Alexei fell silent when he understood the reason for Li Xiao's worry. Although he didn't think that far ahead, he could still think clearly about the reason after Li Xiao's reminder.
It is true that in Russia, where the people's intelligence was still undeveloped, the first thing they should do no matter what they did was to enlighten the people's intelligence.
Otherwise, even if Count Rostovtsev has great power and can defeat all conservatives by himself, as long as the people are not wise, the conservatives will resurgence after his death, and Russia will still go back to its old ways.
If you want to truly ensure the results of reform, you must enlighten the people's wisdom and let more people recognize your ideas and support your actions. Only in this way can you completely eliminate the possibility of conservative counterattacks.
"Let's do it step by step!" Alexey suddenly laughed, "Isn't the biggest fear for us when we are young is that we have nothing to do? I can't help but be excited when I think that we have so many opportunities to show off our talents!"
Li Xiao also laughed. That's right. Life is more than just fighting. If things can be done so easily, there really is no sense of accomplishment. It's the same as playing games. It's fun to play with modifiers, but what's the point of the fun?
It’s all gone, only the achievements I have made brick by brick, it feels completely different!
Li Xiao was also a revisionist before, but after he realized the sense of accomplishment of his hard work, that feeling was more exciting than any other ecstasy. Anyway, he had fallen in love with this feeling and couldn't stop it.
What's more interesting is that Victoria actually expressed her opinion again for the first time: "Does reform definitely need to be carried out? Should the king be guillotined like the French did?"
Do you see, this is the importance of enlightening people's wisdom. Victoria is a serious princess. Even if she is ruined, her education is much better than ordinary people. People like her should be educated and knowledgeable.
When the first reaction after the reform was to kill the king, you will know how closed-minded and backward Russia is...
As soon as Alexei wanted to explain clearly that reform and revolution are not the same thing, Li Xiao said first: "It would be best if the tsar could be guillotined to solve the problem once and for all. Unfortunately, this is obviously impossible. We
We can only mend things like a paper poster and hope that Russia can persevere and complete its self-renovation before the house collapses."
Victoria didn't particularly understand the words Li Xiao spoke, but it didn't prevent her from understanding the meaning. She frowned and asked, "Paper maker? But I heard others say that you just want to rob and divide the nobles' property.
...Although I am not opposed to the emancipation of serfs, I believe that personal property is sacred and inviolable, and what you are doing is wrong!"
Alexei and Li Xiao looked at each other, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes. Victoria's words represented the current situation in Russia. There were many people who verbally supported the reform and emancipation of serfs, but how to emancipate specifically once it involves individuals
If there are interests, these people will change their faces.
Well, sacred property is inviolable. The problem is that according to Russian law, serfs are the property of the serf owner. But how can we liberate the serfs without infringing on the serf owner's sacred rights? Or is it verbal or in a dream?
"That seems to make sense?" Victoria thought for a while and suddenly said: "Isn't there a way to get the best of both worlds? I don't think serfs should be considered private property, they are also human beings and our compatriots!"
Li Xiao smiled and said: "I agree with you very much. Serfs are indeed human beings and our compatriots. Their most basic right to survival should be respected! But I think your so-called best of both worlds method does not exist. I understand what you mean.
It probably means liberating the serfs and announcing that the serfs are free, but at the same time, we must ensure that the serf owners do not suffer too much loss, such as providing certain compensation, such as state redemption, right?"
Victoria nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, that's what I mean. The state can completely pay for the redemption of the serfs, so that the interests of the serf owners are also protected!"
Suddenly Alexey burst out laughing: "Do you know how much money this costs? Dear Victoria, our country's finances are on the verge of bankruptcy, and now we still owe a bunch of foreign debt. If the country really wants to pay for it, then
Even if we can’t raise the ransom money in a hundred years, we can’t free the serfs batch by batch, right?”
Victoria was just about to say that it was not a bad idea to do so, but then she thought about it. If the liberation was carried out in batches, who would be first and who last? What's more, if it really takes a long time, not to mention a hundred years or even twenty or thirty years, it will be fatal.
, after all, serfs also wanted to get married and have children. Before the previous batch of serfs were liberated, several batches of small serfs would continue to appear.
If this were to be done, wouldn't it mean that the liberated serfs would take advantage of it, and they could treat the emancipation of the serfs as a business?
This is obviously neither unreasonable nor fair!
If we don't do this and redeem all the slaves in one fell swoop, the state won't be able to pay for it, and it's obviously impossible for the serf owners to accept the free offer. Wouldn't the liberation of the serfs become a joke?
Victoria suddenly had a headache. She had discussed this topic with her little sisters before. At that time, everyone only talked about it superficially. They thought that liberating the serfs was just people like Alexei and Li Xiao messing around and making simple things complicated.
Already.
But now that I listen carefully, it seems that things here are not that simple. If you pull the trigger and the whole body is not careful, you will make a joke.
Victoria was secretly sighing here, who would have thought that Li Xiao said again: "Even if the country has the money to redeem this road, it will not work!"
Victoria was surprised and asked puzzledly: "Why?"
"The reason is very simple. How do serfs survive? In the past, they were dependent on the serf owners and worked for the serf owners to barely make ends meet... But now once they are liberated and free, where will there be land for farming? To put it bluntly, they may not even have a roof over their heads.
there is none left!"
Victoria immediately realized that serfs were the private property of serf owners in the past, and everything they owned belonged to the serf owners. Once the serf owners were liberated, they would naturally take back other properties that belonged to them, such as the houses where the serfs lived.
If we do this, the serfs will indeed lose their shelter!
Victoria thought for a while and asked weakly: "How about these also be redeemed by the state?"
To tell the truth, Victoria knew it was impossible as soon as she exported it. How could the country have so much money? What's more, food, clothing, housing and transportation were all in short supply? Just having a shelter was of little significance. Serfs needed their own houses and land, so
To survive.
But the problem is that these are the private property of the serf owners. Now they even have opinions on giving personal freedom to the serfs. Do you think they will be happy if they still want to give the serfs so much?