＜ Episode 88 >
As long as you hold the Wonsubong, you can’t just watch the group dance. Of course, I have nothing to say when I say that I only watched group dance.
In hindsight, what I have to do now is to work as a doctor, solve problems with engine design flaws in the aircraft under test – I am not an engineer, but I have a lot of work to deal with as I am the chief executive officer – and development of a shortened submachine gun for the National Security Service, etc. Even if you don’t, there’s a lot of work to be done.
Still, don’t you feel comfortable being called to a party like this? Convenience is nothing, and it would be very comfortable to think about what meaning is implied in each word. I’m going to have gastritis.
Still, is it better to chat with business people than with politicians as much as when the big claw of the second leg on the left of the ant is? Don’t ask if the ant has big claws.
Anyway, that’s how it came.
“Duke, thank you for being here. It’s a little bit…”
“Sir, I heard that you are getting engaged. My heartfelt congratulations.”
The main capitalists of the Russian Empire. Even if you take a quick glance, all the prominent chaebols have gathered.
‘Moscow ancestry myself, at least the successor level attended.’
After all, to them, I am one of the few high-ranking nobles who are friendly to them. I’m doing this because I know that capitalists are more ferocious than nobles.
“Thank you for solving the last grain export problem. Father was very pleased. Your Majesty the Duke.”
The giants who can’t memorize faces or names try hard to get me to say something.
After all, the fact that I became engaged to Tatiana had already leaked out of the mouths of the nobles. It would be strange not to know.
Trusts and syndicates… are still legal. Not yet.
Besides, I also have some sort of compensation…. I know it costs a penny or two to organize the military. Even if I get a budget, if there is a puncture, I have to pay it with my own money. Business isn’t easy.
What capitalists want is fame, and what the Russian Empire needs in the long run is money.
Fame is enough. If the Duma is properly reorganized immediately, land reform is carried out, and power is returned to the provinces for economic development, etc., capitalists will run for office with a high probability and will be elected by investing their property in the region. If the mayor, governor, etc., from such a chaebol are treated according to their own merits – the element of honor is more important than actual power – then modernization can be done with other people’s money.
Of course, tax cuts or other special favors should be given, and the rogue chaebols should be moderated.
“This time, because of the Flanders crisis, the funds there were blocked, so it almost went into bankruptcy. Anyway, the Dutch guys, no matter how intense the protests, use machine guns…
“Isn’t that all the work of rednecks? Do you know how clever the rednecks are? Even if I try to go through something good and good, I try to see the blood somehow. I know that’s the right way. No matter how many people die, they are the ones who think that if they come to power, they are the best.”
Shouldn’t it be called red bean sprouts in the middle of the night? Or should I call it a lightning bolt?
He obviously won, but there was a rip-off going on in the former Belgian region, which was like the Czech Republic right after the Munich Agreement.
Wallon and Luxembourg somehow passed, but Flanders still had many supporters of the former Belgian royal family and many hostile forces to the Netherlands.
Of course, the independence movement broke out. Workers went on strike and sabotage ensued.
The problem is that the Netherlands did not give up on Flanders either. No, it would be more appropriate to say that I did not give up.
The Belgians called the Den Haag Accords Den Haag Betrayal. so did it
It’s like yesterday’s allies tore themselves apart and shared with the enemy, so who wouldn’t be angry?
It is funny because the contents of the meeting were completely confidential, but the Belgian government in exile actually requested a complaint from Russia, which had set its back on France. In return for holding it a little more generously, I ripped out a wallong. Even so, he granted royal asylum.
In any case, the Netherlands was under British pressure. pressure not to give up Flanders,
No matter how much Britain lost its strength, it was not at a level that the Netherlands could not refuse.
When the Dutch complained that they could not stand it, the British government tried to control Flanders by using the British army on a budget that was lacking.
In addition, they considered supplying battleships to the Netherlands, but because the construction was not completed immediately, the technology would be transferred, so the Netherlands pressured the Netherlands to build its own main battleship and defend itself. had to proceed
This is because the whole of the Netherlands was known that neutrality without power could end with political logic in the fate of Belgium, who was in a similar situation, so that the naval itself gained national sympathy. I had no choice but to approve the plan.
Immediately, the treatment of Belgium from all walks of life became the subject of international condemnation, but no country publicly criticized it. No country has offered to rescue Belgium through military action. Britain, with good cause, eventually chose to remain silent in order to secure Flanders and eliminate the threat from the mainland.
Now that the UK was the way it was, who would come forward? The parties France and Germany are not worth talking about. Russia signed a secret pact with France, Italy and the rest of the participating countries were busy taking care of themselves, and Spain and Portugal also turned their attention to the issue.
