The more Zhenjin thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, he knew what kind of outcome it would be once the Yuxi Timurid army that crossed the river was cut off from retreating, even if they could fight again, but the deep Jiangnan would eventually be wiped out. The troops south of the Yellow River were lost, and there was no barrier in the Central Plains.

However, now that the wood has been completed and the army has crossed the river, Zhenjin can only hope that Yuxi Timur will take advantage of the emptiness of Jiangdong's troops to drive straight down, and seize Lin'an and capture the remnants of the Southern Dynasty royal family before the arrival of the Qinwang army in various places. It's a pity that the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty is in front of the Yangzhou army in Jiangbei, and he still has an army of 100,000 in his hands, and he still has the strength to fight, but he can only hope that his younger brother Zhennan Wang Tuhuan can take advantage of his retreat to the south to chase and kill him and defeat him.

'Ahem...... 'Zhenjin had a headache when he thought of this, thinking that the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty was only five years old when he led a group of rabble to flee to Qiongzhou, and in ten years, he not only repeatedly defeated the army that went to Qing Suppression, but also used the accumulated strength of the projectile land to recapture Jiangnan in one fell swoop. Now that he has a heavy army in his hands, even if he loses Jiangdong, it is not impossible to make a comeback with his ability. A mouthful of phlegm got stuck in his throat, causing Zhenjin to cough violently.

The waiter next to the "Great Khan ......" saw that his coughing and snorting continued, and his face was flushed, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stroke his chest and beat his back, and it took a while for him to spit out this phlegm, and his breath gradually stabilized, but he found that the phlegm was bloodshot, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's okay, most of this place is dry and irritable in winter, and it's just a little hot, don't make a fuss!" Zhenjin squinted at it and just frowned, took the silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and waved his hand to let the waiter retreat. He knows very well that his old illness has been committed again, but at this special time, he can't leak the news that his body has feints, otherwise it will make the court situation more uncertain.

It was just a cough, which made Zhenjin break out in a cold sweat and feel very tired, so that he had to lie half-on the couch, let the waiter cover him with mink fur, turn the charcoal fire in the brazier, and move it to his side, but he still felt a chill, but the fur on his body, the burning red brazier around him could not relieve the bone-chilling cold. And this coldness does not only come from the body, but from the bottom of the heart, deep into the bones.

Zhenjin thinks that he inherited the throne of Khan for only two years, but since he ascended the throne, the situation has deteriorated day by day, first lost Jiangnan, and then Yunnan fell into turmoil, the Song army soldiers Sichuan and Shu, and now they have traced the river into the Jialing River, and Chongqing is in danger. The little emperor of the Southern Dynasty personally led a large army to cross the river and march north a month ago, trapped in Yangzhou, and threatened Huaidong, Henan, and Hebei.

At the same time, the country was also in turmoil, and the sea capital was constantly disturbing the border in the northwest, uniting with the Zar Khan and other khanates to cut off trade routes and stir up relations between the kings of various sects, but they could not destroy it, so they could only defend passively. And the opposition to himself continued in the court, and the kings who stayed in the capital also disliked him, and there were even rumors that he would abdicate the throne and re-establish the Great Khan, and the voice of the court also let him establish the throne of the prince from time to time.

Zhenjin knew that he had inherited the throne of the Khan, although he had the edict of his father Khan, but the king of the Northwest was very dissatisfied with this, thinking that he had destroyed the old Mongolian system. In order to succeed to the throne smoothly, he had to make compromises with the kings and agreed to many conditions. In the past two years, he has not returned to Shangdu to escape the summer according to the custom, communicate with the kings, and appease the people. This is related to his physical pretenses, but the most important thing is that he knows that he has no money, what can he do to appease the dissatisfaction of the kings, and leave empty-handed, it is better not to go.

Zhenjin knew that the emergence of various problems, the reasons for the internal and external difficulties of the Great Yuan Dynasty, in general, were due to problems with fiscal revenue, that is to say, there was excessive expenditure or a lot of money that should be collected was confiscated, which made the imperial court have no money to support the army and officials, so that the armament was slack, foreign enemies entered the army, government decrees were not passed, and public grievances were boiling.

The dissatisfaction of the old Mongolian sect with itself also stems from this. Zhenjin knew that after seizing the Central Plains and Jiangnan, according to the old Mongol system, most of the Mongol tribes who fought returned to the steppe. Since Genghis Khan, in order to unite the strength of the Mongol tribes and prevent the tribes from attacking and plundering, the system of 10,000 households, 1,000 households, and 100 households has been established, and the herdsmen have been fixed in the territories of leaders at all levels, and those who leave without permission will be executed.

The boundaries of the pasture fields of the various tribes in the steppe have changed a lot due to the wars between the tribes, but they are still largely stable through compromises between the nobles. Because only when the boundaries between the noble realms of the tribes were determined, could the herdsmen who had the ability to move not escape. At the same time, the social class lines that had been strengthened under the empire were deepened, with hereditary classes from the Great Khan to the chiefs of all ranks, enjoying abundant resources, while the herdsmen were burdened with heavy labor and taxes. As a result, not all the tribes of the steppe could enjoy the resources flowing in from the south, and the collapse of the finances led to the inability of the imperial court to continue to reward the kings of the steppe, which caused them to be dissatisfied and turn away.

