The Confucian Ministers

Climate catastrophes abounded, meaning that the state needed to cut taxes and dole out disaster relief expenses. Altogether, it's easy to see how these compounding and ever mounting costs could have really begun digging into the imperial piggy bank. The confucians had a markedly different idea of how the empire's economy should function than the mercantile and free weeling yongla dungha or the mongo yan rulers before them. They viewed the key to political stability as being economic stability, as in very little inn and as little as possible out. If the realm was a body politic then it made no sense to consume unnecessary foreign delicacies at the expense of draining