God that I have not fought you for the sake of fast and prayer. You can please yourselves in performing these acts. My only reason for this combat has been to rule you, and so I trample upon every condition that I have made in my pact with al-Hasan."
In his first days and years of his rule, Mu'awiyah was compelled to follow a policy of caution and moderation. He made peace with the emperor of Rome, and even paid tributes to him. He sent bags of money from Damascus to all parts of the country. He deceived the chiefs and dignitaries of tribes and crafty Arabs with money, position and ties of kinship until his rule was consolidated on the basis of materialism and tyranny. It was then that he revealed his real visage and nature. He revived the customs of the tyrannical emperors of the world. Gold and silver from one side, and property, gardens and springs from another side were brought under his bloody hands from all parts of the great Islamic realm. He issued the order, like Iranian kings, that on the new year and Mehrgan festivals gifts should be offered to him, an act which was the heritage of the two great neighboring empires, namely Iran and Rome.

Tradition making and its motives
in the time of Mu'awiyah

Many loads of wine were carried for Mu 'awiyah.
Historians

With the commencement of the rule of Mu'awiyah, the friends and companions of the Prophet who had gathered round Imam 'Ali during the Alawite rule, were scattered in different parts of the Islamic realm. After the truce of Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba with Mu'awiyah, as this group had lost their strong support and were now a weakened party, they were dispersed in various lands of Islam.
If we have used the phrase 'the friends round the Imam' it is because reliable historians have spoken of a large group of the Prophet's companions as supporters of Imam 'Ali in the battles