4425 Tsarist Russia's Destiny
"Logistics! You, Tsarist Russia, will never solve the logistics problem. Even if the Siberian Railway is built, you will not be able to solve this terminal illness!"
Xiao Letian finally threw out his killer move. In fact, he didn't want to say so much. The few of them just now were enough to destroy all Ulangeli's will to resist!
Xiao Letian had already seen the despair in his eyes. In the face of his irrefutable truth, his psychological defense collapsed, all the courage to resist was destroyed, and his pride was smashed to pieces!
Logically speaking, this is enough, but Xiao Letian understand that he has to face not only a Tsarist Russian minister, but also the Tsars and countless noble elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg!
If the arrogance in their hearts is not completely shattered, God knows if there will be a madman who will interfere!
He had to completely dispel Tsarist Russia's idea of influencing the Far East, so that they could lose this thought!
In fact, the most important problem that the Russian Far East cannot develop is logistics! This is unsolvable. The problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation are easy to solve. With the development of technology, these can be slowly reversed!
When it is cold, you can turn on the heating system. You can’t grow vegetables and have a greenhouse in winter. If you don’t have enough fur, you can also use cotton. In the future, artificial fiber can also solve the problem of people keeping warm clothes.
With the development of the times, these difficulties can be improved bit by bit. Not to mention how good you do, at least there is no problem in maintaining urban life!
Just like Xiao Letian's past life, in the 21st century, there were a large number of cities with hundreds of thousands of people in the Far East, and some industries were also developed.
But as we all know, the industrial and commercial areas in this area can be maintained, but they cannot develop greatly and make them rich!
There is a very important reason here, that is, logistics is too difficult!
Everyone knows that the purpose of developing industry is to increase productivity, and what are the benefits of improving productivity? It is to create more commodities!
The purpose of creating goods is not to do good and give them away for free. The purpose of creating goods is to sell and make profits!
A factory without profit is destined to go bankrupt, and a city without profits is destined to decline!
On the one hand, commodity profits need to increase productivity and reduce unit costs, while on the other hand, we need to focus on the issue of logistics costs!
Because the goods will not fly to the customer by themselves, you have to transport them. Even if the customer picks up the goods themselves, the customer has to calculate the logistics cost!
Anyway, this logistics cost is always on the head of the producer or the customer, and cannot be erased!
This is interesting. Why do express delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai require free shipping? Why don’t there be free shipping in Hebei, Henan and Shaanxi?
Why do express delivery in Tibet, Qinghai and Xinjiang need to increase freight?
Isn’t it just a matter of distance and population? For these two reasons, there are many factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and then customers are concentrated and a large number of goods are transported in a centralized manner. In this way, the freight fee will be very small when spread to each item, so merchants can completely ship free!
Other provinces settle accounts, but if they have free shipping, they will lose money!
As for Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia... These places with vast land and sparsely populated areas, many small express delivery are not available, and the logistics cost is very high!
Where is the Far East? The Far East is a super-large and sparsely populated area. Many people in small villages and towns pay a very high shipping cost for buying some daily necessities!
Moreover, the vast and sparsely populated areas will make it difficult for Russian companies to obtain a large number of domestic demand orders. The smaller the output, the higher the cost per unit of goods!
The higher the price, the less competitive the product is!
This can actually explain one of the main reasons why Russia's light industry is so weak!
Many people don’t understand why small commodities in Wenzhou are so cheap when transported to Russia for tens of thousands of miles? Or are they cheaper than those produced by the Russians themselves?
The reason for this is because China is a temperate country with a dense population, and Chinese companies themselves have a huge domestic demand market to rely on!
Domestic demand and exports combined have greatly increased the production volume of enterprises!
For the same towel, Chinese companies start to start working with millions of orders, while towel factories in the Far East can start production of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands at a time, even if it is a big order!
Can the production scale of tens of millions be the same as the production scale of hundreds of thousands?
That's why there is a strange phenomenon that Chinese products plus shipping costs are cheaper than your own products!
Russia can only engage in heavy industries dominated by states, especially military products. It is really difficult to compete with countries in temperate regions in the world!
The 21st century is so difficult, let alone the 19th century. As long as the Chinese are given a little time, the industrial areas along the Yangtze River will start to be put into production, and a large number of high-quality and low-priced goods will appear!
At that time, the Chinese people's livelihood products will be dumped in the Far East like crazy. All your Tsarist handicrafts will be destroyed. If you open a factory, I will let you go bankrupt. Under the competition in the free market, you will be no match!
In a Far East where you lose money endlessly, do you still want the Tsar? Think about it carefully, do you still want it?
What are you doing with Vladivostok? It’s really a natural war-crazy man. I’m going to fight the United States by setting up a Pacific fleet? I’m going to fight with Asian countries?
What is the purpose of war? Isn’t it for the sake of interests and for the business interests of our country?
But the goods exported from Vladivostok cannot beat the Chinese products? You will lose one ship if you sell one ship. If you sell one year, you will lose one year. How many hundred years are you going to lose?
If you don’t have money, how do you raise the Pacific Fleet? How do you raise the Far East Army? Are you still drawing blood from Moscow? Your Tsarist Russian economy is about to collapse. Can you draw blood for hundreds of years?
I'm afraid you can't bear it if you smoke three or five years of blood!
What are you doing with the Siberian Railway? Isn’t the railway just to make money? What you want is the circulation of goods. The transportation troops are the function of carrying feet!
I, the Chinese people, are filled with cheap and affordable products in Asia. You said you are Russian products, why are you transported from Moscow? Are you transporting them to seek death?
Are you addicted to losing money? Are you masochistic?
Of course you can never give up. You can also immigrate from Europe to fill the Far East, but your population will always become an economic vassal of China in the end!
Their food, clothing, housing and transportation, and daily necessities will seriously rely on China's supply! Don't fantasize about being self-sufficient. Your products are too expensive and you have no competitiveness at all. You will die in the end. In the final analysis, you still have to rely on us Chinese!
In the end, you can only become a resource exporter, exporting some coal, wood, non-ferrous metals and so on to us Chinese!
Industry will never be destined to you again!
At this point, Xiao Letian completely blocked all the way for Ulangeli. The silver-haired minister had a black look in front of him and he fell to the ground with a chair!
Chapter completed!