Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 336 >

In this era that can be said to be somewhere between the Cold War and the Belle Epoque, some dream of a bright future, and some are busy living today.

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Meiling, a girl from North China, was one of them.

All her father and brothers were taken to the army and never returned.

In fact, there were many rumors that none of those who were taken to the army returned. As a result, young men fled to avoid being dragged into the army, and warlords, lacking in men to fight, began to capture old men, children, and later even women.

The warlords, who lacked adequate armor, engaged in a literal World War I-style trench warfare, but the firepower on both sides improved and more blood was spilled to advance.

When one side pours sarin gas, the other side pours cow gas.

Going this way or that way, dying like a dog is the same, and those who have already had their entire fortunes had few options.

Either go north and go to Russia, walk west and cross over to Tibet, or go south and join South China. or go to Korea by boat.

Indochina was at war, so if you went near it, you would be dragged into the army or killed, and there was no place to go except for those three directions.

And South China, under the command of Zhou Enlai, settled those who came to the country as quickly as possible.

All that awaited was famine and death, but they were welcome anyway. From a socialist point of view, it is possible to report that it is a product after wiping off everything that is worn on the body, saying that it is jointly owned and distributed.

After that, I didn’t know if I would starve to death or not.

Unlike South China, in Tibet, there were too many Chinese refugees and they closed the border, but there were people who crossed the border secretly because they could not keep all the borders anyway. was further strengthened.

It was decided that if they chased out more than they came in, they could eventually get rid of them. In the case of Central Asia, it was not a very livable place anyway, and the locals did not leave it alone, and Siberia was the place to go if you just wanted to freeze to death, so it was enough to keep Manchuria.

Anyway, unlike the other two places where the border guards openly fire, they openly advertised that they welcomed their compatriots in South China, propagating their country like a paradise on earth where there is no hunger and the superiority of the system.

Even occasionally mixing dollars or rubles into the billars, the credibility increased even more, and in the end, about 99% of the refugees moved to the south.

So did her family. As the days went by, the farming was ruined, and everything from small thieves (spirits) to large thieves (warlords) was stolen from me. It was thought that there might be a way to prepare a hoguchi book.

Thus, an incident occurred while the entire village was carrying over the few household items left and headed further south, over the mountains and across the water.

‘Stop there!’

Whether it was a band of thieves or soldiers, no, there was no difference in the midfield in the first place, but it appeared anyway.

‘Put everything down and follow me!’

‘Run away!’

Anyway, there were rumors. The warlords, more shredded than the Three Kingdoms, were desperate to gather even one more force now.

In order to break through the machine gun positions, the bullshit that more troops than the enemy’s bullets would pierce through, and that the poison gas would be less if you shared it was widely accepted.

All men called men are sent to the battlefield, and women are either farmed from the rear or do factory work. If you let it rest, you can’t make more weapons than the enemy, so you don’t make fun of it.

There are even ugly rumors of throwing it to soldiers as a plaything or using it as a bullet catcher on the battlefield, so who will follow them?

People were scattered in all directions and running away, and gunshots continued behind their backs. There was no way of knowing whether it was a threatening fire or a live fire to prevent him from running away.

Anyway, Meiling also lost her parents while running away.

Exhausted, she looked up blankly at the sky.

“It would be better if we just stopped the war.”

However, before that, she also came from a pretty good family, so there were quite a few things I heard as a gwidongnyang.

The fact that this chaos was not just for a day or two.

Wouldn’t the warlords be defeated by the Red Guard and run away? Even now, the Red Guard was being reorganized into a kind of warlord.

In this situation, the warlords had to focus their efforts on the Red Guards… but they also did not trust each other and did not stop fighting.

No, can I say that I trusted the other side?

In any case, the belief that Russia will never stand by with a communist state under its chin.

That belief pushed the midfield into hellfire.

***

Russian Empire, St. Petersburg.

The main palace was moved to the Moscow Kremlin, but the Winter Palace and Summer Palace were still the residences of various royal families, and large events were often held here.

If the Kremlin is a business space, then the palaces in St. Petersburg feel like home, the Crown Prince said, and it wasn’t too wrong.

Therefore, it was not unusual for a celebration banquet to be held at the Summer Palace in St. Petersburg.

“Tell your brother-in-law that you worked hard, bro.”

“okay.”

“Why do you look like that?”

“I suffered a bit too, but everyone is looking for only your brother-in-law.”

“It’s a shame that your brother has to suffer.”

