998 Tibet and West Turk Khanate (1/2)
Chapter 998 – Tibet and West Turk Khanate
”System Notification: The An Lushan Rebellion has officially ended. Li Shiming moves into Chang An. Chang An Imperial Court automatically changes to Great Tang Dynasty, Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian, Yuchi Jingde , Li Jing, Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin and Li Ji, and related officials and generals automatically move into the Great Tang Dynasty.”
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The moment the notification came out, Lords like Ouyang Shuo were heartbroken. Li Shiming left no one.
As for the 24 officials of the Lingyan Pavilion, Ouyang Shuo had little interest toward them. The only one he cared about was the Great Tang military god, Li Jing. Currently, the Bear Legion Corps still lacked a marshal.
Of the 10 God Generals of China apart from Baiqi, Ouyang Shuo wanted Li Jing the most.
Helplessly, he appeared in Chang An, so Ouyang Shuo had to give up on that plan.
”System Notification: The An Lushan Rebellion has officially ended, Songtsen Gampo moves into Lhasa City. Tibetan powers change into the Tibet Empire. Gar Tongtsen Yulsung, Shang Jiexi, Shangxi Dongzan, Shang Zanmo, Da Zalu, and related people move into the Tibetan Empire.”
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Tibet was a political regime set up by the Tibetans in the Qingzang Highlands, and it was the first regime with actual historical records in this region.
Under the unification of the Tibetan Dynasty, the Qingxang highlands tribes formed a strong power and slowly walked out of the inland highlands.
They originally ruled themselves and were developing in a scattered manner; this changed through systems, laws, and the like as the small regimes and tribe alliances were consolidated.
At the same time, the Tibetan Dynasty was really close with the Great Tang, and two Tang princesses had married into Tibet as a sign of friendliness.
However, they were not always friendly toward one another.
763 AD, the An Lushan Rebellion caused the Tang Dynasty to weaken. Due to the need to defend against the rebels in the north, their west troops were moved away.
Tibet used this chance to enter the Great Tang land, and they were led by General Ma Zhongying. They gathered 200 thousand Alliance Army troops to attack Tang, occupying the land west of Fengxiang County, which included a total of over 10 states.
During that year's 10th month, after occupying Fengtian, they quickly arrived under Chang An City, scaring the emperor to Xiazhou. The Tibetans smoothly took down Chang An and established Li Chenghong as the emperor.
15 days later, under the leadership of Guo Ziyi, the Tang Army took back Chang An.
Historical records state that between 705 AD to 822 AD, the Tang Dynasty and Tibet formed an alliance eight times. Through that, one could see how on and off their relationship was.
The Tibet Dynasty entering the game affected the Great Xia Dynasty the most.
Shu Lands Qiang Prefecture was connected to Tibet. Luckily, Songtsen Gampo was not an invasive king. As for what would happen in the future, it was still unknown.
”System Notification: The An Lushan Rebellion has officially ended, Tong Yabghu Qaghan enters Loulan City as the Kehan, western regions automatically becomes the Turkic Khanate.”
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West Turkic was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty. Now, they were entering the wilderness, and they were given a new lease of life.
Different from Tibet, the western area that the Turkic Khanate was located in was made up of 30 odd small countries, and the situation was really complicated.
The sudden appearance of the two undoubtedly added other factors to the China region that was slowly becoming a north-south faceoff.
If the Great Xia Dynasty wanted to open up the Silk Road, it would have to come into contact with these two powers.
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