As they returned to the pce, instead of getting rest, Alexander headed straight to his office to begin nning.


    Grabbing books from the bookshelves, Alexander ced them on his table and began reading them one by one.


    What he needed is basic information that would help him ?utline his n for the economy.


    After three hours of reading, Alexander began writing out his n in a book that he will use as a reference for the future operation.


    A question arose in his mind. How do you make the Empire of Ruthenia turn from a failing economy to an economic superpower?_-.


    The first step has already been established by giving the people what they want. They wantnd? Fine, they can havend. They want a representative government? Fine, they can elect their representative in an uing election. The people are getting tired of war? Fine, let’s end it. The people are hungry? Then let’s import foods from another country until the agricultural sector stabilized. The working conditions of the masses are aplete mess? Okay, let’s passed aw that will guarantee better working conditions. Simply put, if a country wants to get back on its feet, it has to listen to the people. Because they knew what was best and arepletely aware of what was going on. The goal is to make sure that the poption can have both a good standard of living while also having social and political rights.


    The second step is to know what strengths and weaknesses the Empire has. To start off, the Ruthenia Empire has an immense size spanning two continents. With these, the Empire has a lot of advantages such as ess to huge mineral reserves that can be mined. Agriculture is also a major sector, but due to the famine that happened five years ago and the misgovernance of his predecessor, basically denying the peasants ofnd, it is producing less food, causing hunger and intion.


    The Ruthenian Empire has a poption of 160 million people. A huge percentage of those are middle ss and peasants. They will be crucial in modernizing the Empire and making it more globallypetitive with the Europan powers.


    Now, what is the weakness of the empire aside from its internal affairs? The simple answer is geography. Ruthenia’s massive territory has no significant warm-water, ice-free ports with direct ess to an ocean, even though it has 37,000 kilometers of coastline. Ruthenia is fundamentally limited in its maritime power simply because it has no easy way to ess the world’s ocean. For example the St. Petersburg port. It’s one of the important ports of the empire but it freezes in winter. The ck Sea, however, does have ice-free ports like Novorossiysk and Sevastopol but in order to get to the ocean, you need to pass through the Bosphorus strait, a strait controlled by the Angoran Empire, which has a strained rtionship with the Ruthenia Empire because of the conflict in the past decades. On the Pacific side, the divostok port also freezes in the winter. That’s the reason why the empire was motivated to invade the Kingdom of Choson for its ess to warm water, if not only for the Yamato Empire, a superpower in the region whom they lose in war and are now threatening their position in Choson.


    To summarize, in order for Ruthenia to ess the world’s ocean is through chokepoints like the Danish strait and the Sea of Yamato.


    It’s a headache, it’s the reason why the Ruthenia Empire is pushing for an expansionist policy. Its recent invasion of the Persian Kingdom with a strategic goal to control the port of Bandar Abbas for ess to the Indian Ocean. ording to history books, the Empire lost because of the involvement of the Britannia Empire, believing that it’ll threaten their interest in the middle-east.


    It’s safe to say here that the Ruthenia Empire is andlocked country. If Alexander wants to increase the economy through exports, he’ll have ess to those oceans for maritime trade. Which can also mean building a good rtionship with the Europan Powers. I.E the Deutd Empire and the Britannia Empire.


    Now that he knows the strength and weaknesses of the Empire, Alexander moves on to the next step. Wide-scale modernization of the industries and infrastructures. These are the most crucial steps in making a country economically stronger. It includes road constructions, railways, bridges, water treatment nts, power nts, refineries, public transportation, schools and hospitals, and so on.


    The oil reserves which is an important resource in an industrialized and modernized world, if the Ruthenian oil deposits’ location are still the same, Alexander can exploit them.


    This endeavor will grant the massive abled-bodied men a job, stipting the economy in the process.


    Not only that, this is the part where he can utilize his modern knowledge in science and engineering. This means innovating the existing technologies and introducing new ones that are up to modern standards. For example in automobiles, he noticed that the current automobile in this world doesn’t have yet an air-conditioning system or an in-heating system, power steering, coil spring suspension, and seatbelts. If he were to design an automobile that has all of those features guess what would happen? Every rich middle ss and elites would want a piece of that, forcing the dominant automobile manufacturers topete in order not to lose their customers. Not only in the field of automobiles, but Alexander also has ns to introduce new and improved home appliances such as heat pumps, televisions, and microwaves, to name a few.


    Thanks to his photographic memory, he can recall every article he read and has experiences with almost everything rting to engineering.


    He can do it as long as he has the money, resources, and tools.


    As for the military of the Ruthenian Empire, after a humiliating defeat from the Yamato Empire, Alexander is thinking of modernizing the military through military reforms that aim to improve the army’s equipment, hardware, ?rganization, training, and qualifications.


    If the information he read about Ruthenian Army was correct, where the military of the empire isgging behind the superpowers of Europa, then it’s only natural to modernize the military as well.


    This endeavor would probably cause millions of money. ording to thetest data, the Ruthenian GDP is top 5 in the world with a total GDP of 28,685,264,947 dors. (Adjusting for intion, the total would be 490,900,500,800 dors).


    Normally, this would be considered high but there was a word that is not yet confirmed that there is corruption rampant in the government of the Ruthenia Empire. Misappropriations of funds, embezzlement where instead it’s going to the public, it’s going into the pockets of the corrupt politicians. As a supreme ruler of the nation, it’s his responsibility to eliminate those. Those who steal from the public will be punished ording to thews.


    Now that it has alreadye to light in his mind, Alexander will investigate the corruption of the government. Corruption is cancer to society, and the only effective way to deal with it is to eliminate the root.


    Setting that aside, Alexander finally drafted his modernization n in his notebook. It just has to turn intow so that it can be started. But this is different from the innovation and technologies he’ll introduce to this world. It’s not like the government should fund the creation of home appliances, that would be ridiculous and uneptable.


    Alexander explored another idea. As the heir apparent to the throne, he receives 500,000 Ruthenian rubles every year (34,119,450.61$ in today’s money). Not adding before he became an heir apparent, which is 200,000 Ruthenian rubles 13,647,780.31$) To calcte, Alexander received 200,000 every year starting when he reach the age of one until he became an heir apparent which is 16 then for each seeding year, he’ll receive 500,000 Ruthenian rubles. In total, he received 3,200,000 Ruthenian rubles. (320,722,835.60$ in today’s money.)


    Now that’s a lot of money. Most of it was donated to charities during the great famine while some were used to sponsor construction projects such as churches, hospitals, and orphanages to name a few.


    He can use the remaining money to build factories with the sole purpose of bringing modern technologies into reality. If all went ording to n, the economy of the Empire will surely rise.