Promises Must Be Kept: Pacta sunt servanda (14)

This country is overflowing with cartels and monopolies.

"Will the capitalists and industrialists really follow this without resistance?"

"It's wartime. I believe our capitalists will be grateful to be alive."

"..."

If they don't listen when the country is at war, I don't think my mood will be very good.

Winter is ending and spring is coming soon.

Before the plump flesh that swelled in the warm weather shrinks.

It's time to cut open the goose's belly.

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The Tsar's new decree was promulgated.

Unlike the empire's citizens' expectations that it would be a conscription order similar to the general mobilization order from two years ago due to wartime, the content seemed completely unrelated to war.

The content stated that industries designated as monopolies or cartels could be controlled, dissolved, and utilized by the state with court approval.