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A. We know a fair amount about what happens behind closed doors, because the venetians are very good at ferreting out this information. As things go on, as ibrahim becomes more and more well known across europe, he starts to almost rival the sultan does. So essentially, er ibrahim is negotiating and navigating his way through the family politics. It's not simply a suleman. It's also ah it's also his family. Towards the end of the lion house, when ibrahim is really at his pompwe some wonderful and verbating descriptions of conversations that he has with hapsburg ambassadors in which he is boasting about the power he has over the