Continuation of adventures in Abyssinia. The hero has to leave the diplomatic service and enter military service with Negus Menelik II. There will be a little war, a wedding, a little progressiveness (moderate): planes and tanks will not appear in Abyssinia for another 40 years, but there will be secular schools, an Amharic-Russian dictionary and the University. A.S. Pushkin, the beginnings of industry. And what do you want from progressivism even in Russia, and not in Abyssinia, which is 300 years behind it: that yesterday’s peasant, who learned to hold a file, will cut an airplane with it, he will file it for you... Everything must start with education, which in the Russian Empire, both in Abyssinia and in the country of the winner of the Unified State Examination. Therefore, the path of a progressor who gets caught is long and dull, otherwise you will end up with pink progressor snot, of which there are already enough of them. There will be a return to Russia with a young wife, and everything will end well!