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Chapter 636 Reasonable Guidance
The children of hemophilia patients do not necessarily suffer from hemophilia. When a normal male and a female carrier get married, the probability of their son being diagnosed with hemophilia and their daughter being carriers of the hemophilia gene is 50% each.

This disease is not a terminal illness. With the continuous advancement of medical technology, hemophilia can be alleviated.

The medical team that Anne assigned to Alexei helped Alexei alleviate his condition by regularly transfusing normal blood into Alexei to increase the level of coagulation factors in his blood.

Now that we have methods to control the disease, it is no longer a scary disease. The worst that can happen is having a few more children.

With the arrival of October, the Balkans officially entered winter and the tense mood finally relaxed.

The siege of Budapest continued, and after Alexander returned to Constantinople, Andrew resumed the bombardment of Budapest.

The siege of Budapest had lasted for three months, and the supplies stored in the city had been completely exhausted. Count Nagykaroy hoped that George could open a passage to facilitate the replenishment of supplies to Budapest.

George ignored Count Nagykaroy. This was a war, not a game. If the people of Budapest did not want to starve to death, they should surrender as soon as possible.

As for whether unspeakable tragedies would occur during the siege, that had nothing to do with George; it was the Hungarians' own fault.

Churchill failed to receive reinforcements from Constantinople, and in late September he ordered the British to evacuate Mersin.

Due to Churchill's mistake, the British army suffered more than 10 casualties in Mersin. Churchill was forced to resign in the face of criticism from the British Parliament.

Churchill was unwilling to be lonely, so he applied to serve on the front line in France.

The Duke of Marlborough had to be given face, and Churchill's application was approved. Churchill returned to his old ways and went to take up his post with several trucks of luggage and a large number of servants. However, he returned to England due to illness not long after arriving at the front line.

The news George received was that Churchill was not sick at all, but was frightened by the tragic situation on the front line, so he fled back to Britain.

Although no large-scale battles have broken out on the Western Front this year, small-scale fighting has never stopped. Both sides have not only carried out long-term artillery bombardments, but also used poison gas. Frontline officers and soldiers even have to wear gas masks when they sleep.

On average, there are nearly a thousand cases of blindness caused by poison gas every month.

Shortly after Churchill arrived at the front, the German army launched a large-scale artillery bombardment on the position Churchill was responsible for, and Churchill subsequently fell ill.

I can only say that this disease came at a really good time.

George was also feeling a little unwell. After dinner, he and Alexander went for a walk by the river at the theater headquarters. After coming back, he felt a little cold. The doctor examined George and prescribed some medicine. There was no big problem.

For several days, George did not appear in public.

So three days later, there were rumors in Constantinople that Grand Prince Yuriev was ill, and very ill.

George received telegrams of condolences from Nicholas, Haig, and Joffre.

It was just a minor cold, and George didn't take it seriously.

But a week later, Mario's telegram caught George's attention.

After the outbreak of the war, the population of Amur has been increasing rapidly. Many Russians from European Russia came to Amur via Siberia and settled there.

Mario discovered that some of them were Hebrews from America.

After Nicholas personally took office as commander-in-chief, he made some adjustments to the Russian government. In order to encourage Hebrews to join the army, the empire lifted some restrictions on the Hebrews.

In the past, Hebrews could not move freely in Russia, and even if they applied to go to Siberia, their applications were usually not approved.

After the ban was lifted, a large number of Hebrews from Russia and Europe poured into Amur, a situation that attracted the attention of Amur officials.

George telegraphed Mario in reply, asking him to conduct a detailed investigation into the identity background of the new immigrants, and that in principle, Hebrews from Russia and Europe would not be accepted.

Hebrews from the United States are subject to even stricter scrutiny.

Those Hebrews who returned to Russia after the outbreak of the war in response to the empire's call were all packed up and sent to Constantinople, where George would send them to the front line.

Since you have come back to join the war, why run to Amur? The best thing to do is to go to the front line to fight the Germans.

"You seem to be prejudiced against the Hebrews."

Alexander didn't quite understand why the empire was targeting the Hebrews.

"Whether in history or in reality, the Hebrews are not welcome. These self-proclaimed smart guys are extremely selfish and lazy. Wherever they go, they will make people hate them and become a cancer and a vampire."

George thought to himself that this was just the beginning. In another 30 years, someone would go even further than the Russian Empire.

Throughout Europe, not just the Russian Empire was draining oil, almost all countries were excluding the Hebrews. They were like rats in a sewer, and everyone was chasing them. This is why many Hebrews immigrated to the United States.

"Many Amur enterprises, and even the Amur Governor's Office and the Vladivostok City Government, employ many Hebrews."

