Rasputin of the East

Episode 9

Interior Minister Stolipin quietly took a cigarette.

With an unlit cigarette to his lips, he fell into anguish.

It was one of the reasons that got him into trouble these days.

Kim, Earl of Vostok.

The imperial physician, who was awarded the count for saving the life of the Crown Prince, was the first in the world to manufacture effective drugs for cholera and typhoid.

Some nobles would not like to admit it, but saving the prince’s life was not enough to disqualify him from receiving the count. So was the royal doctor.

In any case, his abilities have not been sufficiently proven, and although it is a pity that he is closer to an astrologer than a doctor, there were several nobles who survived with his help.

However, his movements… have been over-stimulating the military recently.

Of course, he also hates the military.

The idiots who refused to develop because of the inertia of the past. The only war that the Russian Empire has ever fought that could be said to have been won was the Great Turkic War.

However, it is impossible to say that they are competent just because they have won the battle against a European patient, a European asshole, the Ottoman Turks.

Britain and France intervened, but eventually defeated in Crimea, and defeated by Japan.

The history of the empire was marked by defeat. Of course, his own economic development policy is important, but the military is only the subject of ultimate reform.

Isn’t there the best opponent right in front of you, a wonderful teacher called the German Empire?

In the future war, there is a high possibility that a war with the German Empire will be waged, and if this is already the case, it is difficult to imagine the outcome that the Russian Empire will achieve in the war against the German Imperial Army other than defeat.

After being defeated in the Crimean War, he reformed the military, but was eventually defeated in the Russo-Japanese War. Of course, if Britain hadn’t supported Japan, it would have been enough to win.

‘From 1883 to 1903, there were about 1,500 protests that had to be suppressed by the military, and more than 400 riots from the fall of 1905 to the summer of 1906,’

limit The Russian Empire was approaching its limit. Hard-brained nobles wouldn’t want to see it, but bureaucrats like him could see the curves of doom dancing.

Stolipin thought for a moment of the astrologer with the snake’s tongue.

‘The military has yet to submit to the tsar’s authority, so they did not vigorously oppose the establishment of Spetsnaz, but they must have been dissatisfied.’

Spetsnaz is not a full-fledged internal affairs army. In wartime, it must receive instructions from the military, but in any case, formally, there are restrictions on the organization under the interior ministry, or major personnel and organizations that require the approval of the tsar.

At best, it is treated as a small elite unit, a sister organization of Ohrana, and the military lacks interest in it, but Stolipin decided that this organization was considering expansion.

If expanded, it would be somewhere between the police and the military.

‘But what are you aiming for?’

He insisted, in order to stabilize his position.

But is that really his goal? First of all, it will be difficult to defeat the entire military with that kind of military power, so the possibility of a rebellion is low, and the preservation of the position…if the Tsar’s trust is well received, there will be no problems in the first place.

assassination? That’s funny. Every time he eats with the royal family in the Winter Palace, it is difficult to poison him even because of the risk, and he always carries a body armor and a pistol.

That paranoid assassination vigilance even shook her head, even Ohrana, who had instructed her to study the possibility of a successful assassination as a test.

If the prince or princesses accidentally swallowed poison after poisoning it, who would take responsibility for it?

There is no nobleman in the aristocracy who has the guts to withstand the storm after attempting an assassination attempt.

The assassination of terrorists is not something that can be dealt with by calling one’s own forces in the first place.

‘If you dare to look at it……’

Not a single word is written about the augmentation story, but seasoned bureaucrats like Stolipin will be able to see whether they are contemplating the largest scale the system can handle and expansion.

The conclusion was simple. A scale that can be controlled by one military district.

If any civil war breaks out and the empire is shattered and the generals do what it is, if the empire is running normally, unless its troops are in St. Petersburg, it’s not enough to control the country.

Their main focus is concentrated in the Ural Mountains because they are monitoring the impurity exiled to Siberia. This was the reason why Stolipin viewed the possibility of a coup as low as possible.

‘civil war……?’

The sound suddenly felt ominous. Stolipin swallowed a saliva the size of a chestnut involuntarily.

‘No way.’

That shouldn’t be the case, it shouldn’t be happening.

Stolipin doesn’t believe in prophecies, but the fact that his opponent is an astrologer was strangely heartbreaking.

‘The Count of Vostok predicts a civil war and intends to create warlords to survive there…?’

From a rational point of view, it is an over-expanded interpretation, but the ominous sound of civil war turned into a huge rock and rolled in his chest.

Of course, to be honest, they would just grab it, but the opponent has plenty of ways to make excuses and get out. On the contrary, there is a possibility that only oneself will be guilty of blasphemy.

One sentence I heard one day vividly comes to mind.

‘Europe today is a gunpowder, leaders are smoking in their arsenal, one little spark will start a war that will consume us all, I don’t know when the explosion will happen, but I can tell you where it will happen, in the Balkans Cursed foolishness will cause the explosion.’

