China is a veritable ancient civilization, with thousands of years of history and cultural inheritance, although ancient China has also experienced dynastic changes, baptism of fire, but still standing in the east of the world, before China in Asia and even the world is also very influential, and we and the surrounding countries have always maintained a good relationship of cooperation, mutual benefit, at that time many surrounding countries are our vassal states, and now these countries of various traditional customs and cultures more or less retain Chinese characteristics.
Since the Han Dynasty, China has had the concept of "vassal state", which is divided into "vassal state" and "vassal state", the former is a place ruled by the clan royal family, they have sovereignty, but their purpose of existence is to defend the country as a border. The latter first appeared in the Warring States period, and was a place where ethnic minorities lived on the frontier, of course, it was limited to the ethnic minorities who had already submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty.
For most Western countries, the "vassal states" only nominally have their own sovereignty, in fact, all aspects are subject to the Western imperialist powers, different from the so-called "vassal states" of Western countries, China's dynasties have been extremely tolerant of the vassal states, providing them with protection and not interfering in their internal affairs, as long as they regularly worship, send us something, if they encounter something, we provide protection free of charge, so many vassal states are very loyal to us.
And the place we are going to talk about today was once our vassal state, which is Ladakh in the southeast of Kashmir, which is the size of 22 Shenzhens and is now controlled by India.
Speaking of this place, the earliest record of it in China's history is the Book of Han, which is collectively referred to as the "Twelve Small States of Tibet" together with the rest of the countries. We all know that during the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was one of the vassal states with a relatively good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court even sent a number of princesses and tubo kings and relatives, the most famous of which were Princess Wencheng and Songzan Gampo, and Ladakh at this time was under the control of the Tubo Dynasty.
However, soon after the collapse of the Tubo Dynasty, the country was in turmoil and division, and all the nobles took this opportunity to want to dominate one side, and at this time, the Central Plains Dynasty was also in the depths of the water, and it lost control of these vassal states, so there was a new regime in this place, and later there were constantly experiencing the overthrow and change of dynasties, the migration of the people of neighboring countries, and Ladakh became a Tibetan settlement, known as "Little Tibet".
Time came to the Qing Dynasty, after years of fighting, Lak reached a part of Tibet, that is, under the jurisdiction of the Qing government, but the good times were not long, with the disadvantages of the closed country policy gradually became prominent, and the invasion of Western capitalist powers, the Qing court had already set over the western mountains, and at this time Ladakh was attacked by external forces, and they asked the Qing court for help but did not get a response.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand the qing government's approach, as mentioned earlier, the Qing government itself can not be saved, where can it protect a vassal state? Thus Ladakh fell into the hands of others, and the "other" here refers to the Jammu dynasty, what is the origin of this country? In fact, it is only a small country, but the force behind it is Britain, we all know that Britain expanded globally after the completion of the Industrial Revolution, many countries were once its colonies, it was also called "the sun never sets empire", which shows the wide range of its colonies.
Since then, Ladakh has fallen into the hands of British India and become a British colony, but the Ladakh royal family did not recognize itself as a British colony, but paid tribute to the Qing government every year, and later stopped paying tribute under pressure, the British tried to get the Qing government to sign a treaty to prove the legitimacy of the colony, but the Qing government refused this unreasonable request. But now Ladakh is effectively controlled by India, and the demarcation of the border between China and India has not been clear.