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Chapter 579 Chapter 584: Harmony and Prosperity

"Your Majesty, I have never begged you, today..." Tuobaxiu was a little helpless but also determined, maintaining a kneeling posture, and said: "I beg the King to let the group of people who concubine let go."

Today, it has been a month since Tuoba Shiyijian escaped again. It is hard to say what the situation in the deep grassland is like, but Tuoba Shijun, the southern supervisor of Tuobadai Kingdom, brought a large number of people with him four days ago. The tribesmen were close to the areas controlled by the Han State.

Lord Tuobashi brought 8 to [-] people. They stopped dozens of miles away from the Han army's control area and sent people to contact the Han army's frontier generals. Dao Ming said that those tribes belonged to the concubine of the Han Dynasty. dowry.

The royal family on the grassland usually selects some tribes as dowries for their married daughters, and then matches them with a certain number of horses, cattle, and sheep.The more powerful the royal family is, the richer the dowry will be when marrying off a daughter, and even elite armed forces will be given as a dowry to increase the voice of the husband's family.

There are also corresponding customs in the Central Plains. For example, when big nobles and big families marry their legitimate daughters, some families with whom they have good relationships will marry off concubines. It is also common to use servants, maids, and warriors as dowries. They will also prepare enough gold, silver, jewelry and Silk silk.

When Tuobaxiu got married, she brought some of her followers with her, and Tuoba Shiyijian and Tuoba Gu also gave some dowries, but at that time there was still a Shijie Zhao country between the two sides, and those dowries were actually Stopped in place on the grassland and did not go south.

Murong Yan State attacked Tuoba Dai State again in [-] A.D. After Tuoba Shi Yijian discussed with Liu Yan and Tuoba Xiu, those tribes who were used as dowry were taken back by the Tuoba royal family. It was never returned.

Tuobaxiu raised her head slightly to look at Liu Yan, and asked: "Can they...can they work in the territory of Han, instead of going to the battlefields of Liang State or Yan State?"

In fact, Liu Yan and Tuobaxiu knew the news in different order. It was Liu Yan who received the report from the front line first, and Tuobaxiu got the news from some noble women two days later.

Grassland's victory, the Taiwei Office must have informed the whole country to boost morale, that is, the news that Tuobaxiu was in the deep palace was blocked.

There have been discussions on what to do with the captured prisoners of war. There are suggestions that all the Jie people should be killed, some say that they should be used as cannon fodder for the battle, and some are escorted back to the country for labor. Among them, the voice of cannon fodder is relatively loud.

Whether the group of people brought by Mr. Tuobashi are considered prisoners of war is actually controversial.The Central Plains has been ruled by the Hu people for decades. Not only the Han culture has affected the Hu people, but some cultures of the Hu people have also affected the people in the Central Plains. Not to mention that there is also a custom in Chinese culture that the husband’s family should not interfere with the wife’s dowry. .

What belongs to the husband belongs to the husband, what belongs to the wife belongs to the wife, and what belongs to the public belongs to the public. Before the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the division was very clear.During the Song Dynasty, when Zhu Cheng's Confucianism was on the rise, many things that violated the customs happened.

For example, a sister-in-law used her dowry to support her brother-in-law to take the imperial examination. The brother-in-law failed the exam repeatedly, and the sister-in-law’s savings were all spent.

There is another case where a certain woman married a certain person with a huge dowry, and the certain person usually idles about and spends his wife’s belongings. Later, the wife can’t stand it and wants to divorce. According to the laws of Song Dynasty, it should be a peace of property division. Divorce, the government did make that decision, but the scholars began to scold again, ignoring the husband's idleness, and only scolded the woman who couldn't stand her husband's virtue.

What's even more absurd is that a certain woman was married with a huge dowry, and then she was poisoned to death by her mother-in-law and brother-in-law.The woman's natal family was angry and wanted to get the dowry back in desperation, but the whole family including the husband was messing around, and the husband even mobilized his classmates to control public opinion. Although the government finally decided to return the dowry, it caused extremely bad influence on society.

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In the Central Plains in [-] A.D., although it was ruled by Hu people for decades, some etiquette customs and social rules have not been broken. Whether it is the Chinese custom or the grassland custom, those people cannot be regarded as prisoners of war, and how to deal with it is up to Tuobaxiu to decide according to the custom.

Liu Yan had too many things to deal with, and he hadn't included Mr. Tuoba Shi's matter in the scope of processing for the time being. He didn't know what news Tuobaxiu had heard, and he was surprised and helpless to face such a scene suddenly.

