Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 90 >

What are the evils of the Russian Empire?

nobles and priests

The Russian aristocracy numbered two million. Among them, there are about 100 of the most important and prestigious families, and they own vast amounts of land.

They are parasites that undermine Russia’s national power just by being there. Some of them were in the finance business or turned into factory owners.

Then there are the priests.

In this era, the Russian Orthodox clergy is one of them. noble, or corrupt.

Sixty percent of the writers who casually commit the act of the bishop committing rape and the archbishop covering it up, and the clerics calling for reform while holding their backs on this deplorable reality, 40 percent.

I’d like to push them into tanks if I like them, but the problem is they are my main support base.

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My authority has a lot of religious authority, so if I were to reform the Reformation, I would be stripping away a lot of my authority. The same goes for nobles, my strength comes from the existing feudal order, and if I cut it down, I will not be without damage.

In other words, dragging tanks and shooting machine guns and creating a sea of blood… It is difficult to use such a hot method, and it has to be solved politically.

In other words, land reform is necessary. Even for Western modernization.

In fact, it is not a level of modernization, but a version that needs to be overhauled from the beginning.

‘It’s just a good cause.’

It’s a bit far from the truth, but I’m the one doing the investigation anyway.

Since land distribution is the root cause of the rebellion, the government will confiscate the land for a fee and then distribute it.

There, if you shave your mouth a little… moderately well, the nobles will sell their estates and change their jobs to factory owners or something like that. In the first place, land redistribution was something Stolipin had been doing before I came, so it’s just a more serious expansion of it. Creating a new policy that did not exist before is highly objectionable, but reforming an existing policy is less objectionable.

And block the nobility’s tricks.

“Of course, if my full-time job was easy, I would have had a dog or a cow.”

I myself am doing business in all fields of the United States, but all of them are operating in a way that trusts the CEO who has proven ability in the original history in the line of maintaining the stake as the largest shareholder through the initial investment cost. Subsidiaries – FWD and CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording Co.) – which were actually bought by swindling with money taking advantage of financial difficulties – are actually managed by President Bessadech and President Thomas, respectively. I keep an investment stake in Hormel, where I acquired meat processing technology, but the CEO is still George Albert Hormel. In France, Coco Chanel also has my investment, but is acting independently.

Other than that, we have invested in companies that everyone knows, such as Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Heinz, and Standard Oil, but we are just one of the major shareholders and have not been able to acquire or acquire them at this size in the first place. I’m only looking for a chance to do it, but I haven’t touched it yet.

Agricultural companies, livestock and food processing are preparing in Russia now, and the nameplate stating that they manage the imperial assets is good in this case.

In short, I, who has future knowledge, gave up on direct management of the company and entrusted it to other people, but those nobles? If you think about the IQ of those aristocrats, 99.9999% of them are all about to lose their principal and go bankrupt. After that, it’s annoying again and it’s hard to come up with a budget, so maybe there’s a way to pay half of the land sales in cash and half over several decades like an annuity.

A place to draw a budget is how to recover the liquor tax and railroad tax, and then, I don’t know if it will be possible to introduce it, but about income tax…? Budget leaks in the middle should also be prevented. It is only once or twice that I have landed in a quiet neighborhood like China, and the reparations from World War II have to be used to pay off debts. Indirect tax is difficult to use in the post-war situation when materials are scarce. It’s a day or two that Finance Minister Guchikov cries.

“Anyway, are China, Japan and Britain the only forces that can influence the rebellion in the long run?”

China is shit right now. Chiang Kai-shek, who had obtained British support, said that he would go to North Korea, and the Jikje Warlords were trying to make contact with us little by little. It is highly likely that Japan will gather in the Bongcheon Warlords to advance into Manchuria and, in the long term, North Korea. It is unknown if this is being done now.

In Japan, there must be so many overlapping interests, there is a high possibility of intervening in North Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Jigye, Shandong, and even the Chinese market itself, where interests conflict.

The British… Persia or India will do anything, even if it’s a hindrance.

There is no one in the room. Irina also went to work now, and I signed the last papers.

Now is not the time to prepare for the rebellion, but it is no different that now is the time to catch your breath, even for a moment. If the rebellion breaks out, we’ll have to cut down on the actual sleeping time.

“You should have a cup of tea.”

***

I was supposed to drink only one cup of tea, but why was the tea party held?

People gathered in the tea room ate chocolate cake and chatted.

But there was something. Clearly there was something.

Does it feel a little tight? Anyway, I didn’t really like it.

