My Economic Recession

[JKLeibrandt]

I cannot for the life of me, figure out why I can never make any decent money when playing my Campaigns as the Romani Or Avernii, I like having good troops instead of stupid levies so is that my issue? I know there must be a secret to a good economy in this game, but Im clueless.It just seems like the AI always has a load of great troops, but when I try to get a stack of principes with some cavalry it then takes me 20 turns to save enough to upgrade a farm or something like that, is that normal, or am I slowly getting dumber from trying too hard and smashing my head on my desk becasue I hate using money codes?.............