In the Neva River Basin, St. Petersburg, this was once a bustling metropolis of the Imperial and Russia. With the three battles, the strategic space of the Imperial and Russia was compressed.

St. Petersburg transformed into a military center.

Outside St. Petersburg, you can see large areas of barbed wire and scattered military bases, scattered around the military bases, and a large number of underground castles. These cement fortresses are usually hidden underground, with bushes above the fortresses, and can be directly raised through lifting platforms during wartime.

There are railways between military bases, dense underground railway networks, and communication lines. Even if they encounter nuclear strikes, they will only suffer some functional losses. The surviving defense bases can still maintain communication with each other.

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This is an upgraded version of the Maginot Line of Defense in World War II. The Maginot Line of Defense was just too expensive to build before World War II. Before World War II, France produced less than 10 million tons of steel. The price of the Maginot Line of Defense certainly consumed France's national strength and had no effect on harvest.

But the times are different. Not to mention the terrifying output of steel and cement now, even the simple construction technology has changed from manpower construction to excavators and mixers to save manpower. Therefore, it is very cheap to build this line of defense.

Moreover, with the transformation of military technology, in Europe, where there is extremely confrontational area, the sticky effect of defense lines on modern troops is becoming increasingly important.

During World War II, the air strike forces of various countries were also limited. Therefore, there was no problem for mechanized troops to bypass the defense line.

In the 21st century, the attack pace becomes faster, missiles can be launched in fifteen minutes, and the Air Force can take off and arrive at the battlefield in half an hour. The few hours spent by mechanized troops detours, more than ten hours are fatal flaws.

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The existence of the St. Petersburg defense line stabilized the security of the Imperial and Russian territory, but this defense line was like the Liaodong military town in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was too big to lose its tail at the beginning.

More than 6 million people maintain the operation of this system. This system not only consumes the already stretched financial resources of the Imperial Russia, but also has raised the people here into a group. Any reforms of the Imperial Russia will encounter resistance from the entire group.

Over the past few years, many scandals of smuggling, tax evasion, and the most fake accounts have frequently occurred here, but they are always dealt with lightly. Some cases with obvious huge tricks are finally dealt with just a few small people, and they are hurriedly covered up. The central government cannot interfere.

The Imperial and Russian army, the road roller that scared Europe, is now rusting at an alarming speed.

Now the head of the military and political power in St. Petersburg is Anna. Judging from the political faction, she is now a standard royalist party. But now the times have made her a powerful prince in the Imperial Russia.

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Imperial power likes centralization, but it does not necessarily mean centralization. Because modern normal countries, whether democratic or republic, are actually more centralized than the era of imperial power. The era of imperial power is just that the common people are not free, but their binding strength on the powerful is far less than that of modern society.

The reason why the imperial power can be strengthened again now is due to the support of feudal lords like Anna. The feudalization of the St. Petersburg region is considered to be a symbol of the sharp decline of central authority from the concept of a modern country. It must be suppressed and investigated strictly.

However, in the era of the emperor, when discovering the empire's cavities, it brings huge losses to the operation of the empire, first of all, we must see whether the forces on the empire will affect the balance of domestic forces after being severely investigated and suppressed. If the balance is affected, it will be fine if it can be ignored. If the loss is too large, then check and check a few people to slightly kill the trend of corruption. But it is absolutely impossible to eradicate...

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The reason why huge interest groups in St. Petersburg now emerged is the Tsar's indulgence attitude.

The army with the highest loyalty to the imperial power in the Imperial Russia is precisely the army in St. Petersburg.

As for smuggling, corruption, chains of interest, etc., the tolerance of imperial imperial power is much higher than that of modern countries. And it is precisely because of the imperial power that the loyalty of these millions of people can be won. (Loyalty to the emperor is not a question of whether it is slack or not, but whether it is profitable. The loyal ministers of the Emperor are now like a spring, while the unruly people who insist on republic are suppressed by the powerful power of those who are capable and cannot make a sound.)

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At the underground military center of St. Petersburg, on the central metal platform, Anna is attending a military conference in Moscow in a projected state.

And beside Anna, Shang Heng was accompanying Anna to attend the meeting. When a key member in the Kremlin was arguing about money and the international situation in front of the imperial court, it was.

Anna tilted her head slightly and asked Shang Heng at the lower left, "What do you think about the current situation?"

After hearing Anna's question, Shang Heng was thinking about how to refuse, because the mess of Imperial Russia is basically unsolvable.

Feeling it, Shang Heng was trying to think about how to avoid it. Anna frowned and said in a commanding tone a few seconds later: "Speak your opinion."

Hearing this, Shang Heng could only say hesitantly: "We have major problems in the economic system and it is no longer possible to make up for our domestic fiscal expenditure in a peaceful way, unless it is."

