Rasputin of the East

Episode 7

When Stolipin felt uneasy and told me he wanted to cooperate, the next thing happened.

The expected opposition was also minimal, and most of the nobles were indifferent to Ohrana’s reorganization. They probably had no choice but to receive information about reorganizing the system and increasing the number of people to beat the rednecks more reliably.

Thanks to this, there were far more people in the court who didn’t know than those who knew that I belonged to Ohrana.

So many years have passed.

“Everything… did…”

I leaned on the desk and looked at the door, moving my head slightly.

No, was it a lot of paperwork to create a new organization?

Still, I was fortunate to have received some manpower from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Of course, they were bureaucrats who had to return all of them to the Ministry of Home Affairs when they reached stability, but I wanted to make them move all desks here.

Of course, if that’s not the case, I’m afraid that the minister, who sees being hit by overtime, will cause a fuss, so I have no choice but to put it back calmly.

“Are you done? There are still a few more piles of papers coming out of the cart.”

And the cruel voice of the witch reminds me of the cruel reality.

“Kill me…”

“Stop talking nonsense and work, Count.”

The witch put a pile of papers on the table.

I know I still have to be grateful for coming here and learning to read, write and speak Russian, but nevertheless!

But if you give me some more cheats, where is it? I can’t do anything like an iron man! Like Stalin’s paper-handling ability!

“Need more help?”

“Tell me a summary of this, and I won’t be able to go home after this.”

“It’s not something someone who always leaves work like a knife, but I’ve cut this paperwork down quite a bit from my line.”

Her pale face glanced at me.

Belladonna was her nickname next to me.

She had almost transparent white hair, reddish purple eyes, and pale skin, the person Stolipin had assigned to me.

It was too blunt to see it as a watchdog, and maybe she has a different eye to watch me, and it seems like she’s more likely to be a decoy.

Anyway, what about surveillance or assassin? She was the one who saved me from being crushed to death by papers.

I have reduced the number of documents that would have originally filled the room to a little over half, so I should bow down.

Of course, as I dealt with the reduced amount, I felt a sense of self-confidence as to what kind of wealth and glory I was doing for the sake of enjoying it.

“Am I going to play? I’m going to see the state of the Crown Prince, and if it’s any other disease, I won’t do this. Hemophilia is important to instill in the other person the confidence that he can get better, so I should go.”

“Yes, I understand.”

I said so, but something like, ‘Yes, yes, you must.’ It’s not just the feeling that the meaning is included.

***

After work, I go to the Imperial Palace.

I spend time with the prince and princesses who are staying at the Winter Palace, but these days, it seems that there is more to play than treatment. is this?

No, it’s an era when psychology is treated as a fortune teller’s nonsense… Actually, I’m a fortune teller too, so it’s a bit of a bummer.

Wait and see, posterity will remember me as a price for psychotherapy that surpassed Freud and Jung…

“aah!”

Tatiana’s scream hit my ear.

“This lucky bastard! When he came out, he didn’t come out, so I guess!”

“Pu ha ha ha ha! sister! Give it up! 2 million rubles!”

Anastasia smiled and went to collect the debts, and Tatiana, who sold New York to the bank with tears in her eyes, because even after raking in all the change, 620,000 rubles was not enough.

“We will soon be able to play other games besides this one.”

“Are you making a new game again, Count?”

“In development.”

By the way, the game alone made me quite fortune.

It is a time when there is not much to do. Since crossword puzzles are so popular, in a world where every train has a dictionary for crossword puzzles, there are board games and card games with 21st century emotions.

Of course, as much as it came in, it was not easy to spend on various weapons development costs.

First of all, what I am aiming for is a stainless steel gun or a grease gun, Panzerfaust, etc.

Having established a weapons company at an expensive cost, I was concentrating on developing new weapons rather than producing weapons that would make money right away.

At first, I was greedy and tried to make an assault rifle. But the problem right now was that even submachine guns were not yet developed.

Even the concept of an automatic machine that fires pistol bullets first appeared with the development of Villar-Perrocha in 1914. There are still a few years left.

In 1918, the liberol, the world’s first object that could fall into the category of an assault rifle, was produced in 1918, using the concept of medium bullets for the first time.

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Machine guns themselves were developed long ago, but assault rifles and submachine guns were not something that could be made just by knowing the concept.

In the end, all I could do was develop a new medium-round ammunition that was essential for an assault rifle. It is estimated that it will take several years to complete, but…

The full-scale design of the assault rifle could not even come up. Moreover, the possibility that an assault rifle would be of great help than a submachine gun on the battlefield of World War I really converges to 0, so I decided to make only the ammunition and make an assault rifle when the technology accumulates a little more.

