It is not surprising that China has a history of 5,000 years. There was such a thing in the Tang Dynasty that the country was devastated by the bride price.
The story should start from the early Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has just been established, and the situation is still unstable. In order to destroy warlords all over the country and stabilize the political power, the imperial court fought everywhere, and the people were miserable. There is an urgent need to recuperate and stop the war. Shortly after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, the nomadic people in the north took this opportunity to develop their power and gradually become stronger. About four years after Zhenguan, among the nomadic people in the north, an army headed by easily defeated foreigners quickly became strong and established Xueyan Tuo State. All this was noticed by Li Shimin, but the Tang Dynasty was in urgent need of self-cultivation and it was not easy to fight.
At first, Emperor Taizong wanted to make these local forces honest through appeasement policy, and then he looked for opportunities to destroy these local warlords. However, when this policy came out, it made Xue Yantuo even more arrogant, thinking that the Tang Dynasty was afraid of weakness and developed the army more blatantly.
About nine years later, Xue Yantuo grew into a powerful country with 200,000 military forces. This is not the result that Emperor Taizong wanted, and it threatened the safety of the Tang Dynasty and became a thorn in his heart. Coincidentally, another nomadic people in the north is also developing rapidly. The best way to deal with Xu Yantuo is to support small countries and compete with him. The leader of this ethnic group supported by Li Shimin is Ashina Small. In order to show his support, he was also named Li and Khan. And help him develop vigorously until he can compete with Xue Yantuo.
All this undoubtedly made Iyimen see the eccentricity of Emperor Taizong, and his relationship with Ashina Small was naturally very bad, even hostile. All this achieved the original purpose of Emperor Taizong. When there was a war between the two countries, the Tang Dynasty did not hesitate to send troops to help Ashina Smokhan, which completely severed Xue Yantuo's relationship with the Tang Dynasty.
However, Xue Yantuo is a country where several tribes unite, and internal disputes continue. Khan, an easy loser, had to show weakness to the Tang Dynasty and ask for a kiss in order to stabilize his position. Faced with this demand, Emperor Taizong was bent on sending troops to destroy Xue Yantuo at this moment. On the other hand, ministers think this method is not appropriate. It didn't take long for the Tang Dynasty to plow and live, and it was not easy to fight once it was restored. But it is time to destroy Xue Yantuo's kingdom. If left unchecked, it is hard to say whether the world will be Li's.
At this time, a minister in the Tang Dynasty made suggestions and asked Xue Yantuo for a bride price. It is really unreasonable for the Tang Dynasty to marry the princess to you without a generous bride price. Xue Yantuo is a nomadic people. It's not too much to ask you for some cattle and sheep! The Tang Dynasty proposed to have 50,000 horses, 50,000 cows, 50,000 camels and 100,000 sheep. All these animals arrived in Lingzhou on time. This discerning person knows that there is fraud here. No matter how many cattle and sheep there are, it is very unreliable to just drive these animals from the north to Lingzhou. How to ensure the life and death of animals along the way? However, this vulnerable person readily agreed to collect cattle and sheep from various tribes, and then arranged for people to drive the animals to Lingzhou when the collection was enough. I don't know how many animals died after this long journey. After going through all kinds of hardships, not only did I have to work overtime, but the number of animals was not enough. For this reason, the Tang Dynasty naturally withdrew this marriage.
As soon as the marriage was over, Yiman felt that his face was going to die, so he collected cattle and sheep from various tribes. The tribe was even more unhappy with him, and this Iraqi Khan died before long. After his death, coupled with the internal disputes of Xue Yantuo, Xue Yantuo's strength declined rapidly and was finally easily eliminated by Emperor Taizong's army.
Emperor Taizong's plan was brilliant, and he used the bride price to easily destroy a small country.