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P214 The Russian treasury continued to provide guarantees and sometimes direct subsidies often kept secret from the public, but most of the initiative and capital was private.
The private investors not surprisingly came from the ranks of businessmen with good government contacts and often from the ranks of government officials. Some, like, P.G. von Derviz and K.F. von Meck, were Russian-German officials who left government service to build railroads.

P215 As in other countries engaged in rapid railroad construction (France and the Unite States, for example) the age's greatest technical marvel was also the most powerful engine of corruption.

予秋：在技术奇迹的时代，也是 corruption最强大的引擎。因此，冷静。。这是人的本性。