What political measures did Kublai Khan take during his reign?

Kublai Khan, as the direct grandson of Genghis Khan, the founder of the largest empire in the world history, not only inherited Genghis Khan's great talent, but also achieved the goal that his grandfather ruled the world. He worked as a military attache for half his life, led the Mongolian army to March in, broke through the Southern Song Dynasty, conquered other parts of China, marched overseas in great strides, and invaded Japan twice. Unlike Genghis Khan, who shocked the world with martial arts, Kublai Khan is famous for his literacy. In order to rule a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, he and his aides established a dynasty based on China laws and not bound by China's traditional ideas, which laid the foundation for the centenary of the Yuan Dynasty. As the master of the world, he has gathered elites of all ethnic groups with an unprecedented open mind and widely absorbed advanced parts of various cultures. He is not only a supporter of Confucianism, but also an enthusiastic Buddhist. He also promised that many of his subjects would convert, and he was also the protector of * * *. He tried to keep a delicate balance between different cultures and achieved admirable success.

In the early days of Kublai Khan's administration, he reduced taxes and encouraged agricultural production. Giving businessmen a high status makes domestic trade and foreign trade extremely prosperous; Allow artists to create freely, give the craftsmen of the empire room to exert their imagination, and encourage scientists to innovate more boldly. The empire he ruled represented the most advanced and affluent oriental culture in the world at that time.

Through the smooth Silk Road, this culture was spread to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the hinterland of Europe without reservation, which made westerners yearn for and admire the oriental civilization and made Columbus sail to discover the new continent. However, Kublai Khan's dream of establishing a world empire was finally failed because of disastrous expedition, excessive financial requirements and personal health decline, but this did not damage his glory. His predecessor never dreamed of unifying and ruling the whole known world, and no one in his successor ever dreamed of it again.