Introduction
Historically, due to the small number of its clan, the Later Jin regime absorbed a large number of Mongolians and to join, and even established the Mongolian Eight Banners to let the Mongolian cavalry use it. In order to maintain the relationship with Mongolian tribes and continue to receive strong help, the upper nobles of the Later Jin Dynasty continued to marry Mongolian tribes, and the slogan of Manchu and Mongolian family was shouted loudly. Later, after Qing entered the Central Plains, he did not forget to continue to maintain good relations with the Mongolian nobles. The two sides had more marriages. Several Qing empresses were born in Mongolians, and some Qing emperors and upper nobles also had certain Mongolians in them, and it can even be said to be the Golden Family Bloodline (mainly the Borjijin matriarch).
Therefore, some people are curious why when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, the Mongolian tribes and Mongolian people on the grassland did not come to support Qing ? Just watch the Qing Dynasty be beaten? At that time, the officials in the southeastern provinces made the operation of Southeast mutual protection and reached an agreement with foreigners , saying that the royal edict was "forgery and life-spending" under the hostage of Boxer , openly protecting the personal safety of the eleven countries, treating the Eight-Nation Alliance peacefully, and not entering a state of war, which means that the officials of the Southeast provinces sold the imperial court. If they didn't come, they wouldn't come, but why didn't the Mongolians who were so close to the Qing Dynasty royal family come to rescue the Qing Dynasty?
actually the answer is very simple. At that time, Cixi was very confident. Before declaring war on the world, she never thought that she would mobilize the whole country to fight such a war with European countries. She thought that relying on the Boxer Rebellion would almost drive all foreigners out of China, and she did not expect that killing a few foreigners would cause such a violent reaction from governments of various countries. After the war, the Mongols at that time really didn't have the strength to help the Qing court defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance, because the Mongolian cavalry had long become a historical term. During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court liked to dispatch troops and recruit soldiers from Mongolian tribes regardless of internal and external wars, which affected the Mongolian population. The last general among the Mongolians who could fight - Senggelinqin , died at the hands of Nian Army decades ago with a large number of elite Mongolian horses. Since then, the Mongolian tribes on the grassland have no strength.
Not to mention that the Mongolian tribes had to pay attention to the Tsarist Russian , which had been eyeing each other, and they had difficulty cloning and did not have the energy and strength to help the Qing court drive away the Eight-Nation Alliance. The weapons gap between them and the Eight-Nation Alliance was too big, and they would die if they came.
History, although the Qing court said that the whole country and Mongolia were all family, it was actually secretly guarding against the expansion of the Mongolian power. First, it developed the alliance flag system, locked the Mongolian tribes in the grasslands in various places, prevented them from moving freely, and prohibited many exchanges between herdsmen. This prevented wars between Mongolian tribes, but also made the Mongolian tribes neglected to war, and could not rise rapidly through war or expand their strength, and could not maintain a war-going military aristocratic class. The Mongolian warriors gradually became professional herdsmen. Although they also used bows and arrows, they were only at the level of hunters, lacking the fighting will and organizational degree required for war, as well as necessary battle formation training, and their combat effectiveness was really average.
In addition, over the past few hundred years, the Qing court used huge wealth from the Han area to support Mongolian princes and nobles, so that they could indulge in pleasure, suppress their ambitions, and ignore the lives and deaths of ordinary people. On the other hand, they developed many secret "reducing vocational policies" to control and suppress the Mongolian population, such as promoting Tibetan Buddhism, changing the customs and traditions of the Mongolians, so that there were people in every Mongolian family to be lamas. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were 2,600 temples in Outer Mongolia, more than 100,000 monks, 1,800 temples in Inner Mongolia and more than 150,000 monks, with an average of 30-40 temples per banner. The average proportion of monks' population reached 30% to 40%, and in some areas it even reached 50% or even 60% (a lama temple is better than raising 100,000 soldiers), resulting in its continued decline.
The final result is that the Mongols are not as strong as before, especially after the complete destruction of Junggar Khanate , the combat effectiveness of the Mongols in the south and north of the desert even degenerated to the state before the Genghis Khan era. By the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing court found helpers from Mongolia were actually a bunch of herders, and then they suffered serious losses in the Second Opium War and the suppression of the Taiping Army and the Nian Army uprising.
The Mongols did not have the ability to support the Qing Dynasty when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China. The main reason was that they were too late. The Qing army and the Boxer Regiment were defeated too quickly. The Eight-Nation Alliance easily conquered Beijing. The Qing royal family fled in a hurry. At this time, what Cixi needed was not support, but a protector. She was really frightened and did not need the Mongolians to serve the king at all. All she needed was people to protect her.
