Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 121 >

At this time, the world was in turmoil.

China was chaos itself.

First, even though the Republic of China signed an end-of-war agreement with France, Russia and Tibet, things did not go well.

Japan continued to invade North Korea openly targeting North Korea, and the Beiyang Warlords had to lose much of their territory and infrastructure.

What’s more, the bad news was that the warlords began to bite him due to the defeat in the last war.

To prevent the worst from happening, they pressured the warlords to mobilize their troops to the front, but they could not fight properly with the Russian army, and the Western warlords who lost their lands to Tibet, and the western warlords who lost their territories to Tibet, instead of losing their territories, had weapons, funds, and loyalty. In return, the Xinjiang warlords, who had a powerful backbone called Russia, intervened and instigated anti-North Korea.

Of course, it wasn’t popular. In reality, Russia did not give any orders, but in the public eye, it was just a Russian puppet.

However, public popularity and military power are different. Those who live righteously die. It’s incision and barefoot, and the reality is that we are the strongest.

As a result, the Beiyang government was torn apart. The Northern Warlords remained, but the war with Japan had already been tattered and they were not much different from the other warlords.

There was also my infighting. Feng Yuxiang placed himself in the position of the puppet president and asked him to take responsibility for the defeat in order to put an end to Tian Qirui, who was in full power in the vice president seat, at this opportunity.

Of course, it was clear that no one sitting other than Dengchirui could stop Tibet, which was sponsored by Russia, Japan, France, and Britain. It wasn’t important.

What is important is that the leadership of Deng Chirui has been shaken.

Of course, Deng Qi Rui did not stand still, and tried to escape the pressure by defining Sun Yuan, the root of all these situations, as a patriot, and at the same time plotted a military coup to subdue Feng Yuxiang. And at the same time, Feng Yuxiang was also plotting a coup.

The moment when the two plans collided was also the moment when the collapse of the Beiyang government and the spark of the Chinese civil war went off.

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Meanwhile, in the Japanese Empire, they were holding a toast. To be precise, all of Japan except the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Cabinet were holding toasts.

Take control of South Manchuria! Occupy North Korea!

what a sweet story What a great feat this is!

It didn’t matter how many people died in the process.

The point is, they won anyway.

Of course, it has not yet been recognized by the international community, and the end of the war has not been negotiated yet, but in any case, the army blew the trumpet frantically.

– Complete occupation of North Korea!

-The son of an empire that stretches across East Asia!

Newspapers laughed.

If you just fill in the title in this way, it sells like crazy.

Once I wrote something similar to the war situation, it was an article. As long as the heroic Great Japanese Empire repulsed the Jinans, everything was done.

“Long live the Great Japanese Empire!”

The subjects who were drunk with soup were also happy. Their lives didn’t get much better, but there was hope anyway.

All kinds of rosy futures were irresponsibly laid out on all sides, such as that the price of rice would be very cheap in 10 years, that the price of industrial products would go down, prices would become cheaper, and jobs would increase.

The navy didn’t like it. Even though they also occupied Hainan Island after a bloody battle, the spotlight was all because of going to the army.

The cabinet didn’t like it either.

After the US protested that it infringed on its own rights and interests, the UK also expressed displeasure.

In the beginning, Japan was raised to contain Russia, but strangely, it was invading Russia, an enemy country, a potential ally, or China, an advantageous zone, so the shale could soar.

No, what was the alternative cause, Russia had an undeniable cause, France participated in the war as an ally of Russia, and Tibet had its own cause, but Japan was an enemy of Russia and what the British government did was common sense. I couldn’t understand.

And the cabinet’s instep went out on fire.

Britain clearly expressed displeasure at the occupation of North Korea. However, if you give up on North Korea and step back now, the navy is definitely going to be overthrown. The army clearly said, ‘The army fought hard to occupy North China, but the naval men will blow the trumpet that they have lost the North because of foolishness, and then the whole country will be turned upside down and the navy will become the public enemy.

Conversely, ignore British protests? There was a problem here too.

It would take quite some time for the 88th Fleet plan to get on track right now, and there was a separate project to introduce main ships, including the Invincible-class battlecruisers, which were to be imported directly from the UK to replace the previously lost Jeonno-class and armored cruisers.

Since we are introducing an off-the-shelf box, we could introduce it as soon as the price negotiations were completed. In fact, much of the discussion has progressed, and the name of the ship has been decided.

However, if relations with Britain were to be disrupted in this situation, the Japanese Navy had to prepare for a sharp drop in force until the 88th Fleet plan was completed.

In the amphibious operation on Hainan Island, which was never reported by the media, unexpected ship losses were suffered from mines and coastal artillery, which is difficult for the Japanese Navy to bear as soon as possible to compensate for the damage suffered during the Great War and this time.

No, rather the deterioration of diplomatic relations with Britain is the real damage.

