Why was the Tang Dynasty unable to destroy Tibet, but the Weak Song Dynasty was able to beat Tibet

Because the strength of the Tubo they faced was also different, the Tang Dynasty faced the Tubo at its peak, while the Song Dynasty faced the declining Tubo, so the ending was different.

Because at that time, the strength of Tibet became weaker. Tibet was strong during the Tang Dynasty, but by the time of the Song Dynasty, Tibet was suppressed by other ethnic groups and became very weak.

On the one hand, it was because during the Tang Dynasty, the sphere of influence of Tibet was also very large, and the military strength of some countries was very strong, and on the other hand, it was also because the Tang Dynasty had internal and external troubles and many wars, so there was no time to take care of Tibet.

Because Tubo was very powerful at that time, Tubo was located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the climate was not something that ordinary people could adapt to, so the Tang Dynasty army could not destroy Tubo.

Because Tibet was still strong at that time, the Tang Dynasty had no way to destroy Tibet, so it could only form an alliance with Tibet.

That's because the power of the Tibetans is also very strong, and their military strength is also very strong, and the Tang Dynasty is mainly seeking a stable development, so there is no way to destroy it.

This is the only way to ask why the Tubo Empire did not destroy the Tang Kingdom!

Historically, the Song Dynasty was not really strong or even unified, and the Southern Song Dynasty was similar to a local government. Therefore, when compiling the history books of the Yuan Dynasty, the history of the Song Dynasty must be placed alongside the history books of the Liao and Jin.

But some people who are interested look at the historical materials of the Song Dynasty and find that the Song Dynasty may not be so miserable.

According to historical records, the elite troops of the Song army smashed the Tubo army, recovered nearly 2,000 miles of land in Hehuang, and completed the siege of Western Xia.

But soon, because the conservative Sima Guang came to power, the Northern Song voluntarily gave up the Hehuang land and returned to the traditional territory of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the so-called Longyou capital is just a flash in the pan.

Xiongqi's only open-sided movement made many fans of the Song Dynasty excited, and even began to compare the Song Dynasty with the Han and Tang Dynasties.

After all, the Tang Dynasty could not defeat Tibet, and the Song Dynasty could not defeat Tibet. By the way, it can be verified that the Song Dynasty was stronger than the Tang Dynasty. But is that really the case?

Of course not. The Tubo of the Song Dynasty and the Tubo of the Tang Dynasty were not the same class at all.

The Tang Dynasty faced Tibet as a vast and large country thousands of miles away, comparable to the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire, and its characteristics were stronger than those of ordinary nomads.

It is generally believed that Tibet is in a wild land, and the strongest is the Xiongnu.

Judging from historical records, the strength of Tibet in its heyday was much stronger than that of the Xiongnu, and even stronger than that of the Mongol Empire in its heyday.

First, the country has perfect people**, including the emperor (Zampu), the prime minister (prime minister) and the local level**, and it is a **centralized state.

There is a fundamental difference from most loose tribal confederations, including empires.

Second, Tibet has a well-developed written, linguistic, legal and religious system, which means that the Tibetan culture is highly integrated and independent, and it is difficult to assimilate.

Most minority regimes do not have such a complete cultural identity.

Third, the Tibetan regime was different from ordinary nomadic regimes. This regime has a population of several million, and its economic structure is not a single nomadic structure, but a regime that emphasizes both agriculture and pastoralism.

The diversification of the economic structure greatly increased the strength and national resilience of Tibet, and to a certain extent avoided the rapid decline of the Xiongnu in bad weather.

Fourth, the heyday of Tibet had a regular army, not tribal warriors, unlike the nomads who were all soldiers.

Because the strength of Tibet was relatively strong at that time, and the military strength of Tibet in the Song Dynasty also declined.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty was not powerless to destroy Tibet, but it didn't want to, so it was reclaimed in a friendly way, and the Song Dynasty itself was actually not weak, and it lost less foreign wars than the Tang Dynasty, and the reason why you felt weak was because the Song Dynasty didn't like to fight.

Because the Tang Dynasty still doesn't understand the weakness of Tubo, obviously they have a request for us, need our goods, well, the Song Dynasty just grasped this point, at the border to buy Tubo's goods at a low price, and then use their own goods for ****, this is the ** poor.

Because during the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was at its peak, and during the Song Dynasty, Tubo had declined.

It's not that the Tang Dynasty can't be destroyed, it's because it takes a lot of effort to destroy Tubo, so the Tang Dynasty used marriage to recover Tubo.

The Tang Dynasty was unable to destroy the Tibetans because of their relatively strong military strength and good cooperative relations with the Tang Dynasty.

Although during the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was the most desirable place in the world, but at that time, Tibet was very powerful, and it was not possible to destroy Tibet with the power of the Tang Dynasty alone.