After Leonid left, Boris asked Li Xiao: "Isn't this a trap?"
Li Xiao had actually been thinking about this possibility, but he didn't think it was a trap no matter how much he thought about it. If Leonid asked him to write an article of a political nature, it would be like a trap. But what he asked him to write was
Articles about military equipment and technology, this kind of scientific stuff have nothing to do with sensitive topics. It’s impossible for the military police in the third part to write an article!
"It doesn't look like it!" However, Li Xiao was not sure, because the reason why a trap is a trap lies in its concealment. He decided: "When Vishnyak comes back later, ask him."
It was not until nine o'clock in the evening that Vishnyak returned to the company headquarters. It was obvious that he had been tortured enough today.
"This deputy commander also made me drunk," Vishniak began to vomit as soon as he entered the door. "We looked all over the camp, including the toilet. As for
What!"
"Also, every soldier's bedding and bedding in every barracks are carefully checked, as if we would cut corners to earn those three melons and two dates... The same goes for the canteen, but they only have to check one by one whether the amount of Lieba is enough. It's really frustrating.
People can’t stand it!”
"So careful?"
Boris was shocked. He felt more and more that Leonid had come with bad intentions and was here to find fault. Otherwise, why would he pay attention to such a trivial matter?
"Andreka, we have to be careful, this is coming from an evil person..."
Li Xiao shook his head: "No way! Why do I think he really wants to do something practical?"
Vishniak muttered while warming himself by the fire: "It looks like it, the posture is quite careful, but..."
Boris asked: "Just what?"
"It's just like he has never been at the grassroots level. He has little knowledge of the actual situation and doesn't know what the soldiers really want. It's a bit...how to say? It's a bit out of touch with reality! He actually wants to provide some kind of loyalty and patriotic education to the soldiers.
Talk about the greatness of the emperor, the importance and great responsibility of being a soldier..."
Boris burst out laughing: "Haha, how stupid are you to come up with such a solution!"
Vishniak curled his lips and said, "Who says it's not the case! If you have the time, you might as well find a way to give the soldiers an extra meal and make up some military pay. This is definitely more useful than some loyalty and patriotic education."
Li Xiao didn't say anything to ridicule. Leonid's idea was actually not too bad. You could try it, but you have to be tough on both sides: on the one hand, you have to strengthen patriotic education so that the soldiers know that only when you have a country, you have a home to protect.
Everyone is defending the principle of the small family.
On the other hand, we must also improve the treatment of soldiers. While the officers enjoy the popular food and drink spicy food and live in a free and easy life, the soldiers can only eat chaffy vegetables and have all the dirty and tiring work paid for. And when it comes time to get down to business, the officers become cowards.
Let the soldiers throw their lives and blood. If you do this, no one will believe your lies.
Li Xiao believes that the leading role of officers must be promoted first, not only by taking the lead in training but also by taking the lead in charge and serving as role models, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of soldiers.
It’s just that the current Russian army does not have this condition at all. Officers live in heaven and soldiers live in hell. It is basically polarized. At this time, everything you say is empty. There must be a new group of officers to realize Leonid’s dream
Purpose, these are simply impossible now.
However, Li Xiao didn't stop him. This kind of airborne cadre has to encounter difficulties before he knows how to do his job. It doesn't hurt to suffer a small loss. If he goes to tell people now, they still don't want to listen, so they don't appreciate it!
But this made Li Xiao basically certain of one thing - Leonid probably didn't come specifically for him, so if he wanted to communicate more, then just communicate, just treat it as making friends.
A few days later, Li Xiao wrote an article "My Opinion on Steamships" and handed it to Leonid, and then started to work on the cultural cram school. From teaching materials to tutorials, he did it all by himself.
The conscripts were stunned.
It's just that Li Xiao, who was focused on education, didn't know that his article caused an uproar in the navy, and he was inexplicably involved in the fight between several forces...
St. Petersburg, Admiralty Building, Bolshoi Nevsky Street. Office of the Assistant Minister of the Navy.
Assistant to the Lord of the Admiralty is not a chore. This position is one of the top in the navy and is generally held by senior generals who are expected to take over as Lord of the Admiralty in the future.
The current Assistant to the Minister of the Navy is Grand Duke Constantine. This young Grand Duke, who was just twenty years old, was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General and served as the assistant to Admiral Menshikov. In fact, he was the second son of Nicholas I.
Gold-plated rising experience prepares you to serve as Alexander's right-hand man in the future.
It's just that the ambitious Grand Duke Constantine didn't think he was here to learn and gild. He had always wanted to do something big. He couldn't wait to get involved in various affairs as soon as he took office, actively spreading his influence, and just like a
Like a peacock with its tail spread wide.
This made Menshikov, who had controlled the Navy Ministry for 22 years, very dissatisfied. To the eunuch in charge, Grand Duke Constantine was just an inexperienced kid who had gone through the back door. He had never been on the battlefield or fought in a war. Why should he
When you come up, you just point your fingers and give random orders. Isn’t this nonsense?
It seems that Menshikov has a point, and Grand Duke Constantine seems to have overstepped his authority, but the actual situation is more complicated. Although Grand Duke Constantine was wrong, Menshikov actually had a bigger problem!
Because Menshikov actually knew nothing about the navy, this great eunuch was actually from the Army, and then became a monk and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He retired from active service in the Army in 1824. If Nicholas I had not unexpectedly ascended the throne, this mediocre guy would have been
I can only find a job to support myself in retirement.
But as a good friend of Nicholas I, Menshikov was promoted to the important task of navy minister, and once again became a navy halfway. Therefore, he was not familiar with naval affairs at all, and he had never commanded even one ship at sea.
It's a sampan. So he talks about things based on experience, but it's actually a matter of fifty steps and a hundred steps.
In fact, because of Menshikov's extreme mediocrity, he would only remain conservative and seriously interfere with the modernization process of the Russian Navy. This guy was still living in the age of sail in 1812 and refused to accept steam ships and all modern technologies.
This caused the Russian Navy to lag behind the British, French and even Prussian and Austrian navies. It was simply an antique navy, and it could bully the Turkish navy, which was also more antique.
Moreover, Menshikov felt particularly good about himself, boasting that he had maintained the fine traditions of the Russian Imperial Navy and believed that his great achievements would be remembered in history.
But Grand Duke Constantine was not an antique. Whether he was really leaning towards reform or pretending to be reform, he really saw the power of modernization and advocated that the navy must also keep up with the trend of the times and carry out modernization reforms.
As a result, the Lord of the Navy and the Assistant to the Lord of the Navy fell out. One was extremely conservative and the other was proactive in reform. The contradictions and conflicts continued to accumulate. They were just one spark away from exploding, and Li Xiao just provided this spark...