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Chapter 883 Turkic Situation
In spring, all things come back to life, the grass grows and the birds sing.

After returning to Urge, Li Yan was very busy. First he got married, then he held a ceremony to enthronize the Khan, and then Jie Li's burial.

After finishing a series of things, it was already March of the following year.

The assassination of Jie Li last autumn implicated a large number of upper-class nobles in Urge, and countless people lost their heads. But in general, the real pillar of the Turkic Khanate, the Right Wise King, is still there, and the Khan's position is also inherited by the crown prince Shiluodi.

People weren't too panicked.
The Turks' southward march was originally a matter of conquest. Every time the army marched south, it would suffer heavy losses, and people had become accustomed to it. This time, the death of senior officials occurred during the war and involved the transition of the old and new Khans, so it did not seem so abrupt.

Every time the Khan was replaced on the grassland, large-scale bloodshed would occur. It was the absence of those people that led to a huge power vacuum, causing countless people to fight for it.

Under Li Yan's strategic maneuvers and deliberate guidance, after a period of purge and turmoil, the Turks gradually stabilized.

After Li Yan entered Urge, he adjusted the Turkic army. The original army of Zuoxian King and Jie Li were disbanded and reorganized, and 50,000 troops directly under the Right Xian King were transferred to the Khan's court. On this basis, he absorbed and integrated.

A group of 120,000 elite troops were formed and directly under the Khan's court.

Afterwards, the wedding of Li Yan and Ashina Jing and the ceremony of Shiluodie being crowned as Khan were held smoothly, which meant that the powerful alliance between the Right Wise King and the Left Wise King had truly made them a family, and Shiluodie's position as Khan was unbreakable.

This is only the view of outsiders. The real Turkic upper-class leaders and nobles all knew that from now on, the power of the Khan of the Turkic Khanate was divided into two. In name, it belonged to Shiluodie, but the actual power fell into the hands of the Right Wise King.

Li Yan played the trick of the Central Plains Dynasty, where the emperor ordered the princes to obey him. If anyone dared to disobey, he would be punished on behalf of the Khan. The Turks were not used to it. After all, the crown prince Shi Luodie was the heir apparent, and it would be unjustifiable if he resisted.

If they did not resist, they would have to accept Li Yan's rule. The Turks never dreamed that Li Yan could come up with such a "vicious" method.

Coupled with Li Yan's powerful combat power and extraordinary prestige, the stability of the grassland was maintained.

In Urge, there is a huge city, which is the location of the new Han court.

Three years ago, when the Turkic Khanate was doomed to fail, Jie Li ordered the reconstruction of the Khanate Palace in Urge, similar to the imperial palace of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, in order to increase the Khan's authority, issue orders to all directions, and suppress rebellion.

It took three years to complete.

Jie Li did not enjoy it, but Li Yan benefited from it. The grassland was far inferior to the Central Plains dynasty in terms of manpower and material resources. However, with the combined strength of the Khanate, they still built a city on a high ground just north of Urge.

The newly built royal city was surrounded by tall walls with a circumference of ten miles, encircling Urge.

The original market town was expanded to half its original size to the north. The northern part was the royal city and the southern part was Urge, separated by a city wall that was connected to the market town through a city gate. The wall was six meters high, and it was simply a miniature version of Chang'an City.

After the wedding, Li Yan simply moved the Right Wise King's tent to Urge and lived in the Khan's court.

Li Yan replanned the Khan's court. The largest hall in the middle was named Changsheng Hall, which was used for meetings, similar to the Taiji Hall in Chang'an. The eastern half was allocated to the Right Wise King, and the western half was the Khan's residence, used by Shiluodie Khan.

The guards and servants of the entire palace were arranged by Li Yan and managed by Helmu. Shi Luodie's every word and action was under Li Yan's control. Without Li Yan's consent, Shi Luodie could not leave the palace at all.

At this time, in a hall in the eastern part of the Khan's Palace, Li Yanzheng, Helsen and Gurentu were discussing matters.

Hermu was reporting to Li Yan about Shi Luodie's recent behavior: "Your Majesty, Shi Luodie is becoming more and more depraved. Yesterday, he gathered a group of concubines and maids in the bedroom, drank until midnight, and then indulged in debauchery. He played until dawn and fell asleep. He hasn't gotten up yet."

"Isn't this great!"

An envious look emerged on Li Yan's face. Shi Luodie was living the life he had always dreamed of. He could sleep until he woke up naturally, play however he wanted, have beautiful women and drinks, and was in a position superior to thousands of people.

It must be said that if people want to indulge themselves, they must also have sufficient material conditions.

In the past, Jie Li always moved his Khan's tent around for wars, so there was no place to hide beauties even if he wanted to. But it was different after he had the Khan's Palace. He could keep hundreds of slaves and maids to serve him alone, and no one could see them.

Li Yan used the same treatment enjoyed by the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty on Shi Luodie, a second-generation rich man whose will was not strong to begin with.

Sure enough, as soon as he returned to Urge, Shiluodie was so immersed in pleasure that he couldn't extricate himself. He threw all the affairs of the Khanate to Li Yan without even asking any questions. He lived such a luxurious and decadent life that Li Yan even wanted to trade places with him.

