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June 29, 1943, London, England.
“want to go home……..”
“Do you want to go alone, I want to go too.”
The two Russian consuls, who were stuck in the corner like last-year sergeants, poured sweets into their mouths.
“Damn, I now understand why the communist revolution broke out in this country, it was because the food tasted the worst.”
“Isn’t it probably the same reason that they expanded their territory to the point where they said Rule Britannia? I must have colonized all the countries where there was food to eat and the sun never set, damn it.”
In fact, Russia also became an empire where the sun never sets while looking for fur, so it was a bummer. When the sun goes down in Kamchatka, it’s time to rise in Poland.
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Mumbling the scones, Nikolai lay down on the inn bed.
“But… I knew it was going to be like this and we got together, but it’s a little bit like this.”
Rolling around with nothing to do.
“……Do you want to play cards?”
“boring.”
“Chess?”
“… No, let’s do that TRPG rather than that.”
“Should we bring more people? Are you talking about that game last time?”
“Um… there must be a master, and there must be four to six, then at least five? f*ck.”
“Master, it’s not fun.”
“Hyung, don’t you think it’s a problematic structure for me to master every day? Just like in the Imperial Palace, the number of children playing in the Imperial Palace was not insufficient.”
Then Nikolai got up.
“Let’s go.”
“yes?”
“Go out and buy some newspapers, and if anyone gets caught, let them participate in the game. Was that last mortal Georgida over?”
Nikita nodded her head.
“Not a dead man, but an undead.”
“Yeah, I can’t remember if the dead guy, Lev character was sealed or brainwashed.”
“If you’re going to do it, you have to plan it from the beginning, what kind of concept would you like this time? Isn’t the fantasy adventure concept a bit boring?”
“I find it fun.”
“Aren’t you tired of that archer? Try a wizard, try a priest, and so on.”
“I’m an archer who suits my aptitude.”
“Because I’ve never really shot a bow before.”
“Have you ever been shot?”
“I’m a master, not an archer, am I? Anyway, this time, it’s science fiction warring concept aliens.”
“Five.”
“With humans and aliens, what else would you like to add?”
With Nikita behind his back, muttering to himself, building the game setup in an instant, Nikolai walked through downtown London.
Is it the woe of a defeated country? A miserable sight came into view.
People’s faces were lifeless. A Russian military officer with a pistol was walking down the street, and no one was arguing, but there was a clear sense of fear and disgust.
“Nikita.”
“The emperor’s son… huh?”
“Can you feel it?”
“……It’s not a very friendly look.”
“Father told us to think of ways to alleviate our hostility with those British people, did you think we could do it?”
“I don’t know, the Crown Prince hasn’t even been crowned yet… What are you doing?”
Seeing Nikolai getting off the road and heading somewhere, Nikita chased after him.
“Here, give me a newspaper.”
“Yes, yes?”
“How much, newspaper.”
“Only one penny…”
“It’s old.”
Nikolai gave the coin and took a copy of the newspaper.
“Why buy?”
“The easiest way to know public opinion is to read the newspaper. Ordinarily, newspapers write what their readers want, right?”
“That is the general case, censorship by government authorities is also censorship, and in such an environment in the first place, wouldn’t it be fair to assume that people who want to make the public think like that are manipulating the media?”
“Even if the front and back are reversed, the result is the same.”
“It’s like… it seems. Anyway, so you want to read it?”
“yes. Rather, it is urgent to find a place to grab a meal.”
Even if it was an officer’s meal, jjambap was jjambap, and if it had been in other regions, at least in France or Germany, they would have gone out to the street to find a restaurant.
In fact, not many restaurants were open.
“Now, I think I can enjoy the damn dishes that Anna made.”
“Oh, you ate a lot of Anna’s food, didn’t you? How did it taste?”
“I can ask for one more bowl now. Damn, are you going to send your dad a few letters to get him out of the way? The war is over, but I would rather be transferred to the Far East.”
“No, probably.”
“yes? why?”
“look.”
Nikolai threw the newspaper.
“War crime trial… Evidence of inhumane biological experiments revealed?”
“That’s what Lev told us, but that’s not the story.”
“yes?”
“Look at page three.”
“… Breaking the cease-fire in China?”
“An armed group subordinate to the warlords in southern China engaged in a fight with the North, and I don’t know who fired first, but it is true that the atmosphere was harsh.
Northern China is a military-controlled area of the Russian army, but the Russian army is in the process of a gradual withdrawal. The Russian military only cares about the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, which are directly related to Vladivostok and other Far Eastern territories, so they have slightly expanded their territory in the traditional area, and Tsushima is a Korean territory, only a Russian military base has been established, and the Korean government has no control over it. Although it is a local area, Gando must be an area where Koreans live quite a bit.
“Anyway, that’s why the atmosphere in the Far East is so harsh. If you ask me to come back to Moscow, they won’t allow me to deploy to the Far East.”
“Siva Aal… France, Italy, Germany?”
“Even there, there is a trend of withdrawing the military, leaving only the permanently stationed troops. Get what you want.”
