Our country's feudal imperial system disappeared during the Qing Dynasty, which has lasted for a thousand years of tradition and finally ended in humiliation, which is also sad, but in China's history, there was a dynasty that really made China a world power, that is, the Tang Dynasty, during the Tang Dynasty, China successively destroyed the Eastern Turks, Zhongtianzhu, Goguryeo and other countries, and now Russia and Vietnam were once the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so this dynasty alone has a history of two hundred and eighty-nine years.
The Li clan rose to the throne to establish the Tang Dynasty
During the Years of Daye, the Sui Emperor launched wars everywhere, abused the people's strength, and stirred up the people's lives very hard, so the call for anti-Sui was getting higher and higher, at this time Li Yuan saw that the situation in the country was grim, and it was a good time for him to take his place, so he attacked Chang'an all the way in the name of Honoring Sui.
With Li Yuan's strength, it was easy to eliminate the declining Sui Dynasty at this time and make himself emperor, but doing so would inevitably fall into the reputation of seeking power and usurping the throne, so Li Yuan supported the acting king Yang You as emperor, known as Emperor Gong of Sui, and himself became the chancellor.
Clear-eyed people knew Li Yuan's purpose at a glance, and Yang You and others knew that the Sui Dynasty's qi number had been exhausted, so later Yang You was located in Li Yuan, and Li Yuan was called emperor and established the Tang Dynasty.
The emperor of the Tang Dynasty was not so good, the first thing to do on the throne was to deal with the mess left by the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty because of the long war caused by the collapse of the national economy, there are still strong Turkic forces around the country, the overall situation is not optimistic, but Li Yuan has this arrogance, decided to open up a unified territory for the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuan first aimed at the separatist forces in China and thought of unifying the country. He had already paved the way for the rest of the matter before he entered Guanzhong, and Li Mi, the leader of Wagangzhai at the time, led this team to develop extremely strongly, so Li Yuan pretended to curry favor with Li Mi and asked him to help stabilize the Central Plains, and turned around and let Li Shimin lead the Tang army to crush Xue Ju and Xue Rengao, who had divided the long right.
After seeing that the results of the first battle were good, Li Yuan planned to take advantage of the victory and pursue, and the next year he used the anti-plot to mobilize the Wuwei Hao clan An Xinggui and An Xiu Rensheng to capture Li Rail, so that the land of Hexi could be easily absorbed into his arms, and the entire Guanzhong base area was also better stabilized.
After the victories in these wars, the trend of the Tang Dynasty unifying the whole country was unstoppable, and the Wagang army slowly disintegrated, most of them submitted to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Yuan also followed the trend, and in a few years, he eliminated emperor Shichong of Luoyang, Dou Jiande of Xia of Hebei, Xu Yuanlang of Lunan, Gao Kaidao of northern Hebei, Xiao Milling of Jiangling, and so on, and finally realized the unification of the whole country.
Rapid expansion successively destroyed enemy countries
Although it is not easy to say that it is not easy to unify the country, it is after all the people's will, so the gains in the past few years still cannot explain the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and what really shows the prestige of the Tang Dynasty is its war against other countries, and there are not a few countries that were wiped out during the Tang Dynasty.
The first thing to say is the Eastern Turks, at the beginning the Eastern Turk Khaganate was also subordinate to the Sui Dynasty, but after the Shibi Khan took the throne, watching the Sui Dynasty gradually decline, he began to break away from the Sui Dynasty and rule independently, but Li Yuan was still relatively sleek, he knew that his strength at that time was not comparable to the Shibi Khan, he pleased with him, promised to attack the gold and silver jewelry to the Turks, and the two sides also established an alliance relationship, but in 621 AD, Jieli Khan succeeded to the throne, he was not satisfied with the alliance relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and began to constantly invade the Central Plains.
