Chapter 225: Congratulations from all directions
Many so-called experts, or trolls, in later generations, like to use anti-history to attract attention and attract attention. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
For the Tang Dynasty, it can be said that the battle to destroy the Turks, which laid a century-old foundation, was purely based on luck, rather than a manifestation of the military strength of the Tang Empire.
And their so-called reason is that the Tang Dynasty occupies the time, saying that the old Tang Dynasty records that in the first year of Zhenguan, the Turkic country snowed heavily, the flat land was several feet, the sheep and horses were all dead, and the people were hungry, but they were afraid that our division would take advantage of its disadvantages. Led troops into Shuozhou, threatened to hunt, and the equipment was ...... (Zhenguan three years) frequent heavy snowfall, six animals died, the country was discouraged, the use of the Jie did not give, the repetition of the ministry, from the unbearable life, internal and external rebellion.
said that in the "Old Tang Book", there is such an evaluation of the demise of the Eastern Turks: "Xian said that Taizong had the way to control Yidi, and Li Tao made the merit of making a decision." As everyone knows, the decline of Jieli is also, the brothers are separated and the tribes are centrifugal. When Taizong's reason, the ministers will chase him away, and his death is also appropriate!"
In addition, after the fall of the Eastern Turks, Tang Taizong issued an edict: "Since last year, the payment has been reduced one after another, and the generals of Huo are not to be guarded, and there is no strategy to wait for Jia Chao. It can also be seen from this edict that after the Tang Dynasty sent troops, there was almost no decent resistance, and many Turkic tribes surrendered one after another in order to survive. Tang Taizong sighed, there was no need to work famous generals at all, and there was no need for strategy at all, and the Eastern Turks perished.
It can be seen from Taizong's propaganda that the scale of the Northern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty was actually not large, and the two sides did not start a large-scale battle. And the important reason for the Turkic civil strife is because of the snow disaster.
Then it was concluded that the non-war merit, the weather was dictated, and the reason why the Tang Dynasty eliminated the Eastern Turks was that the luck was too good, and the Turkic climate was not good and it snowed heavily.
To put it mildly, the Tang Dynasty was prepared for a few years, and then more than 100,000 troops braved the cold and snowstorm to fight hard and hardship for half a year, and the brilliant results were attributed to luck.
But they deliberately ignored the great impact of the locust plague that swept through Guanzhong in the second year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty on the people of Datang. also ignored the fact that in the ninth year of Wude, Jieli Khan's troops came to the city, and Li Shimin emptied the entire treasury in order to let the Turks retreat, and the queen had to be diligent and thrifty to keep her family, and reduce the amount of time spent in the palace to get by.
In their eyes, they saw that the Turks were attacked by natural disasters, and the people were struggling to make a living, and they didn't expect or thought of it at all, but deliberately didn't mention that the life of the entire Tang Dynasty was also extremely difficult.
"Sun Bin Art of War: Moon War": "The time, the place, and the people, the three are not allowed, although there is a victory."
"Mencius: Gongsun Chouxia": "The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people." ”
Both Sun Tzu and Mencius are talking about the importance of the right time, the right place, and the right people, and Sun Tzu said that if any of the three conditions of time, place, and people are missing, even if they can achieve temporary victory, they will definitely leave troubles.
Mencius further concluded that among these three key factors, people are the most important, followed by location, and time is the second.
Since the time of day is the second, why should all the credit be attributed to the time of day that is the most successful factor, how unreasonable, how to reverse black and white.
When it comes to people, I have to say that there is no bottom line for anti-historical people to be shameless, and some people even say that the Tang Empire took advantage of the Turkic civil strife in the suzerainty to turn over.
There are several reasons, the first is that the Turks have two small khans with different intentions, the second is that Xue Yantuo hit the Eastern Turks hard, the third also uses the reason of the great natural disaster that has not been encountered in a century, and the fourth is that the rule of the Turks is shaky and unstable.
Then it was also concluded that the Turks did not die at the hands of the Tang Dynasty, but that they died for internal reasons.
It's shameless to talk about it, I don't have common sense, I don't know where they saw that the Turks are the dominant state of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan was still a Sui minister when he raised troops from Jinyang, but he was worried that the Turks and Liu Wuzhou would attack his rear when he marched into Chang'an, so he formed a good Turkic alliance and sent Liu Wenjing to the Turks.
This is just a bribe, just like a gang war, two of the three gangs start fighting, and it is inevitable that the snipe and the clam will compete for the benefit of the fisherman, so they spend money to buy a third party to watch and don't do it, and they can't see that it means to be a minister.
Eight years before Wude, Li Yuan and the Turks used equal enemy national etiquette, not a minister, from the eighth year of Wude, Li Yuan began to use edicts against the Turks, with the attitude of a king to a minister to the Turks, the status is higher than that of the Turks, let alone a subordinate to the Turks.
The Weishui Alliance is also a purchase after a fight, or it is also appropriate to call it a fortune and eliminate disasters.
This is a mistake of common sense, and to say that Datang took advantage of the Turkic civil strife to turn over is the same as saying that it was because of the time of the day that Datang eliminated the Turks.
People who say this are complete nonsense, unbelievable, and far-fetched for reasons that they can't bear to look at directly.
Is the internal strife in the Turks just their internal cause, and is it all due to the improper succession of the Turkic Khan?
But they forgot that whether it was the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties or the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the succession to the throne was never as simple as a son inheriting his father's business.
Brotherhood and succession to the throne in these peoples coexisted with the succession of sons to fathers.
This is how people have passed on the throne for generations, I don't know how normal it is, how can it be said that it is because of the improper succession, so that Jieli Khan and his nephew have a conflict, leading to Turkic civil strife.
Discord is true, civil strife is real, but it cannot be said that this is a natural occurrence within the Turks, where do those who say this put the efforts of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and border soldiers.
How could they ignore the preparations made by the Tang Dynasty from the common people to the monarchs and ministers to attack the Turks, forget how much work and effort the Tang Dynasty secretly made in order to make those so-called Turks surrender and join the Tang Dynasty, and forget that before the general attack on the Turks, the Tang Dynasty and the Turks had already fought many times, large and small, so that the Turks could not withstand years of internal strife.
The internal strife did not occur naturally when the Turks were strong, but were fought by the Tang Dynasty year after year.
It is precisely because of the popular desire of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers and the people that they are united to gain peace, and the Turkic people are scattered and lose peace, so the Tang Dynasty won and the Turks lost.
The facts are as simple as that, at a glance.
But there are some people with ulterior motives, the so-called elites, who like to go to history, anti-history, reverse black and white, put the cart before the horse, distort facts, confuse right and wrong, so as to appear to be outstanding and different from the public.
Wei Chigong asked Wu Yuanqing to compose a poem that suited the occasion, and Wu Yuanqing thought of the six words of the right time, place and people in his mind, and then thought of some remarks that smeared the war in later generations, and thus thought of a real work that was appropriate for the occasion.
"The courtiers are in charge, and the soldiers on the side are fighting. The right time, place and people. Turkic Kovar? Yes.
On this day, the tower is full of dragons, and he is walking on the mountains and rivers. All the people are in harmony with the wind song. Congratulations from all over the world. ”