"The trouble now is that the more people there are, the less money they are..."

Beside the woods outside Schönbrunn Palace, in a large golden tent, Kublai sat cross-legged on Hu's bed, his tone of voice as if it was difficult to make a decision.

This is a discussion meeting that is quite contrary to the common rules. Batulu, Moge, Liu Xiaoyuan, and Yao Shu gathered together. After Kublai Khan left the Han area, nominally abolished the Han law and implemented the Eight Banners reform. But the Han minister Liu Xiaoyuan was the Han minister who actually presided over the reform. What kind of clever system could he come up with? It was nothing more than upgrading the Ming Dynasty to integrate various eight banner systems that depended on the Tartars and becoming a unity of military and civilians. On the Eight Banners, six ministries and nine ministers were established according to the original Han system, and four major ministries and nine ministers above the Six ministries and nine ministers were actually prime ministers. In fact, they were prime ministers. In addition to the four major ministries and equivalent to the prime minister, there were also Antong, the chief official of the Qixue Mansion, the chief official of the Qixue Mansion, the chief official of the Qixue Mansion, which is in charge of Kublai Khan's court affairs and security. Antong, the chief manager of the Qixue Mansion, is considered Kublai Khan's personal personalities.

But it's nothing. After all, An Tong is the successor of Batulu, sooner or later;; + the Great Dead Official. But what's strange is that there are still a group of people standing in the big tent, mostly young people and young people. These are a bunch of princes and grandchildren, the third son, Mangla, the fourth son, Namuhan, the fifth son, Hugechi, the sixth son, Aiyachi, the seventh son, Aoduchi, the eighth son, Kublai Khan, and the imperial ebo, are also here.

Yesterday, Kublai Khan issued an order and set the theme, which was the matter of the people of the Eight Banners. Both the officials and the princes thought it was strange. The eight banners should be discussed by the officials and the eight banners. However, now there are only four officials of the Eight Banners (the four officials of the Eight Banners are all the generals), and there are a lot of princes and grandsons. This is not in accordance with the rules. The officials of the affairs of the Khan speculated that the princes of the Khan were getting older. It is time for them to participate in government affairs. Perhaps the government affairs they participated in began with the Eight Banners. Today, there are less discussions. The location is in the hunting ground, which seems to be not formal. Just let the princes get familiar with the banner affairs.

However, seeing the expressions of the princes present were extremely serious, as if they were tense enough, waiting to show off in front of Kublai Khan and the four officials who died.

Several princes were probably thinking about the position under Kublai Khan? Liu Xiaoyuan was keen and glanced at the number of princes present. In the past, the inheritance of the Mongolian Khan was through the Curry-Taiwan Conference rather than the enthronement of the crown prince. But everyone knew that this rule would definitely be changed when Kublai Khan was. So the princes had already started to compete with each other, and the ministers in the court and the generals of the Eight Banners were also involved in this power dispute to a greater or lesser extent. However, Liu Xiaoyuan was always out of the matter. Because he knew that Kublai Khan was still very healthy, and now he could maintain his position by following Kublai Khan, and participating in the throne-fighting was a risk-free situation. And even if he supported the prince he supported to the throne, Kublai Khan's current physical condition would not be able to take over the position for more than ten years. God knows whether the prince could laugh to the end...

At the beginning of the meeting, Kublai Khan looked as usual, and did not look at his sons and grandsons at a glance. Instead, he was like nagging, and he grew up too quickly from the fact that the Eight Banners people grew too fast. He talked about demarcating provinces, prefectures and counties, and good at managing the local area. Finally, he said with concern that in the long run, no matter how he governs the country, the country will inevitably be insufficient. If the country is insufficient, political obstacles will be hindered and the world will be in danger.

This is to clarify the problem. The four officials who seized the matter and the minister of the Qiexue Prefecture An Tong knew that the Eight Banners had grown too quickly and the fiscal revenue was too small. Although in this battle to enter Europe, Kublai Khan had already restrained the Eight Banners soldiers and killed fewer people and robbed them as much as possible. However, the war was still very serious in the destruction of France, Poland, North Germany and the Netherlands, and a large number of merchants and craftsmen fled. Now on the vast land ruled by the Mongols, the industry and commerce were in great decline, leaving only the Velicica Salt Mine (local).

