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Xu Heng's main activity in politics was to participate in the implementation of Han law.

The feudal dynasties of the Central Plains have long formed a complete set of political, economic, cultural and educational systems, that is, the so-called Han law.

The Confucian scholars of the Han nationality spared no effort to urge Kublai Khan to adopt the Han law, in order to achieve the goal of "using the Han to rule the Han land".

Kublai Khan, the big leader, seized the throne, and in order to stabilize the rule of the regime in the Han region of the Central Plains, he adopted the suggestions of the Confucian ministers to "emphasize agriculture and mulberry, pay taxes leniently, and reduce conscription", recruited people to settle the fields, set up exiles, built water conservancy, and vigorously advocated reclamation, so as to "make the people work in peace".

In fact, these economic measures were an important part of the implementation of the Han law, and it was precisely because of the implementation of the Han law that the social economy of the Central Plains was restored and developed, a relatively stable and stable situation appeared, and the funds and materials for the robbery of the Great Song Dynasty were successfully saved, and the Tatar bandit group was transformed into a new dynasty with the Han region of the Central Plains as the center of political power.

But ah, these methods are too slow to profit in the eyes of the Tatars, well, you can't just grab the property of your own people, so how can you get more money?

As long as you think of a way, there will always be a way.

Therefore, the policy of the big boss Kublai Khan's pro-Confucianism was not static.

Xu Heng, like many of his contemporaries, had his fortunes ebb and flow with the changing political attitudes of the big leaders.

Kublai Khan, the great leader, and the nobles all needed money, so Ahma, who had the talent to gather, appeared...... Ahmad is a man of wisdom and ingenuity, conceited with utilitarian results, and is known as his ability.

He became the first "financial management" minister to be reused by the big boss Kublai Khan.

Earlier, Ahmad was appointed as the envoy of the left and right departments of the Lingzhong Shu and the transfer of all roads, in charge of financial affairs.

As mentioned above, Ahma once prospered the iron-smelting industry in Jun, Xu and other prefectures in Henan, with an annual output of 1.037 million catties of iron, 200,000 pieces of casting farm tools, and 40,000 stones of official grain; Later, the salt tax was added to make up for the salt tax deficit caused by the flood of private salt in Taiyuan.

These two things made the big boss Kublai Khan praise it a lot, and he relied on it even more, it turned out that there was really a way to rob without a steel knife...... And you can grab more!

Subsequently, Ahma was promoted to the political affairs of Zhongshu Pingzhang, and was promoted to the rank of Ronglu doctor, and his power became heavier.

Soon after, he served as a minister and envoy to the Ministry of Affairs, and began to take charge of the country's financial power. It also established Shangshu Province, and took Ahmad as the Pingzhang Shangshu Province.

After that, Kublai Khan relied more heavily on Ahma, "giving him political authority and doing everything he wanted."

With the deliberate support of the big boss Kublai Khan, a political force opposed to the Confucian ministers gradually formed in the imperial court...... and the "financial management" power faction was formed.

Ahma, who was in power for a while, has become the same extreme appearance as Da Song Jia!

He forcibly implemented the method of financial management of the Hui people, thus seriously affecting the financial policy of the Kublai Khan period.

In order to enrich the treasury as soon as possible to please Kublai Khan, Ahmad made use of the financial power he held to collect money in many ways, such as building iron smelting, casting agricultural tools to lose officials with easy corn, and increasing the salt tax, including household registration, hooking money and valley, including medicinal materials, indiscriminately issuing paper money, and establishing a transfer department to increase taxes, etc., and abused the people and did everything.

In particular, the monopoly technology has been brought into full play, and the whole society has presented a situation of "the country advances and the people retreat"!

Ahma's purpose was to increase his fiscal revenue in every possible way, so as to gain the trust of Kublai Khan and strengthen his position.

At that time, Kublai Khan was indeed satisfied with the increasingly abundant treasury, and he once said to people:

"The husband and the prime minister, tomorrow, the way, the geography, the personnel, and these three are competent, back to the people, Ahmad is the prime minister."

Its importance to Ahmad is beyond words.

Ahma's policy of accumulation and supported by Kublai Khan was a huge shock and destruction to Han law.

What made the Hanchens even more unbearable was that Ahmad also took advantage of the change in Kublai Khan's employment policy to cultivate private parties on a large scale, and the people who used them were all pleasing to the Hui, and at the same time rejected and attacked dissident forces in many ways.

Reporting and impeaching his low-level Hanchen, he casually let them die all kinds of bizarre deaths in prison.

