Chapter 476: The Situation in Central Asia (Part I)
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For the Buddhist Uighur Khanate, the Samanid kingdom was a well-deserved enemy of Buddhism.
The reason why the Uighur Khanate only considered the Samanid kingdom to be an enemy of Buddhism is simple, because the Samanid kingdom was different from the other two states that were reluctant to tolerate Buddhism.
The Samanid kingdom strictly forbade the presence of Buddhists in the country, and if there was a Samanid kingdom, they would be persecuted.
Therefore, most of the believers in Buddhism in the Samanid kingdom fled to the Western Regions, and they did not only run to the Kingdom of Khotan first.
However, the Khotanese kingdom was under the control of the Qarluqs, and fearing persecution again, made their way east to the territory of the Uighur Khanate.
The Uighur Khanate received them warmly, and the Uighur Khanate had previously had a problem with the Sunni Persian states.
But no reasonable excuse could be found, but now the Samanid kingdom gave the Uighur Khanate an excuse to attack and plunder him.
However, the Uighur Khanate was somewhat upset by the fact that every time they attacked the Samanids, they had to use Khotan, which was under the control of the Qarluq Khanate.
Therefore, each time the Uighur Khanate had to give the Qarluq Khanate a portion of the spoils, much to the dissatisfaction of the Uighur Khanate.
Today, however, the relationship between the Uighur Khanate and the Qarluq Khanate has become increasingly close, although they are still hostile.
However, their high-ranking leaders began to marry each other, and the Uighur Khanate spared no effort to preach among the Qarluq Khanate.
The close relationship, the high-level marriages, but never stopped hostility against each other, this is the Qarluq Khanate and the Uighur Khanate.
It's not that they don't want to stop hostility with each other, but that the Uighur Khanate and the Qarluq Khanate are old enemies.
When they were dogs under the hands of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighur Khanate and the Qarluq Khanate did not deal with each other.
At first, they actually had a good relationship, but they couldn't let the Tang Dynasty know about their relationship.
Although they are steppe khanates, it doesn't mean that they don't know the tricks of holding each other back.
Wasn't the Uighur Khanate and the Qarluq Khanate mutually coercive forces of the Tang Dynasty?
So at first, they just wanted to act, but as the older generation passed away, that acting gradually turned into a direct conquest of each other.
The older generation is dead, and the impact they have on the younger generation is that their parents have been fighting each other.
Therefore, for the sake of their fathers, they also wanted to destroy each other, and it was with this idea that the Qarluq Khanate and the Uighur Khanate gradually moved towards the path of complete hostility.
If it's the group of young people who have just started hostilities, and you ask them why they want to fight, they probably can't say why.
But now if you ask a random low-level herdsman from the Qarluq Khanate and the Uighur Khanate, they are all hateful.
They fought each other for many years, and as the war expanded, each of their relatives died in the war to a greater or lesser extent.
If they want to stop the war, they can only solve the contradictions between them first, otherwise they will not be able to stop the war for the rest of their lives.
This is not the Khan's own business, but the business of all the herdsmen, and if the Khan forcibly stops the war, I am afraid that the herdsmen and soldiers will be the first to rebel.
The soldiers naturally have their own ideas, their ancestors have fought for this khanate for several generations, and now they want to say stop, if so, then they might as well change to a khan.
However, with the unbridled persecution of Buddhists by the Samanid kingdom, the Uighur Khanate saw an opportunity to warm up relations with the Qarluq Khanate.
In fact, most of the Qarluqs were Buddhists, but they did not forbid the herdsmen to believe in anything.
For these nomads, practicality is the last word, and if they are not practical, even if the World-Honored One stands in front of them, they will raise their butcher's knives.
True, the Uighur Khanate and the Qarluq Khanate began to unite, and they directly declared the Samanid kingdom an enemy of the Buddha.
Of course, the Qarluq Khanate was a bit strange, because their own belief was supposed to be immortal, so they let the Khotanese kingdom, which was attached to them, declare war on the Samanid kingdom.
Then let the Kingdom of Khotan ask for reinforcements from the Qarluq Khanate, and the Kingdom of Khotan naturally did so.
Not to mention the fact that the Qarluq Khanate is now powerful, it is purely about personal feelings, and the Kingdom of Khotan also hopes that the Samanid Kingdom will disappear.
They want the Iranian plateau to be restored to being a country full of Buddhas.
The most ridiculous thing is that the Afghans are now struggling to hold on to the last territory, Kunduz, because Kunduz is condescending, so they are not afraid of the Sunni offensive for the time being.
But the main reason is that none of the three Sunni countries in the Persian region want to fight Afghanistan.
Because the Samanid kingdom was located in the plains, most of their army was cavalry, and they were not familiar with mountain warfare.
So every time they fought with the two Sunni countries in the southeast and southwest, they were invincible, so to speak, the Samanid kingdom was a feudal kingdom like a nomadic state.
Whoever makes the Samanid kingdom almost all surrounded by nomadic countries, and each one is stronger than the other, the Samanid kingdom will be more or less affected.
And the other two Sunni Persian states are even simpler not to fight Kunduz, because Kunduz is not a good place to talk about.
Last time, the Kingdom of Safar suffered heavy losses, and they directly ignored this group of infidels who lived in poor mountains and rivers.
The fat Safar kingdom of India was already full of oil after only a few bites, so their strategy was to plunder and attack the dwarf blacks in India.
And the Kingdom of Tahir is because the territory is not related to those Buddhists in Kunduz, so even if they want to fight, I am afraid they will not be able to fight.
The kingdoms of Samanid and Safar will not give way to them, and who knows if they will suddenly attack their own territory.
They haven't trusted each other to that point, even if they marry each other, but they have to fight again.
The marriage is just to make the blood of their royal family pure, and it has no other meaning.
In fact, the last thing the kingdom of Tahir wanted to do was to marry a woman born into the Abbasids, even if it was to plunder one.
If you marry an Abbasid woman, then the kingdom of Tahir will have an excuse to attack the Abbasids.
But the hateful Arabs of the Abbasids would not marry with the Persians, especially the so-called noble Arabs.
So even though the Kingdom of Tahir threatened and intimidated the Arab Abbasid Caliphate several times, the Caliph still adhered to this principle.
The Abbasid caliph was not a fool, although he was in various places during his reign.
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