Seeing everyone falling into deep thought, Anna continued, "So, everything is risky, I hope you understand that if you are in trouble, just like the economic depression in the past few years, His Majesty the Emperor and the Government will be your strong backing.

"I understand." Abram, the representative of St. Petersburg International Bank, stood up and first expressed his attitude. "Our St. Petersburg International Bank will definitely obey the will of His Majesty the Emperor, even if it is temporarily lost. I believe that in the long run, our bank will still make a profit."

Immediately afterwards, representatives of several other banks also made a statement, basically agreeing with the principle of "obeying government policies". Anna also assured them that if the Imperial Bank of Russia, which is the central bank of Russia, had no money to support, the royal family and the government would lend them money.

After ruled Russia for nearly 300 years, the royal family has accumulated countless wealth. Anna asked financial officials to conduct a survey on the royal family's assets early on. There is no need to guess the results, including land, real estate, jewelry, oil paintings, etc., a total of 4.3 billion rubles. Anna immediately auctioned most of the luxury goods and artworks and obtained hundreds of millions of rubles, all of which were used to purchase shares of the five major banks.

The next day, when the procedures were completed, Anna immediately became the major shareholder of the five major banks. Although the shares did not have an absolute advantage, it could already have an impact on the bank's operations.

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In December, it was a blink of an eye, and it fell several times in Moscow, and it was heavier and heavier every time.

On December 2, the Russian Empire Parliament was held urgently. The Imperial Parliament had 196 seats, of which 98 were named by the emperor. Originally, these 98 seats were occupied by landlords and nobles for a long time, but with Anna's intervention, Alexey canceled the seats of 33 of the nobles, and replaced them with big merchants and corporate giants from major cities, such as the Russian metallurgical factory product sales company, the Russian Donets Mine Fossil Fuel Trading Company, the tinplate sales company, and the Russian vehicle manufacturing factory product sales company...

Russian metallurgical giants, coal giants, steel giants and oil giants, Anna sent people to invite them to join the Imperial Parliament and grant or promote the big boss behind them to nobles, the small ones were dukes, and the big ones were marquis. As for the 33 nobles who were removed from the list, Anna did not choose casually. Anna asked the people from the Secret Service to investigate 98 noble representatives. Anna had a huge power and deep foundation, but Anna was not in trouble, while those with weak foundations and small power, especially those with poor corruption and bad record were the best lambs.

The family confiscation and exile were the consequences of these weak nobles. Therefore, Anna received a large amount of additional income.

Except for the seats enumerated by the emperor, the remaining 98 seats were elected. Originally, three of them were Orthodox monks and priests, the other three were Father Bai who was in charge of the diocese or secular positions, the remaining 18 were nobles, six were members of universities or science colleges, and six were from the chamber of commerce, six were from the industrial bureau, 18 were from the government with local autonomous bureaus, and the remaining 16 were from other local personnel, and six were from Poland.

For those clergy, Anna, who firmly believes in materialism, understands the importance of religious belief, an important spiritual tool to rule the people, and now there are 90 million Orthodox believers in Russia.

Most of the 18 nobles were replaced by new nobles who were loyal to the empire and supported Anna's "mechanical agriculture" policy, including Anna's old friend Anthony.

All in all, these 196 people formed the House of Lords of the Russian Empire, and they were the backbone of the imperial rule.

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After Anna's rectification, the originally cumbersome opening ceremony became simple. After everyone entered the venue, Alexey, dressed in military uniform, came to the venue with his family.

The members of the parliament were not dissatisfied with this, after all, the emperor was young and needed the assistance of his family.

Alexey sat in the middle of the rostrum, and Anna and Grand Duke Mikhail sat on both sides of him. The members of the parliament were very familiar with Grand Duke Mikhail, but when they saw Anna well-dressed, they all looked surprised: His Highness the Fourth Princess was like a man, wearing a suit and a bow tie, and looking at the conference materials with a serious face.

At 2 pm, the meeting officially began. Grand Duke Mikhail first read a statement, "From next year, that is, 1914, the first five-year plan will be implemented, and the empire's main energy will be focused on economic construction. The overall planning policy is industrialization: from an agricultural country to an industrial country, from a country that imports machines and equipment to a country that produces machines and equipment, with the focus on the development of heavy industries centered on the defense industry, including: steel, petroleum, metallurgy, railways, chemicals..."

Grand Duke Mikhail talked endlessly and spoke for nearly an hour. This thick speech was written by Anna himself. The massive amount of information in the beautiful life system made Anna a knowledgeable theorist. With the habit of thinking, Anna decided to imitate the Soviet Union's practice.

Anna has his own opinion on the history of the Soviet Union becoming a European power through two five-year plans: to feed farmers. This method is a last resort. If an economically backward country like Russia wants to rise rapidly, it must obtain funds for the development of industry from farmers.

In history, the Soviet Union had to implement this method extremely due to the destruction of war and the blockade of Western countries. However, Russia has not suffered from the destruction of war and maintained friendly relations with Britain, the United States and France, and its environment is much better than that of the Soviet Union. Therefore, Anna took relatively moderate measures. While ensuring that farmers are not starved to death, they should appropriately increase tax revenues, and at the same time set up a unified procurement station to try to lower the purchase price of agricultural products.

After Mikhail finished speaking, Anna stood up. Now everyone's eyes were focused on her, especially those representatives of large companies, who were very interested in Anna.

Anna was still a little nervous for the first time when she spoke in front of so many people. She dialed the microphone in front of her and said in a deep voice, "What Grand Duke Mikhail said just now is not only his personal opinion. The five-year plan is the determination of His Majesty the Emperor and the entire royal family. We are 50 or 100 years behind Britain, France, America and Germany. We must catch up with this gap within ten years. We must do this, otherwise we will be destroyed! Dear members of the parliament, Russia needs to move forward quickly. Only faster can we protect the country, protect our families, and protect our property. Then, please raise your hands to vote!"
Chapter completed!