It was nine o'clock in the evening at St. Petersburg Palace. Alexander granted permission to the two manservants of the Winter Palace to enter his office to have them decorate something for him.
"Put it next to my portrait painting," Alexander instructed the manservants who were carrying a sixteen by 20 inches portrait painting of his daughter made by his wife.
The manservant carefully mounted the painting on the wall, Alexander watched and hummed in satisfaction. He looked at it and noticed that something was missing. His wife's portrait. It would be a perfect view of her portrait hung on the wall along them as well.
But painting is a tedious task and he doesn't want Sophie to tire her hands.
'I think it would be best if I hire the best painter in the Ruthenian Empire to do her portrait,' Alexander thought to himself.
A couple of seconds later, the work was done. The manservant stepped down from the chair and bowed to him as they left.
Alexander stood there for a second, gazing at the beautiful painting of his daughter. She just looks so adorable that he could stare at it for eternity.
Interestingly, looking at it has some small side effects. It's making him miss her and wants to see her again despite spending quality time with each other hours ago. For Alexander, it wasn't enough, he wanted more.
Unfortunately, there's something that requires his attention.
He returned to his chair and sat on it. He picked the file nearest to him and opened it. Inside the file, all of Alexander's official documents relating to the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Chilean Republic and the talking points that they'll discuss tomorrow were there.
He just has to memorize it and he is good to go.
Next is the situation report of the Battle of the Yellow Sea. A major naval engagement between the Ruthenian Empire and the Yamato Empire.
The Ruthenian Empire emerged victorious and suffered no losses. The planes were effective in sinking a battleship whose anti-aircraft guns had not yet developed to a level similar to world war two. The Yamato doesn't have an aircraft carrier but the Foreign Intelligence Services reports that they are planning on covering and building one. He won't be surprised if the Yamato does so as for sure, the admirals present in the battle would realize the effectiveness of the planes, thus shifting to another naval doctrine.
Next are the submarines. The Morzh Class Submarines sailing among the First Imperial Yamato Fleet covertly were providing the bearing and distance to the Ruthenian Empire Pacific Fleet. Though the Ruthenian Battleships already have state-of-the-art radars that can detect for over one hundred kilometers, they still need the exact position of the flagship of the First Imperial Yamato Fleet.
Speaking of that fleet, something interested him when he read the name of the admiral leading that fleet. It was Admiral Yamamoto. So he exists in this world as well. He heard a lot from this guy, he was the best admiral in the Japanese Empire but not the greatest. His strategic blunders led to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the war in the Pacific. Now here in this world, he was defeated again. Such a shame.
He continued reading the reports and there he found out how the First Imperial Yamato Fleet was defeated. When the aircraft from the Petropavlovsk Aircraft Carrier finished their runs, the Morzh Class Submarines finished the rest by torpedoing them. This creates huge holes in their hulls causing them to sink. Some of the ships activated their scuttling charges to prevent the ships from falling into Ruthenian hands but Alexander couldn't care less about it sinking.
His country possessed the most technological naval warships in the world, why would he care for something obsolete? There's only one missing formula for Alexander to achieve dominance over the seven seas. And that is the Global Positioning System or GPS for short.
Alexander from his past life had accessed NASA's rocket blueprints used to launch the NAVSTAR, there will be a rocket launch test on October 1st. It's a concept demonstration that humanity can go beyond the sky. If he succeed in the launch, Alexander would get the funding he needed to launch twenty-four Navstar Satellites as well as other variety of satellites such as Synthetic Aperture Radar, Signal Intelligence, communication satellite, optical imaging satellite, naval reconnaissance satellite, optical reconnaissance satellite, radar imaging satellite, and electro-optical surveillance satellite.
It would be an expensive project, higher than NASA's budget in its prime.
To fund the megaprojects he planned for the Ruthenian Empire, Alexander would also have to introduce something that would make people spend their money on products, which in turn boost the economy, they are credit cards. To do so, he will have to set up a meeting with the Minister of Finance to discuss this new concept.
"Okay one step at the time," Alexander thought, running wild again. He shifted his attention to the war and shook off the thoughts that were swirling inside his head.
Returning to the situation of the naval battle in the Yellow Sea, Alexander achieved naval superiority. This is a huge blow to the Yamato Empire whose hopes they placed on their navy is now crushed. It's only a matter of time as well for the Ruthenian Empire to capture Hanseong, the capital of the Choson Empire, specifically, three days.
How would the Yamato react to this loss? What will be their next move? Will they continue fighting and hope the tables turned against them or will they take the chance to negotiate with the Ruthenian Empire and sue for peace? All these questions are important as they would dictate how the future of geopolitics in the Far East will unfold.
Now, Yamato Empire, what are you going to do? The Ruthenian Empire has cut off your access to the Choson Peninsula and even if you plan to send more troops and amass them in your ports, Alexander can simply send bombers there and annihilate everything like what he did to Busan.
He'll find out soon when the Ruthenian Armed Forces achieve total control over the peninsula. The Ruthenian Empire doesn't have amphibious assault capability to invade the main island of the Yamato Empire. If that was the case, Alexander could simply build one. If you don't have something and you need it or you just like it, you build it. That was his motto.
A landing platform dock and an amphibious assault ship are the vessels he will include in the next naval program. USS America and Antonio-class amphibious transport dock are the designs he is going to copy.
Closing the file, Alexander finalizes the things he has to do tomorrow. Meet with the Chilean Foreign Minister to sign and seal the relationship between the Ruthenian Empire and the Chilean Republic, meet with the Minister of Finance about the possible implementation of the credit card system, and lastly oversee the progress of the war.
Speaking of war, Alexander remembered that the Chosonese rebels along with the Ruthenian special forces and airborne battalion who will be para dropped on October 30 will conduct an operation to retake the Hanseong from Yamato's control.
A lot of big things are going to happen tomorrow, not only that, in the first month of November, the rocket launch test and the nuclear bomb experiment. The two most historic moments from his original world will soon happen in his new world.
