After venting the truth, his mood gradually calmed down, and the eunuchs cleaned up the hall. The real problem of lack of money still bothered him. Thinking of the money, he couldn't help but smile again, how could he have ever had money?

After ascending the throne, he returned to the Secretariat of Dadu and said in a hurry, "The treasury is exhausted, and he often pays 4 million ingots for annual cash. In addition to the reserve, the people who entered the capital have been paid 2.8 million ingots, and the annual amount has been paid 2.7 million ingots. Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, he has paid 4.2 million ingots, and one million ingots that should be requested but have not paid." In other words, if he has not done anything, the court has already lost money and owed a big hole.

Immediately afterwards, Jiangnan was lost, taxes were greatly reduced, and the Secretariat cried poor became a daily routine. From time to time, the memorial was reported by "empty treasury" and "no national use was given". When Zhenjin succeeded to the throne, he also wanted to do something, and he also used a group of Han officials to try to solve the financial difficulties. However, these people said that they were full of spectacles, but they failed to solve the problem quickly and effectively. They only said that they should not be impatient, and their eyes should be long-term and it would take several years to achieve results.

But in fact, he could live a few hard life with frugality, but the sect kings could not wait, and the nobles could not wait, and the northwest also needed relief, otherwise they would all be thrown into Haidu. This forced the real gold to use Brother Sang again, allowing the Han ministers to stand aside. Brother Sang did use the method of hook test and replacement of paper money to recover the old debts owed by many places, and took a sum of money back, which made the court temporarily overcome the difficulties.

However, Brother Sang's method could not completely solve the financial problems, and the rewards to the sect kings could only be discounted. The local officials who were pursued also complained and complained that the local people could not continue and that they would close the door. Especially the officials in the Lianghuai area were even more serious. They wanted to continue to implement the policy of building cities and defending against the Southern Dynasties set by Boyan, and to resist the continuous invasion of the Southern Dynasties. They really couldn't pay the money to pay the court's account.

At this time, Yuxi Timur reported to regain Jiangnan, and Zhenjin thought that recapturing Jiangnan was the only way to solve the current financial difficulties. But the result was that Yuxi Timur was defeated, and tens of thousands of Mongolian troops died in Jiangnan, and his pants were all lost. However, the Southern Dynasty took the opportunity to seize the two Huai Rivers again and wanted to invade the capital, which undoubtedly made the already difficult finance worse.

This time, the guards' personal army left the capital and needed a large number of war horses. However, all the horse farms in the Huaihe River were lost, and the court could not collect the needs of the horse farm in the Central Plains. The real money could only be issued an order to enlist civilian horses. In the past, they usually drew one in ten and paid a certain subsidy, but this time it was changed to five draws one, and the symbolic subsidy was gone, which was almost equivalent to forcing a force. Although they had enough money to go to the battle, they also caused resentment from the nobles and wealthy families in the city to be very angry.

The court required the prefectures and counties along the way to provide food, grass and supplies in accordance with the practice, and the goukao had no surplus food in the area, so they could only forcibly collect from the people, resulting in complaints along the way, and most of the people fled, and even military-civilian conflicts occurred in many places, and even gathered crowds to kill officials and riots. In a few days, a large bandit band could gather tens of thousands of people, openly attacking the prefectures and plundering the palace, and demanding that the court send troops to the palace like snowflakes.

"Sweat a lot and need to take care of your health, don't overwork!" Li Qian and several important officials in Beijing were summoned to the palace. He saw that he had just passed forty and was in his prime, and his body was hunched over, his face was haggard. He was as if he had entered the old age, and he stepped forward with heartache and bowed.

"The country is in danger, how can I sit there!" Zhen Jin squeezed out some laughter and waved his hand and said, "Now tens of thousands of enemy troops gathered in the two Huai Rivers. I want to recruit all the grassland troops to go south to defend the enemy, but they lack food and pay. What are your good plans?"

"Khan, the two Huai River wars last year were not sent to the court, and the guards' personal troops spent a huge amount of money. The national treasury was empty and unsustainable. I really couldn't afford the money." Brother Sang said with a difficult face after hearing this.

"I know, but the military situation is urgent, and I must try to raise a sum of money!" Zhenjin shook his hand impatiently and frowned.

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"Do you have an idea?" Seeing everyone silent, Zhen Jin looked at Li Qian and asked.

"Your Majesty, this is the time of spring famine. When winter just passed and summer grain was not collected, it is not easy to impose taxes on the people. Can the kings and officials in the capital donate some to relieve their anger?" Li Qian bowed and said.

"Ping Zhang, just signed for a war horse, which has already made the kings dissatisfied. If you donate again, you may make them resentful and cause trouble!" An Tong sighed and said.

"What the Zuo Prime Minister said is that in recent years, the land of the sect kings has been occupied, the trade routes have been cut off, and the losses have been huge, so they are unable to make ends meet!" Brother Sang also said with a bitter face.

