Mongol Household Registration in North China

Name: Mongol Household Registration in North China
Start: 1240
End: 1249

Type Event Region China Time 1240–1249

After the Jin's fall, Mongol rulers systematically registered households in North China for taxation and mobilization, expanding in the 1240s under Ö…

Timeline

1234–1236Yanjing (predecessor of Dadu) · North ChinaAfter the Jin dynasty fell in 1234, the Mongols in North China faced lost household archives and a large displaced population. Yelü Chucai strongly advocated taxation by household instead of massacre and plunder; Ögedei gradually adopted this, setting the policy direction for later large-scale registration.
1240–1249circuits of the Central Plains · Central PlainsMongol authorities dispatched officials working with local hereditary lords to register households in the Yanji, Zhending, Shuntian, and other circuits, recording people, fields, and tax-and-labor obligations, and distinguishing military households, civilian households, and Buddhist and Daoist clergy as a basis for corvée and revenue.

Sources

Cambridge History of China, Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907–1368 — Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett (eds.) (1994)
元史·食货志