In the meantime, however, the threat that Cem might lead a foreign attack has compelled Bayezid to concentrate on internal consolidation.

Most of the property confiscated by his father for military campaigns is restored to its original owners.

Equal taxes are established around the empire so that all subjects can fulfill their obligations to the government without the kind of disruption and dissatisfaction that had characterized the previous regime.

Particularly important is the establishment of the avâriz-i divaniye (“war chest”) tax, which provides for the extraordinary expenditures of war without special confiscations or heavy levies.

Though Bayezid prefers to maintain peace-in order to have the time and resources to concentrate on internal development-he is forced into a number of campaigns by the exigencies of the period and the demands of his more militant devsirme followers.