Chapter 363: The -mile Hexi Corridor was once a fertile land outside the Great Wall
[In 756 AD, Shanzhou, Wuzhou, Diezhou, and Dangzhou fell one after another.]

[The Tang Dynasty began to lose towns crazily in the Hexi Corridor.]

[In 763 AD, Linzhou, Lanzhou, and Hezhou fell.]

[In less than 10 years.]

Eleven states lost,

[The entire Hexi Corridor was completely cut off by Tubo.]

[The connection between the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty's central court was cut off.]

[But how could the Tang Dynasty have the time to care about the Western Regions at this time? ]

[How can I have time to go there and think about recovering the Hexi Corridor? ]

[Even in 763 AD, the year when the Hexi Corridor was completely cut off.]

[The 20-strong Tibetan army even directly occupied Chang'an City! ]

[Ten years ago, Tubo was surrounded on three sides and barely survived. ]

[Less than 10 years later, Tubo conquered the capital of the world's most powerful Tang Empire! ]

[Don’t underestimate the Tang Dynasty, which has a dark history of the capital being captured six times and the emperor fleeing nine times. ]

[However, the five times the capital fell were all due to internal strife. ]

[The only time a country’s capital was truly occupied by a foreign race was during the reign of Tubo.]

Outside the sky.

When Li Shimin saw this, he felt so sick that he wanted to vomit!

"No? Buddy?"

"I know that after the An-Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty declined."

“And even after its decline, it lingered on for a long time.”

"During such a long period of decline, the Tang Dynasty must have suffered all kinds of humiliation and disgrace."

"But the great Tang Dynasty!"

"The capital was captured six times. Is this still a human being?"

"The emperor escaped from Chang'an nine times! Is this really something the emperor of the Tang Dynasty could do?"

"Li Longji! I will kill you!"

It can be said that Li Shimin was extremely depressed.

Even a little desperate because of shame.

No matter how much we know that the Anshi Rebellion was destructive,
No matter how we know, the Tang Dynasty must have been in trouble after its decline.

But the situation reached the point where the capital was captured six times and the emperor escaped nine times.

Li Shimin still didn't expect this.

However, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were very depressed when they saw it.

But other dynasties, especially those that felt they could be compared with the Tang Dynasty.

See the shame of the Tang Dynasty being named by the sky.

Hang it up and spray.

Everyone is happy to hear it.

Ying Zheng: "I said that the Qin Dynasty is far superior to the Tang Dynasty!"

Liu Che: "I heard that some people think that the Tang Dynasty in the future can compete with the Han Dynasty in martial virtue? Speak up! Who said that? Speak up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "The achievements of the Ming Dynasty far surpass those of the Han and Tang Dynasties. This is not just talk."

But people in different dynasties have different moods.

Tianmu also continued to tell the story.

[It can be said that at this time, the balance of power between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo had reversed. ]

[After a period of being beaten up, Tubo once again gained an unprecedented advantage.]

[The Tubo then continued to attack and divided up the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. ]

[Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Guazhou fell one after another. ]

[Until 781 AD, Shazhou was surrounded by enemy forces and could no longer hold out as an isolated city for 11 years.]

[The only option is to surrender to Tubo conditionally. ]

[Thus, the last piece of Tang territory in the Hexi Corridor was also annexed by Tubo.]

【The Tang Dynasty lost the Hexi Corridor.】

[It was natural to assume that the Western Regions were also lost.]

[Of course we know that the Tang army in the Western Regions is still holding on. ]

[Although they are no longer able to control the entire Western Region. ]

【And was also attacked by Tubo. 】

【But the Tang army has been holding on. 】

[The perseverance of the Tang army in Anxi and Beiting moved the soldiers and civilians in Chang'an to tears.]

[In addition, the Tang Dynasty court provided them with all support except practical help. ]

[It was not until 808 AD, more than 50 years after the An-Shi Rebellion broke out.]

[The Tang Dynasty lost its last piece of territory in the Western Regions.]

【It was a thousand years before I saw the Western Regions again.】

[As for the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the loss of the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor has become a foregone conclusion.]

