Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 154 >

Even after the end of an era, the world has become increasingly chaotic.

In 1934, a military coup d’état in Spain led to an extreme left-right confrontation that led to a civil war.

The civil war between the republican government and the national government was in crisis as most of the combat units were transferred to the national army, and the republican government publicly denounced Germany as being supported by the national government.

If they had similar tendencies, it was a trick to get support from France, which has a similar left-wing regime, and the Spanish Republican government requested support from the international community, claiming that it was an orthodox Spanish government established by a referendum.

And the Russian Empire and France moved to their request for assistance.

Of course, the two cases were slightly different. France provided arms, supplies, and troops in return for this advantage, while the Russian Empire provided weapons and supplies in exchange for gold ingots.

It was a fairly cheap price, and the grain that was purchased and stocked up for stabilization of domestic grains was also sold in large quantities, and because the Spanish navy, which was loyal to the republican government, took control of the sea, there did not happen such as a famine in all of Spain. It all had a cost.

In order to gain experience there, he selected promising officers and sent them to Spain as a military advisory group.

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Meanwhile, as France and Russia began to provide military supplies, the National Army also requested relief from Germany, Italy, and Britain, which they considered their own comrades.

As a result, half was ignored by all three.

Germany sent a small group of military advisors to gain practical experience for rearmament, and received all supplies and ammunition for a fee. For the most part, raw materials in Spain were the masters.

Italy refused to participate in the war. In the original history, he participated in the war without much gain due to his pride as the eldest of the fascists, but now the story is different.

The title was shared between Germany and Russia, and above all, there was little need for participation in the Spanish Civil War.

In addition, Mussolini, who had not yet given up on the invasion of Ethiopia, which had become less likely due to diplomatic problems, was doing his best to build up his army to surely subdue Ethiopia, his own regional power. I didn’t have the strength to intervene.

In addition, among the international brigades created to support the Republican faction, there were many left-wing forces who were exiled due to ultra-hard oppression in each country. Of course, there were also Russians. He also made his own skits.

In the United States, under President Roosevelt, a massive increase in armaments began.

In addition to strengthening the hypothetical Anglo-Japanese alliance of the United States, Britain’s massive military increase, South America, Germany, and Britain’s irrigation improvement.

What if war breaks out?

The US Navy faced the naval forces of Britain, Germany, and Japan at the same time, and in the meantime suffered from a nightmare that Panama was threatened by a massive offensive by the Allied Forces in South America.

The U.S. Army submitted to the White House a scenario in which Mexico, burning with anti-American sentiment, led the way, other Latin American countries with support from Britain and Germany to invade the southern United States, and Canadian forces invade the United States from the north.

The memory of the White House burned down by the American-British War remains traumatic for Americans.

In addition, Japan continues its blatant aggression against China, threatening the interests of the United States, and flirting with the Philippines.

Americans who are sensitive to the international situation soon realized that their country was becoming increasingly isolated, and they began to demand countermeasures from the federal government.

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Meanwhile, the head of the Russian imperial government, especially a man at the center, was feeling faintly dizzy as he watched his family grow at a rate of one a year.

In fact, the fact that naming my children is getting tougher also played a part.

***

“Alexei, you damn child…”

What water did you bring to the children?

I called out my brother-in-law’s name and sharpened his teeth north and north.

“what happened?”

“He brought some strange water to the kids,”

Jinseong Mildeok Uncle, evangelizes his nephews.

When I heard that my three sons were going to enter the military academy, I felt a pull in the back of my neck.

Well, there’s nothing special about the royal family entering the military academy. It is common in Europe for royalty to serve as military officers in the first place, regardless of country. In fact, beyond the royal family, the second son or younger of the nobles often put stakes in the military.

But I didn’t want to send them to the army as much as possible.

It’s natural. What are you going to do now in the military?

It is World War II, and it must be thrown at the forefront of a toxic war that may be even more devastating than the original history.

Besides… I’m also concerned that war has to be waged with a consul and not a lieutenant general. Of course, it was me who started my military career as a general, but it was a compromise that came from the realistic reason that I had to command the army I had formed.

I founded the army in the first place, but of course I have no choice but to be the best, so a second lieutenant cannot command the division.

It is impossible to give my son special privileges such as allowing his son to start a career as a general unless he creates a new military organization on his own and takes office as the head of the military and proves his ability.

In other words, there is a high possibility that he will be thrown into the front line as a captain at the best of a second lieutenant…. In the Korean War too, it was a high rank officer who died so many jokes that it was a lieutenant on the 3rd day of the Korean War.

To put it bluntly, would it be that the junior officers, including the second lieutenant, had a higher percentage of warriors than the soldiers?

Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t get rid of it entirely. Still, you can put it in a safer place.

or the navy. It can be said that coastal batteries or air defense batteries are what the navy is safe, but if you plan to survive with the existing fleet anyway, the navy may be safer than you think. Air strikes can be a bit of a hit, but Moscow is the same. Rather, a naval base with a bunch of bunkers or the like might be better.

