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 | | Emperor Yangdi also sent an emissary to the Western Turk Khanate to relay a similar message and obtained the aid of the western khan in attacking the Tuyuhun who were unhappy about Sui's replacing the Tuyuhun wife of the Eastern Turk Khan with a Sui princess. |
 | | Tang's emperor Taizong, son of Li Yuan, would quell all rivals including Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong etc. One rival at the border was aided by the eastern Turks; hence, Tang sought wars with the Turks in lieu of the old alliance with them. |
 | | Tang Dynasty was hence a puppet government, to be usurped in AD 907 by a ex-peasant rebel leader, Zhu Wen, who had earlier defected to Tang from the camp of Huang Chao. |
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