Master Archaeologist

Chapter 214
As a poor student of the Xianbei ethnic group learning the Central Plains culture.

Tuyuhun was still using bronze to make armor in the sixth century AD.

From this point of view, it is not surprising that their regime was destroyed by Tubo.

Don't look at the Tibetans who came down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and they like to use human bones to make wine vessels and ritual vessels.

But the Tubo people are known for their toughness, bravery and fighting spirit.

And there are a lot of exchanges between people and the Central Plains.

During the Tang Taizong period, Princess Wencheng and Songtsan Gambo, whom she married, were the leaders of the Tubo people.

Songtsan Gampo was the 33rd Zanpu of the Tubo Dynasty, but he was actually the founding king of the Tubo Dynasty.

During his reign, he moved the capital to LS, quelled civil strife in Tubo, subdued Yangtong, unified Tibet, and formally established the Tubo kingdom ruled by slave owners.

Moreover, he developed agricultural and animal husbandry production, promoted irrigation, ordered people to formulate characters, created administrative and military systems, set up official ranks, promulgated laws and regulations, and unified weights and measures and taxation systems.

It promoted the comprehensive development of Tubo's politics, economy and culture, and established Tubo's political, military, economic and legal systems.

It can be said that Songtsan Gampo's influence on the Tubo people is equivalent to that of Qin Shihuang in Huaxia.

And he has a powerful neighbor to learn from. In the 15th year of Zhenguan, Songtsan Gampo went to Bohai to marry Princess Wencheng, a daughter of the Tang clan.

In Tang Dynasty, he was granted the title of Prince Consort Captain and King of Xihai County.

Afterwards, Songtsan Gampo frequently sent the noble children of Tubo to Chang'an to study Chinese and study poetry and books.

It is said that it is learning poetry and books, but in fact it is the same as the Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty, learning everything.

As long as there are things that Tubo doesn't have, and things that Tubo doesn't understand, they can learn everything.

The young children studying in the United States in the late Qing Dynasty, even under the terrible government in the late Qing Dynasty, still opened up the industrial age for the Qing Dynasty after returning to China, and opened the industrialization era for the Qing Dynasty.

What's more, Tubo at that time was under the leadership of a wise monarch like Songtsan Gampo.

These Tubo nobles who studied in the Tang Dynasty quickly integrated into all aspects of Tubo after returning to Tubo.

Leading the Tubo Kingdom, it has developed rapidly. Whether it is economy, productivity, technology, or agricultural development, it is like riding a rocket.

Only then did the Tubo kingdom come down from the plateau, destroying Tuyuhun in one fell swoop, occupying Qinghai and the Hexi Corridor, and even continuously invading the Western Regions.

When Tubo was at its peak, it not only took all of Tibet, but also captured the Hexi Corridor and Qinghai, severed the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions, and then inherited the identity of the Tang Dynasty and became the overlord of the Western Regions. For a moment, Yuliang looked bright.

However, as long as it is a feudal dynasty, it cannot avoid the rapid decline after the peak.

In the late Tang Dynasty, Tubo also opened its doors, entering the last years of the dynasty, and the two brothers of the Tang Dynasty, the eldest brother, don't laugh at the second brother.

When the separatist regimes in the Tang Dynasty fought in a melee, the nobles in Tubo also fought in a melee, and the country almost ceased to exist.

This is why Tubo did not conquer Datang.

The two countries are almost carved out of the same mold.

When Tubo really founded the country, it was about the same time as the Tang Dynasty.

The system implemented is also a comprehensive study of Datang.

Afterwards, the Great Tang Jiedu made the tail too big to lose, and the emperor in the middle of the late Tang Dynasty was useless.

Tubo is also sealed in various places and cannot be shaken off, and Zanpu who unified the country is also useless.

And then both countries went to ruin.

The land of Tubo outside the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, that is, Qinghai and the Hexi Corridor, was occupied by the rising Li family Xixia.

The tribes of Tubo returned to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and split into different tribes and sects, and there has never been a unified regime since then.

The same is true for the Tang Dynasty, which ushered in the chaotic era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and finally gave birth to the Song Dynasty whose territory was less than one-third of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

The relationship between Tubo and Datang also underwent many changes.

They fought fiercely at first, but after Princess Wencheng got married, they spent five or sixty years of honeymoon period.

Then the whole Tubo army attacked and laid down a large territory.

The regime of the Tuyuhun Kingdom perished at this time.

Learning deeply from Datang, absorbing various advanced cultures and techniques, and mastering iron-making techniques, coupled with Tubo, who is already brave and good at fighting, it is not an easy task to fight Tuyuhun.

Who told Tuyuhun not to learn well? Even though he was so close to Datang's father, he didn't study the advanced culture of Datang well.

On the contrary, he learned the craftsmanship of mural paintings and gold and silverware very well.

According to the clues provided by the local police, most of the more than 600 cultural relics stolen from this tomb are gold and silver wares, and they are very exquisitely made, not much different from the contemporary Tang Dynasty gold and silver wares.

And it has a strong western style.

This shows that the craftsmanship of gold and silver wares in Tuyuhun was not bad at that time, at least keeping up with the times.

But in terms of weapon making, it looks very ordinary.

The iron arrowheads found in the main tomb are of very average quality, being made of ordinary pig iron.

At the same time, the iron arrowheads of the Tang Dynasty had already used steel, and even good iron arrowheads were still made of refined steel!

The poor craftsmanship in the middle is not at 01:30.

From pig iron to wrought iron, to fried iron, and finally to steelmaking.

If you want to develop independently, there is not a few hundred years of effort in the middle, and it cannot be developed.

But there is a big brother next door to Tuyuhun who can learn from it.

It's just a pity, it seems that Tuyuhun doesn't pay attention to learning advanced technology.

This finally led to the demise of the regime.

Even the nation's own writing has been abandoned and forgotten.

Why do you say that.

Because of Kong Jianwen, a wooden tablet was found in the southwest corner of the main tomb.

On the wooden tablet, there is a line of text written in Tibetan.

All the archaeologists here do not understand Tibetan.

Moreover, these Tibetan scripts are not modern Tibetan scripts, but the original ancient Tibetan scripts, which were created during the Songtsen Gampo period.

It is also the official text of Tubo Kingdom.

As I said before, the age of this tomb is in the seventh and eighth centuries, that is, when the Tubo Kingdom ruled the Qinghai area.

At this time, the Tuyuhun Kingdom had been extinct for 200 years, and only the Tuyuhun tribe remained.

And it seems that the Tuyuhun tribe has been completely transformed into Tubo.

In the tombs of the royal family of my own tribe, the written records found are all written in Tibetan.

However, when the Tuyuhun Kingdom was strong, it also created its own characters.

Obviously, at this time, the Tuyuhun tribe had completely abandoned their own culture, writing, and even language.

This made Chen Han feel very funny.

When Tuyuhun was strong, they did not know that they learned advanced culture and technology from the awesome Central Plains next door, and engaged in the Sinicization movement like their predecessors, the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Then when it was conquered by Tubo and the country was gone, it was time to learn the culture of Tubo immediately.

This is really holding back and going backwards!

It can only be said that it deserves it!
(End of this chapter)