Struggle in Russia

After Leonid left, Boris asked Li Xiao, "Isn't this a trap?"

Li Xiao has actually been thinking about this possibility, but no matter how he thinks about it, he doesn't think it's a trap. If Leonid asked him to write articles of a political nature, it would be like a trap. But what he was asked to write was articles on military equipment technology, and this kind of scientific stuff had nothing to do with sensitive topics. It's impossible for the military police in the third part to make a fuss!

"It doesn't look like it!" However, Li Xiao was not sure, because the trap was a trap because of its concealment. He decided: "When Vishniak comes back, ask him."

Vishniak didn't return to the company headquarters until nine o'clock in the evening. It can be seen that he was also tortured enough today.

"This deputy commander also made me drunk," Vishniak began to complain as soon as he entered the door, "We have looked up and down, left, right, front, back, and back, and even the toilet. As for What!"

"Also, every soldier's bed and bedding in every barracks is carefully inspected, as if we would cut corners to earn three melons and two dates... The cafeteria is also the same, and it's just a matter of checking whether the amount of Leba is enough. It's really impressive. People can't stand it!"

"So careful?"

Boris was startled, and felt more and more that Leonid was a bad visitor, and he came here to criticize him on purpose, otherwise, why would he pay attention to such trivial matters!

"Andreka, we have to be careful, this is a bad comer..."

Li Xiao shook his head: "Not like! Why do I think he really wants to do something practical?"

Vishniak muttered while warming the fire: "It looks like it, the posture is very careful, but..."

Boris asked: "Just what?"

"It's just that he doesn't seem to have been at the grassroots level at all. He doesn't know what the actual situation is. He doesn't know what the soldiers really want. It's a bit... How should I put it? It's a bit out of touch with reality! He actually wants to give the soldiers loyalty and patriotism education. Talk about the greatness of the emperor, and the significance and great responsibility of being a soldier..."

Boris chuckled: "Haha, how stupid it is to come up with this way!"

Vishniak curled his lips and said: "Who says it's not! If you have the time, it's better to find a way to give the soldiers an extra meal and pay a little bit of military pay. This is definitely more useful than any loyalty and patriotism education."

Li Xiao did not sneer, Leonid's idea is actually not too bad, you can do it, but both hands must be tough: on the one hand, patriotic education must be strengthened, so that soldiers know that only a country can be defended. Everyone is defending the truth of Xiaojia.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to improve the treatment of the soldiers. The special officers eat hot drinks and are chic and happy, while the soldiers can only eat bran, swallow vegetables, dirty work and all the hard work. And when it came time to get serious, the officers turned into cowards and let the soldiers throw their heads and blood. If you do this, who will believe your nonsense.

Li Xiao believes that the first thing to do is to promote the leading role of the officers, not only to take the lead in training, but also to take the lead in charge and set an example, so as to motivate the soldiers.

It's just that the current Russian army doesn't have this condition at all. Officers live in heaven, and soldiers live in hell. It's basically polarized. At this time, everything you say is empty. There must be a new group of officers in order to achieve Leonid's goals, which are simply impossible now.

However, Li Xiao didn't try to stop them. This kind of airborne cadre has to bump into a wall to know how to handle things. There is no harm in suffering a little loss. He is now going to say that people are still unwilling to listen to it!

However, this made Li Xiao basically sure of one point - Leonid probably wasn't targeting him specifically, so if he wanted to communicate more, then communicate, just as making friends.

A few days later, Li Xiao wrote an article "My Opinion on the Steamship" and handed it to Leonid, and then he started working on the cultural cram school with all his heart. He covered everything from textbooks to tutorials by himself.

This made the conscripts dumbfounded.

It's just that Li Xiao, who was devoted to education, didn't know that this article caused an uproar in the navy, and he was somehow involved in the chaos of several forces...

St. Petersburg, the Admiralty building on Nevsky Street. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy is not a miscellaneous position. This position is considered among the top few in the navy, and it is generally held by a senior general who is expected to take over as the Secretary of the Navy in the future.

The current assistant to the Minister of the Navy is Grand Duke Constantine. This young grand duke who was just 20 years old was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and served as assistant to Admiral Menshikov. In fact, it was Nicholas I who made the second son The gold-plated experience prepares for the future as Alexander's right-hand man.

It's just that the ambitious Grand Duke Constantine didn't think he was here to learn and be gilded. He had always wanted to do a big business, and he couldn't wait to get involved in various affairs as soon as he took office, actively spreading his influence, just like a Like a peacock spreading its tail.

And this made Menshikov, who has held the Navy Department for 22 years, very dissatisfied. To the chief eunuch, Grand Duke Constantine is just an inexperienced kid who has never been on a battlefield, so why should he point fingers and give orders indiscriminately as soon as he comes up? Isn't this nonsense!

It seems that Menshikov has a point, and Grand Duke Constantine seems to have overstepped his authority a bit, but the actual situation is more complicated. Grand Duke Constantine was certainly at fault, but Menshikov actually had a bigger problem!

Because Menshikov actually knew nothing about the navy, the eunuch was actually from the army, and then he became a monk halfway and went to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If it wasn't for Nicholas I's accidental accession to the throne, this mediocre guy could only find a job to support his family.

However, as a good friend of Nicholas I, Menshikov was promoted to the important task of the Minister of the Navy, and once again he became a navy halfway through. So he was actually not familiar with naval affairs at all, let alone commanded even a sampan at sea. So when he talks about his experience, he is actually laughing at a hundred steps.

Even, because of Menshikov's extreme mediocrity, he would only stick to it and seriously interfere with the modernization process of the Russian Navy. This guy is still living in the age of sail in 1812, refusing to accept steam ships and all modern technology.

This caused the Russian navy to appear backward compared with the British, French, and even the Prussian and Austrian navies. It is an antique navy at all, and it can bully the also more antique Turkish navy.

Moreover, Menshikov also feels particularly good about himself, claiming to have maintained the fine traditions of the Russian Imperial Navy, and believes that his great achievements will be left in history.

But Grand Duke Constantine is not old fashioned. Whether he is really inclined to reform or pretends to be reform, he has really seen the power of modernization and advocates that the navy must also follow the trend of the times to carry out modernization reforms.

As a result, the Secretary of the Navy and the assistant to the Secretary of the Navy fell out. One was extremely conservative and the other was actively reforming. The contradictions and conflicts continued to accumulate, and it was only a spark that would erupt, and Li Xiao just provided this spark...