Rasputin of the East

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interview room.

“You can wait here.”

The silver-haired secretary said only so, closed the door and left.

Originally, there were supposed to be five people in this place.

However, one person was urgently assigned to another area, so the interview schedule had to be changed, and in the end, the number of people sitting was reduced to four.

The young officer looked at the other three.

What do you and he have in common?

There are nobles, there are commoners, there are princes, there are dignitaries.

But what they have in common is…

Then, a loud noise began to be heard outside. It meant that someone taller was moving.

The young officer also refined his uniform, but something was amiss. Should I have washed it one more time? Or should I have had a haircut? That’s all I got from medals, how did I have to find and wear a better military uniform?

The door opened in front of the anxious young officer’s eyes, and a man entered.

Automatically his right hand went up to salute, but shortly thereafter he had to barely hold back the hiccups.

It was because I was so surprised. I knew his face, but it was because his condition was… a bit seriously messed up.

Her cheeks were swollen from being hit hard by any sting, and I don’t know if anyone tried to rip her off her head, but her hair was in a tough condition. No matter how much you look at the scar on the back of the hand that is fiddling with pain, it looks like it was stamped on a woman’s fingernail……

‘No, not knowing is medicine.’

***

The four officers who saluted were seated only after I received the salute.

“Let me rest in peace.”

“Yes!”

“Roman Fyodorovich, Baron vonungernsitternberg, and Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Captain Aleksandr Vasilebsky, and Ivan Konev, right?”

“you’re right.”

“That’s right.”

Ungern, the mad baron of Mongolia, and Mannerheim, the father of Finland.

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Mannerheim, at least, is not yet an independent. Rather, he was quite loyal to the emperor.

Ungern, nothing to say.

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Mannerheim is a person who can be called an outstanding master, no matter what anyone says, and Ungern… is a person with good abilities. At least it could instill fear along with suppressing the rebellion.

“Do you know why the main building called you?”

“I do not know.”

“Because I have a mission I want to entrust to you.”

“Say anything! I will do it!”

Ungern’s eyes lit up and shouted.

“Hey, Ungern, what you need to do is… prepare for a situation in which nomads in Central Asia start a massive revolt.”

Ungern is a bit of an old-fashioned dictator, but not a bloodthirsty slayer.

In fact, if you count all the people Ungern killed or supposed to have killed, less than a thousand people. How many people were massacred by the Bolsheviks around the same time?

“Captain Ivan Konev, and Capt. Vasilebsky, Colonel Mannerheim, and you have been highly recommended to join the staff of the Interior Army as of today, because of their high abilities. We want to entrust you.”

“Jeong… Really?”

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Mannerheim’s eyes lit up.

Actually, that’s not a problem with success. As far as I know, Mannerheim was originally married to an aristocratic wife and had a good life, but they started to separate about 10 years ago, and officially divorced in 1919.

The problem is that he and his wife were separated and suffered from hardships of life. By the way, if you are a colonel in the internal affairs army staff, your salary is also high.

Ivan Konev and Vasilebsky also looked surprised, but their expressions were slightly different.

As young and low-status people, they have no choice but to long for a career path, because this is an opportunity of a lifetime. Rokosovsky and Tukhachenski are there now, so let’s play together.

Well, that’s enough now. If you put Wrangel, Mannerheim, Rokosovsky, Tukhassevsky, Konev, and Vasilebsky in the staff, you won’t have to worry about losing battles even during the Second World War.

Now it’s time to deal with the remaining issues.

I asked the emperor for an audience.

***

“Your Majesty, please repeal this prohibition.”

“I didn’t know you would say that.”

“Isn’t the war over? And there is another real problem.”

“Something?”

“Lack of budget.”

“A budget?”

The cost of suppressing the riots, the cost of next year’s Spanish flu, and the settlement of the abnormal climate that destroyed Germany’s agriculture in the original history and brought the turnip winter.

If you think about it, the naval plan of Archduke Cyril would cost enough money to look like a fairy.

“Now, there are many places where money will be spent in all kinds of places for post-war restoration, but if the prohibition law is repealed, you can get a liquor tax. Do you not know that the state tax accounted for nearly 30% of the imperial budget?”

And anyway, Samagon or whatever, moonshine is running all over the place, right? It’s not that it’s hard to get a drink in the first place… It’s me, usually wine, beer once in a while, and I don’t like vodka.

Suddenly, my throat felt hot. Cyril, that ignorant gentleman drank some crazy vodka without warning. really.

