Chapter 1267 The Secret of Success
This is no lie. As the descendants of Nicholas II, the three people are obviously much more knowledgeable than ordinary people. Although Russia's economy and industry rank relatively behind among the great powers, this is only compared with other great powers.
As for Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, they have lived in St. Petersburg for a long time. As the most economically developed region in Russia, St. Petersburg is not far behind in terms of construction compared with other European countries.
However, this trip to East Africa still allowed them to intuitively see the huge gap between Russia and East Africa, which also starts with their route to East Africa.
The three of them headed to East Africa. In order to avoid the war zone, they did not choose to set off from the Baltic Sea. After all, the west side of the Baltic Sea passed through German waters.
Ukraine and Eastern Europe are also on the front lines of the war, so when the three arrived in East Africa, they chose a route from the eastern Black Sea port.
From St. Petersburg to the Black Sea coast, you must pass through the hinterland of Russia. The further east you go, the worse the economic and industrial development level is. This also led the three to see the true national conditions of Russia to a certain extent.
After arriving in East Africa, what I saw and heard along the Central Railway was in sharp contrast to the real situation I had seen in Russia before.
Of course, East Africa must be a bit weak in this way. After all, the East African Central Railway has always been the most economically developed area in East Africa. This has a bit of a Tianji horse racing feel.
It is naturally impossible for Maria and the three of them to understand the mystery hidden in it. After all, they lack understanding of the national conditions of East Africa.
Alexei said: "I feel that East Africa is much more advanced than Russia, especially along the railway lines. Farms in East Africa generally use tractors, cars and other machinery, but they are rare in Russia, even though it is winter in Russia at this time."
Winter naturally means that agricultural activities in Russia basically stop, but as a tropical country, East Africa naturally has no such concerns.
Therefore, comparing the busy farming period in East Africa with the slack farming period in Russia does not explain much, but my family knows their own business, and the cars on the East African farms cannot fool anyone. It is not because it is winter in Russia that the country's cars have stopped. .
Of course, this mainly refers to cargo vehicles, not cars. If the number of cars is greater than the number of cars, Russia will lose miserably.
"The penetration of electricity in East Africa is obviously much better than that in Russia. We have seen a large number of power facilities in East Africa. Basically every village along the central railway has been electrified. However, the electrification level of cities and small towns in East Africa is very low. Even more amazing.”
"You can basically see wires and poles everywhere, intertwined into a complex power grid, and there are a lot of electrical equipment and lines on both sides of the railway that we can't understand the purpose of."
"This is even more exaggerated in big cities. The degree of electrification in Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, and Rhine City is even more astonishing. In East Africa, electricity has become a necessity for thousands of households."
The word electrification is naturally a vocabulary Alexey learned from Maxim. Alexey and other members of the Russian royal family are actually no strangers to the popularization of electricity.
But they clearly know that there is a huge gap between Russia and East Africa in this regard. After all, only cities in Russia have the conditions to promote popularization of electricity.
In most areas of Russia, gas lamps, kerosene lamps, candles, and perhaps even firewood are still used for lighting. At night, most areas of Russia will be plunged into darkness.
However, East Africa has a large amount of electricity to supply the street lights on the streets at night, which makes the big cities in East Africa basically become cities that never sleep.
"After entering the 20th century, the concept of nationwide electrification was proposed. Subsequently, through government leadership, a large number of new power facilities were built across the country, allowing East Africa's power generation to continue to reach new highs."
"So the current achievements in electrification in East Africa are just a few steps ahead of other countries. As the times develop, other countries should be able to catch up in the future." "Just like the first industrial revolution, the final It will only start in the UK, but over time it will spread to other parts of the world."
Maxim is not lying. After all, Germany, the United States, and even France are not bad in research in the field of electricity, but their promotion and popularization efficiency is not as fast as in East Africa.
Especially in the construction of electric power field in the morning, investment in East Africa is quite large, which is unmatched by other countries, although they have many electric power companies.
But comparing these power companies with state machinery like East Africa, it is obvious that the latter can achieve huge results in a short period of time.
After all, enterprises have to bear risks in the early stage. If they are not careful, they may lose money and lead to bankruptcy. However, when a state machine like East Africa promotes the electrification process, its ability to bear risks is much stronger.
What's more, investment in the power sector is definitely beneficial overall, so the East African government doesn't care about some early failures and minor risks.
Princess Maria said: "Compared with your country, Russia's development progress in some areas is indeed unsatisfactory, and East Africa has always been a major power country in the world. We in Russia have many electronic products, and equipment is also imported from East Africa."
Worldwide, East Africa is relatively well-known for its development in the power and electrical appliance industries. After all, East Africa has ranked first in the world in this field for more than ten consecutive years.
Although Ernst founded the Hechingen Consortium early and laid out the power industry, the real explosion of the power and electrical appliance industry in East Africa was in the late 1990s.
This period was also when East African education began to bear fruit. A large number of overseas students returned to the country, the construction of local universities, the popularization of compulsory education, the introduction of talents in related fields from various countries, and other factors, etc., allowed East Africa to finally open up with the United States in the early 20th century. The gap between the two countries in Germany.
In the last century, the United States, Germany and East Africa were actually competitive in the electric power field. After all, East Africa started late and had a weak industrial base, especially a relative lack of talent.
And all the turning points seem to have happened after the South African War. It can be said that the South African War was the battle for the national destiny of East Africa. Since the South African War, the development of East Africa has been out of control.
In just over 20 years, it is absolutely an astonishing miracle to catch up with the United States and the United States to become the world's largest industrial country. After all, in the early 1990s, the United States had just seized the world's largest industrial country from the British. The seat of the great industrial nation.
It is not unexpected that the United States has become the world's largest industrial country. It can even be taken for granted. After all, it took more than two hundred years for the United States to become the world's largest industrial country from its founding.
Even if East Africa's colonial history is included, it only lasted half a century. In a true sense, it took only a few decades to complete the path that other countries took hundreds of years to complete.
Of course, the most important thing to thank for this is the generosity of "black people". Without their "selfless dedication", East Africa would not have been able to easily obtain such a vast and fertile land, let alone tens of millions of free labor at almost no cost. .
The "selfless contributions" of tens of millions of black people over the past few decades are the basic factor for the rapid economic and industrial development in East Africa in the past few decades. They have helped East Africa complete land reclamation and engineering construction at the minimum cost, relying on "black slaves" East Africa completed the primitive accumulation of capital.
This was also the reason why East Africa was able to promote the first two five-year plans at the beginning of the 20th century, and thus rapidly expanded its industrial scale in a short period of time, making East Africa quickly become an industrial power.
If there had not been decades of oppression and exploitation of tens of millions of black slaves, it would have taken decades for East Africa to achieve what it is today, and it would also have to bear the risk of regime collapse. After all, immigrants are not like black slaves. East African governments can be exploited.
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