The same goes for the coastal battery, whether it’s a Kaiser Marine or a Royal Navy in the first place, as long as they have a head, is there any way the enemy can attack with the coastal fortress?

“One for the Air Force, one for the sniper academy, and one for the armored ones.

A person who wants to ride on a flying coffin, a person who volunteers for a position where he will never die well if caught, or a person who has to be prepared to be roasted alive when defeated. Did you plan to kill your mothers by burning their sweet tooth?

Fortunately, Victor doesn’t make a fuss about enlisting, unlike my half-brother or younger brother, because he has some concept of his position as Crown Prince.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t slap you in the back if Alexei gets close to me, but it’s highly likely that Alexey probably won’t even come close to me for a while anyway.

“Isn’t there a concept called karma in the East? Who is that, Ungern said that? It’s the result of seeing the children’s names so rarely that I get confused because of work, and in the end, my uncle Baek-su looked after them.”

“No, I still don’t confuse their names.”

“If you don’t see your name right away when you see your face, I don’t know what the difference is from that you can’t remember.”

Staring at Wrangel, who is getting more stingy today, I seriously pondered for about 3 seconds whether I should change my position with the current Chief of Staff Tuhachensky.

Well, Wrangel is just accepting the fact that he chose the slap as a labor song under overuse that almost killed him.

As the word death from overwork is coming to life, if the only pleasure in life is to scratch your head while scratching your head, then… A boss who can’t even close his eyes while forcing him to work like this is just a kkondae in my opinion, and I have no intention of becoming a kkondae…

But it’s only once or twice, I don’t know how much.

“Brangel.”

“yes?”

“You are right, I thought.”

Wrangel seemed to be a bit perplexed as he sensed something ominous, but I continued.

“You are 100 times right. As a father, forgetting the faces of your children is disqualifying you as a father, so today I want to spend some time with my children to make friends.”

“Wait a minute, Your Majesty? your majesty? I was wrong, because I committed a mortal sin…”

“I trust you, can you do enough for today’s work?”

“Come on, wait! It’s not even lunchtime yet…”

“You didn’t? do hard work Don’t forget to keep the latest status of the Spanish Civil War by tomorrow morning, so that I can fully understand the current situation within 5 minutes as soon as I go to work tomorrow morning.”

Before Wrangel could say anything, he closed the door. So, who wants to scratch the temper of someone helping? Strictly speaking, in principle, it’s not even my job.

I don’t report to me every week, I just listen to Olga’s weekly reports, I’m just helping out informally and I’m not obligated to do this.

Of course, that’s just a summary, and in reality, I’m handling all military-related affairs, but in principle anyway, that’s it.

In other words, there is no problem in principle even if I leave Wrangel’s work behind and leave work.

‘So why didn’t you just do verse 1?’

Of course, I will help you again from tomorrow, but today’s paperwork is just too much. There are a lot of formulas and graphs in the documents…. Even if we only had Word or Excel, we would get off work two hours earlier, but it’s a pity that we only have a typewriter.

‘One day, programmers and engineers should grind and make it.’

We don’t even want Excel, but if we had only Word, our suffering would have been reduced by a tenth. At least that’s how it felt.

***

“Nicky.”

I looked at my eldest son’s face.

Nikolai raised his eyes and looked at me. The only difference in Nikolai’s appearance, which would not be strange even if it was just the way I was when I looked at him, was the color of his iris and the color of his hair.

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My son’s yellow eyes met mine, the same color as my mother’s, but not with either of us.

“Why do you want to be a pilot?”

“Yes?”

Although he is not an adult, the son who is close to an adult seems to be a little puzzled as he enters a time when he hears that if he had been in Korea, this period would determine his life.

“I heard that you want to enter the Aviation Academy.”

“yes.”

“Isn’t there a reason?”

He is a guy who can live a rich life as a Grand Duke just by playing and eating. I have never squeezed the people, but the wealth I have raked up while running various businesses is distributed equally to my children, regardless of gender, and the bank interest alone is enough to keep my fingers crossed for the rest of my life.

One more thing, although we had a bit of a quarrel with the Orthodox Church over Nikolai’s treatment, officially Nikolai is not an illegitimate child anyway.

At first, Nikolai is a child born from an engaged relationship, and there is a common law in the aristocracy that says that a child born between a man and a woman who is engaged is not an illegitimate child. … Had I been the Patriarch, my blood pressure would have gone up a bit.

In other words, Nikolai is a high-ranking imperial family with a high rank of succession, although he is a bit inferior because he has children from Olga. As a member of the imperial family, he has already been crowned Grand Duchess.

“If you like flying, don’t you have an aviation school?”

It is true that the level is a little lower, but there are also aviation schools that have nothing to do with the military.

But Nikolai answered quietly.

“father.”

“okay.”

“It’s not like I just liked it.”

“then?”

“It’s my duty.”