At the end of Christmas, Maria accompanied Charles back to the Czech Duchy, and Ernst wanted to go back, but the Kingdom of Lithuania still needed him as a king at this time, so he had to stay here. With Maria's departure, the Lithuanian palace was once again deserted, and even Ernst did not want to stay here forever.

Jeanne Drelles has also returned to the Czech principality, and it can be said that Ernst has once again become a loner, but fortunately, Ernst has practiced the traditional exercises of the East since he was a child, and it is more appropriate to use the word "essence" to use it on Ernst.

There is no problem with the promotion of urbanization, military reform, and agricultural reform, and the only thing that is lacking is time. Ernst's eyes began to focus on the roads, the Kingdom of Lithuania had gone through wars and occupations by different countries, and the roads could not be said to be potholes, but they could never be said to be good.

There is no problem with the main road (national highway), but the road connecting some counties and towns is very difficult to walk, especially now that the big farm is under construction, the road is the main one, after all, the future Lithuanian agriculture is mainly mechanized, there is no flat road, not to mention that it is difficult for agricultural machinery to go to the field, it is also difficult to transport the harvested grain to the grain depot. However, the construction of the road involved was very expensive, and Ernst did not have the energy and financial support to support it in a short time.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the Council has already begun, and this is the relevant content......"

When Prime Minister Arturas said this, he handed over a stack of documents that were not very thick, and he knew Ernst's character very well, so he deliberately reduced the details to only describe the approximate description.

Lithuania is a unicameral system, the full name is the Inspectorate of the Kingdom of Lithuania, the members of the Inspectorate are composed of ordinary citizens, a total of 210 seats, on average each region will have 5 or 6 parliamentarians. As the name suggests, their functions are mainly to oversee the government, and they can report directly to Ernst.

Speaking of which, the Inspectorate does not have any real power, because it does not have the right to remove officials, there is no law enforcement department, and the only thing he has is the right to supervise, and the biggest power is from Ernst, who can directly submit some reports on government corruption and inaction to Ernst.

The establishment of the Inspectorate undoubtedly made Prime Minister Arturas a little dissatisfied, after all, it is a department that restricts the government, and it is strange that he is elated as the first head of the government.

At a glance, Ernst is very satisfied, he naturally does not want to give citizens too many rights, but at the same time he also needs citizens to supervise the government, after all, he is only a person, and it is too tiring and unrealistic to want to restrict the government by himself, and it is much easier to have an inspectorate.

The members of the Inspectorate are elected by the citizens and enjoy the same state allowance as other civil servants, but they have the restriction that they cannot serve as government officials for five years after leaving office. This is mainly to prevent parliamentarians and officials from colluding with each other, although there are other restrictions specifically designed to maintain an antagonistic relationship between them and the government.

Members of the Inspectorate cannot be less than 30 years of age, and a term of office is 5 years. To put it simply, if a parliamentarian wants to be an official, he must be at least 40 years old. Age has become his biggest flaw, and even if he enters the officialdom, he can't do much. Of course, it is not impossible, as long as Ernst appoints it, everything is not a problem, after all, the law of the Kingdom of Lithuania is Ernst.

The matter of the Inspectorate had already had an approximate result, and Ernst shifted the focus to the banks, after all, he was ready to launch the euro program in two years, after all, it would benefit the economies of the Kingdom of Lithuania, the Czech Duchy, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary.

"How are the preparations for the Royal Bank of Lithuania going?"

"The bank was established on the basis of the former National Bank of Lithuania, and now there is only some confusion in terms of personnel, and the regions have begun to operate, but ......"

"But what"

Ernst couldn't help frowning, usually there will be trouble with this word, the bank is a conflict of interests, he involves too many interests of all parties, even Ernst does not want to cause related trouble.

"The nationalization of the banks caused discontent among some local nobles and merchants, who offered to emigrate."

Immigrant? Ernst was slightly stunned, and then sneered, most of the economy of the Kingdom of Lithuania is in the hands of these rich businessmen, and it is true that they emigrated to force Ernst to compromise, but didn't they see that they were a resolute and uncompromising character in the first few things?

"Nationalization of banks is the law!"