In Poland, it is the largest salt mine in Europe) and the Kutnahora silver mine (located in Bohemia, it is the largest silver mine in Europe and is directly controlled by the Mongols). The two mines that are easiest to make money operate the same as before the arrival of the Mongols. In addition, there is a commercial city about 300 miles northwest of Paris, Rouen, which is also considered prosperous. Rouen is located in the lower reaches of the Seine River, 220 miles away from the English Channel. It is one of the two major ports for the Kublai Empire to trade with foreign trade, and the other major port is Constantinople, the Roman Khan's headquarters.

However, to maintain a huge country, to support more than one million bannermen, and to maintain a war with increasing expenses, relying on a salt mine, a silver mine, a port city, and tens of millions of serfs, is really a shortcoming.

So these days, the Eight Banners children under Kublai Khan are always busy. If the banner pay is reduced, the life will be impossible.

"The country's use is insufficient and the local governance is not good. It is advisable to set up provinces, prefectures and counties early, dispatch effective officials, redistribute land, and distribute the land of the European nobles and churches to serfs, and strictly supervise the European serfs to farm and produce!"

Yao Shu was the Minister of Revenue, so he naturally had his responsibilities. His solution was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. He dared not say that although he is also a bannerman now, the bannerman from Han people was a second-class banner in Kublai Khan. After all, the offending people is still a way to increase revenue. The local management of the Mongolian and European Empire is very chaotic. The generals of the Eight Banners garrison served as the governor, and the military and political system were integrated. The eight banner generals were also rough in management. The money they should not be collected, and the money they received was spent casually, so there were always insufficient amounts of money they handed over to the court.

Therefore, the direction he suggested was to establish a local civilian government as soon as possible, and at the same time, to implement a equal land system to distribute the farmland within the jurisdiction of the Mongolian and European Empire to serfs to cultivate.

Yao Shu's words were very important, especially the suggestion of dividing the land of Europa to the serfs was extremely valuable, and Kublai Khan nodded repeatedly. But this was far away and difficult to quench his thirst. Moreover, if the bannerman Dingkou continued to expand as it is now, I am afraid that no amount of taxes would be enough!

Kublai Khan turned his eyes to Liu Xiaoyuan, who had no expression on his face, but only looked at his nose, his nose, and his mouth, and he looked like a virtuous minister.

He must have a way, but he can't say it! Kublai Khan also knew that the Eight Banners at present were still divided into Mongolian and Han semen. Some words that Liu Xiaoyuan, who is the Eight Banners of Han, could not say much.

"Khan, Yao Xianggong's method is good. But now the number of bannermen is increasing too fast, so I won't curb it. In dozens or hundreds of years, there will be only bannermen but no Europeans!"

The one who stood up to speak was the leader of the four major officials who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were most trusted by Kublai Khan.

The other three officials who were sentenced to death had no expression on their faces, but a bunch of princes felt strange. How to curb population growth? Don’t let women have children?

"Isn't it good to have only bannermen but no Europeans?" At this moment, Huangsun Huang Ebo suddenly interrupted and asked.

The palace was silent for a long time, as if no one could answer the question until Kublai Khan sighed softly.

"It's good, but there are all bannermen without Europeans. Who will raise the bannermen? Who will raise the imperial court?"

If the bannermen are allowed to seize the girls of Europeans from generation to generation, one hundred years and two hundred years later, the Europeans (identities of Europeans) in the Mongolian and European Empire will become few. Banners with European blood will become mainstream. If it is simply to say that the bannermen's rule in Europa, this seems to be a good thing.

If there are too many people, it is so powerful! There are more bannermen than Europeans, so Europeans will naturally not be able to make a comeback. The land of Europa will always belong to the bannermen.

But the problem is that the bannermen do not work for production now, and they are the exploiting class in the Mongolian and European Empire, and they rely entirely on tax payments for Europeans. If the population is larger than that of Europeans, how can Europeans afford it? As for letting the bannermen farm and work and pay taxes to support the court, it is one thing, but it is another to do it... and that is also a future thing. At present, Kublai Khan will rely on more than one million bannermen to rule more than 10 million Europeans, but in the face of the rapid growth of the number of bannermen, the finances are difficult to repeat.

Kublai Khan sighed lightly: "In fact, there is no need to wait until the day when the bannermen surpasses the Europeans. Now, my court will not be able to pay the banner salary."

When he spoke, his eyes swept across his sons. Today's political discussion was actually an exam. I brought several princes to see what they could do.

The four officials and An Tong saw Kublai Khan's eyes pointing, and immediately kept silent and gave the opportunity to answer the questions to the prince.

Of course, this question is not easy to answer. At least Batulu, Mo Ge, An Tong and the others can't think of any way to reduce the enemy's population. These Mongolians are very good at it, but they have no choice but to control the number of their own people. They can't wave their swords at their own people, right?

