Regarding the fact that Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, intended to marry, Liu Yu was skeptical and cautious.
However, after everyone else learned about this incident, they were very pleased with the marriage, especially Liu Yu's mother Fan and his brother.
They all said that Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, was born in the world-famous Taiyuan Wang family. Being able to marry a girl from the Taiyuan Wang family was something worthy of boasting for the humble Liu Yu family, and Women with such a well-connected surname must be of first-class appearance and conduct, and they are definitely not the kind of people that can be found in the small families in Donglai County.
Of course, what really impressed Liu Yu and made him agree to something was mainly because the envoy sent by Wang Jun had some friendship with Liu Yu's brother and expressed some of Wang Jun's true thoughts.
The reason why Wang Jun wanted to win over Liu Yu was mainly because his relationship with Taifu Sima Yue was getting worse and worse. The initial alliance and cooperation between the two had developed into mutual suspicion.
Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, was afraid of the military strength of Wang Jun's Youzhou Army and Duanbu Xianbei, and did not dare to continue to give Wang Jun an excuse to go south to participate in the military.
Of course Wang Jun knew that Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, had already suspected him, and Wang Jun was in a situation where he was surrounded by powerful enemies. He had Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou in the west of Youzhou, and Ding Shao, the governor of Jizhou in the south. Both of them were Sima Yue. die-hard supporter.
Among them, Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, formed an alliance with Xianbei of the Tuoba tribe in the north of Saibei in order to defend Jinyang and not be able to resist the attack of the Huns and Han alone.
Wang Mi has been wooing Duan Xianbei, who he relies on, to live in western Liaoning. Now the Yuwen tribe located in the upper reaches of the Liao River is getting stronger and stronger, and has been attacking Duan and Murong in the south. This makes Duan Xianbei sometimes unable to respond to Wang Jun's demands. Duanbu Xianbei became more and more greedy and made more and more demands on Wang Jun, asking for everything from official positions, money and silk, soldiers' armor and even women.
Facing the increasingly greedy Duan Bu Xianbei, although Wang Jun could still tolerate it at this time, when he learned that Liu Yu had captured Qingzhou and Gou Xi had entered Luoyang, he felt that this was a good way to break Sima Yue's siege of Youzhou. Chance.
Regarding Gou Xi, Wang Jun sent people into Luoyang to express his support for Emperor Sima Chi's pro-government. He used this to show favor to Gou Xi and disgust Sima Yue.
As for Qingzhou Liu Yu, Wang Jun was more willing to make great efforts to win over him. After learning that Liu Yu was not married, he directly sent someone to arrange a marriage.
After listening to his brother Liu Yi's words, Liu Yu basically understood Wang Jun's intentions.
It's nothing more than Wang Jun wooing him by marrying off his daughter, just like he wooed Duan Xianbei. In this way, it would be better for the Wang family of Taiyuan to marry their daughter to a barbarian, rather than marrying her to a poor family in a small county like himself.
In the end, Liu Yu's subordinates Gongsun Sheng, Xue Qi, Yan Zhu and others came to persuade Liu Yu to agree to the marriage. After all, having another ally is not a bad thing.
Liu Yu had never thought about free love. With the current trend in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, these slightly powerful family marriages were not matters decided by one or two people, but were major events involving the interests of the whole family.
Moreover, these women from wealthy families rarely show up. Anyway, Liu Yu has basically never seen a few girls with big surnames.
As for girls from ordinary people's families, don't put too much hope in it, not to mention that most of them are devastated by heavy work, and they basically get married early and have children.
Liu Yu had met several ordinary women with outstanding looks before, but after asking about them, he found out that they all had two children.
After Liu Yu nodded and agreed to Wang Jun's request for marriage, everything became simple. According to the customs of the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu, as a state official, could have the same status as the ancient princes, and did not need to come to the door in person like ordinary people. To get married, you only need to send out a special emissary. Basically all the marriage procedures are handled by special people. Liu Yu only needs to wait for the bride to be married.
After several exchanges, the two parties set the wedding date in December.
After settling the matter, Liu Yu put it down.
After all, when he learned that the governor of Youzhou, Wang Jun, had already married more than a dozen daughters, he immediately felt that this marriage alliance was not so reliable.
He is just one of Wang Jun's dozen sons-in-law.
Moreover, Wang Jun still had five or six daughters who were under the age of marriage, which made Liu Yu even more speechless.
I never expected that this old guy Wang Jun could be so capable of giving birth to a daughter. No wonder he could marry his daughter to a barbarian named Duan Xianbei casually.
It was already winter when the snow had just begun to fall. Taking advantage of the fact that the farming work had been completed, Liu Yu personally led the officials to implement the household allocation and land allocation that he had promised his soldiers before.
Thanks to Liu Bogen's rebellion and Gou Xi's suppression of the powerful, a large number of ownerless and abandoned mature fields appeared in Qingzhou. Coupled with the wasteland that could be reclaimed, these lands were enough to be distributed to Liu Yu's soldiers, making these people landowners. Semi-professional soldiers similar to the soldiers of the Zhou and Sui Dynasties in later generations.
After the turbulent times of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, China did not lack land for reclamation at all, but lacked population as a source of labor and soldiers.
Therefore, the biggest obstacle for Liu Yu's actions was not to allocate the land, but to turn the private soldiers who originally belonged to various powerful families into registered government soldiers belonging to Qingzhou.
This is of course a good thing for those soldiers who were originally powerful troops.
After all, as a powerful tribe, they are farmers when they have nothing to do. They need to pay half or more of the field harvest to the suzerain. Randomly assigned to other parts, his wife spanked his child while he slept.
The biggest obstacle to this matter is of course these powerful people. They are simply unwilling to cede these private soldiers that directly belong to them.
Even if Liu Yu promised to give them a lot of compensation.
For example, after these tribes become military households with land, they can still be under their command. After all, they are the guardians of the sect, but they cannot be disposed of at will like slaves and livestock like before.
Liu Yu also promised that these old tribes who were released as military households would still need to pay part of their farm output in the first three years to these powerful men as part of the redemption fee.
After Liu Yu made many concessions like this, there were still many powerful people who refused to give in at all. These stubborn powerful people basically just wanted to enjoy the rights of the suzerain supervisory system and did not want to agree to the corresponding concessions. They did not want to let go of the things in their hands. control of the song.
