As soon as this legendary night pearl appeared, it soon spread across the world and caused a bloody storm. Some people made a lot of money, but in a blink of an eye, the person who succeeded often changed hands before they could get warm, turning into a wisp of wronged soul; even giant thieves in the world were involved, and many battles occurred. Anyway, I don’t know how many people have turned, and how many people have died for it.

Finally, a large merchant in Jiangnan purchased it for a huge sum of three million yuan. They didn't know whether they were afraid of causing trouble or were forced to do so, so they presented the Night Pearl to the prince's real gold. The real gold was more cautious and summoned their subordinates to verify it. After many arguments, they thought that whether it was a workmanship, the accessories and related records could be determined to be an old item in the tomb of the First Emperor.

After confirmation, the real gold was not dared to keep it himself and immediately sent it to the palace. After seeing it, Kublai Khan couldn't put it down. After hearing the legend, he even regarded it as a treasure. He hung the night pearl in his tent and bathed in the pearl light every day. At this point, Zhao Bing's plan was initially completed. Among them, the twists and turns were designed and unexpected, but he finally did not waste his time, and he made a fortune after reselling it several times.

After three years of waiting, the expected result of Zhao Bing finally appeared. Based on the images sent back by the spy, he analyzed that after a long period of radioactive radiation, Kublai Khan not only suffered from radiation disease, but also had a tumor, otherwise he would not lose weight sharply. With current medical methods, even though he was in the world, he could not make a comeback. Therefore, he determined that Kublai Khan would not be alive for a long time!

According to further reports from the spies, although Kublai Khan was seriously ill, he still went to the old Mongolian land in February to escape the summer heat. Zhao Bing analyzed that he was recuperating for the time being, hoping that the water and soil of his hometown could restore his health. Another point might be that he wanted to stay away from the disputes in the court and gain temporary peace. Zhao Bing also understood this very well. In Kublai Khan's later years, his personal life also encountered a series of setbacks and misfortunes. If he had been exposed to it, he would be very worried.

Nan Bi became Kublai's wife after Chabi died. She was a distant relative of Chabi. Maybe Chabi knew that her health had deteriorated and personally chose her as her successor. Nan Bi and Empress Chabi were both born in the Mongolian noble Hongjila clan. Her father, Hongjila Fairy Tong, was the grandson of Nachen Wanhu, the famous minister of Jining County, in the Yuan Dynasty.

In the 20th year of Zhiyuan, Nan Bi, who was in his youth, was appointed as the queen by Kublai Khan, and replaced her position as the Empress of the Chabi Zhenggong, who was 68 years old. It is said that Nan Bi is a virtuous person who is well-behaved and well-educated, but unfortunately, her aunt, Queen Chabi is too wise. Compared with such a virtuous queen, she still seems a little inferior in all aspects. And they serve the same monarch, so it is natural to distinguish which one is higher and which one is lower.

Nanbi was in the peak of youth, and Kublai Khan, who was already old, couldn't help but ignore him. The old and romantic Kublai Khan often made excuses to go out for summer vacation and traveled to Kaiping, Shangdu. He never took Queen Nanbi to accompany him. It turned out that most of the old concubines in Shangdu had not moved south with the court. In this way, Queen Nanbi accompanied Kublai Khan through the spring and autumn with no enthusiasm, and the prince Tiemichi, who was born, died soon after. In order to pass the time, Nanbi always wanted to find something to do, so he used the queen's authority to interfere in the government affairs, pointed fingers at the ministers in the court, and gave orders.

Because the Yuan Dynasty did not restrict the harem too tightly, Kublai Khan felt that he was old and did not stop the harem's interference in politics. Therefore, he let the Queen Nanbi's participation in the government affairs be so he mistakenly believed that the emperor supported the queen's actions. Later, Nanbichang blocked the ministers from meeting and reporting the emperor on the grounds that the emperor was already high in the Spring and Autumn Period and should take more attention to the dragon body. There were complaints inside and outside the court, but the ministers could not directly talk to the emperor, and no one had any good plans to solve the problem. They were already very influential in politics, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the prince Zhenjin and often complained to him.

