I hate the Communist Party chapter 185
Well, at first glance, it looks like something is on the ground.
As soon as I entered the conference hall, I could express the atmosphere I felt in one sentence like this.
The naval personnel sitting in black clothes in various places in the meeting place, showing their presence, looked like raisins embedded in delicious cookies.
Come to think of it, who the hell came up with the terrible idea of putting raisins in cookies?
Luckily, while I’m alive, the Russian imperial chefs won’t make such nonsense food.
It seemed that it was not a useless concern that Bite was personally telling me about this incident in advance and worried that he would cleanse the naval personnel outright.
It was the same in modern times, but even today, sea life has not been easy.
It wasn’t long ago that even the British Empire had a hard time supporting their naval forces, and it wasn’t long ago that they forcibly enlisted drunken drunkards or goblins who had no place to go while wandering the streets.
As such, it could be said that it was fresh to see those who had worked in the navy in an environment worse than the British, and those who maintained their dignity in the face of harsh waves and bad weather, sitting still like a gentle sheep.
And it was natural that the more they showed a different appearance than usual, the more noticeable Rozestwensky, who showed a not so different appearance from normal.
Seeing Stolifin watching him with unpleasant eyes, it seems that the person he and I bumped into before arriving was Rozestbensky.
It wasn’t surprising that he and Stolipin collided with him, as he presumed from his nature of sticking to an attitude that he always said he would say something.
This is because Rozestwensky, who is currently maintaining the position of the Navy’s second rank while being promoted to lieutenant general, was also a party to a mild turmoil in the recent Navy.
‘Surely, I would say openly that those who have not completed the newly established beginner officer training course will not be allowed to be appointed regardless of their status of origin.’
It was no different from saying that those who did not choose the status of the horse, and who did not actually have the ability of aristocrats to be proven, and who did not take the process to develop the minimum military-related skills, would not accept them into the navy.
Of course, the central aristocracy in St. Petersburg, as well as the local aristocracy in various parts of the country, would have been dissatisfied with his policy, but could not disclose it publicly.
In fact, the fact that the trend of guaranteeing appointments to high-ranking positions simply because they were from aristocrats has gradually faded because it has already started with the administration and local administrative organizations.
Even though the navy was still out of the current trend of the times, what Rozstwensky did was a similar act of turning the waters off rather than opening a new era.
In other words.
‘Since it was me who created the trend of the times, publicly expressing dissatisfaction is an act of officially saying that you are dissatisfied with me.’
The nobles who have maintained their status so far can be said to be two types.
One is a group that shows a cooperative attitude to me, and the other is a group that is not very happy with the current situation, but that does not mean that they do not have the guts to take the lead.
There were some who did not fall into these two, but by now they were busy carrying out the heavy task of carrying out my uncle in Siberia, a member of the imperial family and the grand duke of the Romanov family.
“It feels like this conference room is fuller today. The home secretary said that he recently hired a skilled chef. Is it because of that? Somehow, Secretary Bite said that the rate of increase in the amount of ingredients consumed by central officials these days is not unusual.”
I started the meeting by saying that I would pretend not to know the naval personnel who attended the meeting.
Light laughter would have been heard if it was usual, but in the current conference room, there was not even a short laugh of a breath.
“Well, my sense of humor seems a little rusty, perhaps because I haven’t even joked these days. Minister of War!”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“How many additional people attended this meeting today?”
“As you may have heard from Minister Vitte in advance, a total of seven members of the Navy are here today.”
“Seven people… … Quite a lot. Even though I told the Treasury Secretary that I would allow people to attend who had something to say to me, I didn’t know I would see seven generals in the uniforms of the Imperial Navy.”
The faces of the naval officials who listened to what I and Kuropatkin were talking about were not so bright.
I thought it was because they couldn’t know the rumors about me that had circulated among the high-ranking Russian Empire so far.
Behind the aristocratic society, even if I don’t know whether I am God or a demon, it is said that I am a person who has mysterious power and intelligence through mystical powers, who have their secrets and weaknesses.
… … Honestly, I don’t think I’m that bad guy.
Could it be special?
Since there is something we have done before, we should think of it as karma.
And it doesn’t necessarily work badly.
“Ok, fine. I know that none of the people who get paid here in St. Petersburg have time. Nevertheless, when you split up your busy times and rush like this, you must be prepared to respond accordingly. If you think about the time of me and the members of the Ministerial Council, which will be consumed by listening to your stories, which were not originally planned, then today’s talk would be equivalent to that. Isn’t it? Surely it would be such an important story if the soldiers who had to perform the mission of protecting the empire’s seas left their original duties behind. Let me talk about it once.”
