Words of the Day: The Tearful Citizens Painting

End of the Chapter:

It was only when a brave small official name Zheng Xia painted the atrocities outside the court walls did the Northern Song emperor finally retract his economic reform.  

**Unfortunately, the original painting lost with time, but here is a a Ming interpretation of the painting of the 【流民圖】or "Tearful Citizens".  (Source)

拖垮tuo1kua1

to be tired out or collapse from burden

暴政bao4zheng4

tyranny

就算沒有異族侵略，暴政也能把國家拖垮。

This counts as not having foreign invasion.  Tyranny can collapse a country.