Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 80 >

finished.

The war is over. The damn war is over! I can go home now!

There were times when I thought that too.

“Wrangel, Wrangel.”

“What is it?”

“Why can’t I go home yet?”

“This is because Russian and French troops have decided to stay on the territory of the German Empire in order to prevent Manhana during the negotiations at the end of the war.”

“Can’t we just leave the liaison officer and go? Rather, since I am an enemy, I am an enemy of the Guards, so can I say that I am a great marshal? Anyway, I don’t have time here, am I?”

The commander of the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces is also a 4 star.

“Your Marshal is your liaison officer with direct access to the Tsar.”

Wilhelm II is currently confined to Charlottenburg Castle and does not go out. It’s understandable that you’re just locked up in your room and messing around with pictures of your children.

The de facto monarch was Prince Wilhelm.

“The Crown Prince asked us to have some dinner at Sanssouci Palace…”

“Can’t we just say we ate?”

“No.”

Germany has not yet escaped the nightmare of a communist revolt, Austria is not capable of defending itself, nor is Hungary.

Still, I’m way better than the other generals who’ll be dealing with those hellish Constantinople, Jerusalem, Armenia, etc., cancer.

Even forcing myself to change my mood, I got up.

***

Sanssouci Palace.

A rattling sound was heard from the table where six people were gathered, only two people together.

“The economic situation of the imperial family may not be that bad, but it seems that you are doing your best.”

“Of course.”

The food served today was too simple to be a luncheon for the crown prince of one country with a foreign military commander, so it would not be wrong to call it diplomatic disrespect.

Seeing Wrangel and Irina stuffing black bread into their mouths, the Crown Prince nodded.

“Well, even if you saved money, you could have brought white bread, but I think you know why I insisted on black bread.”

“The imperial family also bears the suffering of the people.”

“That’s it. Fortunately, thanks to Russia’s cheap handover of large quantities of grain, a nationwide famine was spared. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you.”

“It’s overrated. Even if we have food, if we do not have the capacity to distribute it properly, it is very difficult to avoid famine. We are just happy to realize that it was the right decision for us to keep Germany as a member and ally of the international community.”

“Well, in fact, it’s not even an amount that you won’t be able to pay in full if you decide to pay it back for about 50 years. We’ve also increased our investment in us a lot, depending on what the US is thinking.”

Currently, Germany is expected to receive a considerable amount of reimbursement from the sale of factory equipment, free licenses for technology, and exchanges of engineers and scientific circles.

“What about public opinion?”

“Liberals keep calling for abolition, it seems the UK is behind it. The communists hang them up as they see them, but the liberals are pro-English and pro-Buddhist, so it’s hard to touch them.”

“If maintenance is difficult, compromise. Hand over power to Congress and undertake major social and economic reforms. It is not said that the strong survive, but the one who survives is said to be strong. At least just showing the imperial family to be responsible will calm public opinion considerably.”

“Your father has announced his intention to abdicate.”

Oh, please, turn on the blinker and turn it off. Don’t say that while eating potatoes.

“Good. But it doesn’t end there. It may appear to be simply an evasion of responsibility.”

“I will listen to your opinions.”

“Show that the imperial family suffers with the people, weeps with the people, and respects them. That doesn’t have to be true. It’s okay to just look like that. Did we not declare that we would distribute all the territories we occupied this time to the veterans?”

The soldiers of the Interior Army, as well as the early professional soldiers, all moved to non-commissioned officers and officers, and most of them were conscripts. They rejoiced that they had become self-employed.

Of course, even though it was difficult to return yet, the fact that their families could eat the land with the deed was a series of thrills for them.

The sergeants and cadres who drove the stakes didn’t lose the land, but they preferred to give them tenancy or sell them for money. There were those who passed it on to their hometown family.

“What should we do? Instead of gaining land, we lost it.”

“Originally, if you don’t have money, you’re going to beat it with your body. It is possible to turn your anger on the Communists and on foreign countries, but do not turn it on us, Russia, and go to the national cemetery on the outskirts of Berlin to collect the reporters and shed some tears.”

There is no such thing as food There must have been someone who shed blood even in the imperial family.

“Even if the imperial family can only emphasize that they have lost family and friends in this war, and that they are in the position of victims who are not different from themselves, public criticism will be greatly reduced.”

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“The royal family and the public are the same person. Sharpening this alone will quickly silence the liberals, and the blame will be focused on communists and other countries.”

“I will.”

I gave myself a new look. I thought it would be difficult to accept.

“Really?”

“I can’t do anything by coming all the way here. My teacher, you, promised to teach me with all my heart, and if you don’t listen to me, you are a fool.”

“There are surprisingly many idiots in the world who can’t eat even if they feed them. In fact, it is because of such people that a sense of selection or elite consciousness arises, a consciousness that is not helpful at all.”

