How was the Qing Dynasty s policy of reducing the number of Mongols implemented?

The original source of the so-called Manchu Qing claim on the Mongols was General Feng Yuxiang's autobiography "Travels in Outer Mongolia", in which he talked to many locals in Outer Mongolia who advocated Mongolia's secession from China, quoting many of their remarks:

When it comes to population, Mongolia has 12 million people. After a long period of Manchu rule, it has now been reduced to 500,000.

The Manchus used Lamaism to rule over the Mongol people, and those who had eight brothers were required to be lamas, and those with five brothers were required to be lamas. Only one commoner can marry a wife and have children.

1. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's Ding Reduction Policy:

The various ministries were divided and disintegrated, and the population control was carried out for the Mongolian ministries with relatively large populations and strong cohesion. For example, the upper limit of men in Horqin Mongolia is 80,000, and those who exceed it must be killed. There are more similar ways to let the Mongol army play the front in disguise.

By this means, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the population of Mongolia decreased from 12 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty to hundreds of thousands of people at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

2. Lamaism.

The Manchus vigorously promoted Lamaism in Mongolia, using religious opium to anesthetize herders. If there are eight brothers, seven of them shall be lamas; If there are five brothers, four of them will be lamas. This has resulted in a significant decline in the number of births.

Historically, the Jin State was a country established by the Jurchens of our country. And in history, the hearts and minds of the Jin people have always been the Mongols. In order to weaken the Mongols and eliminate the threat to the Jin State, Jin Shizhong once implemented a policy of reducing the Mongols, but after the Mongols implemented the strategy of reducing the Mongols, it accelerated the unification of the Mongols.

This makes people feel very puzzling, why after the implementation of the policy of reducing the number of Mongols in Mongolia, not only did the code not hit the morale of the Mongols, but accelerated the unification of the Mongols? In fact, it is mainly because the policy of reducing the number of Ding implemented by the Jin State has balanced the power within the Mongols to a certain extent. Therefore, after the implementation of the policy of reducing the number of Mongols, Mongolia did not dampen the morale of the Mongols, but accelerated the pace of Mongol reunification.

1. A Brief Introduction to the Policy of Reducing Ding, the Jin State is a country established by the Jurchen tribe, a minority in China. At the height of its development, it once occupied half of the land of China. On the surface, the biggest enemy of the Jin State at that time was the Southern Song Dynasty of our country, but from the perspective of the Shichi Bench Mountain, the Jin State at that time faced another powerful enemy, which was the Mongols.

In order to be able to deal well with the Mongols, the Jin people once implemented a policy of reducing the number of Ding in the Mongolian region. The so-called policy of reducing the number of people in Mongolia is that the Jin people will regularly send a group of people to kill some of the Mongols, and some of the Jin people will also snatch some young children in the Mongolian region as their own slaves, and they hope to weaken the strength of the Mongolian region in this way.

2. The policy of reducing the number of people in Mongolia has accelerated the unification of the Mongolian people to a certain extent. The implementation of the strategy of reducing the number of Ding has successfully upset the balance of the Mongolian people. At the same time, the tribes of central and western Mongolia developed rapidly.

3. Overview: The reason why the strategy of reducing the number of Ding implemented by the Jin State in Mongolia was able to accelerate the unification of Mongolia was mainly because it broke the original balance of Mongolia.