With 1,050 rooms, 117 staircases, 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, and nearly two kilometers of cornices, there are only a handful of buildings of this magnificence in all of Europe, and the only ones that can compare it are the Louvre Museum and the British Museum in Paris.

The Tsar's Winter Palace, beautifully decorated with alabaster and marble, silk fabrics from the first century A.D. looted from distant China, Dunhuang frescoes, the world's largest collection of ancient Persian silverware, ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, ancient Greek bayeux paintings???? Millions of precious works of art filled every house of the court, turning it into a treasure trove of forty thieves.

A large room in the center of the second floor, the room is decorated with malachite, tourmaline and other gemstones to the utmost luxury, there is a famous painting of Leonardo da Vinci "Madonna with Flowers" hanging on the wall, Rasputin wears a silk robe, sits in front of the window and smokes a hookah leisurely, the huge square outside the glass window, in the center of the square is set up an Alexander Column, 47.5 meters high, 4 meters in diameter, weighing 600 tons and tons, made of a whole piece of granite, without any support, only relying on its own weight to stand on the cornerstone, At its top is an angel holding a cross with a serpent on both feet, a symbol of victory over the enemy.

A slight smile appeared on Rasputin's lips, Napoleon's army could not conquer Russia, and he made the whole of Russia kneel at his feet??? Including the supreme Tsar Nicholas II and the powerful Empress Alexandra.

When the Tsar's headaches were not attacked, he was not mediocre, and Empress Alexandra was a shrewd and capable woman, but when it came to family and children, the intelligence of the Tsar and his wife was no different from that of a country fool, especially since their only son was a hemophilia.

The square outside the window is covered with snow, the guards are directing the people to sweep up, the Neva River is no longer turbulent, the river is covered with a thick layer of ice, and children are happily skating on it in the bitter cold of minus 20 degrees Celsius. The wind outside the window was biting, but the fireplace in the house was burning hot, and there were precious fruits sent from Poland and Yugoslavia on the table to prevent the owner from being affected by the heat of the room.

Rasputin returned to the court again, and remembered his life in the small church in Siberia, and suddenly felt like a world away. Because he was too favored by the empress, he was jealous of the court ministers, and spread rumors that he was having an affair with the empress, so that the tsar had to exile him to Siberia. But he returned, and was more favored by the Tsar's family than before. Rasputin, who was reborn after the catastrophe, became even more ruthless, and any minister who dared to confront him was mercilessly attacked by him, and no one in Russia dared to oppose him again. Many officials and aristocrats were dismissed for offending Rasputin, including the powerful Foreign Minister Izvolsky, and even the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Lukyanov, who was ousted by Rasputin.

Countless court ladies and ladies bowed down to his robes and rejoiced in the foot-long tools of his male surname. The only fly in the ointment is that the eighteen-year-old Princess Olga, the eldest daughter of the tsar that Rasputin has coveted for a long time, does not mince words about him. The Tsar and his wife are good-looking, especially the four daughters are like coming out of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the beauty is dazzling, the eldest princess Olga is a famous beauty, for any other woman, Rasputin will pounce on her like a hungry wolf, tear her dress to pieces, play with it fiercely and then ruthlessly abandon it, but she is no one else, she is Princess Olga??? Rasputin knows that his power comes from the protection of the Tsar, and the love of the Tsar and his wife for their children is beyond imagination, if he hurts the eldest princess, not to mention that he is just a god, he is Jesus Christ, and the angry Tsar will crucify him!

Of course, compared to the current power and status, this little regret is nothing, Rasputin looked at the gray sky in the east, silently drew a cross, and whispered in his mouth: "Saint from the East, my master, everything I have comes from your gift, I praise you from the bottom of my heart, great saint!" ”

There was a soft knock on the door, Rasputin clasped his palms together, and with a bang, a noblewoman in her early twenties crept in, squeaked shut.

With a beautiful goose egg face, sea blue eyes, and flaxen hair, this woman's appearance resembles Princess Olica, but her eyes are not as clear and transparent as hers, but are burned with red bloodshots. This woman, Rasputin is too familiar, where there is a suffocation on her body, Rasputin is clear, this woman is the twenty-one-year-old Countess Anna, Queen Alexandra's favorite court lady.

Rasputin tipped a sneer at the corner of his mouth, tapped his fingers downwards on the table, and the woman immediately knelt down, crawled in front of Rasputin on the velvet carpet, and licked his rough palms like a dog.

"Despicable, you dare to touch my body without the permission of your master?" Rasputin was furious, dragged her by the hair and dragged her four or five meters to the ground, slamming her against the wall.

Countess Anna did not have the slightest resentment in her eyes, but crawled over and licked his palms more diligently, then lifted the hem of his robe and licked it on his hairy thighs.

Rasputin's expression gradually relaxed, but his mouth was still scolding: "You, you dare to take off the chain I tied to you, I will punish you severely!" "My lord, my God, please punish me, but please don't hit me in the face, the queen and princess will see it and cause you unnecessary trouble." Countess Anna said, her face arching between Rasputin's legs.

The fireplace heated the air in the room, and a silvery smell spread throughout the room, and Rasputin, like a black bear to a rag doll, attacked the pretty countess, arranging her body into various shapes, and then using his foot-long tool to enter and exit all the holes in her body. The countess's anguished face was distorted, and gradually replaced it with the low howl of the springy she-beast.

The sound insulation of the house is very good, and the father in the house screams one by one, but no sound can be heard outside.

"Origa ???"

With a heart-rending cry from Rasputin, the shirt inside his robe was soaked with sweat, and the countess below him had already collapsed into mud.

