Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 93 >

“Well, didn’t it go well?”

Nicholas II drank tea and smiled.

“In the end, he also liked peacocks, so we made a deal.”

It was simple logic.

“Where… did you hear that story?”

“Olga.”

“Yes?”

“Not my daughter, but Grand Duke Olga, Grand Duke.”

“Oh, he…”

“I heard that Tatiana asked for dating advice, hahaha! So what am I supposed to do? If it was Mariana Anastasia, I would have waited a few more years, but Tatiana is just the right age.”

“okay.”

It was sincere.

The Tsar’s thoughts were just there.

“By the way, how is Prince Alexei these days?”

“It has improved a lot.”

However, the Tsar’s face was dark.

“If you feel much better…”

“But still, it’s impossible to be active, so there’s no way around that. I am going to push for a change in the law.”

“The imperial family will obey His Majesty’s will.”

“Yes, yes.”

“Oh, how did you deal with Stolipin’s last blasphemy?”

“Stolipin? Well… I don’t like it very much, but if you kick him out, your mother will say a word. Stolipin is better than mother’s nagging, at least you can ignore it.”

“Is that so.”

“It makes sense. Isn’t everyone happy enough?”

***

Olga was dissatisfied.

“Yeah, I can’t help it.”

For a moment, a smile appeared on Olga’s lips, but her eyes weren’t smiling.

“I wanted to make it as fair as possible, but I can’t help it, even if I hear it’s dirty and disrespectful.”

she knew

Her father’s successor is her.

Alexei has recovered his energy, but he’s still in trouble, and when will he start his successor class from now on and finish it? It’s better to continue teaching her the successor who has already started.

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Most importantly, ‘he’ promised that ‘he’, whom she cherishes more than anyone else in the world—more than her father. I will make her an empress.

Then it will happen. Because he never broke his promise.

“Get hot.”

It reminds me of that ugly smiley face.

what’s up Doesn’t it matter who you marry?

There is nothing wrong with what the Duke said. The meek cat climbs the stove first.

That damn b*tch said that once her engagement was announced, she would pack up and go and live together – no one said anything because living together between fiances is just treated as pre-marriage living together – they are waiting for the month of March, counting the dates.

‘I’ll let you know that it’s not over until it’s over.’

The emperor is the supreme ruler of this country.

Everyone, and he’ll be all-in-one, no, maybe he’ll just be all-in-one at night?

Olga’s eyes lit up with a smirk.

Yes, it is a common perception.

And the emperor is above everyone. nobility or royalty.

Of course, in theory, you can do whatever you want in the Empire.

Olga found one more reason that day for her to become emperor.

***

I turned the pistol round and round.

The words embossed on the gilded pistol glistened in the light.

＜There’s a fine line between right and wrong>

Literally translated, the boundary between right and wrong clearly exists, but the boundary is so thin that it is difficult for anyone to distinguish it.

There is a clear difference between good and evil, justice and injustice. But the closer you get, the harder it is to tell them apart.

-Tata ta ta ta ta ta tata!

A new 9mm heavy machine gun spit fire. The iron plate, which had become a beehive in an instant, fell without strength.

Even considering the relative speed between the fighters, the power is sufficient. Usually we’ll be faster.

“That is all.”

“The power is certain.”

It is a 9x90mm bullet, a new bullet that was not in the original history. It was concluded that the firepower of just using the 30 caliber was disappointing, and using the 50 caliber was too large and heavy, so it was a medium-sized bullet and was suitable for use in aviation.

“You will have a chance to put it into action soon.”

“Didn’t you say you didn’t have an all-out war in mind?”

“Not the Middle East, Italy.”

What kind of country is Italy?

The head of state of the Kingdom of Italy is Vittorio Emanuele III.

The royal power of the Kingdom of Italy is… weak compared to the Russian Empire, but stronger than that of Britain. The right to appoint a prime minister, the right to dissolve parliament, the right to veto, etc.

The problem is that Vittorio Emanuele has a good personality when it’s good, and indecisive and passive when it’s bad.

Of course, there’s no reason it’s bad. Even if the king is indecisive and passive, it can be helpful for the establishment of democracy since the parliament can manage politics.

The problem was that Italy was never in that situation.

A huge number of casualties, wounded more than double his, and a small amount of reparation and a small amount of territory, far short of repaying the debt owed due to the huge war expenses.

It was only natural for the public’s anger to continue.

The problem was that before Italy entered the war, the parliament was held to maintaining neutrality under the agreement of liberal, Catholic, and socialist forces, but Emanuele III, who first intervened in state affairs, pushed ahead with all parliamentary procedures as the king’s authority, ignoring all procedures. it was

It was only natural that the royal authority had collapsed.

