Struggle in Russia

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 politically correct in Russia. The disgusting behavior of the French mob was exaggerated a hundred times and circulated in various circles in Russia.

Anyway, many Russians have a simple idea that revolution is bad and tantamount to a crime.

Although Vishnyak was not as stubborn as ordinary conservatives and not as easy to fool as the ignorant people, he was still influenced to a certain extent and felt that it was better not to make a revolution if everyone could live a good life. Let’s just live together. Who can guarantee that everything will get better after the revolution?

Don’t you see that the French have been struggling for decades, but the poor are not still poor, and the gentlemen are still enjoying the hot food, so why bother?

"Is it really that serious? Will the revolution break out if left unchecked?" 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 the humanity of those gentlemen very well. They would never let go of those who dared to resist their authority. They would kill on a large scale, and would rather kill a thousand people by mistake. One will be spared.

As a result, 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 defenseless people. As a soldier, he does not have the right to choose, either to carry out the orders from above, or...

It feels uncomfortable 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 that 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 Vishnyak: "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, so that they can at least give them a mouthful of food... If they 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 so 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.

The serfs in Russia did have deep grievances and were indeed very dissatisfied with reality, and some of them were even on the verge of breaking out. But it would be nonsense to say that even the surrounding areas of St. Petersburg are unsettled.

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, then 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? you do not believe? Then I'll show you.

As the boss of the third department of St. Petersburg, although Li Xiao has not yet fully taken control of the entire department, he can definitely hear any sensitive information around St. Petersburg. So when news of the surrounding serf rebellion came, he immediately knew 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, right?" Vishniak 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 from 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 astonished. 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 obvious that millions of serfs were suffering, but these people were playing tricks for their own interests. What kind of patriotism and love for the people was this?

Li Xiao pursed his lips. He naturally knew what Vishnyak was thinking, but he wanted to know where he was going. He hasn’t talked about the uglier stuff yet!