The People Are Most Valuable: a Record of the Governance of the World

The prosperous age of the Jin Dynasty is coming to an end, and the new king Li Yancheng takes over the throne from his brother-in-law, but what he inherits is a dynasty with brilliant account books and gradually empty warehouses. The capital's warehouses are running out, the border towns are in arrears, and the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River are fully paid every year but the money and grain are not forthcoming. The two palaces, the inner court, the outer court, the noble families, the bankers, and the military generals all revealed their own calculations in this new policy. He wanted to find out where the deficit came from, but found that there were living people standing behind every account: there were officials seeking stability, nobles seeking to protect their names, businessmen keeping their word, and ordinary people seeking survival. Reform is not a decree, but a long struggle for power from the imperial city to the prefectures and counties, from the account books to the hearts of the people. The world is called peace, but under the peace, water has already leaked everywhere. The prosperous age of the Jin Dynasty is coming to an end, and the new king Li Yancheng takes over the throne from his brother-in-law, but what he inherits is a dynasty with brilliant account books and gradually empty warehouses. The capital's warehouses are running out, the border towns are in arrears, and the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River are fully paid every year but the money and grain are not forthcoming. The two palaces, the inner court, the outer court, the noble families, the bankers, and the military generals all revealed their own calculations in this new policy. He wanted to find out where the deficit came from, but found that there were living people standing behind every account: there were officials seeking stability, nobles seeking to protect their names, businessmen keeping their word, and ordinary people seeking survival. Reform is not a decree, but a long struggle for power from the imperial city to the prefectures and counties, from the account books to the hearts of the people. The world is called peace, but under the peace, water has already leaked everywhere.