Continuing adventures in Abyssinia. The hero has to leave the diplomatic service and enter the military service with Negus Menelik II. There will be a little war and progression (moderate): planes and tanks will not appear in Abyssinia for another 40 years, but secular schools, an Amharic-Russian dictionary and a railway will appear. And what do you want from progressiveness even in Russia, and not 300 years behind Abyssinia: that you have yesterday's peasant, who learned to keep a file, cut an airplane with it, he will cut it for you... Everything must begin with education, both in the Russian Empire, in Abyssinia, and in the country of the winning exam. Therefore, the path of the fellow progressor is long and dull, otherwise pink progressive snot will turn out, which has already been enough: the locals, shouting "hurray," accept everything that the fellow says, no one intrigues against him, they all immediately get down to business and with primitive technology build planes, submarines, missiles. All this is not here.