"Logistics! Tsarist Russia will never be able to solve the logistics problem. Even if the Trans-Siberian Railway is built, you will not be able to solve this terminal disease!"
Xiao Letian finally revealed his trump card. In fact, he didn't want to say so much. The few words just mentioned were enough to destroy all Wulan Geli'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 understands that he has to face not only a Tsarist Russian minister, but also the Tsar and countless noble elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg!
Unless the arrogance in their hearts is completely shattered, God knows if there will be a lunatic who will interfere with it!
He must completely dispel the idea of Tsarist Russia getting involved in the Far East and let them give up this thought!
In fact, the most important problem that prevents the development of the Russian Far East is logistics! There is no solution to this problem. The problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation are easy to solve. With the development of science and technology, these can be slowly reversed!
When the weather gets cold, you can use heating. In winter, you can’t grow vegetables and have a greenhouse. Fur is not enough to wear, so cotton can be used. In the future, artificial fibers can also solve the problem of people wearing clothes and keeping warm.
These difficulties can be improved little by little with the development of the times. Regardless of how well we do, at least there is no problem in maintaining urban life!
Just like Xiao Letian's previous 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 industry and commerce in this area can be maintained, but it cannot develop greatly and make him rich!
There is a very important reason for this, that is, logistics is too difficult!
Everyone knows that the purpose of developing industry is to increase productivity. But what are the benefits of increasing productivity? Just be able to create more products!
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!
Factories that are not profitable are destined to go bankrupt, and cities that cannot sustain profits are destined to decline!
To make goods profitable, on the one hand, we need to improve productivity and reduce unit costs; on the other hand, we also need to focus on...logistics costs!
Because the product will not fly to the customer's hands by itself, you have to transport it there. Even if the customer picks it up, the customer has to calculate the logistics cost!
Anyway, whether this logistics cost is charged to the producer or the customer, it still exists and cannot be erased!
This is interesting. Why does express delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai require free shipping? Why doesn’t Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi offer free shipping?
Why do express delivery fees to Tibet, Qinghai, and Xinjiang increase?
Isn’t it just a matter of distance and population? For these two reasons, there are many factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and customers are also concentrated. A large number of goods are transported in a centralized manner. In this way, the freight cost shared equally on each product will be very small, so merchants can definitely provide free shipping!
In other provinces, people calculate their accounts, and if they offer free shipping, they will lose money!
As for Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia... these vast and sparsely populated places, many small express delivery services are inaccessible, and logistics costs are very high!
Where is the Far East? The Far East is a vast and sparsely populated area. People in many small villages and towns pay very high freight costs to buy some daily necessities!
Moreover, in a vast and sparsely populated area, it will be difficult for Russian companies to obtain a large number of domestic orders. The smaller the output, the higher the cost of unit 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 Wenzhou’s small commodities, which have been transported tens of thousands of miles to be sold in Russia, can still be so cheap. Or is it cheaper than what the Russians produce themselves?
The reason for this is because China is a temperate country with a dense population, and Chinese companies have a huge domestic demand market to rely on!
Domestic demand and exports combined will greatly increase the production volume of enterprises!
The same is true for towels. Chinese companies place millions of orders as soon as they start production, while towel factories in the Far East can produce tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of towels at a time, which is considered a big order!
Can the cost be the same between a production scale of tens of millions and a production scale of hundreds of thousands?
That's why there is a strange phenomenon that Chinese products, including shipping costs, are cheaper than products from your own country!
Russia can only engage in state-led heavy industry, especially military products. It is really difficult to engage in light industry and compete with countries in temperate regions around the world!
It’s so difficult in the 21st century, let alone the 19th century. As long as the Chinese are given a little time and the industrial zones along the Yangtze River start to put into production, there will be a massive amount of high-quality and low-priced goods!
At that time, the Chinese people's livelihood products will be dumped in the Far East like crazy, and all the handicraft industries in Tsarist Russia will be wiped out. If you open a factory built by the Tsar, I will let you close down every one. Under free market competition, you are no match at all. !
Do you, the Czar, still want a Far East region that is constantly losing money? If you think about it carefully, do you still want it?
What do you want in Vladivostok? Are you really a natural war maniac, so you want to build a Pacific Fleet to start a war with the United States? Go to war with Asian countries?
What is the purpose of war? Isn't it for profit, for the commercial interests of the country?
But the products you export from Vladivostok can’t compete with our Chinese products? You lose every time you sell a boat, and you lose every year you sell it. Are you prepared to lose money for hundreds of years?
How can you support the Pacific Fleet if you don't make any money? How to support the army in the Far East? Are you still drawing blood from Moscow? Your Tsarist Russia’s economy is about to collapse, how can you draw blood for hundreds of years?
I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it after three to five years of blood drawing!
What are you doing with the Trans-Siberian Railway? Isn’t the purpose of railways to make money? What is important is the circulation of goods, and the transportation troops have the function of passing by!
There are high-quality and low-priced products from our Chinese people all over Asia. Why do you think your Russian products are being shipped from Moscow? Transported here to seek death?
Are you addicted to losing money? Masochistic?
Of course you can never give up, and you can also draw immigrants from Europe to populate the Far East, but in the end, your population will always become China's economic vassal!
Their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and daily necessities will be heavily dependent on China's supplies! Don't fantasize about being self-sufficient. The cost of your products is too high and there is no competitiveness at all. If you open one, you will eventually die. In the final analysis, you still have to rely on us Chinese!
In the end, you can only become a resource exporting country, exporting coal, wood, non-ferrous metals and so on to us Chinese!
Industry will never be with you again!
At this point, Xiao Letian had completely blocked all avenues of survival for Ulan Geli. The silver-haired minister's vision went dark and he heard a snap, and he fell to the ground with his chair!
He was so frightened that he fainted!