Tulu, Mo Ge and An Tong can pretend to be stupid and not answer. But the third prince Meng Gela, the fourth prince Namuhan, the fifth prince Hu Gechi, the sixth prince Aiyachi, the seventh prince Aoduchi, and the eighth prince Kuokuo came out and all of them had to answer. If they couldn't answer, then let's put out the idea of ​​fighting for the throne as soon as possible.

Kublai Khan's eyes stopped on his third son, Bengela. His eldest son died long ago, and his second son was Zhenjin. After Zhenjin died, the sons regarded Bengela as their eldest son.

"Father Khan, I heard that the Han lords practice the inheritance of the eldest son. Only the eldest son can inherit the title of his father, and the rest of the sons are ordinary people. Why don't we do this too?"

The eldest son inherits? As soon as Mang Gela finished speaking, his younger brothers looked fiercely and said, "You are the oldest now, and you want to inherit it?"

If the real gold was still there, he would definitely not say such brainless words. Kublai Khan sighed in his heart and turned his eyes to his fourth son Namuhan again.

"Father Khan, the child heard that if the noble children of Europa could not inherit the title and fiefdom, there would be only two ways out, one was to join the army and the other was to be a priest. The Christian priests of Europa were like Han monks in the Central Plains, they could not marry and have children... according to the rules," he said.

Kublai Khan nodded slightly. This son is more intelligent than Menggela. However, this method is not very useful here. Because the Christian patriarch here is himself! As the patriarch and God's second son, Kublai Khan of course has a wife and children. He took the lead. The cardinal and bishop below (most of them are lamas who have changed their careers) also have wives and concubines. Can everyone change their careers and become "monks" now?

"Father Khan, my son thought that my Mongolian warriors could siege the Europa countries! We were blocked from the southern expedition before because we had dispersed attacks. If we concentrated our troops to take Switzerland first and then attack Vienna, we might have already attacked Italy. If we seized Italy's rich land, there would be more warriors that would not be able to afford it!"

"Yes, my father, why don't you fight? Beat hard. After the fight, Italy can turn around and fight the Han area and fight to the death with the Ming thieves!"

The fifth prince Hu Gechi and the sixth prince Ai Yachi seem to be both reckless. The two brothers just shouted and called for a fight and killed, and they understood the meaning. If the Mongolian warriors died on the battlefield, wouldn’t the population be smaller?

Kublai Khan looked at the seventh son Oduchi and the eighth son in disappointment, hoping that the two-year-old son would have any answers that satisfies him.

"Father Khan, the child is a little confused. We are not long after we arrived in Europa. Why is the population of the Eight Banners so large? This child has to be pregnant for ten months. It would be great if I could have a baby in this little time..."

The old Bakuo Kuo came out. Instead of answering Kublai's question, he asked about Kublai Khan's coming.

Kublai Khan said lightly: "The population of the Eight Banners was not born, but was asked by his wife!"

He also has the responsibility for this matter. He has also taken over a dozen concubines in the past two years...

"Then I'll just not let my wife be taken?" Kuokuo replied.

The seventh prince Odu smiled sneered: "Old Eight, why don't you start with this matter? I'll give up all my wife at home and save some effort to practice riding horses and shooting archery."

"Odochi! What do you mean? I am not as good as you in riding and shooting skills? Otherwise, let's compare?"

"Just compete! Whoever loses will divorce your little wife!"

"Okay! One word is determined!"

Hearing the argument between the two sons was unreasonable, Kublai Khan coughed and frowned. The two princes suddenly disappeared. Kublai Khan turned his eyes to his grandson Huang Ebo again.

"Huang Ebo, you can talk too."

Huang Ebo responded, thought for a while, and replied: "Grandpa, grandson thinks what the eighth and seventh uncles said make sense. The warriors have too many concubines, which not only increases the burden on the court, but also affects the warriors' martial arts practice. They should be strictly controlled. Moreover... Europeans are all low-rankings and their bloodlines are not as noble as those of our Mongolians. If the warriors and European women have children, they will probably pollute the Mongolian bloodline. From now on, the bannermen and Europeans are prohibited from intermarrying!"

Huang Ebo is still a child. Without human affairs, he naturally doesn't know how rough Mongolian women are, and he doesn't know how slim blond girls are. That's why he came up with such a trick to harm others and oneself. But Kublai Khan's eyes lit up. He looked at his precious grandson with half-sex eyes, who was inferior to others, and nodded with satisfaction... (To be continued.)
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