Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 94 >

Stolipin’s office is easy to find.

If it is piled high with papers and taller than the sitting height of the person inside, and you can’t see the face of the person working, it’s roughly right.

“Are you here? Wait a minute, can you bring me some of the local administration documents over there? There must be a section on page 268.”

“……”

I brought the documents I was quietly looking for.

‘I’ll just deal with the business and run away.’

When my intuition, not my intuition, alarmed me that I would have to sit over there if I made a mistake and process these papers without moving, I woke up.

“What is the dragon?”

“Central Asia and the Caucasus are at risk.”

Stolipin’s quill stopped tall.

“On the basis?”

“The communists are running rampant. A major uprising is expected within a year or so.”

“In about a year or so, is it 1918?”

Stolipin looked around Mt. Dosong with her head straight for a moment before sinking.

“Even if we add more personnel, the Ministry of Home Affairs cannot afford to touch it within a year anyway in Central Asia, so we have to do it ourselves.”

“It’s not going to happen by catching one or two guys. You must see the blood.”

“I’d rather suppress it and make it a military government, then the paperwork that comes up to me might be as small as a drop of dung.”

Currently, all occupied territories are military governments. Although Czechoslovakia is formally a military government, the existing civil servants are still working, and the new territories transferred from Austria and the Ottomans are fundamentally different from the previous administrative systems, so it takes time to adapt.

No, we’d rather be savage.

To put it bluntly, the Russian state system cannot be evaluated with any other words other than the word savage.

To put it bluntly, the Roman Empire bureaucracy would have been better than this. really.

Rather than maintaining the military government, when modernizing the bureaucracy, it is better to modernize it all at once.

As a result, Stolipin was dying only from land survey projects, agricultural modernization, self-sustaining farming, and the dismantling of Mir. At least I’m in charge of monitoring the People’s Party and being the aristocrat George, who has been caught in the process – but the funny thing is that Stolipin is eating the swearing – but that’s better.

If you go to the post-war reconstruction project or economic development, this is a level where there is no answer. When the Great Depression comes, I just do the Russian version of the New Deal, build infrastructure, post-war reconstruction projects, and economic development, no matter what kind of fuss, when the Great Depression comes, it’s all over.

In the worst case, am I taking a step forward in reforming measures, controlling inflation, and rebuilding the economy that requires diplomacy? Since Stolipin cannot do it alone, I am interviewing with trusts and flirting with factory facilities to give me benefits if I apply the metric system.

In the military field, I’m just in charge of it, so it’s not a Stolipin job. Actually, even the military in those towns is my job. I don’t know anything else, but the Czech king will be elected quickly, but what are you doing leaving the Czech administration to me? What kind of Russian MacArthur am I?

“and……”

“What else?”

“I came here because of an epidemic problem.”

“typhus? Or typhoid? cholera? Doctors are doing their best for typhus now, and cholera and typhoid have to destroy the water supply facilities, but it can’t be done in a short time. Just mass-produce the oral infusions you made.”

“It’s not… there are some nasty epidemics in England.”

It’s not saenggura really.

The first confirmed case of the Spanish flu was in March 1918 in Chicago, the United States, but ‘a disease that shows symptoms similar to the Spanish flu and is related, but it is not certain whether it is the Spanish flu’ first appeared in the medical records of the British military in 1916.

In 1917, a large-scale infection was confirmed within the British military and in China. By August 1918, a highly pathogenic strain emerged in British Sierra Leone.

The birth of the so-called Spanish flu. To be precise, a virus called H1 virus is an influenza virus created by mutation when a hybrid with avian influenza virus occurs.

And the Spanish flu became less toxic and more contagious.

Objectively, compared to the Spanish flu, Corona has a milder taste.

Anyway, the story of the Spanish flu spreading in the UK right now is not a complete phrase. really. At least whether it’s your ancestors or relatives, there’s no doubt that the virus is there.

“You take it.”

“Yes?”

“I’m delegating my authority, so you have to do the quarantine! Did you receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?”

No, hey, I also got that half wild, didn’t I?

‘ I thought Stolipin would really shoot me, so I decided to just keep quiet.

“I mean, giving land to ignorant people who don’t know how to do these damn arithmetic and three out of five don’t even know what the letters are! We need professional manpower, but there is no sign that they will be recruited. Noble bastards are out of business, and budgets are tight!”

That’s… it must be, I understand.

But I assure you, if the extreme climate that made Germany spend the turnip winter in the original history comes to Russia, that document will double in no time.

