Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 136 >

“bar!”

Nikolai, who grows day by day, greets me as he flirts.

“Oh, oh, oh, hey, Daddy is here!”

Anastasia, who was watching it right next to her, grinned.

“The sesame seeds are pouring out, ah, will you do the same when I have a baby?”

“There’s nothing he can’t hear.”

“My sister said she hopes for 20 people including sons and daughters, but I don’t think I can get there…”

“No.”

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My mind is dizzy, 20 people? are you going to kill me Even that Maria Theresa did not give birth to such a degree.

“Are you going?”

“It’s in the bedroom.”

When I opened the door, I saw Olga smiling in front of the cradle.

my twin children. Viktor and Lev were both asleep.

“Olga.”

“came?”

“Britain intervened in Italy. Officially, they said they were volunteers.”

“It happened after all.”

There are two forces currently fighting in Italy. The People’s Front, which tastes red just by its name, and the Nationalist Party.

Simply put, it is a socialist force + a social democratic force versus a miscellaneous right-wing force.

Royalists, Republicans, Far-Rightists, Nationalists, etc.

“The supporters are… Needless to say, the Nationalists, right?”

“The Nationalists participated in the war, but… you know, the Nationalists also divided their powers here and there.”

Although slightly better than the World War II Kuomintang, the Italian Nationalist forces are also complex internally. Even the generals are all entangled in factions.

The civil war divided into southern and northern is also complex internally. In fact, it is better than the Nationalist faction, but the People’s Front forces also fight among themselves, and each faction occupies one city as if it were a commune and is engaged in a war of nerves. No, it would be better if it was divided by city, and fights are taking place even within the city.

“The British guys seem to be pushing the nationalist forces, especially the far-right ones.”

The reason is simple. This is because the nationalist forces cannot avoid conflict with Serbia, which has now changed its name to Yugoslavia.

As long as we don’t take Yugoslavia away, we’re trying to make a plan so that Italy will have no choice but to be hostile to us.

“This time, under the leadership of Brusilov, we played a war game in which Britain, Japan, Germany, Italy and France-Russia and other allies were at war.”

“result?”

“It came out as expected. Also… not enough.”

not defeated But he couldn’t win.

“I have to give flesh and break bones, but if it turned into a muddy fight and both of them were taken to the hospital, I don’t understand.”

Britain, Germany and Japan could not give the Russian Empire a final blow.

Conversely, even the Russian Empire could not break the opponent’s bones.

“The current Russian army is not enough, and even with a few corrections in the current state of the military, it looks like that, so we can’t go to war.”

“How many years?”

“yes?”

“How many years do you think war preparations are going to take?”

“Assuming another great war is fought without any problems, at least 10 years.”

“10 years……”

“Even under the assumption that reform and economic development plans are proceeding smoothly.”

“…I’d rather get rid of it sooner rather than later.”

“It’s not up to us.”

I said bluntly.

“But I’d rather be glad that these kids don’t have to spend their childhoods at war.”

“When everything is over, when the era of peace comes, then…”

“Let’s not talk about it, until it comes.”

I pulled Olga up slightly and made her rest against my chest.

“I just want these kids to be happy.”

Olga said softly.

“Being a mother is not easy.”

When it comes to the imperial family, of course, having a nanny, there is little to no suffering to the point of stressing child-rearing.

But nevertheless, the burden Olga felt was not simply due to the stress of parenting.

“The thought that every action I take might come back to this child, makes me more cautious.”

Where did Louis XVI become an exceptional tyrant and revolutionize his generation? Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette were quite decent compared to other kings, but his head was cut off when the dung piled up by the previous monarchs in his generation exploded.

If the previous generation commits something, it will be corrected, or the next generation will have their neck cut off because they cannot do it.

Knowing this clearly, Olga was nervous even taking one step at a time.

Because I sincerely hope that no sorrow will come to that child.

It feels like walking through a minefield in the fog, moving forward and forward.

“It’s okay though.”

I read her through.

“I’m with you.”

I am with her who can sense the location of the mines.

A lot of it has already become obsolete, but I have the knowledge that is definitely helpful.

“So trust me.”

“Ugh…”

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Meanwhile, Anastasia, who was overhearing outside the door, trembled at the rising chicken meat.

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“This is the quarterly report.”

A bunch of reports that Irina put down were all business reports.

“Is the US agent doing well?”

“Yes, I think you don’t have to worry about that part. This time around, they took over several film companies.”

The core cause of the frenzy of the 20s is, after all, a reward mentality. Tattered by World War I, the Spanish Flu, etc., people overheated the game by spending like crazy.