Right after the end of the war was announced, the Italian parliament was in turmoil itself, and the left-right confrontation intensified, and no prime minister was able to complete a year.

However, there was one thing that most of the powers agreed on.

It was that Vittorio Emanuele III should be held responsible for this.

In particular, due to the situation of the king, the left-wing forces gained strong power, and they were blatantly insisting that a republican government be established through a constitutional amendment vote.

Naturally, the royal family and the right explicitly rejected this. It was not a constitutional amendment, but a rejection of the referendum itself on the grounds that it was disrespectful.

Of course, even within the right wing, there was a serious division.

“It’s just my expectation.”

“Are you just ‘expected’?”

“You’re right, you don’t even need to touch it.”

“All right.”

“The monarchy of Italy will not last more than 1920.”

The Italian monarchy cannot survive if the problem of responsibility for the Spanish flu is added.

“Then the country will fall into chaos.”

Even without going to the Great Depression, Italy is already chaotic enough. When the Great Depression comes, it may almost be equivalent to the collapse of a country.

“The king is likely to be abdicated and exile, and the left will prevail, but the right will resist, especially since the left has done something in the last war, the Roman Catholics will be proud and oppose it. And given the status of Roman Catholicism, Italy is in the end like a halving of two, north and south.”

The North is more likely to be dominated by the left, and the South is likely to be dominated by the right.

“In that situation, there is a high chance that a civil war could start even with a single spark.”

A prequel to the Spanish Civil War. The period was around the mid 1920’s to early 1930’s.

“We will have to see whether we will actively intervene, or if we will just sit around while selling supplies, we will have to wait and see if the UK proceeds in the direction of eating shit.”

In fact, the mere chaos of Italy is a huge benefit to us.

“It is unreasonable to put it in Central Asia, but I want to have it test in Italy. Until then, I hope we have a mass production system, but we also train the pilots.”

“I think Archduke Mikhail has been actively cooperating for some reason, so the job will be easy.”

“Well, I don’t like having to say sorry to the yangban, but it’s true that it helps.”

Of course, I have absolutely no intention of providing free support. Whether you’re picking up gold bars from Italy or whatever you do, you’ll be rewarded for it. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to do something similar to what the Soviet Union did during the Spanish Civil War.

The Soviet Union was not the latest weapon during the Spanish Civil War, and it sold equipment from the Russian Empire era, equipment used during the Russo-Japanese War, and the Red and White Civil War, equipment captured during World War I, and supplies from the White Army to Spain for money. It was still cheap, but it was profitable anyway.

I sold the latest weapon only after I had dusted it off and had nothing to sell anymore.

Anyway, the military needs to be modernized anyway, but it can be said that it is a bad stock. Whether Italy becomes a communist country or a fascist country is not for us to know. What is important to us is Germany, France, England, and Japan, but Italy is not very important.

Italy’s important position in the British initiative is that it should support Italy’s capture of the Mediterranean Sea. Even if it does, we can attack Suez by land enough. When this happens, you can maintain a good or bad attitude.

In fact, it’s not necessary unless the British are openly willing to fight us… but you can’t avoid an oncoming fight.

“Irina, I heard a long time ago that in Europe, long ago, the king of white beasts was not a lion, but a bear.”

“Is that so?”

“But the lion later took its place.”

“……”

The symbol of Russia is the bear. This is a fairly old notion.

If the double-headed eagle symbolizes the Russian Empire or the Imperial Family, then the bear has always been the symbol of Russia’s people and Russia’s identity itself. It will always be a bear.

And the lion…..

“The British Empire.”

“A lion who has not inherited the throne in a legitimate way is afraid that the bear will ask for his crown back, so he wants the bear to stay in his cave and not come out.”

Bear doesn’t care. It just wanders around the cave, gradually expanding its territory around the cave in search of a more comfortable place to sleep and delicious food to eat.

However, the story of a lion with paranoia is a different story.

“The lion is afraid. If a bear jumps out from hibernation, will he be able to deal with it? So reduce the bear’s radius, lock him up, try to control himself, and he doesn’t understand that it’s too arrogant.”

The lion eventually quarrels with the bear. If there is going to be a fight someday, he thinks it would be better to put down the bear’s momentum now, so he demands that the bear’s jar of honey be distributed to other animals. I thought that eating it would make the bear too powerful.

The bear, who had no thought, was struck by a lion when a lion suddenly quarrels with him. Of course, I don’t want to listen to anyone asking me to release the honey jar that I’ve been struggling with. I picked honey while being stung by a bee, but what do I have to say to give my rightful possessions?

“The lion’s greatest enemy is, after all, the lion himself.”