How did the Qing Dynasty completely conquer the Mongols? With just one move, the population of Mongolia has decreased by 2 million.

Ever since Genghis Khan rose in the grassland and led the Mongols to conquer the world, the Mongols have become a nation that scares the world very much. They are very brave and aggressive and difficult to deal with. In the nearly 300-year rule of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia has always been the biggest threat to the north, and the number of Mongolians has been at the gates of Beijing several times, which can be said to be very powerful. But the rulers of the Qing Dynasty completely conquered this belligerent nation, and the Mongols seemed to be obedient subjects on the grassland. How did this happen? A policy has reduced more than 2 million Mongolians in 200 years.

After the birth of the Yuan Dynasty, the population of Mongolia soared, from less than 600,000 in Genghis Khan's period to about 2 million, and has maintained this level ever since. In the early years of Qing dynasty, it grew to 3 million, so it has always been the most powerful nation in the north. However, since the complacent people conquered Mongolia, although they experienced a peaceful life for more than 200 years, in the late Qing Dynasty, two obvious changes took place in the Mongols.

First, the nation's martial and brave integrity has almost been lost and it has become extremely docile; Second, the population has dropped sharply. In the late Qing Dynasty, General Feng Yuxiang occupied the northwest all the time. In his autobiography, he said that there were less than 600,000 Mongolians under his rule at that time, almost returning to the early days of Genghis Khan, and most of them were poor, cowardly and incompetent. What the hell is going on here? Why have the Mongols, who have ruled for hundreds of years, been ruled by Manchu for 300 years, but such great changes have taken place?

The answer lies in a vicious policy of the Qing Dynasty. After Jin conquered Mongolia, although he always emphasized the Manchu family, he was still afraid of this populous and aggressive nation, fearing its resurgence. Therefore, while strengthening surveillance, he kept casting nets. Every generation of emperors in the Qing dynasty married a large number of Mongolian aristocratic women as concubines, even queens, in order to win over Mongolia.

At the same time, Manchu people also found something through contact. At that time, Huang Taiji said: "Mongolian Baylor gave up his language name and learned from the Lama, which led to the decline of the country and should be taken as a warning." In other words, Mongolia, once tough, declined because of learning from the Lama. So what is a Lama? In fact, it was the yellow religion in * * *. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols conquered * * * and appointed Basiba, the Lama leader of * * *, as a Buddhist. At that time, the living habits of the Mongols were very close to * * *. Therefore, more and more Mongolians began to convert to Yellow Religion.

Yellow religion is actually a branch of Buddhism, and its main teachings are as follows: first, lamas can't get married and have children; The second is to publicize the cycle of life and death, karma and so on. Moreover, during the rebellion in Grdan, Mongolians who believed in Yellow Religion even helped the Qing army to fight against Grdan. Therefore, after the war, Kangxi formulated the national policy of "promoting Yellow Religion to secure Mongolia". Because Mongolians who believe in Yellow Religion become timid, docile and easy to control, which is exactly what Manchu wants.

Therefore, we began to vigorously promote Yellow Religion in Mongolia. The main measures are as follows: First, the Lama Temple is widely built on the Mongolian grassland, giving the Lama a huge treasure reward, and constantly improving the status of the Lama's religious leader. Slowly, religion even surpassed the * * * aristocrats, so many Mongolian flags with the integration of politics and religion were established.

Second, encourage Mongolians to become monks. At that time, the Qing Dynasty made it mandatory that every Mongolian family must have a monk. As long as he was a Lama, the family could be exempted from considerable corvee, taxes and military service. So there was a frenzy of being a Lama. Third, let religious leaders occupy a lot of land, pasture and social wealth, make people become vassals of religion and weaken the authority of Mongolian nobles. Under these policies, there are three consequences.

First, lamas have formed a new privileged class, whose number once reached one-third of that of Mongolian men. Do you think that these originally bloody Mongolian warriors have become lamas who recite scriptures every day, can they not be weak? Second, lamas cannot get married and have children. Therefore, the population is extremely declining and the reproductive capacity is greatly weakened. Moreover, the heavy work of Mongolians is slowly transferred to women, which makes their physical fitness decline and their fertility even weaker. Third, religious leaders gradually control social wealth, which makes productivity stagnate, the gap between the rich and the poor widens sharply, and the general public is poor.

In the end, the Mongols completely surrendered to the foot of Manchu, and there was no uprising from then on. Therefore, the Manchu promoted Yellow Religion in Mongolia, giving rewards, which seemed to be giving benefits to the Mongols, but the final effect was to boil frogs in warm water, directly creating a powerful warrior nation.

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