Chapter 1085 Bad Impression

Leonid's impression of Paris and London was not very good. He believed that these two cities were exaggerated. Even though the size and history of the cities were indeed greater than those of St. Petersburg and Moscow, these two cities were full of decadence. One is corrupt and the other is full of blood, tears and sins. How can such a city represent the world's most advanced development direction?

He prefers St. Petersburg and even Moscow. Even though Moscow is very depressed and lonely, the atmosphere of these two cities is better than that of Paris and London.

He wrote to Alexey in the letter: "The air in London is disgusting. I really can't imagine how humans can survive in this choking smoke. Breathing here for an hour is equivalent to smoking a bag of tobacco. I really wonder how Londoners can stand it!"

"As for Paris, it's a beautiful city, but the passion of the French is unbearable. Their extravagant lifestyle should be whipped. Only the most depraved devils would live like them!"

"I miss St. Petersburg, the fresh air there, the simple life style of St. Petersburg people, and the spiritual tradition unique to the Russians..."

Hearing this, Li Xiao couldn't help but complain: "A spiritual tradition unique to the Russians? Does it mean living a poor life and being submissive to big shots, and living in a trap every day?"

Alexey curled his lips. He actually wanted to complain, but St. Petersburg was his hometown after all, not to mention that there is nothing wrong with a wanderer missing his hometown. If Leonid went abroad, he would spare no effort to praise Paris and London. If you want to completely belittle and slander St. Petersburg, then it is worthy of vomiting and contempt!

Li Xiao also sighed. From this aspect, Leonid was indeed better than some of the leading parties in later generations. Even picking up garbage in the lighthouse country felt sweeter than the air in his hometown where he had been raised for decades. This type of talent needs to be despised and vomited at!

"What else did he say?"

Alexei looked at the letter and replied: "He is still confused. It is obvious that these two cities are in a mess, and the residents of these two cities are obviously suffering from various misfortunes, but why can they defeat us? He can't figure out this What’s the point!”

Li Xiao sighed and said: "Can't figure it out? It's okay if he can't figure it out. Before he goes out, he should go to the countryside and take a look. He will know that the Russians are more unfortunate than the French and British. It's strange that they are undefeated!"

Alexei nodded. He felt the same way. Londoners and Parisians were indeed unhappy compared to the nobles of their own country, but compared with the Russian serfs who were in dire straits, they were in heaven!

Whether you live well or not depends on the reference point. Leonid's reference point is obviously problematic. If you compare the bottom class of foreign countries with the Russian elite, you can definitely conclude that the latter's life is happier.

But can everyone in Russia live as well as the powerful?

Obviously it's impossible. Comparisons must be fair, good with good, bad with bad. Only such a conclusion is meaningful.

Alexei nodded and said: "I pointed out his mistake in my reply. I don't think he deliberately confused the concept."

Li Xiao also believed that Leonid did not do it on purpose. He just loved the motherland very much and always safeguarded the dignity of the country. He did not want others to say something bad about his country.

This kind of person has the most simple patriotic sentiments and is worthy of praise. But sometimes it's too much, and it might turn into three of those virtues: being arrogant and feeling good about oneself makes it difficult to make progress.

Although Leonid is not as funny as the three, it would be ridiculously paranoid if he only thinks about maintaining face and cannot see the direction of progress.

"Apart from these, what else did he say?" Li Xiao asked.

Alexey sighed: "He visited many factories and lamented the development of British industry... He felt that if our country also had so many factories, it would not lose the war!"...

Li Xiao curled his lips, isn't this correct nonsense? The problem is that these factories will not fall from the sky. The reason why Britain has such a developed industry is the hard work of generations of people for hundreds of years. Without the sheep-eating man enclosure movement, do you think Britain could have so many factories?

Besides, it makes no sense even if Russia has so many factories now, because running factories requires engineers and technical workers. Look at how many similar talents there are in the UK? And what about Russia?

To put it bluntly, there is no point even if the British factory is moved to Russia. Without skilled workers, it is just a pile of scrap metal!

To put it bluntly, Britain's strength is its people. Look at its illiteracy rate and how many schools it has. Without these infrastructures, what's the use of just having factories and piles of machines?

When Li Xiao thinks about Russia's industrial base, he can't help but want to vomit. Where does Russia have any industrial base?

To put it bluntly, even after the so-called reforms of Alexander II, until the outbreak of World War I, Russia did not have a decent industrial base.

It is one of the most lame among the great powers, even worse than Japan, which is also lame!

There is a reason why Japan is so poor. It started late, has weak resources, and is restricted in all aspects.

But what about Russia? You have to say that he started not too late, and his resources are endless, but the industry is also in a mess. Even when fighting for territory with Japan at the beginning of the century, they were beaten up by the Japs and almost collapsed completely.

From this perspective, the gap in Russia’s industrial base is simply outrageous and unreasonable.

To be honest, if it weren’t for the economic crisis in the capitalist world in the 1930s, if it weren’t for the Father of Steel who took advantage of the Great Depression of the United States to strengthen its industrial shortcomings, Russia would not have an industrial base for another hundred years.

But what is particularly sad is that after the disintegration of the Red Empire, the Russians who were deceived and crippled completely destroyed the rich legacy of their loving father of steel and the Red Empire in just 20 to 30 years, and turned it into a mere resource. The country can only live by being a gas station.

This makes you don't know how to evaluate these polar bears. Anyway, Li Xiao looks down on them and even despises them.

Going back to Leonid's lament, he felt that Sage made a lot of mistakes. Industrial foundation does not mean buying, buying, buying, or buying a bunch of industrial products or factories will have an industrial foundation.

The foundation of industry is always people. Without a good enough educational foundation, we cannot cultivate generations of industrial science and technology talents. No matter how much we buy, we will be taken advantage of!

Li Xiao didn't want to be taken advantage of, so he had reservations about spending a lot of money to purchase industrial finished products from Britain and France proposed in Leonid's letter. Industry needed to be imported, but Russia couldn't spend all its money on it now. Training of talents was the key. First place!