What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The emperor was the supreme ruler of the ancient feudal society, the lord of the world, just as the so-called universal world, could not be the king's land, the coast of the land, could not be the king's subjects. In order to show his own difference, in terms of marrying wives and concubines, the emperor also had a unique three palaces and six courtyards, seventy-two concubines. But every day, there is only one emperor, not who wants to be, coveting the emperor's throne is not good, he will be charged with the crime of conspiracy to rebel and be killed, but he can take wives and concubines, enjoy the blessings of the Qi people, and enjoy the same harem treatment as the emperor, which can still be easily done for the feudal nobles who have power and money.
Ahma, one of Kublai Khan's favorite vassals of the Yuan dynasty, was once the dowry slave of Empress Chabi's father, Chen Nayan. After following Chabi into the palace, Ahma became acquainted with Kublai Khan and began to enter the career path, gradually soaring. In the early years of central unification, Kublai Khan won the power struggle and succeeded him as The Mongol Khan and changed the Mongol state to Yuan. Since the Mongols had been conquering the west and expanding their territory since the time of Genghis Khan, after Kublai Khan took the throne, the financial expenditure of the Yuan court gradually became insufficient, and the naked son intensified, and Kublai Khan urgently needed a talent who could reform taxes and increase fiscal revenue.
Because of his financial management skills, Ahma stood out in Kublai Khan's leadership circles, and in the second year of the Central Unification, he was appointed as the Governor of Shangdu Tongzhi, and three years later, he was appointed to deal with financial and tax matters. Ahma also did not fail in his mission, he counted household registration, implemented the monopoly system, issued banknotes, regardless of whether the people were dead or alive, exhausted all means to greatly increase the financial revenue at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan was very satisfied with him, and completely delegated financial power to Ahma.
After gaining Kublai Khan's favor, Ahma on the one hand increased his horsepower and did everything to increase the income of the national treasury, and on the other hand, he used the power in his hands to embezzle the law, enrich himself, and extensively cultivate and appoint his own henchmen to crack down on dissident forces. On the surface, Ahma enforced the law strictly, but secretly accepted bribes and robbed the people of good land, and the money accumulated in the family was piled up, tens of thousands.
In terms of marrying wives and concubines, Ahma's taste is also very large, he robs people of wives and daughters, lustful, because Ahma has been in power for 20 years, the number of his wives and concubines has doubled every year, and finally as many as more than 400 people, which can be described as absurd to the extreme.
Because of Kublai Khan's favor and the large number of henchmen, although the ministers of the dynasty were bullied and oppressed by Ahma, they dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and they could only make silent eye contact above the court. By the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, a man named Wang Zhu from a thousand households in Yizhou was resentful of Ahma and planned to assassinate Ahma. When Kublai Khan found out, he beheaded Wang Zhu and his cohorts and abandoned the city and chopped them into meat paste.
After Ahma's death, the ministers began to explain to Kublai Khan his various illegal crimes of deception, And Kublai Khan sent people to investigate, and sure enough, as the ministers said, Kublai Khan was furious, ordered the excavation of the tomb and the opening of the coffin, carried Ahma's body outside the xuanmen gate to behead his body, and allowed the wild dogs to bite and eat. Subsequently, Ahma's sons and nephews were all killed by Kublai Khan, and his property and many wives and concubines were all confiscated into the government.