Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 116 >

Beijing, Republic of China.

President Feng Guojiang signed the surrender document with trembling hands.

The war with the great powers brought only the disastrous result of defeat again.

In addition to the loss of territory, huge reparations.

It was a multi-faceted front that opened in an instant. Fortunately, they were not allies, so individual negotiations were possible?

The easiest negotiation was the Russian Empire. In the beginning, everyone knew that there was no rivalry, and in the end, there was no one to put a bell on the cat’s neck, so it was agreed within the North Yang government that the negotiation of surrender to Russia should proceed.

Conditions in Russia were harsh. The new border, extending to Xinjiang, Northern Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu Province, was stabbing China like a dagger.

In addition, the huge compensation was a bonus. However, Russia was an ally of Russia, and was the easiest negotiator after France, who was satisfied with sneaking in and re-adjusting the borders of the Indochina Governor-General.

Tibet ….. Anyone can see that Tibet, which started a war at the behest of Britain, demanded an enormous amount of territory. In fact, it was a request to surrender the entire region belonging to Tibetan culture.

It goes without saying that Tibet itself was not particularly fond of it, but as long as someone behind the Dalai Lama wanted it, it was already decided.

It was difficult for them to add administrative power to themselves because the horse was a Tibetan culture, and it was a territory of a huge area including the west of Chengdu, but they had no choice but to say they wanted it.

There was also a proposal to agree to remain as an autonomous region of the Republic of China in terms of formality, but the strong attitude that there would be no negotiations except for Tibet’s independence was returned, and both sides with the Tibetan Army, which has machine guns, improvised armored vehicles, and even has only one biplane. In a situation where it was impossible to open a front, the Republic of China raised both hands in the end.

The real problem was the Japanese Empire.

The request of the Japanese Empire was one more drink from the 21 demands.

Recognize that the Japanese Empire has taken over all German Empire rights and interests held in Shandong Province. This could be called a demand as a victorious nation during the Great War.

Hainan Island and South Manchuria – which fell because the Russian Empire had taken over Inner Mongolia – were ceded to the Japanese Empire, and Russia also plundered a lot of territory.

However, since then, the blatant colonial ambitions for China have been revealed one after another.

First of all, it meant that the Japanese government should first of all consult with the Japanese government regarding the political, financial, and military advisors and instructors of the Chinese central government.

Plywood of Hanya Steel Corporation. Hanya Iron and Steel Corporation is the largest steel company in China with the right to develop iron ore in Hanyang and Daye in North China and Pingxiang in Jiangxi Province. It was like a request.

Guaranteed privileges for Japanese people throughout North Korea and free stationing of Japanese troops, deployment of Japanese advisors to the North Korean administration, tax exemption for Japanese people, missionary service, and other privileges.

It was nothing more than a declaration to make North Korea a colony.

In addition, at least half of the weapons possessed by the Chinese government should be imported or co-produced in Japan; allow the Japanese government to intervene in Chinese police agencies in areas required by Japan; It was an upgraded request from the previous 21 demands, such as that the Japanese Empire should unconditionally be the top priority for negotiation.

This was an unreasonable request reflecting the desperate psychology of the Japanese army. The Japanese army mobilized almost arbitrarily and had to deal with a political aftermath.

How to deal with that political aftermath?

It had to carry out a stronger demand than the twenty-first demands. Only then can the propaganda that the army has overcome the demands of the 21st Articles, which the civilian government and the naval cabinet could not carry out, is possible.

Once the territorial annexation itself was forced, it was possible. Hainan Island is occupied by the Japanese Naval Forces, and parts of South Manchuria and North China are occupied by the Army.

The Chinese army retreated and resisted, but it was unreasonable in the first place to stop the Japanese army attacking with evil, such as pouring poison gas, and in the end, Beijing was threatened. If the war continues, we can definitely take over Beijing.

However, the Japanese military was also aware that it was time to negotiate. The reason was simple. The damage was greater than expected and the cost of warfare increased rapidly.

Of course, I couldn’t show that it was so, so it was of course that I maintained an overbearing stance all the time.

However, it was difficult for China to accept it. These conditions were as good as declaring that they would hand over Manchuria to Japan, hand over North China and Shandong to de facto Japanese colonies, annex them in the long term, and make the rest of China a colony.

In the end, the Republic of China, having decided to fight a decisive battle, decided to break out of the war by negotiating with Russia and France, which were urgently needed, and wage a decisive battle with Japan. At least Russia and France were content to plunder territory and reparations, but they were more comfortable negotiating because they had never revealed their ambition to colonize the whole of China.

In fact, this was a matter that strongly reflected the intentions of the United States and others. In the beginning, France was just a sidekick, and the Russian Empire was not in a position to demand much interest, even if relations with the United States deteriorated, which would make the situation quite uninteresting.

Of course, that didn’t mean it didn’t go away. Even the five colors of the Beiyang government of the Republic of China meant that the Han Chinese, Manchurians, Tibetans, Uighurs, and Mongolians were one country, and four of them disappeared at once.

