Except for the Han Dynasty, which had a domineering system of discord and affinity, other dynasties had peace and affinity affairs. Needless to say, peace is to avoid trouble and to seduce the strong! So in our eyes, why do we have to make peace with other countries? It can be seen from the "demand" and relatives of the Tibetan kingdom that peace can be a gift or an honor!
In 638, the Tubo king Songtsen Gampo, in a fit of rage, attacked the vast Tang Dynasty. The invasion of a small border country this time is not to expand its territory, but to be able to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty! Being able to make a small country rush into this fully shows how influential Datang's strength was at that time. At first, the incident was because the Tubo kingdom wanted to make peace with the Tang Dynasty twice, but Li Shimin refused!
If you want to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty, it needs strength, and without strength, which parent will marry their daughter to you and suffer? However, the ancient royal family is the same, the Tubo kingdom, as a small border country, came to the Tang Dynasty to marry Li Shimin. At that time, the country was relatively large, and Li Shimin did not care about this Tibetan country before, so he refused to make a peace request with their country.
The second time, the Tubo king Wang Songzan Gampo personally came to the Tang Dynasty to meet Li Shimin. Willing to become a donkey of data, the king of a country does not even care about the throne, but also wants to become a horse of datang. This determination is inseparable from the influence of Datang. Li Shimin refused his request because he did not understand the Tibetan state, because the country without strength was not worthy of having anything to do with the Tang Dynasty.
The third time, the Tubo king, in a fit of rage, directly led his troops to conquer some of the small vassal states of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the war reports frequently reached the Chang'an Palace, but Li Shimin was furious and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to calm the matter. At this time, it was also considered to show his strength in front of Li Shimin, and Li Shimin remembered at this time that the king of the Tubo country wanted to fight with the purpose of his relatives.
After this war, the king of Tibet once again came to make peace with Li Shimin. Showing his strength, the waist pole was also hardened, so Li Shimin agreed to marry Princess Wencheng to ensure peace! However, Princess Wencheng was not Li Shimin's personal daughter, but Wang Songzan Gampo had a hard time getting Li Shimin's gift, and he dared to say anything!
After all, he was a small country, and he didn't have the strength to destroy Tang. So I could only hold this Princess Wencheng well, although she was not the emperor's own daughter, how to say that she now had a relationship with the Tang Dynasty. It is also very faceless among the vassal states! Later, after Li Shimin's death, the Tubo king Wang Songzan Gampo came to Tang to mourn, and promised never to invade The Tang. But the princes and ministers below did not agree!
So after Li Shimin's death, Wang Songzan Gampo returned to Tubo. Within a few days, because of internal contradictions, those ministers and imperial relatives and nobles felt that they must marry Li Shimin's own daughter to have face, in order to deter other small countries! So they conspired to murder Wang Songzan Gampo, and then in the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, they again asked the Tang Dynasty for a princess who was close to him, and also named Princess Taiping.
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