After listening to Sergei's explanation, Yang Meng was full of emotion. This place in Tsarist Russia is really a bit magical.

Is Tsarist Russia poor? It's really poor。。。。。。 But this is relative, especially Yang Meng walking in the Far East like this, just like walking in the Great West in the Han Kingdom.

Except for Moscow and St. Petersburg, the infrastructure of other places in Tsarist Russia can be expressed as 'miserable': Let's just say that this Ust-Kut railway station is known as one of the most beautiful railways along the Argentine-Dalian railway, how beautiful can it be? A former Soviet-style bungalow of more than 100 square meters is not as good as the railway station in their county seat when Yang Meng was a child.

However, each country has a different focus.

The focus of the Han state funds was on infrastructure, and if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, so the money spent is all kinds of high-speed rail construction, while Tsarist Russia is used for things like education and medical care.

Therefore, on the Tsarist side of Russia, education for all is free and medical care is free. However, this medical treatment is free and there is water---- they see a doctor for free, hospitalization is free, and even the tableware is free, but the medicine has to be paid for by themselves。。。。。。 This is all about public hospitals, and private hospitals pay for what they should pay, and they have to wait for weeks to go to the hospital and wait in line.

The same goes for schools, public schools are free, but how many wealthy families go to public schools?

There are many sayings on the Internet, saying that there is no water bill, free housing, free heating, and free land on the Tsarist side of Russia。。。。。。 These public knowledge is really interesting, what is it to tout Tsarist Russia and belittle the Han State?

In reality, this is not the case.

This Tsarist Russia is a federal state, and each local law is different, and there may be places like that, but the Tsarist Russians themselves have never heard of it. In Sergei's words: You are talking about heaven.

Let's just say that this Ust-Kut, heating is not free, and the capitation fee is charged according to the capitation, like Sergei's family of three almost has to pay more than 800 yuan for heating in a winter, and the reason why Valery moved to the suburbs is not that it is convenient for him to engage in machine repair services, but because it is cheap: they have about 300 yuan of water and electricity in winter, and the tap water is free.

It doesn't sound like much than the Han Kingdom, but the combined monthly income of Sergei and his wife is about 5,000 yuan, which is a high income here。。。。。。

The normal income here is about 1,000 a month!

They do provide hot water here without a water heater, but this is all for money! Hot water costs money, cold water costs money, heating costs money, and there is no free property fee, no sewage fee, repair fee。。。。。。 Anyway, you need to pay for it, pay for it, and pay for it. Life here is not as stressful as you think!

What's the bottom line?

The retirement benefits here are extremely poor!

The basic idea of retirement benefits here is: no matter what you do, the state will treat everyone equally after retirement, and only provide basic protection!

The pension benefits in the capital Moscow are the envy of the whole of Tsarist Russia: if you have worked, you will have a pension of about 1,500, and if you have never worked, you will have a pension of about 900. This is still the value that has just risen in 2018. And how much is the pension in remote Ust-kut? If you don't have a job, it's more than 300 yuan! If you have a job, you can ----- get 5 or 700. With such a low amount of money, you can basically live. How can it be as comfortable as the Han Kingdom? Young people 996, uncles and aunts square dance?

Just like Valery, a senior technician at the Irkutsk aircraft factory, he was able to go to Han as a technical support worker, and as a result, his pension after retirement was less than 1,000 yuan. Can he feel comfortable? This is what Sergei said about the stage when Valery used to drink every day to drown his sorrows.

But Valery is already very good, at least he can get drunk in a bar, but what about others? It's hard to live with such a low pension and still drink? And go to the bar to drink? Don't even think about it!

Kong Yiji asked for an fennel bean to drink in the tavern in the Han Kingdom, and if Kong Yiji was a Tsarist Russian, he would not have been able to enter the tavern at all!

Wine in Tsarist Russia is very expensive!

The cost of vodka is actually very cheap, this thing does not require brewing raw materials, all the raw materials that can be fermented grapes, barley, potatoes can be used to brew vodka, and Tsarist Russia is the world's largest barley producer and the largest barley exporter, potato production is the third in the world, so the cost is scary, a large bottle of vodka may cost no more than three cents!

But Tsarist Russia did the same way as the Han did with cigarettes, imposing heavy taxes. And the way they tax spirits is also interesting, that is, a fixed tax, which is 331 rubles per liter of spirits. That is to say, even if you have zero cost for this wine, you have to pay a tax of 331 rubles, counting transportation costs, labor costs, and store profits, so the cheapest vodka in the store is about 500 rubles a liter, which is almost 50 yuan (the cheap ones are all small bottles). In other words, if a person retires without a job, he can buy only five or six bottles of vodka a month on his monthly benefits!

