Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 108 >

Home Affairs Army Field Command.

The first fatality in any war is the plan of operation.

Even in this case, it was no exception. The case was just a little different.

I shook my head as I read the long letter, no, the notice.

It must have been too late to dry it now, because the water has already spilled.

The good news is that… the whole frame was not damaged. It’s going to be a bit contrived, but if you do it right, you might be able to get through it smoothly.

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My personal feelings aside, yes.

I looked at the PS behind him with red eyes.

‘Damn it, damn it, damn it.’

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My head is telling me it’s already late, but I keep getting up from my seat.

But now, more than ever, we have to be sober. If you decide to become a steel giant, you must also know how to cool your heart. And the cold reason is telling us that now we have to use other means.

And after anguish, I decided to follow my reason.

Because that’s what steel is.

***

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.

“How is your Majesty?”

“It will not affect your life, but at least you will need medical care.”

“Damn, your Majesty has a lot of things to pay for.”

Although the Empress is acting as an agent, the relationship between the Empress and Stolipin was not very good. Although he had a bad relationship with the emperor, it was no exaggeration to say that he was twice as bad with the empress.

The Empress is not a person who clearly distinguishes between public and private affairs, so things did not go well.

Stolipin scratched my head.

“I know I need Your Majesty’s signature, but Your Majesty must take it easy. dismissal.”

“I know, isn’t that what I’m doing? Shit.”

Stolipin, who was holding the doctor and throwing away the quarrel, heard a voice.

“Stolipin.”

“The Empress Dowager Mama.”

The two immediately set an example. It was the emperor’s mother himself.

“Mama, if you get too close to your Majesty, you can get infected…”

“If you become a mother and you can’t even see your own son, who can you meet?”

Feeling the empress’s will, the doctor put on a puzzled expression.

“Then… please never take your mask off. Please refrain from talking too long, and refraining from actions that provoke your Majesty… as it will not help stability at all.”

Hesitantly, the attending physician withdrew, and the masked Empress Dowager followed Stolipin and opened the bedroom door.

The handmaidens who raised their arms and legs quickly bowed their heads when they saw the Empress Dowager and the Prime Minister’s progress.

“Get away.”

“However….”

“It is an order. Step back and wait outside until called. It’s an important story.”

The maidservant was going to say something, but no matter how high-ranking the maidservant was, contrary to what people thought, there was no way the maidservant would be the empress douche, so the maids had to quietly back down.

When the door was closed, the Empress Dowager pulled out a chair and sat at the bedside of her child.

“Nicky.”

“mother.”

Nicholas II woke up to the voice of the Empress Dowager.

“The doctor said you should work a little harder and rest for quite a while, but your life is not affected, I’m glad.”

“Is that so.”

“Wake up quickly, this mother is upset to see you sick.”

“Among my children, no one is sick. Fortunately, it is.”

Nicholas II forced a smile. It was a bizarre smile with a pale complexion, but the Empress Dowager closed her eyes for a moment.

“your majesty. I would appreciate it if you could return to the government as soon as possible.”

“You see, Stolipin is a loyalist, and there is nothing to lose by listening to him. Nicky.”

Stolipin had many enemies, but if he had only one patron, it was the Empress Dowager.

“Or what about the substitute, but how about this? If you’re in St. Petersburg, you probably won’t be able to rest comfortably. Go to Yekaterinburg and get some fresh air…”

“Empress Empress Mama, who sees the state affairs then?”

“Hmm, Alyx…”

Stolipin shook his head frantically. Alix? Now that the emperor is still in St. Petersburg, she can’t take arbitrariness, and she couldn’t even guess what the hell she would do if she took full power, the pinnacle of incompetence.

“How about giving Olga a chance instead? It’s something you’ll have to do someday, isn’t it?”

Simply put, it was a proxy cleanup.

Of course, there are prerequisites that the relationship between the monarch and the heir must be very good, and the ability of the successor must be sufficient in order to be clean by proxy.

However, the former condition is meaningless to the Tsar, who loves only his own children, and Stolipin knows the successor’s abilities better than anyone. Are you pushing Olga as the next Empress for nothing?

“And suddenly this happened, and we are still delaying the official announcement, but if your Majesty entrusts Princess Olga to act as a proxy, we can strengthen her position as successor.”

“Ummm……”

“Nicky, this is all for your health. If you get fresh air from the Urals, the disease will come off.”

Nicholas II, who had not been listening properly, but managed to grasp the point, groaned.

“If Olga was ready enough…”

“This old lady will help me. Besides, she’s not the only one, isn’t there a duke you trust more than anyone else?”

“It is… it is.”

I hate Stolipin, but I can trust the Duke of Vostok. The emperor, who fully agreed with that opinion, had to agree with what followed.

“And you know, you and I can’t live forever. Then Olga’s reign will come, but who is the only one who will fall for their legitimacy in that child’s reign? We are talking about preventing that from happening in advance. We need to remove the obstacles that block the daughter’s path.”

It’s a decision you make for your daughter’s future. I couldn’t help but agree.

“I will leave you with just one letter to the Duke. And to Alyx…”

“When you go to Yekaterinburg, go with Alyx, you won’t be very lonely if you go alone.”

To be more precise and frankly speaking, even a daughter-in-law who is more than Nicholas II and a helpless daughter-in-law is to recuperate in the countryside with her frail son, but Nicholas II nodded his head, not thinking about it.

