Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 110 >

Imperial Japan, Naval Headquarters.

“The army arbitrarily sent an envoy to Russia…”

“Isn’t this what I should do?”

“There is a good chance they will try to intervene in Gina, with a spoonful of Russia, and they may have already negotiated the territorial division.”

“Then isn’t it a big deal? Even if the army guys try to seize the government with this momentum…”

“It won’t be easy, if we didn’t know it, it would have been a headache, but now we all know it, don’t we?”

“But even so, there is a means to stop the dispatch… and even if it does stop the dispatch, it is a problem, and if the navy guys play with it, it will be quite difficult to deal with it.”

“Who said to stop the dispatch? You have to dispatch troops, but that’s not the army’s, but the navy’s, and furthermore, it’s just a matter of making it a tribute to the entire empire and the emperor’s breastplate. Where in the past wars have the navy and the army competed for ball? If this becomes a ball for the entire empire, it will soon become a ball for the navy that has led the empire right, so have a wide view.”

“ah! then……..”

“We should also prepare for the deployment, isn’t it that Gina’s power is there anyway? There is no way you can lose.”

“Then where should we aim?”

“Yeah… Wouldn’t it be Hainan Island?”

“It’s Hainan! It’s a suggestion.”

During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Empire vomited up the Liaodong Peninsula and tried to target Hainan, but eventually gave up. Bringing it back to the Empire’s territory would be a signal to show everyone that they are better than their predecessors in the past.

“The time has come for the naval land squadron and the combined fleet to go to the front.”

***

Vladivostok, Russian Empire.

The ship was approaching the port.

The transport carrying hundreds of people, fortunately for him, was not a navy, but a private passenger ship leased by the army.

It was fortunate for him, a member of the typical Imperial Japanese Army, who was shy and did not like to borrow a sheet of toilet paper from the toilet. In fact, I would have just come by train.

“Sir, we will be arriving soon.”

“okay. What do you think?”

“How could we not be looking forward to meeting a hero who spread the power of Eastern Geon-ah to all corners of Europe?”

Army Captain Kiichi Tanaka, a man who saw his opponent answering a question like a dog, smiled.

“Yes, yes. I’m also looking forward to it, but how excited are you guys who are still young.”

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for providing this opportunity.”

“Where is this my own public figure, the blessing of the entire army?”

“However, it would have been difficult if your Excellency had not been following the right path by continuously insisting on advancing to Manchuria and Jina.”

“Ahahahaha!”

Tanaka turned to look at the young officer, feeling good about Abu, who seemed to have swung with oil and honey on his tongue.

“Young people like you are the future of the army, cancer and the future of the Japanese Empire. What was your name?”

“This is Mudaguchi Renya. Your Excellency.”

“Your name, remember.”

Captain Tanaka thought to himself.

After all, he has to return to command the army as soon as the negotiations are over. However, since there was such a thing, it seemed that there was no need to worry about the problems of the government officials and the international students.

In fact, there’s nothing wrong with negotiating. It is to draw the border between Russia and Japan, but it is only to confirm the borderline that has already been tacitly drawn.

And there was one more thing.

‘Hwabook.’

His most important task was to negotiate with the Russian Empire by any means and by means of which the Russian Empire acknowledged that North Korea was an area of interest to the Japanese Empire.

It was also the reason why the army general took off the heavy butt and went to Vladivostok.

“Lieutenant Renya. Do you understand that you have an important task of leading the Imperial Officer Candidates?”

“of course. dismissal.”

Currently, the number of people on board the ship can be divided into five groups.

The negotiating group, led by Captain Tanaka, will go to Joseon as soon as the negotiations are concluded and dispatch troops for the expedition.

bureaucracy corps. Their number is about 10, and in case of emergency, it was their duty to serve as a liaison officer between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Russian Army.

The Japanese military cadets, made up of the most elite among them, consisted of freshly commissioned junior officers or cadets.

They will stay for a while and study abroad in the Russian Empire. At the same time, they also had authority over the other two groups.

Next, Japanese private international students, although not so numerous, were also children from well-established families.

Lastly, the Koreans came from different backgrounds and were of different ages, but they had one thing in common.

In the eyes of the ganja sent by the Japanese Government-General of Korea, they have leadership skills enough to become the head of the students, and they are students who are rebellious against the rule of the Japanese Empire.

The project was carried out under the premise that it would be advantageous to control the future generation of students if they turned them on by showing them the bitter taste of reality.