Li Yan looked relaxed: "The entire Khanate has plenty for him to enjoy. There is plenty of wine and meat. As long as he needs it, there is unlimited supply. There are also beautiful women. Doesn't he like sex? He has captured thousands of beautiful women from the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Each one is more beautiful than the Turkic women."

"Pick some out of them and send them to his palace." "But try to pick those with mild personalities. Shi Luodie destroyed the Three Kingdoms of Han. Don't pick those who bear grudges and try to assassinate Shi Luodie?"

Hermu nodded in understanding and agreed, "Don't worry, my king. I will control it."

"Also, Your Majesty, during our expedition to Goguryeo last year, we captured 500,000 or 600,000 young men from the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It's been half a year, and many of them can't adapt to life on the grasslands. Most of them don't know how to survive."

"Originally, Jie Li planned to purchase a batch of food and grass from the Tang Dynasty to survive the winter. However, due to the incident in Liaodong City, our relationship with the Tang Dynasty was severed. Without support, the survival pressure on the grassland is very high. Those outsiders have squeezed out a lot of local people's survival resources."

"Some opposition has arisen, and the newly appointed commanders have no prestige and are unable to control the situation, causing the relationship between the two tribes to become stagnant. Large-scale conflicts have occurred in several tribes. These issues cannot be left unresolved, right?"

Li Yan suddenly felt a headache. On the grassland, the losers would become slaves.

If Jie Li were still alive, when he encountered such a situation, he would definitely raise his butcher knife and kill a group of people. This would firstly reduce the burden, and secondly to deter the remaining people from being slaves obediently. He would even not hesitate to deal with all the captives.

But I am not that kind of person, so I have to find a way to solve the problem.

Shi Luodie was just a decoration and didn't care about anything, but in the end, all these troubles still fell on his head.

"Forget it. This is how it is on the grassland. Even if there are no outsiders, the fighting among the lower classes cannot be quelled. I'll think of a solution."

"See if we can contact the Tang Dynasty and buy some food."

Li Yan thought that bringing these people to the grassland was also for the Tang Dynasty to safely digest the land of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

If the Tang Dynasty is unwilling to lend me grain, I will threaten them to release the people. I guess the Tang Dynasty does not want to see these unstable factors return to the former territory of the Three Han Dynasty, which has become the "Liaodong Road" of the Tang Dynasty, right?
It is only right to give people some food after taking their land.

Thinking of this, Li Yan's face revealed a slightly obscene expression of success. Thinking that Old Li would roar in anger in Chengqing Hall after receiving such a threat from him, he finally gritted his teeth and sent batches of food to the enemy camp under the persuasion of Fang Xuanling and others!

"Your Majesty, I heard that the princess is pregnant. Congratulations!" Seeing that Li Yan was absent-minded, Gu Rentu interrupted with a smile.

"Haha, we got married last year and soon after that we got pregnant!"

Li Yan smiled and said, "It's just that the winter here is very cold, the temperature is very low, and it's winter, so I don't know if it can be saved, and I didn't alarm everyone. Fortunately, thanks to God's protection, the princess has safely passed the cold winter and has stabilized."

"It's been five months now."

Gu Rentu clasped his fists excitedly and said, "That's great. In half a year, a prince will be born. We are all happy that the king has a successor. The Khanate will also have a successor in the future. I think many people will feel at ease."

After a disturbance last year, the three men completely controlled Caoyuan. Twelve captains were also assigned to various places to take control of the original territories of Jie Li and Shiluodie. Now the Turkic Khanate belongs to Li Yan.

Gu Rentu and Heermu also followed suit and their mood naturally became happy!

According to Li Yan's original division, the Right Wise King's tribe was guarded by Gu Rentu, and the current central grassland was managed by Hermu.

They both knew that Li Yan's future position would definitely be in the Taiji Palace in Chang'an, and the Khanship of the Steppe Turks would most likely be handed over to their children.

The three of them chatted for a while. Li Yan saw that Heermu seemed to be hesitant to speak. After a little thought, he knew what he was worried about. He frowned and asked, "Why, Heermu, those captains can't calm the situation down now?"

After seizing power in the Khanate, Li Yan and Hermugurentu were fine, as they were already in high positions and were adept at controlling the situation. However, those newly promoted captains of ten thousand men were previously captains of a thousand men and were low-level government officials.

Suddenly occupying a high position, the power of the tribe expanded more than tenfold.

The Turks had no fixed place of residence, and generally lived in grasslands following water, dividing their living range according to the grasslands. A grassland was about the size of several prefectures in the Central Plains, and was inhabited by many different tribes of different sizes.

There may be as few as a dozen or as many as dozens. After the royal court issues an appointment or dismissal order, these tribes will be managed by the same leader.

In order to strengthen the leadership of these tribal groups, the tribes of the leaders would conduct a large number of marriages to form relatively close relationships. After the centurions were promoted, they would migrate their tribes to the places where Li Yan redistributed them to survive.

(End of this chapter)