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Chapter 663 Marriage is not a woman's business

The impact of the fire in Chang'an City is quite large. The city is still under martial law, but the victims have spontaneously organized the operation to rebuild their homes. After all, life has to be maintained day by day, and the livelihoods of the whole family also need to be maintained. At night, they also need to have tiles to cover their heads.

The disaster relief committee temporarily resettled by the imperial court did not go very smoothly in the implementation of disaster relief. It was impossible to implement all the disaster victims in one day. Liu Yu did not make any special difficulties with the officials below. This disaster relief was led by Liu He, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works, and the main implementation personnel were the yamen officers of Jingzhao Prefecture. On the day of the fire, in addition to distributing some food and water, and some temporary tents were temporarily made, the disaster relief committee did nothing.

However, the action to clear the Three Pure Ones in the city is still in full swing.

First there was a Buddhist temple, then a Taoist temple, and then a new army led by Huo Bing to investigate the large and small warehouses in the city. In the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple, the court found a large number of weapons. Liu Yu calculated that these weapons were enough to arm an army of thousands of people, but unfortunately they were the kind of cold weapons. In the shop warehouse, the court did not search for useful things. Liu Yu guessed that it might be that Su Zhe did not expect to hide the weapons in such a conspicuous place in the shop.

After the fire, the court gradually relaxed martial law in the city, but it continued to search for the remnants of the Three Puritans. With more people being imprisoned, the influence of the Three Puritans and the remnants of the Three Puritans in Chang'an City have been basically removed by the court. Liu Yu adopted a relatively gentle interrogation method for some core members of the Three Puritans, and asked the Three Divisions to interrogate some people to the border, and then sent more people out.

Liu Yu felt that it was too cruel to kill him. So he used the method of exile to impose these good people who were once the Dashun Dynasty but now the Dashun Dynasty mob to the western border, allowing them to suffer some suffering in the border. In addition to exile, more of the members of the Three Puritans were just imprisoned. The court did not have so many resources to interrogate every religious member of the Three Puritans, and they had to wait in the cell for a long time before they could get the result of the trial.

It will be the twelfth lunar month soon.

A round of intense purge was carried out for nearly a month, and relatively good results were achieved during this period. At least at this time, the imperial court, from Chang'an City to Guanzhong, had basically classified the Three Pure Land Cults as cults in public opinion. The remnants of the Three Pure Land Cults reached the point where everyone shouted and beat them. All this was attributed to the fire created by the Three Pure Land Cults in Chang'an City. After that fire, even some neutral sympathizers turned the guns and joined the party that condemned the Three Pure Land Cults. It was rare for the cognitive consensus between the court and the people.

The post-disaster reconstruction also made good progress. With the inflow of autumn grains in the Dashun Dynasty, the court's financial crisis further improved. At this time, the army of expedition led by Qi was also transferred back to Jiangbei, and soldiers who were returning to their hometowns were sent back to various places. After distributing a severance fee and bounty, the large-scale military expenditure of the court no longer needed to be maintained since the end of the year. The court already had surplus money to help the victims of fire in Chang'an City rebuild after the post-disaster reconstruction. In Liu Yu's words, this is to win people's hearts.

It was at this time that news came from the north that it was the Turkic envoy who had already arrived at Shaowu Pass and asked for an order to enter the territory of Shun Dynasty.

It has been more than a year since the Turks were defeated and surrendered. According to the original agreement to surrender, the Turks would pay a large number of livestock to the Shun Dynasty every year in exchange for the protection of the Dashun Dynasty. This tribute was also the first time since the Turks surrendered to the Shun Dynasty. In the past, the Central Plains dynasty fought against the northern nomadic peoples, but it was the first time in history to be able to defeat foreigners to surrender and pay tribute. Liu Yu thought that this was the best opportunity for the military and civilians of the Shun Dynasty to feel the prestige of the Dashun Dynasty and further eliminated the Three Puritan Churches. Therefore, in terms of methods, Liu Yu also took high-profile measures to pay tribute to the Turks, adopted the model of raising the announcement of the world, and sent people to welcome the arrival of these envoys with great fanfare.

The Turks lived a very bad life in the year after the war. First, the Daldo tribe completed the unification of the Turks, but because the Turks suffered too much loss in the war, they did not recover at all. Over the past year, many ethnic groups have emerged from the west to seize the Turks' livestock and population. The territory of the Turks has also moved east and south step by step. Now, they can only rely on the protection of the Dashun Dynasty to barely occupy the original land in the south of the desert, and the original land in the north of the desert is also occupied by some emerging ethnic groups.

