Rasputin of the East

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The British royal family has responded positively.

The Duke of York, who is now the de facto head of the British royal family and first in line to the throne, is George VI of the original history and the father of my daughter-in-law… .. that’s right, Nikolai, this guy is great too, when did you hook up?

No, well… He looked like my mother, so he was attractive and handsome. But is there still some basic hostility or something like that?

I didn’t believe it at first, but I can’t believe it because this guy did something paparazzi and sent me evidence with it.

Anyway, it was obvious why the Duke of York agreed. You must have decided that it would be difficult to fight with us. In the end, we have to go together, so there will be no enemies for the rest of our lives, and since we proposed this marriage first, it looks like we are asking for reconciliation in the end, so there is nothing particularly bad about this.

The only objection… The only person who showed a similar thing was Nikolai, a married person, who brought up a different story than the objection. Does Nikita seem very close with the other woman who will become her sister-in-law? Anyone can see that this is a water ghost.

But baby, he’s 15. No matter how hot it gets, do you want to drive your younger brother into a thief? Besides, he couldn’t enclose any clear evidence like his younger brother, and he vaguely said, ‘Probably so’.

Well, it’s a story you can tell right away if you ask for confirmation.

Anyway, once both parties agreed to the marriage itself, all that was left was when and where to hold the ceremony.

“So you don’t feel threatened?”

As he waved the letter from Nikolai, Victor shrugged.

“You should get married soon and have children.”

“Even if I can’t see a deficit, I have a ref…”

“Isn’t it normal to think that you should make many brothers for my children like a father, not when you are relieved that you have many brothers?”

I tend not to hit children as much as possible, but this time I nailed one.

“…are you looking for my wife?”

“Yeah, ma’am.”

In fact, there are several candidates. There’s a bit of an age difference. It’s not some kind of mother-in-law.

There are no princesses in Sweden in the first place, and there are two princesses in Norway… both of them are in their early to mid teens. In Denmark, the Crown Prince has two daughters, one is 5 years old… and one is 1 year old. In the Netherlands, there is a seven-year-old princess.

If you ask who will be the next Empress among them… Well.

In fact, if I want all of my sons to marry the princess, um….. Leph who is willing to marry her lover, Nikolai, who is getting married this time, plus Nikita, who accused Nikolai of having an affair with Princess Margaret, no, the princess. subtract and hit Vasily, Yuri, Yevgeny, Konstantin, Leonit, Mikhail, Akoff, Pyotr… Oh, really.

The children in other places will be taken care of by their mother, but even with the children I have to take care of, if I try to find only good-looking princesses in Europe and marry them, the princess will not be enough.

Somewhere in the German Empire, the Duchy or the Duchy, if you risk hemophilia and go all the way to Spain, you might be able to barely spend your marriage.

Besides, where do you spend your marriage? We have to get married too, Anna comes first and Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia, Maria… Damn it.

I want to give flowers to everyone as a Crown Princess or Crown Princess. Perhaps having this level of national power in the Middle Ages would have been enough hope?

Some of the mini principalities were destroyed in the way they were merged during the last war, so it is difficult to recognize them.

“Okay, I didn’t originally call to talk about this.”

“Then why…”

“Why would I have called you and sat you down during your precious business hours?”

“Uh… you want to get married?”

“There is, but it’s because I feel something.”

I got up.

“I will ask the Crown Prince, who has power in the present Russian Empire?”

“Aren’t you father and mother?”

“Okay, then I ask you again, are you confident that you can use that power well?”

“no.”

He shook his head.

“Even if I do well, there is no guarantee that my son’s generation will do well.”

“Yeah, that’s why I gave Duma little by little.”

Of course, gaining authority and receiving a ‘grant’ because there are too many things to do must have a different weight.

“In the long run, this father aims to reduce the imperial powers of the Russian Empire.”

The model is the position of the royal family, the British royal family, nicknamed the royal family among the royal families in the original history.

“Do you know what I call what I’ve been doing, maybe I’ll do it until I die?”

“……”

“It’s a dictatorship.”

I was talking.

“I created this empire through my dictatorship. I had no choice but to do so, because I didn’t have time to convince others. That was the time of the 20th century.”

And I had an answer sheet with full marks.

However, my future knowledge is as if the placenta is now useless.

“Even if I let go of power, I worried a lot about whether this empire would be able to run properly. But there was only one conclusion. It was the result of estimating how likely it was that the close associates needed to maintain this power would not be selfish. Just to give one example, what percentage do you think there is a chance that an intelligence chief like Irina will emerge? Victor?”