"Xiu..." Liu Yan thought about the wording for a while, then helped Tuobaxiu up, and said, "There is no conclusion on the matter."

More than 8 people, including Mr. Tuoba Shi, were disarmed and entered Dai County under surveillance. They were temporarily guarded in batches, but it was really unclear how they would deal with it.

"Your Majesty..." Tuoba Xiu said insistently: "Please look at the kindness I have shown you in serving me, will you agree to it?"

For the newborn Han Dynasty, many things will definitely change, especially some special events cannot be done in full accordance with the previous etiquette and customs.

Mr. Tuoba Shi brought more than 8 Tuoba Xianbei people. Although there are a lot of old and weak women and children among them, there are probably nearly [-] people who can fight with weapons.If the Han Dynasty wants to eliminate the threat of alien races, there can be no exceptions. If there is a threat, it should be eliminated without discrimination.

"The concubine does not interfere with how the king uses his troops, nor does he interfere with the killing on the battlefield, but they...they have already..." Tuobaxiu said as she was about to kneel again, but she was hugged by Liu Yan's strong arms .Tears welled up in her eyes: "Brother ran far away, those people have been completely frightened, and they will no longer pose a threat to the big man."

Liu Yan's lips moved, but he still didn't make a sound after all.

The state of Han had a very clear grasp of Tuoba Shiyijian's whereabouts. Tuoba Shiyijian and his group fled eastward from the northern border of Monan, obviously intending to defect to Murong Yanguo.

Except for Tuoba Shiyijian who brought people to the Murong Yan Kingdom, quite a number of tribes from the Tuoba Dai Kingdom went to the Xianbei Grassland. Except for the undefined group brought by Tuoba Shijun, there were still some who went south. The scattered tribes voluntarily surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

Judging from the overall situation, most of the southern territory of Tuoba Dai Kingdom fell into the hands of the Han army, the grasslands in the west were almost emptied, and the central part was repeatedly attacked by Xie Ai's army. Only the east and northeast were able to survive.

The territory of the Tuoba Dynasty has changed a lot, and the population has dropped even more rapidly. In the two months of military operations, the Han army probably wiped out more than a hundred tribes. They died of the Tuoba Xianbei people who escaped the invasion and migration of the Han army. Not less, guessing about Tuoba Daiguo's downsizing, it should be close to 30 million?

Most of the territory of a country has been lost, almost half of the population has been lost in a very short period of time, and more than half of a life has been lost. It is no exaggeration to say that unless there is a huge strategic mistake on the Han side, Otherwise, it is inevitable for Tuoba Daiguo to become Tuoba Xianbei again.However, the military operations of the Han Dynasty did not stop. In the end, whether Tuoba Xianbei could survive as a nation was a big question.

"Mr. Tuobashi's handling... It's not easy for me to interfere. It's for your sake to save his life." Liu Yan could say false words to comfort him, but he chose to tell the truth: "Those tribesmen , to sit is actually your dowry, but they will not live together, they will move to the inland to join the resettlement, and the resettlement place will be your fief, and men and women of the right age need to perform corvee and military service according to the Han law..."

The news that Tuobaxiu got before must have been very bad, so that he was grateful for Liu Yan's promise, and kept saying: "I understand, I know... In the future, there will be no more Tuoba Tiefu department, only the big one." Han people."

The Tiefu tribe is not only the tribe that marries Hu girls, but also the tribe that marry the prairie royal family. It is also a special tribe that maintains its independence.

The fiefdom is different from the fiefdom. The fiefdom is the subordinate fiefdom of the title. The fiefdom has nothing to do with the title and is only related to the king's favor. At the same time, some related taxes and other things are different between the two.

Liu Yan was extremely satisfied when he heard the sentence "Only the people of the big man", and somewhat felt dumbfounded.

The Han State has always been doing ethnic integration, and it does not resist the integration of the Hu people except the Jie people into the Han family, but it needs to take the initiative to integrate, not the Hu people.However, it is not easy for Hu people to integrate into Han people. Being able to speak fluent Chinese, wearing Han clothes, and acting and thinking in line with Han customs are all prerequisites. The most important thing is to obtain the enemy's head on the battlefield.

Tuoba Xiu directly skipped so many stages for his tribesmen to become Han people. After speaking, he looked at Liu Yan with pleading eyes.