[The Tang Dynasty had neither the ability nor the will to try to recover it.] [After finally taking over the coveted Shazhou, the Tubo people were embarrassed to find that Shazhou was not as good as they had imagined.]

[During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor was naturally very rich, even ranking first in the whole world. ]

[This is because the climate in the Hexi Corridor was humid and relatively suitable for agricultural development.]

[The more important reason is that it is an important passage of the Silk Road connecting the Tang Dynasty and Central Asia. ]

【There is a prosperous business trade. 】

[That is to say, it takes both the right time and right place, as well as the right people, to make Shazhou, located in the Hexi Corridor, rise.]

【After Tubo ruled Shazhou. 】

[The once prosperous Shazhou quickly declined. ]

[This is because Tubo, although very strong in military strength. ]

[It can even compete with the peak Tang Dynasty and the peak Arab Empire. ]

[However, in terms of social civilization and governance level, it is very backward.]

【The Tibetan Empire at that time was still a slave society.】

[For a rich and developed agricultural and commercial area like the Hexi Corridor, they have no idea how to govern it! ]

Barrage:

"Dunhuang netizen: Oh no, I have become Tubo."

"Don't say it was slavery at that time. Even before liberation, it was still slavery."

"Giving Tubo rich land is useless to him! He doesn't understand sustainability and is just draining the pond to catch fish."

"The people in the Hexi Corridor are suffering!"

"The Hexi Corridor, 2,000 miles long, was once a fertile land outside the Great Wall."

"Alas! What a pity for Shazhou. It has never recovered from this setback and will never regain its former glory."

The sky continues.

[After conquering Shazhou, the Tibetan military nobles treated the local Tang Dynasty people in the same way they treated slaves.]

[Those who are stronger will be taken as slaves directly. 】

[The old, weak, sick and disabled should be killed directly. ]

[Or cut off the hands, dig out the eyes, and leave them behind.]

[Those common people who were captured as slaves because of their strong bodies also lived a miserable life. ]

[A person with no talent or skills. ]

[Just use them as hard labor. ]

【And engrave words on the face. 】

[Those with a little bit of skills would carve a crest on their right arm, ready to take orders from the nobles at any time.]

[In order to manage these slaves, the Tibetan nobles also invented many cruel punishments. ]

[These cruel punishments are extremely cruel.]

[For example, they would punch a hole in the shoulder, put a rope through it, and then drag the person behind a horse until he died.]

[The common people of the Tang Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor, represented by Shazhou. 】

[They were originally the rich and free people of the Tang Dynasty.]

[Now, they have become slaves living in fear of their fate under the brutal rule of Tubo.]

[The local people in the Hexi Corridor had long since become fed up with the brutal rule of Tubo.]

[In 780 AD, envoys from the Tang Dynasty passed through the Hexi region. ]

[The local people surrounded the place where the delegation was staying, beating their chests and weeping.]

【Kneel down in the direction of the Eastern Tang Dynasty.】

[They also secretly passed on information to the Tang Dynasty envoys, detailing the true and false situation of Tubo's rule in this area.]

[“They all wore fur coats and dishevelled heads, peeking through the cracks in the wall, some beating their hearts and weeping, some bowing and dancing towards the east, and secretly sending memorials to the emperor, telling him the truth about the barbarians.”]

[And said: "I hope the king's army will come again!"]

【And by 821 AD. 】

[When the Tang Dynasty envoy passed through the Hexi Corridor again. ]

[An old man from the area who had lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty stopped the messenger.]

[Tearful question: Is the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty safe? 】

[“I wonder if the emperor is well? His descendants cannot bear to forget the Tang Dynasty clothing. Does the court still remember it?”]

Outside the sky.

Yue Fei was silent.

Although the contents of the sky are

The remnants of the Tang Dynasty shed their tears in the dust of the barbarians.

But in this situation, Yue Fei witnessed the destruction of the Song Dynasty and the loss of half of the country to the Jin people.

I understand very well.

It's also very regrettable.

As a scholar and military general, Yue Fei was no stranger to the history of the Tang Dynasty.

Today I saw Tianmu mentioned it again,
I can only sigh endlessly.

Yue Fei slowly stood up, stretched out his hand and touched the military map of the Northern Expedition plan hanging on the wall.

(End of this chapter)