“Hyung, it seems that nonsense has increased with age. Would you like to get a dementia test?”

Then Leonit and Yakov dissed at the same time. Two of the youngest brothers among the brothers were college students.

“You should get married too…”

“Oh yes, you will.”

“How can a person who can’t even make a lover understand my pain?”

“…I have a lover!”

“who? Say your name.”

“…….. I have.”

A good-natured Leonite, it’s not because he’s ugly or has human flaws. Rather, on campus, his status aside, his appearance alone was enough to make him popular.

The problem is, I get too shy and I’m introverted.

And because there was no woman who came to dash because of her status as a grand duke, she was ultimately single as a mother.

“You really are, so how are you going to get married?”

“I will go when the time comes.”

“Isn’t arranged marriage a good thing? Do you remember when Nikita decided to marry the woman she liked as his wife?”

“What’s the deal with Jesu-san, hyung?”

“It’s okay, I can’t hear you, it’s so loud.”

“I will go and get it.”

“Anyway! The important thing is that arranged marriage doesn’t promise happiness, so go and find a lover! As my father said, you don’t have to get married by arrangement, so you guys go to the happy side. Then you will understand my difficulties.”

“Honestly, do you know how many times and how many years it has been for you to make a lover?”

The archduke, whose face was blushing, finally exploded.

“… you can do it!”

“What?”

“Is it okay if I flirt with a girl at this banquet now?”

Obviously, there are a lot of celebrities from all walks of life here now. There are a lot of pretty girls too.

Besides, Leonite has an identity and a face, so it’s definitely possible…

‘Aren’t you anxious?’

‘yes.’

Something… I’m very nervous.

To put it bluntly, how does it feel to have a child at the waterfront?

‘Isn’t it an accident?’

‘He picked up and read a lot of stuff like that, so it’s just a bookworm, anyway, he’ll be able to put out some plausible lines.

However, before the two archdukes could finish their conversation, Leonit strode forward.

“Lady, would you like to dance a song?”

“Hey, go to sleep…”

For a moment, Yakov’s face hardened, recognizing who his opponent was.

The young lady of Myoryeong, who had turned her back, quickly turned around.

“Shake.”

Yakov cursed softly, and Lev covered his face.

‘I’ll never see you again.’

“……”

Princess Ilona of the Kingdom of Hungary looked at her half-brother in silence. without answering anything.

And, Leonit did not understand the situation.

‘What did I say wrong?’

In fact, I approached her from the back, but it was difficult to recognize her because she turned around, and she forgot her face. I couldn’t help it.

Because there were only a handful of times that Leonit had ever left Russia.

And it’s rare that it’s a major flaw for not being able to memorize the faces of the royal family of other countries that are not usually the king or the first heir, and if it’s Leonit’s fault, it’s that he only digs books in the closet – sometimes skipping meals – all year round?

Thanks to that, I had access to all the books in the Imperial Palace library—even the forbidden books. Reading in writing and reality are different.

One example was that he couldn’t even recognize his half-sister’s face. In fact, Ilona didn’t come to Russia very often, but at least she memorized the faces and names of her half brothers and sisters.

‘Where did you see it?’

While Leonit was freezing, Ilona opened her mouth.

“My name is Ilona, the princess of the Kingdom of Hungary.”

“………ah.”

There was a lot of awkwardness.

It was embarrassing to say that he was able to seduce a girl by falling for his half-brother’s provocation, and that the person who asked for a dance by walking up to him was shameful. .

‘He was Ilona.’

The third princess of the Kingdom of Hungary.

and his half-brother.

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Moments later, Leonite’s brain poured out these thoughts in half a second.

‘No, honestly, isn’t this Dad’s fault? Each country had women, including queens and empresses… Anyway, I don’t live in Hungary, I’ve been out of Moscow a few times, yeah, I’ve been to St. Petersburg a lot, so I don’t go out of Russia that often, about six? No, eight is correct, right? Well, compared to normal people, there are more people there? But compared to my other brothers and sisters, it was quite a few times, and did I only go to Hungary once? No, you didn’t go at all. Where have I been? I remember going to Germany, but have you ever been to Hungary? To be honest, just matching the names with the faces of the brothers and sisters is giving me a headache. And as soon as you heard the name Ilona, you knew that she was the third princess of the Kingdom of Hungary. So it’s a shame that it might be a little extenuating…’

In the end, Leonit closed her eyes tightly.

‘I want to die…’

He was such a dog that he wanted to bite his tongue and look around.