For Rasputin to regard her as the eldest princess Origa, Countess Anna has long been accustomed to it, although she once had many lovers, but in this world, only Rasputin, a barbarian from a Siberian village, can satisfy her too exuberant **, and she is also willing to satisfy Rasputin's various eccentricities.

"My master, Her Majesty the Queen said yesterday that Princess Olga would be married to the Crown Prince of Romania." There was a hint of malice in Anna's smile.

Rasputin's face suddenly turned cold, and he said darkly: "Oh, is it? Did Olga say yes? ”

Anna shook her head and said, "Origa had a quarrel with the queen, she said that she would rather marry an ordinary person than marry the royal family, it's ridiculous!" ”

European royal families can only marry each other, let alone marry ordinary people, even if they marry nobles without royal blood, even the third princess Maria, who is only fourteen years old, has been married to the Prince Mountbatten of England when she was ten years old, and is waiting for the wedding to be held after adulthood, while the eldest princess Olica, who is already eighteen years old, is not yet engaged, which is extremely rare in the royal family, and only the tsarist couple who love their children can tolerate this kind of thing.

"Say,, what's the matter with you coming to my room?" Rasputin took off his boots and placed his stinky foot on the countess's shoulder.

"My master, this month's arms tender, my husband wants to get the French company Châtlore to win the bid, and I know that this is just a gesture of the owner."

Unable to answer Rasputin's expectations, these noble ladies were willing to be toyed with by him and even willing to bear his insults, in addition to worshipping the aura of his "saint", more hoping to benefit from him.

In 1886, France was the first to adopt the Le Band rifle using smokeless cartridges, and European countries followed suit, and Tsarist Russia decided to design a similar new repeating rifle to replace the old Bodin single-shot rifle. Russian Army Captain Sergei. Ivanovich. Mosin designed a 7.62mm prototype gun, a generation of famous guns - "Mosin? Nagant rifle and Belgian designer Leon. The eight-point **mm sample gun designed by Nagant was tested together. After experimentation, the selection committee decided to take the best of both and use Mosin's plan as the basis, but the bomb supply system was changed to Nagant's design, and the final plan was called Mosin. Nagant rifles. Although the new gun had been finalized, the Russian arsenal did not have the capacity to put it into production immediately, so the first products were manufactured by the French Chatlore State Arms Factory the following year, and it had been a year or four years since it was put into production in the country. Due to the weak industrial base of Tsarist Russia, until the outbreak of the Russo-Russian War in 1904, there were not enough new guns to fully replace the Bodin rifle, so the two weapons were still mixed at that time.

In the run-up to the Great War in Europe, the Austro-Crarian army was training on the outskirts of Belgrade, and Archduke Ferdinand himself presided over the exercises, much to the displeasure of the Tsar, who professed to be the protector of the Slavs. Even the Russian court was aware of the imminent war.

In order to cope with the war, the tsar decided to tender all over the world to order 10,000 Mosinagan rifles, 3,000 Russian-style Makqin machine guns with shields, 2,000 artillery pieces of various calibers, and matching ammunition??? This order, worth tens of millions of dollars, has attracted the attention of arms dealers all over the world, from the distant United States to the major arsenals in Europe, and even the Skoda Arsenal of Austria-Hungary, the enemy of Russia, are eager to try and hope to get a piece of this huge order.

All the competitors understood that the Russian tenders were merely a formality, and that it was not the price and quality that really determined the direction of the order, but the personal likes and dislikes of the ministers, and the representatives of the major arsenals gathered in Petersburg to bribe the court ministers and the big figures of Russian politics with large cheques.

The husband of Countess Anna, Marquis Jurgin, one of the members of the tender committee, received a cheque of 100,000 gold francs from the French, who promised to give Jurgin a rebate of another 1 million gold francs if the French company was able to obtain more than a third of the total order.

The guy Yurkin is also a bit useful, Anna, a bitch, can still talk in front of the queen, and can help herself get some secret information about the queen and the princess, and it is quite enjoyable to play in bed??? In particular, she resembles Princess Origa in three points, so that Rasputin can imagine that he has crushed the princess under him.

Let them make a sum of money, which is good for themselves??? Rasputin made his decision in an instant.

"Bell bell bell"

The phone rang in the house, and Rasputin, naked and naked, answered the phone with the murder weapon that all the noble ladies of Russia loved and feared.

"Your Excellency, you have a letter from Siberia. Shall I deliver it to you myself? "It was a delicate voice on the phone.

As soon as Rasputin heard it, he knew that this was another, Eva, the court lady.

Siberia, Rasputin's eyes narrowed into a needle, and he hated this haunted place, which, despite its homeland, had no good impression of it, where he was left with nothing but poverty, hunger, and a stinking woman. Especially when he was a child, the men who climbed up and down on his mother's belly left an indelible impression on him.

Eva is a with white and smooth skin like cheese, and Rasputin is especially fond of the fact that her husband is one of the ministers who slandered him for having an affair with the queen, and it is a very happy thing to give him a green hat.

As soon as Rasputin was pouting, Anna knelt and straightened her clothes, posed with a sacred statue of the Holy Maiden on her face, and crawled out of the room. A moment later, another crawled in with a letter in her mouth.

Rasputin saw a dragon-like seal in the right corner of the envelope, and his pupils dilated, and his breathing became short.

Eva's face was full of charm, and she was about to untie Rasputin's robe, but she was slapped in the face by him viciously, and then shouted: "Get out!" ”

Eva was frightened, and ran out of the room, and then closed the door, but her heart beat wildly, she didn't know where she offended this ruthless Rasputin, and she didn't know what kind of bad luck would fall on her and her family.

Rasputin knelt on the ground, held the letter above his head and worshipped, and then said with a solemn expression: "My master, a saint from the East, I have finally received your guidance again!" ”

(To be continued)