“As long as there are dukes, there will be no need to worry about war. Your Majesty, report regularly…”

“No, it is.”

He is going on vacation and recuperation now. I didn’t want to go through work.

Fortunately, the emperor was relieved because his mother seemed to agree with it.

***

“The Empress Dowager Mama.”

“stop.”

Stolipin was about to say something.

“You don’t have to tell me.”

“However…….”

“I can’t help it.”

Looking at the back of the train leaving the station, Empress Dowager said bitterly.

“I don’t like this way, either, but it was the best way I could think of, my son…to be honest, he wasn’t going to rise to the top of the Empire.”

I mis-educated, the Empress Dowager mumbled as if to help herself.

She only educated her son on character. The reason was simple.

It was because he had no intention of putting Nicholas II on the throne in the first place. But somehow, it happened, and her son, whom she loved so much, was… to put it bluntly, a person who shouldn’t be an emperor.

No, even if he became a monarch, he was not a monarch worthy of the Russian Empire.

“Understand, Nicky.”

If everything goes according to her plan, her son will never return to power.

Her granddaughter, Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, was appointed regent shortly after she was officially declared Crown Princess and was able to exercise all the tsar’s powers legally.

And while maintaining this state, it was the empress’s plan to cook and cook her son well so that his granddaughter would take over.

The problem is that Olga’s first move was more radical than expected.

***

“What… what?”

“I will break the imperial engagement.”

Olga has no fiance.

And now, there is only one imperial engagement that the regent directly mentions.

“… So, I’m going to break your brother’s engagement, right? Olga.”

The Empress Dowager had a puzzled expression on her face, but Stolipin had a rather calm expression.

“Yes, Grandma.”

“Let’s hear the reason, because.”

“For the sake of the Empire.”

“……”

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs… The Duke of Vostok was too big, the Prime Minister is right. He is more loyal than anyone else, but at the same time his very existence has the power to shake up an empire regardless of his intentions. We must bring that power to the imperial court. Exactly… I have to have it.”

At Olga’s words that it was to stabilize the empire, the Empress Dowager looked at my granddaughter silently.

“You are lying.”

“Yes?”

“This grandmother is old and her eyes are blurred, but there are things in the world that look better with wrinkled eyes.

“grandmother.”

“Do you love him?”

“……I know that you do bad things to your brother.”

“It’s good to know.”

“But even then, I can’t make concessions.”

“Concession.”

The Empress Dowager lamented.

“Did you talk to that child? both.”

“no.”

The moment the Empress Dowager closed her eyes and was about to say something, Olga answered.

“But at least he will understand.”

“Did you take any affirmations?”

“He prophesied that I would be crowned.”

“……”

“And he promised me absolute power, his oath was never broken, but as long as he exists, he can’t keep his oath. Except for one case.”

Olga declared.

“I will demand that you live up to that oath.”

“It won’t be easy.”

“No, that’s what I was expecting.”

Olga’s eyes were cold.

Her eyes, hard to even guess what she was thinking, resembled those of someone she loved.

***

War was declared, but there was no battle between the Chinese and Russian forces.

The Russian army prioritized suppressing the rebellion, and the Chinese army only concentrated its defense forces, but the central government issued a strong order not to open fire first.

Even the ruler of Xinjiang Uyghurs, Yang Zhengxin, had given the following orders to his subordinate units.

– Under no circumstances will we fight the Russian army with force, we will keep all weapons in the arsenal and stand by, and cooperate with the Russian army as much as possible.

In the first place, it was an instruction that was difficult to comprehend unless it was a pro-Russian greeting in the first place, rather than an act with the intention of becoming a Russian dog and seizing power on this occasion, and that was the case.

Rather, now was an opportunity for the pro-Russian forces.

If he wins, he is a tyrant, but if he loses, he is a great leader who has a different foresight than the government who foolishly chose to oppose it. Moreover, Russia will not abandon those who are loyal to it.

Who among the ambitious midfielders would want to miss this opportunity?

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Moreover, China had no prospect of victory at all. Thinking in common sense, who will win out of the European power, Russia, and this country, which is not strange even if it collapses at any time?

It sounded so natural.

***

Astrakhan, Provisional Headquarters of the Interior Forces.

“We report the arrival of 24 members of the United States Inspectorate General, below Lieutenant Colonel Douglas MacArthur.”

“Huh, yes.”

I touched my forehead.

In the end, the United States and Japan decided to send a corps of spectators.

Of course, Japan was a bit delayed. I heard that it was delayed because we had to select a person in charge to have a meeting with us on this case… It’s a bit too late for such a thing. The US is also relatively fast, as the rebellion is being suppressed and sitting there.

In the first place, it is in the name of a non-spectator group for the Russo-Chinese war, not a spectator group for the civil war.

‘Anyway, that’s great.’

When I saw the list, I poked my tongue out. George C. Marshall to Douglas MacArthur?

At first I thought it was the same person, but they were correct.

“Once the headquarters is here, I have called here, Astrakhan, but as you have heard, the traitors in Grozny have already been almost suppressed, and there is nothing to see. The rebels in Central Asia have also been suppressed, and we are currently working on stabilization.”

“I know.”

“So, what you will see is the Chinese front. Sooner or later, the headquarters will be moved to the Kazakh region, so I hope you will act as well.”

“Yes, I understand. I wish you all the best.”