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venues of the kingdom should be beaten and imprisoned, and treated 
with disgrace and shame, and that which they have earned, should 
be taken from them, together with that which they have withheld. 
In all this, the wisdom of that just and experienced king is seen by 
men of wisdom ; and from the regulations which he made upon all 
these matters, there resulted throughout his provinces a great in¬ 
crease in the number of his people ; and the governors and rulers 
also, who were the supports and the props of his empire, received a 
revenue beside their salaries; and year by year their honour and 
power increased, and their servants also were satisfied with plenty, 
nor were any of the governors or nobles or officers dragged with 
indignity before the Council ; and the uprightness of the governors 
that were under him increased day by day. 
Also Sultan Ghiasuddin Tughluq Shah had entrusted his Council of 
Ministers to men of experience and of good name, nor was there any 
oppression or violence or extortion on the part of the Council towards 
those who were employed in the provinces. In one matter only did 
the Council of Ministers for the space of one or two years exercise 
severity, namely, in the recovery of the treasure which the rebel¬ 
lious Khusrau Khan at the time of his overthrow had scattered, and 
that which the aimy and the people had plundered in the troublous 
times. Of a truth, in the matter of the recovery of that treasure 
which had been plundered, and of which the treasury of 
’Alauddm had been emptied, and nothing left in the treasure 
house, the Council of the Ministers of Tughluq Sliah were not 
slow to exercise severity. Now there were three kinds of men 
from whom recovery was demanded, and the first were they who 
were not wholly without the fear of God. These men therefore, 
who were few in number, came and restored to the treasury the 
money which they had received from Khusrau Khan. But the 
second class of men, who loved money, deferred to make restitution, 
and hoped that by bribes and flattery they would escape. But 
Sultan Tughluq Shah would not listen to their excuses, but demand¬ 
ed payment with severity, and would in no wise let them go. The 
third class of those who had received the treasure, were covetous 
and envious men, and plunderers, being without honesty, and 
thieves, whose life was full of evil practises : and these were 
