Struggle in Russia

As Grand Duke Constantine and Leonid also intervened in the affairs of the 748 regiment, it can be said that the town of Sertorov is full of undercurrents and undercurrents. The competition around Li Xiao, around the royal family, and around power began to enter another level.

However, as the number of contestants increased, as things became more and more complicated, all forces were secretly observing and accumulating strength, which instead stabilized the situation, and no one dared to attack before they were fully sure.

And this gave Li Xiao rare time to breathe and adjust. On the one hand, he and Boris hurriedly strengthened team management, rectified discipline and began military training and personnel development.

Among them, the military training is basically in charge of Boris and Vishniak, after all, they are the real soldiers. Li Xiao is just a half-baked guy. Although his predecessor was a captain, he spent most of the past few years watching the gate of the Winter Palace, not much better than the uncle in the messenger room.

In this regard, Li Xiao really wanted to strengthen his studies, so he let Boris do all the professional things. And the focus of his own work is still to develop downlines. Of course, someone is not going to engage in Amway, but to find talents who are close to each other. His target was the hard labor prisoners in the Second Company and the Second Battalion.

As mentioned earlier, the emperor Nicholas I is very special. Rather than saying that he looks like an emperor, he is more like an old-fashioned military judge. He himself admitted that before being hit by the throne falling from the sky, his greatest wish was to be a real soldier (or military judge).

Nicholas I's German ancestry made him particularly admire discipline, and he liked soldiers who were well-ordered and absolutely obedient. It is hoped that all the courtiers will be militarized, so that these courtiers only know how to obey orders and observe discipline.

Nicholas I was always moving towards this goal. In order to achieve his goal, in order to reform those who opposed him, he ordered those prisoners who opposed him to be thrown into the barracks for militarization, thinking that the barracks would make these disgruntled guys docile and honest.

For example, the famous Fyodor Dostoevsky, after being executed by false shooting, served hard labor and was forced to serve in the army for several years. Even Nicholas I planned to throw all the Jews who did not convert to the Orthodox Church into the barracks, and use military training and strict discipline to make the Jews submit.

Anyway, Nicholas I was a uniform controller who was superstitious about the army and discipline. He believed that there was no problem that the army could not solve, and there was no person that the army could not reform. As a result, a large number of Russian liberals were thrown into the barracks for reform for various reasons. In Li Xiao's view, these people are all talents that can be united and absorbed, and they are powerful if used properly!

In fact, when Li Xiao first arrived in the Erlian, he had already planned on this group of people, but he also knew that empty words and white teeth are not convincing, and those who have to come up with something strong will only follow him. After all, they are not the gray animals in Erlian's rotten streets, and they cannot be fooled by a few clothes and a few full meals.

Li Xiao had to prove that he had the confidence to fight against Nicholas I, and he had to show so-called progress, otherwise this group of people and birds would not take him seriously.

"Gentlemen," Li Xiao said, "I have gathered you together, there is an important mission that needs to be completed by you and me!"

Seven or eight young people in tattered but neat military uniforms, glasses, parted hair, or well-polished shoes looked at Li Xiao curiously. Although this was not the first time they had met Li Xiao, they were very interested in the new company commander and his glorious deeds.

Of course, as intellectuals, these people are also very reserved. No matter how miserable they were before, they couldn’t get enough to eat and were bullied by the police every day, but the arrogance of intellectuals will always exist. In fact, you can tell by their clothes. Broken hair can't be messed up, blood can flow, and leather shoes can't be without oil. So even if they think Li Xiao is a nice person, they won't accept him immediately.

They will listen with great restraint, no matter what Li Xiao asks them to do, they must put forward their own opinions and views,

This is the only way to force style and style, isn't it!

The intellectuals didn't speak, and Li Xiao wasn't in a hurry, let alone angry. When looking through historical documents, he knew that the more educated these days, the more he pretended to be noble. Even if they are happy in their hearts, they still want to refuse and welcome them on the surface. They must not be as happy as the mud-legged blind people.

Of course, Li Xiao didn't like this kind of "reservedness", but intellectuals were too precious in this era. Let alone Russia, where poor and white serfs roamed everywhere, the illiteracy rate of the British Empire, which never sets, was around 40% to 50%.

This means that the vast majority of people in this era are ignorant, have no skills, no knowledge, no ideals, and they are really just gray animals or two-legged sheep.

What's the use of having more two-legged sheep and gray cattle? How much value can be created?

Looking at Russia's performance in history, whether it was 1812 or 1856 or 1905 and the subsequent World War I and World War II, the gray cattle certainly defended the integrity of the country and the motherland, but what a heavy price was paid?

Are gray cattle not brave enough? Disobedient? Are there not enough people?

No, it is the gray animals who have no knowledge and modern skills that lead to low combat effectiveness. Especially with the advent of the industrial age, as weapons become more and more complex, the requirements for weapon users are also getting higher and higher.

The ancient mode of catching strong men and going to the battlefield with swords and guns can really only give away heads in the industrialized era. If the quality of soldiers is not improved, just relying on piles of heads will be like the Russian army, and will be given the notoriety of crowd tactics.

It's not just a matter of giving away people's heads. As weapons become more and more advanced, the requirements for weapon manufacturing and maintenance are also getting higher and higher. Illiterate serf soldiers can't even handle the new rifles in their hands, so how can they fight?

Li Xiao felt that the quality of soldiers must be improved as soon as possible, and it was very necessary to hold literacy classes. This allows the gray cattle to really know how to operate and maintain the weapons in their hands, and it also allows their ignorant brains to start working, and start thinking about why their lives are dark and why there is no future at all.

Soldiers with ideas will certainly bring some troubles, but those troubles are for Nicholas I and his lackeys. For Li Xiao, these troubles are awakenings, which represent the strengthening of one's own strength.

What's more, soldiers with ideas will not give away heads foolishly, but will use their brains to fight, and the combat power and combat awareness will explode into groups of gray cattle.

So Li Xiao summoned the intellectuals in the company. It is not enough to rely on him alone to teach the deblindness, and he does not have so much energy. These dissidents whom Nicholas I loathed had at least attended middle school, and it was not difficult to teach a group of illiterates how to read.

However, these intellectuals may not see the significance of this matter, so Li Xiao needs to fool around... No! It's time to preach.