"Annual taxes shall be allocated in a certain proportion between the royal court's private treasury and the state treasury, with the remainder going into the state treasury. Expenditures from the state treasury shall be decided through consultation between the monarch and the Nine Ministers."
Li Si nodded. This was a massive reform, and also a safeguard to prevent an incompetent monarch from bringing ruin to the realm.
Yet this would inevitably lead to one outcome: court ministers overriding the monarch.
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