in Russia

Count Rostovtsev crossed his fingers on the armrest and listened quietly to Dmitry. He didn't mean to interrupt, as if he was a quiet beautiful man.

After a long time, Dmitry finally finished what he wanted to say, and then he raised his head and looked at Count Rostovtsev with his eyes, and asked sincerely: "Count, what do you think of my suggestion?"

Count Rostovtsev moved at last, like a marble sculpture that suddenly came alive, as if it had thaw in the ice.

He slowly replied: "Objectively speaking, your opinion is very reasonable. Our army does have these stubborn diseases, and your method can also alleviate a series of problems caused by these stubborn diseases!"

Dmitry frowned unknowingly, because he felt that his solution was not to alleviate stubborn diseases, but to eliminate these problems. Couldn't the wise Count of Rostovtsev see the benefit of his solution? ?

Count Rostovtsev seemed to see through Dmitry's mind, he slowly asked: "Your method is like that, but there is one most important problem!"

Dmitry asked a little unconvinced: "What's the problem?"

Count Rostovtsev smiled slightly and said, "The problem of serfdom!"

Dmitry was stunned. He didn't understand what Count Rostovtsev was trying to express, but before he could ask a question, Count Rostovtsev gave the answer:

"According to you, you intend to implement a general recruitment system to replace the current recruitment system, right?"

Dmitry nodded. He had already made it very clear just now that the current recruitment system is a mess of **** and must be changed.

Count Rostovtsev tapped his finger on the handrail and slowly replied: "That's the question! Where are you going to enlist?"

Dmitry was taken aback. He just wanted to say that he was not recruiting among the Russians, but when the answer came to his lips, he suddenly thought of a big question. That is, this vast Russian package does not include serfs.

If it is included, then the serf owners must have quit, because these serfs are their private property. In the past, when the army was recruited, it was the right to use the serfs purchased from them by the state with money. But now that the conscription will take away their property if nothing is done, how can this be agreed?

Well, if the scope of the conscription does not include the broad serf class, then the problem comes again, because 60% to 70% of the Russian population are serfs. Except for these and the noble groups, the number of "free people" left is too small. , It can't support a sufficient number of troops at all, and Russia has such a large land area, too small number of troops is not enough at all, OK!

In other words, if Dmitry's military reforms are to be implemented, then the interests of serf owners will first be touched.

Dmitry’s cold sweat broke down immediately, because his reform was tantamount to declaring war on the majority of serf owners. With the current strength of conservative forces, it would be light to tear him up. He said he was polite to implement his practice. The serf system must be abolished!

Count Rostovtsev smiled and said slowly: "It seems that you have realized what the problem is? If you want to carry out the reforms you want, then the serf system must be abolished, otherwise everything will be impossible!"

Dmitry nodded with a pale face. He now understands why there were so few responses when promoting his reform policy at the Military Academy before, and why the crown prince did not care about him after discussing this issue with Prince Alexander. Where is the root of.

I am afraid that in the eyes of Crown Prince Alexander and his colleagues, his approach is not fundamentally different from that of the Decembrists. He just changed the package and opened fire on the serf system.

Dmitry suddenly smiled bitterly. He used to find it strange that he was obviously not inferior to Duke Baryatinski on political issues, and he could often make some thought-provoking suggestions, but Prince Alexander always treated him as if he were not. .

He had always thought that Baryatinski had a better personal relationship with Prince Alexander. Now it seems that he is an invisible December in the eyes of Prince Alexander. Nicholas I hated Decembrists the most, and naturally even if he was capable, Prince Alexander would not dare to get too close to him. This is for fear of getting angry!

After a while, Dmitry sighed dejectedly, and admitted: "Count, it seems that I am Meng Lang. My opinions are really just laughable and generous. It seems that changing the conscription system is a dead end. I was wrong!"

Count Rostovtsev was still so quiet, because he knew that Dmitry still hadn't understood the reality, and thought that as long as he was unaware that he opposed the serf system, he could carry out other reforms. He could only say that this child was really a naive. what!

Sure enough, Dmitry said again: "Since changing the conscription system is a dead end, it seems that the army's command structure can only be adjusted first!"

Count Rostovtsev remained silent, because he knew that this hapless boy wanted to do something stupid. Is it that simple to move the superstructure! Naive!

"I think we should learn from Prussia and set up a general staff!"

Count Rostovtsev smiled, because Dmitry was exactly the same as he guessed, and he was really ready to take this road of separation of military, political and military orders~www.ltnovel.com~ The so-called separation of military, political and military orders is simply to raise and use soldiers. Institutional separation. The organization that raises soldiers is responsible for the usual recruitment, training, and management functions. Organizations that employ troops are solely responsible for combat command, control, and coordination.

The military and political departments are responsible for the formulation of military policies, military development plans, education and training, the evaluation and promotion of officers, and the management of reserve services. The military order department is responsible for specific military operations such as the military's combat organization, combat readiness, and combat mobilization.

To put it simply, one is responsible for managing and formulating general plans, while the other is responsible for fighting wars. Military and political departments can be in charge of civilian personnel, while military order departments are managed by professional soldiers.

In the later generations of the Western system, national defense basically followed a routine of separating military orders from military and political affairs. The minister of defense or the navy and army ministers were in charge of military and political affairs, and the army and navy chiefs of general staff were in charge of military command departments.

The benefits of this are obvious, but the problems are also obvious to Russia in this era. The simplest thing is that it greatly weakens the powers of the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy. The current Secretary of the Navy is the military, political and military decree. , I take care of everything, and the commanding power of the army will be lost to them in the future. Do you think they can be happy?