When I finished speaking, the conference room was in silence… … Did not.
It is because there was someone who opened his mouth terribly to the end of the words.
“Thank you for giving me the right to speak, Your Majesty. Yes that’s right. As your Majesty just said, there is a very serious and urgent problem that we have to do this today.”
In fact, there were seven members of the navy who attended this event, but he was the only one with the guts to speak like this in the current situation.
Everyone else was sitting in their seats and avoiding their gaze as if they were ashamed.
Rozestwensky continued to speak calmly, as if the condition of the people with him was not important.
“Recently, Britain, a traditional naval powerhouse and overwhelming power, is slowing down, and even though the relationship between us and Britain is not so bad, the gap in naval power between the two countries is still large. Even though the predecessors were aware of the importance of naval power in advance, it was unfortunate, but by continuing to invest, the gap was narrowed compared to the past, but our imperial navy was born with a number of shortcomings.”
At the beginning of his words, there was no information about the past beautification and emotional arm transplantation, such as what the Imperial Navy has done for Russia so far, what service it has made in the last war, and that it is not inconsistent with the army.
“The biggest reason is that East and East have too long land. Britain also says that its naval power is dispersed due to its colonies all over the world, but in other words, it also means that it has secured ports for its own calls all over the world. But we are different from them. A fleet with a home port to the west must set out on a lengthy journey in the Far East, borrowing other ports in case of need for assistance. That, too, is the port that the British breath will reach in most cases.”
He released his hand on the desk and continued speaking, spreading only the index of his right hand.
“Only now, even if a port is within the sphere of influence of the UK, it may be possible to make a call and supply it without any problems. But if something goes wrong with the British, the fleet will probably have to go on a long journey. It may be fortunate if you can even provide this kind of support. This is because, in the case of a fleet stationed in the Black Sea, there is a high possibility that even this will not be done properly. As long as Constantinople is in the hands of the Turks, the Black Sea fleet is like vodka trapped in a cork.”
It was as he said.
In fact, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Empire’s fleet stationed in the Far East consisted of old ships, which could not be said to be practical.
It is said that the Russian Empire’s leadership at the time was not a group of low-powered people, and did not order the Baltic fleet to sail for thousands of kilometers.
‘Actually, I’m new to hearing about the talk about the mouth of the Baltic Fleet commander at the time, Rozestwensky.’
In addition, as he said, the Baltic Navy, which mistaken the Japanese Navy for a British fishing boat that had been fishing in the waters of Dogger Bank from the beginning, fired and inflicted civilian casualties, and he could not receive proper supply while going to the Far East. There was.
“It is also one of the problems that our navy currently has that the proper activities of the navy become difficult in winter, but that is not a matter to be addressed right now, so I will omit it. In addition to what I said earlier… … .”
“Let’s wait a minute.”
I made him pause.
From now on, what I would say was an act like a test.
“From what you have said so far, it sounds like all the investments your predecessors have made in the navy have been of little use. As far as I know, among the great powers, we have the third largest displacement of naval vessels. Am I wrong?”
“… … No, Your Majesty.”
“So, are you complaining that there is nothing we can do with the world’s third largest navy? Tell me. What should I think of a general who says that even with the world’s third-largest navy, we can’t do much.”
In fact, at this point, the size of the Russian navy was the third largest in the world after Britain and France.
It was because no one else in the Russian Empire could have known the same weaknesses as Rozestwensky said, so his father and other former tsars took a lot of effort to expand their navy.
And my thoughts on him were going to be determined by how Rozestwensky responded to the question I asked.
The naval officials who came with him were sending him a message with the meaning of apologizing even now through their eyes, but Rozestwensky was looking only at me.
And as the time that felt only long passed, he slowly opened his mouth.
“Everything your Majesty has just said is true. Yes, it is. Currently, the Russian Imperial Navy boasts a large scale that can be said to be the third in the world. But your Majesty doesn’t seem to know the details yet.”
The eyes of the admiral, who paused for a moment, were literally burning.
“Except that many of them are already outdated traps that are out of date.”
When Rozestwensky’s words were over, the hall was frozen like a Siberian winter and began to become noisy as if a shell fell.
At that moment, profanity wrapped in a variety of elegant words abounds.
A smile was drawn around my mouth.
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