On the surface, the financial difficulties seemed to be due to the occupation of Jiangnan by the Southern Dynasty, which led to a sharp reduction in the imperial court's taxes, so that it was unable to make ends meet. And Zhenjin understood, and the courtiers also understood that the real reason was that Kublai Khan, after conquering the Southern Dynasty, did not recuperate and consolidate internal affairs, but still used troops everywhere and rewarded his vassals excessively, resulting in an empty treasury. However, the root cause is still the problem of the national system, which has been constantly switching between the old Mongolian system and the implementation of the Han system, so that the dynasty is chaotic and full of problems.

In order to solve the financial difficulties, Zhenjin had to abandon Hanchen, whom he had always trusted, and use Sango to solve the problem. Specifically, when the state feels that its finances are tight, there are basically two ways: one is to pick money from some people and let them spit out things that do not belong to them; The other is to find new ways to make money.

Sang Ge's solution is not far from its roots, it is still a change of soup and not a change of medicine, using the 'hook test method' proposed by He Rongzu and the currency reform and increase taxes, Zhenjin knows that the essence of this law is actually not much different from the 'plan law' that the Southern Dynasty has implemented, and the disadvantages are not clear.

The Southern Dynasty also used the plan law as a means to solve the financial measures, and it has been controversial at that time, because the plan law forced the rebellion of the fierce general Liu Quan, which directly led to the fall of Xiangyang and the demise of the Southern Dynasty. As a result, there are many generals who have been convicted of this law, "Jiang Yan Shi Yanzhi, Huai Yan Du Shu, and Guangxi Shuai all suffered from prison money, affecting their wives, Xu, Li, and Du were imprisoned, and after Du's death, they still had no money to chase." Zhao Kui, who "governed the army with Confucian ministers all his life", was almost rectified because of the overspending of the lantern banquet money and the recruitment money.

Sang Ge argued: Specifically, the planning method is a good method, but because of the inappropriate method (the discipline of those officials is unreliable), Jia Rudao turned the planning method into a tool for rectifying people, and the result was that Liu Quan rebelled, which had unpredictable consequences. Therefore, the fault is not in the law, but in the person who implements it. At that time, Zhenjin, who was anxious to solve the problem, believed it and ordered it to be implemented.

But the ending was no different, and soon the hook test method became a tool for Sang Ge to fight dissidents and suppress Hanchen, causing a miasma in the local area, but he also took some money out of the hands of the local government and the generals. To put it bluntly, the currency reform is to grab money from the hands of the people, so that the people are complaining, in short, it has offended many people and has a great impact on the people, but it can be regarded as a solution to the current urgent need, and the adverse consequences are still within the controllable range.

When it comes to increasing taxes, it is often associated with 'competing with the people', but Zhenjin knows that it is not so simple in fact, and the people in the history books and the people that ordinary people generally think are not the same thing in many cases. The situation today is that the great owners of the land and the wealth and the population are the Mongol kings and nobles, who not only annex land but also encroach on military camps.

Because these people are privileged, no one dares to touch them easily, so they are even more emboldened. And if you want to touch their money, it is "competing with the people for profit", and the result is that those who have more money do not pay or pay less, but the main body of payment is those peasants with little money, and the burden falls on the poor people. As a result, the officials forced the people to rebel, and the society was in turmoil, and the worst thing was that the court taxes could not be raised, and the soldiers could not be collected. Everyone knows what happened next, and in the end, there was no such thing......

Things have come to this point, and Zhenjin knows that the fiscal reform presided over by Sang Ge has basically failed, and it is just a measure to quench his thirst, which only temporarily alleviates the crisis, and does not fundamentally solve the problem, but has caused a series of adverse consequences. At this time, Yuxi Timur, who was transferred to the south, proposed to curb the continuous invasion of the Southern Dynasties by launching a local war in Jiangdong, but he did not pay attention to it, but he did not resolutely oppose it, but he just wanted to wait and see what happened, and he thought that it was okay to prevent the attempts of the Southern Dynasties from invading the north.

But the development of the situation soon exceeded Zhenjin's thoughts, and the little emperor brazenly crossed the river to seize Yangzhou. Needless to say, the importance of Yangzhou is self-explanatory, and at this time, Yuxi Timur again mentioned the plan to save Yangzhou by invading the south, and taking advantage of the emptiness of Jiangdong's troops to move south to re-pacify Jiangnan. This made him feel that through this battle, he could eliminate the Southern Korean regime, and even if it failed, he could weaken its power and lose his attempt to peep into the Central Plains. In addition, the seizure of Jiangdong is equivalent to regaining most of the wealth in Jiangnan, which can fundamentally solve the financial difficulties. Under the huge temptation, Zhenjin decided to take a risk, but his heart was always uneasy.

"The Great Khan, Tuolie came to report, and the enemy besieging Yangzhou not only did not return to Jiangnan, but brazenly launched an attack on his troops and began to attack the city." At this time, Yue Chi Cha'er came into the tent to report.

"What? The Southern Army did not retreat south, what did it want to do? Zhenjin got up and asked in surprise.

"Great Khan, the thief did the opposite, and his subordinates really couldn't figure it out!" Yuechi Cha'er also replied confused......