In addition, the lives of the people are gone, which is not a big deal, but the treasury is empty, and the emperor has a headache. I remember that Emperor Wu of Han ordered Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to enfeoff the desert and seal the wolf Juxu, but the Han Dynasty paid a huge price. The people's lives were heavy and the treasury was empty. The Mongol Yuan Dynasty suffered huge losses in succession, and the Prime Minister Ahama, who was good at managing finance, was killed and could not find a wealth-making expert to replace him. Now Sangge recommended a financial expert Lu Shirong, but was opposed by the ministers, which made Kublai Khan angry and helpless...

During the dictatorship of Ahema, Shirong used bribes to serve as the Tea Transportation Commissioner of Jiangxi, and later abolished the crime. After Ahema's death, the ministers of the Yuan court denied that money and profits could not meet the financial needs of Shizu. Therefore, the general agency envoy Sang Ge "recommended Lu Shirong with talent and skills, saying that he could save money and increase the amount of money, and the superiors could benefit the country, and the subordinates did not harm the people." There were never a shortage of Chinese bureaucrats who had plundering skills. The idea was soon, but it was just the three magic weapons, first, the iron and salt official camp, second, the wine and glutinous rice, third, the calculation of money.

However, Lu Shirong did even more. The "financial management" methods he mentioned were mainly to further increase the official business (such as wine, iron, overseas trade) or joint business operations, and the officials took the majority of their profits. Reform the banknote law, re-implemented the copper casting to Yuan banknotes, and the silk coupons were made, and the banknotes were carried out in conjunction with banknotes. Restricted overseas trade, promoted the official ship, established regular liquidation positions, and stabilized prices. Many of these measures were indeed "severing power and infringement" and wanted to take them over to the government, but it is undeniable that there were also excessive levies.

In Zhao Bing's view, Lu Shirong's economic plan is more like a hodgepodge of all-time monopoly laws and Wang Anshi's reforms. Most policies are rehearsal and there is not much innovation. Moreover, the basis of its policy is financial management, not wealth creation. In other words, in fact, society has not created more surplus value. It is just forcibly collecting assets that should have been obtained by royal aristocrats and merchants into the treasury and creating false growth. This fiscal policy that drinks poison to quench thirst is extremely harmful to the country.

Of course, this was not Zhao Bing's rash words, but a lesson learned from history. Emperor Wu of Han conquered the Huns several times, and the family wealth saved by four generations was ruined by Liu Che. In order to support the huge military expenditure, economic reforms had to be carried out to obtain more money to complete his great achievements. Before Emperor Wu of Han, iron and salt, including minting coins, could be privately owned. The people could boil salt, make iron and sell agricultural tools and even weapons. Of course, if they were licensed by the government, they could also mine copper ore and open furnaces to cast coins.

Now, these businesses that make a lot of money are all bought by the government. The quality of salt is low and the price is high. Anyway, you have to buy it, and you don’t have salt to eat. As for iron tools, the same is true. Anyway, you have to use it. If you want to use it, you only have one channel for the government. The guys you buy are not easy to use, so you have to make the money. In this way, the state capitalism is completed and the money is directly scraped to the government’s treasury.

The wine industry originally planned to operate it by the state, but wine is not like salt and iron. It is impossible for the people to lack it. If the wine produced by the official wine industry is of poor quality, no one will buy it and cannot be forced to consume it. Therefore, it can only be distributed to private enterprises. However, the state forces the liquor rent, which is a wine question. This is another income.

Originally, the state taxed commercial activities. However, no matter how such taxes were raised, they could not satisfy the emperor at this time. So the levy was levied. The so-called levy was a silk rope made of money, one string of 1,000, twenty scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered s

Of course, the people are not stupid, who will pay voluntarily? But the government has its own tricks. It stipulates that if anyone does not pay, or reports less, others can report to the government. After the lawsuit, the government can confiscate all the property of the company and distribute it to the reporter half. At that time, the court magistrate who was in charge of the criminal law was Du Zhou, a famous cruel official. He sent people to the county to handle the matter of calculating.

于是告缗者遍天下,中产之家,没有漏网的.告人的,得来的不义之财,转眼也被人告.一时间,单告缗一项,朝廷得民财数以亿计,没入的奴婢以千万数,田产大县数百顷,小县百顷.告缗,即告发人们匿财不报,一时间成了比铁盐官营还要生财的罗掘之道.