“What about Joseon? It’s my father’s hometown, so I should take a look.”
“Well…”
“Why are you talking like that?”
“No, it wasn’t in the newspaper here, but I didn’t hear it through the official route, so just throw it away. It may not be accurate.”
“Tell me.”
“I have no intention of withdrawing from the military in Japan and Korea. Chuikov, the yangban, each one of them is sweet and Seoul? You can tell just by looking at it.”
“By the way?”
“Korea itself is in chaos, and the Korean government has no control.”
“……What else does that mean?”
“So… the new Korean government created a sea of blood saying that it was collaborating with the Japanese Empire? After I killed them all, there was a problem, what would happen to a rural community, but the administration of the city was paralyzed. The only thing the government controls is the military, which is close to our Foreign Legion, and right now, all the lawyers are shot by fire… to the extent that our Military Government Command applies Russian law to represent the trial.”
Now that the co-workers were killed by the logic that they should be killed, the civil servants and the literate that would make up the government had been destroyed.
“Even from now on, if I want to take care of it again and raise it from the beginning… If I can’t, wouldn’t it take 10 or 20 years?”
“Ugh.”
“Of course, there are manpower raised here and there during the provisional government, but compared to the required amount, the amount of sebum is new.”
In fact, they were little different from Russia before they were born, though.
It was a pathetic situation in Korea that relied on the military to bring the country together, and even that military had to be maintained without the command of foreign military officers and non-commissioned officers.
If we were to take a similar situation, the Soviet Union right after the Russian Revolution?
First, I killed the friendly guys, looked through the documents, and if there were any traces of the friendly people, I went back and shot and killed them, and confiscated their property.
I want to reform land, but I can’t figure out the population and arable land. The land ledger has been recovered, but it is not possible to confirm whether this is all or not.
First of all, it is a plate that needs to start over from the beginning of the land survey project. No, it’s just the second coming of his father, who wrestled with Stolipin, who had already died while swearing at him 20 years ago.
The only difference was that there were no stolipins in Korea, his father didn’t have much room to pay attention to what the land consolidation was going to be in Joseon, and Chuikov was just a soldier, so he couldn’t help much.
“That’s why the engineers are suffering.”
“Well, engineers aren’t the only ones who can do that.”
In the end, the brothers returned with no income and bought a single newspaper, and faced the military junta commander Vasilebsky.
“Loyalty.”
“Loyalty.”
Having received the salute, Vasilebsky coughed in vain.
“Sit down. Grand Duke.”
There are two archdukes. One of them may become king according to the decision of the imperial family, or if not, the title of grand duke and enormous wealth can be inherited. Even though he was under him now, he was not a good person to treat him rudely.
Vasilebsky sighed as he saw the newspaper content laid down on the table.
“Chuikov will have a lot of trouble.”
“Is that so?”
“With that, the Joseon dynasty alone would be complicated. Since it is His Majesty’s hometown, it cannot be treated recklessly, because the country itself is a mess without exaggeration. But when it happens again in China on a fairly large scale, you’re going to go crazy.”
“But wouldn’t it be okay for a while without the troops?”
“The Korean military has its own air force, but most of it is an illusion. Other than that, there are no operating personnel. Even though the Japanese Empire left many Hayate fighters behind because there are so few people who have had experience in operating aircraft, our military advisors are in charge of the operation. The Navy had a fishing boat equipped with LAD machine guns and armed with Fyodorov rifles on board.”
“That sounds a bit harsh.”
“You don’t know how many complaints Chuikov had in Moscow. I said that the worst mistake of my life was that the new Korean government did not use the military to prevent the new government from shooting random guns while pretending to be co-workers. Hmmm… the story is a bit short. I’m not here to talk about the Chinese Civil War.”
“Do you think it will develop into a civil war?”
“It is almost certain. After Chen Zhongming’s death, the Laurel Warlords entered a collective leadership system, where there is a prominent Chinese man named Mao Zedong. The Chinese have quite a bit of support in America, an honest rural leader among the corrupt and corrupt Chinese? Anyway, the US seems to support the Laurel Warlords. They are a country driven by public opinion.”
“Now that I have gained confidence, I’m going to hit it. I’m pretty sure you left America behind…”
“Okay, we’ll talk about that later. It’s not a good thing to talk about in front of the British Prime Minister and the royal family.”
“The prime minister… you mean that Blair?”
“Yes, this is Prime Minister Eric Arthur Blair, who won the provisional general election.”
“By the way, royal family, what do you mean…”
“Albert Frederick Arthur George, 1st in line to the British throne, Duke of York and High Commissioner for the Council of Churches of Scotland, will also come. First of all, they are distant relatives.”
‘Oh shit.’
The two archdukes clasped their heads inwardly. Surprisingly, they were very reluctant to dine with royalty other than their own.
If it was an ordinary diplomatic event, I’d eat it for taste… Now, looking at the British koraji, the chance of something delicious coming out seemed to converge to 0%.
In other words, it was sure to become a place full of inconvenience and nothing left.
‘I want to move out.’
‘I want to be discharged.’
At this moment, the brothers’ thoughts coincided.