The Sun and the Lion

A few days later, in the military camp outside Diyarbakır, Ibrahim was browsing the newly delivered letters.

The first letter was sent from Tabriz and contained two main contents. One was sent by his own Grand Emir of Lale Hussein. He roughly said that several peasant rebellions broke out after he took away the main force, but they were successfully extinguished with the help of the red-headed militia provided by the tribe.

In addition to stabilizing domestic order, he also used these temporary workers to scare various separatist forces in the east. Now, Persian Iraq (Iraq e Ajam, the north-central region of Iran, including cities such as Tehran and Qom), Lorestan , Kerman and Isfahan areas have all been included in the bag, and only Fars and the Persian Gulf coast area have not yet been controlled.

After reading these short paragraphs, Ibrahim took up a pen and wrote down instructions, asking the priests to strengthen their control over the countryside. At the same time, he recruited a group of reliable red-headed veterans to go to the countryside and grant them a fixed area of ​​privileged real estate. They are responsible for organizing local militia and maintaining local order. At the same time, Ibrahim also proposed the Baojia system and the continuous sitting system that can use peach blossom stones in the countryside, requiring them to supervise each other, and the militia can also be organized accordingly.

The second thing was that Ibrahim’s wife arrived. After preparation for a period of time, Ali sent his daughter Mira to Tabriz along with her dowry, and she had already moved into the palace under Hussein’s arrangement. With Ali's funding, the servants and craftsmen he sent will renovate the palace to make it more befitting of the King of Kings. At the same time, he accepted the official position of hereditary governor of Tabaristan and was allowed to retain his original pomp and majority power.

Regarding the renovation of the palace in Tabriz, Ibrahim said that it did not matter. According to his idea, he would move the capital to Tehran or Isfahan later, and he was not very concerned about this temporary capital.

After this incident, Ibrahim only replied: "I understand."

After processing the first letter, Ibrahim handed it back to the messenger from Tabriz.

Then he picked up the second letter. Compared with the previous letter, the handwriting of this letter is much more sloppy, but it is still generally understandable. But after he read the text, Ibrahim felt something was wrong.

Murad suddenly wrote a letter asking to convert and surrender to himself. This in itself was nothing, after all, he had crushed Alvand and Ahmed one after another, so it was strange that he felt not afraid.

But logically speaking, diplomatic letters should not be written in such a sloppy manner, and there was only one messenger who came. Murad was not a minister trying to betray the king, and there was no need to be so secretive.

Could it be that he couldn't control his military leaders?

But, so what if I can’t control it? Whether Murad successfully surrendered or triggered internal strife was beneficial to Ibrahim.

Then he quickly asked the guards to summon his staff and kings of Khans to come.

After everyone sat down, he told everyone the news: "Everyone, Murad is surrendering."

Then he handed the paper to the guards and asked them to circulate it to the senior officers. After reading this letter, everyone began to think of their own.

"Your Majesty, I think the authenticity of this news needs to be discussed." After a brief thought, an aide raised the doubts he discovered, which was similar to Ibrahim's thoughts.

"Whether Murad surrenders smoothly or the situation gets out of control, these are all beneficial to me. If Murad cannot control his military leaders, their strength will be severely weakened. If they fake a surrender and ambush, Qiz The Erbash will completely destroy their power."

"Your Majesty, do you want to gather the troops and go to Baghdad now?"

"No." Ibrahim looked at several of his aides, "You first go out with the priests as envoys, publicly convert Murad, and then surrender to me."

"As you wish, Your Majesty." Several staff assigned to the mission bowed and saluted.

"Then gather the troops and wait for my order."

"Your Majesty, just leave those Kurdish emirs alone?"

"Do you think Baghdad is more important or those small towns? For the time being, let them keep everything they have, and then reduce the burden Ahmed assigns to them by half. This should be able to appease them."

After Ibrahim gave the order, the meeting ended and everyone went about their business.

"Kamran, are there any documents?" Ibrahim asked the clerk after waiting for a while and found that there were no new documents for him to process.

"No, Your Majesty. There are not many things that you need to handle today." Kamran replied respectfully.

Also, Ibrahim was now in the military camp, and most administrative and religious matters were left to the central government in Tabriz to handle. Find Shuyuan www. zhaoshuyuan.com Even if it is military affairs that I have to handle, with the help of a group of staff and officers, I can free up a lot of time to fish during the day.

"What to do now?" Ibrahim thought.

Speaking of which, last time Osman Padishah gave him the Rus slave girls, he only left a few of them that best suited his taste to serve him. The others were rewarded to his ministers after the envoy left according to precedent, according to precedent.

Also, in Ibrahim's army, his prescribed work and rest time was to work during the day and rest at sunset (except for the sentries). The officers usually gathered together to drink and enjoy themselves. Sometimes, Ibrahim would drink with senior military officers to bond.

But it was still too early to have fun with the Khan Kings. It was a long time before get off work, so we couldn't take the lead in breaking the rules.

Didn't the letter say that his wife had arrived? It just so happened that Ibrahim, like any ordinary nobleman, brought non-combatants with him. Just in time to work out and practice a little before going back.

"Kamran, if there is nothing else to do, you can go back."

The clerk didn't know why the King of Kings suddenly kicked him out, and left with a confused look on his face, taking the books and documents. Then Ibrahim summoned several Russian and Circassian slave women who accompanied the army.

Beautiful day begins.

But it was a bad day for Murad. The Moussasha Order not only defeated the hired bandits outside Basra, but even tried to attack the city. With the help of internal agents, the Moussasha Order has taken control of the city outside the castle area.

The straight-line distance between Baghdad and Diyarbakır is also 630 kilometers, and it would take several days for the messenger to complete the round trip even if his horse ran to death. Not to mention the military.

He looked through the window at the dark city at night, silent.