From Soldier To Emperor

The four towns of Anxi are equivalent to the four major military bases of the Anxi Duhufu in the Tang Dynasty. The Jiedu envoys in each town are honored as guards, and above the four guards are the Anxi captains.

The leader who insisted on the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty was the governor of Anxi who was part-time the guard envoy of the Qiuci Army. As a result, such a core figure died in the battle of the Qiuci Army. This indirectly led to the complete defeat of the already weak Datang Zheng unified party...

Finally, after the death of the Anxi Governor, the guard of Shule Army Town made Luyang the head of the Datang Zheng Unified Party in the Western Regions, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that his guard envoy could not sit for long...

The Qiuci Army Formation was originally the strongest of the four towns in Anxi, and it was also the place where the Anxi Protectorate Government Office was located. Therefore, the guards of the Qiuci Army Town were all serving as the Anxi Governor concurrently.

The guard ambassadors of the four towns of Anxi, Zhongyanqi Army Town and Yutian Army Town, together with a small number of alien bloodlines, surrendered to the independent Tufan Kingdom.

Because the Anlu Mountain Rebellion exposed the weakness of the Central Court of the Tang Dynasty, the original huge Central Court of the Tang Dynasty clearly had millions of elite regular troops. As a result, the Anlu Mountain rebelled together, Anbei, Annan, Anton, Beiting, and Shanyu. All the Jidu envoys of the Duhu Mansion stood still, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight...

Anbei Duhufu also formed a military alliance with Anlushan, sending troops to assist Anlushan in attacking the army of the central court of the Tang Dynasty to expand its territory.

Anxi Duhufu, the only heart to the imperial court, was cut off from the central imperial court by Anlu Mountain...

Four of the six frontier guard houses under the rule of the Tang Dynasty were unclear. One rebelled. The Western Regions was cut off from the central court. The Western Regions Jiedu Envoys supported their own troops...

In this general environment, many aristocratic families far away from Chang'an under the rule of the Tang Dynasty began to wait and see. They were unwilling to help the central court. This also affected the political stance of the local gentry in the Central Plains, which inevitably led to the local government. Jiedu made no effort to give orders to King Qin of the central court!

Because of this, the Tufan Kingdom had the courage to stand on its own feet and dispatch troops to the Anxi Prefecture!

Songtsen Gampo’s political vision is still very good. Under the pressure of the so-called one million army, he sent lobbyists arbitrarily, and soon he was recruited to two of the four towns in Anxi. There are also a number of Jiedu who hold military power. Make.

In some places, even local clans murdered their elder brothers and surrendered to the kingdom.

Of course, those people were supported by the Turpan Kingdom, as evidenced by the more than 5,000 Turpan tribal warriors of the Zhaowu family.

Big families like the Zhaowu family who took refuge in the Turpan Kingdom are not a minority in the Western Regions. In order to consolidate the annexation of the entire Western Regions, Datang used many'leaders'. These leading parties also played a huge role, and the results were all in the Western Regions. The original hometown took root, joined the Han nationality and intermarried with the Han people, and became the local clan.

As a result, after the crisis broke out in the central government of the Tang Dynasty, these people immediately abandoned the central court of the Tang Dynasty!

In fact, the Tufan Kingdom has so many local powers, and it has a lot to do with the Tufan Kingdom’s political system. The Tufan Kingdom is not an absolute centralized system under the counties of Datang, but is similar to a closely-connected tribal alliance.

Songtsen Gampo is the leader of the largest Turpan tribe, and because of his talents, he won the support of most of the Turfan tribes before he became the king of the Turfan kingdom.

However, although Songtsen Gampo could summon the armies of various tribes during the war to form the "Central Army" of the Turpan Kingdom for conquest, those soldiers belonged to each tribe after all.

Whether it is weapons and equipment or food supplies, the Tufan tribes are actually responsible for themselves, and Songtsen Gampo is only playing a commander-in-chief role.

The Tufan army, which is known as one million people, can only be worth more than 500,000 people even with the addition of civil servants. The true soldiers of more than 500,000 people are less than half. Among the soldiers that can be called the Tufan regular army, there are less than 100,000 people...

Among the less than 100,000 people, not all of them obeyed Songtsen Gambo's orders, but were scattered among the armies of various tribes.

The Tufan Kingdom’s standard for judging the elite of the regular army is very simple, whether it is equipped with iron armor...

However, the Tubo people in the Tufan army knew it well, but the people in the four towns of Anxi didn't know it.

Therefore, the Tubos in the civil war in the four towns of Anxi were actually just playing the role of soy sauce, which perfectly explained the meaning of suppressing people with power. Even for the decisive battle of the Qiuci army, the Tubos provided only a small number of the most elite armored troops for Anxi. The senior officials of the Han people in the four towns created an illusion that the Tufan army is very capable of fighting!

I have to say that Songtsan Gambo has a strong political propaganda (bringing bragging) ability. The capitulation faction with the two army towns of Anxi as the core is flabbergasted. Fighting is desperate regardless of loss!

Of course, Songtsen Gambo is not a stingy person. The guards of the two military towns of Khotan and Yanqi have all been awarded the title of "Eternal Town". UU reading www. uukahnshu.com

The hereditary system is a huge bait. Compared with the guarding envoys of the central court of the Tang Dynasty, the rotation system is naturally more attractive. Any hereditary title means the local emperor!

The Turpan Kingdom was not a centralized country. Songtsen Gampo would naturally not be stingy with the rewards of enfeoffment. Anyway, the various large tribes within the Turfan Kingdom are like snakes, and the central government decree of the Turpan Kingdom is not easy to work at all.

The large tribes regularly paid tribute to the central court of the Turpan Kingdom, and responded to the call to form troops to march during the war.

Why are the Tubo people so anxious to get rid of the status of a vassal state of Datang?

Because the centralization policy of Datang has made the major tribes in Tufan fear, they don't want to be deprived of the rights that they have inherited from generation to generation. Naturally, it is best to be independent from Datang!

Even if they contribute money and work for this, the tribal leaders are willing to do so!

Without the powerful centralized power of Datang, the rights of their children and grandchildren will be guaranteed in the future!

Of course, after Songtsen Gampo came to power, even if he saw the defects of the Tufan Kingdom’s regime, he would not dare to initiate reforms. At least he had to wait until enough personal prestige was accumulated to drastically reform the Turfan Kingdom’s backward enfeoffment system.

Any wise monarch can see the superiority of the centralization of power over the feudal system.

At this moment, the desperate guard of the Shule Army Town made Lu Yang hesitating between the two documents.

A document is a letter of persuasion sent to him by King Songtsen Gambo of the Tufan Kingdom in the name of the Tufan Kingdom. As long as Luyang is willing to "abandon the dark and cast the light", he can pass the merits. Like the other two towns, the city of Shule will be Yongzhen for generations. !

After the decisive battle in Guiz, this letter of persuasion to surrender can be said to be full of sincerity!