Ok That was Easy now What‽
At this point the best service that could be offered to the peasantry was to join the army. They were led not by nobles but by those of their own rank and file. Cavalry on the battlefield was not manned by nobles like in Poland and France but instead highly esteemed infantrymen. These ideas would lay the base for more reforms throughout the nation.
Ivan had effectively revoked Novgorod's independence. His armies converged on the city and within days all that was left of the city's militia was captured and executed.
Foolish Mongol nations had decided to attack Muscovy on the assumption that more resources would be spent attacking Novgorod. They were quickly destroyed and pushed back to their capitals by vengeful Muscovite armies.
These invasions also led to multiple revolts in the Muslim portions of Muscovy. They saw that Muslim armies had invaded Muscovite soil and under the lies of fanatical leaders one of the biggest revolts in Muscovite history was started. It took one army two months to quell the revolt.
Within months Muscovite troops entered Novgorod. It was now a city without walls. The vast defenses that protected its enigma of independence were torn down by an army heralding freedom and unification. Merchants had fled the city weeks before, leaving its defenders to stop the invasion by themselves with little to no funds. Ivan took a personal visit to the city three days after its liberation. He was greeted with fanfare, some of it real and some imagined.
Now that all Russians were unified under one single monarchy under god it was about time to bring god to man. To the east lay another successor to the Golden Horde. This Siberian Khanate was the only thing stopping further expansion to the promised land. Now it was time to crush these heathens under the foot of all Russians.
A quick detachment was sent to assault the Siberians. However they were quickly repelled and an exhausted population in Moscow was unsupportive of the endeavor, Muscovy had some problems to deal with...
However, this was not the last the the Khanates would hear of Muscovy...
" Prince Ivan... we are finally back to where we were months ago. I still can't believe that it was gone... all gone."