I wonder if anyone would listen if I complained that it was unfair to the international community who brought and fed me with an overflowing cause.

However, there was literally no justification for the start of the war in Japan. Unlike France, which even had a cause for war that it had participated in the war as an ally of Russia, Japan attacked even though it was a hypothetical enemy with Russia.

Thanks to this, the eyes of the Chinese and of the world were focused only on Japan, and little attention was paid to the Russian military, which had withdrawn from satisfaction with ‘relatively’ common-sense requests.

It was the wish of someone who escalated this situation. In the first place, North Korea was different from Mongolia and Uyghurs in terms of weight.

In the end, the current defeat will lead to antipathy towards Japan and Britain, who controlled Tibet.

It is not only that Russia’s control in the East through the alliance between China and Japan, which Britain longs for, but also serves as a wedge so that the clash between China and Japan cannot be avoided. It is impossible for the current Japanese government to give up territory or colonies.

“Sir, this is a letter from Moscow.”

I laughed as soon as I read a few lines of the letter.

“It must have been a sea of blood.”

I did not direct the investigation. The shape Olga wanted in the first place was because I was a general who went out on the battlefield for the country and was struck by lightning without knowing anything.

It appeared that she was literally blaspheming herself, and so, as soon as I got my consent, she launched an extensive investigation.

This government of terror, which is taking place in the name of finding out those who sympathized with the treason and uprooting those who are tainted by the ideology of evil, was at the forefront of… Stolipin.

Stolipin was clinging to reform as if he was going to burn all of his life force this time. Whether or not he intended to improve the constitution of the Russian Empire from the root by using 1400% of this fearful atmosphere, he ordered me to pay a ‘minimum’ amount of compensation. P.S. What did you say? You said you can’t increase the budget since you’ve decided on everything? This damn bastard is real.

As a bonus, Olga moved to Moscow, saying that St. Petersburg was devastated, but with a high probability, it seemed that Moscow would be the capital at this opportunity.

But this letter was not like that.

“under.”

it’s marriage

This is the first time I’ve done it in my previous life and this time in my life.

The opponent is also the Empress of the Empire.

The date and time were written too dryly. There was no such thing as a letter full of love…. It must be an expression of her own regret.

I did just that.

I opened the second letter.

It was Tatiana’s letter.

When I headed to Central Asia, she was already pregnant.

Of course, it was in the very early stages of pregnancy, so most people, including me, did not know about it, but by the time her pregnancy was confirmed, Olga broke her engagement and things got bigger.

It is a common story that a man and a woman in an engaged relationship have had a child in the same relationship. But not long after having a child, the man went to war. That’s a common thing, too.

However, wouldn’t it be a huge scandal that her sister abused her power and took her pregnant sister’s fiancée to marry her, and that Olga had intentionally raised her business in the first place.

Anyway, I didn’t even get to see Tatiana properly due to the murderous schedule of me traveling from the Caucasus to Central Asia, from Central Asia to St. Petersburg and back to the Far East without staying there for a few days. It was only natural that he couldn’t be by his side.

And what she sent today was… a picture.

A photo of my first child.

It is ironic that the first child is born before the first marriage, and that the one who will become a wife is different from the one who becomes the mother of my child.

And sorry. Because I couldn’t take care of her, I couldn’t take care of her pregnant, and I couldn’t even see her first child born.

However, in her letter, there was not a single line of resentment against me.

-I think you look a lot like you, my aunt asked me to name her Nikolai after her father. I like it too, what do you think?

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My first child was a boy.

I barely grabbed my dizzying head.

I wanted to go back. I was already preparing to go back, but I wanted to go faster. Special trains on the Trans-Siberian Railway are also delayed for nearly two weeks. too slow

No, considering the time it took for this letter to arrive, I was afraid to calculate how much delay it had been since I wrote this letter when I returned.

I bit my lip tight.

“dismissal.”

Irina said softly.

“Your name is Nikolai.”

“Congratulations.”

Irina answered so dryly.

“And I can’t be the official father of that child.”

In the Russian Empire, the treatment of illegitimate children is not good. The mother’s identity is her identity, and the world will know who the real father is, and Olga will certainly take care of her, so it won’t be so miserable, but even so, it doesn’t relieve the feeling of having a lump of lead on her chest.

Irina, Tatiana, and Olga were also of one mind in this regard, and they blocked the news of Tatiana’s pregnancy from reaching me.

Irina pointed out that I would not be able to conduct soberly if I knew she was pregnant, and Tatiana didn’t want to burden me further. Olga was concerned that if she told Tatiana that she was pregnant, I would not accept her offer.

I couldn’t object. Clearly, there was a high possibility that the command had been disrupted, and perhaps this opportunity could have been wasted in vain.

But in the end it was me who accepted it. It cannot be denied, nor can it be denied.

“Oh God.”

He wasn’t usually very religious, but now he had no choice but to mumble.

“Omnipotent Father, where is your will?”