I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 145 Supplies (Sorry, just got back)
  The Mozhayskis are in St. Petersburg and cannot escape no matter what.

Karl Benz is a German, and George must act early if he wants to.

There are many smart people and many people with vision. In another time and space, Benz did not get help from George and still became the father of the automobile. George now sent people to find Benz, which is already the icing on the cake.

The icing on the cake is definitely not as good as giving someone timely assistance, but George also has his advantages. No one knows cars better than George.

The first car Benz built was a tricycle.

Dailem, another German automobile inventor, whose first work was a motorcycle.

The application that George is best at is giving George an engine, and George can build a car. The resources he has are not comparable to those of Benz and Dalem.

Building cars cannot be rushed. The most important thing for George right now is the steel plant.

The day before Christmas, steelmaking equipment produced by the Ural Machinery Plant arrived in Vladivostok.

George and Korff came to the Siberian Fleet Headquarters to participate in the New Year celebrations of the Siberian Fleet and were warmly welcomed by Fleet Commander Stark.

When Mikhail came to Vladivostok, Stark was just the captain of the minelayer.

After befriending Mikhail, Stark became a new man. Not only was his military rank promoted to major general, but he was also appointed as the commander of the Siberian Fleet, reaching the pinnacle of his life.

Stark knew who his true nobles were and treated George warmly.

The reason why Mikhail went so smoothly in Vladivostok was inseparable from Stark's support.

George reciprocated and announced at the banquet that he would donate 1 rubles to the Siberian Fleet, which was cheered by the officers of the Siberian Fleet.

1 rubles is not much, but it is not allocated by the military department. It belongs to the small treasury of the Siberian Fleet.

There were many Russian Grand Dukes, but only George was the one who donated money to the Siberian Fleet.

Vladivostok was still George's fiefdom, and Korff was the governor of Amur. Out of gratitude to George, even Korff was treated as a guest of the Siberian Fleet, which gave Korff a new understanding of George's social skills.

Hammer's social skills.

In fact, money clears the way.

Everyone knows the truth, but not many people have such courage.

"Korea must compensate us for Busan in order to make up for our losses." Stark has a big appetite. It's just a few embassy houses, but he is so open-minded.

The affair of the Russian Embassy was mysterious from beginning to end.

On the night of the 6th, the Korean people did not besiege the Russian Embassy. However, the Russian Embassy was inexplicably compromised and a total of two rooms were burned down.

After the unrest subsided on the 7th, the Russian Embassy was breached again, and this time two more rooms were burned down.

The explanation given by the Russian Embassy was that the first fire was not completely extinguished and rekindled, so there was a fire the next day.

No one knows what the actual situation is.

Just four houses were burned down, and Goryeo was asked to use Busan Port as compensation. The barbarians lived up to their reputation!
  Probably the Russian ambassador also felt that two houses were not enough, so he burned four.

Enough now!
  "Is Busan too difficult? The Koreans won't agree." Korff was actually serious.

George didn't interrupt at all and didn't take it to heart at all.

Busan is the largest port in Korea. Even if the Koreans agree, it is impossible for the Qing people and the Japanese to agree.

"Busan is indeed unlikely, but our goal is not Busan, any port is fine -" Stark said, still wanting to say: "-Of course, if we can get Busan, that would be the best."

Ah--

Russia!
  "The Siberian Fleet seems to have a concession in Nagasaki. Can you rent Nagasaki or occupy it directly?" George has a bigger appetite. The Siberian Fleet is so good at blackmailing people, so it should blackmail the Japanese.

"We have tried, and the biggest resistance does not come from the Japanese government, but from the British and Americans -" Stark was very angry, and imperialism was full of internal contradictions.

"Be careful about the contact between the British and the Japanese. They are likely to target us and form an alliance similar to Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire." George revealed the secret. Without the support of the British, would the Japanese still dare to take risks?

Japan is a typical example of a dog relying on human power. There is no one to support it. Japan is a stray dog ​​that is afraid of others.

The Japanese with support not only dare to shout, but also dare to bite.

Such a vicious dog can only be beaten to death.

"Even with the support of the British, what can the Japanese do-" Stark, like Korff, did not take George's reminder to heart at all.

Okay, anyway, the Russo-Japanese War still has 20 years to go. By the time the Russo-Japanese War breaks out, Stark and Korff will almost be retired.

George only hopes that the Russian generals will not let weasels give birth to rats, and each generation will be worse than the last.

At the end of 1884, the people of Vladivostok had a very happy Christmas.

Princess Yurievskaya and Super Duke Yurievsky prepared red envelopes for everyone in Vladivostok.

Everyone gets a red envelope, even those foreign employees who have signed long-term employment contracts and have not left Vladivostok during the winter.

