"Mr. Master, do you know why many nations in this world cannot enter industrial civilization? Or even if they enter industrial civilization, they are not doing very well?" asked Director Wang.

Ulangeli was stunned and shook his head subconsciously. At this time, Director Wang said in a very rude way, "Just like Tsarist Russia, it is nominally an industrial country. In fact, everyone knows that it is just a backward agricultural country that has just gotten rid of slavery!"

"You want to do industry? It's too difficult, just the strength of your country's industry... Hahaha..." Director Wang couldn't help but laugh.

"You!" Ulan Gary was immediately angry, "I respect you as a senior Chinese official, but you can never insult my motherland!"

"Oh...sorry, I'm really sorry...but isn't what I said true?"

"How many cities and regions are there in the huge Tsarist Russia that can produce industrial products now? IMHO, it is all concentrated in Europe, Moscow and St. Petersburg, right?"

"The rest of the areas are vast agricultural and animal husbandry areas, starting from Central Asia to the east, where you can't even produce a screw!"

"And even if your European industrial zone is far worse than that of Germany and the United Kingdom... And to this point, your strength is not as good as ours!"

"No, no, don't be angry. After listening to me, I really don't mean to humiliate you. I'm just explaining a fact!"

"How has the production capacity of the rear-mounted artillery increased? Are you cheaper than Krupp? Is it efficient? Is it powerful? These problems come together and become the most deadly key point!"

"Do your industrial products have market competitiveness? Faced with the impact of the industrial impact of the United Kingdom and Germany, can your products not be stopped?"

One sentence made Ulan Geli pale, and he couldn't say a word, and there was no way to refute it!

Director Wang said that rightly, Tsarist Russia now looks like an extremely powerful empire on the surface, but the internal problems are also very serious. People who don’t know how to do business think this country is terrible and cruel and cannot be defeated. However, for those professionals, this country is too weak!

Weakness actually means weakness lies in industrialization! Originally, Tsarist Russia was later in industrialization than in Western Europe, and the social system was also changed later. Now that the serfs have just been liberated, the main economy of the entire country is actually agriculture and animal husbandry!

Tsarist Russia can produce muskets and cannons. Nowadays, the rear-mounted cannons can also be produced, but what can be produced does not mean that you can be on par with Germany and Britain in industrialization!

Your industrial products cost higher than others, the output is lower than others, and the quality is worse than others, so your weapons and equipment will no longer have international competitiveness!

Whether it is your weapons or industrial products, you can only digest production in China. As long as you can buy good products from Germany and the United Kingdom in other countries, who wants yours?

A serious consequence of this is that your country's industry does not have the ability to make profits and you cannot make money, so you can only rely on internal digestion to barely maintain development!

"Haha... all the profits of your industry only come from the domestic market, and international market trade can only make some small money in some more backward Central Asia and the Middle East!"

"Even countries in East Asia will not choose your industrial products! Don't be dissatisfied. Are your rear-loading guns competitive with our Chinese imitation Mauser?"

"You are the minister, you should have done business intelligence. Our cost is half of yours, and the quality is slightly higher than you... Who do you think consumers will choose?"

"Our Northern Industrial Zone has been making profits. Remember that we are making money! And what about you? It's just a bleak business, very bleak..."

Ulangeli's face turned red and white for a while, "Well... that's only temporary. Our great Tsar and great country will sooner or later change this situation!"

"Yes, it will change sooner or later, but you are changing, and we are changing too! Don't you want to hear my point of view?"

Ulangeli stopped talking and nodded silently!

"Haha... Actually, your question was one of the answers just now. You are definitely clean in the city and the streets are neat just to look good?"

"Wrong, we are reshaping the spirit of the people!"

Director Wang looked out the window and said, "Please look carefully. Such a lively street seems to be very chaotic, but everyone is in order. Drive on the right, and the vehicles give way to pedestrians. No one dares to touch the strict sanitation law..."

"Behind the appearance of freedom, there are actually invisible ropes that restrict these people and make them understand the rules!"

"Why do people understand these little rules that seem useless? Spitting, urinating and defecating anywhere, driving on the left, not giving way to pedestrians, and even cursing people with dirty words... aren't these all moral issues?"

"Why do we use the law to strictly suppress their immorality?"

Director Wang asked and answered, "Actually, it's just a sentence. We use these rules and regulations to restrain the people, so that they can transform from the ideas of agricultural society as quickly as possible and completely integrate into industrial civilization!"

"Mr. I don't know if you have your own farm. I think you had serfs in your home in the past! What do those serfs look like?"

Ulangeli tilted his head and thought, without saying anything!

"Haha, let me answer for you... People who grew up in agricultural society do not need to be too rigorous. As long as they can follow the basic solar terms of spring, summer, autumn and winter, they should sow seeds and harvest, and they will definitely have income!"

"Agricultural production does not require too fine-tuning! It is no big deal to be sown for a day or two, and the long and short ridges of tillage will not affect too much yield!"

"No matter how refined the planting is, you may encounter floods and droughts or locust plagues, or even a group of birds will take away your harvest. Everything is very rough, and refined is a joke!"

"In the long winter, people are bored and can only become lazy... The empty natural environment in the countryside also makes people as they please!"

"Whether it is spitting, urinating, or littering... there is no problem in rural areas. To be honest, there is no trash can for them to use!"

"Not to mention walking on the right, vehicles give way to pedestrians. You can walk around the entire field at will. There are few people and more land, so there is no need for any rules for traveling!"

"It's loose and do whatever you want. If you ask them to nail a row of nails, they won't be straight!"

"Think about it, is this the reality in your farm? And all these behavioral habits didn't matter in the past farming era!"
Chapter completed!