ㄇㄧㄣˊㄑㄩㄥˊㄘㄞˊㄐㄧㄣˋmínqióng‑cáijìn

民穷财尽
  1. 形容人民窮困國家財力枯竭 國家開源節流屆時民窮財盡人心必定」。

the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom)​; to drive the nation to bankruptcy