What is war? War is the ultimate means for human beings to resolve contradictions and disputes for profit. According to Clausewitz's Theory of War, war is a continuation of politics. Therefore, although countless wars have broken out in ancient and modern times, in China and abroad, most wars have paid attention to the famous teachers and given themselves or the people a grandiose reason, thus standing on the moral high ground.
However, just as the so-called forest is big, there are birds, and the long river of history is so magnificent, not all historical wars are famous. Some of the reasons for the start of the war are also extremely funny, which is still unbelievable. So, are there some strange excuses for war that led to the occurrence of war?????
Ancient wars
Looking through the historical war materials of China, it turned out that as early as the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan years, China and India had a large-scale military war, of course, the end of this war ended with the victory of the Tang Dynasty, but the cause of this war was very strange.
At that time, India was also called Tianzhu, and the Tang Dynasty at that time was also an extremely prosperous period in the long river of Chinese history, although the Tang Dynasty had strong military strength and extensive territory, but the Tang Dynasty and the Tianzhu State only had friendly foreign exchanges, and there was no contradiction that could cause war and conflict. However, the war broke out anyway, and the reason for this "Tang and Indian War" was that the Indians robbed the gifts of the Tang envoys.
Stills of Wang Xuance
How did this happen? This has to start with Wang Xuance, an outstanding diplomatic activist of the Tang Dynasty. In the early years of Tang Zhenguan, also known as Tianzhu India, it consisted of five parts: east, south, west, north and center, and the kingdoms of Tianzhu had always been friends with the Tang Dynasty, and they had sent envoys to visit the Tang Dynasty many times.
Since ancient times, China has been a state of etiquette, so the exchange of ceremonies and gifts is also a basic number of etiquette, in order to give back to these Tianzhu countries, Tang Taizong has sent Tang Dynasty envoys to Tianzhu many times, and each time he will bring special gifts to show the deep friendship between the two countries. ????
Ancient Tianzhu Kingdom
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, in the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Wang Xuance was appointed as the envoy to Tianzhu and Jiang Shiren was appointed as a deputy envoy, leading a delegation of more than 30 people to visit the countries of Tianzhu with gifts.
At this time, the central part of Tianzhu was in the period of the Jieri Dynasty, and unfortunately, due to the sudden and chaotic death of the Jieri King, the minister of the country, Alona Shun, took the opportunity to usurp the throne. The news of ancient society was blocked, and Wang Xuance and his party did not know that the great chaos in the Japanese country was at all, and still went to the Jieri Dynasty to return to visit according to the original plan.
Map of the Dynasty
If he were to smile at the Tang envoys, the Tang envoys might not admit the established facts. However, Alona Shun was interested in the gift of the envoys, and he led a team of more than 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack the envoys with only about 30 people.
This attack occurred suddenly, Wang Xuance was not accompanied by many people, not only was he robbed of gifts by Alona Shun, but he was also captured by these people. However, after Wang Xuance was captured, he and his deputy envoys and others took the opportunity to escape.
Wang Xuance, who had just escaped from ascension to heaven, did not return to Datang in the first time, but chose to borrow troops from Tibet and Nepal. As an envoy to various countries in the Western Regions, he was not only familiar with the geographical environment of this area, but also deeply aware of the close relations between Datang and Tibet and Nepal. In particular, after the Tubo king Songzan Gampo married Princess Wencheng, he had a very good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, so he happily agreed to send troops to help the Tang envoy's request.
Wang Xuance took the troops borrowed from these two countries to attack Zhongtianzhu in only three days, and Alonashun, who was unwilling to surrender, fled to Dongtianzhu to borrow troops, and the king of Dongtianzhu received the news that Wang Xuance was invincible and invincible, not only did not help Alonashun, but instead offered Wang Xuance cattle and horses, troops, bows and arrows, and treasures, and was willing to help him.
Therefore, Wang Xuance not only regained the gifts, but also received the praise of "one person destroying one country", and after returning to China, Wang Xuance, who had made great contributions, was promoted by Tang Taizong to be the grand master of the dynasty.