The truth of "natural selection, survival of the fittest" not only exists in the biological world, but also is very applicable in human society. For example, countries have their own laws of operation, the weak eat the strong, the weak country will naturally be bullied by the strong country, or even annexed, this is an inevitable thing.
As we all know, the big brother in Southeast Asia is India, whether in terms of land area or military strength, they are far superior to neighboring countries. Because they retained most of Britain's political system, they always had great ambitions. There was one country that they had incorporated in 1975, and that small country was Sikkim.
Our former neighbor, Sikkim
Sikkim is a country we were once neighbors, next to the Himalayas, with only one mountain away from us. During the Qing Dynasty, the relationship between Sikkim and our country was still very good, and the merchants of Sikkim at that time would come to our Tibet region to exchange goods.
Needless to say, crossing the Himalayas to our country was still very hard, and before the eighteenth century, the most prosperous place in Sikkim was their trade port with us. However, as Nepal's power grew, its rise was an obstacle to trade between Sikkim and China.
In the eighteenth century, a dominant tribe appeared, that is, the Gurkha tribe. The Gurkha tribes have conquered all of Nepal after conquest, and this tribe is still very powerful in military warfare, and one of the most important reasons for their victory is that they have the Gurkha machete, which is very sharp, and the number of people who died under this machete in the war is innumerable.
After the Gurkha tribes invaded Nepal, they began to expand their territory. Sikkim is on the outskirts of Nepal and is a very weak country that is easy to encroach on. Sikkim was certainly no match for the Gurkha tribes, and in this helpless situation, they had to turn to China for help.
Second, it has always been protected by China
At the beginning, when China learned of this request, it did not really want to deal with them, after all, they were only a very small country, but when they knew nepal and wanted to attack China, the Qing government could not sit still. Qianlong thought about it and sent troops to recruit them, and the war ended in nepal.com.
Originally, Sikkim could restore its own territory, but no one expected it to be immediately invaded by Bhutan, and eventually only a little territory remained.
After this incident, Sikkim was eager to establish good relations with China, hoping that if this situation was still encountered in the future, it would be able to get China's help. When the Qing Dynasty was still very rich and strong, Sikkim was also safe and sound, but after the Qing Dynasty began to decline, Sikkim was taken over by the British, and it was not restored until 1918.
When Sikkim decided to have a good relationship with China, they also chose the path of marriage. The eleventh queen of Sikkim was a Chinese, and she had a very beautiful, spoiled daughter with abroad, and when the girl grew up, a letter came from Tibet saying that she hoped to marry the princess.
Oppose the requirement of polygamy
The last princess of Sikkim was Princess Kukula, whose lifelong desire was to restore the country, and she was so beautiful that she was still beautiful at the age of sixty or seventy. Her father was the King of Sikkim and her mother was a descendant of the Tibetan nobility of our country. Princess Kukula was born in 1924, and Sikkim at that time had already been influenced by britain, so Princess Kukula always had a spirit of freedom and resistance in her heart.
She was gifted and gifted with beauty from an early age, and when she reached the age when she could marry, her father promised her to the Peng Kang family in Tibet. At that time, Sikkim and Tibet had a system of polygamy, and Peng Kang's family had three or four sons, and she knew that if she wanted to marry, she would become the wife of these three or four men at the same time.
This system made her very unacceptable, and her father was very fond of her, and at this time, he ran to Tibet to discuss with the Peng Kang family at the expense of his own face, and finally decided that Kukula would only become the wife of the eldest son, Gyantse Zongben. When Princess Kukula was twenty-three years old, she was supposed to go to university, but she came to Tibet, and after arriving in Tibet, she was very competent as a wife and a mother.
Within a few years of her marriage, there was unrest in Tibet, so she returned to Sikkim with her family. Princess Kukula and her husband are also a match made in heaven and earth, and they share a common hobby. Not long after, Gyantse Dzongben died, leaving only Kukula and their three children.
epilogue:
Princess Kukula has dedicated her life to the country of Sikkim, a country that is said to be small and so small that almost no one in the international community will pay attention to it. It is not bad to say that it is big, and Princess Kukula has supported it for the rest of her life, and until the twenty-first century, it became a state of India.
Reference: Sikkim, Kingdom of the Peaks