Anyway, what we need right now is money first, second money, and third money.

You need a budget.

I need a lot of budget.

***

someone might ask If I have to marry Olga for political reasons, why not tell the emperor directly?

But I know it very clearly. The moment you bring up that story, someone will be hurt.

I don’t want to inflict such a wound on my mind, knowing how painful it is.

Perhaps, we will all end up getting hurt.

I’m afraid I can’t say anything with my mouth. It’s not the right thing to do. I also know for sure.

yes i am a coward

While calmly issuing an operational order that will kill or injure hundreds of thousands or millions of people, each person who has their own life, family, and lover treats them with just one number on the ledger, contemplating how efficiently to consume them, and consuming less resources on the enemy. And on the topic of whether I can kill a lot.

It’s a hypocrite that it’s hard to see the people in front of me gripping their bitter hearts and suffering.

not right. I know it’s the right thing to do to make my mind clear, but it’s not right to remain ambiguous like this.

Still can’t

It would be better if I ended up suffering alone.

If that’s the case, I’ll just go ahead and think that I’m paying for my sins.

Even innocent others will suffer. I am afraid to know that.

So they dodge, run away, and turn away.

You can call it cowardly. because it’s true

I sighed.

How did it become like this?

***

“Irina, you British people.”

“Say it.”

“Aren’t you trying to f*ck us through Muslims?”

“Yes, but.”

“Then come to think of it, can’t we also f*ck England through Muslims?”

“…….Yes?”

I sat in front of the map.

“Look, where are you?”

“It’s the Middle East. You mean to reach out here?”

“okay.”

The entire Arabian Peninsula is now under British rule.

To be precise, the British promised to establish a unified Arab kingdom and slapped the back of their heads, but in any case, all of the Arabian Peninsula is now painted in the same color as Britain.

Of course, there are borders within it. Some are a British protectorate, others are a colony.

In the original history, several places were truly independent, but because the Treaty of Versailles was not signed in other ways, the Arabian Peninsula is now British, Palestine is Russian, Sinai is British, Syria and Jordan are Russian, and Iraq is British. Although it is interfered with, it is an independent country anyway.

roughly like this

“What if we could unite the Arabian Peninsula, Palestine, Sinai, Syria, Jordan and Iraq into one nation?”

“The Tsar will never approve.”

“I can’t, because I can’t hand over the holy city of Jerusalem. But even if we can’t approve it… will the others think so too?”

“Are you trying to induce an Arab uprising?”

“If we f*ck up, shouldn’t they too? Besides, two words in one bite, the British did it, but can’t they say we are?”

No, I never said it officially in the first place. I just spilled that it might be.

“It has been a long time since many influential emirates, including the Saud family, started guerrilla warfare against Britain. Put some oil on it, drive out England and a new era begins! Like this.”

The Saud family, who suffered a head-on in the original history, established Saudi Arabia on their own, but here there was a battle with Britain.

Although Britain was not so weak that it could not beat the Saud family no matter how much it struggled, it quickly lost all its major bases and resisted in the desert. The battle is still ongoing.

It’s not easy to create a fight that doesn’t exist at all, but it’s easy to pour some oil into a fight that already exists.

“But a head-to-head confrontation is absolutely unreasonable. Most of the British army is deployed in India and the Middle East. In other words, those emirates will have to face the British main force head-on at worst.”

“They are dead or not. Is it not that the British are eating their own flesh, whether they are genocide or genocide over there?”

In fact, the prototype of Auschwitz was first made by the British during the Boer War. It’s not that all the evil things in the world were made by the British.

“Actually it doesn’t matter how the emirates react to us, what matters is that the British government reacts to our movements. The emirates will either crawl in front of us or make a fuss in order to survive anyway.”

“You must misunderstand that we will support the rebellion and then swallow the Middle East without chewing.”

“We can’t afford that. But would it be a nightmare for them? Will the Suez Canal become a border with Egypt if this change is made right away?”

“If the Suez Canal is lost, it will be difficult to supply oil from the Persian Gulf and it will be difficult for India to control it, so they will have no choice but to react sensitively.”

“Yeah, actually, it doesn’t matter whether they believe in us and rebel or not.”

It doesn’t matter that the UK will waste its national power shoveling in the sand, well, it hasn’t been discovered yet, but there’s a lot of oil in this area, so who knows if they’ll shovel and find some oil?

“If we f*ck them, they should f*ck them too.”