Chapter 663: Harmony is not a woman's business
The impact of the fire in Chang'an City is not small, and the city is still under martial law, but the victims have already organized themselves to rebuild their homes. After all, the days have to be maintained day by day, the livelihood of the family also needs to be maintained, and at night, they also need to have tiles to cover their heads.
The disaster control committee temporarily resettled by the imperial court did not go very smoothly in the implementation of the disaster relief, and it was an impossible task to implement and resettle all the victims in one day. On the day of the fire, the disaster control committee did nothing except distribute some food and water, and then some tents that were made out temporarily.
However, the action of purging the Three Puritans in the city is still in full swing.
First the Buddhist temple, then the Taoist temple, and then the new army led by Huo Ai to conduct an inventory of the large and small warehouses of the shops in the city. In Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, the imperial court searched for a large number of weapons, Liu Yue calculated, these weapons are enough to arm an army of thousands of people, but unfortunately it is the kind of cold weapons. In the store's warehouse, the imperial court did not find anything useful, and Liu Yu guessed that Su Zhe might not have thought of hiding his weapons in such a conspicuous place as the shop.
After the fire, although the imperial court gradually lifted martial law in the city, it also continued to search for the remnants of the Three Puritans, and with the imprisonment of more people, the influence of the Three Puritans, as well as the remnants of the Three Puritans in Chang'an City, have been basically uprooted by the imperial court. Liu Yu adopted a relatively gentle interrogation method for some key members of the Three Puritans, and sent some people to the frontier under the interrogation of the three divisions. And then more people will be distributed.
Kill. Liu Yu felt that it was too cruel. So he used the method of distribution to distribute these people who used to be good citizens of the Dashun Dynasty, but now they are the mob of the Dashun Dynasty, to the west, and let them suffer a little at the border. In addition to the distribution, more of the Three Puritans were only imprisoned, and the imperial court did not have so many resources to interrogate every Three Puritans for a while, and they had to wait in their cells for a long time to get the results of the trial.
Soon it will be the wax moon.
An intense purge campaign was carried out for nearly a month. During this period, relatively good results were achieved. At least at this time, the whole court, from Chang'an City to all parts of Guanzhong, has basically classified the Three Puritans as cults in public opinion, and the remnants of the Three Puritans have also reached the point where everyone shouts and beats them. All this is thanks to the fire created by the Three Puritans in Chang'an City, and after that fire, even some neutral sympathizers turned their guns and joined the side of denouncing the Three Puritans, and it was rare for the court and the people to reach a consensus on understanding.
Good progress has also been made in post-disaster reconstruction. With the storage of autumn grain in the Dashun Dynasty, the financial crisis of the imperial court further improved. At this time, the army led by Qi Fang to conquer the south was also transferred back to Jiangbei, and the soldiers who were returning to their hometowns were being sent to various places. After the distribution of a severance pay and bounty, the imperial court's large-scale military expenses were no longer needed to be maintained from the end of the year, and the imperial court already had a surplus of silver to help the victims of the fires in Chang'an to rebuild after the disaster. In Liu Yu's words, this is buying people's hearts.
It was at this time that news came from the north that the Turkic tributary envoys had arrived at Shaowu Pass and asked for an order to enter the territory of the Shun Dynasty.
According to the original annexation agreement, the Turks have to pay tribute to the Shun Dynasty every year in exchange for the protection of the Great Shun Dynasty, and this tribute is also the first tribute since the Turks surrendered to the Shun Dynasty. In the past, the Central Plains Dynasty fought against the northern nomads, although there were victories and defeats, but it was the first time in history that it was able to defeat the Waibo to the submission and pay tribute. Liu Yu thought that this was a rare opportunity for the military and people of the Shun Dynasty to feel the national prestige of the Great Shun Dynasty and further eliminate the Three Puritans, so in terms of methods, Liu Yu also took high-profile measures to pay tribute to the Turkic envoys, adopted the model of announcing the list to the world, and sent people to welcome the arrival of these envoys with great fanfare.
The Turks in the year after the war, life is very bad, first the Dardo tribe completed the unification of the Turks, but because the Turkic loss of people and animals in the war is too great, for a time did not slow down at all, more than a year, the steppe from the west rose a lot of ethnic groups, to rob the Turkic livestock and population, the Turkic territory is also moving east and south step by step, now can only rely on the protection of the Great Shun Dynasty to barely occupy the original land in the south, and the original land in the north of the desert, is also occupied by some emerging peoples.
