Tang Dynasty

It began when the middle kingdom was united under a Chinese emperor, but that emperor, but that emperor was greedy, selfish and cruel, killing his faithful, sturdy people with his overwork for his own pleasure. There were rebellions in the northern provinces and robber bands roamed freely about the country. A young man of 20 years old had another picture in

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The last great Chinese empire to do that was the Hans dynasty (206-220)

The Tang court strived for a centralized government. It was Li Shi-min who founded the dynasty, it was he who had united and pacified the empire, he alone was able to rule and guide it. External relations, policy, the economy and society, and intellectual life all changed rapidly from the terrible years 755-63 onwards. China’s influence was at its zenith. Li Shi-min became the new emperor, who was 30 years old and took the title of Tai Tsung. When his father retired, he left the throne to his son, who he was so proud of. The legal code spelled out crimes and their punishments. They later gained control of the Tibetan people in Turfan. Tang also welcomed trade with India, Persia, and Byzantium. The Tang government adopted a uniform legal system, updated it reguraly, and applied it universally. The new tax system is called the Duel Tax System and allowed subjects to buy and sell their land holdings. To raise revenue the court instuted a salt monopoly, which controlled the production, distribution and sale of salt by merchants, by 780 trade was a major source for government revenue. Soon the empire was quiet and the rule of the Tang’s was accepted from the Eastern Ocean to the Jade Gate. At the capital, the ministries and their various bureaus oversaw the workings of the entire government and kept pain staking records of everything.

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