Chapter 1267 The Secret of Success

This is not an empty statement. As descendants of Nicholas II, the three of them are obviously much more knowledgeable than ordinary people. Although Russia's economy and industry rank relatively backward among the great powers, this is only compared with other powerful countries.

Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei have lived in St. Petersburg for a long time. As the most economically developed region in Russia, St. Petersburg is not inferior to other European countries in terms of construction.

However, this trip to East Africa still allowed them to directly see the huge gap between Russia and East Africa, which has to start from the route they took to East Africa.

The three of them went to East Africa. In order to avoid the war zone, they did not choose to start from the Baltic Sea. After all, the west of the Baltic Sea had to pass through the German waters.

Ukraine and Eastern Europe were also on the front line of the war, so when the three arrived in East Africa, they chose to start from the eastern port of the Black Sea.

From St. Petersburg to the Black Sea coast, it is inevitable to pass through the hinterland of Russia. The further east you go, the worse the economic and industrial development level is. This also led to the three of them seeing the real national conditions of Russia to a certain extent.

After arriving in East Africa, what I saw and heard along the Central Railway was in sharp contrast to the real situation I had seen in Russia before.

Of course, East Africa must have won unfairly, after all, the Central Railway of East Africa has always been the most economically developed area in East Africa, which is a bit like Tian Ji's horse racing.

Maria and the other two naturally could not understand the hidden mystery, after all, they lacked understanding of the national conditions of East Africa.

Alexi said: "It feels that East Africa is much more advanced than Russia, especially along the railway. Tractors, cars and other machinery are widely used in East African farms, but they are rare in Russia, although it is winter in Russia at this time."

Winter naturally means that agricultural activities in Russia are basically stopped, and East Africa, as a tropical country, naturally has no concerns in this regard.

So comparing the busy farming period in East Africa with the slack farming period in Russia does not explain anything, but the family knows their own business. The cars on the farms in East Africa cannot deceive people. This will not stop the cars in the country just because it is winter in Russia.

Of course, this mainly refers to freight vehicles, not cars. If the number of cars is compared, Russia will lose miserably.

"And the degree of electricity popularization in East Africa is obviously much stronger than that in Russia. We have seen a large number of power facilities in East Africa. Basically, every village along the Central Railway has access to electricity, and the degree of electrification in cities and towns in East Africa is even more amazing."

"Basically, wires and poles can be seen everywhere, interweaving into a complex power grid. There are many power equipment and lines on both sides of the railway that we don't understand the purpose of."

"It's even more exaggerated in big cities. The degree of electrification in Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, and Rhine is even more amazing. In East Africa, electricity has become a necessity for thousands of households."

The word electrification is naturally a word that Alexei learned from Maxim. Alexei and other members of the Russian royal family are actually not unfamiliar with the popularization of electricity.

But they are very clear about the huge gap between Russia and East Africa in this regard. After all, Russia basically only has the conditions to promote the popularization of electricity in cities.

In most parts of Russia, people still use gas lamps, kerosene lamps, candles, and even firewood for lighting. At night, most parts of Russia will fall into darkness.

However, East Africa has a large amount of electricity to supply street lamps at night, which makes the big cities in East Africa basically become cities that never sleep.

Maxim said: "This is because we in East Africa have an early layout for electrification. As early as the last century, East Africa has regarded electricity and electrical research as an important direction for the country's future development."

"After entering the 20th century, the concept of national electrification was proposed. Subsequently, a large number of new power facilities were built across the country under the leadership of the government, allowing East Africa's power generation to continue to set new highs."

"So East Africa's current achievements in electrification are just a few steps ahead of other countries. With the development of the times, other countries should be able to catch up in the future."

"Just like the first industrial revolution, it only happened in Britain at first, but as time goes by, it will eventually spread to other parts of the world."

Maxim is not making false statements. After all, Germany, the United States, and even France are not bad in the field of electricity research, but their promotion and popularization efficiency is not as fast as East Africa.

Especially in the construction of the power sector in the morning, East Africa's investment is quite generous, which is unmatched by other countries, although they have many power companies.

However, compared with these power companies and the state machinery of East Africa, it is obvious that the latter can achieve huge results in a short period of time.

After all, enterprises have to bear risks in the early stage, and if they are not careful, they may lose money and go bankrupt. The state machinery of East Africa is much more capable of bearing risks to promote the electrification process.

Moreover, investment in the power sector is definitely beneficial as a whole, so the East African government does not care about some failures and minor risks in the early stage.

Princess Maria said: "Compared with your country, Russia's development progress in some areas is indeed unsatisfactory, and East Africa has always been a major power country in the world. We have many electronic products in Russia, and equipment is also imported from East Africa."

In the world, the development of the power and electrical industry in East Africa is relatively well-known. After all, in this field, East Africa has ranked first in the world for more than ten consecutive years.

Although Ernst founded the Hexingen Consortium early and laid out the power industry, the real explosion time of the power and electrical industry in East Africa was indeed in the late 1990s.

This period was also when East African education began to bear fruit. A large number of overseas students returned to China, local colleges and universities were built, compulsory education was popularized, and talents from various countries were introduced. Factors such as these made East Africa finally widen the gap with the United States and Germany in the early 20th century.

In the last century, the United States and Germany were actually competitive with East Africa in the power field. After all, East Africa started late at that time, had a weak industrial foundation, and was relatively short of talents.

And the turning point of everything seemed to have occurred after the South African War. It can be said that the South African War was the battle of East Africa's national destiny. Since the South African War, the development of East Africa has been unstoppable.

In just over 20 years, it has surpassed the United Kingdom and the United States and become the world's largest industrial country. This is definitely an amazing miracle. After all, in the early 1990s, the United States had just taken the throne of the world's largest industrial country from the British.

It is not surprising that the United States has become the world's largest industrial country. It can even be taken for granted. After all, it took the United States more than two hundred years from its founding to become the world's largest industrial country.

Even if East Africa counts its colonial history, it has only been half a century. In the true sense, it has taken only a few decades to complete the path that other countries have taken for hundreds of years.

Of course, the most important thing to be thanked is the generosity of the "black people". Without their "selfless dedication", East Africa would not have easily obtained such a vast and fertile land, let alone tens of millions of free labor with almost no cost.

The "selfless contribution" of tens of millions of black people for decades is the basic factor for the rapid economic and industrial development of East Africa in the past few decades. They helped East Africa complete land reclamation and engineering construction at the lowest cost, and relied on "black slaves" to complete the original accumulation of capital in East Africa.

And this is also the reason why East Africa was able to promote the first two five-year plans in the early 20th century, and then rapidly expanded the scale of industry in a short period of time, making East Africa quickly become an industrial power.

If it weren't for the decades-long oppression and exploitation of tens of millions of black slaves, it would probably have taken East Africa decades to achieve today's results, and it would have also run the risk of regime collapse. After all, immigrants are not like black slaves who can be exploited by the East African government.