Chapter 990 - 213: Raise the Army!
"Please come in."
The door creaked open.
Anna pushed open the slightly ajar door, and in the room a gas lamp was lit, casting light on the six silhouettes sitting inside.
There was that very handsome coal miner, and also the female miner who had given her "power", and the other four were also very pretty ladies. This was obvious even if they were hidden under large brims and work clothes.
"I wasn’t wrong about you, little girl."
Furin lifted her lips, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth, and very contentedly gestured a chair over, placing it beside Anna.
Anna sat somewhat awkwardly on the chair, even though she felt darkened, she still felt as fragile as before in front of these six figures.
"Who exactly are you?"
She summoned the courage to ask.
The only man smiled and pointed to the Wolf Race girl with chestnut short hair beside him: "This is Lavinia, Russian name Natasha, this is Prajna, Furinjira, Cherina, and Jeanne."
Anna hurriedly replied: "Anna, just call me Anna."
Losa carefully examined Anna, this thin young girl seemed only about fifteen or sixteen, wearing a patched-up old cotton coat, with a pair of ill-fitting old leather boots on her feet.
As his Dragon Cave family member, and Furin’s blood servant merged, her body now contained very powerful strength, which was constructed by Losa and Furin at the cost of sacrificing their power limits to create an extraordinary lineage.
If it were the Middle Ages, they surely wouldn’t have done this.
But now Losa no longer believed there were enemies needing their full force, and when the combat records were completed, the powers they lost would be restored, making this sacrifice seem very insignificant.
"Miss Anna, could you tell me about your experience?"
Losa asked encouragingly.
Anna was initially very wary of strangers, but perhaps it was because he had personally handed her a heavy piece of bread when she needed it most; or maybe after losing her family, she was eager to find another "home."
Deep down, Anna felt that everyone present was a good person.
After listening to Anna’s story, Losa sighed softly: "Anna, what do you think caused such misfortune?"
Anna was a bit confused.
For a young girl living in distress, she didn’t know what had led her family to this state.
Was it those bosses unwilling to distribute bread? Or the foreman who threatened to take her body as the price to agree to her taking over her sick mother’s job? Or was it the rising prices in the black market, day by day?
There were too, too many.
Too much misfortune had befallen her family.
Anna shook her head: "I don’t know, but I read some pamphlets by the social democratic workers’ party, and they say it was the Tsar and the war that took everything from us."
"Don’t speak of others’ ideologies, talk about your own."
Anna lowered her head, contemplating for quite a while before uncertainly saying: "It’s the war. If there were no war, Father wouldn’t have been taken to the front lines, his fate still unknown now. He was the best copper craftsman in the entire Hay Market and our family’s guardian god."
Anna’s family actually barely counted as middle class. After all, they had a stand-alone small building, not like the tenants in Carpenter Alley who had to live in a single cramped room.
But that was before the war.
After the war arrived, losing Father’s decent job, Anna’s family’s standard of living plummeted.
Losa shook his head: "That’s just an appearance."
"Conscription led to a lack of manpower, resources had to be prioritized to the front lines, squeezing transportation capacity and causing shortages in the rear— but if I say, with the Empire’s vast territory and abundant resources, and allies generously aiding, the supplies are actually completely sufficient, would you believe it?"
"Impossible!"
Losa chuckled: "Not only is there a shortage of food and clothing in the rear, but the soldiers at the front, except for a few elite forces, are also mostly in a state of scarcity. Someone intercepted the supplies that should have been sent to the front and took them to the black market for sale."
"If several grain merchants in Saint Petersburg were to release all their food, it would be enough to feed the entire city until the war ends— but they won’t do that because once they do, the price of grain would collapse."
"Many military trains and railroad lines transporting supplies to the front are requisitioned by large nobles and capitalists for their shipments."
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The Cossacks looked uneasy, as most of the Cossack soldiers were illiterate, including a significant portion of the junior officers.
When not at war,
"The Emperor has abdicated, which Crown Prince has ascended?"
"No Emperor? How can that be, can a person live without a head?"
"Who should govern this country?"
"The Duma?"
"Equality? Does this mean we have to be equal with those peasants?"
"Heavens, how has the world come to this, the end of the Cossacks is near."
"Now, our own people are striking, fighting a civil war, the Germans will advance from Riga and land at the Neva River Estuary, they won’t miss this great opportunity to invade Saint Petersburg."
"Since when could the Germans ride over us, in this regard His Majesty the Tsar indeed made a mistake."
The Cossack cavalry surely didn’t know, the Romanov Dynasty and even
The Cossacks looked uneasy, as most of the Cossack soldiers were illiterate, including a significant portion of the junior officers.
When not at war,
"The Emperor has abdicated, which Crown Prince has ascended?"
"No Emperor? How can that be, can a person live without a head?"
"Who should govern this country?"
"The Duma?"
"Equality? Does this mean we have to be equal with those peasants?"
"Heavens, how has the world come to this, the end of the Cossacks is near."
"Now, our own people are striking, fighting a civil war, the Germans will advance from Riga and land at the Neva River Estuary, they won’t miss this great opportunity to invade Saint Petersburg."
"Since when could the Germans ride over us, in this regard His Majesty the Tsar indeed made a mistake."
The Cossack cavalry surely didn’t know, the Romanov Dynasty and even
The Cossacks looked uneasy, as most of the Cossack soldiers were illiterate, including a significant portion of the junior officers.
When not at war,
"The Emperor has abdicated, which Crown Prince has ascended?"
"No Emperor? How can that be, can a person live without a head?"
"Who should govern this country?"
"The Duma?"
"Equality? Does this mean we have to be equal with those peasants?"
"Heavens, how has the world come to this, the end of the Cossacks is near."
"Now, our own people are striking, fighting a civil war, the Germans will advance from Riga and land at the Neva River Estuary, they won’t miss this great opportunity to invade Saint Petersburg."
"Since when could the Germans ride over us, in this regard His Majesty the Tsar indeed made a mistake."
The Cossack cavalry surely didn’t know, the Romanov Dynasty and even