Alexei, who seemed to be the only one freed from there, was very fleshed out. My eyes twinkle while rummaging through the sketches I drew—not a blueprint, just a conceptual drawing.

“Alexei, then you spill the car.”

“okay.”

“Come here, drink some tea.”

Alexei then drank the cold tea and poked his tongue out at Olga. It’s so cute that I couldn’t help but smile.

“Brother, bro, what is this?”

By the way, Alexei these days calls me “brother”.

“It is a standard rifle that will be used by the Russian Imperial Army in 20 or 30 years.”

“Hmm… is this a rifle? That… that… looks like a submachine gun?”

“It’s an assault rifle. If you look at the back page, there is a basic explanation…. If you look at the history, the weapon that can fire more bullets in a shorter time in a close battle always wins. That’s the secret to my victory in Tarkov.”

“Well, then, should I use a submachine gun as a formality?”

“Submachine guns have clear limitations. Simply put, it is difficult to penetrate body armor and has a short range. Then it would be nice to have a weapon that fires rifle bullets, right? However, if you fire a standard rifle bullet, the recoil is too severe. Parts are damaged more often, and the amount of ammunition you can carry is limited. So, the concept is to use medicine cartridges, that is, by reducing the amount of gunpowder, the recoil and range are reduced little by little.”

Alexei looked around the sketch to see if he was interested.

“You can see the final form here. With just a few replacement parts, you can turn it into an assault rifle, a shortened assault rifle, a belt feeder, a magazine feeder, or even an in-vehicle machine gun.”

It is a gun developed in 1963 even in the original history. That’s why the name Stoner 63, failed to be formally adopted, but anyway, such a weapon should be created and adopted in a long-term manner. It must have been such a pioneering weapon.

Of course, it’s not going to happen in a day or two, but it’s going to take 10 or 20 years to go slowly.

‘Is Kalashnikov born around this time?’

He was quite young when he made the AK-47, so it must have been either a child or not born at all, but I can’t remember the exact age.

Anyway, once it is discovered, I am willing to make the world’s first assault rifle mass-produced by canning it with Dr. Schumaiser, who is now researching new submachine guns. It is the truth of all ages that there is nothing that cannot be done by giving a sufficient budget to an engineer.

In that case, wouldn’t it be better to bring Eugene Stoner, who made it in the original history?

Actually, Alexei really likes this.

“Wow! What else is this?”

“It’s a helicopter.”

When Alexei saw the sketch of the next-generation US military reconnaissance helicopter of the 21st century—it was a Sikorsky thing—with a double reversing rotor and aft propeller, his eyes lit up as if he had seen his favorite toy.

Because this Crown Prince… was a very serious scoundrel.

“I really want to drive something like this!”

“I can’t make it yet. The technical skills are lacking.”

Olga finally spoke to Alexei, who pouted her lips too openly.

“Be a bit more mature. Alexei, not even a child.”

“Well, if you wait about 70 years, you might be able to ride it.”

“70 years? That’s a bit…”

“Well, I also believe that these things will bring great benefits to the country, but what if the technology isn’t there yet.”

I don’t know anything about helicopter rescue, all I can do is take famous people from the original history, give them a budget, give them a rough structure, and replace them.

“If our Alexei listens to the older sisters, maybe the Duke will make it sooner?”

“I listen to my noonas well, so why does hyung pick me up? You have to listen carefully to hyung.”

Anastasia patted Alexei’s cheek and twisted the hand that was touching the cheek in a slight pain, and Alexei had to scream at her sister’s bullying.

“iced coffee! hurt! hurt!”

“Anastasia, stop it, the Crown Prince is a patient.”

“Hey, that’s not fun.”

“Still, I’m glad that my sister listened to me well.”

“Who, who listens well?”

“I usually don’t listen to my father or mother very well, but I can’t move on to my brother.”

“This is real!”

“iced coffee! The older sister who tries to stop the right words with violence, repent!”

In the end, Maria subdued Anastasia, and Olga was able to return her fist to Anastasia’s head without any burden.

“aah!”

“Ha, I’m sorry, I came here to share some refreshments, but it’s been a total mess.”

When Tatiana apologized as the representative, I shook my head.

“it’s okay. It’s nice that it smells like a human being. I used to make decisions from such a high position, but this experience makes me feel like a living person.”

If you keep making inhuman decisions from such a high place, you feel your humanity wear out. In that sense, they could be said to be a source of human vitality for me.

At that moment, Maria, who was just watching, opened her mouth.

“Duke, I want to ask you something, is it okay?”

“Say it.”

“What type of woman do you like, Duke?”

For a moment, there was silence in the room enough to hear the sound of falling hair.