However, the people are those people, and their property is those. After they are dug, they will be gone. Therefore, such financial measures can only be to fish out of the lake. When the water is dry, there will be a large number of fish at the beginning, and then the fish will be gone. Fighting for profit from the people and robbing the people's wealth, the profit will be gone. Therefore, after the late Emperor Wu, the Han Dynasty entered a long period of decline. It was not until the resignation of Emperor Xuan of Han that it changed course and regained its vitality.

Therefore, Zhao Bing was not optimistic about the economic reforms introduced by Lu Shirong. He thought that Wang Anshi's reforms were implemented with the strong support of Emperor Shenzong, but they still had many obstacles, resulting in constant government affairs and several changes. Although it once had good results, Shenzong ended in vain after death, but it triggered a party struggle that lasted for more than ten years, and the economy was difficult to recover. It was entirely up to Cai Jing's skill in plundering, which led to national corruption and people's life. It can be said that it was the starting point for Song to decline.

Although Lu Shirong also received support from Kublai Khan, claiming that "a dog with fast feet is not loved by the fox, will the owner not love it?" He asked him to "be careful in his diet and living room". He could be said to have strong support. However, Zhao Bing was still not optimistic because he miscalculated the situation and many of his "financial management" measures violated the interests of the rich, which was not feasible. Moreover, he was a Han Chinese, and his hierarchical status was lower than that of the Qimei Ahma, which made him in a more unfavorable position than Wang Anshi.

Therefore, Zhao Bing was not optimistic about Lu Shirong. Kublai Khan's rule was based on these dignitaries and royal clans. He would definitely stand on their side at critical moments and instead would push them as scapegoats. In addition, the current Mongol Crown Prince Zhen Jin has participated in the government affairs, and he was very disgusted with Lu Shirong and would definitely interfere. Moreover, he had many complaints about Kublai Khan's policies, and he would definitely be a victim of the dispute between father and son.

Political struggles are often accompanied by bloody storms, and the result is that one group of people falls down and another group of people enters the court. This kind of struggle is like modern "chemotherapy" and does not distinguish between good and evil, killing everything. Similarly, political purges are based on the standard of taking sides. Anyone who opposes oneself will be defeated even if they are the wizards of the world will be defeated. On the contrary, as long as they support themselves, even mediocre, villains can be promoted and reached a high position.

This result will greatly damage the country. Not only will the frequent changes in policies cause social unrest, but the straits of talents will also cause great damage to the country. It often takes years of rectification to be repaired. This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Bing dared to carry out institutional reforms in a fierce way. But he was happy to see the Mongol Yuan, and even looked forward to seeing whether the real gold can successfully inherit the throne and control the government after Kublai Khan's death...

Everyone knows that the struggle for the throne by princes in all dynasties was extremely cruel, and Zhao Bing also knew that the Mongolian and Yuan regime had a history of rule over China for nearly a hundred years. Most of the emperors' ascension was seized by force. Although it was a dispute within the royal family, it was very tragic. In less than a hundred years of history, more than a dozen emperors appeared. The reason was that most of the emperors died in the struggle for the throne.

However, this struggle originated from the hidden dangers of the throne-transmission design left by Genghis Khan before his death, and he changed the way of the throne-transmission. According to Mongolian customs, the youngest son inherited his father's business, while the older sons analyzed going out and making a living by themselves. However, his guiding ideology was: the Mongolian Empire must have the ability to be a khan! But he never expected that it was his strong idea that it led to the replacement of all emperors in the century-old history of the Yuan Dynasty, following the path of bloody struggle by force.

The Mongolians basically followed the tradition of inheriting the throne by brothers and brothers, uncles and nephews. Da Khan would designate an heir during his lifetime, but if this inheritor wants to ascend the throne, it still needs to be confirmed by the election of the "Hulitai" conference attended by the Mongolian nobles. Otherwise, it will be difficult to succeed the throne in just right. This is also a arena for all forces, and is often accompanied by bloody storms.

Since Kublai Khan defeated Alibuge and gained the rule of the Mongolian power, there have been Yao Shu, Zhang Xiongfei and other Han ministers who suggested "establishing the crown prince as the chief throne" and "establishing the crown prince early", that is, the traditional inheritance system of the eldest son of the Central Plains dynasty was adopted to ensure the succession of the Khan throne. Kublai Khan finally adopted the advice of the Han ministers and issued an edict in February of the 10th year of Zhiyuan to make the eldest son Zhenjin the crown prince; on March 13, Boyan was sent to hold a ceremony to award the jade book and gold treasures.
Chapter completed!