Ignoring Wulan Geli's surprised gaze, Xiao Letian fired his combination punch. He once again proved that the most powerful weapon in the world than a cannon is...the truth!
That’s right, what is the biggest in the world? It’s always the right thing to do!
Of course Tsarist Russia can display its force unscrupulously, but what if you rule Vladivostok and the Far East forever? It’s still a bitter and cold Far East, and you still don’t have the population to be a powerful country?
Can the presence or absence of Chinese ethnic groups really change the destiny of your country?
The birth rate of the population in the cold zone is too low. This is an unsolvable problem. Even in the 21st century, after World War II, and in the world before Xiao Letian traveled through, how many people were there in the vast Far East?
Siberia covers an area of more than 10 million square kilometers and has a total population of just over 10 million. This population is completely like pepper noodles in a pot of soup. If you sprinkle a little bit of it, it will be gone!
Among the population of more than 10 million, excluding the elderly and children, half are women and half are men. Most women do not have to work, although men can work!
But how educated are these people? How complex industrial production can it be responsible for?
Not to mention that this nation also has a serious alcohol problem due to the cold, and its rough character is very impatient with meticulous industrial production!
Russian industrial products have always been world-famous for being dark and thick, so where is the refinement?
The 21st century has been so difficult. Now at the end of the 19th century, only Germany and the United Kingdom in the world have launched compulsory education. Why did Tsarist Russia not even complete the revolution to abolish serfdom?
How many suitable educated workers can we have to complete the industrial revolution? In the Far East, even if your tsar built a new type of factory, how many suitable workers could you recruit?
How can your industry develop without workers?
The above analysis is all based on the fact that there is no challenge to the military power of Tsarist Russia. Even if you develop peacefully, you will encounter such big problems, not to mention that now that the Chinese have risen, Xiao Letian is eyeing your every move as a polar bear. It's moving!
How to deal with it? Xiao Letian had no intention of humiliating Tsarist Russia today. He was just like a university professor and a scholar, patiently reasoning with Ulan Geli!
There is a smile on your face and your words are full of politeness, but all the words combined together form a truth that you cannot refute!
The truth is the greatest, and the truth is more powerful than a cannon!
Wulan Geli was already dumbfounded. He was completely shocked by the scene Xiao Letian described. He finally discovered the core secret of Xiao Letian's rise!
This man understands the human world more comprehensively and completely than anyone else!
The entire human world is displayed in front of him like lines on the palm of your hand. No matter what questions you have, he can easily open his palm and tell you the answer and the truth!
You couldn't argue with him, there was irrefutable truth shining through all his smiles!
His family had been aristocrats of Tsarist Russia for several lifetimes, and they were all large manor owners. He thought he was already very familiar with the motherland!
But in front of Xiao Letian, Wu Langeli suddenly felt ashamed of being naked!
What can you say? Their understanding and analysis of Tsarist Russia is deeper than that of your Tsarist Russian nobles! What people are talking about is the biggest strategic shortcoming of your nation!
You can't deny it! Even many of their opinions and theories are mind-blowing to you, which you have never thought of before!
The population problem is a catastrophic problem. This problem cannot be solved by the Tsar or God. It could not be solved in the 19th century, and it will still not be solved in the 21st century!
The land is so vast and so sparsely populated! Just this rare word has become the biggest obstacle for Tsarist Russia to become prosperous and powerful!
"Are you, the elites of Tsarist Russia, fantasizing about gathering the entire population of Siberia into a dozen cities to form an industrial belt with a population of one million?"
"Well! I can tell you responsibly that this is delusion..."
Xiao Letian picked up the wine bottle and filled a glass for Ulan Geli. He poured the wine and said with a smile, "If you do that, the Far East will be lost faster!"
"Why? First of all, since you have taken so much land, you must ensure effective control... and controlling an area proves that it is your territory. What does it rely on? It depends on the population!"
"What will happen if a large area of grassland and forest is uninhabited for a long time? Then the population of other countries and nationalities will infiltrate there! You will still lose these lands!"
"You are too greedy. You are reluctant to throw away such a large amount of land, so you cannot concentrate the population. As soon as you start to relocate, the loss of land will begin!"
"Have you heard of the story of the Three Kingdoms period? Have you heard of Sima Yi? Hey... you really should read the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms!"
"Sima Yi once made an expedition to the Liaohe area, which is now the area of Liaoning outside the Pass... Although he quelled the rebellion, he moved all the Han people in the Liaohe area back to the Great Wall after the war!"
"That is, from that time on, the land outside the Pass began to escape the control of the Han people. It has always been the ups and downs of ethnic minorities. Even the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty..."
"We have nominal sovereignty over these lands, but the population structure has never been able to change, so we can only rule on the surface, and it will never sink down to the grassroots!"
"You are facing the same problem now. If you urbanize, it will create a vacuum in many areas. The population here is too small, only four to five million people, and it only takes five or six cities together!"
"The rest of the land will definitely be free for us, the surrounding ethnic groups!"
"How much land you have on the map is absolutely different from how much land you can actually control, don't you think?"
"Okay, let me talk about the second point... Even if you can concentrate the population into one or two super cities to develop industry, how can you support such a big city?"
"With the current level of science and technology, can the Far East afford a living?"
"I just said that the cold zone is different from the tropics. Whether you are farming or fishing and hunting, the food production is very low!"
"With the same land area, the cold zone can support the smallest population! To give a simple example, in our Chinese settlement area in Borneo, rice is harvested three times a year!"
"How many people can we feed on this hectare of land?"
"But in the cold Siberian region, what can you grow on one hectare of land? How much prey can you hunt? How many people can you support on the same hectare?"
"Sir, do you know how to provide food, drink, and diarrhea in a city with a population of one million? Can you solve these food problems by yourself?"
"Can the radius of these big cities support millions of people? Our Jiangnan in China can do it, our tropical Borneo can do it...but your Far East can't!"
"You can't support such a big city, so you can only rely on imported materials from outside to feed the citizens!"
"Hahaha... This brings us to a more terrifying problem!"