This time, the Turks said they were here to pay tribute, and they wanted to ask Shunchao for help, asking Shunchao to help them regain their territory. Therefore, in terms of tribute, the Turkic Khan sent a "prince", that is, Timur, personally led the envoy team and the livestock, cattle and sheep that paid tribute, to make Shunchao moved.

The Turks after the war were also in aligned with people. They also knew that if they were not united, they would be beaten passively. Now Shun Dynasty might allow them to exist, but those emerging nations would not give them any chance. Some tribes that were bullied by the Turks all year round finally waited until the Turks declined, and many of them separated from most of the Turks and worked alone. Originally, they needed to pay tribute to the Turks, but now they could live their own lives and seize the territory belonging to the Turks. They are developing their own tribes step by step and moving towards the path of the Turks dominating the grasslands in the past.

Before the envoys arrived in Guanzhong, Liu Yu had read the letter of state submitted by the Turks first. Liu Yu did not argue about sending troops. In fact, he was not prepared to send troops to the grassland again. He also wished that the tribes in the grassland would fight in chaos, so that Shunchao would be relieved. When they were almost done fighting, Shunchao sent troops to integrate on the grassland, gathering some surrendered tribes to continue to help the Central Plains dynasty rule the grassland, saving worries and effort.

Liu Yu had read the list of Turkish tributes and was very satisfied. This time, the Turks came to mobilize Shun Chao Shangbang to help them to wipe out those disobedient friends, which was considered to be a sufficient capital. Liu Yu was not interested in these things. What he was interested in was the Turkic envoy, the little beggar Timur, this little girl with grassland style. Liu Yu was always interested in her, but because when Timur was in Chang'an City last time, Chang'an City was completing a power transfer, Liu Yu was busy with internal struggles and ignored her affairs. This time Timur came to Chang'an City, which was equivalent to a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. Liu Yu also thought about it. This time Timur would be "detained" by him in Chang'an City for a while. Unless he gave birth to a small grassland khan, he would not easily help the grassland people.

At the end of the letter of the country, the Tiankhan of the Turks, the father of Timur, proposed "marriage", saying that he had chosen many "noble ladies" from various tribes in the grassland. He came to Shunchao with the tribute team and then "marriage" with Shunchao. However, in terms of marriage, the letter of the country was not detailed. Originally, these foreign countries should have given beauties to the Central Plains dynasty to the emperor, but now the emperor of Shunchao is the queen. Could it be that all of them were given to the queen as maids? Liu Yu thought about it and probably gave them to him, but due to some red tape, they also felt that sending some women to steal husbands from Shunchao's empress may be retaliated. In the letter of the country, they wrote these contents very implicitly, so implicitly that Liu Yu would guess themselves.

Liu Yu was not very interested in this because he had a kind of attitude towards the grassland girl who didn't take a bath all year round. Even Timur had many "deficiencies" in terms of beauty and cleanliness. It was only when Liu Yu had a friendship with Timur that he accepted some of her living habits. Suddenly, so many alien women were coming, but Liu Yu still couldn't accept it.

However, Liu Yu was very generous. After receiving the letter of state, he immediately announced the letter of state, but he made certain deletions and modifications in the content of this marriage. Among them, the act of giving beautiful women by the Turks was to marry some families in Chang'an City with the "noble daughters" of various tribes in the grassland to achieve the purpose of friendship and diplomacy between the two countries. Liu Yu also specifically mentioned in his edict that among the big families in Chang'an City, some young men of similar age should be selected to marry these women. In name, they were asked to be the main wives of these women, but in fact, the court gave these women to the big families in Chang'an City as a gift. Most of these families were Liu Yu's direct family, such as the Li family represented by Li Mi, or the Sui family.

Before the Turkic envoy arrived in Chang'an City, the court had already begun to make preparations in advance, and even the marriage was distributed similarly. After the court got married to the Federation, the families in Chang'an City showed a polarized attitude. Supporters believed that this was a good opportunity to get close to the court led by Liu Yu. They should respond to the call and "contribute" the newly grown males in the family for the court to choose from and marry the Federation. Opponents expressed timidity. In the past, the Central Plains dynasty sent princesses or noble daughters from large families to the Federation. Now they wanted to "send" men, and they said they could not accept it.

After all, they misunderstood Liu Yu's meaning. Liu Yu wanted to send women from the foreign country to them, which made these families think that Liu Yu was doing something wrong and made them give some effort. This immediately made Liu Yu feel which families were aimed at him and which families were considering their own interests. At this time, the emperor was once a minister, and the new emperor ascended the throne and was about to undergo a major change of officials. Liu Yu also had a clear idea of ​​which political families needed to be abandoned by him and which families needed to be helped up. He also secretly made detailed summary and planning.
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