Chapter 331
Chapter 331
Chapter 331: Back then, the Anti-Bone Boy, Now the King of Hexi!.
The Ganzhou Uighurs, also known as the Hexi Uighurs, were a regime established by the Uighurs in the Hexi region in the late Tang Dynasty, centered on Ganzhou. Hexi here refers to a section of the famous Silk Road, the Hexi Corridor of the Han Dynasty.
This period when the Hexi Uighurs established the state was a period of great turmoil and division in history. First, there was the confrontation between the five dynasties and ten countries, followed by the confrontation between Liao, Song and Western Xia.
This is the case in the Central Plains, as well as in the Northwest Region, where each domain, town, tribe, and even prefecture and county has its own political power, as if it were an independent kingdom and is not subordinate to each other.
When the Ganzhou Uighurs moved into the Hexi Corridor at the end of the Tang Dynasty, they first belonged to Tubo and then came under the rule of the Guiyi military regime, and after a few decades, the power of the Ganzhou Uighurs developed rapidly, and finally got rid of the rule of the Guiyi military regime and entered the stage of history with an independent posture.
This is a record of the Hexi Uighur from a macro perspective of history.
But from the standpoint of a Han and the emperor of the Central Plains Empire, the Hexi Uighur can be described as an anti-bone boy with historical roots. According to the records of the old and new [Book of Tang], the Uighurs have long been active in Hexi.
As early as the sixth year of Emperor Taizong’s Zhenguan, more than 6,000 families from the Uighur Branch came to Shazhou under the leadership of Qibi He Li and were placed in Ganzhou and Liang Prefecture by the Tang Dynasty.
At the beginning of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the Uighur leader Po Min had helped Tang quell the Turkic rebellion and made battle merits, and Tang Youbi moved his meritorious tribe to Ganzhou in the first year of Zongzhang.
During Wu Zetian’s reign, the Turks recovered the country and attacked the Uighur base of the Uighurs in northern Mobei, Wude Mountain, and a large number of Uighurs led by their chiefs went south to Gan, Liang, and Tang took their elite horses to fill the Chishui army.
After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tubo grabbed Hexi, and the local Uighurs saw the wind as the rudder and became Tubo’s subordinates.
Subsequently, a large number of Uighurs moved here from Mobei, from Ganzhou north out of the Ejina River, Juyanhai to the Wengjin River Valley, which has been the main road of communication between Hexi and Mobei since ancient times.
The Uighurs took advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains and occupied this place.
In the Hexi region, Ganzhou is a relatively concentrated area for the Uighur people, in addition to many tribes scattered in Hexi and Longyou, found in the records such as Helan Mountain Uighur, Qinzhou Uighur, Liangzhou Uighur, Heluochuan Kehua, Suzhou Kehu and Gua, Shazhou Uighur and so on.
Tubo’s rule over the Uighurs was not long, and in the late Tang Dynasty, civil strife broke out in the Tubo Kingdom, and the ruling class split into two factions and fought with each other…
Zhang Yichao, a local tycoon in Shazhou, took advantage of the Tubo civil strife to launch an uprising, which was responded by various tribes, and soon overthrew Tubo’s rule in Shazhou, and then sent troops to capture Gua, Yi, Su, Gan, Shan, He, Xi, Min, Lan, and Kuoshi Prefectures.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang placed the rebel army in Shazhou, with Zhang Yichao as the envoy. The Hexi Uighur forces were then placed under the jurisdiction of the Zhang rebel army, and their power gradually grew.
After several decades passed, the rebel army led an army to Gaochang to the west, hoping to recover the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.
As a result, he was ambushed by his subordinate Uighur-turned-servant Gujun to the backstab! Many 2.8 people from the rebel army were killed in battle, and Servant Gujun became Gao Chang’s master.
And the Uighurs in Ganzhou also took the opportunity to wave their swords at the former owner of the rebel army, constantly attacking the Guazhou sandbar, and finally riding on the head of the rebel army that had taken them in!
Subsequently, the Uighurs of Ganzhou, after continuous crusades to the west, basically controlled the Hexi region. And the Khan medicine Luo Ge family of the Ganzhou Uighur also became the king of Hexi!.
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