may be different from what others imagine, that is, in fact, India in this era is really not lagging behind at all―――――― yes, it is not lagging behind at all.

Of course, this is only about traffic, just traffic.

In the eyes of later generations, including Yan Shao, India is undoubtedly a very backward country. Although the population of the country as a whole is very close to that of China, and it is claimed that it will surpass China in terms of population in a few years (to be honest, I really don't know what to be happy about, but it seems that Indians are very happy about it). But in fact, India is a country that is very far behind China in every aspect.

GDP, for example, is something that is often criticized in China. By the time Yan Shao crossed over, China's GDP had exceeded $10 trillion, while India's was only $2 trillion, equivalent to one-fifth of China's.

Of course, the Indians naturally turned a blind eye to this, and they only saw the reports reported by the Western media that it would not take long for India to surpass China in GDP growth rate, but they did not think about it at all, not to mention whether they could surpass it for the time being. Even if it does, it will only be a few tenths of a number, and considering the gap between the two countries in terms of economic aggregates, the gap between India and China is still widening.

Of course, it doesn't seem useful to talk about this, so let's talk about education, health, infrastructure, and so on.

In later generations, India often taught civilization for free, but in reality? In fact, there is a huge lack of funding for education in India. The so-called free education is not in name only. Many Indian schools, even in cities, are not as good as those in one of China's most remote mountain villages―――――― if you say a plastic shed. It's a school...

Yan Shao still remembers the documentary he once watched from the British BBC, driving to see India. Perhaps because one of the hosts is an Indian, the whole film can almost be said to be a praise for India's future prospects―――――― which is why some people later felt that Indians had hacked China after watching China. Because at that time, India's performance in the documentary could not be said to be bad, only not good at all, but the British still praised it, which was a little unacceptable.

corresponds to it. In China-related documentaries, there are faults everywhere.

Of course, these are nothing, and the most impressive scene in the entire documentary is Yan Shao. A large number of children living in the city actually go to school in plastic sheds, can this also be called a school? ―――――― of course, there may also be pieces of cloth. Spliced together. After all, it's been a long time, and I don't remember it very clearly.

And the scene that particularly impressed Yan Shao was that when the students in the school washed themselves with soap or toothpaste and toothbrushes that are almost rarely seen, the Indian high-caste hostess was standing on a high place, constantly washing the children below with tap water, with a smug smile on her face, full of superiority, and the movements in her hands were as if she was washing the piglets in the pigsty with tap water...

Yan Shao didn't know what others thought of this scene. But in Yan Shao's opinion, this is obviously insulting others...

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But it's not surprising that this happens. After all, India is a very backward country, not to mention that with the same population, India's economy is so much worse than China's. However, this is still the case in urban areas, and you can imagine how incompetent the Indian government really is.

And...

This is still the case in urban areas, and you can imagine how bad the situation is in those remote areas.

In addition to this, there is the so-called free medical care, which some people have boasted about in India for a long time. In fact, there is no so-called free medical care in India, and it can be imagined from the lack of educational resources that medical resources should be lacking.

Under normal circumstances, hospitals in India only manage some minor illnesses with headaches and brain fever, but major illnesses are completely useless. In particular, free hospitals are not profitable, and the best ones basically go to private hospitals―――――― where doctors not only have good skills, but also have sufficient medical resources, and of course, the price is definitely not affordable for ordinary civilians.

As a result, there is a phenomenon that those who do not spend money cannot be cured, and those who are treated are looked down upon.

Most importantly, medical resources are scarce in India, even in the wards. So if you want to see a doctor, you have to queue up, and the corruption problem in India is extremely strict, and there are often cases of bribery and queues, so if you are lucky, maybe you can get in the queue in three or two months, if you are unlucky...

Wait until you die~

In fact, India's medical level can be seen from India's mortality rate, which has a mortality rate of more than one million children under 5 years old every year, ranking the highest in the world. And the problems that lead to this are malnutrition, that is, hunger, as well as drinking water sanitation and medical problems...

In fact, even if you are admitted to the hospital, it may not be equivalent to protection, because you are likely to be bitten to death by the rats in the hospital!

This is no joke...

Yan Shao even remembered that before he crossed over, he had seen such a report in the Internet media, in December 2011, a man in India was hospitalized for pneumonia, but who would have thought that this hospital was actually infested with rats, and the man was bitten to death by rats―――――― not immediately died at that time, but the most important part of this man's life was bitten off, so he finally knelt. In this process, almost no medical staff appeared, and even this situation was only discovered after the patient's family arrived.

Although medical conditions vary from country to country, the hygiene conditions and the professionalism of medical personnel should at least be up to standard, and this is still happening today. It's a little weird...

In fact, it's not just the rats, it's a lot of other problems.

For example, one year there was a fire in a hospital in India, and a nearby breakfast stall vendor found out that the hospital was on fire. He quickly ran to the front of the hospital to notify the relevant personnel and expressed his willingness to help put out the fire. But their kindness was rejected by the hospital, and the hospital security guard said, "The fire is not big, we can handle it ourselves, and if any of you want to rush in, we will beat him!" ”

As a result, 10 minutes later. The fire quickly engulfed the entire hospital.