For the high-level Hanchen who insisted on practicing the Han law, he also had no fear, squeezed out the right prime minister An Tong, dwarfed the imperial envoy platform, and was even able to block the subordinate province that the prince Zhenjin personally proposed to establish......

The courtiers of the Han and French factions all felt that their achievements were in danger of being destroyed, so they rebelled, and Xu Heng's performance was particularly prominent.

At the beginning of Ahma's reign, Xu Hengzheng held an important position in Zhongshu Province, abiding by Confucianism and Taoism, and his personality was straightforward, so conflicts with Ahma were inevitable.

Xu Heng always confronted Ahma-for-tat and did not back down.

The two sides are basically in a situation where I oppose your proposal, and you oppose me.

The big leader, Kublai Khan, watched the battle of the ministers with joy.

Who is responsible for this situation?

It's himself......

There is a reason why Kublai Khan, the big leader, gradually deviated from the track of relying on Han Confucianism and adopting Han law, and began to favor the "powerful ministers" of the color eye, and implemented the policy of aggregation.

After successfully seizing the throne of Khan and initially laying the law of the scale of the state, the big leader Kublai Khan did not want to continue along the path of Hanfa.

The dominance of the Tatar aristocracy in the Central Plains was guaranteed and maintained by this national privilege.

A complete change to Han law meant the abolition of this kind of privilege, which was difficult for all nobles to accept, and everyone was not Han after all.

The benevolent government that I said before is to take over the heavens and temporarily stabilize people's hearts, if it is really a benevolent government, do you think that we are waiting to conquer the world to serve you? Joke!

Kublai Khan was the general representative of the privileged interests of the Tatar aristocracy, which determined that he had conditions and limits in the adoption of Han law.

At that time, the prelude to the war of exterminating the Song Dynasty had already begun, and the military supply was huge; In addition, according to the Tatar custom, it is necessary to give generous gifts to the kings and relatives every year; There are also memorials, Buddhist ceremonies, and court banquets, etc., and the cost is also very considerable.

All this led to a sharp increase in fiscal expenditures, and the big boss Kublai Khan was eager to amass wealth in order to increase the revenue of the state treasury.

As mentioned above, the "Li Tan Rebellion" occurred in Shandong, which involved many Han ministers, especially Wang Wentong, the prime minister of the dynasty, who also participated in Li Tan's rebellious activities.

This turmoil greatly increased the suspicion of the Han people of Kublai Khan, the big leader, and his distrust of the Han people was gradually reflected in his employment and decision-making.

Of the above three points, the third point is the most critical.

Kublai Khan, the big leader, once said: "Although he stole the country's money and goods when he returned home, he dared to rebel only if the Han people showed ......"

However, he did not completely eradicate the Han law, the Hanchen position is still there, theoretically it is still necessary to publicize the benevolent government, and the financial faction cannot be allowed to sit big, wait until the greed is too much, catch a few and deal with it, and let the Hanchen extinguish the fire......

Hanchen's educational role is also very good...... Prince Zhenjin and Zhongshu Right Prime Minister An Tong were both taught by Xu Heng.

Under Xu Heng's careful guidance, An Tong later became a Mongolian Confucian minister who was familiar with Chinese law.

The crown prince Zhenjin firmly stood on the side of the Han Confucian ministers in the struggle between Han law and Hui Hui law.

He really couldn't get used to Ahma's economic methods, and it reached the point of using the army to forcibly collect taxes, and even the dead had to pay taxes.

The common people can't afford to die!

After all, he was young at the time, and he once asked his father from the side, "Why don't you practice benevolent government?" ”

At that time, Kublai Khan, the big leader, almost laughed out loud and said: "We started in the north and rode horses and shot all over the world, is it to implement benevolent government?!" ”

"My father once said ......"

"This time, the other time...... No man who herds horses will stick to a meadow, and no leader will keep a promise...... As long as they believed it was enough, now I have a steel knife in hand. ”

After speaking, he smiled and looked at his son, who was still frozen, he was still young......

But the crown prince Zhenjin felt that his father's eyes were cold...... If history does not change, for more than ten years from then on, he will finally retreat humbly, not daring to deny the order of his father, but only to avoid humiliation.

Later, after the crown prince Zhenjin sent his retinue to assassinate Ahma, he immediately fell into the conspiracy of "Zen position" created by Ahma's remnants of the party, such as Aza, Gui Asan, etc., and became ill because of fear, and died in his thirties.

I won't talk about it later.

Now, the fierce internal fighting, the rampant piracy along the coast, and especially the tax hike of the financial management faction, make low-level officials like Yao Mai unbearable. (To be continued.) )