Chapter 209: Encounter (3)
Liu Min heard Wei Baimao say this, and knew that the target of this guy was himself; Then he was so angry that his teeth itched, and he was determined to destroy this guy.
Liu Min and Wei Baimao's first contact was in the palace hall of the horse herding supervisor, when Grandpa Huo had already made a move; Grandpa Huo used the "Xue Li God Arm" to throw Gongzijian against the south wall, and Wei Baimao and Ma One-Eyed saw that their accomplices were beaten; the guy to fight Grandpa Fire, Zhi Yuzhong and Zhang Jing stepped forward to help Grandpa Huo.
But Wei Baimao and Ma One-eyed are veterans of the battle, and there are forty or fifty soldiers behind them; Grandpa Huo, Zhi Yuzhong, and Zhang Jing are not opponents, and Liu Min is about to perform the "Plum Blossom Flying Needle"; But Qin Feng and Zhou Xing rushed in to subdue Wei Baimao, Ma One-eyed and Wu Bulun, and Liu Min didn't have time to make a move.
Now it is the red pine forest of the White Crane Grassland, and it is not easy for Liu Min to throw out the "plum blossom flying needle" to kill Wei Baimao.
Liu Min hated Wei Baimao's thin, and took out a few plum blossom silver needles from the needle socket on his wrist and pinched them in his hand, intending to send Wei Baimao to the western sky like two flying sparrows piercing through Heze Garden.
After Liu Min killed Wei Baimao, he then killed the two haircuts beside this guy, and then waited for Liang Ding to summon Lu Chengyu and Qin Feng; Wrap all these traitors into dumplings.
Liu Min concluded that the seventeen or eighteen-year-old haircutter who rode on a horse to the left of Wei Baimao was Li Jiqian; And the older ones are the guys who are called Weng Lian's military division by Wei Baimao.
Weng Lian's military division? This name seems a little familiar, oh, by the way, after the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo military advisor who invaded the Tang capital Chang'an, that is, the monk prime minister, seems to be called Weng Lian...... By the way, it is called Weng Lian Lao Song, and the Han people call him Weng Lian Lao or Weng Lian Lao Monk.
The old monk Weng Lian is the sect leader of the Demon Sect, and was appointed as a monk by Trisong Dezan Zangpu; He gave the general of the unified army, Dazaru Gong, as a military advisor to invade the Central Plains.
Trisong Detsen and Songtsen Gampo and Trizu Detsen are also known as the three great kings of Tibet, and some people say that his mother is the princess of Jincheng; is the nephew of the Tang Dynasty, but this nephew always makes trouble for his uncle.
As soon as Liu Min thought of the name Weng Lian Lao Song, he had an urge to have a surge of blood.
It was this Weng Lian Lao Song who forced Tang Dezong to sign the unequal "Tang, Fan Qingshui Covenant".
Although Weng Lian Lao Song, a bald donkey, is a military advisor, he has great magic; In each battle, he had to personally go out and kill many Tang Dynasty generals.
However, this guy was later beheaded by Guo Ziyi by Tang Dynasty Xiao, and Chisong Zampu learned that Weng Lian Lao Song was killed in battle and then quit the dynasty for January; personally led the tribe to attack the Tang army; Tang Dezong had no choice but to sign the "Tang Fan. Shimizu and Alliance.
The Tang Dynasty and the Qing Shui Peace Alliance was the first humiliating unequal contract in Chinese history, and it was no different from the unequal treaties signed by the Manchu court and the foreigners.
The "Tang Fan Qingshui Peace Alliance" marks the demarcation line between the two sides in the area south of the Yellow River: from north to south, from the middle section of today's Liupan Mountain to the southern end of Longshan, then through the Western Han River, the Bailong River, and then along the upper reaches of the Min River to the west to the Dadu River; Then follow the south of the river to reach the mill some barbarians (northwest Yunnan).
The east of this line belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the land to the west belongs to Tibet.
After obtaining this vast land, the Tibetans completely cut off the passage from Chang'an to Hexi and the Western Regions, and occupied a large agricultural area from Lintao in the west to the western foot of Longshan Mountain in the east, including the Daxia River, the Tao River, the upper reaches of the Weishui River, and the upper reaches of the Western Han River, and the losses suffered by the Tang Empire were immeasurable.
