The more Zhen Jin thought, the more uneasy he felt. He knew what the outcome would be if the Yuxi Timur army crossed the river was cut off from retreat. Even if they could fight, they would eventually be wiped out in the south of the Yangtze River. The troops south of the Yellow River were completely destroyed, and there was no barrier in the Central Plains. If the Song army advanced northward, they could drink horses and the soldiers were powerful.

However, now the wood has been completed and the army has crossed the river. Zhenjin can only hope that Yuxi Timur will take advantage of Jiangdong's troops to drive straight forward. Before his troops from all over the place arrive, he will seize Lin'an and capture the remaining royal family of the Southern Dynasty. Unfortunately, the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty was in front of the Yangzhou army in Jiangbei. He still had a hundred thousand troops in his hand and had the power to fight. However, he could only hope that his younger brother, King Tuohuan, could take advantage of his retreat to chase and defeat him.

‘Cough cough…’ Zhen Jin felt even more trouble when he thought of this. He thought that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty was only five years old and fled to Qiongzhou with a group of mobs. In ten years, he not only suffered repeated defeats to clear the army, but also used the small land to accumulate strength to regain Jiangnan in one fell swoop. Now he has heavy troops in his hand, and even if he loses Jiangdong, it is impossible for him to make a comeback with his ability. In the midst of worry, a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat, causing Zhen Jin to cough violently.

"Sweat..." The eunuch beside him saw that his face was red when he coughed, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stroke his chest and back, and it took him a while to spit out the phlegm, and his breath gradually stabilized. However, he found that there was blood in the phlegm and couldn't help but scream.

"It's okay, most people are irritable in winter and they are a little angry, so don't make a fuss!" Zhen Jin looked at him with a squint, just frowned, took a silk squid and wiped the sweat on his forehead, and waved his hand to let the eunuch retreat. He knew very well that his old illness had been dealt with again, but at this special time, he could not reveal any false news about his body, otherwise it would add more variables to the court.

Just a cough made Zhen Jin sweat and feel very tired, which forced him to lie halfway on the couch, and asked the eunuch to cover him with a marten fur, and move the charcoal fire in the brazier to his side. But he still felt a chill, but the fur on his body and the red brazier around him could not relieve the bone-broken cold. This coldness did not just come from the body, but from the heart and deep into the bones.

Zhen Jin thought that he had inherited the Khan throne for only two years, but since he was promoted, the situation became worse and worse. He first lost Jiangnan, and then Yunnan fell into turmoil. The Song army used troops to Sichuan and Sichuan, and now it had flowed upwards into the Jialing River, and Chongqing was in danger. The young emperor of the Southern Dynasty personally led a large army to cross the river and expedition the north, trapped Yangzhou, threatening Huaidong, Henan, and Hebei.

At the same time, the country was also in turmoil. The sea was constantly disturbing the border in the northwest. They joined forces with the Khan and other Khanate countries to cut off their trade routes and provoke relations between the kings of various sects, but they were unable to wipe them out and could only defend passively. Moreover, the opposition from the court continued to continue, and the sects left behind in Dadu also had a grudge against him, and there were rumors that he had abdicated and re-established the Khan. There were also voices in the court that he had made him abdicate and abdicated from time to time.

Zhen Jin knew that he had inherited the throne of Khan. Although his father Khan had an edict to establish a crown prince, the Northwest Sect King was very dissatisfied with this and thought that it had destroyed the old Mongolian system. In order to succeed in the throne, he had to compromise with the sect kings and agreed to many conditions. However, he did not return to Shangdu to escape the summer heat as usual, communicated with the kings and comforted the people. Among them, his body has always been related to his body, but the most important thing is that he knew that he had no money, so what did he use to appease the sect kings' dissatisfaction. He left empty-handed, it would be better not to go.

The real gold knows that the emergence of various problems caused the Yuan Dynasty to fall into internal and external difficulties. In general, it was all due to problems with fiscal revenue, that is, there was too high expenditure or a lot of the money that should be collected was confiscated. This made the court lose money to support the army and officials, resulting in the defence of military preparations, foreign enemies invade, government orders, public resentment, and other internal and external troubles.

The dissatisfaction of the old Mongolian sect with itself also originated from this. Zhen Jin knew that after seizing the Central Plains and Jiangnan, most of the Mongolian tribes that fought returned to the grasslands according to the old Mongolian system. Since Genghis Khan, in order to gather the strength of various Mongolian tribes and prevent the attacks and looting of various Mongolian tribes, he established a system of ten thousand households, thousands households and hundreds households, and fixed herders in the territory of leaders at all levels, and those who left without permission would be executed.

The boundaries of the grasslands of tribes on the grassland have changed a lot due to the war between the tribes, but they are basically still stable through the compromise between the nobles. Because only when the boundaries between the tribes and nobles are determined can the mobility herders without escape. At the same time, the boundaries of the strengthened social class under the empire's rule have been deepened, from the Khan to the leaders of all levels to form hereditary classes, enjoying generous resources, while the herdsmen bear heavy labor and taxes. This has led to not all tribes on the grasslands being able to enjoy the resources flowing from the south. The collapse of finance has led to the court's inability to continue to reward the kings on the grasslands, which has aroused their dissatisfaction and a sense of defiance.