The words left behind by German Reich Chancellor and Prussian Chancellor, Prussian Foreign Minister, and Marquis Otto von Bismarck before his death were causing a storm in Stolipin’s brain.

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Can you believe it? Money will be copied!

Once I started a business, I was overflowing with business ideas.

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Most of my business had to be carried out in the United States, but even if it did not reach the level of video conferencing in the 21st century, it is worth noting that it was not a time when it took several months to direct a business like in the Middle Ages.

If I had the same heart, I would like to start a business in the United States…. It is difficult to leave St. Petersburg because the position I have is a position.

The attending physician must be near the patient, because going abroad without any connection is a negligence of duty.

Of course, it would be really nice if the Crown Prince sat down in America, but that doesn’t make sense.

Research on medium bullets seems to be going well. We are working on both expanding pistol rounds and shortening rifle rounds.

In the original history, the shortened form of the rifle bullet became mainstream, and the StG44 also reduced the charge of the Kar98 bullet, simply because it was a small cartridge.

However, the technology may not be there yet, or the expansion of pistol bullets may still be more efficient.

There is no gun that can’t be made in World War II, but World War I hasn’t happened yet, and from the point of view of how the first assault rifle, the Liberol, went down, nothing can be followed as the correct answer in the original history.

When the bullet is complete, I can make a sten that uses medium bullets, and if I improve it a bit, I can make an assault rifle.

First off, that’s what I was thinking.

Of course, supplying it to the Russian army is not a good thing, and I will only use it. It would be nice if Russia won the First World War, but what if, as in the original history, it was virtually defeated and the Red White Civil War broke out?

I don’t even care to see our enemies armed with my own assault rifles fire at us.

This is also the reason why I am so concerned about recruiting a large number of ethnic minorities, especially Koreans, as combat troops. Minorities have few places to hang out when a civil war breaks out.

In particular, how many Koreans are of Korean descent in high-ranking positions in the Russian Empire? I am alone

Therefore, it also means that the Goryeo people do not deserve to have a private place if it is not me. In any case, it means that there is no motive or ability to betray.

It is important to me, in desperate need of reliable subordinates.

But… If you build an army with only too few ethnic groups, there are not many people who will make a fuss with it, so you have to mix it with Russians as well.

‘I feel like I became the German Army after signing the Treaty of Versailles.’

At that time, at least 100,000 people were guaranteed, and since there was a national weight class in the Weimar Republic, we were in a situation where we could develop it secretly, so it’s better than us.

There is no explicit military force limit, but there is no staff headquarters or military academy, and I am in a situation where I have to manage everything by myself.

I wonder if it would be possible to set up one or two military academies as a school affiliated with the Ministry of Home Affairs, but that would make it too obvious.

‘Isn’t the only answer to all the military cadres…’

But what about the non-commissioned officers even if they say that all the troops are given officer-level education because they are all-military cadres?

For non-commissioned officers, the only answer is to gain a lot of experience, and it is a pain in the back of the army, which is indispensable.

Besides, how can I raise a beginner, how can I rake up generals, or I can take on a lot of them even in a large group, but where else can I procure experienced officers who can be called the nerves of the military?

In the first place, I have no intention of being satisfied as a private soldier for my position. Some people said World War I was an unnecessary war, but I have a different opinion.

World War I is a war that would have happened for any other reason anyway. Even without the Sarajevo incident, World War I would have happened in the end even if other sudden changes occurred.

And the Empire will not be able to withstand the next great war. No matter what I do, the empire that has already experienced the Russo-Japanese War and Bloody Sunday is creaking.

Then, in the Red and White Civil War, shouldn’t I have the power to play warlords so that I can pioneer the future on my own without relying on anyone?

The basics, the conditions, and the situation are bad, but there is no time. World War I started in 1914, less than 10 years left.

The German army had 20 years before World War II. The non-commissioned officer…whatever it is, it is difficult to expect proficiency, and it would be easier for field-level officers, especially staff, to give up.

‘Well, we’re not going to fight Britain, France, Poland, and furthermore, the USSR and the US like the Germans…’

Rather, I would receive military support from there. During the Red and White Civil War, the world’s leading countries, including Japan, the United States, Britain, and France, supported the White Army.

Of course, the support was not given to the level of landless in World War II, and major industrial areas were taken away, and even within the White Army, the White Army, which was destroyed by the battle for command, was defeated by the enemy and the Soviet Union was established, as you all know.

‘I have at most a few years left, I really don’t have time.’

All I have is future knowledge, but there are too many things to do. At the very least, if he had become a Tsar at the time of his accession, he would have been able to win World War I with certainty.

‘No, I’d rather play the role of a fortune teller one more time and delay World War I by a few more years.’

It really hurts.