Yelü Chucai

Yelü Chucai (Chinese耶律楚材, Pinyin Yēlǜ Chǔcái, Yeh - lü W.-G. Chu -tsai; Mongolian: Urtu Saqal, † June 1243 ), a member of the ruling dynasty of the Khitan, a senior official of the Mongolian state was at the time of Genghis Khan and Ugedai Khan.

Life and work

He reached the revival of social life in northern China and organized the Mongolian State through: Rescue Kaifeng from destruction and prevent a planned mass murder in Northern China ( 1234), introduction of the tax in the Mongol Empire and prohibition of the Rose arbitrary taxes, insisted on compliance of legal recourse in case of disputes, further collection of libraries for the education of the nobility, astrologer, physician.

"You can raise taxes for land and trade, but also with wine, salt, iron, and the products of the mountains and swamps can be achieved profit. In this way you win in a single year 500,000 ounces of silver, 80,000 bales of silk and 400,000 sacks of grain. How can assert that the Chinese avail you nothing you only! "

But Yelü Chucai could not prevent that in 1239 the taxes in northern China have been increased by a new administrator on the double. He was repeatedly attacked by the traditional at the Mongolian court, so that the just introduced by him audit of public officials was ( long tradition in China) abolished.