A Study On The Military And Political Relations Between Tubo And Nanzha

A military-political relationship between Tubo and Nanzhao has double significance from an economic standpoint.Every dynasty is the result of a complex relationship,and the way of communication between Tubo and the surrounding ethnic groups represents the dynasty’s foreign expedition.The study of the Tubo Dynasty in the context of the relationships between the Tubo and surrounding ethnic groups will provide a more comprehensive and objective understanding of the rise and fall of the Tubo Dynasty.Moreover,from an economic perspective,the ancient Chinese mainland became involved in wars and tribal alliances as a result of resource imbalances,reflecting the value and significance of contemporary Chinese policies based on complementary resources and mutual aid.The article is organized into three parts: an overview of the military-political relationship between Tubo and Nanzhao,an overview of the economic situation between Tubo and Nanzhao during the period when Nanzhao was ruled by Tubo,and an overview of the interaction between Tubo and Nanzhao’s government and army.The first chapter,based on the facts of Chinese and Tibetan documents,explores the geographical relationship between Tubo and Nanzhao: how did Tubo rise and move south;how the unification of the Nanzhao occurred under the influence of the power balance between Tubo and Tang dynasties.Then,analyze when and how Tubo ruled Nanzhao,and then,how Nanzhao deviated from Tubo.As a result of previous research,it seeks to analyze why history develops in this manner and how the economic factors behind it influence its development.The second chapter examines the Tubo and Nanzhao economies during the Tubo period of Nanzhao by considering the three pillars of economic anthropology,production,exchange,and consumption,and asks what form of production modes are used in these two societies and how do they relate to economic exchange.A key reason for choosing economic anthropology over other economic theories is that this discipline was the most suitable for examining the mode of production,consumption,and exchange between Tubo and Nanzhao during the era when Tubo ruled Nanzhao.By exchanging things,the author believes the two societies at that time improved their dynastic relationship to some extent.Sometimes,out of necessity to express rights,a dynasty will abandon the convenient and simple exchange methods and choose a more primitive exchange method,such as bartering.That is very different from the economic model that existed after entering capitalism.The final chapter will analyze the economic factors contributing to the development of military-political relations between Tubo and Nanzhao by reviewing some cases,such as the wars and military alliances formed based on wealth from Yunnan salt,Yunnan tea and Sichuan,and explaining the factors surrounding them.Based on the theory of human ecology,the final conclusion investigates the historical events of Tubo’s rule over Nanzhao,which ended the resource-independence and long-term wars of the tribes in the southeast of Tubo,and created a short-term sharing of resources in the unbalanced interior of China.In this dissertation,I argue that the imbalance of resources will undoubtedly result in immigration,plunder,and war,and the scattered groups and tribes living in the plateau area emerge into political organizations that converge their efforts,compete with each other for resources,and strive to create resource complementarity,a shared human ecology,and the Tubo rule of Nanzhao was a short-lived outcome of this process.