"Aren't you afraid that they will use this to criticize the reform and say that all the troubles are caused by the reform?" Li Xiao asked.
Count Rostovtsev did not answer his question immediately. He quietly looked out the window in a daze.
After a while, just when Li Xiao was about to ask again, he suddenly said: "So what? Without the chaos in Ukraine, they would give up and let us reform?"
Li Xiao stopped talking, because what he said made sense. The broom will not run away without dust. Facing these ultra-conservative guys, expecting them to awaken themselves and agree to reforms is tantamount to wishful thinking.
So you have to pick up a broom, no! A broom won't work, because they are not light dust, but deep-rooted old silt that has accumulated for hundreds of years. You have to use a shovel or even a chisel, otherwise you will just watch.
Let them continue to lie there and control everything until they lead this country to destruction!
"Do you think the Ukrainian chisel is useful?" Li Xiao asked again.
Before Count Rostovtsev spoke, Li Xiao said again: "Ukraine is our granary. Once farming is affected, big things will happen next year!"
Count Rostovtsev replied calmly: "I believe that your Majesty knows this as well as you do. You know the seriousness of the matter!"
The implication is that Alexander II should either make up his mind to start reforms immediately, or watch Ukraine and the whole of Russia be destroyed together. He should figure out how to deal with it clearly.
Li Xiao sighed and said, "What if he can't figure it out clearly?"
Count Rostovtsev glanced at him and said contemptuously: "He is not an idiot, he can calculate clearly. What's more, if he can't figure it out, someone will help him figure it out!"
Will there be anyone?
Li Xiao was not surprised at all, because didn't he happen to have such a person in front of him? But he felt that this person would not appear until the most critical moment. If those conservatives really can't even calculate this
Clearly, it is impossible to control Russia for so many years.
The only question is how quickly they wake up. You must know that time waits for no one. Once it really affects Ukraine’s farming in the coming year, the consequences will be disastrous!
Li Xiao is different from Count Rostovtsev. He is not as hard-hearted as the latter, and dares to sacrifice everything for his ideals and goals. He is more compassionate, and he knows one thing, that is, if the country falls into chaos, it will be the worst.
It is the common people who suffer.
Let’s take a look at all the chaos in the world, and it’s not the common people who have suffered the most. Especially in Europe, an extreme society where the law of the jungle and the strong are at their peak, the common people have suffered even more in the chaos.
Although the reform is meant to steal food from conservative vested interests, except for a small number of vested interests who will be wiped out as a result, most of the rest will lose part of their vested interests at most. At most they will not be able to act like
It’s just that he spent so much time and money in the past.
For them, it's just that their quality of life has declined; their wealth, life, and livelihood are not really major problems.
But it's different for barefoot people. They can't bear it very well. If something goes wrong, the whole family may die!
Li Xiao agreed with the reform, but he never wanted to sacrifice thousands of innocent poor people for the reform. That's why he specially reminded Count Rostovtsev to pay attention to the reaction of conservatives.
It’s just that Count Rostovtsev obviously doesn’t care. He even wishes that the country would be a little more chaotic. The more chaotic it is, the more he will beat up the conservatives, and maybe even root them out in one fell swoop!
Of course, this is more likely to be a dream. If a country like Russia wants to carry out thorough reforms and subvert the ruling order of vested interests, it is impossible to expect a few enlightened and sober people among the rulers to carry out some top-down reforms.
It's possible.
It would have to be like the French Revolution, which would turn the world upside down with great vigor.
It's just that that kind of move is too big and the price is extremely high. What's more, Li Xiao is also one of the vested interests. He certainly can't ruin his own job.
In other words, everything Count Rostovtsev did was nothing more than reforms. He distributed a little national dividend to the poor serfs, eliminated some resentment in their hearts, suppressed their surging dissatisfaction, and allowed them to be parasitic carnivores.
The insect can continue to live freely and happily.
So although Count Rostovtsev seems to be a reformer, what he really wants to maintain is the Russian ruling order. He is just more sober than those more conservative guys.
Naturally, the plan he came up with is unlikely to take too much into account the life and death of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, the tens of millions of ordinary people in Russia are like two-legged sheep to him. In order to prevent these sheep from rebelling and eating people,
Only then did he try to get the farmer Alexander II to slightly improve the living standards of the sheep and goats.
As for how many sheep will die in order to achieve this goal, he actually doesn't care too much and doesn't care. To him, it's just a few sheep!
Li Xiao is a little more conscientious than him. After all, he used to be like a sheep, and no matter what, he would consider issues from a sheep's point of view. Naturally, he has objections to Count Rostovtsev's desperate approach.
If there is a problem with Ukraine’s harvest next year, many people in Russia will really starve to death!
"I advise you to be cautious and resolve the opposition of those conservative elements as soon as possible. Ukraine is not an ordinary small problem. If you don't want the world to be in chaos and Russia to be in ruins, you'd better cut the chaos with a sharp knife!"
Count Rostovtsev looked at him and asked with interest: "You seem to care about this! Don't tell me that you care about the country. Such words can be used to deceive children, but they are of no use to me.
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Li Xiao replied calmly: "I just don't want too many people to die, especially too many poor people living at the bottom."
Count Rostovtsev sneered: "It's a joke, in this world of the jungle, if you want to live a better life, you have to work hard. If you don't pay, there will be no gain. If the people you mentioned want to live like human beings,
Then you have to fight with your life, otherwise it will be like a puddle of mud for others to step on!"
Li Xiao frowned. He was not opposed to desperate efforts. What he was opposed to was that bastards like Count Rostovtsev wantonly used the bottom class's will to live a better life and used their desperate determination to achieve their own goals, and in the end
Not much benefit is given to these people who have paid a huge price.
This is a serious disproportion between effort and reward. This is what he objects to!
But Count Rostovtsev replied contemptuously: "I won't use them. They don't even have the qualifications to fight hard. It's already very difficult to gain anything. What else do you want?"