Even if the situation is not good and you have to go abroad, if you bring the data, you will be able to get some money during WWII.

Instead, I jumped into the development of the submachine gun.

Sten submachine gun, an iron pipe that I would like to be able to make.

The essence of a cheap gun that can be assembled and manufactured by itself even with ironworks equipment as long as you have basic metal processing skills if you design it properly.

It was fortunate that he knew about the simple design of Sten because he had been flirting in his previous life.

Well, I couldn’t remember exactly, so I had to go through dozens of trial and error, but I succeeded in restoring the rough mechanism.

It hasn’t reached mass production yet. In any case, if it goes like this, winning the first submachine gun title seemed certain.

If it is made well, it can be supplied at a lower price than Mosin Nagant. Isn’t Sten a corpse except for productivity and low price?

At the very least, I plan to pay all of the strike units under Ohrana-I am the commander-in-chief.

The problem is with the military and other countries.

No one knows what we’ve developed, and probably doesn’t care because Ohrana is blocking them.

However, with the outbreak of World War I, the utility of submachine guns surged. Of course, regardless of whether the upper management accepts it.

World War I was a world where the nostalgia of the ‘romantic war’ of the previous era still remains. It is qualitatively different from World War II, where a fair man is treated as an asshole.

The French army, who could not escape from that concept, refused to radio and insisted on the messenger’s report, was slaughtered within six weeks of World War II.

The front the Russian Empire will face is the Eastern Front. However, the Eastern Front was not a trench warfare, but a large-scale firepower war.

The reason is simple. Because the Russian Empire didn’t have money to buy machine guns, so they couldn’t do trench warfare.

it’s real The Russian Empire, which already had cannons, but had no money to buy new machine guns, waged mobile warfare with cavalry and trains.

In addition, the terrain was rough and the front was extremely long and the supply capacity was poor, the German Empire was not able to properly deploy its troops to the Eastern Front because it was focusing most of its power on the Western Front, and the Austro-Hungarian Army was fortunate if it did not catch an ankle.

The Russian army also had machine guns, but their performance was poor, the quantity was not enough, and only a few items called light machine guns were provided by foreign countries.

Even in a deadlock, there were no troops on either side with machine guns on either side, so the front lines on both sides were formed within the effective range of the machine guns, or the distance was so extreme that civilians lived in the space between the trenches, usually called unmanned areas, as usual.

It was not for nothing that cavalry was active duty on the Eastern Front.

‘Submachine guns can’t replace machine guns, and besides, the chances of ignoring and cutting off the guns I made are not low. It’s also something that doesn’t even look like a gun in the first place.’

It’s not even worth replacing a light machine gun with a stencil, if I develop a sten that uses a rifle bullet, there is a high probability that it will become too heavy.

Of course, it’s not that the Russian Empire did not use the assault force, and the Russian Empire’s assault force was also very active in the Brusilov Offensive, so it would be better than nothing.

The problem is that my words will not work for the military. When I say let’s adopt this gun, a human who will see it wearing sunglasses first sees the placenta and the rest of the placenta, and they will say, “Is this an iron pipe or a gun?”

There is no possibility that the generals with hardened brains will recognize their usefulness before they burn them, and I will put them in my immediate unit at best.

I’ve been thinking about providing submachine guns to the police under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home Affairs, but it won’t be easy.

The second problem is foreign countries. What if Germany copied our weapons and developed a better submachine gun? I don’t know the US, which almost never invests in the military, but the UK and France are likely to copy it too, right?

Of course, it can be said that it is excessively worrying as the stainless steel is not yet complete, but what I am worried about is the butterfly effect, not royalties.

What if the Germans copied my weapons and gave up Paris as submachine guns were used from the beginning of the war and France was defeated at the River Marne?

It was only at the end of World War I that sub-machine guns were put into the front lines, so I can never predict what the aftermath will be if sub-machine guns start rolling around in active duty right after the start of the war.

Information superiority, the most powerful advantage I have, could be neutralized as it is.

It was the biggest reason I was conflicted with the formalization of submachine guns.

When you start to doubt, there is no limit. Now that I am in a position where I am strangely ignored, the military doesn’t care what kind of business I do or not, and the same goes for other countries.

The fact that about hundreds of Agents Ohrana has been recruited is not known externally, and few people are interested in it.

If you make a big deal out of it, you can’t handle the butterfly effect, and if you make a small move because you’re afraid of it, you don’t have the ripple power to change history.

What would you do in World War I with hundreds? Unless each and every raw meat is special forces…

Wait, special forces?

“That’s it!”

“Hey!”

Surprised Tatiana accidentally – I doubt it was a mistake – accidentally overturned the board, causing a brief commotion, and an angry Anastasia slapped me on the back.