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Siberia under the Russian Empire was in no way less than the Mongol changes.

The first is the demographic change, five years ago, the population was close to 3 million, but now it has dropped sharply to 2 million, because of the after-effects of the war, the birth rate is low, the death rate is high, the total population is naturally reduced, but the rate of decline has slowed down, according to the current trend, when the population of Siberia falls to 150 people, it will remain stable.

Of course, this 1.5 million people does not include the Buryat Mongols who have been nomadic in the forests of this generation since the time of Genghis Khan, nor the nearly one million Chinese farmers, miners and merchants who have entered the Siberian region to make a living, and the Chinese have not been driven into the deep forests like the Buryats, and have not been driven out of the country like the Jews, of course, because the country is strong, but it is difficult for Russian nationalists to tolerate it if it continues to grow.

And the Chinese are not very happy to immigrate here, the winter here is too cold, to be honest, it is not suitable for human survival, this place is extremely large, there has been no strong regime for thousands of years, and there is no ethnic group with a population of more than one million, that is, because it cannot be carried here, it is more willing to stay here, and there are only more than 200,000 farmers who cooperate with Russian nobles to rent and develop farms, and the miners are planning to make a fortune and leave.

It is precisely because China, mainly farmers in farms scattered on vast land, and some miners who usually live in mining areas, are not with the Russians in the cities, and there is not much conflict, so the ethnic contradictions are not fierce for the time being, and the 1.5 million Russians whose living standards continue to improve can still accept it.

Although the population is small, the income is quite large.

At present, Russia exports more than 30 million tons of mineral resources to China every year, mainly iron ore and oil, and the annual export volume of oil alone is more than $200 million, and because of the implementation of a long-term agreement with the Tyumen oil field at a price of $3 per barrel, the annual import of more than 80 million barrels of oil can make the Russian Empire import more than $200 million, and with the expansion of the scale, the oil cost of the Tyumen oil field has been reduced to less than $1, and the annual profit is $100 million.

According to the agreement with the Russian government, Yangzi Petroleum owns 51% of the shares of the oil field, and the Russian government sells 29% of its own hands to the Nobel family, and the remaining 20% is in the hands of the Tsarist family, which has an annual income of 20 million US dollars, so how much can the Russian Empire get? It is also about 20 million US dollars, which is one of the main costs of exploitation, otherwise how can there be a cost of more than 1 US dollar just pumping oil from the ground, you must know that the British do not pay taxes to the Persian government, and their oil cost in Persia is less than 0.5 US dollars a barrel.

In addition, iron ore also had millions of dollars in revenue, half of which went to the Russian Imperial Government.

Just by selling resources, the Russian government can earn more than 20 million US dollars, and these are simple trade surpluses, no matter what kind of economic model, if any country has such a huge trade surplus every year, its domestic economy will not be much worse.

The thriving economic development has brought the annual revenue of the small Russian Imperial government to 50 million US dollars, which if distributed to each citizen, can make each person receive 25 US dollars, at a time when the per capita annual income of most parts of the world is less than 25 US dollars.

Of course, it was impossible for the Russian Imperial Government to divide the tax revenues, and the Nikolai government used the money to invest in the construction of the munitions industry, and also established universal education, not only free of charge for nine years of basic education from primary school to secondary school, but also without students paying a dime for university tuition; At the same time, large-scale improvement of infrastructure, stimulated by a large amount of oil revenues, the Nikolai government built the double line of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and used standard gauge, and even planned to replace the existing broad gauge with standard rules, the reason is very simple, just like the Tsar built a broad gauge in the past, that is, it is deliberately not the same standard as the European continent, to prevent invaders from being able to easily use their railway system, the Nikolai government wants to change the broad gauge to standard gauge, It was feared that Soviet Russia would use the broad gauge to facilitate the transportation of troops from the hinterland of Soviet Russia to attack the Russian Empire.

However, the extensive traditional Russian management style has not improved the social welfare system, or even has no welfare system at all.

The so-called Dutch disease refers to the fact that after the Dutch discovered a large number of oil and gas fields in the North Sea in the 50s, the export of oil and gas resources earned a lot of income, and the economic level of the Dutch was greatly improved, but the industrial development began to slow down, and even the phenomenon of de-industrialization; Therefore, the phenomenon that economists give a country a sudden surge in the export of a certain resource, which brings huge wealth, but instead hits the development of domestic agriculture and manufacturing is called Dutch disease. Later generations of Middle Eastern countries and Brazil are serious illnesses of this disease.