I would like to express my condolences in advance, but I have already started to get a headache since I suddenly assumed responsibility for the quarantine while I went to give information about the Spanish flu.

Herd immunity is bullshit, and the general view is that herd immunity cannot be formed without a vaccine.

And there is no vaccine. Really, at this point, I can’t make it with this technology, and even if I make it, I wonder if it will be put to practical use after the fashion is over.

‘I can’t put on a mask or use hand sanitizer… The hand sanitizer is ethanol, so there’s a very high chance they’ll drink it.’

It was the Russians who used shoe polish, perfume, and even lotion to drink. If you give hand sanitizer to Russians who drank alcohol in such a way that they wanted to drink alcohol… No, that’s not really possible.

Just print a mask or die and distribute it….how do you do it?

After a while, I had to seriously think about whether there is a way to distribute masks.

It would somehow be distributed in areas where major cities and railroads connect, but Central Asia … will become a battlefield anyway, and thinking about how long it will be distributed to the countryside of Ukraine and Belarus, my eyes were dizzy.

‘It’s too late when work breaks out. But wouldn’t it be too late to start now?’

The first thing that came to mind was how to order a mask in Russia at all, but I doubt that it will be helpful soon enough, and secondly, there is a high probability that all kinds of conspiracy theories will spread.

Germany, which immediately suffered a turnip winter and collapsed due to the rebellion of the Kiel port, started World War II and committed the sin of human history called the Holocaust, believing that there was a conspiracy theory behind it. They knew clearly that no matter what they did, they could not win, and the generation that suffered the war at that time was still alive, but they were caught up in self-rationalization and confirmation bias.

At times, it can become a public enemy.

‘The only choice is to lay the mask production line or quietly and produce as much as possible as soon as possible after work.’

Distribution… This is a question that has no real answer. I need to expand the transportation network or something, but if it’s going to happen within a year or two, Stolipin must have already finished it.

There are not enough means to promote social distancing, and I will keep it a lot. I’d be lucky if I didn’t get ridiculed and didn’t forget my authority.

‘Should we just control the media?’

The reason I took this seriously is simple. In its original history, the Spanish flu infected enormous numbers, caused numerous casualties, and then slowly disappeared.

Some say that the cause of the disappearance is that herd immunity was formed, that a genetic mutation occurred, or that they saw the gyr of quarantine and quarantine, but it is highly likely that all those who will get it and all those who will die will die and disappear.

In other words, no matter what you do, the person who will eventually get it is exposed and infected. The number of infected people is about 500 million, and the death toll is at least 17 million and up to 50 million. Considering the current world population is 1.7 billion and the number of deaths in World War I in the original history was 9 million, it is a huge amount of damage.

In other words, it is best to control the media as much as possible, distribute as many masks as possible, and hold out for up to three years until the spring of 1920, when the last mass infection occurred.

Because I don’t have the talent to create a cure or a vaccine, no, it’s not just me, it’s all other countries.

‘If we improve the overall nutritional supply of the people, we can overcome it even if we get caught, but… is it possible?’

Improving the people’s overall nutritional supply means raising the people’s standard of living, and it is one of the ultimate goals of our reform.

Of course, a plan that has just started is unlikely to have a final result within a year or two. The plan itself is a long-term plan, such as 5 years for the first phase and another 5 years for the second phase.

‘Still, we should keep in mind the production line in advance, and sell it cheaply in Germany, France, and the United States in case of emergency or support it.’

This is political logic. In a nutshell, it should be said that it is a friend fee to maintain the alliance.

When it comes to the Russian, American, and French (+Germany) triangular alliance, Britain is unilaterally overwhelmed in both naval and army power, even if it attracts Italy or Japan. Unless Hitler and Hannibal appear in Italy and succeed in a plan to cross the Alps and heal Germany.

It is beneficial for Germany to maintain neutrality, and neither Germany nor France can easily crush the object of public opinion. In the German Empire, the imperial family has made many concessions, so the parliament is running smoothly, and France is a revolutionary country.

In other words, if pro-Russian public opinion spreads among the citizens of Germany and France, it is difficult for the government to ignore it. Germany cannot be kept as an ally forever because it has borders and the possibility of a conflict of interest is high, but France will be able to some extent.

In fact, Germany is more likely to hate France than we do. That doesn’t mean you’re likely to feel good about us, but it’s possible to improve it to some extent. To be precise, the imperial family is on our side, so it can be said that it is one of the operations of public opinion so that the imperial family can be maintained.

Now, at the very least, we are in a situation where we have to engage in a diplomatic battle with the epidemic and masks that are one year away, so the back of the neck is pulled. really.