Duke Mikhail's eyes rested on the cooperation agreement that had just been reached, and the ink was still wet. Considering Li Xiao's ability and propriety in reaching this agreement, he felt that just raising attention might not be enough.
Xiao deserves special attention.
Judging from the abilities he has shown before, he is by no means a thing in the pool. The only thing that makes people feel sore is his bad relationship with Nicholas I's family. I'm afraid that family will not look at Li Xiao so easily
If Li Xiao shows his ambitions, the better he performs, the more severe the pressure he will face.
This is really unlucky!
After Duke Mikhail sighed, he suddenly smiled again. He felt that Li Xiao's need to face the suppression of the royal family might not be a bad thing on the other hand, or even a good thing.
why?
In the view of Duke Mikhail, the leader of the future generation of the Gorchakov family must be Leonid. Although this child has character flaws, in terms of ability, willpower and diligence, he is a
A lot more than the other nephews.
While Leonid was working hard, most of those little bastards were living and drinking. Playboys and young men could not maintain the family's lasting prosperity. This burden could only be shouldered by Leonid.
As for Leonid and Li Xiao, if Li Xiao is too outstanding, then it is inevitable that Leonid will never be the eldest brother, and the position of eldest brother can only be filled by Li Xiao. But now Li Xiao has to face the pressure of the royal family, and the more
The more outstanding people are suppressed and excluded, the less they can exert half of their strength.
In this way, he must rely on the Gorchakov family to maintain his survival and future, and then Leonid will inevitably be the eldest brother. For Duke Mikhail, this is undoubtedly better and more perfect.
Duke Mikhail snapped his fingers and felt that Leonid, this silly boy, was really a fool, and he turned bad things into good things. Not only was there no danger of being marginalized during this trip to the 748th Group,
, but it laid a solid foundation for the future. By the way! It also brought millions of rubles in benefits to the family.
Thinking of this, Duke Mikhail no longer cares about the part of the profit given to Li Xiao. He must give the horse a little sweetness!
The only thing Duke Mikhail still had a little bit of resentment about that agreement was Li Xiao's insistence. Li Xiao insisted on setting up a firearms processing factory, imported lathes and machinery from the UK, and also asked to hire a
Approval of foreign technicians.
To be honest, Duke Mikhail feels that this expense can be saved completely. There is no need to open a firearms processing factory. According to his idea, Li Xiao's improved rifle can be fully charged with a "service fee" in the form of patent authorization.
, just leave the improvement work to the state-owned gun factories.
Although you can make more money by running your own firearms factory, it is also more troublesome. Prince Mikhail is more interested in making easy money, rather than making a few hard-earned money.
There are many people like Duke Mikhail in Russia, and many of them are even in high positions. They cannot see the power of industry, and they do not know that without industrialization in the future, they will be like leeks and can only be harvested by others.
Li Xiao would not make such a mistake. It is indeed not difficult to make a swing-door rifle, and it is indeed hard to earn manual labor by doing it yourself. But any industrialization begins with a manual workshop and progresses step by step, and finally turns into an industrial monster.
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If you don’t think it’s too tiring to make manual money now and just want to make quick money, then when the power of industrialization emerges in the future, what will you do to follow up? You need technology but not technology, you need equipment but not equipment, you need workers but not workers, this is still messy
of industrialization.
You can't reach a thousand miles without taking small steps. It's really troublesome to set up a firearms processing factory now and introduce some equipment and technicians. The investment and expenses are also a little larger, but in the long run this is cost-effective. Maybe today this factory can only make a little money haha
The manual cost is high, but it may not be impossible to produce new rifles in the future.
With the style of Russian officials, it is completely impossible for the state-owned firearms factory to keep up with the trend of the world, which has been lagging behind for thousands of years. In the future, when the Russian army is fully equipped with new rifles and new bullets, who can follow them in these orders?
Fight?
What's more, building guns is the first step. In the future, we may build cannons or even ships. Taking the first step now, having a good start is more important than anything else.
Li Xiao's ambitions are still very big. The 19th and 20th centuries were huge turning points. One step ahead can lead step by step. As far as Russia is concerned, if we don't lay the foundation quickly, we will really pretend to be a superpower in the future.
Gas station!
Leonid also believed that Li Xiao's persistence was reasonable. He considered the issue from the perspective of a simple soldier.
"Judging from the current situation, our relations with the United Kingdom and France are very tense. I have noticed that newspapers in Britain and France have begun to attack, slander and discredit our country from various aspects. This is an obvious signal!"
"Obviously, there is a risk of war between us and Britain and France in the future... Once a war breaks out, we must be self-sufficient in weapons and ammunition... But judging from Andre's analysis, as the weapons become more and more advanced, the processing
Technical requirements are also rising!”
"It is very possible that we can design sufficiently advanced weapons, but we cannot manufacture them. So we must have sufficient processing capabilities... I have visited the state-owned firearms factory, and it is almost a large workshop, which is far from the UK! Do it in advance
Preparation is a must!”
Leonid's words were generally correct, but there were still many shortcomings. Li Xiao knew that Russia would not only be unable to manufacture qualified firearms in the future, but would also be unable to design them. After using the Mosinna for nearly seventy years,
The dry rifle is actually a hybrid "hybrid".
At that time, the Russian government requested to use Captain Mosin's design out of national pride, but the Russian military preferred the prototype gun of the Belgian Nagant brothers. In the end, there was an earth-shaking quarrel and both sides had to take a step back. The combination of local and foreign hybrids led to the hybridization of Mosin and
Nagan's design.
As for this hybrid hybrid, the Russian Tula Arms Factory was not very able to handle it at first. During World War I, it once entrusted foreign allies to help produce rifles, otherwise the Russian gray beast would have to go to the battlefield with bare hands.
It can be seen that Russia's backwardness is all-round, and there are a lot of problems in both design and production. It is far from being as optimistic as Leonid thought. However, Li Xiao did not expose this, so let's give him some hope. It's not a big deal for himself.
Just work hard here to avoid the embarrassing situation in history.
Just when everything was happy, a sudden guest attracted Li Xiao's attention. This distinguished guest who suddenly came to visit Duke Mikhail was named Leo Tolstoy!