Vishniak frowned. He listened carefully to Li Xiao's words and was deeply worried about the scene Li Xiao described. He knew very well what consequences the revolution would have. After all, criticizing the French Revolution was Russia's political correctness.
, the disgusting behavior of the French mob was exaggerated a hundred times and spread in various circles in Russia.
Anyway, many Russians have a simple idea that revolution is bad and tantamount to crime.
Although Vishnyak is not as stubborn as ordinary conservatives and not as easy to fool as the ignorant people, he was still affected to a certain extent and felt that it is better not to make a revolution if everyone can live a good life.
Let’s just live together. Who can guarantee that everything will get better after the revolution?
Don’t you see, after decades of hard work by the French, the poor are still not as poor, and the gentlemen are still enjoying the hot and spicy food, so why bother?
"Is it really that serious? If left alone, the revolution will break out?" he asked.
Li Xiao did not give an affirmative answer, but said: "Maybe, but considering that the gentlemen have soldiers and guns, they will let it go unless they are stupid or blind and deaf at the same time."
Vishniak was not happy at all, because he heard the implication of Li Xiao's words, that is, the gentlemen would never let it go, and their way to solve the problem was very simple, that is, to use the
Guns and artillery suppressed them vigorously.
Vishniak suddenly frowned. He knew very well the human nature of those gentlemen. They would never let go of those who dared to resist their authority. They would go on a killing spree, and would rather kill a thousand people by mistake.
I'll let one go.
If this happens, Russia will inevitably shed a river of blood!
Vishniak did not want to see such a scene at all. Not only did he sympathize with the serfs, but more importantly, he valued life and was unwilling to point his gun at those poor unarmed people. As a soldier, he had no choice.
The power to either execute orders from above or...
It's an uncomfortable feeling to be caught in the middle. Vishniak is neither willing to go on a killing spree, nor to give up his uniform, but now it seems there is no middle ground for him to take!
For a moment, Vishnyak felt a splitting headache. He was in a dilemma and held his head without saying a word. He was not at all like his usual optimistic and cheerful self.
"Is there no way?" But Boris thought faster than him. The big man felt that Li Xiao would never hit Vishniak for no reason. He must have a way!
Li Xiao is actually a bit funny. Vishniak is careless and confused. If such a bad scene really happened, how could he be so relaxed? After all, he is not heartless and evil. As a time traveler,
His moral values are countless times higher than those of the gentlemen of this era.
Of course he would not watch the tragedy happen in the world, so he slowly said to Vishniak: "There is no way, let's reform. Since the current rules are too extreme and are not conducive to the poor and serfs at all, then
Make a slight change and let the gentlemen give up part of their profits to those poor people, at least give them a mouthful of food... If you can have a full stomach, naturally there won't be so many people taking pains and taking risks, and naturally it won't happen.
What a tragedy!”
Vishniak was stunned. He never expected that the topic would come back after going in a circle. What was his headache before? It was not that the noble men were unwilling to give in, but someone's words seemed to make them give in very hard.
It seems simple, isn’t this nonsense!
Suddenly he snorted and said dullly: "It's not that simple. Your Majesty's promise of reform is just thunder and no rain. Maybe it's just words. It's not easy to make those misers give in!"
Li Xiao nodded and said: "It's not easy, so we have to let them know the consequences of not giving in, right?"
Vishniak's eyes widened in surprise, and he looked at Li Xiao in disbelief. After a long while, he asked: "You mean...you mean those...those are..."
Li Xiao sighed, this is the darkness of politics. Sometimes you have to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals, because those stubborn guys can't listen to their good words. You can only tell them with fists, bayonets or guns.
The consequences of not giving in.
It is true that Russian serfs have deep grievances and are indeed very dissatisfied with reality, and some are even on the verge of an explosion. But it is nonsense to say that even the surrounding areas of St. Petersburg are not stable.
Unless someone deliberately wanted to create such an atmosphere, as Vishniak said, after Alexander II promised reforms, there was only thunder... No, there were not even big thunders during this period, let alone rain.
Anyway, it’s all kinds of delays and non-fulfillment. If we continue to delay like this, I’m afraid new changes will really happen, and maybe it will be unfinished.
This naturally made many radical reformers very angry, so it was normal to create some momentum to put pressure on Alexander II - you don’t want reform, do you? Believe it or not, all the serfs rebelled? Don’t you believe it? Then I
Just let you take a look.
As the boss of the Third Department of St. Petersburg, although Li Xiao has not yet fully controlled the entire department, he can definitely hear any sensitive news around St. Petersburg. So when news of the surrounding serf rebellion came, he knew it immediately
Got a lot of inside information.
Naturally, he would not be as anxious as Vishniak, and could sit peacefully on the fishing platform and watch the show.
"But it's hard to hide this from His Majesty, isn't it?" Vishnyak asked worriedly.
"So what? After all, the ones who are really worried about all this are the stingy people you mentioned. Just make those stingy people feel the pain." Li Xiao replied nonchalantly.
Vishniak was stunned again, and it took him a long time to figure out the twists and turns.
Li Xiao smiled and said: "The reason why Your Majesty is still stalling on not implementing the reform is nothing more than the strong opposition voices from the conservatives. As long as we try to make these voices disappear, no, as long as we try to make them smaller, then Your Majesty
Even if the other side wants to use their momentum to oppose the reform, they can't do it! After all, the trend is on our side now!"
Vishniak was stunned. He had too little exposure to this kind of complicated high-level line disputes and could not figure out the routines involved. But after listening to Li Xiao's explanation, he only felt uncomfortable. It was clear that millions of serfs were suffering.
It's an obvious thing, but these people are playing tricks on themselves for their own benefit. What kind of patriotism and love for the people is this?
Li Xiao pursed his lips. He naturally knew what Vishnyak was thinking, but he really wanted to say where this was going. He hadn't talked about the uglier things yet!