The doctors in the hospital can run more than one another, but who cares about the patients? In the end, the entire hospital was burned to death by 89 people, and only 4 of them were doctors...

It can only be said. India is indeed a country that is very good at the emergence of strange things.

As for infrastructure, India in later generations is obviously civilized with infrastructure, especially those hanging on trains...

One can even say that those in India who hang on the train. It is even more famous than the entire Indian transport industry.

And then. Here's the problem...

In later generations, India's transportation was naturally very backward, but in this era, it is somewhat surprising that India's transportation, at least railway transportation, is very advanced, even more advanced than today's China―――――― yes, it has been developed by the national government for several years. Moreover, China, which builds a large number of railways every year, is even more advanced.

It may seem a little confusing, but it's just the way it is.

The first railway in Asia appeared in India. In 1853, the British built the first railroad in India (British India until 1947, including Pakistan) with a length of 32 km. In 1859, the operating mileage of the Indian Railway reached 1,005 km, in 1865 it exceeded 5,000 km, reaching 5,412 km, in 1874, the operating mileage of the Indian Railway exceeded 10,000 km to 10,020 km, in 1881 it exceeded 15,000 km to 15,865 km, and in 1886 it exceeded 20,000 km to 20,704 km. In 1892, the operating length of the Indian railway reached 28,596 kilometers, and at this time the construction of railways in China began, but the annual operating length was 225 kilometers. In 1894, the operating length of Indian railways exceeded 30,320 kilometers, compared to 435 kilometers in China (Chinese mainland, excluding Taiwan). By the end of the 19th century, the length of railways between China and India was 829 kilometers (1888) and 37,831 kilometers (1899), respectively.

By the time of India's independence, India's railway mileage had reached more than 53,000 kilometers, while China's railways at the same time, even if you count those built by the Japanese in the northeast, were only more than 20,000 kilometers.

Considering that India's territory is much smaller than China's, one can imagine how developed India's railway transportation is.

Of course, these were actually repaired by the British, and the Indians are probably of little use in this except for manpower. In fact, after India's independence, decades have passed, and India's railway mileage has only changed from more than 53,000 kilometers to more than 60,000 kilometers, and in fact the growth is very small.

At the same time, China has grown from more than 20,000 kilometers during the founding of the People's Republic of China to more than 100,000 kilometers.

Of course, this is all later, at least at this stage, Indians are still more developed than China in terms of rail transportation. One of the reasons for this situation is that the British spared no effort to build railways in India in order to transport India's resources from all over India, and if it were not for this, it would not have taken them to build so many railways in these years.

In addition, there is another reason for the topography of India.

Unlike China, which is full of mountains, India is basically from the plains, which is very suitable for building railways, and the difficulty of building railways is very small, at least it is not necessary to build railways in the mountains as often as China.

Sometimes you need to get some caves, tunnels and other things out, and the difficulty can be imagined.

It is for this reason that India's railways are developing so fast. On the other hand, although the national government has also invested a lot of money in the railway, it may not be able to catch up with India in a short period of time because of the difficulty of time.

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It was precisely because of the very developed railways in India that it was discovered that the government of the State had sent troops to the southern Tibetan region. Although the British did not have much garrison near southern Tibet. However, the British still quickly transported at least one infantry division to southern Tibet by railway―――――― of course, it was certainly not an infantry division equivalent to an army like the Wehrmacht Division A, but a very ordinary colonial division. The total number of troops is just over 10,000 men.

And whether in terms of equipment, morale, or combat effectiveness, there is no way to compare with the Wehrmacht or the armies of the great powers. It can be said that this infantry division is absolutely worthy of the title of colonial troops, and even standing in the trenches on the Chinese side of the Sino-Indian border, looking through the telescope at the scrawny Indian soldiers opposite, Zhang Guilin can hardly imagine whether these soldiers can run and move when charging, or whether they can be flat bayonets.

Honestly. Zhang Guilin was really deeply suspicious.

After all, the combat effectiveness of a unit, although training, equipment, and morale are all important, but the soldier's body is equally important. One can even say about the physical problems of the soldiers. It is the basis of all one qiē. Only when the soldiers can have their stomachs fed can they exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

Like in the original history, the national army obviously had an advantage in height, why couldn't it beat the Japanese when fighting bayonets?

One of the reasons for this, of course, was that the skill of fighting bayonets was not comparable to that of the Japanese. But there is a more important reason. At that time, the soldiers of the national army could not eat at all, and they were hungry and skinny, and if they could fight the Japanese in this situation, it would be strange.

But even so, the Indians feel that they have a decisive advantage.

No, exactly, both the Indians and the British.

So according to the orders from above, the British commander commanded these colonial divisions. They ran to the Sino-Indian border in a vain attempt to put some pressure on the Chinese who had fled to southern Tibet.

Nature. In the view of these British officers, the best way to drive the Chinese away from southern Tibet was by force, and in their view, the best way to drive these yellow-skinned monkeys out of the territory of 'British India' was to use force. And unlike those British soldiers in Europe, Europe, especially those who fought on the Western Front, are very aware of the combat capabilities of the Wehrmacht and respect these colleagues from the East.

