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Emperor Taizong also immediately faced a crisis, as the Eastern Turkic leader Illig Qaghan (Ashina Duobi), along with his nephew the subordinate Tuli Khan Ashina Shibobi (阿史那什鉢苾), launched a major incursion toward Chang'an, and just 19 days after Emperor Taizong took the throne, the two khans were just across the Wei River from ...
Emperor Taizong agreed and summoned Fang back to serve as chancellor. In 648, Chu was made Zhongshu Ling (中書令) — the head of the legislative bureau of government and a post considered one for a chancellor. In summer 649, Emperor Taizong, while at Cuiwei Palace (翠微宮), was severely ill.
Emperor Taizong's campaigns against the oasis states brought the Tarim Basin under Tang control. Map of Taizong's campaigns against the Tarim Basin oasis states, allies of the Western Turks. The empire of the Tang dynasty (June 18, 618 – June 1, 907), successor of the Sui dynasty , was a cosmopolitan hegemon that ruled one of China's most ...
When the Chinese prefectural government officials travelled to the capital in 643 to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in and were renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Emperor Taizong ordered the government agencies in charge of municipal ...
Emperor Taizong also ordered Qu Wentai to turn over the Chinese who were previously in exile in the Eastern Turkic Khaganate who had fled to Gaochang when Tang conquered the Eastern Turkic Khaganate in 630. Qu Wentai further incensed Emperor Taizong by trying to persuade Xueyantuo's Zhenzhu Khan Yi'nan to take a more independent stance from ...
Emperor Taizong rationalized his decision by arguing that if Yi'nan had married a Tang princess, he would have greater legitimacy over the Chile tribes and would be more difficult to control. Meanwhile, Yi'nan was continuing to attack Eastern Turks periodically. When Emperor Taizong sent emissaries to try to stop him from doing so, Yi'nan ...
Emperor Taizong (r. 626−649) set up 10 "circuits" (道, dào) in 627 as areas for imperial commissioners to monitor the operation of prefectures, rather than as a direct level of administration. In the early Tang these geopolitical entities were not based on the realities of governance but rather ease of use when communicating which areas ...
Previous to the compilation of the Seven Military Classics, the Song Emperor Shenzong (r. 1068–1085) ordered the study and exegesis of a "Li Jing Bing Fa" ("Li Jing's Military Methods"). Assuming that this Li Jing Bing Fa was an edition of Questions and Replies , the existence of the book precedes the supposed date of Yuan Yi's forgery by ten ...