Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 122 >

I hear birds chirping.

The sun shone obliquely on the floor, the sound of birdsong.

The body is heavy and so are the eyelids. It hurts down to the bones.

It’s hard to know how much time has passed.

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My head was blurry. The only thing I could remember was a hand that I didn’t know who gave me food.

“Here…”

where are you

It’s not the bed you’re used to.

The scenery outside the window is not that.

He tried to open his mouth, but because he had been abandoned in the desert for months, his dry mouth was not in a state of being human.

“honey?”

Then, a voice was heard.

He was his most beloved wife.

“Water, please….”

After a while, the man, who drank the water from the cup, shook his slightly cleared head.

“Where are you?”

“Ekaterinburg.”

Nicholas II, who had been in a coma for nearly several weeks, woke up.

***

Olga could neither laugh nor cry at the news that her father had woken up.

Of course, as a daughter, she deserves to offer a prayer of thanks for waking up her father.

The problem is, she has some sins now.

“Where did the Grand Duke go today?”

“I went with Dr. Dornier to hear a briefing about the technology demonstrator.”

“…Yes, I will go to work.”

purge.

The purge of the military is currently in progress. The problem is that thinning out the military is not a problem that ends with thinning out the military.

There are corporations with which the military is attached, and there are nobles attached to them.

Of course, there are few people who are crazy enough to raise their heads in this state of affairs, whether they are corporations or aristocrats. Could it be possible without three heads like Cerberus?

If you don’t want your neck to be placed on a tray for treason, you have to crawl on your own.

In any case, the military personnel who have already been transferred are moving around the internal affairs army. Although the dissolution of the Interior Army will be declared soon, in reality, after the dissolution of the Russian Army, the Internal Affairs Force will be renamed the Russian Army.

The only exception is the Navy. The Imperial Russian Navy was able to avoid most of the purges because of its great contribution to suppressing the rebellion.

Of course, they were also destroyed when they were related to corruption, but it was relatively less.

It was kind of work.

Like sifting flour, it sweeps out the incompetent, the overly powerful, the corrupt, and other unqualified and dissidents from among a new influx of untested men.

Stolipin asked a bubble, ‘I understand the necessity, but should I do it now?’

Now is the right time to create an atmosphere of fear in the first place. Of course you could do it during the Great Depression, but then it’s too late.

When the Great Depression breaks out, someone will be held accountable, but after declaring that it is communist sabotage, pick a few and send them to the Gulag.

Indeed it was. At the time of the purge, the Soviet Union was experiencing an economic crisis, which was also one of the causes of the purge.

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Minor corruption within the party, administrative contradictions, incompetence, moral errors, etc. were all classified as fascist spies’ conspiracies, and due to the collective hysteria and confirmation bias that was swept from Stalin to the very end, it happened, thinking that each other was truly fascist spies.

In fact, what is currently going on has a framework that is not much different from the purges of the original history.

The purge of the local powers through the atmosphere of fear was different in the Soviet Union, where the central party’s purge of the local party organization was now a form of execution of nobles and capitalists by the new military.

It was secretary Irina who wore the gun here. After taking full control of Ohrana, she transferred all of the branches to other departments unless she was certain that there was no affiliation with the relevant faction, and if she was convinced that there was a ties, she was put on the purge list.

This is because Ohrana has not been thoroughly operated in the past. Even the GRU, which the Grand Duke created from scratch, has several limitations, so it makes no sense to say that Ohrana, who has only been given a certain amount of authority, runs so fast that he can see it. The know-how may be more.

Fortunately, it is not an exaggeration to say that now is the time to wipe out the local powers and plant a bureaucracy, and there is virtually no need to wipe out the existing bureaucracy. Even if there was a bureaucracy, it was at the level of a big city.

So Irina was able to harvest the seedlings without any worries. The title was a charge of treason.

As a matter of fact, it wasn’t that big of a deal. There is no such thing as a socialite for nothing, and the nobles who were in the ranks were all related by blood and made friends.

It was strange that there was no friendship between the nobles and the bourgeoisie, nor any relationship with the military. Among the officers, nobles were common, and among the bourgeoisie there were aristocrats anyway, although relatively few.

After all, if you cross a few bridges, you are all connected by blood, Ji-yeon, and academic ties.

With very few exceptions, it was rather strange that the duke had almost no contact with the royal family except for the imperial family, and all those who did not receive the indulgence of ‘loyalty’ were potential treason suspects, guilty or not.

