Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 314 >

‘Is this…where?’

Nikita opened her eyes as she felt her head beating with jajinmori rhythm and looked at the clock.

＜PM 01:37>

“Shake.”

how far have i run

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Maybe it’s because the body’s water is being used up to break down alcohol, and the mouth is drier and more chapped than any other Sahara desert.

Realizing that her mouth was sticky and her lips were dry, Nikita could hear her liver screaming.

‘I can’t remember… Karina, that damn b*tch shoved some kind of mixture into my mouth and it was like an earthquake.’

The owner, the lady killer cocktail, had decided to drink and drink, so there was no reason not to be dazed.

“Ugh.”

And, as if facing a gorgon head-on, it became petrified.

***

“Ummm~”

Karina hummed and organized the data, and got up with the data on her side.

“Administrator, are you feeling well?”

“I succeeded in the operation my sister told me about, well, it’s a pity I can’t see the results with my own eyes, but oh, and… The Brigadier General won’t be able to come today.”

“Yes?”

“I must have been drunk.”

“Alcohol… is it a disease?”

“Well, yes, it doesn’t change what we have to do anyway. Since my brother has organized the data well, we are going to the formal meeting, but I will have to ask for your understanding from that side.”

“What do you say?”

“The brigadier general started vomiting from the dawn of suspected food poisoning, and he said that I came instead of my half-brother.

In the heart of Russia, it is not difficult to meet the Romanov family, the descent of the emperor, if you are a diplomat or a person with a status such as a general.

However, it is difficult to really meet, and the ones that people really want to meet are those with the surname Romanov-Kim added to their full name.

But her last name is just Kim.

Therefore, her existence alone is a rare existence.

Karina Mikhailovna Kim. Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Logistics Command of the Imperial Russian Army.

And she is the half-sister of the Crown Prince, and unlike his half-brothers and sisters who are at least the Grand Duke or Grand Duke, he is a low-ranking nobleman, but no nobleman looks down on her.

No, it’s only the nobles, there’s no way to know what they say behind the scenes, but it’s not an exaggeration to say that at least in her face no one can do that.

“I, but are you okay?”

“I am aware of the technological level and armor requirements of the Republic of Korea. I have an appropriate idea, and just because my specialty is biased toward statistics and planning doesn’t mean I can’t negotiate. Negotiations are better than those who can only use hostile negotiation or diplomatic last resort.”

“Did you get permission?”

“I came here with permission from the beginning, and it was my job to intervene if my brother didn’t seem to be doing his job right.”

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Mikhail thoroughly educated his children according to their aptitude. The only exception is the Crown Prince, who must succeed to the throne according to the principle of eldest son succession.

Of course, he was trying to establish the tradition of constitutional monarchy in order to minimize the confusion caused by the inevitable power vacuum after his death. did.

And Karina’s aptitude was on this side.

“My brother has great talents in tanks and engineering, but he lacks negotiation skills.”

Negotiation skills are nurtured only when there is work to be negotiated, and if you give the position of the Crown Prince’s half-brother to the Grand Duke, the other party tends to retreat first.

But she was a different story.

A little much.

***

“I know that the most recent tank with experience produced by Korea is the Japanese Imperial Type 97 Tank Chiha, but in the case of Chiha, not homogeneous rolled armor, but surface hardened armor, which is no longer used after the end of the previous era. There is also a record that soft iron was used, and given that there was no record of the Japanese Empire using homogeneous rolled gloves, we will not only teach the manufacturing method of homogeneous rolled gloves to the Republic of Korea, but also provide basic equipment and materials from the Russian side.”

Of course, it is deducted from the license fee. The Korean side was also silent as it was impossible to use the old-fashioned hardened surface armor without homogeneous rolling gloves on the new light tank.

The South Korean side is trying to increase its own development capabilities, while the Russian side has mercilessly reduced South Korea’s own development capabilities.

The higher Korea’s self-development capability is judged to be inferior, the greater the cost to be borne by the Korean side. The Korean side who wanted to receive the money had to be robbed by the money ghost.

Carina, who had prepared the class of the tank, the basic design of the tank, and even blueprints, spoke quickly.

“The 16-ton light tank, provisionally named K-1 Snow Leopard, has an autoloader with 12 rounds and a 75mm smoothbore gun, and, of course, it will be different from the type operated by the Russian Empire. The Korean side does not have the ability to maintain the automatic loading system of the form we use.”

That was true, too, but in fact, the aspect of being wary of leaks in the design of the autoloader was greater.

“Therefore, we will apply a swinging turret to the revolving autoloader, which is a much simpler structure, and the Russian Empire will provide the initial production of the engine, but the technology license will allow us to produce it ourselves in Korea in the long term.”

