The king's excessive expenses grew day by day Fatima Nasiri Sir Arthur Harding, senior British minister in Iran during the period of Muzaffar al-Din Shah from 1900 to 1905, mentions the first years of his mission in his memoirs. He believes that the chancellor decided to modernize the customs organization and hand it over to the Belgians in order to cover the king's excessive and growing expenses. Harding writes about this: "During the first years of my mission in Iran, the prime minister, who wanted to increase his country's income, because the king's excessive expenses, which were increasing, necessitated such an addition, finally decided to modernize Iran's customs organization and leave the management of its affairs in the hands of European officials recruited from the neutral country of Belgium." He also writes later in his memoirs: "Nevertheless, it was clear that if the Pasha of Iran needed money again - he certainly did because his intention was to travel to Europe again next year to consult with foreign doctors - the cost of this trip should be estimated as soon as possible and purchased from somewhere." The doctors treating the king unanimously agreed that the saint should bathe in the mineral water baths of Kesville, and in response to this express medical instruction, the subject of the royal journey to Europe took on a very serious aspect, and the chancellor was tasked with obtaining the money required by his highness to fulfill this opinion. Finally, Arthur Harding points to the anger of the British Minister Mokhtar in this context and says: "And of course, the anger of the Minister Mokhtar was not unjustified, because he saw with his own eyes that with these precedents created, England would always be able to obtain credit to finance the king's excessive expenses, and to achieve this simple goal, he would stand in the simple way, and stand in the simple way. Shahi Bank, so that they could lend to the Iranian government in his own name. # The economy of the channel.