If you don’t get there, you’re an idiot.

“The greatest tool of the Russian Empire should be culture, Irina, what comes to mind when you think of our Russian Empire abroad?”

“Um… If you’re talking about images, it must be cold and military power.”

“Yeah, that’s how we all end up seeing us, whether we’re enemies or allies, as hibernating brown bears, but you know, soft power is important to becoming a real powerhouse.”

In original history, the Soviet Union had a powerful brainwashing force called communism, but we are not.

So what to do?

“Singers, movie stars, directors… We have to bring in all the people we can attract, and give them imperial nationality so that they can make movies, sing, and do anything, nurture domestic sprouts, and attract them from abroad.”

Now is your chance.

“By the way……”

“What, do you have something to say?”

“Isn’t it better to just pick out the orphans rather than pinpoint and find children who are not yet ten years old?”

I know, I know.

But the artists who left their names in history are rolling around on the street, honestly, how can they not pick up and throw them away?

“Germany’s Lenny Riefenstahl and Marie Magdalena Dietrich are promising new actors, so I understand the support, but French Edith Giovanna Gassion… According to the Ohrana report, at only eight years old, she suffered from cataracts and was virtually blind until last year. , his mother is unknown, his father is a poor circus member, there is nothing to expect.”

I sighed at Irina’s harsh evaluation of the Queen of Chanson, who was praised as the best singer in France before World War II.

“Well, once you’ve ordered it, we’re working on it.”

“What did you do?”

“I lent them money in a few steps, you wouldn’t know we were involved.”

“It’s money.”

In fact, it is not very different from the method of planting spies in Ohrana.

“We are trying to make it as natural as possible to bring you into the Empire as you have been told.”

In addition, a 10-year-old girl who will be in England now, a 3-year-old famous singer and actress who will be in Japan, and a 1-year-old American musical and movie actress were also on the track of Ohrana.

“Films, novels, dramas… Mass media can change the world. One day, one actor, one singer, and one film director may have a greater impact on the world than the head of state.”

If I lived in Korea in the 21st century, I couldn’t help but feel it.

“You’re going to be prepared for that.”

“Yeah, culture is a weapon more powerful than any gun knife.”

In Ohrana, a project to train entertainers such as singers and movie stars who are jokingly called ‘daughters of the emperor’, headhunting all of the famous actors I know who have not yet established themselves or young people, and film technology take over a film company It is an ignorant project that saves them by beating them with bundles of money.

Of course, in the long run, we will have to make our own actors, but if we collect them and shoot them ignorantly, won’t we accumulate know-how?

In fact, the film base of the Russian Empire converges endlessly with just ‘nothing’. Are they barely making propaganda films for war?

“It’s not like that, shouldn’t we also do some commercial films? The theaters only have European and American films, so I don’t understand why you haven’t hurt your pride until now. Have you read the screenplay I wrote?”

In fact, it is plagiarism. Of course, I plagiarized the work of people who were not yet born… but I’m sorry. Seriously, I don’t have the ability to use anything like that, so please understand that it’s necessary as the soft power of the Empire to replace communism.

“Yes.”

“How is it?”

“It’s pretty exciting… but with some potentially problematic content.”

“Hmm.”

I wonder if I should unravel the press guidelines… but that makes the rednecks a headache.

“Oh, and I have one question for you, Prime Minister.”

“Something?”

“I heard that the physicists did some kind of radiation research… Why did you do that?”

“Uh… that’s…”

The era of nuclear fission has not yet been revealed.

Irene Joliot Curie, the eldest daughter of Madame Curie, was the first on record to observe fission, but could not prove it, and Otto Hahn first demonstrated fission in 1938.

In other words, it is well over 10 years before the discovery of nuclear fission, but I presume that nuclear fission exists, and I am ordering the research guidelines, so maybe the parties do not understand.

If I tell Stolipin that I’m doing basic research on radiation, critical mass, fission research, etc. to lay the groundwork for making a bomb that will blow up a city with uranium, I’m sure you’ll be told not to be very polite.

“Hey, there are studies that show that when uranium is irradiated with neutrons, the nucleus splits in two and energy is released.”

“Is that so?”

“I wonder if we can use this to provide power… something like that.”

eventually flinched.

“……Well, His Majesty is not the person who would do such a thing to embezzle public money, and he is also a person who knows and acts that we do not understand. I am concerned.”

“One day everyone will understand, one day.”

Who wouldn’t understand when a bomb goes down, a mushroom cloud rises and the whole world burns on fire?