Even some racist Britons have to admit that 'these yellow-skinned monkeys' are really good at fighting.

These recognitions were won by the expeditionary force in Europe with blood, and it is precisely because of the bloody battles of the Chinese expeditionary force in Europe that the armies of various countries on the Western Front at that time would respect the Wehrmacht so much and today's China ―――――― there is no strong army, how many people will respect you.

But on the Indian side, it is different, first of all, these people basically stayed in India, although they have heard about the horrors of the First World War, but they can't imagine how tragic it was. It's just that I heard that a lot of people died, but since the war has been won, it naturally has nothing to do with them.

As for the Chinese expeditionary forces fighting in Europe, for these British, who live in India all the year round and have deep racial discrimination, they simply do not believe that the Chinese army can be compared with the European army, let alone stronger than the European army?

In their opinion, the Chinese are at most at the same level as the colonial troops, perhaps stronger? But compared to their white troops, it was really far behind.

It is precisely because of this view that the commanders of these units dare to go to the Sino-Indian border to find trouble when there is only one colonial division.

Because in their opinion, one colonial division is enough. After all, in any case, it is equivalent to three times the strength of an infantry regiment.

However, although these British commanders were eager to teach these yellow-skinned monkeys who dared to offend the British Empire, the order from London not to allow armed conflict without permission forced them to lower their guns.

So the above situation arose, in order to vent, the British commanded the Indians on the Sino-Indian border, and verbally 'humiliated' the Chinese defense forces in front of them. Then the Wehrmacht fired back, and the battle quickly turned into a war of scolding, which no doubt everyone expected.

"But the speed of the British's railway transportation is really surprisingly fast..."Looking at the telegram coming back in front of him, Jiang Baili couldn't help but admire.

It may not be possible for India to do anything else, but at least during this period, India's railway system was extremely developed―――――― if you exclude the fact that the entire Indian railway has several different standards.

However, it is conceivable that the behavior of picking up trains was definitely not unique to Indians in Yan Shao's era. Considering that the Indians of this era are likely to have such abilities, the train transportation capacity of India in this era is really amazing...

"Yes..."Hearing Jiang Baili say this, Yan Shao couldn't help but nod his head in acknowledgement. Compared with India, there is still a certain gap in China's railway transportation capacity, and this gap is very obvious..."

"There's no need to worry about this..."Jiang Baili chuckled lightly, and moved the cup in his hand by the way. At present, the speed of railway construction in China is very amazing, and this speed has long exceeded that of India, not to mention that we are also very different from India, where they are all plains, while on our side, a considerable part of them are mountains, and it is much more difficult to build railways on the plains. ”

"Yes..."Several people on the side also nodded in agreement, and a general in his early 40s even laughed. If we could have the good conditions of the Indians, I am afraid that the 100,000-kilometer railway would have been repaired long ago, and the Great Plains, how easy the railway is to repair, and there is no need to deal with fast stones..."

However, hearing his words, a general sitting next to him hurriedly said. "Don't brag! You don't want to think about how much you have only built over the years, not to mention 100,000 kilometers of railways, don't you know how much it will cost! ”

It seems that he also knows that he shouldn't use this analogy, the general Hao Ran said. "I'm just a metaphor..."

In later generations, the name Sun Yat-sen was naturally admired by tens of thousands of people, but in this era, Sun Yat-sen's name was in China...

All in all, definitely not a good word. If it weren't for Sun Yat-sen, who was the founder of the Kuomintang, and considering that the Kuomintang was currently the second largest political party in China, many times it would have been impossible not to give the Kuomintang some face, otherwise the name Sun Yat-sen would have become a forbidden word in China.

But even so, in front of Yan Shao, it is better to talk less about things related to Sun Yat-sen, after all, the relationship between Yan Shao and Sun Yat-sen is quite complicated.

This is also the reason why after the general opened his mouth just now, the other hurriedly interjected.

Fortunately, Yan Shao didn't care much about it, and when he heard this, it was just a way. "I believe this, and now counting the railways built by the Russians back then, my country's railway mileage can be regarded as a leap and bound..." Speaking of this, Yan Shao was reluctant to talk about the railway anymore, but turned his head to look at Jiang Baili on the side. Speaking of which, what do you think should be done about the attitude of the British..."

"Let's hang it...", he lowered his head and thought about it, and Jiang Baili said. Isn't the reason why we sent troops into southern Tibet this time to give the British some color and fight back on the issue of Macao?! At this time, if we withdraw the troops from southern Tibet, then this matter can be said to be a waste of previous achievements, so I personally think that we can directly ignore the protests of the British, and some time ago, Minister Gu also sent a telegram back, saying that at the Washington Conference, the governments of various countries do not intend to take care of this matter at all, since other countries do not intend to care, then it is useless to have fun in this matter..."

"However, there is one thing to be aware of, that is, if the British become angry and take the initiative to provoke friction on the Sino-Indian border, it will be too much of a loss to rely on the only logistical transportation route..." Personally, I propose that a road should be built between Lhasa and southern Tibet, so that we can ensure China's control over southern Tibet! (To be continued......)