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Chapter 550 The Collapsed Tubo

Sichuan is a big basin.

Lizhou Road, Xingzhou Road, Bianzhou Road, and Chengdufu Road all belong to the scope of the Sichuan Basin, especially Xingzhou Road and Chengdufu Road are the center of the basin.

What is a basin?The basin is surrounded by high and low in the middle.

From Jiazhou, Rongzhou, and Luzhou in the south, to Yazhou in the west, they are called Lizhou and Mianzhou, and Bianzhou in the east.

There are high mountains and mountains everywhere around here, and the mountains are endless, surrounding the entire Sichuan Basin. The road is extremely difficult, especially the west and southwest mountains are more steep, the higher the altitude is, especially when you go to Tubo Within the range, the altitude is above 3000.People who are not used to living on the plateau will experience altitude sickness when they go to Tubo, such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, palpitation, shortness of breath, chest tightness, chest pain, insomnia, lethargy, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, numbness of hands and feet, etc. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, this plateau reaction was once thought to be caused by the gods on the Tubo side, and the non-Tubo people would be cursed if they passed by.

Compared with Tubo, Dali is much better.

Although there are many mountains everywhere, the altitude here is not high, with an average of only about 1000, and the mountains are not as dense as those in Tubo.

Li Chu's army rushed to Yazhou first, and rested in Yazhou for two or three days.

This Yazhou still belongs to the southwest border of the Song Dynasty, and it is connected to Tubo in the west.

The 12 Qilin army here appears here, and the Tubo side will not be unaware. For this reason, Li Chu specially asked the army to stay in Yazhou for a few more days, specially for the people of the Tubo side to see. What they want is for Tubo to see the assembly of the Song army.

Apart from being stationed in Yazhou, Li Chu dragged the army back and forth to rehearse at the border if he had nothing to do. Such a large formation was enough to shock Tubo.

What Li Chu wanted was the shock of Tubo.

Du Niang Encyclopedia is a good thing.

Although the Du Niang Encyclopedia service provided by the customized system can only query some encyclopedias of history or characters, it can provide enough information to Li Chu.

Tibet is a powerful country.

When it was the most powerful, it was a super overlord in the Western Regions, able to forcibly challenge the overlord of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, at this time, the prosperous Tang Dynasty has already declined. During the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong fled from Chang'an to Sichuan. Due to the large number of Tang Dynasty mobilized to deal with Tubo The army went to quell the chaos, leaving the western defense empty, and the Tubo took advantage of the situation to occupy Longyou and a large area of ​​Hexi Datang.The area under the jurisdiction of the Tubo Dynasty was greatly expanded. It was roughly bounded by the Longshan Mountains to the east, the Helan Mountains in Ningxia to the north, and the Nanzhao Kingdom, the predecessor of the Dali Kingdom, to the south.

After that, Tubo occupied Beiting and Anxi again, and once advanced to the north bank of the Ganges River south of the Himalayas.

This big market is so big that half of the later generations of China are almost west of Xianyang, and the entire west is the territory of Tubo, including Dali, Kashmir and other Middle East regions.

It's a pity that Tubo's strength is like an inflated balloon. The bigger it is blown, the more it collapses, it will all fall apart.

After all, it is a country in the Western Regions. After all, the population here is limited. Coupled with the continuous expansion, frequent wars have weakened the national power of Tubo. Li Sheng, Wei Gao, Shi Jingfeng and other generals of the dynasty suffered heavy losses many times.

At this time, Tubo was no longer able to expand abroad.

In China, the local Bon religion and the Buddhism from India were in conflict, which involved internal political struggles. Afterwards, the Tubo royal family fought each other for power, which caused Tubo to fall apart, and then Tubo generals fought again. This is not over yet. Originally, the dispute between Buddha and benzene had made the people in the country miserable, and the warlords and generals fought against each other.

First, Zhang Yichao, a native of Shazhou, launched an uprising, and the people of Tang Dynasty responded and quickly occupied Shazhou.Zhang Yichao sent troops to attack ten prefectures including Gua, Yi, Xi, Gan, Su, Lan, Shan, He, Min, and Kuo (the above areas are in present-day Gansu, Xinjiang, and Qinghai), and finally Zhang Yichao fell to Tang Dynasty.

This is not over yet, there is an uprising here, and the domestic struggle in Tubo is still endless. Not only did they not care about this side, but the fight became more intense.

The Tubo royal family was divided into two branches, fighting for years.Tubo's generals in various places also joined forces to rule the roost and competed with each other.

At this time, in Tubo, the country was in total chaos, the generals became princes, and some tribes that belonged to Tubo in the past also broke away from Tubo's jurisdiction, which made the already turbulent Tubo even more chaotic.

Before things ended there, a bigger uprising broke out.

This was a big uprising of slaves and civilians, which swept across the entire Tibet area, so the Tubo Dynasty collapsed under such a situation...

collapsed……

After that, Tubo has completely become a situation of separatist regimes.

No one will obey anyone!

Although Tubo is still the Kingdom of Tubo in name, there is no real king who speaks in the country, but is controlled by some princes and kings.

And Datang, also weakened, Tang Dynasty, gone...

The land of the Central Plains has entered the disputes of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the country is also in turmoil. No one has time to take care of the Tubo side. Coupled with the natural altitude sickness of Tubo and the lack of information on the Tubo side, the Central Plains side does not know about the Tubo side. specific circumstances.

Moreover, although Tubo is in civil strife and is divided into several princes to control Tubo, these princes and kings are relatively low-key.

Yes, very low-key.

Low-key enough to only operate within the country, never sending troops to harass other countries outside, and began to regard itself as a transparent person.

In this way, these princes and kings led the chaotic Tubo and lingered for more than a hundred years, and the Central Plains was already the head of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty controlled the world.

However, although the Song Dynasty controlled the Central Plains, because the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were occupied by the Liao people, they were always attacked by the Liao people. The defense center of the Northern Song Dynasty was all in the north. In addition, the current Tubo is also low-key and honest, so the southwest side has been safe and sound for about 200 years.

However, although the focus of national defense was on the Liao people, they did not relax too much towards Tubo.

It is closely related to the Tubo princes in Gansu, Qing, Sichuan, Dian and other places near the Central Plains of the Han nationality.The princes who controlled this area also yearned for the Song Dynasty, and sent envoys to pay tribute to the emperor of the Song Dynasty many times, and begged for official positions. Shun, Hexi and other military envoys.

Since then, the descendants of the Tubo vassals in this area have all held official positions in the Song Dynasty.

In the end, it was directly merged into the Song Dynasty.

This area is now Qinfeng Road in the 26th road of the Great Song Dynasty!

This is how Qin Fenglu came to be!

During this period, the Nanzhao Kingdom was also led by the Duan family to build an army because of the chaos in the country, and finally unified the Nanzhao Kingdom and established the Dali Kingdom.

PS: This chapter may have more popular science knowledge, but it is a historical novel after all, and some background must be explained to let everyone know, because the current plot is mainly based on the Southwest.

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