A month passed very quickly. The Ministry of Supervision of the Russian Empire had achieved great results.
Almost all the officials in the cabinet of the Russian Empire were interviewed. Among them, most of the officials were frightened. They were very honest and took the initiative to hand over the stolen money.
This was mainly because the cabinet ministers had taken the lead and played a very good role in demonstrating. And the hanging of Sergei Witt had a great deterrent effect.
Of course, there were also people who wanted money more than their lives. In other words, they were people who only wanted to hand over a small portion of the stolen money and then get away with it. However, in front of these experienced officials of the Ministry of Supervision, there was no way to hide it.
This was also the reason why Mihail used retired intelligence personnel to serve as officials of the Ministry of Supervision.
"Your Majesty, the cabinet has basically been sorted out. At present, the officials have taken the initiative to hand over the stolen money, as well as the money we have seized, totaling up to three billion rubles. Among them, half of the wealth belonged to Sergei Witt.”Akinfev reported.
Mihail nodded repeatedly. This was only the case for the officials of the cabinet of the Russian Empire.
Next, the Ministry of Supervision would conduct a thorough investigation of local officials throughout the Russian Empire. These local officials might not have as much money as the cabinet officials. However, the number of local officials was even greater!
It could be foreseen that the Russian Empire would be able to obtain even more stolen money. According to preliminary estimates, it should not be a problem to get tens of billions of rubles of stolen money from these officials.
In this era, this was a huge sum of money!
The current exchange rate was one pound to nine rubles. This meant that the stolen money alone was worth more than one billion pounds.
With this money, Michael's next series of plans could be carried out very well.
"The Ministry of Supervision is doing very well. "Next, you have to work harder and begin to investigate the local officials in various places. They could investigate state by state. Within three years, he had to investigate all the local officials in the empire. Furthermore, they had to conduct regular checks on officials at all levels to prevent those officials from reaching out again after the checks by the Imperial Department of Supervision.”Mihail warned.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Akinfev replied.
"Other than that, the officials of the Ministry of Supervision also have to pay special attention to their own investigations. I believe that when the Ministry of Supervision is investigating, the officials will definitely encounter all kinds of temptations. Among them, there would definitely be people who could not resist the temptation and were bribed. These people must be cleared out in time. Otherwise, it would bring even greater damage and losses!”Mihail said.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will be careful.”Akinfev nodded repeatedly.
The integrity of the Ministry of Supervision was especially important.
Otherwise, once the Ministry of Supervision itself rotted away, how would they investigate the officials at all levels!
With Michael's hard work, everything in the Russian Empire was finally on the right track. He could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
At the end of July, Michael summoned the royal butler, Kristoff.
Kristoff was already in his sixties and had served three generations of tsars. From Alexander III onwards, he had been in charge of the royal family's businesses.
Michael summoned him to find out how much the royal family had now. Especially how much money was in the treasury of the royal family.
One had to know that in another time and space, the tsars of the Russian Empire were not very good at governing the country. However, his ability to make money was still very good.
This allowed the Romanov Dynasty to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth over hundreds of years.
It was said that there were thousands of tons of gold. Adding on the other treasures, land, and other real estate, the royal family's assets were undoubtedly extremely shocking.
Unfortunately, Nicholas II didn't put the money to good use. Instead, he guarded the wealth like a miser.
As a result, after Nicholas II's rule was overthrown and the Russian Empire collapsed, these wealth basically fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks.
The Bolsheviks relied on this wealth to win the civil war and the interference of the foreign powers. Moreover, he vigorously developed the industry and quickly became powerful.
Michael was different from Nicholas II and the previous tsars. He did not want the royal family's wealth to rot in the dark gold mine and fall into the hands of others. Wouldn't that be a big loss?
The current Russian Empire could be said to be poor.
The infrastructure was extremely backward, and the industry was also far behind the other powers.
In addition, military construction and future war expenses would require a large amount of money.
If the empire's finances were not enough, Michael planned to lend all the wealth of the royal family to the empire's finances for the time being, so that the Russian Empire could become stronger first.
"Your Majesty, the current assets of the Imperial Family include the 6,000 tons of gold stored in various vaults, as well as other jewels. There was also land and other immovable property. According to the current market price, it was about 10 billion rubles!”Kristoff reported.
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