Volume 138 of the "History of the Old Five Dynasties" records: "Hexi, Longyou 33 states, Liangzhou is the largest, the soil is fertile and the people are rich. Its land is suitable for horses, Tang placed eight eunuchs, and herded 300,000 horses. With the Anxi Protectorate, the 36 countries of the Western Regions were bound. Tang army, town, supervisor, affairs, more than 300 cities".
It is not difficult to see that after the loss of this large piece of land, Datang's direct losses have been extremely heavy; The indirect losses caused by the severance of communication with the Western Regions are even more staggering.
To make matters worse, after the loss of this important horse farm; The Tang Dynasty's military strength declined even further, which paved the way for further humiliation in the future.
However, although the Tang Dynasty ceded a lot of land this time, most of it was land that had been captured by the Fan army before; Therefore, the nature of the land cession of the Tang Dynasty this time is the same as that of the later Song Gaozong and Qin Hui in the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" to cede the area north of Huaishui, neither of which is the territory that they are controlling, but just acknowledging the lost fait accompli.
"Qingshui Peace Alliance" and "Shaoxing Peace Conference" are so similar, they are all the ruling level to give up the reconquest of lost territory; The Tang Dynasty promised not to counterattack the western frontier again, and Song Gaozong stopped the idea of recovering the Central Plains from the Northern Expedition.
"Qingshui Peace Alliance" and "Shaoxing Peace Conference" are the most tragic heartaches for the children of China for thousands of years, although some people say that this matter is a brother's wall; But the loss of the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei allowed the backward Jin country to unify the north, after all, it was a big regression of the historical trend.
The Tang Dynasty fell soon after the "Qingshui Peace Alliance", and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms that followed behind caused the population of the Central Plains to drop sharply; The unlucky ones are still the people of Leba.
Liu Min was a little dumbfounded when he read about China's first humiliating unequal treaty in later generations.
The first humiliating treaty in China came from the Tang Dynasty, which had been praised for thousands of years, and the unequal treaty imposed on his uncle by his nephew; This is really ten acres of land planted with a sorghum stalk seedling, and Liu Min is inevitably haunted.
Was the Tang Dynasty strong? This is undeniable! But behind the strength of the Tang Dynasty lurked the danger of extinction.
Tang Xuanzong, who was half bright and half dark, created the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, but directly led to the Anshi Rebellion.
In the 150 years since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has been beaten hard; In the end, he was finally destroyed by the guy named Zhu Wen.
In this sense, the Tang Dynasty was no better than the Song Dynasty; Since Tang Taizong, he has sent women to Yidi to maintain the stability of the regime; Later, he had to cede the land and pay compensation.
In 662 A.D. (the 2nd year of Tang Gaozong Longshuo), after Qiuzi abandoned Tang and surrendered to Tibet, the Tang army led by Su Haizheng escaped in order to survive; He even bribed the Tibetan army with military funds.
In the decades that followed, the Tang Dynasty lost ground on the two fronts of the Western Regions and Helong; It was defeated by the Tibetans, and a large part of the territory was lost.
As many as 450,000 generals were killed in the battle in Western Xinjiang, and countless were wounded and scattered; The civilians who accompanied the army lost millions.
Under the frequent defeats and oppression, Datang, who couldn't stand the bullying, finally came up with his killer weapon - harmony.
Following Princess Wencheng, Princess Jincheng was presented to the lord of Tubo in 710 AD; And a year later, it ceded the land of Jiuqu in the west of the Yellow River.
Although the historians cleverly said that the land of Jiuqu that was cut off was called the dowry of Princess Jincheng, saying that it was used for the princess to bathe; But this kind of self-deception is so absurd and far-fetched, I am afraid that even children cannot be deceived.
Everyone knows that this is a humiliation for the Tang Dynasty to cede territory with distorted words.
Although the Tang Dynasty sent women and cut land, and behaved extremely humiliatingly, the relationship between countries has always been based on strength, so Princess Jincheng's entry into Tibet could not change the substantive relationship between Tang and Tibet.
