After Zhenjin vented, his mood gradually calmed down, and he asked the attendants to clean up the hall. And the practical problem of lack of money still bothered him, thinking of money, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, how could he ever have money?

At the beginning, after succeeding to the throne, when he returned to the capital of Zhongshu Province, he urgently said, "The treasury is empty, and four million ingots are often given, and in addition to the spare parts of the provinces, 2.8 million ingots are added to the Beijing division, and more than 2.7 million ingots are supported all year round." Since His Majesty's accession to the throne, 4,200,000 ingots have been paid, and 1,000,000 ingots have not been paid in response to the request. In other words, before he did anything, the court was already unable to make ends meet, and he owed a big hole.

Immediately after the loss of Jiangnan, the tax was greatly reduced, and it became a daily routine for Zhongshu Province to cry poverty, and from time to time it was played with "the emptiness of the house" and "the state does not give". At the beginning of Zhenjin's succession, he also wanted to do a career, and used a group of Hanchen to try to solve the problem of financial difficulties, but these people said that they could not solve the problem quickly and effectively, only said that they could not be impatient, and they should have a long-term vision, and it would take several years to see results.

But in fact, he can save money and live a hard life for a few years, but the kings can't wait, the nobles can't wait, and the northwest also needs to be relieved, otherwise they will all go to Haidu. This forced Zhenjin to use Sang Ge again to let the Hanchens stand aside, and Sang Ge did use the hook test and the replacement of paper money to recover the old accounts owed by many places, and circle a sum of money back, so that the imperial court temporarily survived the difficulties.

However, Sange's method could not completely solve the financial problem, and the rewards for the kings could only be discounted and discounted. The local officials who were pursued were also full of complaints, and they cried out one after another, saying that the local government was also unsustainable and was going to close its doors. In particular, the officials in the Lianghuai region were even more so, and they really couldn't come up with the money to pay off the imperial court's accounts if they wanted to continue to implement Boyan's policy of building city defenses to resist the Southern Dynasties, and to resist the continuous invasion of the Southern Dynasties.

At this time, Yuxi Timur wanted to recover Jiangnan, and Zhenjin also thought that retaking Jiangnan was also the only way to solve the current financial difficulties. But the result was that Yuxi Timur was defeated, and tens of thousands of Mongol troops died in the south of the Yangtze River, and his pants fell off when he lost. However, the Southern Dynasty took the opportunity to seize two more Huai and wanted to invade Gyeonggi, which undoubtedly made the already difficult finances worse.

This time, the guards went out of Beijing and needed a large number of war horses. The two Huai horse farms were lost, and the imperial court's horse farms in the Central Plains could not make up the needs, and Zhenjin could only issue an order to recruit private horses. In the past, it was generally one out of ten, and a certain subsidy was paid, but this time it was changed to five draws and one, and the symbolic subsidy was gone, which was almost equivalent to a forced robbery. Although he had enough to meet the needs of the expedition, he also aroused the resentment of the nobles and large families in the city.

The imperial court required the prefectures and counties along the way to provide grain and grass in accordance with the usual practice, and the hook examination had also made the local area have no surplus grain, so it could only be forcibly collected from the people, so that there were many complaints along the way, and the people fled, and even there were military-civilian conflicts in many places, and even crowds were gathered to kill officials and riot. A large group of bandits can gather 10,000 people in a few days, openly attack the state and plunder the government, and ask the imperial court to send troops to suppress the song sent to the palace like snowflakes.

"Great Khan still needs to take care of his body, don't overwork!" Li Qian and several other important ministers in Beijing were summoned into the palace, and he saw that he was just over forty, and the real gold in the prime of life had already been more than half, and his body was already rickety, and his face was full of haggardness.

"When the national disaster is at the head, how can I sit idly by!" Zhenjin squeezed out a smile and waved his hand and said, "At present, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops are gathered in Lianghuai, and I want to requisition all the departments of the grassland to go south to defend against the enemy, but they lack food and wages, what is your best plan?" ”

"Great Khan, last year, the two Huai wars together, the taxes were not sent to the imperial court, and the guards and pro-army went out to spend a huge amount of money, the treasury was already empty, unsustainable, and there was really no money." Sang Ge said with a sad face when he heard this.

"I know, but the military situation is urgent, and we must find a way to raise a fund!" Zhenjin shook his hand impatiently and frowned.

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"Pingzhang has an idea?" Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhenjin looked at Li Qian and asked.

"Your Majesty, this is the time of the spring famine, just after the winter, when the summer grain has not been harvested, it is not easy to levy additional taxes on the people, can you let the kings and officials in Beijing donate some to relieve the burning eyebrows?" Li Qian bowed and saluted.

"Pingzhang, just after signing the war horse, it has already made the kings dissatisfied, and I am afraid that the donation will make them resentful and cause trouble!" An Tong sighed and said.

"What Zuo Xiang said is that in recent years, there have been continuous wars, the land of the kings has been occupied, the trade routes have been cut off, and the losses have been huge, and it is beyond their means!" Sang Ge also said with a bitter face.

"......" Li Qian saw that the two were opposed, and he could only be silent, as a great Confucian in the world, and participated in the formulation of national policies, he naturally understood that today's situation was already doomed, and it could not be solved overnight.

