Struggle in Russia

Prince Mikhail's eyes stayed on the cooperation agreement that had just been reached with wet ink on it. In connection with Li Xiao's ability and pace when reaching this agreement, he felt that it might not be enough to just increase the attention, Li Xiao deserves special attention.

Judging from the abilities he has shown before, he is by no means a thing in the pool. The only thing that makes people feel bad is his bad relationship with Nicholas I's family. The narrow-minded family probably wouldn't watch Li Xiao show off his ambitions so easily. The better Li Xiao performed, the more severe the pressure he would face.

[This is really quite unlucky! 】

After Duke Mikhail sighed, he suddenly laughed again. He felt that Li Xiao's pressure from the royal family might not be a bad thing, or even a good thing, on the other hand.

why?

In Prince Mikhail's view, the leader of the future generation of the Gorchakov family must be Leonid. Although this child has personality defects, but in terms of ability, willpower and diligence, he is far ahead of other nephews.

While Leonid was working hard, those little bastards were probably having a good time. Playboys and sons-in-law cannot keep the family prosperous for a long time. This burden can only be carried by Leonid.

As for the relationship between Leonid and Li Xiao, if Li Xiao is too good, then it is inevitable that Leonid will never be the leading brother, and the position of the big brother can only be given to Li Xiao. But now Li Xiao has to face the suppression of the royal family, the more outstanding he is, the more he will be suppressed and excluded, and he will not be able to exert half of his strength.

In this way, he must rely on the Gorchakov family to maintain his survival and future, and then Leonid will inevitably be the eldest brother. For Prince Mikhail, this is undoubtedly better and more perfect.

Prince Mikhail snapped his fingers, thinking that Leonid, a silly boy, is really a fool and a fool has good fortune. This trip to the 748 regiment not only did not risk being marginalized, but laid a solid foundation for the future. correct! It also brought millions of rubles to the family.

Thinking about it this way, Duke Mikhail didn't care even more about the part of the profit that was given up to Li Xiao. Always give the horse a little sweetness!

For that agreement, the only resentment Prince Mikhail still had was Li Xiao's insistence. Li Xiao insisted on setting up a gun processing factory, importing lathes and machinery from England, and also asked to hire a group of foreign technicians.

To be honest, Prince Mikhail felt that this expense could be saved completely. There is absolutely no need to open any gun processing factory. According to his idea, Li Xiao's improved rifle can be charged as a "service fee" in the form of patent authorization, and the improvement work should be handed over to the state-owned gun factory to complete.

Although opening a firearms factory by yourself can make more money, it is also more troublesome. Prince Mikhail was more interested in making easy money than a few hard-earned bucks.

There are many other people like Prince Mikhail in Russia, and many even hold high positions. They don't see the power of industry, and they don't know that without industrialization in the future, they are like leeks, which can only be harvested by others.

Li Xiao would not make such a mistake. It is really not difficult to make a trap door rifle, and it is indeed hard work to do it yourself. But the beginning of any industrialization is to advance step by step from the handicraft workshop, and finally become an industrial monster.

If you feel tired of earning manual money now and just want to make quick money, then when the power of industrialization appears in the future, what will you follow up with? If you want technology but don't have technology, you need equipment but you don't have equipment, you want workers but you don't have workers, this is still gross industrialization.

It is really troublesome to introduce some equipment and technicians to set up a firearms processing factory now. The investment and cost are also slightly larger, but it is cost-effective in the long run. Maybe today this factory can only earn a bit of hard work money, but in the future it may be impossible to produce new rifles.

In the style of Russian officials and lords, the state of the state-owned firearms factory that has been behind for thousands of years,

It is absolutely impossible to keep up with the trend of the world. In the future, when the Russian army is fully equipped with new rifles and new bullets, who can compete with them for these orders?

What's more, making guns is the first step. In the future, guns may be built, and even ships may be built. Taking the first step now and having a good start is more important than anything else.

Li Xiao's ambitions are still great. The 19th and 20th centuries were a huge turning point, and one step ahead can lead step by step. As far as the mess of Russia is concerned, if you don’t lay the foundation quickly, you will really become a gas station pretending to be a superpower in the future!

Leonid also thought that Li Xiao's insistence was justified, he considered the issue from the perspective of a simple soldier.

"Judging from the current situation, our relationship with Britain and France is very tense. I noticed that newspapers in Britain and France began to attack, slander and discredit our country from various aspects. This is an obvious signal!"

"Obviously, there is a risk of war between us and Britain and France in the future... Once a war breaks out, our weapons and ammunition must be self-sufficient... But from your analysis, Andrei, as weapons become more and more advanced, the processing The technical requirements are also rising with the tide!"

"It is very likely that we can design sufficiently advanced weapons, but we cannot manufacture them. So we must have sufficient processing capacity... I have visited the state-run firearms factory. It is almost a large-scale workshop, which is far from the UK! Do it in advance Preparation is inevitable!"

The truth in Leonid's words is generally correct, but there are still many bad points. Li Xiao knew that Russia would not only be unable to manufacture qualified firearms in the future, but also would not be able to design them. The Mosin Nagan rifle, which has been used for seventy years, is actually a hybrid "hybrid".

At that time, the Russian government chose Captain Mosin's design out of national pride, but the Russian military preferred the sample gun of the Belgian Nagan brothers. In the end, the quarrel turned upside down and the two sides had to take a step back. The combination of Tuyang and Nagan hybridized the designs of Moxin and Nagan.

And it was this hybrid hybrid that the Russian Tula military factory couldn't handle at first. During the First World War, it once entrusted foreign allies to help produce rifles, otherwise the gray cattle in Russia would really go to the battlefield with bare hands.

It can be seen that Russia's backwardness is all-round. There are a lot of problems in both design and production, which is far less optimistic than Leonid thought. It's just that Li Xiao didn't expose this point, so let's give him some hope. At worst, he should work hard on his side and avoid the embarrassment in history.

Just when everything was happy, a sudden guest attracted Li Xiao's attention. The guest who came to visit Duke Mikhail suddenly was named Leo Tolstoy!