Due to the policy of religious freedom, support for Buddhism, and development of Confucianism, Dawan had a small territory in the early decades after its founding and was busy suppressing religious rebellions one after another.

During this period, the King of Dayuan also repeatedly requested the Ming Dynasty to immigrate Han people there. Over the past thirty years, 70,000 to 80,000 people immigrated one after another.

There can only be so many immigrants. Firstly, the journey is too long, and secondly, Anxi and Qihe also need immigrants.

The founding monarch of the Dayuan Kingdom conquered the resurgent Gur Dynasty in his later years. The westernmost territory even reached Khorasan (northeast Iran), and the southernmost territory included half of Afghanistan.

Soon, King Dawan died, and a war of succession broke out, and border troops returned to Beijing to join the war.

The Ming Emperor issued an edict angrily condemning this behavior, and sent troops from the Qihe Protectorate to the south to mediate.

When the civil strife subsided, all the newly occupied territories that had not yet been digested rebelled. For the next ten years or so, they were busy fighting a counter-insurgency war.

Mainly because the mountainous areas of Afghanistan are too difficult to fight.

The Dawan Kingdom's army could only control key cities and surrounding areas, and then order those mountain tribes to pay tribute.

The mountain tribes always surrendered and rebelled again. Suppressing the rebellion cost a lot of money and food. If they killed too hard, no one would pay taxes. In the end, Dawan's finances were ruined and they had to support a puppet king, while the Dawan army continued to fight.

Afghan withdrawal.

In addition to financial distress, another reason why Dawan withdrew its troops from Afghanistan was that it was at war with the Gejining dynasty.

After successive battles, Gejining lost its northern and western territories, huddled back south of the Khyber Pass and did not dare to move, and quickly surrendered to the King of Dawan.

After twenty years of peace, the Dawan Kingdom mainly expanded toward the west, trying to open up the Silk Road and control the east coast of the Caspian Sea.

When the Dawan Kingdom was on an expedition to the Caspian Sea, the new king of Gejining boldly sent out troops. Not only did they want to break away from the Dawan Kingdom and become independent, they also planned to regain the territory they had lost twenty years ago. Moreover, they also roped in the puppet king of Afghanistan.

The third monarch of the Dawan Kingdom was furious and pulled back the army that had been on an expedition to the Caspian Sea to go south to Afghanistan to quell the rebellion. He also ordered the eastern army of the Dawan Kingdom to fight all the way from the Khyber Pass to the Indus River Valley.

The King of Dayuan asked his younger brother to stay there and named him the King of Tianzhu.

Tianzhu is India, the transliteration is just different.

Well, if a country is established in the Indus Valley, it can definitely be called the King of Tianzhu.

Today, the Indian state still exists. Its main territory is in the Indus River Basin, and then it expanded to the east of Punjab. It has besieged the city of Delhi with heavy troops several times.

However, the country of Tianzhu has been Brahminized.

The army he brought with him when he founded the country was too small. After the destruction of Gejining, he had to compromise with the local nobles.

The nobles of the Indus Valley were actually willing to give up desert religion, led their people to convert to Buddhism, and happily accepted Confucianism.

Gradually, Confucianism changed in the Indus Valley, and the Buddhism brought there also began to have a caste system...

Nowadays, the princes of the Tubang Kingdom of India talk about Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi. They even claim that these three Confucian sages are the reincarnations of the three main gods of Hinduism, but they were accidentally reincarnated in China.
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