"I heard that the empress has a feint, and Her Royal Highness has temporarily taken the position of regent?"

Catherine met Peter in the corridor and offered to greet him.

"Well, yes, it's a real headache, and it's a mountain of trouble..."

Peter only felt the back of his head itch and scratched.

"So, should I congratulate Your Highness on becoming Regent?"

Catherine nodded lightly and said with a smile.

"What's there to congratulate on this, didn't you say it all, it's a headache, okay, hey, I'm so busy! Let's do it for now, I still have a lot of things to deal with, so I'll talk about it in detail when I'm free."

Peter said that he was about to leave.

"By the way, have you met Mihai?"

As soon as he had taken a step, Peter suddenly turned his face to the side and asked.

"Dean Romanosov just sent me a few books, and I guess I'm already leaving."

"Okay, so be it"

Seeing Peter depart, Catherine kept a face-painted smile throughout.

"It seems that she has some suspicions, whew—what a woman, her instincts are terrifyingly sharp!"

Peter pondered to himself as he walked.

In less than a month after the display of the ostriche, a magical bird from Africa, at the victory celebration that night, Empress Elizabeth was seriously ill and bedridden, much to Peter's embarrassment.

"I never thought it would be so serious! No wonder they can eat the king to death..."

While offering an ostrich to the Empress, Peter also brought a new food for the Empress: ostrich eggs.

Ostrich eggs are much larger and more nourishing than ordinary duck eggs, and it is also popular to eat raw egg yolks and whites in this era, and basically every three or two days the queen will enjoy an ostrich egg.

Queen Elizabeth had gallstones, a long-term chronic disease. Although Peter did not have any medical knowledge, he still knew that eating egg foods would lead to a significant increase in cholesterol intake, which could significantly increase the risk of gallstones. Normal people can eat up to 2 eggs a day to control cholesterol intake, but an ostrich egg can top at least 5 or 6 eggs, and it is strange that cholesterol does not skyrocket.

"Oh, who knew that the old fat woman's physique would be so bad, she just ate a few ostrich eggs... If I knew this, I might as well limit it to one egg a week... What a! If the old fat woman hadn't been so greedy, I wouldn't have been so sore now! ”

Peter sighed wistfully.

The reason why I thought of using ostrich eggs is because Guo Zijing, who traveled to Peter, once watched a foreign TV series, and the background of the TV series is the story of an adventurer who competes with the British East India Company for his father's inheritance, which happens to be the period when King George IV was the regent. George IV in the play especially likes to eat ostrich eggs raw, Peter was very bored at the time to check the information, this George IV is because of excessive cholesterol intake caused cholecystitis and gallstones hung up.

"It's a good idea, but it's not a good thing to work too quickly... But then again, the old fat woman is so sick this time, most of it is because of the incident of Ivan VI, Frederick the Great is indeed vicious enough, using a little tsar who has long been deposed to play tricks in a vain attempt to cause civil strife in the Russian Empire, which is really amazing! And the historical Peter can't even see this, then it can't be said... But maybe that naïve Peter thought that his opportunity had come, and he would be happy to be regent, completely ignoring who got his ruling foundation from. If this kind of heartless guy was born in an ordinary family, it would be fine, but this is a palace full of people! Even a small move will cause a storm in the city like a butterfly effect, not to mention this kind of thing that can change the dynasty upside down, if it is eradicated in the embryonic stage, it will be a scourge sooner or later! ”

Thinking about it, Peter subconsciously clenched his fists.

"But... Even if she guessed the truth of this incident, she still had to keep it..."

Peter turned his head sideways again, glancing down the hallway he had just passed, and the clear figure of the woman appeared in his mind.

"In the nearly 200 years of the Russian Empire's history, from the death of Peter the Great in 1725 to the murder of Nicholas II in 1917, the only Tsar who could be called a political, diplomatic, and military all-rounder was Catherine II. From the time he usurped the throne in 1762 to his death in 1796, the period can be regarded as the period of rapid growth of the Russian Empire. As for the tsars who followed, the son Paul I was a complete fool, even more stupid than his father, and the grandson Alexander I was stained with the light of his grandmother and had a good time in the past, but he only ate his old book. And after him, they will all face the infinite bloody infighting between the domestic aristocratic forces and the emerging bourgeois forces... Although the Ye II period was very glamorous, it actually led the Russian Empire off the track of development, because the first industrial revolution in the early 19th century led to the emergence of bourgeois powers, and there was no part of Russia at all. And because of the British Isles, which was swept by Napoleon, the French god of war emperor, after occupying India and completing the accumulation of primitive assets, he finally took the lead in successfully carrying out the revolution of bourgeois power. The productive forces determine the relations of production, and the relations of production react on the productive forces, a golden sentence that he had repeatedly memorized since he was in middle school, and finally experienced by Peter himself in the mid-18th century. If the Russian Empire could not complete the preparations before the Industrial Revolution came, then all the tsars after him would not be able to escape the tragic fate destined in history. Therefore, correcting the problems of Catherine and the supporters of the so-called 'enlightened autocracy' feudal ideology of his time was a matter of priority for Peter. No matter how enlightened they were, they ultimately served the power of the aristocratic landlords, which greatly limited the rise of bourgeois power. And the more the aristocratic landlords were strengthened, the more the large number of proletarian workers needed for the Industrial Revolution was scarce. Britain relied on 'sheep eating people' to forcibly plunder the peasants' land and drive a large number of proletarians to the factories in the cities. But the problem is that Russia does not lack land at all, so it is impossible to copy and copy, so it can only think of another way. If it weren't for the Napoleonic invasion, which resulted in the death of a large number of nobles, it is estimated that the bourgeoisie of Russia would have appeared much later... And now, Peter has the historical experience and theoretical basis of later generations, at least he will not take the same detour. However, this alone will not do, reform is not something that can be accomplished by one person or a few people, but a major matter of redividing the interests between different forces, which will provoke many former supporters and add many new enemies, so it is necessary to have some reliable and determined allies who are also capable enough. Top-down reforms often don't eradicate the ills completely, but if they can reduce bloodshed and turmoil, it's better to minimize them... Ahh

Peter, tugging at his hair in pain, knew that the supreme throne sitting on top of those 10,000 people was absolutely unbearable, and on the road to Game of Thrones, it was a red carpet full of bones and blood. If you want to sit firmly on this Iron Throne-like torture chair, you must first be ruthless, not only to others, but also to yourself.

The word mercy is unworthy for the dead.