I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 41
  Academicians of the Academy of Sciences receive salaries and subsidies, and they also receive income if they have part-time jobs.

Before becoming the dean of the Academy of Sciences, Butrelov worked at Kazan University for 18 years. He also served as a professor of chemistry at Petersburg University. He was the leader and academic leader of the Kazan School, which brought together a large number of Russians. Elites in the chemical community have a profound impact on world chemistry.

Butrelov was born into a family of landowners and retired military officers. His parents had participated in the Patriotic War against Napoleon's invasion in 1812.

Butrelov has lived a relatively wealthy life since he was a child and received a good education. Even without the above-mentioned achievements, Butrelov's life has absolutely nothing to do with misery.

The next day, George took Nicholas to his manor.

The large-scale construction of the manor was in full swing. George originally wanted to hire construction workers from St. Petersburg. When the veterans found out, they all expressed that they had to build their own homes with their own hands. The work of the construction workers was too rough and the veterans looked down upon it, so they had to do it themselves. Take action.

But George knew that the veterans didn't all look down on him, but more because they didn't want to waste their money.

The veterans are also haunted.

There is no shortage of manpower in the George Manor. In addition to more than a hundred tenant farmers, the guard also has nearly a hundred young guardsmen.

Part of the house George built was for the Guards.

So the young men of the Guards should also help out. If you have the money to hire construction workers, wouldn't it be good to buy vodka with meals?
  If there is no benefit, if the young men of the Guards are allowed to build a house, they will probably not be happy.

But if there was vodka——

Stop talking, we Russian men are all powerful!
  So the entire manor, except for the guards on duty, was all working.

The young men of the Guards and the young men of the manor were the main force in building houses, and they were responsible for most of the work.

The veterans were in charge of logistical support, and they got the vodka for the extra meals. Miraculously, they didn't spend any money. George didn't even know how they did it.

Not just vodka, the manor has a bonfire dinner every night these days. The grilled fish and barbecue at the dinner are also brought by the veterans, and they also cost nothing.

The young adults in the manor are not idle either. After farming, they will also take on any work within their capabilities.

The asphalt road that George wants cannot be realized for the time being, but it can still be achieved by simply hardening it.

During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to allow transport planes to take off and land smoothly, the residents of Shancheng completed the construction of the airport runway by manpower alone without construction machinery. After inspection by American staff, it was fully qualified.

Although there is no construction machinery in the manor, there is no shortage of large livestock. Ye Luoxin didn't know where to get a stone roller with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a length of about 1.8 meters. It was pulled back and forth by ten cows. The effect was comparable to a road roller.

So when Nicholas and George came to the manor, what they saw might be the best country road in the whole of St. Petersburg - no, it might be the best country road in the whole of Russia.

The six-meter-wide road is not suitable to be described as "small road".

The standard of this road is very high, with a cobblestone foundation that has three floors.

The bottom layer is made of large stones over ten centimeters, the middle layer is made of small stones of three to five centimeters, and the upper layer of gravel is up to 10 centimeters thick. These stones were brought back from the river two kilometers away by carriages by the children of the manor.

No, it's 20 kopecks per cart.

With roads, street trees are naturally indispensable.

Yekaterin Palace has its own gardener who is an expert at planting trees. Russia has nothing but many trees, so every ten meters on both sides of the road, there is an oak tree transplanted from nearby.

"This place will be called Oak Villa from now on!" George was very proud. Oak Villa was his first mark in this era.

"Where are the mountains?" Nicholas is a real person. There are mountains in St. Petersburg, but they are a bit far away from Oak Villa. George was speechless. This man had no interest at all, and his life was too boring.

Except for the lack of mountains, the environment of Oak Villa is quite good. There are endless fields on both sides of the road. The wheat has grown to half a person's height, and the potatoes are also growing well. These two are Russia's main foods.

Wheat is for people to eat.

There were too many potatoes to eat, so they had to feed the livestock.

Potatoes can also be used to brew vodka, but before the reform of Ya Er, vodka was a monopoly of the empire and private brewing was not allowed.

Further ahead is the construction site.

Building a house in Russia is very simple. Building material dealers provide a variety of building styles. The materials are semi-finished products. When purchased, they are almost like building blocks. A dozen people can complete a house in two or three days.

The young men of the Guards are true to their word. They were indeed a little rusty at first, but now they are all skilled construction workers. The veterans' houses have been completed and collective dormitories are being built for the Guards.

The conditions of the dormitories are also very good. There are plenty of places anyway. One person living in a room is too luxurious and unrealistic. Two people living in a room can still do it.

There are only more than fifty rooms in total, including Ye Luoxin's office.

Next to the dormitory is a temporary kitchen, where several strong aunts are making soup.

The meat was beef and chicken, and the ingredients were potatoes. The proportion of meat was obviously more than potatoes. Nicholas looked at George with doubts.

Is this - very tragic?

Goulash with potatoes is the national dish of Russia and occasionally appears on the royal table.

This is as good as what the Tsar ate, so what’s so bad about it?

George was not in a hurry and took Nicholas to find Yuri.

Yuri's house has been built. The young men from the Guards only helped to build the house. Yuri had to do the interior decoration himself.

Yuri didn't do anything to others. He made all the furniture by himself. While painting the day before yesterday, Yuri accidentally sprained his foot. He could only lie in bed to rest for the past two days.

Yuri is currently staying at a tenant farmer's house. The furnishings in the room are so simple that there is not even a bed. Yuri made a bunk on the ground. The few clothes he has are piled in a pile at the head of the bed, and a few pieces are thrown randomly in the corner. Wine bottles, one of which was broken.

As soon as Nicholas entered the door, he held his nose and exited. The smell in the room was so unpleasant.

"Yuri, are you pulled under the quilt?" George couldn't bear it. It was probably impossible to pull him under the quilt, but there was indeed some unknown liquid in a bottle next to the bed.

"Honorable, noble, father-in-law, your lord, I don't-" Yuri hurriedly got up from the bed, picked up the prosthetic leg and put it on his leg, but he was trembling and couldn't fit it.

Nicholas stood outside the door, looking at the medals on the wall with a complicated expression.

This is a medal awarded by the Russian Empire to commemorate the 10th Russo-Turkish War. Only soldiers who have made outstanding contributions on the battlefield can receive it.

Yuri's room was in a mess, and there were even holes in his clothes, but this medal was shiny after being wiped.

(End of this chapter)