After meticulously calculating the value of the technology to be licensed to the Korean side while brushing away all the technical details from the suspension to the turret, and then raising the price for it, the eyes of the Korean delegation could be seen shaking.

To be honest, South Korea’s defense budget wasn’t that generous. First of all, the US handed over a large amount of military supplies to South Korea free of charge to the extent that the South Korean military self-reported that the only Korean-made body was the body, and provided training and aid to South Korea, but that did not lead to leeway in the defense budget.

Korea was in the process of sending a significant amount of aid from the United States, even military supplies, for its industrialization and modernization.

Naturally, the national defense budget is shrinking as much as it is in national defense, and it was impossible to generously pour the budget into the military in a field where even the last individual of the people tightened their belts and worked while dreaming of a better tomorrow.

The defense budget was literally the most satisfying thing to live without.

Looking at the bewildered Korean delegation, Karina thought quietly.

‘Actually, this case is also pushing for the introduction for political reasons.’

It happened right after independence. When Russia expressed displeasure over the fact that the United States almost gave out aircraft as part of its expansion of its sphere of influence, the Russian Empire quickly replaced all standard rifles with Russian-made rifles. has certainly admitted that

This case is too big to be compared to that. In fact, in the original history, Tito also introduced Western-made aircraft.

However, in the original history, Yugoslavia has never served as a mercenary for the United States even though it was open to the Soviet Union.

This was possible because of the bilateral agreement between the US and Russia, and it was enforced because the US had no other alternative in a situation where the whole of East Asia was in a mess, but it was obvious that the Russian Empire would feel uncomfortable.

The Korean government, which must always show its godly tightrope, knew that the Russian government was likely to be sarcastic, not to mention.

If it is a landlocked country, it will have to cooperate with Russia. As an island nation, there is no other option than the United States. If it is a divided country, there is no room for changing sides. However, even though Korea borders Russia to the north, Korea is located in the Far East, which is quite isolated from the Russian mainland because it is cut off through Siberia, which is too wide.

In the case of European countries, with the exception of the British and French Empire, Russia is holding tight, and the Netherlands and Italy are the only exceptions, and the Middle East is the same. It was ridiculous that there wasn’t. As long as South and North China were divided, it was impossible to change sides, and Japan had no choice as long as it was divided. In other countries, in most cases, there was no choice in the first place due to geographical location.

So, except for the British and French Empire and its colonial Southeast Asia, which want to establish an independent hegemony, countries in an ambiguous position are involved in civil wars on the Korean Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, where there is also a world war only in Africa, there is no proper government. The Netherlands, Italy, and Korea were the only countries that were able to walk the tightrope diplomatically and deliberately without getting caught.

Crucially, since Russia had even conquered North Japan, Tsushima, and Jeju Island, and the Liaodong Peninsula was annexed by Russia, Korea was not a strategically important place for Russia, and there were no coveted resources.

Therefore, Korea, along with Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, was one of the few countries that could conduct diplomatic activities close to neutral, even if it leaned toward Russia.

And there was not much reason to focus on military power.

After all, if we fight the Russian army, destruction is inevitable no matter what the Korean army does, and with other countries, we only need to protect the sea.

In other words, it meant that the army’s weapons system introduction project could be conducted for diplomatic and political purposes, regardless of performance.

‘Still, I think I put a lot of effort into trying to capture both the cause and the truth.’

Even so, he did not intend to provide convenience without his father’s permission.

***

“Brother? Good night, how are you?”

“Come to work.”

“Are you tired?”

Despite how old he was, it was a conversation that seemed like he had no idea what he was doing.

“I’m tired, are you tired?”

“Hey, what the hell did you do to a kid who hasn’t even gotten married?”

“Yes? I don’t know what you’re talking about?”

Nikita glared at Karina who was sticking out her flippers as if to kill her, and sighed.

“Hey, I didn’t want to do this.”

“You know what a bastard you don’t like, that attitude, that’s f*cking annoying?”

“……?”

“No one else knows what my brother was thinking, saying that if you don’t tell me, they don’t know, and in the eyes of others, you just don’t want to give and you want to pretend to be moral, so all you see is being indecisive.”

Nikita opened her mouth as if she had forgotten to be angry because she was so startled.

“It’s a deception, it’s a deception about others, and it only looks like self-deception. To be honest, regardless of what your brother was thinking, based on what he has done so far, it seems that way, so he forced me to make a choice.”

“Select?”

“If your brother is really moral, I will take responsibility, and if it is not sincere and I hate it, I will sort it out at this opportunity. . And I think about what I would have done if I had been so frustrated, and even apologized to Morrian for my share.”

With those words, Karina slammed the door and left.