Of course, the death penalty can only be executed without Olga’s approval, and Olga was wasting half the day just reviewing the execution request that Irina sent.

Of course, Irina’s full-fledged seedling harvest hasn’t even started yet.

The Grand Duke, whom she sincerely believes and follows, said that it should be built up to a level that will be able to wage a second great war within 10 or 20 years at the earliest. He also warned that an unprecedented global recession would be imminent, and said that we should prepare for it.

It doesn’t matter if he’s right or wrong. It is important, however, that he judged it that way. If he so judges, it must be prepared.

In order to do that, Irina decided that it was necessary to bring the purge blade into every corner of society as quickly as possible.

Although the purge was carried out under the pretext of treason at a high level and a red gang at the lower level, Irina deliberately manipulated the scope of the purge so as not to expose the guidelines for the purge that she had obtained over weeks of squeezing the Grand Duke.

It was also her intention to maintain the atmosphere of fear, so if everyone knows who can purge and who can survive, that fear will decrease. Humans are unexpectedly insensitive animals to the pain of others. Fear quickly dissipates.

The fear can only last if you feel your own throat cool by looking at others who have their heads cut off. And the continuation of fear means the continuation of the driving force for reform.

She was far from a bloodthirsty mad dog. Rather, her image was more suited to a lofty wolf looking down with her back to the blue moon, but she could be a mad dog at any time if necessary.

There were only two people in the world who could control the thoroughly dualized GRU and Ohrana’s purge at the same time, and Irina, one of them, was finely adjusting the critical point.

But even that point had to be put on hold for a while.

‘The Return of the Emperor.’

Even nominally, the emperor is the emperor.

Olga is only a regent, and the Grand Duke is only the son-in-law of the emperor.

Therefore, nominally, if the emperor asks to stop all this or to return to political affairs immediately, it must be granted.

Of course, in practice this is not the case. The military power and everything was taken away.

An emperor who can understand the situation should seriously consider declaring the abdication and saving his life, but Nicholas II does not have common sense.

Olga and the Archduke are also a problem.

‘You two are very affectionate.’

The two can become iron-blooded lords.

However, even if they don’t seem like it at all, they are drawn to the truth.

The two cannot harm their father or their father-in-law of any kind.

He’s not a great person to let go of harm to him.

I thought about it for a really long time.

There was another way.

However, as long as the emperor exists, it is a plan that cannot be implemented. If all the prerequisites are messed up, it doesn’t make any sense.

Therefore, she made preparations without notifying her master.

However, it seemed that the preparation of the mind had not yet been made.

***

“I’m not going.”

“Yes?”

“I haven’t recovered enough energy to go back to the Winter Palace right away. The two of you will be able to figure it out.”

“…………”

“I still have to go to the wedding, ah, but did you make the wedding dress for Tatiana?”

“First of all, it must be said that this year has passed due to various reasons… There is talk of how to catch it around the spring of next year.”

“It’s next spring. By then, your body will be reasonably well, and these guys will be able to harvest, and that’s good.”

what should i say Maria, who couldn’t resist the silent pressure to come and take a look at the situation, got on the train and put on an absurd expression.

“Hey… Father, it’s a pretentious thing to say, but what is this now?”

“Can’t you just look at it? this is sweet potato The part we eat must be growing under the ground for a long time, but this isn’t seedless, but it’s not usually propagated by seed, but it’s propagated by cutting stems, so I don’t think it’s a mistake because the Grand Duke brings miscellaneous books about agriculture to read when he’s bored. me. haha!”

“No, you say you’re tired, so why are you doing this…”

“The doctor said that it is good to recover stamina while exercising in moderation, and even if the disease recurs, it can be much less, and it is better than lying in bed. But just running or lifting weights is a bit difficult, because there is an empty land and some equipment attached to the mansion. Are you going to do it too?”

“No… it’s okay, I have to go.”

“I also have recipes, so when I harvest, I’ll tell your mother and try to cook it, don’t take it with you when you go up.”

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Maria Nikolaevna Romanova suddenly stopped thinking when she saw her father growing sweet potatoes.

Of course, Nicholas II, who did not know the situation and found that farming was surprisingly suitable for his hobby, was just humming a labor song without knowing the intentions of his third daughter, who could not tell the truth in front of his parents.