The poorer the place, the more you can drink, what is this called? Get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows! And then over time, you will have alcohol dependence. I have alcohol dependence and can't afford to buy alcohol. What to do then?

Some time ago, an incident occurred that shocked the whole world: it was here in Irkutsk Oblast that there was an incident of alcohol poisoning, and many people drank a bath product containing alcohol, which led to the death of nearly 100 people!

In fact, this kind of thing is really normal in Tsarist Russia, just like when the Han Kingdom was poor, some people went to the hospital to prescribe Huoxiang Zhengqi water to drink in order to quench their alcohol addiction, and in Tsarist Russia, it is more hardcore, what bath gel, antifreeze, cologne, window cleaner, car antifreeze and the like are used to drink!

The culprit of the alcohol poisoning incident is called 'Buyo Yasnik', which is 'hawthorn' in Tsarist Russian, but it does not refer to the hawthorn we usually eat, but a kind of alcohol distilled from hawthorn extract.

In recent years, the economy of Tsarist Russia has been sluggish, and more and more people drink this substitute containing the ingredient of 'Buyoyasnik', which can only be purchased in pharmacies or supermarkets, and later there are even special vending machines hanging on the street to sell this thing------ just like the small iron box hanging on the street, but here it is not selling sets of sets but selling shower gel, small bottles of finger length, a thirty rubles. Don't underestimate this 'Buyo Yasnik', he has reached a 20 percent market share in the entire Tsarist alcohol products! And it's still rising!

Almost all products containing 'Buyoyasnik' have another meaning in Tsarist Russia: they can be drunk as wine!

In fact, Tsarist Russia has a long history of drinking this 'Buyoyasnik', and there was such a situation in the former Soviet period. But there has never been a mass alcohol poisoning, and the reason for that was because the manufacturer didn't use 'Buyoyasnik' as a raw material, but used cheaper industrial methanol!

And you can't trouble the manufacturer after the incident: people say, we don't make wine, we produce shower gel, who made you drink shower gel?

It's just that there were so many dead people that the manufacturer was still punished, but the 'Buyyoyašnik' industry is still thriving。。。。。。

In the end, poverty is the original sin.

After hearing Sergei tell this, he had already thought that vodka was not good, but now he felt even more unpleasant! He looked at the bar, and there was no good wine, but a bottle of Glenfiddich Eighteen Years Old in a brown package. But the price is really not cheap. The price is 15,000 rubles, which is rich enough to buy three bottles in the Han Kingdom.

This damn local protection policy, how much tax does foreign wine have to be charged in Tsarist Russia to sell it so expensive?.

In fact, it's the same all over the world. This is called 'infant industry protection'. It is to protect local companies by raising tariffs. Just like the Han Kingdom.

As a simple example, a Cayenne sells for $60,000 in the Stars and Stripes country and 1 million yuan in the Han Kingdom, and the price gap is so big because of tariffs. What if tariffs are abolished? A Cayenne is 400,000 yuan, will there still be room for domestic cars to survive?

Why is Tsarist Russia's economy so poor now? To put it bluntly, it is also because of the tariff problem.

In the pre-Soviet period, the planned economy was carried out, and although the products were somewhat backward, a large number of employment problems were solved. However, after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia quickly opened its doors and did not set up tariff barriers, resulting in a large number of former Soviet enterprises simply unable to face the competition of advanced Western products and closed their doors, and a large number of people lost their jobs and returned home. This is also the reason why the first leaders of Tsarist Russia are scolded as 'traitors' when they mention it today.

The reform of state-owned enterprises in the 90s of the Han Kingdom also experienced such a situation, but fortunately, the high tariffs of the Han State protected the state enterprises, although a large number of workers were laid off, but the hard-working Han people will find a way to engage in other work, set up a roadside stall to sell a skewer or something. So after surviving that stage, there is today's Han Kingdom.

All day long, some people say that the country's policy is not good, that policy is not good, I rely on it, the leadership of the country can't catch up with you?

Yang Meng originally planned to travel all the way, but now that he thinks about it, what kind of people live to eat and drink better? What do you do to make yourself suffer? Don't show your wealth when you go out, who is Lao Tzu afraid of!

Thinking of this, Yang Meng went directly to the bar and asked for the bottle of Glenfiddich for eighteen years.

"We drink this. Yang Meng walked back with the wine and said.

Sergei blinked after seeing it: "Yang, you take this here。。。。。。 I'm afraid I'll get myself in trouble. ”

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