As soon as the ceremony ended, Anna immediately drafted an imperial edict, which was to declare Moscow the capital of the Russian Empire, second only to the current capital St. Petersburg. The reason for doing so was that Anna wanted to use Moscow as her base and as the command center for reform. Compared with Petersburg, where conservative aristocrats were concentrated, the resistance to reform in Moscow would be smaller.

Anna carefully wrote each letter and then handed it to Alexei for stamping. "Sister, isn't your mother's illness cured yet?" After stamping, Alexei asked this question that he repeated every day again.

"Didn't I tell you that my mother has an infectious disease. We can't see her before she recovers from the disease, otherwise she will be infected!" Anna said as she held up Alexey's hand and said softly, "You must be obedient and pay attention to your body, so that my mother will feel at ease, do you know?"

"I understand. That." Alexey wanted to speak but stopped.

"Tell me, what else do you have?"

"Can I still want to sleep with Sister Abia tonight?" As he said, Alexey's voice became less and less.

Anna looked at her younger brother who lowered her head and suddenly laughed, "Yes, my dear brother."

"Really!" Alexei smiled like a flower when he heard Anna say this, and he grabbed Anna's hand and kept swaying. "It's great, I can listen to Sister Abia telling stories again tonight."

Alas! I'm going to sleep alone tonight. Anna couldn't help feeling a little depressed when she walked on the road, but when she thought of Alexey sticking to Abia so much, Anna was much more open-minded. After all, this 9-year-old boy is the Russian emperor, so it's still very cost-effective to use Abia to control him.

Back at her palace, Anna plunged into the study. As the actual Regent, Anna had to seize the time to get familiar with the Russian political system, economic conditions and customs. Looking at the thick information on the table, Anna didn't feel a headache. After her body was transformed, although her IQ did not improve, her memory improved a lot. So Anna first read the information all the time, then walked around the house, pondered it repeatedly, and formed her own unique insights.

In addition to physical information, Anna also searched the information about Russia in the early 20th century through her brain system, and learned about all aspects of Russian society.

This time, Anna had a clearer understanding of the serfdom reform in 1861, and she finally understood what "incomplete reform" was. After the reform in 1861, the Russian Empire abolished the serfdom. The farmers who became serfs received allocated arable land. But these lands were only distributed to rural communes, an organization that manages the ownership and taxes of these arable land. If they wanted to actually own arable land, the farmers needed to pay a "ransom" with a tax rate. At that time, farmers without land could only do short-term labor for others to earn money to "redemption" the land. However, after paying this money to the Tsar, the new farmers officially became farmers without any restrictions from the landlords.

But the money is very high. Because the tsar paid the landlords first, the farmers directly returned the money to the tsar, and the latter demanded an annual interest rate of 6%, and the payment period was 49 years. In addition, the reason for economic compensation to the landlords was not the land, but the loss of the serfs who should have voluntarily worked for them. Not only that, many landlords also considered how to reduce the land that the serfs on their land could have had pitiful shares, such as depriving them of the part they needed most: the pasture land around the serf's hut. The result is that the free farmers still need to work for their former masters and repay the cost of redeeming the land.

So Anna concluded that the only benefit these farmers gained was that they possess human dignity and were no longer "a tool to talk", but they were still bound to the land and suffered heavy exploitation.

As a landlord above the landlord, Anna could not ask her Tsarist brother to issue a declaration to completely liberate the peasants. Secondly, Anna imagined whether the landlords could gradually adopt machines through encouraging policies, thereby freeing farmers from the land and providing more free labor for the development of industry. At the same time, it transformed the landlord nobles themselves and made them "new nobles"

It is September 1913 now, and Anna must hurry up. She wants to establish her authority, she wants to gain greater power, and to completely control the fate of Russia before the summer of 1914.

The pilot reform began soon. Anna first contacted Anthony and ordered hundreds of agricultural machinery at one time. Then, in the name of Alexey, she connected herself with several sisters and Queen Mother Alexandra's fiefdom, and then hired a large number of operators, all of which were mechanized. As for those hired farmers, Anna took out her own pockets and arranged all of them to be strong and young under Svetlana, so that Andrei could train them.

Now, the 300 troops under Anna expanded several times to 1,500. Anna attaches great importance to these peasant militias. She intends to train them and wants these 1,500 people to become her own private army. She will never obey anyone except herself. For this reason, Anna gave them generous military salaries and the best equipment, such as the new rifle developed by Tokarev. Anna has secretly raised funds to build a production line. However, due to technical problems, the production speed is extremely slow and the cost is relatively high. The daily output is only a dozen, and half of them are unqualified.

Even so, nearly 400 new rifles that have been produced and fully qualified were issued to Svetlana and the others. Anna paid great attention to confidentiality. She asked the soldiers to become familiar with the new gun as soon as possible, but they were not allowed to take the gun away. They could only test the gun several times at the shooting range each time, and they would be handed over after training.

As expected, the soldiers soon fell in love with this new gun. The faster rate of fire greatly increased the firepower of individual soldiers. Two soldiers with skilled gunshot skills cooperated with each other and could completely suppress the enemy equipped with an old-fashioned bolt-pull-pull rifle.

Money! Money! Money! In just one week, Anna's personal savings have bottomed out. The soldiers' military pay and the production line of new rifles are all extremely cost-effective bottomless pits. These days, Anna has been thinking about how to make money. Although she is a princess, she can't stand such troubles.

Since there was no source of wealth, Anna had to take measures to reduce expenses. After several days of thinking, a new order was issued in the name of the Tsar: in order to raise money to develop arms, the emperor himself only ate two meals a day, canceled all tedious ritual activities, and even the servants cut most of them.

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