"..." Li Qian could only remain silent when he saw the two of them oppose it. As a great scholar of the times, he participated in the formulation of national policies and naturally understood that today's situation was already destined and could not be solved overnight.

Li Qian knew that the Mongols had conquered large areas of areas, but they still focused on grasslands. The political center was always in Shangdu, and most of them were just the government's location. On the grassland, livestock sampling method was still implemented, post stations were established, and Neon Tuwu Chi was appointed as grassland production officials. Every year, a large amount of income from various places was transported to the grassland, subsidies were provided to the Mongolians who remained on the grassland, and relief was implemented when disasters occurred.

The entire empire existed for blood transfusion to the grasslands, and the central government established a large number of institutions to deal with grassland matters. Although Kublai Khan adopted the Han law, the old Mongolian system such as the submission system, the Otu system, and the old Mongolian officials such as the Daluwachi were retained in large quantities. Although it played a positive role in maintaining the original Great Mongol Empire and strengthening its rule over the original empire, it played a negative role in the ruling areas of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the whole country, most of the Mongols held official positions and enjoyed privileges in many aspects such as justice and business. However, the old system itself made the huge benefits brought by conquest only benefit the privileged class. As ordinary people, it is actually very miserable. Some people even lived a worse life than the ruled nation. Ordinary Mongolians could only obtain property through looting in wars, and a large part of the looting had to be handed over to their tribal chiefs. However, with the end of the large-scale war, the opportunities for looting were much less, and in the long run, it led to the bankruptcy of a large number of ordinary Mongolians.

As a large number of Mongolians went bankrupt, they fell to the point of selling their wives, sons, and land, and finally they had to redeem the wives, sons, and land of ordinary bankrupt Mongolians. Even if the emperor approved the chaotic financial situation in the court, the actual financial situation could not be implemented. In the end, a large number of Mongolians were trafficked to Jiangnan, Persia, Goryeo, Japan, Java and other regions as slaves, and a large number of Mongolians also participated in the rebellion.

After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, he reused the Han ministers to learn Han laws, but the slightest end resulted in fatal injuries to the national system. He was still accustomed to selecting officials instead of passing the imperial examination examination, and caused the Israelites to form financial groups with Han merchants, landlords and Mongolians. They had a lot of ability to catch money and controlled the country's finances; Han Confucian scholars, some hereditary nobles of the Jin Dynasty and many Han heroes, the Han legal faction was committed to Confucianizing the Yuan Dynasty, at least.

Due to different views, the two factions have been in constant and increasingly fierce party struggles, which eventually led to the killing of Ahma, the prime minister of the financial management faction. Such party struggles eventually evolved into a chaotic organization, with constant internal struggles between officials and corruption. Although Kublai Khan had punished corruption, he was basically letting go later, believing that officials were natural to embezzle, and just treating the country as an inexhaustible vessel. Most officials also sought it freely without governing it.

In addition, Kublai Khan followed the Han law and changed his eldest son's inheritance system and allowed Zhen Jin to receive Confucian education. Although this maintained that the clan could occupy the position of Khan, it also deprived the inheritance rights of other clans, resulting in the rebellion of the clan kings and had to use the power of the clan kings to suppress it. This made him not human inside and outside, resulting in power chaos and unstable within the clan.

Another was the mistake of economic policy. After Kublai Khan destroyed the Song Dynasty, he obtained a large number of public land. In order to maintain the loyalty of many Mongolian nobles and Han marquis, he confiscated the public land and directly gave it to many Mongolian nobles. However, people's greed became increasingly greater and the appetite of Mongolian nobles was unlimited. If you wanted to fill their appetite with land, it would be like holding firewood to put out fires, which would only lead them to try to seize more land.

Kublai Khan's indulgence to the Mongolian nobles was far superior to the previous dynasty. A large number of servants were rewarded with gold and silver, and allowed land to be merged. There was no public land as the basis to support the national finances, which directly made it more difficult to collect taxes. The "light tax" of such a thing was just a silence. The country could not collect taxes using normal means. The court could only increase the salt and alcohol taxes to obtain taxes. It relied on crazy printing of money, frequently changing the banknote laws, and plundering the wealth of the people in disorderly manner by inflation.

After the real gold came to power, Li Qian and other Han ministers originally expected that the biggest beneficiary of the implementation of Han Law could change the current dilemma, but they were born at the wrong time. The frequent invasions of the Southern Dynasties, coupled with the difficulty of the Han Laws in changing the financial difficulties in a short period of time, made their policies change and difficult to make a difference. Now the Southern Dynasties have invaded the north in an all-round way, making it difficult for the finances that have already fallen into desperate situations unbearable.

"Khan, now my plan is to add more treasure money and raise some salt tax to raise military pay!" Sure enough, Brother Sang once again used this amazing move.

"Pingzhang, Zuo Prime Minister, what do you think?" Zhen Jin looked at Li Qian and An Tong again and asked.

"This... I have no objection!" An Tong hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice.
Chapter completed!