After obtaining the land of Jiuqu, Tubo achieved both strategic and geographical advantages; However, Chisong Dezan Zampu did not satisfy his desires, and ordered Dazha Lugong and Weng Lian Lao Song to lead more than a dozen entangled ethnic groups in the Western Regions to attack the Tang Realm.
There is no shortage of military geniuses in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, a military strategist in Li Shimin's era, and Guo Ziyi, a powerful general who pacified the Anshi Rebellion, are all warlords.
When the Tibetan army approached Chang'an, Guo Ziyi was stationed in Fengtian with an edict, and he comforted his subordinates: "The enemy army has penetrated deep into our territory, which is conducive to a quick battle; The barbarian subordinates have long been favored by the court, and we will not attack them; Naturally, they will change their minds! ”
Guo Ziyi held the camp to defend against the enemy, and the enemy retreated.
But Weng Lian Laosong, the Tubo military advisor, did not buy Guo Ziyi's account, and let the Tubo soldiers line up to fight against each other; He went out to challenge Guo Ziyi.
Guo Ziyi couldn't tolerate Weng Lian's arrogance, and decisively went into battle to fight Weng Lian's old song; Decapitate it.
The disciples of the Demon Sect and the Tubo soldiers saw that the commander was beheaded, and they dispersed in a hurry; Since then, it has formed a bond with the Central Plains Dynasty.
When Trisong Detsen learned that the monk and the national teacher Weng Lian Laosong had died in battle, he launched a mad attack on the Tang Dynasty.
After Guo Ziyi's death, the Tang Dynasty no longer had generals to resist the Tibetans; After Tang Dezong ascended the throne, he had no choice but to be a coward to cede land and retreat.
The Tubo people had an excellent pedal after the signing of "Qingshui Peace Alliance"; Moreover, the soil of Jiuqu is fertile, and the agricultural output is extremely abundant, so the agricultural economy of Tibet has been greatly improved, and the national strength is becoming stronger day by day.
Several generations of Tibetan Zampu have invaded the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Empire entered a strong period; Under the leadership of Li Longji, a generation of British lords, the government reforms were carried out, and the flawed government military system implemented by Tang Taizong under the motive of quick success and quick profit was abolished, and the Tang army gradually changed from a professional farmer to a professional soldier; The rapid increase in combat effectiveness greatly alleviated the decline of the Tang Dynasty before its defeat.
However, the good times did not last long, when the 70,000 Anxi Tang troops of Zhenguo were annihilated in Talas, and more than 200,000 mainland Tang troops were successively lost in southern Yunnan; The situation in the Tang Dynasty became extremely bad again, and the ensuing Anshi Rebellion made it even more devastating.
After even the capital Chang'an was easily captured in 763, the weak Tang Dynasty was already afraid of Tubo, which was far stronger than himself.
As soon as Tang Dezong ascended the throne in 779, in order to avoid being beaten by Tubo again, he immediately took the initiative to send envoys to seek a peace alliance with Tubo.
In fact, under the strong military pressure of Dashi, Hui and other countries, the main force of the Tibetan army was stationed in its western frontier at this time, and there were not many garrisons in the Helong area, and most of them were second- and third-rate troops.
In volume 434 of the "Quantang Wen", it is recorded that Han Xun, the envoy of Runzhou Jiedu, wrote a letter in 786; It describes in detail the plight of the Tibetans in the Helong region:
Hearing that in recent years, the soldiers have been weak, the west is strong in the big food, the north is sick and the people are in Hui, and the east has the defense of the Southern Zhao, and outside the town, the soldiers are in Helong, only fifty or sixty thousand.
Long before the conclusion of the Qingshui Covenant, Cui Huan, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, had already detected the reality of the Tubo people through secret investigation; And clearly reported to the Tang court: At this time, the garrison of Tubo in the Helong area was only 59,000 people, of which less than 30,000 were capable of fighting.
Although Tubo only stationed 30,000 partial divisions and 30,000 "children" in the Helong area at this time, the weak Tang still did not dare to compete with it, and just blindly begged for peace.
At this time, the military-controlled area of Tibet had approached Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, which made the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers feel like thorns in their backs......