In 629, Li Shimin had succeeded to the throne as Emperor Taizong of Tang, and the Eastern Turk generals Yarjin and Ashinadur led an army to harass Hexi, which gave Li Shimin a good excuse to counterattack the Eastern Turks, and immediately ordered Li Jing to be sent to encircle and suppress the Eastern Turks in six routes.
Jieli Khan was very nervous when he heard this news, but he also felt that Li Jing would not come alone, which cheng thought that Li Jing had alienated his confidants, taking advantage of the night sneak attack, directly attacked the city, Jieli Khan had to flee, and in the subsequent battles was captured, this time the Eastern Turks were completely destroyed, and the land was all owned by the Tang Dynasty.
Tianzhu was originally relatively friendly with the Tang Dynasty, and in 647 AD, Wang Xuance sent an envoy to Tianzhu on behalf of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately, when king Tianzhu died, the emperor Ofo Arona shun took the opportunity to usurp the throne and robbed all the tributes that Tianzhu gave to Wang Xuance.
The tribute was gone, Wang Xuance was definitely going to be punished when he went back, and in desperation, he went to Tubo and Nepal to second less than 10,000 troops, returned to Tianzhu again, and attacked Chayu and Luocheng, these soldiers and horses alone killed more than 3,000 people, more than 10,000 people were drowned, 580 cities surrendered, and Tianzhu was destroyed by Wang Xuance alone.
The deeds of such a person destroying a country are absolutely legendary for us today, but at that time, the Tang Dynasty did not take such a small country as Tianzhu seriously, so Wang Xuance did not receive any rich rewards after returning to the Tang Dynasty with captives and tributes.
Goguryeo defeated the Sui emperor three times and was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty
Compared with the previous wars, the war between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo attracted more attention, because during the Sui Dynasty, the Emperor of the Central Plains also wanted to defeat Goguryeo and even sent troops to fight three times, but the results were all lost, so people gave considerable expectations to the Tang Emperor.
At the beginning, Goguryeo was also very afraid of seeing the rapid expansion of the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from attacking, building the Great Wall of more than a thousand miles, taking the initiative to establish good relations with the Tang Dynasty, the monarch Gao Jianwu also sent emissaries to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty many times, so the two countries maintained good relations for more than 20 years.
In 642, the Goguryeo vassal Quan Gai Suwen killed Gao Jianwu and made Gao Jianwu's younger brother King Dayang's son Gaozang the king, ruling alone, and at the same time sending troops to attack Silla and block the passage of the Silla Dynasty to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, which made the relationship between Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty deteriorate sharply, and the Tang Dynasty decided to attack Goguryeo.
This war was fought for a particularly long time, from 644 AD, the Tang Dynasty continued to attack Goguryeo, but Goguryeo has always been stubborn resistance, although the damage is large, but it will not destroy the country, until 667 AD, the Tang Dynasty sent the general Xue Rengui to attack after the Goryeo army arrived at Jinshan, destroying three cities in Goguryeo in succession.
In 668 AD, Xue Rengui took buyeo city, an important town in Goguryeo, with only 3,000 troops and horses, although the number of soldiers and horses in Goguryeo was large, but no Xue Rengui was good at using troops, resulting in the surrender of the rest of the cities in Buyeo River in the end, and the demise of Goguryeo had become a foregone conclusion.
The Tang army, which was scattered on all sides, had a lot of gains, and finally directly besieged Goguryeo towards the center of Pyongyang, and finally the goguryeo king Gozo led the leader of 98 people to surrender, and Goguryeo went to extinction.
Looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, there were not only these countries, but also in 634 AD, Li Jing led an army to eliminate the Tuguhun State, 640 AD to eliminate gaochangguo, 646 AD to eliminate Xue Yantuo, 648 AD to eliminate the Guizi State, 657 AD to eliminate the Western Turks, and 660 AD to eliminate the Baekje State, in these battles it is enough to see the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty is worthy of being a prosperous dynasty that is difficult to surpass in Chinese history.