In Chang'an City, it was the fifth day after the war when Zhou Huaian got the news.
"The Chiling War has ended. In the stubborn enemy chief Li Mingda who committed suicide, many of the remaining troops fell; the battle was cut to nearly 10,000, with more than 30,000 captured, more than 200,000 cattle, horses and sheep, and the attacking army headquarters lost more than 3,000. The pawns and the soldiers who helped the war have suffered more than 6,000 casualties in the waiting sequence..."
"Since then, the Longyou Raiders on the Western Route have entered the final stage, and the formed resistance forces in He, Lang, and Shanzhou have been almost wiped out; just five days ago, Li Hanzhi's first soldiers had taken Shanzhou without a fight. Lisuo from Longyou (Jedu Shi)—Xiducheng (now Ledu, Qinghai)."
"However, because of the road blockage caused by the collapse of Shibao City in Chiling Mountain Pass, only one footpath has been opened up. If you want the army to pass, it will take at least half a month of continuous work, so It will take time for most of the followers to follow up..."
"Well, it's really a surprise to use this Li Moyun; but I also like to use soldiers to take risks and surprises. If you continue to do this, you will still overturn one day."
Zhou Huaian thought for a while and suddenly asked:
"By the way, what about the local Tubo people?"
Because there seems to be a large-scale remnant of Tubo forces in Qinghai where he vaguely touched; there are even forces that claim to be the descendants of Zampudama, the last generation of the Tubo dynasty, and they have maintained a considerable sense of existence until the Song Dynasty; and It became one of the main achievements of Xihe Kaibian among the few foreign records of Song Dynasty.
"Going back to the Lord, according to the report from the front, the local Tubo people have been declining for a long time, and they are no longer a problem. On the contrary, Wenmo, which is located in the west of rivers and corridors, is a strong local.
Mi Bao, the chief officer of Yu, replied:
After all, it is only seventeen or eighteen years since the slave riot and uprising that led to the complete demise of Tubo. It is said that Xu Budze, the leader of one of the rebels, and others even captured the ancestral land of Tubo originated in Shannan, digging down many tombs of the Tubo dynasty Zanpu, and dug up all the burial properties.
And Bezanmo, the grandson of the last Zanpu, was killed by the rebel army. Therefore, in the old Japanese map of the disintegration and disintegration of the Tubo Kingdom, there is also a situation of fragmentation and assembly in which many old nobles, town generals, and surname tribes, large and small, are separated from each other and attacked and killed each other.
Among them, there are several royal families that praise Pu's descendants alone. Among the archaeological achievements of later generations, the more famous is the Guge, which is famous for the headless corpse cave and the Guge silver eye. It is known as the last Zamplangdama great-grandson Dezugong and is located in the ancient Xiangxiong hometown. kingdom.
In this civil war that began in the second year of Huichang (842), and then to the tenth year of Xiantong (869), the whole Tubo uprising broke out. The war that lasted for decades almost destroyed the slave kingland system throughout Tubo in the old days. The dual pattern of the Hebu leadership system was replaced by the feudal era of "no king, no Zanpu" of serf/liminization.
Among them, the remnants of the Tubo forces near Helong and Guanzhong were mainly due to the melee in the eastern Tubo towns, leading their tribes, Hezhou, Weizhou, and Hunmo to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. The tribal envoy of Yan Yingda in Han Dynasty was Shang Yan. Heart, the relevant descendants left behind.
It’s just that this Tubo is not very good. Since he mastered Eastern Tubo and claimed to be the number one warlord of Dalun (State Minister), he was afraid of fever. He conquered until he was defeated and was led by Zhang Jiyong, the capital of the rebel army. After Ba Huaiguang was hunted and killed in Kouzhou, the remaining Tubo people also disintegrated and separated.
Then, in the West Wenmo tribe, which was transformed from the civilians and slave rebels of all ethnic groups in Helong, and the rise of the Hexi Guiyi Army, they became a vassal force in the crack-one of the Hexi Ten People's Ministry. The third-rate existence.
This is also because although it was also one of the separatist forces in the late Tang Dynasty, Zhou Huaian would take an extra look at the Guiyi Army; at least compared to these Central Plains warlords who could only invade and fight for hegemony, the Guiyi Army was a piece of land during the Five Dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty. The only places in the fishy northwest that are still working hard to open up the living space of the Han people.
Although the Guiyi Army itself has many historical limitations and inherent deficiencies, from the beginning to the end, whether it was Zhang’s reign or Cao’s reign, it was the beacon of civilization that established itself as the Han regime and always focused on the homeland of the Central Plains. Finally, it was destroyed by the newly emerging Xixia a hundred years later (this is also the historical background of the old movie "Dunhuang").
Then, the land of the Han family since ancient times, including the Western Regions, was inevitably re-humiliated after being weak in the two Song dynasties. After the Yuan dynasty, it was born and made fearful of Wuer (the name of all the ethnic groups in the northwest is called this name). Movement, until the re-opening and emigration of the Qing Dynasty did not have the territory of Xinjiang for later generations.
Of course, in this time and space, now that Chiling (Riyueshan) and Shibao have already been taken, the Taiping Army's advance can also be temporarily reported to a stage. This is because one of the five Rus of Tubo (Yushu area, Qinghai) is one of the former five Rus in Tubo.