“Who is in charge of Korean students now?”

“Domini is Lieutenant Gyoji. It’s not because he’s my close friend, he’s a pretty capable friend, so you don’t have to worry about the Koreans causing unrest.”

“Okay, very good, if you say that, you must be.”

Captain Tanaka smiled wildly as if he liked it.

“The army has high expectations for each of you.”

“I will definitely come back with success and repay Hwang Eun.”

Captain Tanaka smiled contentedly at Mudaguchi Renya’s determination.

***

The pieces move on the chessboard.

But the pieces were not regular chess pieces.

The red horses are largely scattered in three places, and the white horses are spread around one place.

The black horses are divided into several tiles. Rook is besieging the red horses, and Knight annihilates the red horses elsewhere.

And there is a queen.

Two black queens behind white horses.

And the white king standing alone.

The red king being pressured by Rook.

And the red bishop (bishop) sandwiched between the white horses.

‘Originally, I was trying to relax a little bit.’

The suppression of the Caucasus rebellion is delayed than expected.

There is a limit to the number of horses I have, so I can’t strike a three-way front.

However, it is impossible to break the siege on Grozny now, and for the same reason, it is also impossible to delay the war with the Republic of China.

Originally, my plan was now.

When the conservatives are turbulent due to the detonation thrown by Olga, they take their allies to the sea and revolt the Communist Party in time to calm the two, and sweep the rest with ease.

However, the timetable was twisted.

‘But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way.’

I flipped one phone with my finger.

When I put a move, if the enemy puts three moves, if the enemy has almost twice as many words as I have.

Even if you are pushed and pushed and have a checkmate coming up, that doesn’t mean there’s no way to win.

‘Because this is not chess.’

Rules don’t exist.

***

“……”

“Uh… am I wrong?”

“What is it, look at me too.”

“Let go of this first, the paper is torn.”

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Maria, who gave the pint cup to her sister, blinked as if my eyes were doing something wrong.

“Uh… can I really do what is written here?”

“The signature is clear.”

“No, even if it is certain, that is, even if it is.”

Alexei snatched the paper from Maria’s hand, which seemed to have broken something.

“No, but why do my sisters open the letters before I even see them? I really don’t understand. This is a letter from me.”

“It’s a situation, do you understand? By the way… what are you thinking?”

“Let’s just do what we’re told, the eldest sister and the duke… No, the brother-in-law’s heads would be better than the four remaining heads put together?”

“Hey, it’s not like that…”

“Isn’t it? When we had a mystery battle before…”

“Hey, how many years have you been talking about?”

“It wasn’t even that many years ago. But it feels really dark.”

“……”

The political turmoil in St. Petersburg was felt even for Alexei, who is avoiding trouble by locking himself up in his room on the pretext that he is not feeling well these days.

Absence of the tsar, the eldest sister seizes power.

“Did my sister really have no way, so she caused controversy by using a ‘rough’ method like this?”

“What do you mean?”

“I just told you, my sister and the duke’s heads work better than the rest of them put together.”

“right.”

“Then, if she really needed to get power in a hurry, would she have chosen this unstable method? Would the Duke have stood by her sister’s rise to the highest position? would it interfere? Not both.”

“…that’s right.”

It almost felt like they were being rushed, but maybe their smart eldest sister didn’t understand it. Could I have come up with an alternative?

No, was there any reason in this state of affairs to gain power even at the risk of such chaos? Even if she stood still, she would have been appointed regent, and furthermore, she would have become an empress in the future.

“Besides, there is one person who will pack a lunch and dry it when faced with a situation like this.”

“Wait, I didn’t follow the story well for a second, sister, what do you mean? Did your eldest sister mean all of this?”

“It’s purely my guess, because you’re not seeing any of us right now.”

“then……”

“The eldest sister would never have acted alone. At least when I see the duke moving, it means that the eldest sister informed the duke of what he was doing.”

“……It’s frustrating, because I can’t understand the situation.”

It was Alexei, who was very sad that his brother-in-law, who was also a kind commentator, was not here.

“There’s nothing we can do about the situation now, let’s just do what we’re told.”

“But… well… do I have to do it?”

Alexei looked at Anastasia and Maria, but the two looked at Alexei without saying a word.

He turned his head desperately and turned away, but when the stinging gaze reached the point where the side of the head was pierced, he could not overcome the pressure and raised his hands.

“Okay, okay, you can’t do it!”