The only thing they ate well was me and the Crown Prince and Irina.

In fact, even for Wrangel, the lowest rank here – Irina doesn’t even tell me where she is from, so it’s an exception, and it’s unclear whether she’s a noble or not. I thought there was nothing I could do about it.

The other two were the sons and daughters of the emperor. In fact, it is strange enough that the Crown Prince eats well. But what the heck is Irina?

In any case, as the dinner was over, the people who were silently concentrating on destroying the food in front of them opened their mouths.

“Come to think of it, the princess was not with me this time.”

“Well, it happened. It will probably be a strategic story, but wouldn’t it be a little difficult to bring them in?”

In fact, it is not uncommon for all four of us to stay in a foreign country for too long. No matter how much I spend at the Home Office Command…

“It would be impossible to keep foreign royalty in military bases for too long. Now that we have coordinated with the Bavarian side, how about taking the four of us to the Neuschwanstein Castle?”

“Is it Neuschwanstein Castle?”

I’ve been there once. It’s definitely a good place, but… The problem is the location, so Olga, Tatiana, and Maria are definitely worried about Anastasia. You must be so chubby. It’s the perfect place for a crash to happen.

“It would be good if the condition that our personnel stand for the expenses.”

“Of course I can do that.”

I have no choice but to give Olga a new job, no, if I go there, I’ll figure out the level of danger right away, so I’ll take good care of it.

“But I don’t know if this is an rude question…”

“Tell me.”

“He and the princesses, however, always go together when they go to official events.

I could feel Friedrich struggling to choose his words as carefully as possible.

“Well… someone promised the future, or maybe…”

“……”

Once you answer that question, you can say no.

Obviously, no one has explicitly promised the future.

However, it is true that there are people who cannot be ignored.

Olga, who declared that she would not look at anyone other than me, even if she died of old age as a virgin, and Tatiana, who spent the night with me.

There are only two people that come to mind right now, but Stolipin’s words echo in my ears.

He said that for the stability of the country and the system, I must become Olga’s husband.

“For now, I can say no. I have never been engaged or engaged to anyone.”

However, it is a political situation within Russia, and there is no obligation to explain the situation to them. The fact that Tatiana spent the night with me is a story only me and she know, and Olga’s declaration… is just a declaration.

A declaration that he will wait for me no matter what.

Such a lofty declaration is not something that can be recklessly spoken to outsiders.

“Well, sooner or later, you’re going to get married to anyone. In fact, I still feel a little late.”

“I think so.”

The moment the prince nodded and was about to finish eating the baked potatoes, he heard a knock on the door.

“Sir, your foe!”

I frowned at the shouting in Russian.

“What are you doing now…”

“That’s… Your Excellency is on the phone now.”

“telephone? what phone is that? Unless the tsar did it or did it later…”

“Contact from Stockholm, Sweden.”

“Stockholm? Why are you calling me there…”

“Your Excellency has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.”

***

1916 was the year the Nobel Prize was not awarded.

I became the winner of the Physiology or Medicine prize that shouldn’t have been awarded.

The award is based on the invention of an oral aqueous solution and the development of a treatment for water-borne infectious diseases such as cholera and typhoid through the proof of scientific effectiveness.

But for me, it was a bit embarrassing.

“There must have been some political influence. Of course, your Majesty’s achievements are not insufficient to receive a Nobel Prize.”

Considering that the situation on the Scandanavian Peninsula is not so peaceful, the possibility is high.

“By the way, how about the acceptance lecture?”

Those who have been awarded the award must give an acceptance speech by June 10 of the following year. I had to go to Stockholm by December 10th. As an added bonus, the king and queen have to be invited to an audience, and the next day, the awardees have to gather to discuss research achievements and future developments. After that, you must also participate in the feast of St. Lucia, and only then can you return to your home country.

Well, the King’s Audience was not an event to be particularly nervous because I had traveled to England, Germany, and Russia a lot, but first, the meeting with the winners and the acceptance lecture came up as a headache.

“You can do the acceptance lecture after you have received it.”

“The question is, what am I talking about among the yangbans who do everything one by one? They are all in the press.”

“Isn’t that there? Shouldn’t it have been successful by now?”

“it? Oh, what?”

Clearly, that’s a topic that shouldn’t have to be air-only in conversations with Nobel Laureates.

“Hey, can you talk to me in a way that I can understand? What is ‘that’?”

“It is a disease that has plagued mankind for a long time, and it is one of the diseases that our Messiah has miraculously cured.”

“Um… leprosy?”

“no. A more deadly disease, hemophilia.”

Actually, it is the 21st century doctrine that hemorrhagic disease is a different disease from hemophilia in the Bible, but what do you think?