But the Russian Empire under Grand Duke Nicholas did not have such a manifestation, because a large amount of oil wealth was not used for the people, not used to improve the welfare of the people, but Siberia was too rich in land resources, so that the vast majority of people could own real estate, even if ordinary people ran a small farm of 3 or 500 acres, it was not difficult, enough for them to live without worry. Those aristocrats who cover an area of tens of thousands of acres at every turn live a luxurious life of spending money.

Although the poor have no worries about food and clothing, they have not lived a life of high welfare, and a large amount of wealth is mainly concentrated in the hands of the aristocracy, and the aristocracy has a habit of spending lavishly, which happens to create a huge market for some self-motivated ordinary people.

As a result, the development of industry and agriculture among the people, the huge output of agriculture and animal husbandry provided Russian enterprises with abundant raw materials, and the establishment of light industries such as flour mills and wool washing factories was quite common. In addition, the Russian aristocracy has developed the Siberian fashion industry into a world industry, and a large number of furs, leather clothes and other manufactured goods flowing out of Siberia every year are not only very popular in China's big cities, but also exported to Europe and the United States, earning a lot of profits.

Extensive management, unexpectedly created a free market atmosphere, a large amount of trade balance, into the stimulation of economic development of the blood, so that Russia avoided the fate of Spain, but a bit like the Industrial Revolution period of Britain, the economic strength in the years of the great prosperity developed quite beautifully.

But there is also disharmony, the first is that a large number of Russian entrepreneurs and businessmen have risen, forming a large capitalist class, but these capitalists are facing fierce competition from Jews, Jews can suppress the Chinese in Harbin, not to mention the more extensive Russian nation, and rough people do things roughly, they chose to exclude Jews, and the Russian Imperial Government, which has a tradition of anti-Semitism, supported them and used the power of the government to drive a large number of Jews away. Although it gained a very bad reputation and attracted boycotts and sanctions from Jewish financiers around the world, including the Rothschilds, the Russian government, which was not short of money, did not care.

The second phenomenon of disharmony is that the contradictions between social classes are prominent; Although the sustained development of the economy has long since formed a spindle-shaped benign social structure with the big aristocracy as the top of the pyramid, a large number of small and medium-sized aristocrats and capitalists living in the center, and a large number of low- and middle-income groups who can eat and wear, the big aristocracy monopolizes a large amount of land and mineral resources in the empire, and also monopolizes the state power, so the contradictions between various classes are very prominent; The poor demanded the abolition of the economic privileges of the aristocracy, and the capitalists demanded the abolition of the political privileges of the aristocracy, or that political privileges be granted to them as well.

The third discordant phenomenon is that Soviet Russia continued to infiltrate the Russian Empire, developing a large number of believers within the empire, and constantly creating social problems. The workers in the factories secretly organized trade unions, organized regular campaigns, and a large number of secret groups, ready to violently overthrow the imperial government.

The three major social problems have made Siberia, which is developing at a rapid pace, unstable, and the Russian Empire, which is accustomed to being rough and accustomed to adopting tough repressive methods, has made all kinds of contradictions very intense and acute.

The prisons of the Russian Empire were overcrowded, and Grand Duke Nikolai was not happy if he did not execute a few people a month.

But Olga is a devout Orthodox believer, and when she returns home, she learns of the news, and her heart is very painful.

Yang Chao appeased her and suggested that she summon Grand Duke Nicholas to have a good talk.

Nominally, the female tsar wants to discuss state affairs with Grand Duke Nicholas, but in fact, of course, Yang Chao came to talk about it, and Oliga, a stupid white sweet, knows what kind of government affairs.

After Tsar Olga courtesically met with his uncle and grandfather, Grand Duke Nicholas, Yang Chao privately invited him to have a glass of wine in the Baikal Palace and have a chat by the way.

"I've seen it all the way, and you've done a great job in the past few years. Along the way, His Majesty and I saw affluent farms, busy factories and well-nourished people. If His Majesty the Tsar had done this, the Russian Empire would have been the number one power in the world by now. ”

Yang Chao first complimented Grand Duke Nicholas. Seven or eight years have passed since Yang Chao left Siberia during the South China Sea Crisis, of which he spent no more than half a year in Siberia, and almost all of the rest of the time was spent in China; It's been three years since Tsar Olga left Siberia, and the daughters born to both are two and a half years old. During this period, it happened to be the most prosperous period of China's economy after the war, and the biggest beneficiary of China's great economic prosperity was the Russian Empire in Siberia.

However, as the prime minister, Grand Duke Nicholas was still very proud of the economic development in these years, thinking that he was a good ruler, and couldn't help but his two crooked mustaches, drink a sip of Siberian vodka, and enjoy Yang Chao's compliments very much, and his pride was overflowing.

Yang Chao said again: "Since you have done it so well. Why kill people? How uncivilized! ”

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