Loans and Collateral

".... if we are truly out of money, well we can use the taxes. Either directly move the money into the accounts or just forgive their payments for a few years in exchange."

As Lady Nanazin chimed this reply, Alexander's eyes instinctively flickered as he had to try very hard to maintain his current facade.

This was an insane idea even he did not dare have, and figured Lady Nanazin must have picked up these unscrupulous techniques while trying to keep Ptolomy afloat.

Her salt regarding lending to merchants certainly painted such a negative picture.

However just as Alexander was about to offer an addendum, he instantly thought back to how governments bailed out banks and found it almost a one to one simile. 

It was just the practice was never explicitly laid out like that, nor did he know of any governments that actually gave anyone tax relief as compensation for losing their money.

It was usually facilitated by money printing, thus debt.