Chapter 665: The Horn of the Last Battle (I)
In the wax moon, the residents of the city are also preparing for the arrival of the new year after a troubled year. At this time, the government and the opposition basically calmed down, and a call to change the yuan was still blowing more and more fiercely like the west wind in winter.
Qichang's year name has come to an end, and even Liu Yu feels that it should be changed, and the people from the Ministry of Rites have also held meetings twice, but there is no result for the time being. At this time, the team of Turkic envoys saw that they had arrived in Chang'an City, and when the imperial court was about to go out to greet them with great fanfare, Liu Yu had to put this matter on hold for the time being. Liu Yu had no intention of staying Su Yan in Chang'an City for the New Year, and Su Yan also seemed to be very hopeful in Chang'an City to go to the local government earlier, and wrote a "list of guilty ministers", which made Liu Yu feel that Su Yan couldn't wait to go to the place.
Liu Yu felt that Su Yan still had something to hide, otherwise this ignorant person would not have written any "List of Guilty Ministers", after Liu Yu read it, he simply felt that Su Yan was a great writer, and he expressed to the court that he had no determination to resist the court. The more beautiful the words, the more Liu felt inappropriate.
If it's not appropriate, it's not appropriate, and Liu Yu can't go down and kill Su Yan ruthlessly. Su Yan also seemed to realize that staying in Chang'an City would only make Liu Yu change his mind at any time, which is why he was so eager to leave Chang'an, even if there were some beautiful memories of him here, even if there were too many unknown dangers on the road of the domain.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, the imperial court greeted the arrival of the Turkic envoys with great fanfare outside the east gate of Chang'an City. It was a special day for the residents of Chang'an City, after a tumultuous year. After the pain of losing a family. The imperial court ushered in a time of long faces. The Turkic people who had used force against the Dashun Dynasty entered Chang'an City to worship like their people, and at the same time brought a large number of cattle and sheep as tribute, which was a good time to come out with a hungry belly and a cold wind to "grow a face".
Honor sharing, even if there are still many people in the Dashun Dynasty who are still suffering after the disaster, they still braved the cold wind and came out to experience this "glorious moment" with the civil and military officials of the imperial court. After the worst, Liu Yu felt embarrassed. How to mean it to ordinary people, so he ordered that after welcoming the envoys, some new porridge shops for disaster relief were added in Chang'an City, which should be to comfort ordinary people.
For the residents of Chang'an City, it is already a gift from God to have a mouthful of porridge to drink in the cold winter. As for the higher things, they did not dare to ask for extravagance. People are like this, they are just running for a basic livelihood, and as for what "non-divisive thoughts", they will not be demanding.
Outside the east gate of Chang'an City. Tens of thousands of residents of Chang'an City gathered, and hundreds of civil and military officials were waiting outside. And the new emperor sat behind Luan and waited. It wasn't until the afternoon of the same day that the Turkic envoys were late, and Liu Yu waited outside for a long time, feeling a little impatient. This was obviously an unqualified welcome event, Chai Jin said that the Turkic envoys would arrive in the morning, but the Turkic envoys did not arrive in Chang'an City until more than half of the afternoon, which only made Liu Yu wait for a stomach full of bad luck.
In front of the civil and military officials of the Shun Dynasty and tens of thousands of people of the Great Shun Dynasty, they presented their letters to the emperor of the Shun Dynasty, and even performed the ritual of kneeling and bowing. The new emperor read out some "edicts" to submit to the Turks in public, and the most emperor named Dardo Khan as the upper khan, which means that even if you are a "heavenly khan", it is under the emperor of the Shun Dynasty.
During the welcoming ceremony, Liu Yu met his old friend, the little beggar Timur who had been with him in the Western Regions day and night. After a year, Timur has grown a lot, as the crown prince of the Turks, the heir of the future Turkic Khan, and the most likely crown prince of the Turks to become the Nutian Khan since the formation of the tribe, Timur seems to be ready to inherit her father's throne. This time, Timur came with a team of envoys, as if he already had the demeanor of the Khan of the day, and the entire Turkic envoy team appeared to be in good order under her leadership. The more the question of the future of the race, the more united these Turks became.
After a crushing defeat of the Turks against the Shun Dynasty, it was no longer enough to subdue the entire steppe, whether it was some of the old Turkic tribes or the new Turkic nobles, they all knew that if they did not work together, they would be replaced by other tribes, and the steppe would change hands.
At the end of the welcoming ceremony in the afternoon, Liu Yu asked people to send the Turkic envoys to the State Post House to rest temporarily, and as for the cattle and sheep that paid tribute, Liu Yu did not let them enter Chang'an City. The main Chang'an City is not a place for grassland grazing, and the problem of feed for so many livestock alone is a big problem, so Liu Yu asked the people of the household department to temporarily find a few large places outside the city as temporary "pastures" and place these livestock. For these tributes, Liu Yu felt very troublesome, and after thinking about it, it was better to kill the people of Chang'an City to eat meat, and it was the New Year.