Right now, the opposite of Irina is there in the United States. Lifetime Director of the FBI, a man named Hoover.

“Why do you think Irina was loyal to me? In the end, she, too, moved for her own values.”

Just because she was a human being who had a precious value to her.

So he was blindly loyal to me.

“Are you confident that you will find a competent intelligence officer who will only look after you supremely?”

“… there is none.”

Because I played a lot with women, I was recognized quickly.

“This father sometimes thought. What if a country was ruled by a machine programmed to seek only the efficiency and national interest of the country without emotion? And what if it was designed as a structure that would prevent human beings from making fatal errors?”

Of course, there was no AI capable of that even in the 21st century. No matter how much I invest, I am not sure if I will succeed.

“If I dedicate myself to this country until the day I die, you will be able to reign as a living god as my child, and as a shield of my achievements, taking my precedent, as a living god, then I ask, are you sure that you will not fall?”

“……You already know the answer, don’t you?”

“I’m glad you understand, neither can I guarantee that I will never be corrupted.”

A father who kills his children and exiles his daughter-in-law and grandchildren because he does not want to share power, a life where his portrait is hung in arrogant places and stuffed and idolized even after death.

Dictatorship always carries the risk of such corruption.

“But they’ll think differently, and that’s the worst thing.”

The thrilling success that the Russian Empire achieved through my leadership.

With that success, Russians are, inevitably, very likely to think this way in the crises that will one day come.

‘I hope someone shows up and solves all these problems.’

It is generally dismissed as a delusion, but the moment a precedent arises, it becomes a nostalgia for the past.

Such nostalgia is very likely to provoke the dictatorship of the ambitious.

“Therefore, we have to make sure that such a thing does not happen through education, but at the same time, it is important to create a thorough system to prevent such a thing from happening.”

There is a problem.

What unfolded ahead was the period of the Cold War.

He tried to prevent it on his own, but with a high probability, the world was threatened by mutually assured destruction that every second could be fatal.

Considering the threat, to get through the Cold War, I have to take the helm.

The US is developing nuclear weapons, and it will succeed.

We have developed nuclear weapons and are making ballistic missiles. If I go later, I will definitely make another system.

In the original history, it was called the hand of death machine, and in case of emergency, communications with Moscow, major cities, military bases, and major bunkers were simultaneously cut off, and an automatic nuclear retaliation system that sends nuclear weapons to the United States if it cuts off for a certain period of time. Most, if not fully automatic, nuclear powers were known to have similar systems.

I have already ordered the development of numerous systems.

Although it is still in the conception stage, it is a network network that electronically connects major data centers so that information can be received from other places even if there is a problem in one place, administrative computerization and real-time communication for economic advancement, electronic payment system, information network at the national level build. Auxiliary devices that are systematically derived through this.

These will surely be made someday, and are necessary systems to be useful in real life.

Of course, there may be objections. No, it is almost inevitable. The essence of politics is to present the process of determining the distribution of resources, and thus, to simplify, or exaggerate, the process of allocating resources in the most efficient way by the system, and the idea that human beings examine them and decide whether or not they should be rejected would be very repulsive.

Of course, it will take a very long time for such a system to be built. Even in the 21st century, it is almost impossible to make such predictions with a computer. If such a thing is possible, it would be enough to become rich with stocks.

However, there is a good chance that they will perceive as a threat that their power will be deprived, and furthermore, the systemic deprivation of power will occur.

To suppress all those dissatisfactions with the power you have now? It’s not impossible. It will only set a bad precedent.

And, going a step further, nuclear missile silos and nuclear submarines, military forces and the intelligence department’s extensive communications interception and intelligence analysis systems to be controlled by these systems. how about these

It is a system that clearly existed in the original history, and some would say it is absolutely necessary for the completion of the mutually assured destruction strategy.

But is this correct?

There is a saying that there is no difference between what is necessary and what is right.

So, is it right to create such a weapon and threaten the world? Wouldn’t it rather be accelerating the still open Cold War?

For such a system to be effective, it must be shown that it exists.

However, in such a case, the cooling of relations between the two countries cannot be avoided.

According to some theories, the Cold War was not inevitable, while others said it was inevitable.

I don’t know. In this changed world, is there really no way to avoid the Cold War?

So, in the end, can we not eliminate the need to build a huge power that needs to be dispersed?

Absolute power absolutely corrupts, I couldn’t believe myself in that part.