Shang Heng looked at Anna's expressionless face and tried to be brave: "Unless we set up an iron curtain to separate all the domestic and foreign countries, terminate and external exchanges, and form an independent and isolated internal cycle, so that our financial system can be maintained stable." Shang Heng proposed another timeline North Korean model.

However, after carefully explaining this model, Anna showed a dangerous smile to Shang Heng. Because this model was completely closed to the outside world, she gave up foreign exchanges. In this way, external technology would completely get rid of Imperial Russia at this stage. Especially the opponent of Imperial Russia, the Holy Spirit Cult is now in an open state. Slowing down technology is equivalent to automatically defeating the Holy Spirit Cult.

Another time, I thought that if North Korea had not had the military protection commitment from the north, the military technology that was two or three generations behind would have been implemented by the United States for a long time.

Now Shang Heng proposed this model, and the previous identity of Shang Heng was Deng Wen's confidant, his motive is very questionable.

When Anna's smile became more and more terrifying, Shang Heng gave an additional explanation under the influence of his desire to survive.

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Shang Heng: "When you are advanced, you must naturally open up, but when you are backward, you have great risks to the regime.

Openness represents "docking". However, in this "docking" process, the people always think about connecting with the foreigner's seemingly "advanced and beautiful" lifestyle, and ignoring their own production capacity is not enough to support themselves in this kind of docking. They often mistakenly believe that as long as they have certain characteristics like foreign countries, they can complete docking. Those politicians with strong speaking skills often agree with the people's ideas and ignore the reality that "the family has no money to support this pomp."

The problem now is that if our people find that there is no foreign life pomp, they will be dissatisfied, instead of encouraging themselves and working hard.

They will find ways to simply and quickly change the state of the country. For example, overthrow an emperor today and introduce a noble noun and system tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, several traitors in the top leaders will be punished by heaven.

The root of all this instability is that people in backward countries feel unbalanced when they see advanced outside areas when they are open.

The world's technological development pace is too fast. Our emperor and Russia have national conditions here, and it is difficult to catch up at present. If we continue to maintain this openness, as we lag more and more behind, the more we can only give up our industrial development and start selling the market, and pretend to be fat, so as to meet the national pursuit of integration between life and consumption in the outside world.

If you choose this step, you will go to the path taken by Spain and Latin American countries. They were lagging behind in their productivity at that time, but they did not admit that they were lagging behind in their consumption power."

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Shang Heng said a lot, and finally resolved most of the murderous intent in Anna's eyes. But the strong vigilance made Shang Heng realize that he was sure to wear his shoes this time.

In fact, Shang Heng's name is tragic. As a level 4 superpower (advanced in wartime), he "bears heavy responsibilities" and "enjoy the highest level of security treatment" in Anna Group - he does the most work and is least trustworthy. He has been monitored by many psychic teams all year round. Every word and action is monitored.

Everything was because Shang Heng was captured by Deng Wen. As a prisoner, the most tragic thing was the situation at that time. Anna was not going to put Shang Heng back at that time because Shang Heng had a great role in industrial operations. At that time, the plan was to send it to the gas chamber to cause accidental poisoning.

Thanks to Shang Heng's level 4 superpower and working hard, Anna gradually gave up her thoughts and turned to tight control.

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After the war, Anna came out of the life capsule, perhaps because of the memory damage in her brain, or because of her former charming appearance, because of the craniotomy and docking, she could never grow hair again (she is wearing a wig now.) In short, her temperament changed drastically. She never adopted any suggestions from Shang Heng, but she always asked Shang Heng what she thought. She wanted to directly control her mind and take out all her thoughts. (Note, Shang Heng's level four ability, only the fifth level soul can break through)

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Today's chaos in the imperial meeting made Anna feel bad. If the foolish lord is in a bad mood, she can deal with it by flattering and praise. But she is a tyrant with clear logical thinking. And this tyrant named Shang Heng and said good news. This is a tragedy.

Shang Heng saw Anna's depressed expression brewing, and he had not yet escaped the lockdown of being vented by Anna. Especially the Kremlin's current disputes have added a lot of fire to her.

Shang Heng expressed another idea under this pressure, although this idea was a way to quench thirst in Shang Heng's view.

Shang Heng: "The east is mainly driven by the five-star group, so their interest in foreign interference will not be great. To a certain extent, if we send troops to Central Asia, we should only be verbally opposed by them, and in fact, they should appease us.

The enemy in this place is weak, and as long as military expansion can achieve results, we can change the current economic conflicts in our country."

Shang Heng expressed this idea under tremendous pressure. After a long time, Anna nodded slowly, and her eyes changed into her thoughtful expression. Shang Heng knew that she had passed the test.

A few minutes later, Anna organized the language and began a speech at the imperial meeting...
Chapter completed!