The princess and the duke were very generous, and the minimum red envelope was 10 rubles.

For technicians at the ordnance repair shop, the red envelope is 100 rubles. Kanunnikov’s red envelope was 1000 rubles, and his students, like the technicians at the ordnance repair shop, all received red envelopes of 100 rubles.

Kanunikov was filled with emotion after receiving the red envelope.

The Tsar was also very kind to Russia's high-quality talents, but the good ones were too average and the rewards and punishments were unclear, so they turned sour.

It is said that one does not suffer from widowhood but from inequality.

But the consequences of unclear rewards and punishments are even worse. The consequence of the five-year trip to Siberia is that no one takes assassinating the Tsar seriously. Anyway, the consequence of failure is just the five-year trip to Siberia, and he will be regarded as a hero after returning to St. Petersburg.

Once successful, you will be qualified to go down in history.

If there was no such thing as assassinating Ya Er, who would know who Ignatiy Grinivitzki was.

George also valued high-quality talents, but unlike the Czar, rewards and punishments were unclear.

As a professor of metallurgy, Kanunnikov holds a patent in steelmaking.

But when he got the red envelope, Kanunnikov was even more excited than when he got the patent.

This is the meaning of lost and found.

The most regretful thing in life is not that money is not spent when someone dies, but that you don’t cherish it when you have it, and regret it after you lose it.

Kanunnikov once had wealth and status, but he did not cherish it.

It was not until he became a prisoner and was sent to Siberia that Kanunnikov regretted it.

But there is no point in regretting it at this time. Without George's appearance, Kanunnikov's final fate may be to die silently in an unknown mountain col.

Most of them don't even have tombstones.

George saved Kanunnikov, and his students.

At the Christmas Eve dinner, Kanunnikov spoke earnestly to his students: "Super Duke Yurievsky is different from other grand princes in Petersburg. He deserves your allegiance. Look at Vladivostok now. Come on, this is the utopia of our dreams."

Strictly speaking, the People's Democratic Party members do not have clear political opinions.

The assassins who assassinated the Tsar did not even know why they assassinated the Tsar, so they dropped bombs on the Tsar's carriage.

The same goes for the students at Petersburg University. They wanted to change the current situation in Russia, but they didn't know how to change it, so they blamed all the blame on the Tsar.

Just kill the Tsar and everything will be fine in Russia.

This was the greatest tragedy of the Russian Empire.

"Super-Prince Yurievsky persecutes immigrants, exacts excessive taxes, and is insatiable. The land in Siberia costs 3 rubles per acre, and the land in Vladivostok costs 450 rubles per acre. How can this be a utopia?" Kanunnikov's Student Ukhov disagreed, although he also received a 100 ruble red envelope.

"Joel, have you ever considered what would be the final result if the land in Vladivostok was sold for 3 rubles per acre?" Kanunnikov patiently guided.

"Of course there is land for the tiller and a house for the dweller -" Ukhov was an idealist.

Most idealists live unhappy lives because their ideals are incompatible with reality.

"No, the end result is that all the land in Vladivostok is bought by the rich, and the poor have no place to stand." Kanunnikov is wise and thoughtful.

Ukhov was speechless, he had never thought about this problem.

"But now, even poor people can't afford it -" Antonov asked. He was not a member of the Popular People's Party, but was implicated by his senior brothers.

When the secret police tracked down the Narodniks, they asked Antonov about the Narodniks.

Antonov did not betray his senior brother or provide any information to the secret police.

Then Antonov was sent to Siberia as a Volya Volya Party member.

"Anton, how much did Princess Yurievskaya give you?" Kanunnikov asked from a tricky angle.

"100 rubles——" Antonov's red envelope was just in his pocket and he had no place to spend it.

The biggest problem in Vladivostok now is that there is nowhere to spend money.

The students at Petersburg University are treated very well. They don’t need to spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they are all top choices. The wine they drink is champagne, the clothes they wear are furs, and even the women who do laundry are... It's an Oriental horse, nothing else to ask for.

"Do you think you are poor?" Kanunnikov struck a fatal blow.

There are no real poor people in Vladivostok.

The poor in Russia were serfs, workers, and idle Cossacks.

There are no serfs or workers in Vladivostok in the general sense. The farmers here are all foreign workers, and the miners in the mines are immigrants from Japan and Korea. For most Russians, they are from Korea. Immigrants from Japan are not considered human beings at all.

Just supplies.

Chinese immigrants certainly don’t count.

However, the Chinese immigrants were not in Vladivostok, but went to Sakhalin Island. They were not under their noses, so naturally no one paid attention to them.

(End of this chapter)