If you continue to go deeper from here, you will not only face the increasing altitude, the harsh and changeable plateau climate, the broken and narrow and the sudden drop of the mountain and valley terrain; but also the snow blindness, the lack of oxygen and the inability to cook food. Altitude sickness is a potential threat and obstacle that cannot be overcome for a while;
This is also an example of the Tang army having repeatedly penetrated into Tubo, but was unable to achieve decisive battle results, and even ushered in great defeats such as Dafeichuan and Xingsuchuan; it was the soldiers from the lowland plains who had been wounded before the decisive battle. Illness and fatigue are severely weakened.
As for supporting and cultivating the local servant army and goodwill tribal forces, as a barrier and pioneer, the corresponding cycle and effort are too long. It takes at least one or two generations to be effective (such as Dangxiang and Shatuo); Enough to survive two or three emperors, let alone those border guards with a limited term.
Therefore, in contrast, the Qinghai region, which is located in the northeast of the Tanggula Mountains and is relatively flat and open, and presents a multi-level transitional ladder shape, is much more useful; you should know that in the early days, Tubo had not taken the place in Qinghai. Before the Tuyuhun regime, there was not even a place to gather more than 100,000 troops/tribes.
Not to mention the lush vegetation environment of the Xihai (Qinghai Lake) basin, the rich horses and herds, the minerals at the edge of the Qaidam Basin and Qilian Mountains, through the Qiangtang and other places to the Silk Road branch of the Western Region-Qiang Many trade benefits brought by Zhongdao/Xikaidao.
Therefore, the Taiping Army’s strategy in the west will be changed from offensive to defensive. This will blockade and isolate the remaining areas including Ye Ru, Wu Ru, and Wei Ru in a disguised form, and will maintain a “closed door and beating dog” for a long time. "Or it is the state of self-sustaining and self-destruction of "raising Gu behind closed doors."
As long as the areas in the southwest of the Tanggula Mountains are closed with limited military presence and permanent fortresses, limited foreign exchanges and trade, and expansion of the tunnels; with more support, the military pressure on the plateau can be maintained at a lower cost.
After all, because of its relative lack of material and limited output, the harsh climate of the plateau geographical environment is enough to cause the lack of communication to regress back to the wild, and in the subsequent survival involution, eliminate the redundant population and the rise of power in these places. .
You know, with the geographical closure of these snowy areas, it has maintained a population of one to two million until the liberation. After the liberation of New China, even after decades of investment in transportation, water conservancy, and electric power infrastructure, it barely doubled the population to more than three million.
"Among those Western Wenwen, are there any more powerful leaders?"
Zhou Huaian asked again:
Compared with these remnants of Tubo that have been declining, Zhou Huaian is even more in another existence. It was the Dangxiang regime represented by Li Yuanhao and his son. They fell in love with each other and killed several generations and even occupied his mother for a time.
But this time the answer is much simpler. Because Zheng Tian, the prime minister who went to the Western Regions to convene the coalition forces, promised to be induced by the warm and fertile land in the pass, whether it is the end of Wenwan in the east of the Ganliang generation nomads, or the end of Wen in the west between the riverside Yaomin, it can be called. The Shangju clan came out.
So when these essential parts are lost in the pass, and (as a prisoner who undertakes hard labor) are settled in disguise; the only ones left in the original place are some relatively weak small and medium-sized tents and settlements; this is also Li Hanzhi Driven by light soldiers without any disadvantage.
Therefore, Li Mingda had to borrow troops from the various ministries in the West Sea Basin on the plateau further west, in order to jointly resist the Taiping Army's attack. So this time the Chiling decisive battle was defeated and destroyed, and after losing tens of thousands of elites, including big and small leaders, heads, and tent owners/household heads, they were all in despair within a short period of time.
Therefore, most of the tents and settlements, not to mention they want to take the opportunity to move to the lower-lying Hexi to re-development and growth, even the basis for survival in the local area is very reluctant; limited survival resources and growing population pressure Down, they are not in harmony with each other.
Now we need to add the foreign Taiping Army, the new ruling order rebuilt with overwhelming force, and the upcoming economic, cultural, and religious migration/comprehensive Sinicization movement; so it is expected that there will be a continued period of time. A period of chaos and movement.
Needless to say, just the spontaneously formed monks from Chang'an Mahayana Buddhism and the guards sponsored by many regional chambers of commerce have already set off to the west to promote the Dharma as soon as they received news of the restoration of Longyou.
The reason for their application for spreading the Dharma is also very simple; since Princess Wencheng entered the Mahayana/Zen sect of Daxing in Tubo-Mahayanna, they were rejected and struggled by the Jiehu line of Guanzong in Tianzhu, and finally expelled from the Tubo region. It has been hundreds of years.
Therefore, it is time for these Xifan tribesmen who have been persevering in Tianzhu heresy/the law of evil spirits to return to the light of the right way; of course there is nothing wrong with Zhou Huaian. According to the religious policy of the Taiping Army, you are The more the Dharma is taught among the barbarians, the more dojos can naturally be established.
Therefore, as another time and space in the Five Dynasties line of the late Tang Dynasty, taking advantage of the contradiction between the Guiyi Army and the Tang Ting, led the tribe to enter the Yangfei Valley near Liangzhou to nomadic, and grew to become the leader of the Liugu tribe. It's just a little-known clan in Wenmoli, Langzhou.
This time it seemed that it was because of standing in the camp of Li Mingda, the remnant of the Western Army, so he couldn't escape afterwards and was divided up by the genocide who was easily liquidated.
After Zhou Huaian successively laid out the general plan for the follow-up Western Fan Economics and passed it on for further refinement and improvement, he received new news. Except for the few people who were waiting to give birth and raise children in the southern back house, the other descendants, all under the leadership of Yao Niang, came from Chang'an.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is done
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