In a simple sentence, Prime Minister Arturas already understood what Ernst meant, if the soft does not work, the hard will come, anyway, this is not the first time that it has been enforced? But once or twice is fine, if there are too many times, will it affect the stability of the country? But Ernst was too hawkish, and Prime Minister Arturas did not dare to speak at this time.

A private banking conference room in Vilnius:

"Now that His Majesty wants to nationalize the banks, what do you think about this?"

The people gathered here were all the bankers of Vilnius, and some of them also had knighthoods, so the sudden thing really surprised them, not long after the military reform and the agricultural reform, and now Ernst's eyes were actually on the bank, and the unlucky nobleman was touched by him in three things, and he really had a dead heart.

As soon as the middle-aged man at the head finished speaking, a bald old man on the left side said casually: "Do you think our King Majesty will compromise?" ”

The old man's words made the room very quiet, and they all knew that the possibility of Ernst's compromise was zero, and according to Ernst's previous practice, it was very likely that the time of their bad luck was not far off. Since Ernst became king, he has been sitting unscrupulously doing whatever he wants, and no one has stopped him or dared to do so, knowing that the corpses of the Kalinin nobles have just been cold for a short time.

"Shall we just let it ......?"

"If you look at it, you may be able to see that our wealth has not diminished much......"

As soon as the old man's words spoke, there was silence again, what did this sentence mean? There are those who have a heart, and when they think about it, they seem to understand something. Although the agrarian reform took back forests, rivers, land, and resources, these were exchanged for the urban shops that were being built for them, and even according to the current shop prices, their wealth did not shrink much, and even increased in value. Although the military reform has caused many retired officers to face the situation of not having a job, the new army of the Kingdom of Lithuania has given them an affirmation of the environment of the Kingdom of Lithuania, after all, the combat effectiveness of the new army can ensure the security of the Kingdom of Lithuania.

It is the merchants who want peace the most, and of course this excludes the arms dealers. A peaceful environment can bring wealth, they are businessmen, not warlords, and it is only these businessmen who are unlucky in the event of a melee.

The promotion of urbanization has allowed a large number of businessmen to see a new business opportunity, and commercial apartments are a very profitable business, which allows wealthy businessmen with capital to have a new way to make money. The compensation for the nationalization of the banks was to allow them to intervene in the urbanization project, and they were eligible to borrow a certain amount of money from the Royal Bank of Lithuania after the integration.

The old man's words silenced most of the bankers who attended the meeting, and some of them wanted to say something, but when they opened their mouths, they looked at the old man in fear as if they thought of something.

The Kingdom of Lithuania already has its own intelligence services, and these intelligence agents are all over Lithuania, and it is difficult to guarantee that the old man is one of them, if not in that case, why would he speak to the government like this? Just now they were afraid and didn't dare to say anything more, they also thought of this, and they didn't want to do things that were dangerous to themselves.

The old man ignored the strange looks of these people, he coughed lightly and continued: "The stock exchange in Vilnius is about to open, and our goal should be on this matter. Our Majesty the King is very capable, Prague's financial street has the reputation of the European Wall Street, and I believe that in the future we will do the same in Vilnius. ”

The stock exchange, this is something that the wealthy businessmen of the Kingdom of Lithuania value, because no matter how big the industry is, the profits are far less than that of the financial industry, even if the financial risks are very high.

In fact, there is another reason why the wealthy businessmen of the Kingdom of Lithuania pay attention to the financial industry, what is the most attractive thing about the industry besides profits? It is influence and status, a financier with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan must not have a high status as an industrialist with a net worth of 10 million but controlling more than 10,000 workers, because his influence and proportion in society are not as good as those of the other party.

Hundreds of millions of cash are nothing to the stock market trading market, at most it is just a trace of waves. But tens of thousands of workers are a great pressure on the local government, who may compromise with the industrial entrepreneur, but will not bend down to a financier unless his influence is strong enough to move the entire market.

"It is said that His Majesty the King intends to bring about the unification of the currencies of Lithuania, the Czech principality, the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Hungary, and this is our opportunity."

The old man's words focused the attention of the wealthy businessmen on the unification of the currency, and the suspicious people looked at them more and more strangely, how could he know so much if it wasn't for the intelligence officer?