On the surface, the financial difficulties were apparently because the Southern Dynasties occupied Jiangnan, which led to a sharp reduction in taxes in the court, which led to a shortage of income. Zhenjin understood that the court officials also understood that the real reason was that after the Southern Dynasties, Kublai Khan did not rest and consolidate his internal affairs, but still used troops everywhere and rewarded his subordinates excessively, resulting in an empty treasury. However, the root cause was the problem of the state system, and he had been constantly changing between the old Mongolian system and the implementation of the Han system, which led to the chaos of the court and the problems.

In order to solve the financial difficulties, Zhenjin had to abandon the Hanchen he had always trusted and use Brother Sang to solve the problem. Specifically, when the country felt that the finances were tight, there were basically two methods: one was to pick money from some people and let them spit out something that did not belong to them; the other was to find new ways to make money.

Brother Sang's solution was not different from his own principles, but he still changed the soup and did not change the medicine. He Rongzu proposed the "hook test method" and the currency reform and tax increase. Zhenjin knew that the essence of this method was actually not much different from the "planning method" that was once implemented in the Southern Dynasties. How could it be unclear? He also wrote this letter to Father Khan to move to He Rongzu and Ahema and others.

The Southern Dynasty also used the plan method as a means of solving financial measures, but it was controversial at that time because the plan method forced the strong general Liu Zheng to rebel, which directly led to the fall of Xiangyang and the demise of the Southern Dynasty. Many generals were convicted of the law. "Jiang Yanzhi, Huai Yanzhi, Du Shu, and Guangxi generals were all suffering from the supervision of money, which affected his wife, Xu, Li, and Du were imprisoned. After Du died, he was still chasing money." Zhao Kui, who "managed the army with a Confucian minister for his whole life", was almost punished because of the two things of "shouldering the money for the lantern and overspending the money for recruiting the army.

Brother Sang argued: To be specific, the plan is a good idea, but because of the inappropriate approach (the officials' integrity is unreliable), Jia Sidao made the plan a tool for persecution, which led to Liu Zheng's rebellion, with unpredictable consequences. Therefore, the fault is not the law, but the person who implemented it. The real money that was eager to solve the problem at that time was believed and ordered him to start implementing it.

But the outcome was no different. Soon, the test method became a tool for Brother Sang to crack down on dissidents and suppress Han officials, causing chaos in the local area, but he also snatched some money from the local and generals. To put it bluntly, the currency reform was to steal money from the people, which made the people complain. In short, offended many people and had a great impact on the people. However, it solved the current urgent needs, and the adverse consequences were still within the controllable range.

When it comes to increasing taxes, it is often associated with "competing for profit with the people", but real gold knows that it is not that simple, and the people in history books and ordinary people generally believe that people are often not the same. The situation now is that the large households that occupy a large amount of land, wealth and population are those Mongolian princes and nobles who not only annexed the land but also embezzled military camps.

Because these people enjoy privileges and no one dares to move them easily, they are even more fearless. If you want to move their money, it means "competing for profit with the people". As a result, those who have more money don't pay or pay less, but the main person who pays the money is the farmers with less money, and the burden is all on the poor people. This leads to officials forcing the people to rebel, social unrest, and the fatal thing is that the court's taxes cannot be raised and the soldiers cannot be collected. Everyone knows what happens later, and in the end there will be no more...

When things got to this point, Zhen Jin knew that the fiscal reforms led by Sang Ge had basically failed. They were just a way to quench thirst. They only temporarily alleviated the crisis and did not fundamentally solve the problem. Instead, they caused some adverse consequences. At this time, Yuxi Timuer, who was transferred from the South, proposed to curb the continuous invasion of the Southern Dynasty by launching a local war in Jiangdong, but did not attract his attention, but did not firmly oppose it. He just wanted to wait and see, and thought that he could stop the invasion of the Southern Dynasty and the North.

But the development of the situation quickly exceeded what Zhen Jin thought. The little emperor crossed the river and wanted to seize Yangzhou. There is no need to say much about the importance of Yangzhou. At this time, Yuxi Timur mentioned that he would rescue Yangzhou by invading the south and use Jiangdong's troops to move south to re-plow Jiangnan. This made him feel that the Southern Dynasties regime could be eliminated through this battle. Even if it failed, it could weaken its power and lose its attempt to peek at the Central Plains. In addition, seizing Jiangdong was equivalent to regaining most of Jiangnan's wealth, which could fundamentally solve financial difficulties. Under the huge temptation, Zhen Jin decided to take a chance to take a gamble, but he was always uneasy.

"The Khan, Tulidu came to report that the enemy besieged Yangzhou not only did not return to Jiangnan, but instead launched an attack on his troops and began to attack the city." At this time, Yue Chi Chaer came to report.

"What? The Southern Army did not retreat south, what did it want to do?" Zhen Jin heard this and got up and asked in surprise.
Chapter completed!