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Even if there are 1 million Chinese peasants farming in Siberia, it is not worth the 100,000 capitalists wielding money and wielding Fang Su's influence here.

Therefore, Yang Chao was not too concerned about the continuous decline of Chinese peasants, so he asked Zhang Nian to write an article in the Russian tongue to warn Russians of the negative impact of Chinese labor departures, which seemed to remind Russians, but in fact to reassure them.

As for the actual measures, there is no need to take them, more than 100,000 peasants have left in the past two years, but 2 or 30,000 businessmen have poured in, 7 or 80,000 miners have left, but 2 or 30,000 entrepreneurs have poured in, and these 5 or 60,000 capitalists who are far fewer in number than peasants and miners are obviously far more powerful than 2 or 300,000 peasant miners in Siberia, and they also have a greater right to speak, and they are a strong group.

After a few decades, when Russian farmers are working on the land, Russian miners are mining in the mines, and Chinese are waving money, opening shops and running factories, that is the scene that Yang Chao prefers to see.

The second half of 28 years passed quickly, during which Yang Chao softened the national sentiment of the Russian people through media propaganda, and there was no particularly fierce anti-Chinese voice, and Grand Duke Nicholas continued to take high-pressure measures, exiled more than 30,000 Russian youths, and the society became much more stable than in the past.

The number of Chinese businessmen operating in Russia continues to increase, the Russians have squeezed out the Jews, and most of the huge space that has been given up has been filled by Chinese businessmen, and the Russian national capital still does not have an advantage, and even the disadvantages are becoming more and more obvious, after all, almost all of them have to do business with China, and how can they compete with Chinese capital that directly invests in Russia for their business with China?

As a result, a large amount of Russian capital withdrew from industry and commerce and moved into more stable agriculture and animal husbandry, and the agricultural and animal husbandry products they produced went into small and medium-sized factories run by the Chinese, processed into primary products and consumer goods, and then exported to China.

Chinese like to help and lead, a person to run a certain business successfully, it is easy to drive a large number of relatives and friends to engage in this industry, so later generations of Chinese often will be an originally very profitable industry, soon made into a cabbage price industry, often a business in the hands of foreigners when the profit is huge, when the Chinese master this technology or enter this field, soon this industry will be done.

It is because the Chinese have this blind business mentality, but they also have huge capital, and can create an oversupply industry in the short term.

This is also the case in Siberia, where processing agricultural and animal husbandry processing plants have sprung up, with the result that the price of raw materials for agricultural and animal husbandry products has risen, encouraging more Russian capital to move into this field, on the other hand, profits are getting lower and lower, forcing more Russian capital away, but as long as they are making money, the Chinese will continue to invest.

The only factor restricting them is transportation, to transport materials from Siberia to China, except for railways, there is no other very good option, but the railway capacity is limited, the Russian government can only give priority to ensuring the transportation of oil, then consider resources such as iron ore, and finally all kinds of agricultural and sideline primary products.

In the case of limiting the growth of Russia's internal industry, the call for the construction of new railways is getting louder and louder, but the construction of railways is not a simple matter, and high investment, even in developed countries such as Britain and the United States, must be financed through the market, and simple government investment cannot be sustained.

With the support of the outside world and their own ambitions, the Russian government was determined to build a new railway, and as for the money, they planned to borrow money in Shanghai through mortgages, but they were rejected by Yang Chao, Yang Chao did not speak, and few people could borrow money from Shanghai, even if those banks that were not inferior to Yang Zi's banking group, they should also consider whether the business that Yang Chao did not do was a good business.

Yang Chao's attitude made Grand Duke Nicholas very incomprehensible, and he personally negotiated with Yang Chao, and he patiently explained to Yang Chao that expanding the volume of railway transportation would be beneficial to both China and Russia, and could increase trade between the two sides and contribute to the industrial division of labor.

As soon as I heard it, I knew that Nikolai's words were certainly not his own thoughts, but probably from the mouths of some economic experts in the Russian government.

Yang Chao smiled after hearing this: "Dear Grand Duke Nikolai, do you believe this?" For three years in a row, there has been a trade surplus of $30 million between China and Russia, and I don't see any benefit to China in increasing trade, except for the continued outflow of Chinese gold. ”

Nikolai said with a dark face: "According to the principle of industrial division of labor-"

Yang Chao directly interrupted him: "You Russians, when did you start to believe in the liberal economy of the British?" ”

Nikolai snorted: "Anyway, the construction of the railway is imperative, and if you refuse to help us with financing, they can only find the British, or even the Americans." ”

Looking for the British is a scare, looking for the Americans is a threat, who doesn't know the difference in the relationship between China and the United States, basically to the extent that he has no me.