"This..." Liu Yan is not a ruthless person who has a heart for his woman, but he is not someone who agrees unconditionally, so he said: "The widow can only delay for a year at most, if they don't take the initiative to Sinicize, the widow can't delay any longer. "

There are some things that can be used to drag words, but there are no rules. The reason why special cases are special cases is because the number of times is very small. Once there are too many, it is no longer a special case. It is breaking the rules. The ruler should maintain and stick to the established rules. , not to break it.

"Then...can the king redeploy some manpower?" Tuoba Xiu didn't want to push too far, so he added, "Or can I ask my concubine to pay for the hiring?"

"If you are short of money, you can get it from others." Liu Yan should still be more reserved. The less things you can do by yourself, the better. If there are too many things, it is not to show authority. On the contrary, a king with insufficient authority will do everything by himself: " I have already agreed to the matter. You can put away your makeup and go sit with the queen."

Tuobaxiu bowed deeply before backing away, and turned around when he reached the door.She is already very happy to have achieved such a result, not only because Liu Yan's love for her has not diminished, but also because she was able to save some clansmen.

The strength and dominance of the Han state is beyond dispute, and the Jie people are being caught all the time and killed endlessly. It is conceivable that it will be a matter of time before the Jie people in the radiant areas of the Han state are completely killed.With the Jie tribe as the best example, no one is not afraid that they will also become the targets that must be wiped out by the Han Dynasty.

The reason why the Jie people will be exterminated is not the key to why the Han people hate them so much. The key is that a nation is really going to perish, and the surrounding countries and nations of the Han state are not only panicked, but trembling with fear.

"I really wronged my sister." Cui Wan was embroidering, and the clothes in her hands seemed to be for a newborn baby.With a sincere smile on her face, she said: "It stands to reason that my younger sister's dowry should be decided by herself, but the timing of their arrival is too delicate, the king has no choice but to do that."

"Let Jiang say that the military has too much control." Xie Daoyun was half lying down and eating melon seeds, adjusting his posture to make himself more comfortable, and then continued: "Your Majesty shouldn't be so used to the military, especially It's Hussar General Ran Min."

Xie Daoyun will attack Ran Min. Very few people south of the Yangtze River have a good impression of Ran Min. What is more relevant is that Ran Min has been bullying Xie An a lot recently.

The military operations of the Han army in the depths of the grassland continued, and the invasion of Zhang's Liangguo had also entered the final stage of preparation. It was only waiting for the ice and snow to melt before making a large-scale invasion.

Xie An rushed back to Guanzhong after reporting his duties. The operation for the invasion of Zhang's Liang Kingdom had already begun. Apart from the preparation of military supplies, it was to sow dissension within Zhang's Liang Kingdom.

It takes a lot of preparations to invade a country, and the military materials needed must be calculated in large quantities. However, the military equipment that Xie An requested from the center to deploy was delayed in the war zone that Ran Min was in charge of. The corvee was also temporarily transferred by the Hussar General Shogunate.

"General Hussars is not someone we can arrange for women and others." Cui Wan looked at Xie Daoyun seriously, and warned: "The affairs of the mother's family are already the affairs of the mother's family. Don't gossip until it is absolutely necessary. root."

Xie Daoyun immediately showed an aggrieved expression, and licked the melon seeds hard.

Are there melon seeds in AD [-]?The ancients mostly ate the seeds of melons, which may have existed in prehistoric times, and the unearthed objects can be seen in the tombs of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

"Come on, my sister has eaten too many melon seeds, she should drink more water." Sang Miao leaned over with a smirk, and said teasingly, "Have you been scolded by the king?"

"He really taught me..." The grievance on Xie Daoyun's face came and went quickly, and it was replaced by a laughing expression: "But I didn't slap other people's butt like before.", meaning, finally, I am not treated as a child .

Zhang Lan immediately covered her mouth and smiled. What she didn't notice was that the needle in her hand accidentally pricked her lips.His laughter immediately turned into a cry of pain.Of course, her crying pain immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the female officials and maids who were serving beside her were even more nervous to check, only to find that it was just a pricking of blood beads, and the bleeding stopped soon before they were relieved.

"I'm pregnant, how can I spank my ass, after you give birth, if you still spank your butt, I guess you should continue spanking." Tuobaxiu joked: "But the king likes your poems very much, maybe you will be spanked When it's time to recite poems, the king will stop playing."

Immediately there was a burst of laughter in the room...

(End of this chapter)