Although there were a few voices of criticism in the New World, public opinion in the United States was that they did not care what happened in Europe in the first place, so in the end no country took action.
You have to protect your own destiny, and no one will protect them free of charge.
It was the harsh reality of international diplomacy.
The capitalists, who had been chewing on the Flemish mobs for a moment – the Belgians of the independence fighters – immediately began to talk about business.
“I heard that you are thinking of producing a new type of firearm and ammunition. If you need a partner… we have the press production technology…”
“Uh-huh, where do you ask the Duke such a request with your bare mouth? This is cognac from 1750, isn’t it a drink for the gourmet duke?”
I’m not a big eater, but I do enjoy delicious food. Rather than eat a lot and enjoy it, eat a little and enjoy the taste.
“Did you say that the weapon you want to produce this time is a shortened submachine gun? If it can be carried in a coat, it will be a must-have for intelligence agents like Ohrana!”
Can be used with one hand, low rate of fire, but focusing on the collection rate, and the range that falls due to the decrease in barrel length is solved by increasing the caliber of the bullet to about 10mm.
If you look at it, the guns that satisfy most of these conditions… are they about the same as the Uji submachine gun of the original history?
Although it does not treat it as a secret – the concept itself is not innovative, it is just a small submachine gun, and there is no reason to treat the fact of its development as a secret – Although it has never been publicly bid or announced, how did you know this When I saw people flirting with me to make them my assholes, I thought that this was power.
The problem is that even though Dr. Hugo Schmeiser, a gun engineer who developed the original MP18 and StG44 in Germany, was brought from Germany, progress was slow.
‘Is the unit system a problem?’
I couldn’t reverse engineer the MG42 in the US because of that damn yard pound, but here again, the damned weights and weights give me a headache.
Convertible Russian units made with reference to the yard pound method. I don’t know how much it has to be ground to grind this…. At least in my factory, the metric system is used, and German engineers are introducing the metric system to the industrial site with their own focus. isn’t it
“But do you still use the Yarshin standards in the industrial field?”
“Hasn’t it been used continuously since Peter the Great?”
“Now the trend is metric. We need to increase exports in the future, but it is difficult if the unit system does not match. In addition, the yarsin unit system was initially created based on the yard pound method, but in my opinion, relations with the UK will continue to deteriorate in the future, so there are not many advantages. Russia’s most important allies in the future will be France and the United States of America.”
Britain and Japan, which are likely to clash over interests or territories in the Far East and Europe, have no possibility of an alliance, Germany is still in turmoil, and while they growl over Serbia and the Istrian peninsula, the political situation is also confused among themselves. Besides Italy, the only countries where interests do not overlap are France and the United States.
By the way, if the US wants to seize the Pacific and Atlantic hegemony, it will inevitably have an uncomfortable relationship with the UK and Japan, so it will be an even better partner.
Bismarck did it? Diplomacy is about making a good treaty with Russia. Then I would say that diplomacy is making a good treaty with the United States.
Wouldn’t it be foolish to not invest in a fund that is blessed with rice cakes based on its location alone?
“The Duke is right, but that’s in real life…”
“what if.”
When I spoke, people listened.
“If there is a person who has a factory that standardizes all products and machines in a metric system, we are willing to work with such a factory in the first place.”
Unless I take power and push it, it will only change when it’s for your benefit, damn it.
Changing the unit system is not an easy task, and Nicholas II is too indecisive to push hard from the center. It will be officially changed until Olga ascends to the throne, but it wouldn’t be bad to lay the ground rice in this way.
‘There is not much left, but it is still not the time.’
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Maybe 1 or 2 years? We still had to wait a little longer.
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special room,
“Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule.”
“no. The last gift was well received. It doesn’t usually look expensive…”
“It’s a special order of $20,000 from Switzerland. It is only a handful compared to the dignity of the Duke.”
what the f*ck?”
If 20,000 dollars is equivalent to 20 million won in the 21st century, it is slightly less than 300 million Korean dollars in the 21st century if you calculate the price fluctuations.
No, what kind of pocket watch is worth 300 million? No matter how much you decorated it with jewels and made it with pure gold… you must have heard that much.
“Did you just donate $20,000 for friendship?”
What do you want, tell me If you just listen, I’ll listen.
“Well, the Duke is also a doctor, so he must have taken the Hippocratic Oath, right?”
no? didn’t you? i’m wild It’s funny to say things like this after being the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but I’m an unlicensed quack.
“And I heard that the Duke created a factor to treat hemophilia.”
“Yes, it is. It has been administered to the current patient and has shown great improvement in symptoms.”
“So… on behalf of the Spanish royal family, I ask a human, not a duke, and a medical person, hemophiliacs… Unfortunately, it is not unique to Russia. Can you continue to supply the plasma to Spain, since I will pay you the right price?”