Yang Chao sighed: "Why do you bother? The construction of a new railway is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly. Why not retrofit the existing railway? ”

Nikolai said fairly: "What about the transformation? ”

Yang Chao said: "From Mongolia to the Russian Empire, the broad gauge is the standard of France more than ten years ago, the weight of each meter of rail is 38 kilograms, which severely limits the carrying capacity, and now the weight of heavy rail has reached 50 kilograms per meter, if the rails are replaced, and then the heavy vehicle transportation is used, the load capacity of each train can be doubled, from the current 30 million tons of annual transportation to 60 million tons, which is definitely enough for trade transportation between our two countries." ”

Nikolai was not proficient in professional technology, and was a little skeptical: "Really? ”

Yang Chao nodded: "My Yangzi laboratory has passed the transformation plan of the Jiaoji Railway, when the Germans began to build the Jiaoji Railway 30 years ago, although the best technology at that time was adopted, but each meter of rail did not weigh more than 30 kilograms. Therefore, Yangzi Laboratory has formulated a plan for transformation, has entered the stage of testing and demonstration, and I believe that the results will come out next year. And the Novosibirsk section of the railway, which was opened to traffic a few years ago, is not exactly the 50 kg heavy gauge, and the capacity of the Novosibirsk section of the railway you should know. ”

Nikolai nodded, the Novosibirsk section of the railway, the theoretical capacity ceiling is 80 million tons, he does know this.

But there is one problem that is very urgent, that is, the problem of oil transportation, other minerals are very profitable, but if compared with oil, it is simply a beggar's industry, the reserves of the Tyumen oil fields are not a problem, the extraction technology is not a problem, the biggest problem is transportation.

In the history of later generations, the highest output of this oil field has reached 400 million tons, one ton is about 7 barrels of standard barrels, that is 2.8 billion barrels, now the major oil fields in Tyumen can export more than 80 million barrels per year, the Nobel family has said many times, the current output of the Tyumen oil field is easily expanded to 300 million barrels is not a problem, the biggest problem is that the production can not be shipped, if it can really reach 300 million barrels, the cost will be reduced to less than 1 dollar, the profit margin will increase greatly, and the annual export of oil alone, there will be a profit of 600 million US dollars.

The oil fields can produce more oil, but because of the difficulties in the construction of the alpine railway in the Tyumen oil field area, the transportation capacity has never been rooted, and seeing that a lot of wealth is buried in the ground, but it cannot be converted into money, the heart of Grand Duke Nicholas is like a cat scratching, which is simply a shameful waste.

Therefore, he was very resolute on this point: "The old railway can be renovated, but the Tyumen oil field line, the line must be added immediately." If your country is not willing to undertake the construction, we will ask British engineers to help build it. ”

After speaking, Grand Duke Nicholas had a resolute face, which seemed to indicate his uncompromising attitude.

Yang Chao smiled: "British? Do they know how to build a railway in the alpine zone? Grand Duke Nikolai, you should be aware of how hard it took the engineers of our country to increase the capacity of the Tyumen oil railway to such an extent as it is now. You know how difficult it is to deal with the frozen soil that is a headache in your land. ”

Grand Duke Nikolai snorted: "My country is very grateful for the toil of your technicians, but I think they are also paid adequately. When the railroad was built, they were paid double their wages. ”

Going abroad is double the salary, foreigners come to China is like this, Zhan Tianyou never wants to see his team treatment is not as good as foreigners, and today, the salaries of the technical personnel of the railway company are on par with the foreigners, which also allows the railway company to recruit very sufficient high-end talents.

Yang Chao said angrily: "In addition to my country's engineers, you are paying three times your salary, let's see if the British and American engineers will come to help you build the railway in the place where the birds don't?" ”

Grand Duke Nikolai couldn't help but be angry: "Okay, we won't discuss this issue, but the oil field railway must be built as soon as possible, and I propose to build a railway line from Sirte to Tomsk to connect the oil region with Novosibirsk." ”

Nikolai is a person who understands, he knows that without paying a little price, he will not make Yang Chao make up his mind to invest a huge amount of money in the Siberian alpine zone, and if Yang Chao does not pay the money, Nikolai really does not know where to come out of this money, the annual financial income is indeed very high, tens of millions of dollars of finance in the extensive government of the Russian Empire, even if there are individual officials who are corrupt, there is still a large surplus every year.

But if it is used to build the Tyumen railway, it is not enough, far from enough, Yang Chao is not wrong, Nikolai knows very well in his heart that the construction of railways in the alpine zone of Siberia is indeed expensive, the cost per kilometer is at least three times that of the plain zone, and the Russian government's financial surplus has accumulated only about 30 million, plus a new surplus of 5 or 6 million per year, it is still a drop in the bucket to build the railway. (To be continued.) )