Li Qian knew that the Mongols had conquered a large area, but they still focused on the steppe, and the political center was always Shangdu, which was mostly just the seat of government. In the grassland, the livestock division method was still implemented, post stations were established, and Nen Tuwuchi was appointed as a grassland production official. Every year, a large amount of income from various places is sent to the grasslands, and subsidies are provided to Mongolians who remain in the grasslands, and relief is provided in case of disasters.

The entire empire existed for the purpose of transfusing blood to the steppe, and the central government set up a large number of institutions to deal with steppe affairs. Although Kublai Khan adopted the Han law, the old Mongol systems such as the surrender system and the disobedience system and the old Mongol officials such as Daru Huachi were largely retained, and although they played a positive role in maintaining the original Great Mongol Empire and strengthened their rule over all parts of the original empire, they played a negative role in the ruling area of the Yuan Dynasty.

Throughout the country, Mongols held official positions and enjoyed privileges in many areas, including justice and commerce. However, the old system itself made the huge benefits of conquest only benefit the privileged classes, and as ordinary people are actually very miserable, and some people are even worse off than the ruled nations. Ordinary Mongols could only obtain their property through war, and a large part of the looting had to be handed over to their own tribal chiefs, but with the end of large-scale wars, there were many fewer opportunities for looting, and in the case of long-term inability to make ends meet, it led to the bankruptcy of a large number of ordinary Mongols.

Due to the bankruptcy of a large number of Mongols, they were reduced to the point of selling their wives, sons, daughters, and fields, and finally had to be redeemed by the imperial court to redeem the wives, sons, daughters, and fields of ordinary bankrupt Mongols. And even if the emperor approves the chaotic financial situation of the imperial court, the actual financial situation cannot be implemented. In the end, a large number of Mongols were trafficked into slavery in Gangnam, Persia, Goryeo, Japan, Java and other regions, so that a large number of Mongols also participated in the rebellion.

After Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne, he reused Hanchen to learn Han law, but he was anticlimactic and caused a fatal wound in the national system. They were still accustomed to selecting their own officials rather than passing the imperial examinations, and this led to the formation of financial conglomerates between the Israelites and the Han merchants, landlords, and Mongols, who were very good at grasping money and controlling the country's finances; Han Confucian scholars and some hereditary nobles of the Jin Kingdom and many Han heroes of the Han faction, who were committed to Confucianization of the Yuan Dynasty, or at least Sinicization.

Due to the difference of views, the two factions continued to fight and became increasingly fierce, which eventually led to the killing of Ahma, the prime minister of the financial management faction. This kind of party struggle eventually turned the court into a chaotic organization, with officials fighting among themselves and leading to corruption. Although Kublai Khan punished corruption, he was basically laissez-faire in his later years, believing that official corruption was a matter of course and that he only regarded the state as an inexhaustible vessel. Officials are mostly like this, taking it wantonly but not governing.

In addition, Kublai Khan followed the Han law and changed to the primogeniture system, and allowed Zhenjin to receive a Confucian education. Although this kept the clan able to occupy the throne, it also deprived other clans of their inheritance rights, causing the clan kings to rebel and have to be suppressed with the help of the power of the sect kings who remained in the steppe. In this way, he is not a human being inside and out, which leads to chaos in power and instability within his own clan.

Then there is the mistake of economic policy. After Kublai Khan destroyed the Song Dynasty, he obtained a large number of public land, and in order to maintain the loyalty of many Mongolian nobles and Han princes, he confiscated the public land and gave it directly to many Mongolian nobles. But the greed of man is growing, and the appetite of the Mongol nobility is unlimited, and trying to satisfy their appetite with land is like putting out a fire, which will only lead them to try to seize more land.

Kublai Khan's indulgence of the Mongol aristocracy was far greater than that of the previous dynasty, with a large number of servants being rewarded with gold and silver, allowing land to be annexed, and the lack of public land as a basis to support the state's finances, which directly made it more difficult to collect taxes. The 'light tax' in this way is just a bubble, and the state cannot collect taxes by normal means, so the imperial court can only raise the salt tax and wine tax to obtain taxes. Relying on frenzied money printing, frequently changing banknote laws, and relying on inflation to plunder private wealth in a disorderly manner.

After Zhenjin ascended to the throne, Li Qian and other Hanchen originally expected that the biggest beneficiary of the implementation of the Han Law would be able to change the current predicament, but the time was not right, the frequent intrusions of the Southern Dynasties, and the difficulty of the Han Law faction to change the financial embarrassment in a short period of time, made its policies also uncertain and difficult to make a difference. Now, the southerners and the northward invasion have made it difficult for the finances, which were already in a desperate situation, to bear it.

"Great Khan, the only way to do this now is to print more treasure money and raise some salt taxes to raise military salaries!" Sure enough, as Li Qian thought, Sang Ge once again sacrificed this tried and tested move.

"Pingzhang, Zuo Xiang, what do you think?" Zhenjin looked at Li Qian and An Tong again and asked.

"This ...... No objection! An Tong hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice.

"Minister...... There is no objection to the minister! Li Qian wanted to veto, but now the salt has increased by more than ten times compared to the beginning, not to mention the people, even the well-off people can't afford it. The depreciation of treasure banknotes has long been beyond the controllable range, prices have skyrocketed, and the price of rice has reached a pound of banknotes. If we make any further adjustments, I am afraid that it will really provoke civil unrest. But I think that now it is already difficult to return, and it can be changed in a short period of time, and the enemy army is approaching the city, so I can only save my life and then treat the disease......

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