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041 Terrible bureaucracy

100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters...

Even the half-coated infantry under Li Wei's command knew that the first three-row volley was extremely powerful, and Resarith and his command naturally understood this truth.

In other words, all the elites of this era are pursuing the first shot and firing at the closest possible distance, except for those "barbarians" in Eastern Europe!

For example, the representative of the Tsarist Russian Empire did not pursue the first shooting. The reason is that the flintlock rifle made by the Tsarist Russian Empire ranks first among the European powers...the last!

The quality of the flintlock rifle was too poor, which led to the Tsarist Russian Empire rarely pursuing the effect of volleys, which formed a combat style with a very different environment between the Tsarist Russian Empire and Europe - bullets are cowards, and bayonets are heroes!

The slogan was shouted very loudly, to put it bluntly, it was just that the Russians wanted to cover up the flaws that their guns were all fake and inferior products.

The quality of guns in the Tsarist Russian Empire was too poor, not only because of the insufficient industrial foundation, but also closely related to the "European No. 1 Corruption" bureaucratic system of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

Because the Tsarist Russian Empire was the country that was most similar to the Eastern centralized system among the European powers, which means that the power of the country was concentrated in the emperor.

In the Tsarist Empire, the power of the Tsar was really not far from that of the emperors of the Eastern Empire.

Centralization means that the main regulatory forces in the country rely on the bureaucratic system rather than the feudal system.

A class like bureaucrats is very prone to corruption and degeneration. At least, the aristocratic class will pay attention to its reputation in its fiefdom. People are shameless!

However, the bureaucrats have no such concern, because the bureaucrats represent the country and the monarch. If the bureaucrats ruin things, everyone will instinctively put the blame on the monarch and the country.

Even in later generations, there are countless such things. Common people know that the injustice is everywhere in society, but the people like to complain about the government and the country, not the senior officials of a certain government, and even most ordinary people don’t even know the names of government officials. How can they complain?

Since the country takes the blame for doing something wrong, these bureaucrats will naturally become unscrupulous and will not even lose their worries that will be in trouble for thousands of years!

Therefore, the bureaucratic system is more likely to produce corrupt officials than the feudal system, but it is a necessary means of centralization.

Because the bureaucrats have no support, have no fiefdom, and will not be hereditary (those who go through the back door do not count), they will not make a big profit during their term of office. Once they step down, what else can they be left?

The reason why people walk away from tea is not only common in the East, but also in Western society!

Among the European powers during this period, the monarchy and authority of the Tsarist Russian Empire was the highest. Even if there were nobles in the country, the rights of the nobles became increasingly slight under the means of many Tsar emperors.

Even the Tsarist Russian nobles, in order to continue to enjoy the rights, had to take the initiative to assimilate into the domestic bureaucracy and lick the Tsar Emperor's butt!

In the Tsarist Russian Empire, no one dared not to lick the Tsarist emperor. The monarch of the Tsarist Russian Empire only needed one sentence to make a small person soar, and his power was not inferior to that of the unified centralized dynasty in the East.

The political form of the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Eastern Empire is so similar, which has a lot to do with the fact that the Principality of Moscow was ruled by the Mongols. To put it bluntly, most of the methods of centralization of the Russians learned from the Mongols.

The Mongols learned the unification of politics from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

War and expansion are often accompanied by the spread of civilization and institutions.

On the contrary, European regions such as Central Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, and other European regions have not been conquered by the Mongols, and the original feudal system has been completely preserved, and even the Renaissance has not been destroyed.

If the emperors of the Tsarist Russian Empire were extremely wise, they might be able to manage the corruption of domestic bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, in history, there are often much more mediocre monarchs than wise monarchs, not to mention that many wise monarchs only have achievements in expanding their territory, which does not mean that they are also extremely wise in internal affairs.

In addition, Tsarist Russia did not learn the means of restricting and supervising the bureaucratic group under its command during the Ming and Qing dynasties, which led to the continuous growth of the bureaucratic class of the Tsarist Russian Empire, but there was no effective supervision agency.

Later, even though some regulatory departments were added, they changed the soup and did not change the medicine, but there were only a group of bureaucrats who divided the spoils.

This made it possible for the bureaucratic class of the Tsarist Russian Empire to deceive the subordinates and hide the superiors, and the authority of the Tsar was entirely dependent on the monarch's personal ability. Tsars with insufficient personal ability were often deceived by those treacherous ministers, and the court was full of corrupt officials who were flattered and flattered.

However, once the Tsarist Russian Empire has a generation of wise rulers, it will rise rapidly. This is how several major expansions in the history of the Tsarist Russian Empire came about.

The same centralized system as the Eastern dynasty allows the Tsarist Russian Empire to concentrate all its national and manpower to launch wars, plunder and conquer to the greatest extent under the leadership of the wise king!

To put it bluntly, it is a country ruled by voices and whose war efficiency is much higher than that of the parliamentary system and feudal system.

The quality of the old Russian muskets is too poor, so they can only play the tactic of 300-meter bayonet charge, and use their bravery to make up for the insufficient performance of the musket.

This tactic is actually very successful. After all, people are afraid of the army that dares to charge with guns.

Of course, this tactic is also a strategy to cooperate with the inferior muskets produced in the Tsarist Russian gun factories, which have a sales strategy.

The name is to revitalize national industry. To put it bluntly, it is worrying that high-quality arms abroad will impact the domestic inferior arms market, thereby delaying the Tsarist Russian bureaucrats.

The profits of arms are quite high, and the majority of the payment is the national finance. Not to mention how comfortable it is to be greedy...

In fact, many European industrial products during this period were unable to enter Tsarist Russia, which was related to the trade barrier policy implemented by the bureaucratic class of Tsarist Russia in order to protect their own "vegetable garden".

Once high-quality products from European countries enter the country of Tsarist Russia, only fools will buy high-priced and low-quality domestic products!

Most of these high-priced and low-quality domestic goods have entered the pockets of the bureaucratic group of Tsarist Russia. The bureaucratic group of Tsarist Russia never cared about a healthy market economy. They only value who gave them the rich red envelopes!

However, the quality of the muskets used by the Bavarian Corps in Resarith is not low, and they still have traditional tactical styles.

Thanks to the fame of the British, everyone understands the importance of the first shot.

After all, the flintlock rifle is not using smokeless gunpowder now. After the first round of volleys, a large number of muskets will be fired at the same time, forming a thick white smoke area, affecting the shooting range and reducing the hit rate of the next shooting.
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