Therefore, on the eighth day of the lunar month, the day after the Turkic envoys arrived in Chang'an City, the imperial court published the list text, indicating the determination of the imperial court to "rejoice with the people". The slaughter of cattle and sheep from the Turkic tribute was scheduled to begin around the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and the beef and mutton were distributed in some places in the city, and the residents of the city could receive it by household. As for cowhide and sheepskin, Liu Yu also thought about it, and prepared to give it to the residents of the city, anyway, it was generous to others, Liu Yu didn't feel distressed, in this year, meat is a precious food that ordinary people can't enjoy all year round, especially beef and mutton is such a "rare" thing.
For the court to have fun with the people, the people are naturally extremely supportive, but the officials are quite slight. The imperial court issued benefits to the common people, which was the first time in the history of the Great Shun Dynasty, but just like the Turks were the first time in history to pay tribute to the Shun Dynasty, Liu Yu paid attention to the precedent in everything he did. Liu Yu's decision is difficult for people to change, especially if it is a "wise" decision that is supported by the people.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, the imperial court held a simple banquet in Fengcui Palace, banqueting the representatives of the Turkic envoys, Timur and the small leaders of some tribes, on the one hand, to give them the opportunity to get close to the Son of Heaven of the Heavenly Empire, and on the other hand, to demonstrate the "benevolence" of the Shun Dynasty to the vassal states. The reception banquet was presided over by Chai Jin, Liu Yu and Qi'er were both present, and the banquet was originally held very smoothly, although at the banquet, it was just a one-man show on the side of the Shun Dynasty, and it was a performance, and it was an official who made things difficult for the Turkic envoys, etc., but a Turkic envoy suddenly said "I heard that your Chang'an City is not peaceful", which made the atmosphere of the whole banquet very embarrassing.
Many self-righteous officials of the Shun Dynasty also felt blush after hearing this, because a lot of things had indeed happened in Chang'an City recently.
The banquet ended in a not very friendly atmosphere, Liu Yu didn't pay much attention to what happened at the banquet, originally the officials of the Shun Dynasty to blame the Turkic envoys were not in his plan, but these officials seemed to like to show the superiority of the Celestial Empire, and it was not surprising that they were "humiliated" by others.
After Liu Yu returned to the inner court, he thought about what happened at the banquet and always felt that the Three Qing Sect should do something to destroy the relationship between the Shun Dynasty and the Turks. At this time, although the action to purge the Three Puritans has come to an end for the time being, after all, some of the first criminals are still on the run, and Liu Yu also knows that it is not a matter for Lu Dao to drag on like this, so it is better to "lure the snake out of the hole".
Liu Yu called some of his descendants into the palace, including Li Mi, Wang Hu and Qu Zhu, Liu Yu did not look for the stunned Huo Ill, this time he looked for these three people to the palace, just to discuss the plan to lead the snake out of the hole.
Since the three puritans on the surface have been almost cleaned up, it is necessary to let go of the martial law situation in Chang'an City, so that the lives of the people in the city tend to be stable, and on the basis of qualification, relax the guards in some places, and give the people of the Three Puritans a "chance". The place where the guards were relaxed was first the State Post House where the Turkic envoys stayed, and Liu Yu felt that this should be the place where the Three Qing Sects wanted to launch an attack and were most worried about.
After the plan to lure the snake out of the hole was arranged, Liu Yu found some generals of the military to the palace to discuss the simultaneous development of the purging of the three puritans on the outskirts of Chang'an City. Liu Yu prepared to make Chang'an City show a change from a state of internal tightness and external looseness to a state of internal and external tightness, and expanded the army's search from inside the city to outside the city, with Chang'an City as the radiation, and the surrounding cities within two or three hundred miles as the boundary, and started a new purge operation.
Liu Yu only relied on the previous month to purge the forces of the Three Puritans in Chang'an City, and only did a simple pacification of various places in Guanzhong, but in fact, the purges made in many places could not meet Liu Yu's requirements. Liu Yue wanted to take the opportunity to start a war on the periphery of Chang'an City, and at the same time make the remnants of the Three Qing Sects hidden in Chang'an City think that the imperial court had turned its attention from the inside to the outside, so that they would show up and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
After Liu Yu arranged all the military deployments, a new purge operation was in full swing. At this time, the imperial court had to face two major events, one was the further purge of the Three Puritans, and the other was the arrival of the Turkic envoys.
After the banquet that Liu Yu greeted, he showed his indifference to the Turkic envoys, which seemed to be a "disrespectful" response to the Turkic envoys, but in fact it was also to put pressure on the Turkic envoys. Liu Yu has already received a letter sent to the palace by Timur to borrow soldiers from the Dashun Dynasty, and Liu Yu wants to use this attitude to show that soldiers will never be borrowed, and you will come in vain.
At this time, Liu Yu was also ready to send Su Yan away, completely breaking the thoughts of the Three Qing Sect and even some people with evil thoughts. It was also at this time that Liu Liniang found someone to inform Liu Yu, saying that some arrangements within the Three Qing Sect had achieved some results. (To be continued......)