This time, the Turks said that they were here to pay tribute, and they also wanted to ask the Shun Dynasty for help, so that the Shun Dynasty could help them regain the territory that originally belonged to them, so in the way of tribute, the new Turkic Khan sent the "prince", that is, Timur personally brought the envoy team and the tribute livestock, cattle and sheep to come, so as to make the Shun Dynasty tempted.
After the war, the Turks were also neat in the hearts of the people, and they also knew that if they were not united now, they would be beaten passively, and now the Shun Dynasty may allow them to exist, but those emerging nations will not give them any chance. Originally, they needed to pay tribute to the Turks, but now they can live their own lives, and they have invaded the territories belonging to the Turks, and they are developing their tribes step by step, and they are going on the road of the former Turkic domination of the steppe.
Before the envoy team arrived in Guanzhong, Liu Yu first read the letter of state submitted by the Turks, and Liu Yu was noncommittal about sending troops. In fact, he was not ready to send troops to the grassland at all. He also wished that the tribes on the grassland would fight, so that the Shun Dynasty would have peace of mind, and when they were almost done, the Shun Dynasty would send an army to the grassland to integrate, and gather some surrendered tribes to continue to help the Central Plains Dynasty rule the grassland, saving worry and effort.
Liu Yu read the list of Turkic tributes and felt very satisfied, this time the Turks spent enough money to impress the Shun Dynasty to help them eliminate those disobedient friends. Liu Yu is not interested in these, he is interested in the Turkic envoy, the little beggar Timur, this little girl with grassland style, Liu Yu has always been very interested in her, but because the last time Timur was in Chang'an City, Chang'an City was completing a transfer of power, Liu Yue was busy with infighting, ignoring her affairs, this time Timur came to Chang'an City, which is equivalent to a sheep into the tiger's mouth. Liu Yu also thought about it, this time Timur would be temporarily "detained" by him in Chang'an City, unless he gave birth to a small grassland khan, he would not easily help the grassland people.
After the most obscure national letter, the Turkic Tian Khan, that is, Timur's father, Dardo Khan, proposed "harmony", saying that he had selected a lot of "noble daughters" of various tribes in the steppe, and came to the Shun Dynasty with the tribute procession, and when the time came, he would "marry" Yunyun with the Shun Dynasty. But in terms of the way of marriage, the national book is not written in detail, originally these states sent beauties to the Central Plains Dynasty, they should all be given to the emperor, but now the emperor of the Shun Dynasty is the empress, is it all given to the empress as a maidservant even if it is a marriage? Liu Yue thought about it, probably these women were given to him, but due to some red tape, they also felt that sending some women to rob her husband with the empress of the Shun Dynasty might be retaliated, so they would write these contents very implicitly on the national letter, so implicit that Liu Yu had to guess it himself.
Liu Yu is not too interested in this, because he has a respectful attitude towards the prairie girl who does not bathe all year round, and even Timur has many "shortcomings" in her love of beauty and cleanliness. It's just that Liu Yue has a friendship with Timur, so he will accept some of her living habits, and suddenly so many women of different races are coming, Liu Yu still can't accept it in his heart.
However, Liu Yue was very generous, and after receiving the national letter, he immediately announced the national letter, but made certain deletions and changes in the content of this marriage. Among them, the Turkic sacrifice of beautiful women is said to be to marry some families in Chang'an City with the "noble daughters" of various tribes of the grassland, so as to achieve the purpose of friendly relations between the two countries. Nominally, it is to let these Fanbang women be the main wives, but in fact, it is equivalent to the imperial court giving these women to the major families in Chang'an City as gifts. And most of these families are Liu Yu's descendants, such as the Li family represented by Li Mi, or the Sui family.
The Turkic envoys had not yet arrived in Chang'an City, but the imperial court had already begun to make preparations in advance, and even the affairs of the relatives were almost assigned. The families in Chang'an City, after getting the imperial court to marry with the Fanbang, showed a bipolar attitude. Supporters believe that this is a good opportunity to get close to the imperial court headed by Liu Yu, and to respond to the call to "contribute" the newly grown males in the family for the imperial court to choose and make peace with Fanbang. The opponents expressed their timidity, in the past, the Central Plains Dynasty gave Fanbang and his relatives were princesses or noble daughters of big families, and now they want to "send" men, and they say they can't accept it.
In the final analysis, they misunderstood what Liu Yu meant. Liu Yue wanted to send the women of Fanbang to them, but let these families think that Liu Yu was doing bad again, so that they could pay something. This immediately made Liu Yu feel that which families were oriented towards him, and which families were thinking about their own interests. At this time, it was a period when the son of heaven and a courtier, the new emperor ascended the throne and was about to carry out a major change of officials. (To be continued......)