Li Xiao is becoming more and more envious of his fellow time-travelers who have their own systems or grandfathers. If you have difficulty finding the system, you can either draw a lottery or give a gift package. In short, all problems can be solved by the system. The protagonist only needs to be responsible for following the process.
But when I got here, it was very painful. I was really poor and had nothing to lose. To develop and grow, we need to engage in industry. But in industry, we have no technology, no equipment, and no talent. In the fourth article, there is a group of feudal autocracy.
The old stubborn who refuses new technologies.
What should he do? Go and beg the aliens for charity, or jump off a cliff to see if there is a secret base of wild grandfathers and prehistoric civilizations in the cave?
Please, this book is a serious time-travel novel, not science fiction or fantasy!
Wake up, there is no system! No grandpa! No prehistoric civilization! No aliens!
There is nothing! All we can do is move forward step by step.
Li Xiao sighed, put the quill pen in his hand back into the ink bottle, and rubbed his swollen forehead. It is indeed impossible to achieve success in one step, you still have to start from the basic work.
Li Xiao knew that there were several major problems before him: equipment problems, talent problems, funding problems, and policy problems.
These four problems are intertwined, and if any one of them is not completed, he will not be able to achieve the goal he wants.
For example, equipment, machine tools, etc. can be bought from the UK. Although the relationship between Britain and Russia is very tense now, the British attack Russia all day long in newspapers as an invader and a robber (which is not wrong, but this statement was made by another more shameless robber.
It’s quite joyful to say).
He also constantly encouraged the Poles in exile in London to fabricate all kinds of negative gossip about Russia in newspapers, smearing Russia as an ambitious and greedy barbarian (which is not wrong, but some of the stories are really made up).
The relationship between Britain and Russia is indeed tense, but the British bourgeoisie has no moral integrity. As long as they can make money, they don't care whether the Russians are polar bears or cannibals, let alone whether the Poles live in dire straits. Then
I have nothing to do with them. The cute little yellow-orange creatures have no odor and are extremely fragrant!
These days, money can really buy everything. The problem is that Li Xiao has no money. His entire wealth is a dilapidated house that is in disrepair and has thousands of rubles in cash. Let alone buy equipment with this little money.
It is not enough to give the green light to factories and the greedy relevant departments in Russia.
Not to mention that even if you have the equipment, you still have to find qualified talents. The machine will not start by itself. What the intelligence and automation in the 21st century cannot do, it is even less possible in the 19th century.
Li Xiao needs a large number of qualified workers and technicians. But the problem is that there are not even such people in Russia. There are only a very small number of them. The price will not be low. And in the long run, similar people will have to be trained on a large scale.
Talent, which also costs money.
And based on the current situation in Russia, this is in fundamental conflict with the interests of the aristocrats. For those misers who live by clinging to the land, the most valuable asset besides land is population.
They basically monopolized all the human resources in Russia. They were not willing to pay for the serfs to learn skills, nor did they allow these bonded workers to find other jobs. If the serfs were gone, who would farm the land for them?
In the final analysis, the final fundamental issue is policy. As long as Russia still adheres to the serfdom system, it is basically impossible to pursue industrialization.
This issue was unsolvable for all the tsars of the past dynasties. So what if Alexander II, known as the last great tsar, seemed to have made up his mind to abolish serfdom, but in the end he reversed course.
Because the foundation of the Tsar's rule was those serf owners and nobles, how could he abolish his martial arts and cut off his foundation?
It is a pity that not many people can see this clearly now. The mainstream wish of Russia's enlightened elites still pins their hope on the emergence of an enlightened and authoritarian tsar.
Li Xiao also has no solution for the time being. He is now just an insignificant pawn in the Russian political arena. He cannot leverage the levers of major policies at all. The only thing he can do is to preserve himself and slowly develop and grow.
Thinking of this, Li Xiao made up his mind and no longer hesitated. He took out the quill again and began to write and draw on the manuscript paper. Drawings and technical instructions soon appeared on the paper...
"Is this the result of your many nights of work?"
Leonid was very curious about Li Xiao's work. He felt that someone was very capable and a technical expert. Judging from the last improvement of the rifle, someone's invention was of great military significance. So he heard that someone
A new gadget was invented, and he came to check it out immediately.
Only this time, Leonid was confused by these drawings and instructions. He could understand the words and graphics on them, but he had no idea what they meant.
All-metal bullets, strange chemical formulas, and intricate gun drawings. These extremely complicated things were far from the war he knew. For example, he couldn't understand why it was necessary to put gunpowder into metal bullet cases.
"What's the significance of this? Since the 15th century, we have been using gunpowder directly as we do now. After hundreds of years of testing, there is no doubt that the current method is the best."
Leonid said seriously: "The bullet cases made of brass are just to increase the loading speed and waterproof. This is too luxurious! Do you know how many bullets an army of hundreds of thousands of people needs? How much copper is needed?
I just can’t imagine what a luxury that is!”
Li Xiao replied calmly: "It's not luxurious at all. That will be the trend in the future. Soon you will know how terrifying the new rifle using this new bullet is. In five or six years at most, you will find out
The pattern of war will be completely different from before!"
Leonid looked at Li Xiao suspiciously as he sealed various drawings and documents into envelopes. He did not believe Li Xiao's assertion, and even felt that the other party was a bit arrogant and exaggerated. But based on his understanding of Li Xiao, it seemed that there was no need for the other party to brag.
This is awesome.
So he asked again: "Where are you going to send these documents? The War Department or the Navy Department? Do you want me to help you clear it?"
Leonid thought that Li Xiao would send his invention to the Russian military, but Li Xiao had no intention of doing so.
"Neither the War Department nor the Navy Department. Those old stubborns and old antiques will not appreciate my inventions. Giving them to them is tantamount to letting the pearls fall into dust. I am going to send these to a place where they can appreciate them and make them useful!"
Leonid asked suspiciously: "If I may ask, where is that?"
Li Xiao smiled evilly at him and said: "The patent departments of the United Kingdom and France!"