Struggle in Russia

For the superiors of this era, calling a group of lowly mud-legged serfs for a meeting is itself a deviant idea. What can two mud legs who don't know any words know? Are you meeting with them to discuss how to farm the land? Or discuss how to distinguish the left foot from the right foot quickly and easily?

For the superiors in this era, especially the military officers, they are not used to it and they don’t like to hold meetings. They are more willing to give orders directly. Their task is to make decisions, and the mud-legged serfs can do it honestly.

Even if there is a meeting, it should be the high-ranking people and elites like them, and the psychopaths and mudlegs get together to discuss things.

But Li Xiao is not the so-called elite and decision-maker who is superior and smart in this era. Having read many books, he knows that there must be no natural barrier between decision-making and execution. If there are, then either the various orders of the decision-makers are out of touch with reality and ridiculous, or they are executed out of tune and out of tune. The result is often that good things turn bad, and bad things turn bad. All in all, there must be continuous and effective communication between decision-makers and executors, and they must understand the ideas of both parties.

So Li Xiao decided to step out of the ivory tower of decision-making, face his soldiers frankly, tell them his philosophy and ideas, and at the same time want to know their demands. If he did it well, he believed that not only would he be able to easily control the company, but he would also gain a group of loyal subordinates.

The location of the meeting was chosen at the camp of Erlian. It was the shanty refugee camp mentioned before. Not surprisingly, it was strongly opposed by Vishniak and Boris. They thought the environment was too bad, and having face-to-face and zero-distance contact with the scum was like bare-handed It's too dangerous to rush into the den of thieves with gold bricks!

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch tiger cubs!" This was Li Xiao's answer, "Aren't you afraid of some poor wretches who can't even eat enough and are shaking from the cold?"

In order to show manliness, Vishniak and Boris had to bite the bullet and accompany someone through this. Of course, if you let them know that a certain person is actually very scared and has no confidence at all, I'm afraid they will turn around and leave immediately!

In the open space of the Second Company's garrison, more than a hundred poor soldiers with hungry faces and indifferent expressions were ordered to sit in a circle, and Li Xiao, Vishniak, and Boris lined up in the circle to stand firmly.

Of course, the hearts of these three people were not as stable as they appeared on the surface, and they were all trembling a little bit. Especially Li Xiao, although he was the one who came up with the idea, but when it came time to go on stage, he couldn't help feeling a little stage fright. After all, he doesn't have much experience of speaking in public in later generations, especially today he has to speak in Russian, which he has just learned for two or three days, that kind of guilty conscience is like standing naked for three or nine days and standing in the Siberian wilderness for a night The feeling of the wind.

But right now it's impossible to repent. With so many eyes watching, especially the two little friends next to him waiting to see the joke, he had to bite the bullet and persevere.

"Deputy company commander, start roll call!" Li Xiao ordered calmly.

There must be no one present, at least none of the officers of the second company was seen except Li Xiao and Boris, which is normal, after all, those young masters would not stay in this concentration camp to suffer.

"Report to the company commander, except for the eight officers of the company, all the other personnel are here. Please give instructions!"

Li Xiao pretended to ask: "Deputy company commander, did you not inform these gentlemen that they will have a meeting at the camp today?"

"Reporting to the company commander, I personally conveyed your order two days ago!"

Li Xiao continued to put on a pretense and said, "Is that intentional absence, intentional disobedience of my order?"

"Yes, Captain!"

Li Xiao nodded, and said loudly: "Then record it, report it to the Military Law Office, and punish them for disobeying orders!"

"Yes, company commander!" Boris immediately made a record as he did in the previous rehearsal.

In fact, this is all negotiated. According to Vishniak,

None of the eight people is good, either they are the lackeys of Mesadov and Kutepov, or they are corrupt and lazy idiots. None of these people can be used. The best thing to do is to find an excuse to clean them all up.

In addition, this is also a warning to the monkeys. The soldiers of the Second Company are not all good people.

"The meeting is now officially opened!" Li Xiao recited his lines solemnly. There was no other way, his Russian was too poor, so he could only recite his lines for the time being, "First of all, let me introduce myself, I am Andrei Konstantilovich Romano Grand Duke Fu, is your new company commander. Yes, you guessed it right, my uncle is His Majesty Emperor Nicholas I."

This opening statement is still very shocking to ordinary soldiers. For them, the emperor and the grand duke are too far away from their lives. At most, they just look at the heads on the coins. Today, there is a living Grand Duke standing in front of them and talking to them. This experience is so novel!

For a moment, the soldiers were stunned, staring blankly at a certain Grand Duke like a goose. After a long time, those who were more knowledgeable in hard labor began to whisper to each other.

It's a pity that a certain Grand Duke couldn't understand Russian, and didn't know what these people were muttering, so he could only continue to recite his lines according to the script: "Gentlemen, first of all, I have to admit to you that my Russian is very bad. I don't understand what most people say. Because I didn't use Russian at all before, I never thought that I would one day communicate with people like you in Russian. Because I was told that you all It’s rubbish, it’s trash, it’s idiots, it’s unnecessary to talk to you, it’s a waste of time! Even talking to you will cause you to be infected with the plague, as long as you use a whip to drive you to work!”

After a pause, Li Xiao looked at the mood of the crowd. Sure enough, these guys were a little upset, but what he wanted to say was more than that:

"Gentlemen, to be honest, when I accepted this appointment, I was extremely reluctant, because the reputation of the 748 regiment is quite bad. In the official report, you were evaluated as scum and rubbish. I think I am an excellent person, I don't want to be with scum and garbage. So I don't want to be your company commander, but for some reason I have to come, I have to be with you. To be honest, it makes me very sad, because I don't want to be Become the same garbage and scum as you!"

Li Xiao glanced at the soldiers again, his speech firmly held the hatred firmly without any accident, and no one was distracted, he was very satisfied with the effect.

It's just that Vishniak and Boris next to him were not as calm as someone else. They noticed that many soldiers had shown angry expressions, and they were really sweating for someone, worried that someone was doing something wrong. Playing with fire!