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Suspicious, tyrannical, cold, cruel.

The character traits of the villains in almost all novels and stories can be found in Ivan IV. The palace intrigue at a young age left a deep imprint and fear in his heart, and also made his character develop in an extreme direction. Almost all his life, he trampled his opponents, courtiers and enemies under his feet, and then sent them to the gallows under the curses of the other party.

The angry and unwilling eyes of his opponent seemed to him to be the most beautiful painting.

Before Ivan IV did not seem to be obedient to the lord, for a long time he was a tool in the hands of the courtiers to eliminate dissent. They instigated the murder of their political opponents by the young Ivan. The lords did not report to Ivan, but watched vigilantly at those he trusted and attached, and expelled potential favorites from the court at any time.

With the death of his guardians, the indulgence of young Ivan replaced the rigid rules of the house. At the age of twelve, he climbed to the top of the Kremlin's palaces, pushed non-talking kittens down the abyss from "towering cliffs", rode horses around the streets and squares of Moscow in droves with children of the same age as the most prominent lords, trampling the people with their hooves, beating and robbing civilians. The flying ones are more like the barbarian Cossacks.

As his tragic childhood draws to a close, a traverser who occupies a magpie's nest possesses him and takes his place.

Today, however, he wants to let both the noble Duma and Grand Duke Ivan know that he is the real ruler of Tsarist Russia.

Shuisky had just walked out of the Duma and walked to the carriage with a tired expression. He became more and more aware of the hostile message sent to him at the Duma meeting, warning Andrei Shuisky not to try to use His Majesty Ivan IV to exclude dissidents.

Shuisky always had a sense of uneasiness that his days were numbered, and now that their family was so powerful that they controlled the entire Kremri Palace, Ivan IV was surrounded by his eyeliner, but he always felt that a pair of gloomy eyes were looking at him behind his back.

He had originally put everything down to psychology, but the retainers who had been waiting outside the Duma for a long time brought him bad news.

Shuisky was placed at the Tsar's side, and Natasha, the servant in charge of His Majesty's living, was arrested.

"Arrested?"

Andrei Shuisky asked rhetorically in disbelief, "How is it possible to be arrested?" She was only in charge of monitoring the Tsar's daily life. There is no political struggle at all. ”

The retainer was also very strange, but the stakes were so high that he had to tell the Grand Duke Shuisky everything he knew.

"According to the attendants present, it was Natasha who prepared an assassination attempt on Ivan IV, and now Tuchkov has arrested the woman and thrown her into Lefortov for interrogation. His Majesty is said to be preparing to replace the palace guards with Tuchkov's personal guards in preparation for a purge of the Great Purge. ”

Shuysky bit his lip uneasily, smelling a danger signal, and now the situation is a little serious. With the eyeliner thrown into Lefortov, and the involvement of the former regent who was degraded, it always felt that there was a political conspiracy behind it.

"Is this a plan to weaken my power and replace me with Thuchkov? Damn Ivan. ”

Now the situation is serious, and he must go to the Grand Duke's dormitory no matter what.

"Turn your head."

Shuysky said to the coachman, "Go to the Kremlin." I want to see Your Majesty. ”

After leaving Lefortov's secret prison, Ivan and Tuchkov parted ways. The other side is responsible for mobilizing military forces, stationing in the Kremlin to replace the palace guards, and ensuring the safety of Ivan IV.

He returned to the splendid chambers, where the chamberlain informed Ivan IV that Grand Duke Andrei Shuisky had been waiting in his chamber for a long time.

What should come will come.

Ivan was not surprised, patted his clothes, and calmly walked in the direction of the living room of the Grand Duke's dormitory.

Shuisky had been waiting for a long time, and he was a little uneasy when he learned that the pawn he had planted next to Ivan IV had been taken away.

Now the aristocratic Duma was very dissatisfied with the exorbitant power of Shousky in the imperial court, and the Grand Duke Shuisky was already feeling the pressure from all sides, and the embattled Grand Duke Shuisky did not dare to use the tsar to make plans to exclude dissidents.

He was only sure that he was still in control of his young majesty.

However, the Tsar was no longer a man to be played with by his courtiers.

Seeing the Tsar appear in front of him, Shuisky, who was pacing back and forth, stopped. Showing a false concern, he said to the Tsar, "I have just heard that the attendants and servants of His Majesty Ivan have tried to assassinate His Majesty. So I came to visit Your Majesty, I don't know if Your Majesty has ......"

"Thank you Grand Duke Shuisky for your concern, I don't have anything to do."

Napoleon's answer was watertight.

"It's okay."

Shuisky pretended to breathe a sigh of relief, but the stone hanging high in his heart still did not let go, he could no longer feel it from the young Tsar. He tentatively said, "That Assassin Natasha is ...... now What's going on? I think there may be a misunderstanding here, Your Majesty the Tsar. I suggest that the Assassins should be subjected to strict interrogation before they are dealt with. ”

Hear Shuysky say this. Ivan looked up and looked at the other with an inexplicable expression.

Shuisky was horrified by his expression, and his eyes were full of mockery and contempt, and he did not know what Ivan IV wanted to do.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Ivan didn't make any moves, he just asked word by word, "It's nothing, it's just that I have a question that I'm very curious about." The assassin's acolyte was hooded with a burlap bag over his head when he was taken out of the Kremlin, and we never claimed the identity of the assassin to the outside world, so on what basis did Grand Duke Shuisky determine that Natasha had assassinated me? ”

Shuisky's smile slowly retracted, and he stared at Ivan IV with a serious expression, narrowing his eyes.

He finally understood why Ivan IV's eyes were full of mockery.

"This ......"

"Your Majesty, this issue is not the ...... point"

Shuisky felt that he had fallen into a trap carefully designed by Ivan IV.

"No, in my opinion, that's the point, and it's a very important point."

Ivan brutally interrupted Shuisky's attempt to divert the subject, and re-emphasized his words.

"I never said that the assassin was Natasha, how the hell do you know, Grand Duke Shuisky?"

"Did you say you ordered the Assassins?"