18th century total war

Chapter 41 The Horrible Bureaucracy
100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters...

Even the half-line infantry under Li Wei's command knew the power of the three-column volley of the first shot, and Lesarit and his corps naturally understood this truth.

In other words, all the elites of this era are pursuing the first shot to fire at the shortest possible distance, except for those 'barbarians' in Eastern Europe!
For example, the representative of the Tsarist Russian Empire did not pursue the first shot. There is no other reason. The quality of the flintlock guns made by the Tsarist Russian Empire ranks first among the European powers... the bottom!
The quality of the flintlock guns was so poor that the Tsarist Russian Empire seldom pursued the effect of salvo, which formed the combat style of the Tsarist Russian Empire which was completely different from the European environment-bullets are cowards, bayonets are heroes!
The slogan was chanted quite loudly. To put it bluntly, it was just the old man trying to cover up the defect that his firearms were all fake and inferior.

The poor quality of firearms in the Russian Empire is not only due to the lack of industrial base, but also inseparable from the bureaucratic system of the "Europe's No. [-] Corruption" in the Russian Empire.

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

In the Tsarist Russian Empire, the power of the tsar was not much different from that of the emperor of the Eastern Empire.

Centralization means that the main regulatory force in the country relies on the bureaucracy rather than the feudal system.

A class like the bureaucracy is very prone to corruption and depravity. The aristocratic class will still pay attention to their reputation in their own fiefdoms. Everyone has a face!

However, bureaucrats have no such scruples, because bureaucrats represent the country and the monarch. If bureaucrats mess things up, everyone will instinctively blame the monarch and the country.

Even in later generations, there will be countless such things. Common people know that injustice is everywhere in society, but what people like to complain most is the government and the country, not a certain high-ranking government official. Most people even don’t even know the names of government officials. Talk about Why complain?
Since the country is responsible for doing something wrong, these bureaucrats are naturally unscrupulous when they become greedy, and they don't even have to worry about the future of their stigma!

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

Because bureaucrats are helpless, have no fiefs, and are not hereditary (those who use the back door are not counted), they do not make a lot of money during their tenure. Once they step down and lose their rights, what is left?
The principle of taking tea to cool down is not only common in the East, but also in Western society!

Among the European powers in this period, the monarchy of the Tsarist Russian Empire was the highest. Even if there were nobles in the country, the rights of the nobles became more and more negligible under the means of many tsars.

Even the nobles of Tsarist Russia, in order to continue to enjoy their rights, had to take the initiative to assimilate into the domestic bureaucratic class, kneeling and licking the Tsar's ass!
In the Tsarist Russian Empire, no one dared not to lick the Tsarist King. The monarch of the Tsarist Russian Empire only needs a word to make a humble person rise to prosperity, and the power is not weaker than the centralized dynasty of the Eastern Great Unification.

The similarity between the political forms of the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Eastern Empire 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 used by the old Maozi to centralize power were learned from the Mongols.

The unified politics of the Mongols was learned from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

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

On the contrary, European regions such as Central Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and Southern Europe, because they were not conquered by the Mongols, the original feudal system was completely preserved, and even the Renaissance did not collapse.

If the emperor of the Tsarist Russian Empire was extremely wise, he might be able to manage the corruption of domestic bureaucrats.

It's a pity that there are often many more Yongjun than Mingjun in history, not to mention that many Mingjun are only successful in opening up territories, which does not mean that they are also extremely wise in internal affairs.

In addition, Tsarist Russia did not learn the methods used by the Eastern royal family to restrict and supervise the bureaucratic groups in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As a result, the bureaucratic class of the Tsarist Russian Empire continued to grow, but there was no effective supervisory organization.

Even if some regulatory departments were added later, it was just a new batch of bureaucrats who shared the spoils.

This made the bureaucratic class of the Tsarist Russian Empire deceive others, and the authority of the tsar depended entirely on the personal ability of the monarch. The tsar who lacked personal ability was often deceived by those treacherous officials, and the court was full of corrupt officials who sycophant.

However, once the Tsarist Empire gave birth to a wise king, it would rise rapidly. This is how the several major expansions in the history of the Tsarist Russian Empire came about.

The same centralization system as the Eastern Dynasty allowed the Tsarist Russian Empire, under the leadership of Mingjun, to concentrate all the national power and manpower to the greatest extent to launch wars, plunder and conquer!

To put it bluntly, it is a country ruled by voice, and the efficiency of fighting wars is much higher than that of the parliamentary system and the enfeoffment system.

The quality of Lao Maozi's musket is too poor, so he can only play the 300-meter bayonet charge tactic, using bravery to make up for the lack of performance of the musket.

This tactic was actually very successful. After all, people were afraid of the troops who dared to charge with guns.

Of course, this tactic is also a strategy to cooperate with the gun factories in Tsarist Russia to sell the inferior muskets produced by them.

The euphemistic name is to revitalize the national industry. To put it bluntly, it is worried that high-quality foreign arms will impact the domestic low-quality arms market, thereby delaying the bureaucrats of Tsarist Russia.

The profit of arms is quite high, and the big part of paying the bill is the national finance, not to mention how comfortable it is to be greedy...

In fact, many industrial products in Europe during this period could not enter Tsarist Russia, which was related to the trade barrier policy implemented by the bureaucratic class of Tsarist Russia in order to keep their own "vegetable garden".

Once high-quality products from European countries entered Tsarist Russia, only fools would buy domestic products with high prices and low quality!

Most of the profits from these high-priced but low-quality domestic products go into the pockets of the bureaucracy of Tsarist Russia. The bureaucracy of Tsarist Russia never cares about a healthy market economy. They only care about who gives them a generous red envelope!

However, the quality of the muskets used by Lessarit's Bavarian Corps was not low, and they still used traditional tactics.

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

After all, flintlock guns do not use smokeless gunpowder nowadays. After the first round of salvo, due to the simultaneous firing of a large number of muskets, a thick white smoke area will be formed, which will affect the shooting range and reduce the hit rate of subsequent shots.

Thanks to Huo Ranguang for the reward of 100 starting coins.

(End of this chapter)