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Most of the current navy leaders are British study spies and pro-government forces. That is why the Anglo-Japanese alliance has been maintained even if it creaked a little. It was also desperately needed from the British point of view.

But this was clearly crossing the line.

From the British standpoint, it is natural to demand that they return to the back of the line right away, but the problem is that the Japanese, more precisely, the Navy’s cabinet, are not here because they like it, but the wall is pushing it from behind.

Of course, they were arrogant in the first place. It was a huge misunderstanding that the British wouldn’t say anything if they tried to invade North Korea.

In the end, it was only the Navy that was sweating.

Slightly west, Tibet, with British support, was trying to get the most out of a tightrope walk between Britain and Russia, importing tanks and weapons. Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Northern Manchuria were simply annexed by Russia and under military rule. Central Asia was slowly calming down.

Looking into Moscow, Stolipin was ripped apart, screaming at the fact that he could count all the rest of his hair while he was getting ready to go to work. Various infrastructure investments were planned or in progress right now. Following the plan to double-track the Trans-Siberian Railway, Stolipin proposed a plan for the Trans-Central Asia Railway from Vladivostok to Moscow, across Manchuria, Mongolia and Central Asia, and was accepted as worthwhile, but the construction could not even begin.

Considering how much cost and time it took to build the Trans-Siberian Railway right now, it was natural.

In addition to her duties as an empress, Olga was struggling with two important issues related to her family and her wedding.

The Duke of Vostok was constantly busy with matters that were difficult for Stolipins to deal with while resolving the public sentiment in St. Petersburg, particularly the dismantling of the existing military, reestablishing the status of the internal affairs army, military administration, and investigation of rebellion conspiracies.

What he cared about the most was to make his position clear. Of course, it is true that no one can challenge his position, but it is likely to become a problem for future generations.

First of all, the titles of commander of the Interior Army and Commander of the Interior Forces will disappear in the near future. Because the Interior Army itself is going to be annexed with the Russian Army.

In fact, it is correct to have the title of Commander of the Russian Army as the Interior Army absorbs the remains of the Russian Army and changes its name to the Russian Army.

The GRU Director, GRU, will also be reorganized into the Military Intelligence Agency, and Spetsnaz was originally a sub-organization of the GRU, but it will also be separated and become independent as a Special Warfare Command.

Ohrana will naturally be separated from the Ministry of Home Affairs when the Ministry of Home Affairs becomes independent.

During the war, he collected important powers one by one and integrated them into his position, but even thinking about it later, it was right to distribute these powers after his death, so it was something he was very concerned about.

In other words, it means that you are more likely to hold them all while your eyes are open.

In addition, the reorganization of the entire country was also important. It was a situation where he was almost dragging himself by the collar of the backward system of the Russian Empire, but the limitations were already obvious.

We should really pay tribute to Stolipin, who has made it this far with a lackluster bureaucracy, but of course there are limitations, so we had to reorganize it into the bureaucracy of the modern state.

At the same time, it was not surprising that the new bureaucrats selected according to the demand for new manpower were not verified at all, and enormous corruption followed. It was the GRU that was active in catching the corruption, and Ohrana, on the other hand, was inspecting the military.

Currently, the Duke of Vostok did not trust the GRU, at least for internal inspections of the Interior Forces. Although the possibility of rebellion was low, he did not expect to thoroughly investigate military disobedience and internal corruption.

On the other hand, Ohrana is basically an organization that has little contact with the Ministry of Home Affairs. Therefore, we prayed for transparency by entrusting the inspection of the entire military to Ohrana, and, conversely, the inspection of bureaucratic organizations to the GRU, which has little contact with them.

It goes without saying that those who would oppose this were accompanied by work that could weaken their power base, such as being called to a special committee for the investigation of treason cases.

For this work, it was necessary to prolong the investigation and keep the atmosphere of fear as long as possible. Hierarchy of the bureaucracy, the subjugation of local indigenous forces, and the struggle to prevent the military or bureaucracy itself from becoming an interest group and becoming a faction. It was also a dilemma of creating a huge military-industrial complex to maintain the country in the great vortex of World War II, while at the same time making them unsustainable in the long term to maintain civilian control without repeating the failure of the Soviet Union.

It certainly wasn’t something that could be finished in a day or two.

Looking further west, a man with a mustache living in Munich, Germany, had just started a party with three early members, including his roommate and a cleric who had become acquainted with the roommate, and the government won the victory in France. The anti-government movement calmed down a bit by promoting it extensively.

Conversely, in Italy, anti-government protests were accelerating, and rumors of the revolution were spreading seriously. Britain was talking about Japan and Russia’s South Korea, which they usually don’t listen to, while shouting in Parliament. Across the Atlantic, the United States was at war with Mexico. They were increasing their armaments by sending large-scale troops to conquer new territories.

Big events, which could only be edged in the eyes of a few, were constantly approaching.