Of course, Li Xiao is not cold-blooded and numb and doesn't want to care about anything, but he believes that people have to be self-aware and can only do what they can at all times. One step ahead is a genius. Three steps ahead is a fool. Obviously your little arms and legs only have two feet.
If you overestimate your strength and use a ten-pound sledgehammer, you are not courting death.
Now, neither Leonid nor he, Vishniak and others can change the current situation in Russia. The only thing that can be done is to remember these injustices, record them carefully, and think about them.
Think of ways to solve or improve these problems. Then work hard to accumulate strength and strive to change the situation as soon as possible. This is the right approach.
After putting down Leonid's letter, Li Xiao did not reply to Leonid immediately because the sage made it very clear that Russia was not only bad at logistics, the postal system was also speechless unless their troops stopped.
Take a break, otherwise the letter will never catch up.
And they had just gone through a period of rest and would spend at least twenty days in a hurry, so Xin would definitely not be able to keep up.
The second and third letters have something to do with Leonid, because they were written by his uncle, Prince Mikhail, and his father, Prince Alexander. There is nothing special in Mikhail’s letter, mainly:
Tell him that the machine tools and equipment purchased from abroad and the technicians invited are in place, and the Andre Leonid rifle will be put into production soon.
This is indeed good news, but what makes Li Xiao a little speechless is that the Russians are actually planning to purchase at least 300,000 of such a backward gadget in the first batch. Oh my god, how many troops are there in the whole of Russia?
One million? It might be too much.
In other words, at least one-third of the Russian army is preparing to replace this kind of rifle that is not considered advanced. To be honest, this is really a waste. Because in a few years, this piece of shit will be completely obsolete.
There's not much difference when it comes to burning fire sticks.
After all, the French and British have begun to popularize rimfire ammunition with paper shells and metal bottoms loaded into the breech. Even if it is still a "single shot", the loading speed of the whole load will definitely beat the Andre Leonid rifle.
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Even real full-metal bullets will be available soon. At that time, the advantage will be even greater. What is the significance of Russia's large-scale equipment of a weapon that will be completely obsolete in a few years?
The only thing that makes Li Xiao happy is that for every Andre Leonid rifle produced, he can receive a patent royalty of one ruble, which is 300,000, which is a small income of 300,000. This is really an overnight success.
Rich!
Of course, it is an exaggeration to say that it can be said in one night, because with the production capacity of the Russian state-owned Tula Gun Factory and the small factory jointly owned by Li Xiao and Duke Mikhail, it will take several years to produce 300,000 rifles. It is here, Mikhail.
The Duke also complained that the factory should not have fired the rifle, because at least all the profits from the first 100,000 rifles were thrown into it.
Naturally, Li Xiao couldn't tell him his long-term plans. He could only tell him that the Andrei Leonid rifle would soon become obsolete. Once Russia planned to switch to a more advanced breech-loading rifle, there would be no qualified machine tools and technicians.
, they will soon be eliminated and have no money to make.
Of course, Li Xiao could more or less guess what Duke Mikhail was thinking. He did not think that the Andrei Leonid rifle would be eliminated soon, and even if it did become obsolete soon, he could still find a way to make the Russian army
Continue to purchase. After all, as an army boss, in order to take care of his own business, he does not mind having his comrades, best friends and subordinates unanimously recommend the Andre Leonid rifle, and opposes the use of more expensive and complex advanced rifles.
And this is the power of bureaucracy. They have a million ways to ruin your business, and it is even more childish to confuse right and wrong. Especially in a backward country like Russia, the energy of bureaucracy is boundless and powerful.
To the point where it makes you doubt your life.
Therefore, Li Xiao could only comfort Duke Mikhail with gentle words, telling the veteran that replacing the Russian army with newer rifles was actually a more profitable business. He wrote in the letter:
"Duke, you see, we have purchased the latest machine tools and skilled foreign technicians, which are necessary to produce newer rifles in the future. But now the Tula Gun Factory does not have the same equipment as us, so it only produces
You can't buy newer rifles... Once you can convince the Army to purchase newer rifles, then only our gun factory can produce this order for the time being. This is a separate business! Isn't it better than sharing the profits with Tula now?
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Li Xiao knew that the old fox would be able to settle the account clearly, so he didn't say more. Instead, he turned to reply to Duke Alexander very seriously. Compared with Duke Mikhail, this Duke's letter was more serious.
The meaning helped him even more.
Duke Alexander carefully inquired about his situation in Wallachia and told Li Xiao that if he had any difficulties or troubles, he could contact his friends in Wallachia. Although it might not be of great help, it was only a small matter to turn around some funds.
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Duke Alexander even told him that if the situation was particularly bad and he could not escape to Turkey, he could go to Serbia. He had many friends in the Grand Duchy of Serbia and there would be no problem in sheltering them.
Although Li Xiao is temporarily unavailable, he still deserves the favor, not to mention that Duke Alexander praised Li Xiao's foresight in his letter, saying that he appreciated his analysis of the situation in Austria and agreed with his idea of dismembering Austria.
The only pity is that this is almost impossible to implement in practice.
Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that Duke Alexander asked him in his letter about his views on the current international situation and hoped that he would speak freely.
This makes Li Xiao very happy, because for the first time he has the possibility to directly influence a big figure like Duke Alexander. This means that he has the possibility to influence the highest level of Russia. If he can persuade Duke Alexander to accept his opinion
, when he faced Nicholas I and his family, he would not be completely passive and beaten.
So Li Xiao immediately combined history and wrote a long letter to Duke Alexander analyzing the Austrian political situation. In the letter, he made a bold prediction: "The Austrian army may not be able to deal with the rebels, which means that the Habsburg family may not be able to do anything to them."
Rely on your own strength to put down the rebellion..."
"Then the only person they can turn to for help is our country. This is a good opportunity. I suggest you play your role in resisting the negative influence of Count Neserrodie and strive for more favorable conditions for our country as much as possible. At least let
Our country is profiting in the direction of Wallachia and Moldavia..."