Alexander didn't think the situation was as serious as George described.

There are indeed many Hebrews in some Amur companies, especially the Siberian Bank.

Although the Hebrews are hateful, we have to admit that they are extremely sensitive to finance.

The Siberian Bank employed Hebrews as business managers to carry on their traditional business.

These people are very good at exploiting customers, their profit margins are always the highest and their bad debt rates are the lowest.

The Amur government also employed some Hebrews, with the tax department employing the most. Because of their presence, the tax system in Amur has been running very healthily.

"Any group has its two sides. The Cossacks are brave and good at fighting, but they have poor discipline. The Japanese are cruel and cunning, and can only be used, not trusted. The Hebrews are the same. If you put them in the right position, they will play a role, but you can't ignore the destructiveness of this group—"

George concluded: "They will never be loyal to the Empire!"

Alexander looked slightly embarrassed.

After the war broke out, rumors were flying around St. Petersburg, many of them about George.

East India was George's private territory. After the war broke out, almost all of Germany's colonies in the Pacific were seized by East India. In the eyes of many people, George was abusing his power for personal gain.

Polis served as the King of Bulgaria, and George also used his position as theater commander to seek benefits for the Bulgarian Kingdom, as evidenced by the Kingdom of Serbia.

Because Anne was German, there were even rumors in St. Petersburg that Anne was a German spy.

This is not unique to Anne.

After the outbreak of the war, almost all women from Germany in St. Petersburg were German spies.

The Queen is the representative.

“What about the Chinese?”

Alexander had no special feelings towards the Chinese.

"The Chinese are different from the Hebrews. The way they integrate into Amur is different from other groups. You should have noticed that after Amur began to mobilize, the Chinese responded very enthusiastically. They have a fearless spirit of sacrifice. For this group, if they are guided correctly, they will become the foundation of Amur's stability."

George is a white man with a yellow heart, and he knows the Chinese community very well.

"Indeed, I have never seen anyone more studious than them—"

Alexander couldn't help but sigh.

What else could George say.

Before Pushkin standardized the Russian language, it didn't even have a standard, and the dissemination of knowledge was very difficult. At that time, Russian nobles mainly learned French and English, and learning German was only in recent decades.

The time when German was standardized was about the same as that of Russian. The first edition of the orthography was published around 1876.

So George sometimes feels embarrassed when he hears Russians or Germans bragging about their culture.

For a country that doesn’t even have a standardized language, let alone culture.

"Chinese is the most scientific and communicative language in the world. That's why I ask you to learn Chinese."

Thanks to George's promotion, Chinese has long become one of the official languages ​​of Amur.

“Many people say Chinese is the most difficult language to learn.”

Alexander has not yet realized the scientific nature of Chinese.

"For the same version of the announcement, the Chinese version is the shortest."

George hoped that Alexander would treat all Amur peoples fairly.

Fairness meant that when the Hebrews engaged in financial activities in an illegal manner, they should be dealt with firmly.

When drunken Cossacks beat up Koreans or Japanese in the streets, they also had to pay the corresponding punishment.

When a Catholic asks an Orthodox Christian to respect his faith, he had better respect the Orthodox traditions first, because the state religion of the empire is Orthodoxy.

Ordinary people’s demands are simple: fairness! Fairness! And damn fairness!
What George did not expect was that it was probably the withdrawal of the British army that allowed the Ottomans to finally concentrate their forces.

So after the news of George's illness came out, the Ottomans actually took the initiative to launch a large-scale attack on the 14th Army.

This time, the Ottomans assembled more than 40 men and made full preparations, hoping to drive the 14th Army out of the Anatolian Peninsula.

Yangkov was busy throughout the summer. The 14th Army's positions were well-established and difficult to break through by conventional means.

If the Ottomans had armored vehicles, they might be able to challenge them.

Without armored vehicles, it would be difficult to break through the 14th Army's positions relying solely on human wave tactics.

Ataturk was quite experienced. He organized the Ottomans in the areas occupied by the 14th Army to attack the officers and soldiers of the 14th Army. At the same time, he destroyed the transportation lines, attacked the transport convoys, blew up all the bridges and railways, and harassed the logistics of the 14th Army.

Yangkov reacted quickly and the garrison troops deployed in various places were quickly dispatched to arrest those who should be arrested and kill those who should be killed, without letting any rebels go.

Not all Ottomans regarded the Russian Empire as their mortal enemy. There were also many Slavs living in the Ottoman Empire.

This summer, Yankov formed a force composed of Ottomans to cooperate with the 14th Army. This force performed extremely well in suppressing resistance forces in various places.

(End of this chapter)